Company name	Popularity, Inc.
Company logo
Company type	Public ()
Foundation	San Juan (1893-10-05)
Location	Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Key people	Richard Carrión, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Finance and Insurance
Products	BankingChecking AccountsInsurancestock brokerageInvestment BankAsset-Based LendingConsumer finance
Revenue	US$ 3.82 billion (2007)
Operating income	US$ 789 million (2007)
Net income	US$ -64 million (2007)
Num employees	13,210 (2005)
Homepage	www.popular.com }}

Popular, Inc., is a financial services conglomerate that has been operating in Puerto Rico for almost 115 years and in the United States for over 52 years. In recent years, it has expanded into other areas of the Caribbean and Central America. It is better known as Banco Popular, but it is also known as BPPR for Banco Popular of Puerto Rico.

Popular, Inc. is the parent company of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Banco Popular North America, Evertec, E-Loan, and several other companies.

World Headquarters are based in Washington D.C.. The headquarters of Banco Popular Puerto Rico are located in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

History

The bank was founded in Puerto Rico in 1893 when the island was still under Spanish administration, and was led in its early stages by Rafael Carrión, Sr.

During the 1970s, the company's commercials were very popular on Puerto Rican television: they presented a balding, middle aged man in a white tee shirt, announcing the company in a comic way. The 1970s also saw a giant step in the development of Banco Popular as Puerto Rico's biggest bank, when it bought two-thirds of the Banco de Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño. By buying this bank, Popular entered the credit-card industry.

During the following decades, Banco Popular put a lot of emphasis on the company's public image. It was during the 1980s, after Rafael Carrion, Sr.'s death, that Richard L. Carrión took over as President of the corporation.

In 1989, the bank introduced a children's savings service with a bear, "''Populoso''", as its mascot. The ''Club del Ahorro'' (or Savings Club) was (and still is) intended to encourage children to open savings accounts and keep track of their money.

1990s

The following decade started with a big development for the bank, when in 1990 it merged with Banco de Ponce, one the largest banks in Puerto Rico. At this time, Banco Popular's holding company changed its name to BanPonce Corporation. Popular acquired Banco Roig, one of the main banks in the eastern side of the island, in 1997, entering a geographical market they had yet to succeed in.

During the late 1990s, the company began to diversify its services thanks to revisions of state laws that allowed banks certain 'privileges' related to different financial services other than banking. These years saw the birth of Popular Auto, Popular Finance, Popular Mortgage, Popular Insurance, Popular Leasing, among others.

During this time, the company created one of its flagship subsidiaries, Popular Securities. It quickly became the investment banking, retail brokerage, and institutional sales arm of Banco Popular. On the retail side, Popular Securities has an extensive network of brokers in Puerto Rico, rivaled only by Swiss giant UBS and more recently by Banco Santander. Popular Securities has additional offices in New York City, San Antonio, Houston, and Chicago.

2000s

Due to its growth in Puerto Rico, and the aggressive expansion in the United States, the company changed its name once again in 2000 to Popular, Inc., a name that goes back to the traditional roots of the corporation and which also reflects the common title in almost all of the subsidiaries of the company.

It was during this time that the company divided itself into three main subsidiary companies: Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, with David Chafey, Jr. as its current president; Banco Popular North America, with Roberto Herencia as the current president; and Evertec, with Felix Villamil as its current president. Richard Carrión remained as president and CEO of the parent company, Popular, Inc.

Evertec was born after the purchase of the GM Group. The main purpose of Evertec is to serve as a processing company (related to the ATM network, card processes, POS, and other technical details). Evertec is not limited to Banco Popular, as it also serves other banks in the island. This subsidiary also maintains Popular's overseas networks (especially ATH Dominicana and ATH Costa Rica).

In the 24 January 2005 issue of ''Fortune Magazine'', Popular, Inc. was chosen as one of the ''100 Best Companies to Work For''.

On 11 April 2005, an agreement was announced between Banco Popular North America and the New York Mets. Under the five-year agreement, Popular will operate seven ATMs and display various advertisements at Shea Stadium.

Present

Popular's world headquarters are located in the San Juan's Hato Rey business district, on a stretch of a thoroughfare commonly known as ''La Milla de Oro'' ("The Golden Mile") due to the number of banks headquartered in the area. Travelers who fly into the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport can appreciate Popular's landmark building below.

Banco Popular is currently the largest bank in Puerto Rico, the largest company (public or private) in Puerto Rico, and the largest Hispanic bank in the United States. It is classified as one of the top 100 banks nationwide. Its subsidiaries are also considered top-rated, with a customer base that grows each year.

Recently, Popular updated its web site to be more user-friendly, with services such as SMS warnings for account balances (both from Popular and other banks), online payments for their products, other companies, and the state government (including credit cards with other banks, water utility bills, electricity bills, among others), credit card forms, and more. Banco Popular also released its new ad campaign: ''"En Mi Banco Se Puede"'' ("In my bank it's possible"), along with a series of aggressive ads targeting non-customers, consumers that have left the bank, or current customers who are starting to consider leaving the bank.

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Stats

Ranked the 784th Largest Company In The World by ''Forbes'' (2006).

Ranked the 84th Best Company to Work For by Fortune Magazine (2005).

Ranked the Best Consumer Internet Bank in Puerto Rico by Global Finance (2007).

Has over $45 billion in assets.

Approx. 13,000 employees.

Symbol: BPOP (Nasdaq)

Timeline

1893: A group of local Puerto Rican and Spanish notables founded the Sociedad Anónima de Economías y Préstamos (later Banco Popular de Economías y Préstamos) on 5 October 1893. The founders wanted to create a thrift institution for the island's poor to encourage savings.

1928: First bank in Puerto Rico to offer personal loans without collateral.

1930: Popular acquired the Banco Comercial de Puerto Rico. This bank had begun in 1857 as Banco Español de Puerto Rico and changed its name to Banco de Puerto Rico in 1900. Then in 1913 it changed its name to Banco Comercial de Puerto Rico.

1938: First bank in Puerto Rico to offer an FHA mortgage loan.

1950: Popular becomes the largest bank in Puerto Rico.

1961: Popular opened a branch in New York City (Bronx) to serve the Puerto Rican community there.

1973: First bank in Puerto Rico to offer combined accounts.

1975: Popular opened a branch in Los Angeles. Although US banks could not branch across state lines, non-US banks could. The California State Superintendent of Banking declared Puerto Rico "international", allowing Popular to open a branch in reciprocity for the branch Bank of America had opened in Puerto Rico.

1981: Popular started to expand in the Caribbean by establishing a branch in the U.S. Virgin Islands and another in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

1984: Popular took over the failed Washington National Bank, a locally-owned bank catering to the Hispanic community in Chicago. Popular also launched the first automated teller machine network in the island.

1988: Popular is the first bank in Puerto Rico to offer phone-banking.

1990: Popular merged with Banco de Ponce to create the largest bank in Puerto Rico. The holding company took the name BanPonce. (Banco de Ponce had established an agency in New York that it had converted to a branch in 1961. At the time of the merger, Banco de Ponce had nine branches in New York to Popular's six.)

1991: Popular acquired the deposits and one branch of New York Capital Bank in upper Manhattan, an unsuccessful attempt to revive the failed Capital National Bank, which had served most of the Dominican small businesses there.

1992: Popular acquired seven branches from the failed American Savings Bank, four branches and their deposits from Bank Leumi Trust Company, and one branch and its deposits from Northside Savings Bank.

1993: Popular became the largest bank in the Virgin Islands when it acquired CoreStates First Pennsylvania Bank's five branches there. Century Anniversary.

