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2Pac
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3 Inches of Blood
3 Inches of Blood, abbreviated as 3IoB, is a Canadian heavy metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 1999. They are mostly influenced by the bands involved with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Before 3 Inches of Blood, Pipes and Hagberg were in a black metal band called Allfather. When Pipes was around 10 years old, he sang in his school's choir. In 2007, the band were a support act for British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
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8 Foot Sativa
8 Foot Sativa is a New Zealand-based metal band formed in 1998. Their most famous single is their self titled song, "8 Foot Sativa", which was number one on M2's top 12 list for 12 weeks, and stayed on the chart for seven months. (M2 was a New Zealand late night Music Show.) The band has toured and released albums internationally, and have played alongside artists such as Soulfly, Korn, Slipknot, System of a Down, Children of Bodom, Disturbed, Motörhead, Pungent Stench, Shihad and Corrosion of Conformity.
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A*Teens
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Adam Sandler
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, musician, and film producer.
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Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "'''America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band'''". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many subsequent rock artists. The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, originally in a band together called the Jam Band, met up with singer Steven Tyler, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano, and formed Aerosmith. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter.
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Air (French band)
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Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several successful albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been successful commercially.
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards.
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Alcazar (band)
Alcazar is a Swedish eurodance group which has established themselves as one of Sweden's most successful music groups with a string of hits since their debut single in 1999. Worldwide Alcazar had sold records over 12 million between 2001 and 2004. Alcazar have also had success around the world with their song "Crying at the Discoteque", having charted in countries such as USA, Brazil, Australia, Japan and most countries in Europe.
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Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
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Alison Moyet
Alison Moyet (born Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet, 18 June 1961), is an English pop singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice.
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Alizée
Alizée Jacotey () (born 21 August 1984) is a French singer. Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, she goes by the stage name Alizée — the feminine form of alizé, the trade wind. She was discovered by Mylène Farmer, following her winning performance in the talent show, Graines de Star, in 1999. While collaborating with Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat, Alizée released two albums — both of which were hits inside and outside of France.
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 12 March 2008), was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.
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Alvino Rey
Alvin McBurney (July 1, 1908 — February 2, 2004), known by his stage name Alvino Rey, was an American swing era musician and pioneer, often credited as the father of the pedal steel guitar. He was mainly associated with orchestral, big band and swing music, and towards the end of his career, jazz and exotica.
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Anastacia
Anastacia (born Anastacia Lyn Newkirk; September 17, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful in Europe, Asia, Oceania, South Africa, and South America, but has not had as much success in her native United States. Her debut album, Not That Kind, released in 2000, achieved top ten sales in eight countries in Europe, Asia, and Oceania, and went triple platinum in Australia; her debut single "I'm Outta Love", was also a hit in Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and the UK.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
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Angie Aparo
Angie Aparo is an American musician and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently recording an album and touring with his long-time drummer, Derek Murphy.
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Angie Stone
Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown on December 18, 1961) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, keyboardist, record producer, and occasional actress.
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Angra (band)
Angra is a power metal band from São Paulo, Brazil known for its symphonic interludes, highly technical instrumental playing and Brazilian regional elements.
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Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco () (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is a feminist icon.
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Ann Miller
Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American singer, dancer and actress.
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Anthrax (band)
Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene. When thrash metal began to gain a major following in the mid-to-late 1980s, Anthrax were dubbed one of the "big four" of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer.
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Arnold Moore
Arnold "Gatemouth" Moore (November 8, 1913, Topeka, Kansas - May 19, 2004, Yazoo City, Mississippi) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter and pastor. A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, he claimed to have earned his nickname as a result of his loud speaking and singing voice.
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Artie Shaw
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
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Ashanti (singer)
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Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee Nicole Wentz (née Simpson; October 3, 1984) is an American pop singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. She is commonly known by Ashlee Simpson-Wentz. Simpson-Wentz, who is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson, rose to prominence in mid-2004 through the success of her number-one debut album Autobiography and the accompanying reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show. Simpson received widespread notoriety when she attempted to lip-sync with a pre-recorded vocal track on Saturday Night Live in October 2004.
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Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968) is an American actress, who is best known for playing a number of strong characters in films such as Ruby in Paradise, Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy, Where the Heart Is and High Crimes.
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Badly Drawn Boy
Damon Gough (stage name Badly Drawn Boy) is an English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England.
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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer–songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)."
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Bart Howard
Bart Howard (born Howard Joseph Gustafson; June 1, 1915 — February 21, 2004) was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon", which has been performed by singers (among others) Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Diana Krall, June Christy and Astrud Gilberto. It is also played frequently by jazz and popular musicians around the world.
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees
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Beenie Man
Anthony Moses Davis (born August 22, 1973), better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Grammy award winning Jamaican reggae artist. He is now the proclaimed," King of the Dance Hall."
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Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. He now performs as a solo artist and collaborates with many other musicians.
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Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Australia. Harper is a two-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005.
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Beyoncé
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Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981), often known simply as Beyoncé ( ), is an American Pop/R&B; singer, songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B; girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
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Big Moe
Kenneth Moore (August 20, 1974 – October 14, 2007), better known by his stage name Big Moe, was an American rapper from Houston, Texas. He was known for a softer and slower style than other Houston rappers, including a mixture of rapping and singing that he called "rapsinging" as well as for his music that celebrated codeine-laced syrup as a recreational drug.
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Billy May
William E. "Billy" May (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet and Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1966), Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and among others.
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Bizzy Bone
Bryon Anthony McCane ll (born September 12, 1976), better known by his stage name Bizzy Bone is an American rapper and a member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965), known as Björk ( respell| in English), is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, actress and music producer, whose work includes three albums as lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes, seven solo albums, and two film soundtracks, contributing to numerous others including the 1994 film Léon, in which "Venus as a Boy" was featured.
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Blue (boy band)
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bob Powell
Bob Powell né Stanislav (Stanley) Robert Pawlowski (October 6, 1916, Buffalo, New York, United States – October 1, 1967, Huntington, New York) was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1930-40s Golden Age of comic books, including on the features "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" and "Mr. Mystic". He received a belated credit in 1999 for co-writing the debut of the popular feature "Blackhawk". Powell also did the pencil art for the famous bubble gum trading card series Mars Attacks. He officially changed his name to S. Robert Powell in 1943.
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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973), born Walden Robert Perciville Cassotto, was a two-time Grammy award winning American singer, Oscar nominated actor and accomplished musician.
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is a hip hop music group, formed in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., in 1991. It consists of rappers Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Layzie Bone, and Bizzy Bone. Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-n-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994, when Bone Thugs debuted with EP Creepin on ah Come Up. That EP included the hit single "Thuggish Ruggish Bone."
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Bonnie McKee
Bonnie Leigh McKee is an American singer-songwriter, formerly signed to Reprise Records.
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Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins on 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, most notable for her worldwide hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" & also selling over 80 million records worldwide.
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Bradley Joseph
Bradley Joseph (born 1965) is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".
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Brandy (entertainer)
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Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, television entertainer, actress, and film producer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego '''Bran'Nu'''.
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Brian McFadden
Brian Nicholas McFadden (born 12 April 1980), is an Irish singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the late 90's, as a member of the all male Irish band, Westlife. McFadden left the group in early 2004 to pursue a solo career and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony BMG. He is now a judge on ''Australia's Got Talent''.
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.
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Buju Banton
Buju Banton (born Mark Anthony Myrie July 15, 1973) is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae musician. He has also recorded Pop and Dance songs, as well as songs dealing with political topics. Banton is politically outspoken and influenced by Marcus Garvey and the Rastafari movement. He is currently in a United States jail awaiting a retrial on federal drugs charges relating to cocaine.
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Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes (born May 20, 1972), is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes).
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Butch Walker
Butch Walker (born Bradley Glenn Walker on November 14, 1969) is a current American recording artist, songwriter, and record producer who was also the lead guitarist for the metal band SouthGang from the late 80s to early 90s as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist for alternative rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001.
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Cam'ron
Cameron Giles (born February 4, 1974), better known by his stage name '''Cam'ron''' or "Killa Cam", is a Grammy-nominated, American rapper and actor. He is the founder of the hip-hop group The Diplomats (also known as Dipset), and also of The U.N. (Us Now) group.
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Carl Thomas (singer)
Carl Thomas (born June 15, 1972) is an American R&B; singer. He attended Aurora East High School. Thomas sang around Chicago and became a member of The Formula. He branched out however, and traveled to New York where he sang at clubs during open-mic nights. One such performance caught the eye of Sean "Puffy" Combs who signed Thomas to Bad Boy in 1997.
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Carl Wayne
Carl Wayne (born Colin David Tooley 18 August 1943 - 31 August 2004) was a British singer and actor. He is best remembered as the lead vocalist of Birmingham rock group The Move during the 1960s.
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Carlo Rustichelli
Carlo Rustichelli (24 December 1916 - November 13, 2004) was an Italian film composer whose career span went from the 1940s to about 1990. He was very prolific, and his output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films and music for television.
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Carnal Forge
Carnal Forge are a Swedish band, best classified as thrash metal with some melodic death metal influences. The songs tend to be very fast and violent. Their name originates from a song on Carcass's album Heartwork.
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Cassidy (rapper)
Barry Adrian Reese better known by his stage name Cassidy, is an American rapper.
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Catch 22 (band)
Catch 22 is an American ska punk band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC, OQ (; born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.
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Cem Karaca
Muhtar Cem Karaca (April 5, 1945, Antakya - February 8, 2004), also called as Cem Baba (Daddy Cem or Father Cem). Legend by his fans, was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement.
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Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the seventies as the front woman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career. Her signature hits, both with Rufus and solo, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
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Chris Isaak
Christopher Joseph "Chris" Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is an American rock musician and occasional actor.