1994: Popular bought Pioneer Bank in Chicago and merged it with Popular's existing operations. Popular also entered New Jersey by buying four branches from the failed Carteret Savings Bank. It then opened two more branches, to form Banco Popular FSB (a federal savings association).

1995: Popular established the ATH Dominicana ATM network in the Dominican Republic. (ATH stands for "A Toda Hora". i.e., "at all hours".)

1996: Popular bought American Midwest Bank for its two branches in suburban Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb that was drawing Hispanics. In California, Popular created a subsidiary, Banco Popular NA (California), bought Commerce National Bank, and transferred to it the branch that it had established in 1975.

1997: Popular acquired the Seminole Bank branch in Sanford, Florida, and Banco Roig in Puerto Rico.

1998: Popular made Chicago the headquarters for the US Executive Offices of its subsidiary, Popular North America, which took over all its US mainland commercial activities. In the Dominican Republic, Popular took a minority position in Banco Fiduciario, the fourth largest bank, a stake that it later built up to a majority position. Popular entered Costa Rica as it had entered the Dominican Republic, Popular entered Costa Rica in the same way as it had entered the Dominican Republic, i.e., by establishing an ATM network, ATH Costa Rica.

1999: Popular bought First State Bank of Southern California from Korea's Hanil Bank and merged it with Popular (California). In the Chicago area, Popular bought Irving Bank, Water Tower Bank and Aurora National Bank. Popular also bought Banco Popular, a start-up bank in Orlando, Florida, and Citizens Bank in Houston, Texas. In addition, Popular bought the GM Group, entering the processing business.

2000: Popular begins its online banking system at mibancopopular.com

2001: Popular buys three branches in Puerto Rico's central mountain region from BBVA.

2005: Popular completes acquisition of Quaker City Bank, establishing California as the largest region of Banco Popular North America. Popular also purchases New Jersey's Infinity Mortgage for an undisclosed amount. On 3 August 2005, Popular announced the purchase of E-Loan for an estimated $300 million merger agreement. A month later, on September 21, Popular announces that they will sell Popular Cash Express to ACE Cash Express for $36 million. Popular was ranked as the 691st largest company in the world by Forbes.

2006: Banco Popular North America relocates its California Region headquarters to Anaheim, CA headed by Vernon Aguirre.

2007: Banco Popular North America sells 5 of six branches in Texas region to Prosperity Bank.

2007: Banco Popular acquires Citibank's retail business in Puerto Rico, including nine branches, as well as the operations in Puerto Rico of broker-dealer Smith Barney, a Citibank subsidiary.

2008: Popular agrees to sell certain assets of Equity One, the U.S. mainland consumer finance operations of Popular Financial Holdings, to American General Finance, a member of American International Group.

2010: Banco Popular acquires one of its competitors, Westernbank, after the latter failed and its deposits were seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. On October 1, 2010 Popular sold 51% Evertec participating to Apollo Management.

Subsidiaries and Services

Puerto Rico

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Popular Auto

Popular Mortgage

Popular Finance

Popular Securities

Popular Asset Management

Popular Insurance

EVERTEC

Ticketpop (Operated by Evertec)

Plazapop

WesternBank Puerto Rico

United States

Banco Popular North America

Popular Small Business Capital

Banco Popular National Association

Popular Equipment Finance

Equity One

E-Loan

Virgin Islands

Banco Popular Virgin Islands

Other Countries

ATH Dominicana (Operated by Evertec)

ATH Costa Rica (Operated by Evertec)

Former Subsidiaries

Popular Cash Express (sold to ACE Cash Express on 09/21/2005)

Musical Tradition

For its 100th Anniversary celebration, Popular gathered a group of famous Latin-American musicians in an effort to create a musical televised show. After the large success of this venture, the company began to produce annual live Christmas concerts and television specials with various Puerto Rican and international singers and artists. The 1996 version included the future star Shakira. The concerts and specials are aired in local television stations and then released on CDs and DVD, raising money for the company's philanthropic foundation (Fundación Banco Popular) which benefits a variety of non-profit organizations in the island.

The titles of the musicals are:

1993 - Un Pueblo que Canta (A nation that sings)

1994 - El Espíritu de un Pueblo (The spirit of a nation)

1995 - Somos un Solo Pueblo (We are only one nation)

1996 - Al Compás de un Sentimiento (At the rhythm of a feeling)

1997 - Siempre Piel Canela (Always brown skin)

1998 - Romance del Cumbanchero (Romance of the "Cumbanchero")

1999 - Con la Música por Dentro (With the music within)

2000 - Guitarra Mía, Un Tributo a José Feliciano (My guitar, a tribute to José Feliciano)

2001 - Raíces (Roots)

2002 - Encuentro (Encounter)

2003 - Ocho Puertas (Eight doors)

2004 - En Mi País (In my country)

2005 - Queridos Reyes Magos (Dear Wise Men)

2006 - Viva Navidad

2008 - Eco (Echo)

Online Discography

Competitors (in Puerto Rico)

Banco Santander

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Scotiabank

FirstBank

Doral Bank

Oriental Financial

References

http://www.prosperitybanktx.com/forms/press/Banco%20Popular%20Acquisistion.pdf Prosperity Bank 22OCT2007

External links

Popular, Inc.

Official Site

Financial Highlights

Annual Financial Reports

Subsidiaries

E-Loan (Purchased by Popular, Inc 2005)

Evertec Official Site

Popular Equipment Finance

Popular Auto

Popular Mortgage

EquityOne (A Popular, Inc Subsidiary)

Popular Securities

Popular Insurance

TicketPop (Ticket Sale service operated by Popular)

Category:Banks of Puerto Rico Category:Companies listed on NASDAQ Category:Companies established in 1893 Category:Companies based in San Juan, Puerto Rico Category:Companies based in Cook County, Illinois Category:Rosemont, Illinois

name	Eric Saade
background	solo_singer
birth name	Eric Khaled Saade
born	October 29, 1990
origin	Kattarp, Helsingborg, Sweden
genre	Pop, Eurodance, Dance, Electropop
occupation	Singer, Television presenter
years active	2003–present
label	Roxy Recordings
associated acts	What's Up!
website	Official Website }}

Eric Saade ( '''', ; ) born 29 October 1990) is a Swedish pop singer and children's television presenter. After two years with the boyband What's Up!, he left in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. Eric Saade represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany after winning the national Swedish selection Melodifestivalen 2011 with his entry "Popular". In the final Saade came in third place which was Sweden's best result in the contest since 1999.

Beginnings

Saade grew up in Kattarp outside Helsingborg to a Lebanese father of Palestinian origins and a Swedish mother. They divorced when Saade was four. He is the second of eight siblings and half siblings. Saade began writing songs at age 13. Football had been Saade's number one interest up until he signed his first music contract at 15, which resulted in one album and three singles. None of them charted. He also came to prominence after he won the Swedish music contest ''Joker'' (now ''Popkorn'').

Member of What's Up!

In 2007, based on his initial success, he also took part in a competition for filling up a position in a new proposed Swedish boyband to be formed. Out of hundreds of applicants, 15 were chosen to perform at the Globe theater including Saade. Saade became successful as one of the 4 finalists to form the band named What's Up!.

The others members of the band picked were Robin Stjernberg, Luwdig "Ludde" Keijser and Johan Yngvesson. All had been in musical competitions earlier just like Saade. Stjernberg, had been a winner in the ''Sommarchansen'' in Malmö in 2006, Keijser had competed in ''Lilla Melodifestivalen'' and Yngvesson had appeared in ''Super Trouper'' television series.

The newly-formed What's Up! band toured in Sweden starting Spring 2008. The same year, they sang the Swedish version of the theme song of a Disney production entitled ''Camp Rock''. Saade and members of What's Up! recorded the soundtrack for the film. The song was titled ''Här är jag'' in Swedish. Saade also dubbed the voice of the character Shane Grey, played by Joe Jonas, in the Swedish version of Disney's Camp Rock with other What's Up! members dubbing voices of other characters. They also appeared on the promotional trailer prepared by the Disney Channel.

In 2008, the band released its album ''In Pose''. It stayed one week in the Swedish Albums Chart at #40. Two singles were released, "Go Girl!" in May 2007 that peaked at #5 in the Swedish Singles Chart and "If I Told You Once" in March 2008 reaching #16.

In early 2009, the band announced the departure of Eric Saade for a solo career. He was replaced by Johannes Magnusson.

Television work

During the summer of 2009 Saade presented Disney Channel's popular ''My Camp Rock'' a Scandinavian music competition based on the Disney Channel's hit movie Camp Rock as well as holding interviews with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. Saade also appeared on ''Julias Stjärnskott'', a competition for young people, as a compere.

He was a member of the Swedish jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and on the night of the final, 29 May 2010, he announced the Swedish votes. This brief on-screen appearance caused his name to trend on Twitter.

Solo career

2009-2010

In August 2009 Saade signed a new contract with Roxy Recordings (Agnes Carlsson, Malena Ernman, Peter Jöback, Erik Hassle, Sarah Dawn Finer). In December 2009 Saade released his first worldwide single ''Sleepless'' that reached #44 in the Swedish Singles Chart. It also reached #98 in the Finnish iTunes Chart. The song charted on the iTunes Pop Chart in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland and Norway after he participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. In January 2010 he won a Scandipop Award for "Brightest New Hope for 2010". While participating in Melodifestivalen 2010, Saade released his second single ''Manboy''. The single topped the Swedish Single Chart, the Swedish Ringtones Chart and has achieved Platinum Certification in Sweden. It also was #5 in the Swedish Year-End Singles Chart 2010. His third single ''Break of Dawn'' reached number #45 in the charts.

In April 2010, he was #9 in the ''Sweden's Sexiest Men 2010''-List by Veckorevyn.

Saade released his first studio album, ''Masquerade'', on 19 May 2010, and it peaked at #2 in the Swedish Albums Chart. It has also achieved Gold Certification in Sweden. It was #29 in the Swedish Year-End Albums Chart 2010 and #41 in the Swedish Year-End Albums and Collections Chart 2010. Two other songs from the album (''Masquerade'' and ''It's Gonna Rain'') also charted on the Swedish iTunes Pop Chart while ''Masquerade'' also charted on the Swedish iTunes Chart.

From June until September 2010, Saade went on his first swedish tour called ''Masquerade Tour''. He was also nominated for three Rockbjörnen Awards.

2011-present

In January 2011, Saade released the first promotional single for his second album. The song ''Still Loving It'' never charted on the Swedish Single Chart. In the same month he was nominated for eight Scandipop Awards. He won in the two categories "Best Male" and "Best Album from a New Artist" for ''Masquerade''. He was also nominated for a Grammi, a QX Gay Award and a Swedish Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. While participating in Melodifestivalen a second time, he released the single ''Popular'' which got him his second #1 hit in Sweden and his second #1 ringtone. The single has achieved Double Platinum Certification in Sweden. After winning in Melodifestivalen and participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, the single was released wordwide. It charted in several European countries making it his first international hit. The song charted in the Top 10 of iTunes Chart in Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. It also reached #88 in the Australian Pop iTunes Chart. In June 2011, Saade released the single ''Hearts in the Air'' with rapper J-Son. It reached #2 in the Swedish Singles Chart and topped the Swedish Pop iTunes Chart. It has achieved Gold Certification in Sweden. The song will be released in Germany in September 2011.

In June 2011, he was named ''Sweden's Sexiest Man 2011'' by Veckorevyn.

On 29 June 2011, Saade released his second studio album, ''Saade Vol. 1'', which topped the Swedish Albums Chart. The album has achieved Platinum Certification in Sweden. It also reached #16 on the Finnish Albums Chart making the album his first that charted international. The album is set to release in Germany in fall 2011. The songs ''Made of Pop'', ''Me and My Radio'' and ''Timeless'' charted on the Swedish Pop iTunes Chart while ''Timeless'' also charted on the Swedish iTunes Chart.

From June until September 2011, Saade is on his second swedish tour called ''Made of Pop Tour''. He was also nominated for two You Choice Awards and two Rockbjörnen Awards.

His third studio album ''Saade Vol. 2'' is expected to be released in November 2011.

Melodifestivalen and Eurovision

Saade has taken part in Melodifestivalen Sweden's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest two times in a row. He failed to qualify the first time placing third in the final with ''Manboy'' and succeeded the second time with ''Popular''.

Melodifestivalen 2010

Saade participated in Melodifestivalen 2010 in the 2nd semi-final on 13 February 2010 at the Göransson Arena, Sandviken with the song ''Manboy'' written by Fredrik Kempe (music and lyrics) and Peter Boström (music) and achieved the third place in the national final on 13 March 2010.

{| class=wikitable |- !rowspan="2"|Place !rowspan="2"|Artist !rowspan="2"|Song !colspan="3"|Votes |- !Jury !Viewers !Total |- | 1 || Anna Bergendahl || ''This Is My Life'' || 82 || 132 || 214 |- | 2 || Salem Al Fakir || ''Keep on Walking'' || 95 || 88 || 183 |- | 3 || Eric Saade || ''Manboy'' || 49 || 110 || 159 |}

Saade won the Marcel Bezençon Awards for Melodifestivalen in the category "Artistic Award".

Eurovision 2010

On 29 May 2010, he read the results of the Swedish votes in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and was also a member of the Swedish jury.

Melodifestivalen 2011

On 19 February 2011, Eric Saade competed in the third semi-final in Cloetta Center, Linköping, of Melodifestivalen 2011 (the Swedish Eurovision selection process for Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany. His performance of his entry ''Popular'', written by Fredrik Kempe, got the most votes in the semi-final. Thus Saade competed in the Swedish final on 12 March 2011 where he won both the Swedish televoting and the international juries voting from 11 countries (getting the maximum 12 points from juries from France, United Kingdom and Malta and 10 points from the Ukraine and Irish juries and 8 points each from Greek and Croatian juries).

Table for the top three at Melodifestivalen was as follows: {| class=wikitable |- !rowspan="2"|Place !rowspan="2"|Artist !rowspan="2"|Song !colspan="3"|Votes |- !Juries !Viewers !Total |- | 1 || Eric Saade || ''Popular'' || 81 || 112 || 193 |- | 2 || Danny Saucedo || ''In the Club'' || 79 || 70 || 149 |- | 3 || The Moniker || ''Oh My God!'' || 55 || 69 || 124 |- |}

Saade won the Marcel Bezençon Awards for Melodifestivalen in the category "Press Award".

Eurovision 2011

After winning the national Swedish selection Melodifestivalen 2011, Eric Saade represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany in the second semi-final on 12 May 2011. Qualifying for the Final as one of the top 10 on the night, it was also later revealed that he had won the semi-final with the highest amount of points.

In the Final, Saade came in third place, making Eric Saade the most successful Swedish act in Eurovision since 1999 when Sweden won.

He won two ESC Radio Awards in the categories "Best Song" and "Best Male".