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Chris Rea
Chris Rea (, ) (born Christopher Anton Rea, 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough) is an English singer-songwriter, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)".
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Chris Thile
Chris Thile () (born February 20, 1981) is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and a vocalist for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers and his most recent album is Antifogmatic. He has also recorded five albums as a solo artist, debuting with Leading Off in 1994. Chris Thile has collaborated with many artists such as Mike Marshall, Béla Fleck, Glen Phillips, and Edgar Meyer. Thile is a great-great-grandson of Baseball Hall of Famer Sam Thompson.
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Chumbawamba
: "Neil Ferguson" redirects here. For the British historian, see Niall Ferguson.
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Ciara
Ciara Princess Harris (born October 25, 1985), who performs under the mononym Ciara, is an American recording artist, dancer, actress, and fashion model. Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during her childhood, only to land in Atlanta, Georgia where she met music producer, Jazze Pha. With his help, she was signed to LaFace Records, and went on to become a successful artist, selling more than seven million albums worldwide and having numerous top ten hits.
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Clay Aiken
Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken (né Grissom; born November 30, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer, and author who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released in October 2003. He released four more albums on the RCA label: Merry Christmas with Love (2004), A Thousand Different Ways (2006), and the Christmas EP, All is Well (2006). His fourth studio album (the first album of original material since 2003's Measure of a Man), On My Way Here was released on May 6, 2008.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer, musician, performer, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, who has sold over 260 million records worldwide in a career spanning 7 decades.
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Clint Lowery
Clint Lowery (born December 15, 1971) is a heavy metal guitarist and vocalist, previously of the bands Still Rain and Dark New Day. Lowery currently plays lead guitar in the band Sevendust and served as the touring guitarist for Korn through most of 2007. He is thanked by Fieldy in Korn's Untitled Korn album. Clint Lowery has two brothers, Corey and Dustin, who have played in different bands over the years.
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Coil (band)
Coil was an English cross-genre, industrial experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by the omnipresence of the coil's shape in nature. Today, Coil remains one of the most influential and best known industrial music groups.
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
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Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde is an alternative rock band based in the United States. They were initially active from 1982 to 1995, and again from 2001 to 2004, and once again in the summer of 2010.
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Cornelis de Bondt
Cornelis de Bondt (born 9 December 1953) is a Dutch composer. Born in The Hague, de Bondt attended the Royal Conservatory there and currently teaches composition and music theory at the same institution.
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Cornelius Bumpus
Cornelius Bumpus (May 7, 1946 – February 3, 2004) was an American woodwind, keyboard player and vocalist from Santa Cruz, California.
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Cosima De Vito
Cosima De Vito (born 1 November 1976), also known simply as Cosima, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame as a contestant of the original Australian Idol series in 2003. She has since established an independent music career, releasing two studio albums called Cosima, in 2004, and This Is Now in 2007.
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Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress. Love is primarily known as lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for alternative rock band Hole, as well as for her publicity-ridden marriage to the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
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Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American Latino hip hop group from South Gate, California. Originally called DVX, the name was changed after Mellow Man Ace left to go solo in 1988. Cypress Hill was the first Latino group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide. They are one of the most well known groups in West Coast rap and are critically acclaimed for their first two groundbreaking albums.
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Czeslaw Niemen
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D'Arcy Wretzky
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Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel John Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is a New Zealand born, British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.
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Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer, songwriter, actress, television personality, radio personality, fashion designer and model. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time and the soap opera Home and Away, before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Minogue achieved early success with hits such as "Love and Kisses" and "This is It", though by the release of her second album, her popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to concentrate on other fields such as television presenting. The late 1990s saw a brief return to music after Minogue reinvented herself as a dance artist with "All I Wanna Do", her first number one UK Club hit.
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Darius Danesh
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Daron Hagen
Daron Aric Hagen (, born November 4, 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), is an American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.
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Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is a UK based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes debuted in 1996 as the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden propelled them to superstardom. It spawned the singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", and the airplay number-one "Truly Madly Deeply". The duo followed the success of their debut album with Affirmation (1999), which also produced several hits such as "I Knew I Loved You", "The Animal Song" and "Crash and Burn". Savage Garden sold more than 23 million albums worldwide before parting ways in 2001.
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David Bottrill
David Bottrill is a Canadian record producer. He has won three Grammys. Currently, he owns Rattlebox Studios in Toronto with producer Brian Moncarz. Moneen, Basia Lyjak, Sonic Art and A/Collision are among the artists recording at the facility.
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David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash (who are sometimes augmented by Neil Young), and CPR. Crosby is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in The Byrds and CSN.
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David Raksin
David Raksin (August 4, 1912 - August 9, 2004) was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score to Modern Times (1936). He is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme to the 1944 movie Laura, which became the 1945 song "Laura". Johnny Mercer put lyrics to this theme, and during Raksin's lifetime this was said to be the second most-recorded song in history following only Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish. He also wrote the theme song for (and scored the pilot of) Ben Casey.
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David Zippel
David Joel Zippel (born May 17, 1954) is an American musical theatre lyricist.
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Daz Dillinger
Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973 in Long Beach, California), better known by his stage name Daz Dillinger (and formerly Dat Nigga Daz) is an American hip hop producer and rapper mostly known for his membership in the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound, with Kurupt, and his work with Death Row Records. He is the cousin of Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Lil' ½ Dead, and RBX.
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Deborah Voigt
Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American opera singer known for her vibrant dramatic soprano voice, which soars easily over heavy and dense orchestration. She is famous for her interpretations of Richard Strauss and Wagner roles, including Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Elsa in Lohengrin, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, Chrysothemis in Elektra, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, the title role in Salome, Helen in Die ägyptische Helena, Marie in Friedenstag, and Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Her most recent role was Alceste. Voigt regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2002, she was honored as a Chevalier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions in music.
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DeCastro Sisters
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Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap Neighbours as Nina Tucker, and this assisted her establishing an international music career. Goodrem has achieved eight #1 singles in her home country including all three of her studio albums reaching #1. She currently holds the record for the highest selling album of the last decade and the most #1 singles from any debut album, with all five of her singles from her debut album Innocent Eyes reaching #1 on the ARIA charts. Her repertoire falls under the pop and adult contemporary styles, and heavily features the piano, which she usually plays barefoot while performing live.
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Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he returned to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Banhart released his debut album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations.
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Devin the Dude
Devin Copeland (born June 4, 1970), better known by his stage name, Devin the Dude, is a Houston hip hop artist. He is best known for his unique rapping style, his long career signed to Rap-A-Lot Records, and his 2002 song "''Lacville '79''". His relationship with the fans has made him a huge underground hit.
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Diana DeGarmo
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987) is an American singer and Broadway actress. She finished as the runner-up on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol, narrowly missing the win by about 2% (approximately 1.3 million votes) out of over 65 million votes. At 16, DeGarmo was the second youngest contestant among the set of finalists in the third season after John Stevens; she was a junior at Shiloh High School in Snellville, Georgia. DeGarmo still remains the youngest contestant to ever make the top 2 in all 9 seasons of Idol.
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Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy and Juno Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time. She is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards.
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Dido (singer)
'''Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born 25 December 1971), known mononymously as Dido''' ( ), is an English singer-songwriter.
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Dimebag Darrell
Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as "Diamond Darrell", and "Dimebag Darrell" (August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004) was an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan. He also performed in the southern rock band Rebel Meets Rebel.
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Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir ( in English) is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993 by Jose James Valdes. Dimmu borgir means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation in Iceland, Dimmuborgir. The band has been through numerous line-up changes over the years; guitarist Silenoz and vocalist Shagrath are the only founding members remaining.
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Dispatch (band)
Dispatch was an American indie/roots folk jam band formed at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. They were active from 1996 to 2002, and have come together three times for reunion concerts, first in 2004, again in 2007, and a third time in 2009. Dispatch experimented with a variety of genres, and as such, they are known as a very difficult band to categorize. The band was also instrumental in the creation of the non-profit organization The Elias Fund. Dispatch consisted of Brad Corrigan (vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, and harmonica), Pete Francis Heimbold (vocals, bass and guitar), and Chad Urmston (vocals, guitar, bass, and percussion).
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Don Cornell
Don Cornell (April 21, 1919 – February 23, 2004) was an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s noted for his smooth but robust baritone voice.
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Donovan
Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow), is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music.
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Doris Troy
Doris Troy (January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004) was an American R&B; singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".
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Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool is a four-piece alternative metal band that was formed in 1996 in Dallas, Texas, United States. They are currently signed to Eleven Seven Music and have released four albums, their most recent being their self titled album, Drowning Pool, which was released on April 27, 2010. Each of their first three albums has featured a different lead singer. After original lead singer Dave Williams died, Jason Jones took over for their second album, Desensitized. When he left the band for personal reasons, he was replaced by former Soil lead singer Ryan McCombs for Full Circle. McCombs then returned to sing on their fourth album Drowning Pool. The band played in Crüe Fest 2: The White Trash Circus in the Summer of 2009.
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Edguy
Edguy is a metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992.
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Edwin McCain
Edwin McCain (born January 20, 1970 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American alternative rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was adopted as an infant and had two sons with his wife and also had an adopted child.
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works.
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Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery" and use of multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies.
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Eminen
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Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English pop singer-songwriter and actress. She was a member of the 1990s girl group, the Spice Girls, in which she was known as Baby Spice as she was the youngest member. In 2010 she joined the judging panel on ITV's Dancing On Ice and is the host of Channel 5's Don't Stop Believing
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Emmy Rossum
Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She first starred in a string of movies including Songcatcher (2000), An American Rhapsody (2001) and Passionada (2002). Her role in Mystic River (2003) garnered her wider fame. She then starred in the blockbuster film The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and The Phantom of the Opera (2004) for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. She has since starred in Poseidon (2006), (2009) and Dare (2009).