Personal life

Saade is in a relationship with Swedish singer Molly Sandén. They have lived together in Stockholm since early 2011. Sandén represented Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

Awards and nominations

! Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Result
	Scandipop Awards	"Brightest New Hope for 2010"	''Himself''	rowspan="2"
rowspan="2"	"Artistic Award"
"Press Award"	rowspan="5"
rowspan="3"	"Best Swedish Song of the Year"
"Best Breakthrough Act"
"Best Swedish Male Live Act"
		"Best New Artist"
"Best Male"	rowspan="2"
"Best Album from a New Artist"	rowspan="2"
"Best Male Album"	rowspan="8"
	''Manboy''
rowspan="2"
Grammis	"Song of the Year"
	"Artist of the Year"	''Himself''
rowspan="2"	"Artistic Award"	rowspan="2"
"Press Award"
	"Sweden's Favorite Star"	''Himself''	rowspan="3"
	"Artistic Award"	rowspan="3"
"Press Award"
	"Best Song"	rowspan="2"
"Best Male"	''Himself''
	"Best Newcomer"	rowspan="3"	rowspan="4"
"Best Male Video"
rowspan="2"	"Best Swedish Song of the Year"
"Best Male Live Act"	''Himself''

Discography

Albums

{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" |- ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album details ! scope="col" colspan="2"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Certifications |- ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"|SWE ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"|FIN |- ! scope="row" | ''Masquerade'' |

Released: 19 May 2010

Label: Roxy Recordings

Format: CD

| style="text-align:center;"| 2 | style="text-align:center;"| — |align="left"|

SWE: Gold

|- ! scope="row" | ''Saade Vol. 1'' |

Released: 29 June 2011

Label: Roxy Recordings

Format: CD

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 16 |align="left"| SWE: Platinum |- ! scope="row" | ''Saade Vol. 2'' | Expected Release: November 2011

Label: Roxy Recordings

Format: CD

| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |align="left"| |}

Singles

{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="colw" rowspan="2" style="width:13em;"| Single ! scope="col" colspan="7"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Certifications ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album |- ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| SWE

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| AUT

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| DEN

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| FIN

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| GER

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| IRE

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| UK |- |rowspan="1"| 2009 ! scope="row"| "Sleepless" | 44 || — || — || — || — || — || — |align="left"| |rowspan="3"| ''Masquerade'' |- |rowspan="2"| 2010 ! scope="row"| "Manboy" | 1 || — || — || — || — || — || — |align="left"|

SWE: Platinum

|- ! scope="row"| "Break of Dawn" | 45 || — || — || — || — || — || — |align="left"| |- |rowspan="2"| 2011 ! scope="row"| "Popular" | 1 || 29 || 38 || 17 || 48 || 27 || 76 |align="left"| SWE: 2x Platinum |rowspan="2"| ''Saade Vol. 1'' |- ! scope="row"| "Hearts in the Air" feat. J-Son | 2 || — || — || — || — || — || — |align="left"|

SWE: Gold

|}

Promotional Singles

! Year !! Single !! Album
2010
2011		''Saade Vol. 1''

Tours

2010: Masquerade Tour

2011: Made of Pop Tour

References

External links

Eric Saade Official Website

Eric Saade Channel on YouTube

Eric Saade page on LastFM

Eric Saade Fansite

Eric Saade Official Russian&CIS; Website

Eric Saade German fansite

Eric Saade German fanforum

Eric Saade Spanish fansite

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name	Kristin Chenoweth
birthname	Kristi Dawn Chenoweth
birth date	July 24, 1968
birth place	Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S.
occupation	Actress, singer, author
yearsactive	1991 – present
website	http://www.kristin-chenoweth.com/ }}

Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' (1999), for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical ''Wicked'' (2003). Her best-known television role is Annabeth Schott in NBC's ''The West Wing''. As Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama ''Pushing Daisies'', she won a 2009 Emmy Award.

An Oklahoma native, Chenoweth sang gospel music as a child and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in ''Steel Pier''. Besides ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' and ''Wicked'', Chenoweth's stage work includes five City Center Encores! productions, Broadway's ''The Apple Tree'' in 2006 and ''Promises, Promises'' in 2010, as well as Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.

Chenoweth had her own TV series ''Kristin'' in 2001, and has guest starred on many shows, including ''Sesame Street'' and ''Glee'', for which she was nominated for Emmy awards in 2010 and 2011. In films, she has played mostly character roles, such as in ''Bewitched'' (2005), ''The Pink Panther'' (2006) and ''RV'' (2006). She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies, done voice work in animated films and the animated TV series ''Sit Down, Shut Up'', hosted several award shows and released several albums of songs, including ''A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas'' (2008). Chenoweth also penned a memoir, ''A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages''.

Early life

Adopted at birth, Kristi Dawn Chenoweth was born and grew up in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has said that she is one-quarter Cherokee. At an early age, she performed gospel songs for local churches. A performing highlight of her childhood was a solo appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention national conference at the age of 12, where she performed the Evie Tornquist-Karlsson song "Four Feet Eleven". The chorus begins, "I'm only 4 feet 11, but I'm going to Heaven" (Chenoweth is in height).

After graduating from Broken Arrow Senior High, where she participated in school plays, Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority. She earned a BFA degree in musical theatre and a master's degree in opera performance, studying under voice instructor Florence Birdwell, who also trained Miss America 1981, Susan Powell, and three-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara. It was Birdwell who suggested to Chenoweth that she add an "n" to her first name. While at OCU, Chenoweth competed in beauty pageants, winning the title of "Miss OCU" and was the first runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991. In 1992, Chenoweth participated in a studio recording of ''The Most Happy Fella''.

Chenoweth participated in a number of vocal competitions and was named "most promising up-and-coming singer" in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which came with a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Two weeks before school started, however, she went to New York City to help a friend move. While there, she auditioned for the 1993 Paper Mill Playhouse production of the musical ''Animal Crackers'' and got the role of Arabella Rittenhouse. She turned down the scholarship and moved to New York to do the show and pursue a career in musical theatre.

Career

Chenoweth has appeared in theater, television,film and on the concert stage. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in Performing Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on , 2009, where she was the commencement speaker.

Theatre

After ''Animal Crackers'', Chenoweth continued to appear in regional theatre productions, such as ''Babes in Arms'' and ''Phantom'' (as Christine; also touring in Germany in this role), also taking roles in Off-Broadway productions like Luisa in ''The Fantasticks'', and Kristy in ''Box Office of the Damned'' (1994). In 1997, she appeared as Hyacinth in the Roundabout Theater Company production of Moliere's farcical ''Scapin'', earning her first ''New York Times'' review, with Ben Brantley writing "Kristin Chenoweth's sob-prone ingenue ... [is] delightful". She made her Broadway debut in the spring of 1997 as Precious McGuire in the musical ''Steel Pier'' by Kander and Ebb, for which she won a Theatre World award. In 1998 she appeared in the City Center Encores! staged concert of the George and Ira Gershwin musical ''Strike up the Band'' as Anne Draper and the Lincoln Center Theatre production of William Finn's ''A New Brain''.

In 1999, Chenoweth performed in the Broadway revival of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' as the title character's little sister, Sally, a character that was not present in the original production. She won the Tony, Drama Desk, Clarence Derwent, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Later that year, she starred on Broadway in the short-lived comic play ''Epic Proportions'', followed by starring as Daisy Gamble in the "Encores!" production of ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' in .

After this, Chenoweth split her time between stage and TV or film roles and released her first solo album, ''Let Yourself Go'' (2001). In 2002, she performed in the City Center Encores! ''10th Anniversary Bash''. In October  2003, she returned to Broadway (after the San Francisco tryout) in ''Wicked'', the musical about the early years of the witches of Oz, in the joint-leading role of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. She was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award as Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance, losing to her co-star Idina Menzel (who played Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West). Chenoweth was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Drama League Award for this role. After playing Glinda for nine months, Chenoweth left ''Wicked'', on , 2004, soon joining the cast of ''The West Wing'' in Los Angeles.