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Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975), better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish pop music singer-songwriter.
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Enya
Enya (born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin on 17 May 1961), is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer. The media sometimes refer to her by the Anglicized name, Enya Brennan; Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.
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Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is best known as a founding member and vocalist of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle, England, his funk rock band War and his aggressive stage performance. He was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Eric Prydz
Eric Sheridan Prydz (born July 19, 1976) is a Swedish DJ and producer based in London. The pronunciation of his surname is often questioned. It is pronounced "prids", but when under his alias, Pryda, it is pronounced "pride-ah". On October 28, 2009, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, and Prydz placed at #34.
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Erik van der Luijt
Erik van der Luijt (born August 22, 1970 in The Hague) is a Dutch jazz pianist / keyboard player, arranger, composer, producer and band leader.
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Europe (band)
Europe is a Swedish melodic heavy metal band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal and hard rock elements. Since its formation, Europe has released eight studio albums, three live albums, three compilations and seventeen videos.
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Everlast (musician)
Erik Schrody (born August 18, 1969 in Valley Stream, New York), better known by his stage name Everlast, is a Grammy-Award winning Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter, known for his solo hit "What It's Like" and as the front-man for rap group House of Pain.
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Everlast (singer)
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Fabolous
John David Jackson (born November 18, 1977), better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American recording artist. Growing up in Brooklyn in New York City. Part of his early popularity arose from his hit single "Can't Deny It" in 2001, from his debut album Ghetto Fabolous. Fabolous has released five albums, which have collectively sold over three million copies in the United States.
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Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30, 1984) commonly known as Fantasia, is an American R&B;/pop singer, Broadway and television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol in 2004. She has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards. After playing the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, she has been cast to be in the film adaptation of the musical.
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Fastball (band)
Fastball is an American rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in the 1990s. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records.
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Fatboy Slim
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Four Tet
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Frank Black
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
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Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.
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Gabrielle (singer)
Louisa Gabrielle Bobb (born 16 April 1970; Hackney, London) is a multi-platinum selling, BRIT Award winning English singer, who records under the name Gabrielle. She is best known for singles; "Dreams", "Rise" and "Out of Reach" and is recognised for concealing one of her eyes.
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Garou (singer)
Garou (born 26 June 1972), from the French expresion "loup-garou", which means "werewolf", is a Canadian singer from Sherbrooke, Quebec. He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris and the #1 hits Belle, Seul, Sous le vent, and La Rivière de notre enfance. He currently holds the SNEP record for most weeks at #1.
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Gary Moore
Gary Moore (born Robert William Gary Moore, 4 April 1952) is a guitarist and singer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz [, ] on August 25, 1949 is an Israeli-American rock bassist, vocalist, musician, actor, and businessman. He is well known as "The Demon", the bassist in the hard rock band Kiss, a group he co-founded in the early 1970s.
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas (* August 16, 1953 in Graz) is an Austrian composer of spectral music.
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George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor, who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in the American miniseries Attila (2001). He garnered critical acclaim for his breakthrough work as the lead in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. In 2007, Butler gained worldwide recognition through his portrayal of King Leonidas in the film 300. Since then, he has appeared in projects including P.S. I Love You (2007), ''Nim's Island (2008), RocknRolla (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), Gamer (2009), Law Abiding Citizen (2009) and The Bounty Hunter (2010). He was recently in Belgrade filming Coriolanus''.
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Ghost (1984 band)
Ghost is an experimental rock group formed in Tokyo, Japan, in 1984.
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Graham Coxon
Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter. He came to prominence as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur, and is also a critically acclaimed solo artist, having recorded seven solo albums. His artistic and musical contribution is featured on all seven of Blur's studio albums, from 1991's Leisure to 2003's Think Tank. Although credited as a songwriter on most Blur tracks, his most significant lyrical contributions appeared on the hit singles "Tender" and "Coffee & TV"; a number of tracks in the band's catalogue were also penned mainly by Coxon. The cover of 1999's 13 was designed by Coxon.
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Graham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. Nash was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and as a member of The Hollies in 2010.
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Green Carnation
Green Carnation is a band from Kristiansand, Norway formed in 1990 that has created songs from both the progressive rock and progressive metal genres. Some also describe their music as art rock. Green Carnation's trend of music has continuously become less and less heavy after every release; from straight forward death metal, doom metal/progressive metal, to a more hard rock-sounding form of progressive rock and in 2006, went as far as to releasing an entirely acoustic album Acoustic Verses.
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Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.
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GWAR
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Haiducii
Haiducii is the stage name of Paula Mitrache (born on June 14, 1977).
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Hawk Nelson
Hawk Nelson is a Christian rock band from Peterborough, Ontario. The band has become very popular in the Christian music scene and was voted "Favorite New Artist" by CCM Magazine in their February 2006 ''Reader's Choice Awards''. In 2006 Hawk Nelson won a #1 spot on VH1's top 20 video countdown with "The One Thing I Have Left" music video.
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Head Automatica
Head Automatica is a electro/pop/rock band, formed by Glassjaw frontman Daryl Palumbo.
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Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, fashion designer, fashion model, songwriter, producer, novelist, and singer. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, Duff gained fame for playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. Duff subsequently ventured into feature films, with many successful movies to her credit including The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. She has most recently appeared in According to Greta and Stay Cool. As of October 2010, her upcoming films include, Bloodworth and The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
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Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights is a Powerpop band from Lima, Ohio, signed to Triple Crown Records.
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Hypocrisy (band)
Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.
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Ian Moore (singer)
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Illinois Jacquet
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (October 31, 1922July 22, 2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B; saxophone solo.
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Iona Brown
Iona Brown OBE (born Elizabeth Iona Brown, 7 January 1941 - 5 June 2004) was a British violinist and conductor. Born in Salisbury, her parents Antony and Fiona were both musicians. In addition, her brother Timothy is principal horn player with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, her other brother Ian is a pianist, and her sister Sally plays viola with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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IQ (band)
IQ are a British neo-progressive rock band founded by Mike Holmes in 1982 following the dissolution of his original band The Lens. Although the band have never enjoyed major commercial success, IQ have built up a loyal following over the years and are still active as of 2009. Bassist John Jowitt and ex-keyboardist Martin Orford have also been members of Jadis.
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Irene Manning
Irene Manning (July 17, 1912 – May 28, 2004) was an actress/singer.
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Izora Armstead
Izora Rhodes Armstead (July 6, 1942 – September 16, 2004, San Leandro, California, United States) was one half of the 1980s pop group the Weather Girls.
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J-five
Jonathan Kovacs (1983, Los Angeles), known as J-five, is an American singer.
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Ja Rule
Jeffrey Atkins (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. He began his career in the group Cash Money Click and debuted in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its single "Holla Holla". From 2000 to 2004, Ja Rule had several hits that made the top 20 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, including "Between Me and You" with Christina Millian, "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" with Jennifer Lopez, "Always on Time" with Ashanti, "Mesmerize" also with Ashanti, and "Wonderful" with R. Kelly and Ashanti. During the 2000s, Ja Rule was signed to BIG CHILE Records, which was formerly known as Murder Inc. and was led by Irv Gotti.
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Jack Owen
Jack Owen is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his work in the death metal genre. He was one of the founding members of Cannibal Corpse. He stayed with the band from their formation in 1988 until 2004 when he left because he wanted to move on as stated in the Centuries of Torment dvd. Later that year though, he was hired by Deicide—another influential and long-running Florida death metal band—and has recorded two albums with them. As of November 2007, Owen has been playing shows in support of Adrift's full-length album, "Absolution," which Adrift is shopping to interested record labels, and which Owen has said "is the record I am most proud of." Owen also takes duty as the lead guitarist for Order of Ennead when their guitarist, John Li, is unavailable .
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Jackie Paris
Jackie Paris (September 20, 1926 – June 17, 2004) was an American jazz singer and guitarist.
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Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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Jadakiss
Jason Phillips (born May 27, 1975), better known as Jadakiss, is an American rapper. He is a member of the group The LOX. Jadakiss is one of the three owners of the imprint known as D-Block.
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Jaheim
Jaheim Hoagland (born May 26, 1976) is an African-American R&B; singer performing under the mononymous name of Jaheim. Jaheim is known for his soulful baritone voice. He was signed by Naughty by Nature's Kaygee to Divine Mill Records in 2000, and released his debut album Ghetto Love in 2001. His second effort, Still Ghetto, was released a year later, both achieving platinum success. Jaheim's third album, Ghetto Classics, was released on February 14, 2006, debuting at Number One on the Billboard 200, and selling over 153,000 copies in its first week.
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Jamelia
Jamelia Niela Davis (born on 11 January 1981), best known mononymously as Jamelia, is a British singer-songwriter, model, entertainer, television presenter and actress. She is most famous for her use of a cappella and prolific work in the R&B; genre. She has released three studio albums, each of which has reached the Top 40 in her native UK, which collectively have spawned eight UK top ten singles. In addition, Jamelia has won four MOBO Awards, a Q Award and has received nine BRIT Award nominations.
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James Blunt
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount; 22 February 1974) is the stage name adopted by the Grammy Award-nominated English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005. His repertoire is a mix of acoustic-tinged pop, rock and folk. After recording on the independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two BRIT Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, and by 2006 was nominated for five Grammy Awards. The following year, he released his second album All The Lost Souls (2007). Blunt's third studio album, Some Kind of Trouble, is due to be released in November 2010.
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James Iha
James Yoshinobu Iha (Japanese: 井葉吉伸, Iha Yoshinobu) b. March 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rock musician. He is best known as having been a guitarist in the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and for his eclectic musical projects of recent years, including A Perfect Circle. He is currently a member of the band Tinted Windows with members of Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne and Hanson.
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Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition.
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Jan and Dean
Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). They became associated with the vocal "surf music" craze that was later popularised by The Beach Boys.
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Jan Klusák
Jan Klusák (born April 18, 1934 in Prague as Jan Porges) is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music.
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family at the age of seven, and started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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Jason Mraz
Jason Thomas Mraz (; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Mraz's stylistic influences include reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, bossa nova and hip hop.
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JC Chasez
Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez (born August 8, 1976 in Washington, DC) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer, record producer, and occasional actor, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the former pop group 'N Sync. In 2004, Chasez released a solo album, Schizophrenic, and has gone on to write and produce for music acts such as Girls Aloud, Basement Jaxx, David Archuleta, and the Backstreet Boys. He is currently a judge for ''America's Best Dance Crew''.
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Jedi Mind Tricks
Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is a hip hop Trio with "Vinnie Paz" and "Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind" from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and "Jus Allah" from Camden, New Jersey. The group was founded by two high school friends, rapper Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri) and producer/DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Kevin Baldwin). In 1999 the New Jersey rapper Jus Allah (James Bostick) joined the group to record the second studio album by JMT, Violent by Design but left shortly after for reasons that remain unexplained. The track "The Rebuilding" (2006) marked his unofficial return to JMT since the split, but made a full fledged return aside Vinnie Paz for the sixth studio album, A History of Violence (2008).
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Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. Although now primarily focused on spoken word art, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.
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Jem (singer)
Jemma Griffiths (born 18 May 1975, in Penarth, Wales), better known as Jem, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Finally Woken, includes elements of rock, new wave-styled electronica and trip-hop. Along with electronic producer Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Frou Frou), she wrote the song "Nothing Fails", which was later re-worked by Madonna and appeared on her 2003 American Life album. Her second album Down to Earth was released on 16 September 2008.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor, best known for his numerous film scores.
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Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress, television personality and fashion designer who rose to fame in 1999. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and five studio albums of which four have been positioned in the top 10 on Billboard 200 and besides that have been certified by the RIAA, three gold and two Multi- Platinum. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show . She ventured into the country music market in 2008 and released Do You Know. She has sold 20 million records worldwide. Simpson has a total of records sales in Australia of more than 426,000 copies and was ranked in the # 113 on the 1000 artists chart of ARIA Music Decade Charts (1980–2010). In 2009, Billboard named Simpson as the 95th overall best Artists of the Decade. Also was ranked at number 86 on Billboard 200 Artists, solely based on album sales.
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Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. An appreciable percentage of her work is also dedicated to detailed accounts of both her own fictional female creations and such troubled but celebrated women as Joey Heatherton and Mary Kay Letourneau, whose stories are usually used to make ironic comments about fame and celebrity. In 2009 she released an album funded entirely by fan donations.
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Jim Jones (rapper)
Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born July 15, 1976), better known by his stage name Jim Jones, is an American rapper and original member of The Diplomats, also known as Dipset. He is Co-CEO of Diplomat Records. Jones is also a noted video director under the name of CAPO, for artists including Cam'ron, Remy Ma and State Property.
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Jin (rapper)
Jin Au-Yeung (; born June 4, 1982), who performs under the stage name MC Jin, is a Chinese American, Hong Kong hip hop rapper, songwriter and actor. Growing up as an overseas Chinese, he decided to reside permanently in his motherland, Hong Kong. Because of his multicultural background, he is fluent in both Cantonese and English. Back in the United States, he was the first Asian solo rapper to be signed to a major record label.
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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944, Sheffield, England) is an English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York) is an Italian American multi-instrumentalist, known primarily for his work as an instrumental rock guitarist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame with their guitar skills (Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, Alex Skolnick). Satriani has been a driving force in the music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the ever-changing touring trio, G3, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.
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John Balance
John Balance (first name also spelled Jhon and Jhonn; born Geff Rushton/Geoffrey Laurence Burton; 16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson. He was responsible for vocals, lyrics, chants, synthetics and various esoteric sound-making instruments and devices. Outside of Coil he collaborated with Nurse With Wound, Death In June, Psychic TV, Current 93 and Thighpaulsandra, and produced several Nine Inch Nails remixes. His early work and wide-ranging collaborations made him one of the most influential figures in the industrial, experimental minimalist and neofolk music scenes.
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John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (sometimes abbreviated "Trane"; September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He was prolific, organizing at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
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John LaPorta
John LaPorta (13 April 1920–12 May 2004) was a Philadelphia-born jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. LaPorta's sound has been compared to that of fellow jazz experimenter Jimmy Giuffre. He is usually considered a member of the "Cool" school in jazz and his improvisations identify him as a well-schooled, thoughtful player.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
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John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award for "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
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John McGeoch
John Alexander McGeoch, (25 August 1955 – 4 March 2004), was a Scottish guitarist who played with a number of bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage and Public Image Ltd.
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John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967, until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock, reggae and punk records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres including alternative rock, indie rock, pop, hardcore punk, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop and dance music.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), born J. R. Cash, was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists, among them the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails and the synthpop band Depeche Mode.
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JoJo (singer)
Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque (born December 20, 1990), professionally known as JoJo, is an American Pop/R&B; singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. After competing on the television show, ''America's Most Talented Kids'', record producer Vincent Herbert took notice who asked her to audition for Blackground Records.
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Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, generally acoustic backing. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and child-like outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, often draws on influences from around the world.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer, best known as a member of English alternative rock group Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but serves mainly as lead guitarist and keyboard player. In addition to guitar and keyboard, he plays viola, xylophone, glockenspiel, ondes martenot, banjo, harmonica and drums. He also does work on the electronic side of Radiohead, working on computer-generated sounds and sampling. He wrote the soundtracks of the films Bodysong and There Will Be Blood, as well as serving as "composer-in-residence" for the BBC Concert Orchestra. He is the younger brother of fellow Radiohead member, Colin Greenwood.
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Jordan Rudess
Jordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes on November 4, 1956) is an American keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.
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Josh Klinghoffer
Josh Klinghoffer (born October 3, 1979) is an American musician, record producer and the current guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has also toured and played as a studio musician with numerous other artists, including The Bicycle Thief, Gnarls Barkley, Beck, the Butthole Surfers, John Frusciante, Golden Shoulders, Jon Brion, Neon Neon, PJ Harvey, Sparks, that dog., Thelonious Monster, The Insects, The Format, Vincent Gallo, and Warpaint.
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Joss Stone
Joss Stone (born Joscelyn Eve Stoker; 11 April 1987) is an English soul and R&B; singer–songwriter and actress. Stone emerged to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the equally multiplatinum Mind Body & Soul, topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both album and single each received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004 was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart in history to have her first album at number one. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2007, achieved gold record status by the RIAA and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200. Stone released her fourth album, Colour Me Free!, on 20 October 2009, which did reach Top 10 on Billboard, but was her least selling album in her career.
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Joël-François Durand
Joël-François Durand (born 17 September 1954) is a French composer.
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Juraj Beneš
Juraj Beneš (2 March 1940 in Trnava – 11 September 2004 in Bratislava) was a Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez. Timberlake became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman.
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k.d. lang
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Kaki King
Katherine Elizabeth King (born August 24, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia), known by her stage name Kaki King, is an American musician and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, unique use of multiple tunings on both acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.
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Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B;, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synth-pop, and classical music.
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Kareen Antonn
Kareen Antonn (born 1980) is a French artist of Greek and Spanish origin.
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Karl Jenkins
Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer.
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Kasabian
Kasabian are a British alternative rock band that formed in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire in 1999. Originally comprising vocalist Tom Meighan, guitarist and keyboardist Christopher Karloff, guitarist and backing vocalist Sergio Pizzorno, bassist Chris Edwards, the band have released three studio albums – Kasabian (2004), Empire (2006) and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009). The band currently features Meighan, Pizzorno, Edwards and drummer Ian Matthews. Pizzorno also took over as Kasabian's lead song-writer after the departure of Christopher Karloff.
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Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976) is an Australian alternative country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.
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Kay Kyser
James Kern (“Kay”) Kyser (June 18, 1905 – July 23, 1985) was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban (born October 26, 1967) is a New Zealand born, Australian raised American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Brisbane having moved to Caboolture, Australia at an early age. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Records and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts.
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Kelis
Kelis Jones (née Rogers; born August 21, 1979 (), is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award winner, Q Award winner,NME Award winner, and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She's most known for hits like "Acapella", "Bossy", "Milkshake", and "Caught Out There". Kelis opened for Britney Spears Onyx Hotel Tour, appeared on Moby's Area One Tour, and supported U2 on the European leg of their Elevation Tour and headlined her own All Hearts Tour with Robyn. She's also the former wife of famous rapper Nas. Kelis has sold just over 6 million records in album and singles world wide.
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Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson rose to fame after winning the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later represent the United States in the World Idol competition in 2003.
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Kenny Chesney
Kenneth Arnold (Kenny) Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Chesney has recorded 16 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 17 of which climbed to the top of the charts.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst, on June 12, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician. In 1997, Guitar World ranked Shepherd #3 after B.B. King and Eric Clapton on their list of popular blues artists.
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Kevin Federline
Kevin Earl Federline (born March 21, 1978) is an American dancer, rapper, fashion model, and actor. Previously engaged to actress Shar Jackson, Federline is best known for his two-year marriage to pop singer Britney Spears. The couple's divorce was highly publicized and was followed by an ongoing legal battle for the custody of their two sons, Sean Preston Federline and Jayden James Federline.
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Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American theatre, voice and film actor. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009.
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Kevin Lyttle
Kevin Lyttle (born Lescott Kevin Lyttle Coombs, September 14, 1976) is a soca artist hailing from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who had a worldwide hit with the interpellative soca ballad, "Turn Me On", which was recorded by Lyttle and the dancehall artist Spragga Benz. The song was previously recorded by Lyttle and Vincentian soca star [http://www.myspace.com/maddzart MaddZart] and produced by Adrian Bailey.