Chenoweth played Cunegonde in the New York Philharmonic revival of ''Candide'', directed by Lonny Price, in . The production was also broadcast on PBS's ''Great Performances''. A performance of the rarely sung duet "We Are Women", between Cunegonde and the Old Lady (played by Patti Lupone), was included in the production.

From December 2006 to March 2007, she starred on Broadway as Eve in a revival of ''The Apple Tree'' with co-stars Brian d'Arcy James and former fiancé Marc Kudisch. She received nominations for the Drama Desk Award and the Drama League Award. She hosted that year's Drama Desk Awards ceremony.

Chenoweth played Elizabeth in a 2006 workshop of Mel Brooks's musical theatre adaptation of his film ''Young Frankenstein'', but due to other commitments, she was unable to appear in the Broadway production. In 2008 she was scheduled to reprise her role as Cunegonde in an English National Opera production of ''Candide'', but she had to pull out. She appeared in the Encores! semi-staged production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ''Music in the Air'' in February 2009. Chenoweth was scheduled to return to The Metropolitan Opera in 2010 to play Samira in John Corigliano's opera ''The Ghosts of Versailles''. The Met cancelled the expensive production in 2008 as the U.S. economy weakened.

Chenoweth starred as Fran Kubelik in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical ''Promises, Promises'', opposite Sean Hayes, which opened on , 2010. The songs "I Say a Little Prayer" and "A House Is Not a Home" were added for her to sing. Chenoweth and Hayes remained in the cast until the show closed on January 2, 2011, although she missed performances from December 29, 2010 to January 1, 2011 to perform a New Year's Eve concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall on December 31, 2010.

Chenoweth took part in a reading of the musical ''On the Twentieth Century'' for the Roundabout Theatre Company in early 2011 with Hugh Jackman and Andrea Martin. She played televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in a reading of a new musical called ''Rise'' in spring 2011.

Television work

After a guest appearance on ''LateLine'', a role in the short-lived ''Paramour'' (1999) and several roles in television films such as ''Annie'' (as Lily St. Regis), Chenoweth starred in her own NBC sitcom, the semi-autobiographical ''Kristin'' in 2001. It was short-lived, with thirteen episodes filmed, but only six episodes aired. Chenoweth appeared in the lead role of Marian in the 2003 television film, ''The Music Man'', opposite Matthew Broderick. She also guest-starred on such shows as ''Frasier'' (2001), ''Sesame Street'' (2004) and ''Ugly Betty'' (2007).

In 2004, Chenoweth began playing the recurring role of media consultant Annabeth Schott in ''The West Wing''. For her performance, she was nominated twice, along with the cast, for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She appeared in the final two seasons of the program, through 2006.

From 2007 to 2009, Chenoweth played Olive Snook in the television series ''Pushing Daisies''. For her performance she received critical acclaim and was nominated two years in a row for an Emmy Award, winning in 2009 as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.The series was cancelled after two seasons.

In 2009, Chenoweth lent her voice to the animated comedy series ''Sit Down, Shut Up'' as Miracle Grohe, a science teacher who does not believe in science. The series lasted just thirteen episodes. Later that year, Chenoweth guest starred as April Rhodes in ''Glee'', singing several songs, earning enthusiastic notices. The character is a former member of the glee club who never finished high school and ended up hitting rock bottom. A review in ''USA Today'' observed, "Her presence may not make much sense, but [if] it means hearing Chenoweth sing, we can put up with any explanation the show cares to offer." She received a Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star. In , Chenoweth returned to ''Glee'' as April Rhodes, singing more songs. The ''Los Angeles Times'' review commented, "the best part about 'Home' was undoubtedly the return of Kristin Chenoweth as April. ... From her spunky duet of 'Fire' with Schue, to the heart-achingly lonely coo of 'One Less Bell to Answer' which segued into a fantastic reprise of 'A House Is Not a Home' and of course her bone-chilling take on 'Home' ... I fell in love with her again." She was nominated for both 2010 and 2011 Emmy Awards for her performances on ''Glee''. Chenoweth returned to ''Glee'' in 2011.

In 2011, Chenoweth joined the cast of an upcoming pilot for ABC called ''Good Christian Bitches'' as a character named Darlene. On May 13, 2011, ABC picked it up and changed the title to ''Good Christian Belles''.

Films

Chenoweth made her film debut in the film ''Topa Topa Bluffs'' in 2002 playing the role of Patty. After several years away from film she returned to the big screen in the 2005 film version of ''Bewitched'', directed by Nora Ephron. The film's star, Nicole Kidman, had attended a performance of ''Wicked'' and was so impressed with Chenoweth that Kidman asked Ephron to cast Chenoweth in the film. Chenoweth played the part of Maria Kelly, the Kidman character's neighbor. In 2006, Chenoweth played supporting roles in five films, ''The Pink Panther'', ''RV'', ''Running with Scissors'', ''Deck the Halls'', and ''Stranger Than Fiction''.

On February 24, 2008, Chenoweth sang "That's How You Know" from the film ''Enchanted'' at the 80th Academy Awards in the Kodak Theater. She also voiced Rosetta, the garden fairy in the 2008 animated film ''Tinker Bell''. Later that year, Chenoweth appeared in the 2008 holiday romantic comedy film ''Four Christmases'', playing the sister of Reese Witherspoon's character.

In 2009, Chenoweth starred as a "suicidal prostitute" in the indie drama ''Into Temptation'', written and directed by Patrick Coyle. The film was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival and since then has been released on DVD. Also in 2009, Chenoweth reprised her voice role of Rosetta in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'' and filmed the Disney comedy ''You Again'' (released in 2010). Chenoweth hosted the 15th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards which aired , 2010, on VH1.

Other media

Chenoweth often appears on ''Prairie Home Companion''.

On August 27, 2008, Chenoweth released an internet video with Funny or Die titled ''Intervention with Kristin Chenoweth''. The video parodied A&E;'s show ''Intervention'', with Chenoweth starring as a singing, dancing interventionist. The song was composed by Andrew Lippa, Chenoweth's frequent musical director and composer for her concert songs as well as the composer of "My New Philosophy", which she sang in the revival of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. The lyrics are by Amy Rhodes, who also wrote the clip. Chenoweth admitted that she was hesitant about performing the lyrics. In 2010, she appeared in a three-minute video short for ''Glamour Magazine'' entitled "iPad or Bust". Chenoweth posed for the cover and a photo spread in the March 2006 edition of ''FHM'' magazine.

In 2011, Chenoweth released her first televised music video on Country Music Television, directed by Roman White, "I Want Somebody". The video for the single peaked at #19 on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown.

Recordings and concerts

Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice, one she has compared to that of Betty Boop. She is a classically trained coloratura soprano, able to sing the note "F6" (also known as "F above High C").

Among other early recordings, Chenoweth participated in a studio cast recording of ''The Most Happy Fella'' in 1992. She was also in the cast recordings of ''A New Brain'' (1998) and ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' (1999) and a studio cast recording of ''110 in the Shade'' (1999). In 2000, she was featured on the album ''Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino''. The next year, with Mandy Patinkin, she was featured on the album entitled "Kidults". Also in 2001, she released her debut album ''Let Yourself Go'', which was a collection of standards from the musicals of the 1930s. One of the tracks featured a duet with Jason Alexander. In , Chenoweth performed songs from her solo album, ''Let Yourself Go'', in concert for Lincoln Center's American Songbook concert series. The same year, she appeared as Fanny Brice in the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical ''Funny Girl'' in New York City. In 2003 in London, she performed a solo concert as part of the ''Divas at Donmar'' series for director Sam Mendes. Later that year, she sang Glinda in the cast recording of ''Wicked'' and the soundrack recording of Disney's ''The Music Man''. In 2004, she released her second album ''As I Am'', which was a Christian music album containing various spiritual songs. The album peaked at number 31 on the U.S. Christian Albums Chart. The same year, Chenoweth gave a concert at Carnegie Hall.

On January 19, 2007, Chenoweth performed a solo concert at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, only the third musical theatre star ever to present a solo concert at that location, following Barbara Cook and Yves Montand. The same year, she was featured in songs with Nathan Gunn on an album entitled ''Just Before Sunrise''. The next year, she released her third solo studio album, entitled ''A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas''. The album was much anticipated by both her fans and Chenoweth herself; she had expressed her desire in the past to produce a Christmas album. The album included a duet with John Pizzarelli and there are several modern holiday tunes, but many traditional carols as well including ''The Lord's Prayer''. This album has been her best seller, reaching number 77 on the U.S. Billboard Albums Chart, climbing to number 7 on the U.S. Holiday Albums chart and to number 1 on the U.S. Heatseekers Chart. Among many other solo concerts around the U.S., Chenoweth performed her own concert in 2009 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, at the Fox Theatre.

Starting in August 2010, during her nights off from ''Promises, Promises'', she talked of flying to Nashville to record songs for her upcoming fourth recording. In an interview with the ''Los Angeles Times'' in December 2010, she revealed her next studio album would be a country pop collaboration with songwriter Diane Warren that would also contain self-written songs. Speaking about the new tracks, the remainder of which are planned to be recorded in Nashville in 2011, Chenoweth plans to address more serious themes of men and relationships.

Special events and appearances

Chenoweth and the cast of the Broadway musical ''Wicked'' performed the song "One Short Day" in the 2003 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Chenoweth performed the song "Oklahoma" while riding aboard the "Oklahoma Rising" float. The float was making the first of three annual appearances commemorating the state of Oklahoma's statehood centennial in 2007.

She was the star performer of the opening ceremony of the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade. She sang "Our Good Nature," an original composition written to coincide with the Oklahoma centennial celebration and the theme of the parade. In the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, she performed the song "The Christmas Waltz" from her "A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas" album while riding aboard the "The Care Bears Winter Fun-Derland" float.

She sang with Il Divo as part of Il Divo's Christmas Tour 2009 on , 16 and 17 in New York City and in Boston.

Personal life

In 2009, Chenoweth wrote a memoir entitled ''A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages'', describing her adoption, her turn in ''Wicked'' and her time in Hollywood. She has stated that the book is not a "tell all", and instead focuses on "how I got where I am so far". The book was released on , 2009. The book spent two weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.

She has spoken publicly about her religious faith; she describes herself as a "non-judgmental, liberal Christian". Raised as a Southern Baptist, she later chose to have a personal connection to a faith that is not based in any one denomination.

According to ''The New York Times'', when Chenoweth "assured her theater fans that she supports gay rights her Christian base was outraged; she was disinvited from performing at a Women of Faith conference in ." Chenoweth released an album in called ''As I Am'', a mixture of hymns and contemporary Christian music, with adult contemporary arrangements. To promote the album, she made an appearance on ''The 700 Club'' that upset some of her gay fans. She later said she thought that the "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary" and that she regretted appearing on the show.

She dated producer/writer Aaron Sorkin. In Sorkin's ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', the character of Harriet Hayes bears significant resemblances to Chenoweth, and the relationship between the Christian Hayes and "East coast liberal Jewish atheist" (her description) Matt Albie is modeled after that of Chenoweth and Sorkin. For example, Chenoweth's decision to appear on ''The 700 Club'' and her falling out with Women of Faith were depicted with the Hayes character.

Chenoweth has Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disorder that can cause vertigo, headaches and nausea, among other symptoms. She has said that, during some performances, she has had to lean on her co-stars to keep her balance and that it has caused her to miss performances.

In May 2010, Chenoweth wrote in response to an article in ''Newsweek'' by Ramin Setoodeh, an openly gay writer. Setoodeh thought that her Tony-nominated ''Promises, Promises'' co-star, Sean Hayes, "comes off as wooden and insincere" in playing the straight character Chuck, and that Jonathan Groff has a similar credibility problem in the TV show ''Glee''. He questioned whether any openly gay actor could acceptably portray a straight character. Chenoweth called the article "horrendously homophobic" and criticized Setoodeh's view as rationalizing "the same kind of bullying" that gay youths face in high school. Chenoweth argued that audiences "come to the theater to go on a journey" and do not care about an actor's sexual orientation. The story was picked up approvingly by major media including ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''.

Credits

Broadway

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Other theatre

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New York City Center Encores

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Filmography

colspan="5" style="background:#B0C4DE;"	Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1999		Lily St. Regis	TV film
2001	''Seven Roses''		TV film
2002	''Topa Topa Bluffs''	Patty
2003		Marian Paroo	TV film
2005		Maria Kelly
		Cherie
	Mary Jo Gornicke
	Book Channel host
	Fern Stewart
	Tia Hall
''A Sesame Street Christmas Carol''	Christmas Carole	Voice role
	''Space Chimps''	Kilowatt	Voice role
	Rosetta	Voice role
''Four Christmases''	Courtney
		Linda Salerno
''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''	Rosetta	voice role
	E.J. Baxter
	''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue''	Rosetta	voice role
	Georgia King
TBA	''Family Weekend''		''pre-production''
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
	''LateLine''	Kristin	"The Christian Guy"
''Paramour''		Mini-series
		Kristin Yancey	Thirteen episodes
''Frasier''	Portia Sanders
2002	''Baby Bob''	Crystal Carter	"Talking Babies Say the Darndest Things"
2003	''Fillmore!''	Museum Guide
2005	''Great Performances''	Cunegonde
2004–2006	''The West Wing''	Annabeth Schott
2003, 2006	''Sesame Street''	Ms. Noodle	Two episodes
2001, 2007	''Elmo's World''	Ms. Noodle	Two episodes
	''Ugly Betty''	Diane
''Robot Chicken''	''various''
2007–2009	''Pushing Daisies''		Twenty-two episodes, main characterPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series
		Miracle Grohe	Voice role, eleven episodes, main character
''[[Legally Mad''	Skippy Pylon	Pilot, never aired on television
	2009–present		April Rhodes	4 episodes, including "The Rhodes Not Taken", "Home" and "Rumours".Special Achievement Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star (2009)Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2010)Pending—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2011)
2010		Herself (guest judge No. 1)	"Orlando Auditions"
2010		Herself	Season 10 Episode 7
2010	''When I Was 17''	Herself	Season 1 Episode 20
2011		Herself (guest judge No. 3)	Season 8 Top 16
2012	''Good Christian Belles''	Darlene Cockburn	Main character

Discography

Studio albums

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! scope="row"		* Released: May 29, 2001	* Label: Sony Music Entertainment (#89384)	* Format:		* Released: April 5, 2005	* Label: Sony Music Entertainment (#94384)	* Format: CD, digital download	—	31	—
''[[A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas">Compact disc	—	—	—
! scope="row"		* Released: April 5, 2005	* Label: Sony Music Entertainment (#94384)	* Format: CD, digital download	—	31	—
''[[A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas''		* Released: October 14, 2008	* Label: Sony Masterworks (#8869734256)	* Format: CD, digital download	77	—	7
''Some Lessons Learned"		* To be released: September 13, 2011	* Label: Sony Masterworks