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Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles in Hollywood include Seven, L.A. Confidential, Pay It Forward, and Superman Returns in a career which has eventually earned him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.
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Kid 606
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Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke (born January 3, 1978) is an American singer and plus-size fashion model who has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres.
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KRS-One
Lawrence Christopher Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage name KRS-One is an American MC and producer. Over his career, he has been known by several pseudonyms including "Kris Parker," "The Blastmaster," "The Teacha," and "The Philosopher." At the 2008 BET Awards, KRS-One was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for all his work and effort towards the Stop the Violence Movement as well as the overall pioneering of hip-hop music and culture.
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Kurt Nilsen
Kurt Erik Nilsen (born September 29, 1978 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian pop/country singer. He won the first season of the Norwegian version of the reality television show Pop Idol, which aired on TV 2 in May 2003. He then won a one-off international version of Pop Idol, called World Idol on January 1, 2004, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows.
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Kutless
Kutless is a Christian rock band from Portland, Oregon formed in 2000. Since their formation, they have released six studio albums including their latest, It Is Well. The band has also released a live album, Live from Portland. Currently, they have sold almost 2 million records.
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( ; born 28 May 1968), is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single "I Should Be So Lucky", each reached number one in the United Kingdom, and over the next two years, her first 13 singles reached the British top ten. Her debut film, The Delinquents (1989) was a box-office hit in Australia and the UK despite negative reviews.
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Kyo (band)
Kyo is a French rock band.
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Laura Branigan
Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control". Branigan is also remembered for the Top 10 "Solitaire," and for the number-one Adult Contemporary hit "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", as well as four other US Top 40 hits.
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LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her work in country music. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to country music singer Patsy Cline,
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well-regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career.
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Lil Jon
Jonathan Mortimer Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is a music producer, rapper and occasional disc jockey who was a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. He is often recognized for his hype shouts of "Yeah!", "What?", and "Okay!". Lil Jon formed the group in 1997, and the group released several albums between then and 2004.
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Lil' Flip
Wesley Eric Weston, Jr. (born March 3, 1981), better known by his stage name '''Lil' Flip''', is an American rapper.
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Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan (; born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11. Lohan gained further fame between 2003 and 2005 with leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and , subsequently appearing in independent films including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion and Emilio Estevez's Bobby.
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Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry.
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Lit (band)
Lit is a punk rock band, based in Fullerton, California. They released several singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s including their #1 hit "My Own Worst Enemy", "Miserable", "Zip-Lock", "Over My Head", "Lipstick and Bruises", "Addicted", "Looks Like They Were Right" and "Times Like This".
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Lorenzo Ferrero
Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951) is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. His musical idiom is characterized by eclecticism, stylistic versatility, and a neo-tonal language.
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Lostprophets
Lostprophets (, often stylised as lostprophets) are a Welsh rock band from Pontypridd, formed in 1997. Founded by vocalist Ian Watkins, bassist (later guitarist) Mike Lewis, drummer Mike Chiplin and guitarist Lee Gaze, they were originally a side-project to hardcore punk band Public Disturbance. To date, Lostprophets have released four studio albums, most recently releasing The Betrayed on 13 January 2010. They are also part of the Cardiff music scene.
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Lotte Lehmann
Charlotte (Lotte) Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest role. During her long career, Lehmann also made more than five hundred recordings.
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Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen (born 6 June 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1959.
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He was one of "The Three Tenors" and became well-known for his televised concerts and media appearances. Pavarotti was also noted for his charity work on behalf of refugees and the Red Cross, amongst others.
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Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born on April 19, 1970) is a Mexican singer, producer and songwriter.
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Lustmord
Brian Williams is a British electronic musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.
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Magazine (band)
Magazine are an English post-punk group active between 1977 and 1981. Their debut single, "Shot By Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time. The band was formed by Howard Devoto after leaving punk band Buzzcocks in early 1977, deciding to create a more experimental and less punk band who later influenced many musicians. Magazine reunited for a tour through Britain in February 2009, with almost all the most remaining and "classic" line-up during their brief time, with the exception of guitarist John McGeoch who died in 2004 and was replaced by Noko, who had played with Devoto in Luxuria.
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Mandy Moore
Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer.
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Mannie Fresh
Byron O. Thomas, (born March 20, 1969) better known by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is currently an artist and hip-hop producer who records for Def Jam South. He is probably most famous for his time producing tracks for Cash Money Records from 1993 to 2005, and one half of the hip-hop duo Big Tymers with Birdman.
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Maria McKee
Maria McKee (born Maria Luisa McKee, August 17, 1964, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice and her 1990 UK solo chart-topping hit, "Show Me Heaven".
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Maria Mena
Maria Viktoria Mena (born February 19, 1986) is a Norwegian pop artist.
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Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.
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Mario Winans
Mario Winans is an American R&B; singer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born Mario Brown, he is the son of gospel recording artist Vickie Winans (née Bowman) and her first husband, Bishop Ronald Brown. He is also the stepson of his mother's second husband, gospel singer, Pastor Marvin Winans whom she married in 1978. Marvin and Vickie Winans had a son, Marvin Winans Jr. (Mario's half brother.) Vickie and Marvin Winans divorced in 1995 and she has since remarried.
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Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.
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Mark Tremonti
Mark Thomas Tremonti (born April 18, 1974) is an American Grammy award-winning musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, primary composer, and backing vocalist for the American rock bands Creed and Alter Bridge.
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Martijn Padding
Martijn Padding (born 24 April 1956 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer. Taught by Louis Andriessen (composition), Geert van Keulen (instrumentation) and Fania Chapiro (piano). He also studied sonology at the University of Utrecht. He is a teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.
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María Antonieta Pons
Maria Antonieta Pons (July 11, 1922 in Havana, Cuba – August 20, 2004 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Cuban born Mexican film actress and Rumba dancer.
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Mase
Mason Durell Betha (born August 27, 1975), better known by stage name Mase (often typeset as Ma$e), previously known as Murda Ma$e, is an American rapper, songwriter, television personality and inspirational speaker. He was an artist on Sean "Diddy" Combs's hip hop label Bad Boy Records during the late 1990s.
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Masta Killa
Jamel Arief (born Elgin Turner; August 18, 1969), better known as Masta Killa, is an American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Though one of the lesser-known members of the group (he was featured on only one track on their 1993 debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)), He has been prolific on Clan group albums and solo projects since the mid-1990s, and released his debut album No Said Date in 2004 to positive reviews.
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Mastodon (band)
Mastodon is an American metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999. The band comprises bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, lead guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, rhythm guitarist/vocalist Bill Kelliher and drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor. They have released four full-length albums to date, expanding their musical borders from early raw sludge and post-hardcore riffs to later psychedelic multi-layered songs, yet maintaining a retro, progressive style with unusual time signatures and odd instrumentation. Being from the southern United States, a country influence is apparent in their sound. One of the key factors to their success is continuous touring all over the world, creating a growing fan base with each new release.
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Matisyahu (musician)
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Matthew Sweet
Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964, in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s. He continues to release albums and tour.
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Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name Meat Loaf is an American rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, and . Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies. After more than 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years.
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Mel Pritchard
Mel Pritchard (20 January 1948 — 28 January 2004) was the former drummer with the British progressive rock band, Barclay James Harvest.
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Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur (; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a published photographer.
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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations winning two , one Academy Award and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide and almost fourteen million in the United States alone.
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Mellow Man Ace
Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (born April 12, 1967, South Gate, California) is an American rapper known as Mellow Man Ace and original member of the rap group Cypress Hill. Capitol Records released his first album, Escape from Havana, in 1989. It was produced by the Dust Brothers and Def Jef.
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Meredith Brooks
Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12, 1958) is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.
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Method Man
Clifford Smith (born April 1, 1971 in Staten Island, New York), better known by his stage name Method Man or Meth is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman along with fellow rapper Redman. He won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" with Mary J. Blige.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.
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Michel Colombier
Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939 — November 14, 2004) was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor.
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Michel Sardou
Michel Sardou (born 26 January 1947) is a French singer.
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Michel van der Aa
Michel van der Aa (born 10 March 1970 in Oss, Netherlands) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.
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Mike Watt
Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.
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Missy Higgins
Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor, her No. 1 albums are The Sound of White (2004) and On a Clear Night (2007), and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in Melbourne, she played piano by age six and sang at twelve. While boarding at Geelong Grammar School, she wrote a song for an assignment which was then entered into the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists. Higgins won and signed recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off, backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to No. 1 on the relevant Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Charts. Its second single, "The Special Two", went to No. 2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. She won her seventh ARIA in 2007.
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Mnemic
Mnemic () is a Danish industrial metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal, with additional elements of thrash metal and groove metal, to form a style the band themselves have described as "Future Fusion Metal." Named as one of Metallica's favorite bands, they have opened for Metallica in Europe both in 2007 and 2008.
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Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known primarily as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. After the band's break-up in 1987, Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an important innovator in indie music, Morrissey has been described by music magazine NME as "one of the most influential artists ever," and The Independent has stated that "most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that he has reached in his lifetime." Pitchfork Media has called him "one of the most singular figures in Western popular culture from the last 20 years."
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Mos Def
Dante Terrell Smith (born December 11, 1973) is an American actor and MC known by the stage name Mos Def (). Mos Def started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, who released the album Black Star in 1998. He was a major force in the late 1990s underground hip hop explosion spearheaded by Rawkus Records. As a solo artist he has released the albums Black on Both Sides in 1999, The New Danger in 2004, True Magic in 2006, and The Ecstatic in 2009.
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Myles Kennedy
Myles Richard Kennedy (born November 27, 1969) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter originally from Spokane, Washington best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Alter Bridge and the lead vocalist for Slash's solo touring band. He is also the former vocalist and lead guitarist for The Mayfield Four and the jazz fusion band Citizen Swing and has played guitar for the instrumental jazz ensemble Cosmic Dust.