Singles

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"	51	94	58	25	47
"[[Last Name">Cabaret (musical)		88	100	—	—	87
! scope="row"	51	94	58	25	47
"[[Last Name"(''Glee'' Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth)	—	—	—	44	83
! scope="row"		64	—	52	—	93
! scope="row"	53	—	63	—	77	rowspan="2"
! scope="row"	90	—	92	—	116
! scope="row"		92	—	—	—	—	''Glee: The Music, Volume 6''
"I Want Somebody (Bitch About)"	—	—	—	—	—	''Some Lessons Learned''

Awards and nominations

+	! Year!! Award !! Title !! Work !! Result
1997	Theater World Award	Outstanding Broadway Debut	''Steel Pier''
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical
	Broadway.com Audience Award	Best On Stage Duo (with Idina Menzel)
Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance
Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Tony Award	Best Leading Actress in a Musical
2005	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2006	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
		Best Diva Performance
Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance
Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Actress in a Musical
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Breakthrough Performer of the Year
Satellite Award	Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Gold Derby TV Award	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Satellite Award	Outstanding Guest Star
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Gold Derby TV Award	Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
	Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Best Diva Performance
Best On-Stage Pair (with Sean Hayes)
Broadway.com Star of the Year	''for being voted most popular Broadway star of the year''
	GLAAD Media Award	Vanguard Award	''for making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for LGBT people''
Emmy Award	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	''Glee''

References

External links

''FHM'' interview

TonyAwards.com Interview

Excerpt from ''A Little Bit Wicked''

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name	Darren Hayes
background	solo_singer
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born	May 08, 1972Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
instrument	Vocals
genre	Pop, pop rock, electronica
occupation	Singer-songwriter
years active	1993–present
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Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album ''Savage Garden'' peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States. It spawned the singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", and Australian and US No. 1 "Truly Madly Deeply". The duo followed the success of their debut album with ''Affirmation'' (1999), which provided additional hits such as US No. 1 "I Knew I Loved You", and Australian No. 3 "The Animal Song". Savage Garden sold more than 23 million albums worldwide before parting ways in 2001.

Hayes released his first solo album ''Spin'' in 2002. The album sold two million copies worldwide, debuted at No. 2 in the UK and No. 3 in Australia. It delivered the hit single "Insatiable". Hayes' second solo album ''The Tension and the Spark'' marked a change of direction for the singer-songwriter, showing experimentation with electronica and darker lyrics. ''NME'' wrote about its first single, "Pop!ular" saying it was "A twistered masterclass in career reintervention...This guy is a genius." While ''The Observer'' said "This album is no folly and succeeds, often to the point of all out triumph, on its own terms." Hayes parted way with his record label Columbia Records in 2006 and started his own independent record label Powdered Sugar, from which he would release his third solo album ''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' (2007).

In mid-2010, Hayes announced the completion of recording his fourth solo album, ''Secret Codes and Battleships'', which is being mixed by Robert Orton, who is best known for working with Lady Gaga. On 17 April 2011, Hayes signed with Mercury Records' Australian division. He is set to release his new album with the label in October 2011. The first single "Talk Talk Talk" has already become a radio staple upon its release in June 2011.

Including his work with Savage Garden, Hayes has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide.

Early life

Hayes was born on 8 May 1972 in Brisbane, Australia. He is the youngest of three children. He started performing for his mother in his lounge room from an early age. At Mabel Park High School, Hayes appeared in the school musicals Man of Steel (playing Jimmy Olsen) in 1988 and Bye Bye Birdie (playing Albert) in 1989. He also sang at school concerts before graduating in 1989.

Hayes declined an opportunity to attend a performance academy in favour of studying at the University of Queensland. He ended up deferring a degree to pursue a musical career.

Music career

1993–2001: Savage Garden

In 1993, Hayes answered an advertisement in a magazine placed by Daniel Jones for a lead singer for a band called Red Edge. Hayes was successful despite his voice breaking in the audition. The covers band broke up in 1994 and Hayes formed a partnership with Jones, which was initially going to be called Crush. However, there was another band in the UK which had the rights to the name so the pair called themselves ''Savage Garden'', after a phrase used by Anne Rice to describe the world through the eyes of the main character in her novel ''The Vampire Lestat''. The Savage Garden is a vision of earth in which the natural laws of the world govern over anything aesthetic or civil.

Savage Garden started recording their debut album in 1995 with producer Charles Fisher. Their first single "I Want You" released in 1996 was the best selling single by an Australian artist that year. The second single "To the Moon and Back" topped the Australian charts at the end of 1996. The third single "Truly Madly Deeply" was their second number one and was the best-selling Australian single of 1997. Their debut album, ''Savage Garden'', was the best-selling album in Australia during 1997 and the duo won ten ARIA awards.

Hayes moved to New York City to promote Savage Garden internationally while Daniel Jones stayed in Brisbane. The move proved to be successful with "Truly Madly Deeply" going to the top of the American charts in 1998. The ''Savage Garden'' album sold seven million copies in the US on the back of this success.

In New York City, Hayes wrote ''Affirmation''. He had recently divorced his wife of several years. Parts of the album reflected the pain from the end of the relationship. ''Affirmation'' was released in 1999 and proved to be another hit with lead single "I Knew I Loved You" going to number one in the United States and the album selling six million copies by the end of 2000. The pair played the title track of the album at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Hayes moved to Sausalito, California in 2000. He became the public face of the duo doing most of the media. Hayes announced that Savage Garden had broken up in October 2001 during an ''off the record'' chat with an Australian journalist. When confronted with this information during the early morning hours, before an unrelated interview, Jones denied the break-up of the band. However, it appears that Jones did not believe the reporter was accurately quoting Hayes and denied what he thought was yet another breakup rumour. Still, the fact that Jones took a back seat in all promotional activities for ''Affirmation'' seems indicative that Jones was not content to remain within Savage Garden as it had operated in the past. ''Savage Garden'' had sold over 23 million albums by that stage.

In 2005, manager of Savage Garden, John Woodruff confirmed that Jones had announced his intention of leaving Savage Garden prior to the promotion for ''Affirmation''. Woodruff criticised the media for their treatment of Hayes. The duo have never issued a united statement regarding the situation, yet Hayes has guaranteed that the group will "never by any chance" reunite.

2002–present: Solo career

2002: ''Spin''

Hayes recorded his first solo album, ''Spin'', which was released in 2002. The album was produced by Walter Afanasieff, the producer of ''Affirmation''. ''Spin'' carried on in the same musical vein as Savage Garden, with a less soft rock sound and more edgy R&B; vibe, although the first single "Insatiable" was a ballad, reaching Number 3 in Australia. Other singles "Strange Relationship", "Crush (1980 Me)" and "I Miss You" also performed well in charts. The album reached the Top 5 in Australia at Number 3, and in the UK at Number 2. It also reached the top ten in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. In the United States, the album failed to make the same impact of Savage Garden's previous releases, reaching Number 35 on ''Billboard''. It was later re-issued with a bonus disc consisting of some live and studio tracks.

2003–2004: ''The Tension and the Spark''

Hayes spent two years working on his second solo album, ''The Tension and the Spark''. Other than the track "I Forgive You", which was produced with Madonna collaborator Marius De Vries, the entire album was produced by Hayes and Robert Conley (with whom he had previously toured and recorded "Crush (1980 Me)" for ''Spin'' and "Do You Believe" for Specificus). The album marked a bold change of direction from Hayes. Conley's production was almost entirely electronic, with acoustic instruments buried under walls of sequenced sounds. Although artistically this was a huge step forward and earned Hayes the strongest praise of his career, it seemed to alienate a large portion of his audience who were expecting another album of radio friendly pop songs. The first single "Pop!ular" was released on 12 July 2004. This single reached Number One on the US Dance Charts, and fared well in the UK. Hayes' follow-up single, "Darkness", charted in the lower regions of the ARIA top 50 charts.