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Napalm Death
Napalm Death are a grindcore band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's career.
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Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (; born September 14, 1973), who performs under the name Nas (), formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge housing projects in New York City. His debut album Illmatic, released in 1994 by Columbia Records, was critically acclaimed and would go on to be widely hailed a classic in the genre. Nas was part of hip-hop supergroup The Firm, which released one album.
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Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born 26 November 1981) is an English pop singer and songwriter.
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Neal Morse
Neal Morse (born on August 2, 1960 in Van Nuys, California) is an American multi-instrumentalist and progressive rock composer based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of his generation. Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He then forged a successful and acclaimed solo career; releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 33 studio albums, with a continual exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and secondly as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
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Neko Case
Neko Case (; born September 8, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers.
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Nicholas Barker
Nicholas Howard Barker is an extreme metal drummer (from Chesterfield, North Derbyshire, now lives in Sheffield, England).
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Nightwish
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland, formed in 1996 by songwriter/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen. Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the original bassist, Sami Vänskä, has been replaced by Marco Hietala, who also took over the male vocalist part; previously male vocal-parts were done by Tuomas or guest singers.
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Nikola Sarcevic
Nikola Šarčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Шарчевић) (born July 9, 1974, in Örebro, Sweden) is the bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter in the punk rock band Millencolin. He lives in Gothenburg, Sweden with his wife Lisa.
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Nina Sky
Nina Sky is an American musical duo composed of identical twins Nicole and Natalie Albino (born March 13, 1986).
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Owsley (musician)
William Reese "Will" Owsley III (March 6, 1966 – April 30, 2010), known professionally as Owsley, was an American singer-songwriter, best known as for his work as guitarist in Amy Grant's touring band. His solo albums won critical acclaim and one Grammy Award nomination. He was also a record producer and a recording engineer.
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P.Diddy
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, and the Dixie Chicks, who have played with her onstage as well as performing cover songs of Griffin's work, exposing many of her compositions to mainstream pop and country music audiences outside Griffin's folk music circle of fans. She was also recipient of the Americana Music Association's highest honor as "Artist of the Year" in 2007, as well as taking home the award for best album for Children Running Through.
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Paul Wall
Paul Slayton (born March 11, 1981), better known by his stage name Paul Wall or "The People's Champ" is an American rapper. He is currently affiliated with Swishahouse Records, having released several albums under the label as well as
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Paul Weller (singer)
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Pedro the Lion
Pedro the Lion was an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington. Formed by singer-songwriter David Bazan in 1995, he represented the main creative force of the band, backed by a rotation of various collaborating musicians. T. W. Walsh is considered to be the sole official band member besides Bazan. In 2006, Bazan and Walsh split amicably and Pedro the Lion was dissolved as Bazan went solo. Releasing four full-length albums and five EPs over 11 years, the band was known for its first person narrative lyrics with political and religious themes. Pedro The Lion was managed by Bob Andrews at Undertow Music Collective.
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Peggy DeCastro
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Peter Cetera
Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career. As a solo artist Cetera has scored five Top 40 singles, including two that reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (born 8 September 1934) is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.
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Peter Tägtgren
Peter Tägtgren (born June 3, 1970) is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main composer, lead singer, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy.
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Petey Pablo
Moses Barrett III, known by the stage name Petey Pablo, is an American Southern hip hop artist from Greenville, North Carolina.
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Philip Glass
Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein).
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Pissing Razors
Pissing Razors was an American groove metal band who originally formed in the mid 90's and disbanded in 2004.
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Play (Swedish band)
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Prince (musician)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in the media as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", often abbreviated to "TAFKAP", or simply "The Artist"
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Psycho Realm
Psycho Realm is a Latin supergroup started in 1989 by brothers Sick Jacken (Joaquin Gonzalez) and Big Duke (Gustavo Gonzalez) from the Downtown, Pico-Union area of Los Angeles. The first recorded Psycho Realm song, "Scandalous", was released on the soundtrack of the film Mi Vida Loca in 1994. That same year B-Real of the rap group Cypress Hill saw Psycho Realm performing at Olvera Street for an End Barrio Warfare concert. Their performance inspired B-Real to the point that he wanted to join the group. With this time period being the height of Cypress Hill’s career anything Cypress Hill related would get major publicity.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), best known by the stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B; singer, songwriter and record producer. Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993 with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of hit singles including "Bump n' Grind", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm A Flirt", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet".
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Rachel Stevens
Rachel Lauren Stevens (born 9 April 1978) is an English singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, television personality and model. She is a former member, and one of the lead singers, of the successful pop group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005. In 2008, she came second in the sixth series of the BBC One series Strictly Come Dancing with her dance partner Vincent Simone.
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Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Rasputina (band)
Rasputina is a cello-driven band. It started in Brooklyn, New York in 1992, when Melora Creager put out an advertisement requesting members to form an all-cello band. Cellist Julia Kent responded and the two formed what was dubbed the ''Traveling Ladies' Cello Society''.
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Ratatat
Ratatat (pronounced rat-uh-tat) is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer, bass player, and producer Evan Mast.
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Raven Symone
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Ray (film)
Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Ray Condo
Ray Condo (born Ray Tremblay, May 16, 1950 - April 15, 2004) was a Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist.
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Ray LaMontagne
Raymond Charles "Ray" LaMontagne () (born June 18, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. Reportedly, after hearing a Stephen Stills song, LaMontagne decided to quit his job at a shoe factory and pursue a career in music. He has since released five albums, Acre of Land, Trouble, Till the Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain and ''God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise. In the UK, Trouble was a top 5 hit, and the title track of the album was a top 25 hit. Till the Sun Turns Black'' was a top 40 hit in the U.S. A soft-spoken person who is known for his raspy voice, LaMontagne has won a number of awards for his music and has performed at several charity events.
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RBX
Eric Dwayne Collins, better known by his stage name RBX (standing for "Reality Born Unknown"), is a rapper and R&B; singer from Long Beach, California. Contrary to popular belief, Collins is not related to funk legend Bootsy Collins, although the two are close friends.
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Regina Spektor
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (, , ; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.
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Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi (Pesaro, Italy, February 1, 1922 – San Marino, December 19, 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires.
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Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (; born July 28, 1941) is an Italian conductor. In May 2008 he was appointed the 10th music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, effective with the 2010-11 season.
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Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard". Although most of his major hit songs were slow ballads, many of his songs had a classic rock style, such as "Don't Mean Nothing," "Should've Known Better," "Satisfied," and "Too Late To Say Goodbye". Marx placed himself in the record books by being the first solo artist to have his first seven singles hit the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4). His record sales worldwide exceed 30 million. Aside from songs that he has sung himself, he has written, co-written, and produced successful tracks for other artists such as "This I Promise You" by NSYNC and "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross. The latter song won several Grammy Awards.
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Rick James
Rick James (February 1, 1948August 6, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular R&B; and funk singer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four #1 hits on the U.S. R&B; charts. Among his well known songs are "Super Freak" and "You and I". In addition to his music James gained notoriety for his wild lifestyle, which led to widely publicized legal problems.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010.
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Robert Miles
Robert Miles (born Roberto Concina, November 3, 1969, in Fleurier) is an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ in electronica and alternative music.
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage.
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Ronan Keating
Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish singer-songwriter, occasional actor, composer, musician, and television-radio personality. Keating made his debut, alongside with Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately, in 1994 as the lead singer of Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999, and resulted in 7 studio albums. Keating gained worldwide attention when his single "When You Say Nothing at All" was featured in the film Notting Hill and peaked at number one in several charts.
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Royce Da 5'9"
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Ruben Studdard
Christopher Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978), best known as Ruben Studdard, is an American R&B;, pop, and gospel singer. He rose to fame as winner of the second season of American Idol. He received a Grammy Award nomination in December 2003 for Best Male R&B; Vocal Performance for "Superstar."
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Run-D.M.C.
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Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko (; born on 24 May 1973) is a World Music Award winning and MTV Europe Music Award nominated artist, and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.
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Ryan Cabrera
Ryan Frank Cabrera (born July 18, 1982) is an American pop rock musician. In 2004, Cabrera debuted with his single "On the Way Down", a top ten hit in the U.S., and album Take It All Away. He continued his career with two more albums, You Stand Watching in 2005 and The Moon Under Water in 2008.
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Sacha Distel
Sacha Distel (January 29, 1933 – July 22, 2004) was a French singer who had hits such as a cover version of the Academy Award winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (originally recorded by B.J. Thomas), "Scoubidou" and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.
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Safri Duo
Safri Duo is a Danish percussion duo composed of Uffe Savery (born April 5, 1966) and Morten Friis (born August 21, 1968). Initially classically oriented, by 1999 they were discovered by a label executive working on classical music. After being signed, a track mixing both tribal sound and modern electronica was set to be released in 2000. The result was the popular "Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)", that became one of the most popular songs in Europe that year.
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Sarah Harmer
Sarah Harmer (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.
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Saul Williams
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.
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Scorpions (band)
Scorpions is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change". The band was ranked #46 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock program. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" is also #18 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. On January 24, 2010, after 45 years of performing, the band announced that they will be retiring after touring in support of their new album Sting in the Tail. Scorpions have sold between 100 and 150 million albums worldwide.
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Seven Mary Three
Seven Mary Three, occasionally abbreviated to 7M3, is an American hard rock band. They have released seven studio albums, and are best known for their hit singles "Cumbersome", "Water's Edge", and "Wait".
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (, or ), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese and is proficient in Italian.
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Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s with her album The Woman In Me (1995), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician, and the best selling country album of all time. The album Come on Over has sold over 39 million copies worldwide. Come on Over is also the 9th bestselling album in the U.S.
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Shannon Noll
Shannon Noll (born 16 September 1975) first came to prominence as runner-up of the first series of Australian Idol (2003) which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. Since then he has released four Top 10 albums and ten Top 10 singles. His first two albums ''That's What I'm Talking About in 2004 and Lift in 2005 debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA charts and both reached multi platinum accreditation. His third album Turn It Up released in 2007, debuted at No. 3 and was accredited platinum. His most recent album '' containing some of his previous hits and five new songs was released in 2008, debuting at No. 7. Noll's first ten singles released between February 2004 and September 2007 all peaked inside the Aria Top 10. He is the only artist in Australian chart history to have ten consecutive Top 10 singles. Seven of these singles were Top 5 with three of those debuting at No. 1.
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Shed Seven
Shed Seven are an English indie rock band from York and were one of the groups which contributed to the Britpop music scene that evolved during the 1990s, yet never received the degree of mainstream success achieved by bands such as Oasis and Blur. They formed in 1990 and originally comprised Rick Witter (vocals), Joe Johnson (guitar and keyboards, later replaced by Paul Banks), Tom Gladwin (bass) and Alan Leach (drums).
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Shifty Shellshock
Shifty Shellshock (born Seth Brooks Binzer on August 23, 1974) is an American music artist, best known as founder and front man of Crazy Town.
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Sidonie Goossens
Sidonie "Sid" Goossens (19 October 1899 in Liscard, Wallasey - 15 December 2004 in Reigate) was one of Britain's most enduring harpists. She made her professional debut in 1921, was a founder member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and went on to play for more than half a century until her retirement in 1981.
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Sigurd Køhn
Sigurd Køhn (August 6, 1959 – December 26, 2004), was a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer. He was, along with his 16 year old son killed in Khao Lak, Thailand by the tsunami following the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on December 26, 2004.
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Skyclad (band)
Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal. The etymology behind the term "skyclad" comes from a pagan/wiccan term for ritual nudity, in which rituals are performed with the participants metaphorically clad only by the sky, as a sign of equality. The name alludes both to the bands' religious leanings and to their social beliefs, as set out in the song "Skyclad" on their first album.
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Skye Sweetnam
Skye Alexandra Sweetnam (born May 5, 1988) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and music video director. Skye first entered the mainstream in 2003 with the release of her debut single "Billy S." Over a year later, her debut album, Noise from the Basement, was released including the singles "Tangled Up in Me" and "Number One". Sweetnam is also known for singing theme songs and contributing to Disney albums. In 2006, she was nominated for a Juno Award for New Artist of the Year. Her second album was released on October 30, 2007 entitled Sound Soldier.
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Skyfire (band)
Skyfire is a melodic death metal band from Höör, Sweden.
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Snoop Dogg
Cordozar Calvin Broadus (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American entertainer, rapper, record producer and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school. Shortly after graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and spent six months in Wayside County Jail. His music career began in 1992 after his release when he was discovered by Dr. Dre. He collaborated on several tracks on Dre's solo debut, The Chronic and on the titular theme song to the film Deep Cover.
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Soil (band)
Soil, often typeset as SOiL, is an American alternative metal band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1997.
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Son Seals
Frank "Son" Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American blues guitarist and singer.
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Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica are a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1995. Their later works (most notably The Days of Grays, Unia and a few tracks on Reckoning Night) contain some elements typical of progressive metal.
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Staind
Staind (, ) is an American rock band from Springfield, Massachusetts, including lead singer/guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist Johnny April and drummer Jon Wysocki. Over the past 14 years the band has recorded six studio albums, had multiple chart topping singles, and sold over 15 million records worldwide.
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Steriogram
Steriogram is a New Zealand rock band from Auckland that formed in 1999.
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Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and country music as well as his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist, an actor and has written and directed a play.
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Stewart Lee
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Straylight Run
Straylight Run are an indie rock band based in Baldwin, New York. Two of the members, Nolan and Cooper, had been members of Taking Back Sunday and have now rejoined that band. Their final releases are the EPs About Time and Un Mas Dos, preceded by the full-length album entitled The Needles The Space. Before the announcement of the return, Nolan had stated that Straylight Run would release a live CD, would be going on indefinite hiatus, but might reunify in future.
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Syreeta Wright
Syreeta Wright Muhammad (August 3, 1946 – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter most notably known for her work with Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston.
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T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. (born September 25, 1980), better known by his stage name T.I. or T.I.P., is an American recording artist, film & music producer, and occasional actor. He is the founder and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Grand Hustle Records.
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Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly (born July 14, 1966, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American Grammy-nominated singer songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh. She then went on to work in The Breeders and Belly in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, she settled into a solo recording career, working largely with musicians connected to the Boston music scene.
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Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara is a Canadian indie pop/New Wave/indie rock band led by identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin (born September 19, 1980). Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs, most often separately. The band has released six studio albums since 1999, most recently Sainthood in 2009.
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Terje Bakken
Terje "Valfar" Bakken (born September 3, 1978, died approximately January 15, 2004 at Reppastølen, Sogndal valley, Norway) was the lead singer and founder of the Norwegian black/folk metal band Windir. Windir was started as a one-man project, but it was expanded into a full band with the release of their 3rd album, 1184. Valfar originally sang his lyrics in Sognamål, a dialect of Norwegian, but eventually switched to English in an attempt to appeal to a broader audience.
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Terror Squad (group)
Terror Squad is an American hip hop collective that was first established in 1998. Based in The Bronx borough of New York City, the members of Terror Squad collectively debuted on a song in member Fat Joe's album Don Cartagena. Terror Squad released its debut, The Album, in 1999, with its first major hit "Whatcha Gon' Do", credited mostly to Big Pun, who died of a heart attack in 2000. After Big Pun's death, his longtime partners Cuban Link and Triple Seis left the group and were subsequently replaced by Remy Martin (later known as Remy Ma) and Tony Sunshine.
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Tess Wiley
Tess Wiley (Born November 9, 1974) is an American musician currently living in Germany.
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Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (born August 26, 1971), known simply as Thalía, is a Mexican singer, actress, and Latin Grammy Award nominee. Her name is linked to soap operas which made her famous worldwide. Thalía began her music career at the age of 9. Her soap operas have been watched by over 2 billion people in 180 countries. She is known globally as "the queen of soap operas" for being the biggest TV phenomenon in the decade of the 90s. Thalía has the keys of more than 50 cities in the world, and has toured in five continents, making her one of the most internationally famous Latin singers ever. Thalía has received more than 2000 awards throughout her career for both singing and acting and has sold over 25 million albums worldwide.
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The Casualties
The Casualties are an American punk band from New York City, New York, formed in 1990. Their musical style is usually classified as street punk or hardcore punk.
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The Cheeky Girls
The Cheeky Girls are a pop music duo consisting of twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia, from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Britain. After appearing as auditionees in , they achieved success in the charts with four top ten hits between 2002 and 2004. They are best known for their debut single, "The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)", which has sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide.
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The Clarks
The Clarks are an American rock band from the Pittsburgh region, originating at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Over the course of twenty years, they have produced a total of 12 studio, live and solo releases, selling near a quarter of a million copies.
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The Corrs
The Corrs are a Celtic folk rock band from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle); Sharon (violin, vocals); Caroline (drums, piano, bodhrán, vocals); and Jim (guitar, piano, vocals).
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The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method is an American electronic music duo that was created in Los Angeles, California by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. The Crystal Method's music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. Their best-selling album, Vegas, was certified platinum in 2007.
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The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
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The Ex (band)
The Ex is an underground band from the Netherlands. They formed in 1979 at the height of the original punk explosion and have released more than twenty full length albums since. Known as an anarcho-punk band in their first years, in later years they also became known for their musical experiments and numerous collaborations.
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The Fiery Furnaces
The Fiery Furnaces are a U.S. indie rock band formed in 2000 in Brooklyn, New York. The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. The brother and sister are originally from Oak Park, Illinois, a near-western suburb of Chicago.
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The Game (rapper)
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The Jerky Boys
The Jerky Boys are an American comedy duo from Queens, New York, whose routine consists of prank telephone calls and other related skits. Formed in 1989, The Jerky Boys were made up of former childhood friends Johnny Brennan and Kamal. After Kamal left the act in 2000, The Jerky Boys continued on as a solo act featuring only Brennan, before going on hiatus after the 2001 release of their final album, The Jerky Tapes. The project was resurrected in 2006 and remains active today.
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The Pink Spiders
The Pink Spiders are an American rock band, formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2003.
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The Verve
The Verve was an English rock band formed in 1990 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space rock, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and three albums. They also endured name and line-up changes, breakups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. Filter referred to them as "one of the tightest knit, yet ultimately volatile bands in history". Their commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album Urban Hymns and their single "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which was orchestrated by music producer Will Malone, which became a worldwide hit. Soon after this commercial peak, the band broke up in April 1999, citing internal conflicts. The band's original line-up reunited in June 2007, embarking on a tour later that year and releasing the album Forth in August 2008. In 2009, the band broke up for the third time.
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The Von Bondies
The Von Bondies is an American alternative rock band. Its current members are Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar and Leann Banks on bass guitar.
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Theo Loevendie
Theo Loevendie (born September 17, 1930 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.
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This Providence
This Providence is a four-piece pop punk band from Seattle, Washington. The band consists of Dan Young (lead vocals/guitar), David Blaise (bass), Gavin Phillips (lead guitar), and Andy Horst (drums).
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Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts, leading him to achieve total album sales in excess of 40 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw. His trademark hit songs include "Indian Outlaw", "Don't Take the Girl", "I Like It, I Love It", "Something Like That", "It's Your Love" (featuring his wife, Faith Hill), and "Live Like You Were Dying".
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Tiësto
Tiësto OON (; born Tijs Michiel Verwest on January 17, 1969) is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto. On his latest productions, however, he has dropped the "DJ" label and is now known simply as "Tiësto", an alias which is a twist of his childhood nickname.