One of his out-takes from the ''Spin'' sessions, "When You Say You Love Me", was an Australian top 20 single in April 2004 for Human Nature off their ''Walk The Tightrope'' album, and was then re-recorded in 2008 featuring Hayes himself. It was also covered by American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken for his ''Measure of a Man'' album.

2005–2006: ''Truly Madly Completely'' and parting ways with Columbia

In 2005, Hayes recorded a track he wrote with Robert Conley called "So Beautiful", which is included on the Savage Garden greatest hits compilation ''Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden''. The compilation also includes a second track by Hayes called "California". Both of these tracks harken back to Hayes' early sound, although still retaining some of the electronic flourishes from ''The Tension and the Spark''.

On 9 July 2006, Hayes announced that he had parted ways with Columbia Records after ten years and 24 million album sales together.

The tour following this release saw Hayes play the iconic Sydney Opera House, certainly a highlight of his career to date. The performance was recorded and released on a DVD entitled ''"A Big Night in with Darren Hayes"''.

2007–2008: ''This Delicate Thing We've Made''

Hayes finished recording his third solo album ''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' in 2007. The album is a double-disc, with 25 tracks. A lot of the tracks were co-written with Robert Conley, and a great deal of the album was written with and produced by Justin Shave, who played keyboards for part of Hayes' ''Time Machine'' tour. The album was released on 20 August 2007 on Hayes' own independent record label, Powdered Sugar, while the first single "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" was released in Australia on 28 July 2007 and in the UK and on-line on 6 August 2007.

On 9 April 2007, Hayes released the album track "Who Would Have Thought?" from ''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' as a teaser track on his official website, as well as his MySpace profile. This was accompanied by an animation for the song created by his partner, animator and director, Richard Cullen. Around April 2007, remixes of the album track "Step into the Light" were being played in clubs around the world. The album version of "Step into the Light" was released as a teaser on Hayes' official website and MySpace on 30 April 2007.

During the first half of 2007, Hayes performed selected songs from the album in small exclusive gigs around the world. Tickets for several of these much sought after shows sold out in under ten minutes. In June 2007, Hayes embarked on a small tour of USA and Canada, stopping in New York, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with the band Temposhark. The shows were well received with very positive reviews.

On 30 June 2007, Hayes headlined the London Gay Pride at Trafalgar Square. He performed "I Want You" and "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" as well as a medley that included "Pop!ular".

In July 2007, Hayes announced The Time Machine Tour that would start out in the UK, and then move on to Hayes' home country Australia.

On 29 July 2007, "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" was the most selected music video on The Box in the UK.

On 20 August 2007, ''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' was released in the UK, America and Australia.

Hayes finished touring this release with 'The Time Machine Tour' in the UK and Australia, where he played venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and the State Theatre in Sydney. His stage was again designed by Willie Williams and included a large bridge that could extend over the first few rows of seats. On the final night at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Hayes' hometown of Brisbane the performance was recorded in HD for a DVD release. The Time Machine Tour DVD came out in two editions; the special edition which was limited to 2000 copies and contained a four panel, fold out, gleaming white box, a 32 page color booklet with 300 photos and notes from the artist, and the regular edition. The special edition DVD, which was only available from Hayes' website, was shipped to purchasers on 1 July, and the regular edition which was available in shops was released on 22 July.

Hayes did a mini tour in the US in November and December 2007, making appearances at Borders stores and performing two shows in New York City and Philadelphia.

On 18 December 2007, Hayes announced "The Side Two Tour". The show toured the UK in February 2008 and featured Hayes performing songs from ''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' that were not featured on "The Time Machine Tour", in a more intimate setting.

2009–present: ''We Are Smug'', Signing to Mercury Records and ''Secret Codes and Battleships''

On 19 April 2009, Hayes teased via Twitter that he was preparing another album. On 8 May, Hayes announced, via his MySpace page, that he and Robert Conley had produced an album together titled ''We Are Smug''. The ten-track album, with a fair amount of experimentation with both lyrics and music, was made available via a link from his MySpace page, and was made free to download to gauge acceptability of Hayes' shifting musical styles. The album is heavily electronic with some heavy beats. It also contains some explicit content. Both Hayes and Conley share vocal duties on this album.

Hayes signed to Sony ATV Music Publishing for a worldwide deal in August 2009. Emma Banks from CAA UK came on board October 2009 to represent Hayes for his touring plans around the new album.

Although the album was completed before the holidays in 2009, Hayes announced in early 2010 that he had more song ideas and he was going back into the studio, which delayed the album another year. Hayes completely finished his fourth solo album in mid-2010, working with top writer/producers from around the world and having the record mixed by Robert Orton (Lady Gaga).

Darren also recorded a song for the Finn tribute album "He Will Have His Way", a cover of "Not Even Close". It was released on Halloween 2010.

On 17 April 2011, Darren announced that he had signed a record deal with Mercury Records/Universal Music Australia. Darren will release his fourth studio album on the label mid-2011. The first single titled "Talk Talk Talk" was announced in May and was released on 24 June. The single will contain a cover version of Madonna's "Angel" as the B-side.

It was announced on 20 June via Hayes' Facebook page that his new album would be titled ''Secret Codes and Battleships''. Hayes also confirmed the release month for the new album would be October, following the release of a second single in September. Five track names have been mentioned in interviews with Hayes; "Don't Give Up", "Blood-Stained Heart", "Cruel Cruel World", "God Walking Into the Room" and "Black Out The Sun".

He announced on Twitter on 22 July that he was shooting a second music video. On 14 August, Hayes revealed in a radio interview that "Black Out The Sun" will be the second single from ''Secret Codes and Battleships''. He later confirmed on Twitter that this song will be the single for the UK and other international markets, while "Blood-Stained Heart" would be the second single in Australia. He will shoot a video for the track in early September.

Personal life

Hayes married a childhood sweetheart, makeup artist Colby Taylor, in 1994. They were still married when Savage Garden "skyrocketed to fame around the globe in the late 1990s." They separated in 1998 and were divorced in 2000. Much of the lyrics for the band’s second album, ''Affirmation'', dealt with his divorce. He recorded ''Affirmation'' in San Francisco mid-1999 and eventually bought a house there. He also maintains a base in London since 2004.

Hayes was upset when Simon Amstell, an openly gay U.K. comedian asked Hayes about his sexuality before he had actually been out. He was outraged by Amstell's lack of respect for his privacy but later said that event made him realize that he needed to be honest. Hayes started coming out as gay to friends and the head of his label, Sony in the early 2000s. He married (via a civil partnership) his boyfriend of two years, Richard Cullen, on 19 June 2006 in London. Though public speculation about his sexual orientation had been present throughout his career, he is famous for keeping his personal life private. He announced the event the day prior on his official website. Before the announcement Cullen's name had appeared on the website as the designer of the cover for Hayes' single "So Beautiful". Hayes and Cullen live in London.

Hayes is a well-known ''Star Wars'' buff and has been since childhood. He also collects ''Star Wars'' memorabilia and he even auditioned for a role in ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith''.

Discography

Studio albums

2002: ''Spin''

2004: ''The Tension and the Spark''

2007: ''This Delicate Thing We've Made''

2011: ''Secret Codes and Battleships''

References

External links

Darren Hayes Official Website

Darren Hayes Official Facebook

We Are Smug

Darren Hayes Official Twitter

Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:Australian male singers Category:Australian singer-songwriters Category:LGBT musicians from Australia Category:People from Brisbane Category:Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom

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