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Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during the seventies and eighties with the band Utopia. He has also been extremely active as a producer and engineer on the recorded work of other musicians.
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Tom Rowe
Thomas J. "Tom" Rowe (b. November 4, 1950, Lewiston, Maine - d. January 17, 2004, Portland, Maine) was the bass player and a singer in the folk trios Schooner Fare and Turkey Hollow.
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and ''Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart''.
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Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1966) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards in her career and has sold 40 million records worldwide. She has a contralto vocal range.
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Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!''.
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Tony Mottola
Tony Mottola (18 April 1918 – 9 August 2004) was an American guitarist who released dozens of solo albums. Mottola was born in Kearny, New Jersey, and died in Denville, New Jersey.
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Trick Daddy
Maurice Young (born September 23, 1973), better known by his stage name Trick Daddy, is an American rapper from Miami, Florida.
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Trilok Gurtu
Trilok Gurtu (born in Mumbai, India on 30 October 1951) is an Indian percussionist and composer, whose work has blended the music of his homeland with jazz fusion, world music and other genres.
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Truth Hurts
Shari Watson (born October 10, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri), known as Truth Hurts, is an American R&B; singer. She is noted for her funky and powerful vocal style.
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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world and the highest selling hip hop artist. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.
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Uncle Kracker
Matthew Shafer (born June 6, 1974) is an American rock, country, and rap rock musician known as Uncle Kracker. His singles include "Follow Me", "Smile", and "Drift Away". His music was more rap rock-based at the start of his career before turning in a more country and Top 40 style music direction on later releases.
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Usher (entertainer)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978; ), who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American recording artist and actor. He rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his sophmore album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, "Nice and Slow". It also spawned two more successful singles "You Make Me Wanna...", and "My Way". Both reached number-two on the Hot 100. His followup album 8701 (2001) produced the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad". As well "U Don't Have to Call" which reached number-three on the Hot 100. My Way has been certified six-times platinum by the RIAA and 8701 has been certified four-times platinum by the RIAA. Both albums sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
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Usko Meriläinen
Usko Meriläinen (January 27, 1930 – November 12, 2004) was a Finnish composer. He was born in Tampere.
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Utada Hikaru
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Valfar
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Vaya Con Dios (band)
Vaya Con Dios is a Belgian musical group founded in 1986 by Dani Klein, Dirk Schoufs, and Willy Lambregt (the latter subsequently replaced by Jean-Michel Gielen). Their name is Spanish for "Go with God". It is one of the most successful Belgian groups ever.
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Vilém Tauský
Vilém Tauský CBE (born 20 July 1910, Přerov, Moravia; died 16 March 2004, London) was a Czech conductor and composer. His family was musical: his Viennese mother had sung Mozart at the Vienna State Opera under Gustav Mahler, and his uncle was the operetta composer Leo Fall.
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Voltaire (musician)
Voltaire (legal name Aurelio Voltaire Hernández) (born January 25, 1967, in Havana, Cuba), is a popular dark cabaret Cuban-American musician. His stage name is his given middle name, which he shares with the famous French Enlightenment writer François-Marie Arouet.
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Vytas Brenner
Vytas Brenner (September 19, 1946 - March 18, 2004) was a Venezuelan musician, keyboardist, guitarist and composer.
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Wes Borland
Wesley Louden Borland (born February 7, 1975 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well, such as The Damning Well, Goatslayer and Big Dumb Face. He also recorded on From First to Last's Heroine album in 2006, and served as bass guitarist for the band's subsequent tour. Borland is well known for his dark and bizarre stage appearance, and for his fondness of musical artists that differed greatly from the musical tastes of his bandmates in Limp Bizkit. Borland performed in Black Light Burns, in which he sang and wrote most of the music. As of 2009, Borland has rejoined Limp Bizkit.
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William Bolcom
William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973-2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
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William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series ' from 1966 to 1969, ' from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek as well as several co-written novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
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Windir
Windir (Primal Warrior in English) was a folkloric black metal band from Sogndal, Norway. The band combined black metal with folk music and mythology. The band was formed in 1994 and released its debut album in 1997. Windir was a project of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Terje "Valfar" Bakken.
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Wyclef Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean (, ; born October 17, 1969)[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2012369,00.html Wyclef Dumped From Haiti's Presidential Ballot] - TIME, 21 Aug 2010. "Before he announced on August 5 that he was running for President of Haiti, Wyclef Jean was still listing his age as only 37 years old. But after declaring himself a presidential candidate, the Haitian-American hip-hop star also decided to come clean and confirm that he was really 40." is a Haitian musician, record producer and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group, the Fugees.
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Ying Yang Twins
The Ying Yang Twins is an Atlanta-based American crunk rap duo consisting of Kaine (born Eric Jackson on December 16, 1978) and D-Roc (born '''De'Angelo Holmes''' on February 23, 1979). The group debuted in 2000 and rose to mainstream popularity in 2003 collaborating with Lil Jon in his single "Get Low". In 2004 and 2005, Ying Yang Twins became more popular with party singles "Salt Shaker", "What's Happnin", "Shake", and "Badd".
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York Höller
York Höller (born 11 January 1944 in Leverkusen) is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
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Youssou N'Dour
'''Youssou N'Dour' (; born 1 October 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax. He is the subject of the 2008 award-winning documentary film '' directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which was released theatrically around the world. The film won several awards including the Special Jury Prize at the Middle East International Film Festival.
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Yuka Honda
Yuka Honda is a Japanese musician who resides in New York City. She is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, record producer, and co-founder of the band Cibo Matto. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with a diverse array of musicians, including Petra Haden, Sean Lennon, Tricky, Harper Simon, Beastie Boys, Los Lobos, Mitchell Froom, Medeski Martin & Wood, Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, Edie Brickell, Vincent Gallo, Luscious Jackson, Dave Douglas, Bernie Worrell and Caetano Veloso.
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Yung Wun
James Anderson, better known by his stage name Yung Wun is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Z-Ro
Joseph Wayne McVey (born January 19, 1977), better known by his stage name Z-RO, is an American rapper, singer and producer from Houston, Texas, known for his "up-from-nothing" rise to fame, flexibility in rhyme and extensive collaboration with other rap artists and musicians. He has been named as one of America's most underrated rappers by the New York Times. Common themes in Z-RO's music are crime and poverty, often relating to his personal experience. For example, the music video for Hate You was recorded while he was incarcerated in Pam Lychner State Jail, in Humble, Texas. Though common, crime and poverty are not the only focuses of his music. Z-RO has been known to uplift crowds with his hope bringing songs such as “Lovely Day” and “T.H.U.G (True Hero Under God)”.
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Zard
was a Japanese pop group. Originally a group of five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as group leader. However, Sakai was the only member who stayed on in the group while others joined and left regularly. As such, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. Zard's work was sold under the record label B-Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are , , and "My Friend" (1996).
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Coventry, Vermont
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Cuba
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Illinois
Illinois ( {{respell|-i-), is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. It is the most populous state in the Midwest region, however with 65% of its residents concentrated in the Chicago metropolitan area, most of the state has either a rural or a small town character. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and western Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transportation hub; the Port of Chicago connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. As the "most average state", Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics, though the latter has not really been true since the early 1970s.
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Latvia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Ohio
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Port-au-Prince
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Slovakia
The Slovak Republic (short form: Slovakia ; Slovak:, long form ) is a state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is a landlocked country bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is the capital, Bratislava, and the second largest is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, United Nations, OECD and WTO among others. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop) - Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits
music download → djearworm.com facebook.com A Mashup of the Top 25 Hits of 2008, according to Billboard. Tracklist: Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain - Low Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love Alicia Keys - No One Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major - Lollipop Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic - Apologize Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown - No Air Sara Bareilles - Love Song Usher Featuring Young Jeezy - Love in This Club Chris Brown - With You Chris Brown - Forever Ray J & Yung Berg - Sexy Can I Rihanna - Take a Bow Coldplay - Viva La Vida Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl TI - Whatever You Like Rihanna - Disturbia Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine Chris Brown Featuring T-Pain - Kiss Kiss Ne-Yo - Closer Colbie Caillat - Bubbly Mariah Carey - Touch My Body Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes Pink - So What Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
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DJ Tiesto - Live TMF Music Awards 2004 XviD HDTV
DJ Tiesto - Live TMF Music Awards 2004 XviD HDTV
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Whitney Houston - World Music Awards 2004
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- Duration: 8:44
- Published: 02 Jan 2009
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Whitney Houston - World Music Awards 2004
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Britney Spears - Me Against The Music (live RIR Lisboa 2004)
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- Duration: 4:25
- Published: 23 Aug 2010
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- Author: Costa12346
Britney Spears performing her last song of the show "Me Against The Music" at Rock In Rio in Lisbon
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Do Pal - Veer-Zaara (2004) *HD* 1080p *BluRay* Music Video
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- Duration: 4:23
- Published: 08 Mar 2011
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Do Pal Full Song HD, Veer-Zaara (2004) *HD* 1080p Video Song - Shahrukh Khan & Preity Zinta, Music by Madan Mohan, Directed by Yash Chopra, Veer-Zaara (Hindi: वीर-ज़ारा) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Yash Chopra. The movie stars Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji in the leading roles, with Kirron Kher, Divya Dutta and Anupam Kher in supporting roles. Veteran actors Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini make special appearances in the film. The dialogues were written by Aditya Chopra. Set against the backdrop of conflict between India and Pakistan, this star-crossed romance follows the unfortunate love story of an Indian Air Force Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, and a Pakistani woman hailing from a rich political family of Lahore, Zaara Haayat Khan, who are separated for over twenty years. Saamiya Siddiqui, a Pakistani lawyer, finds Veer in prison, and upon listening to his story, tries to get him freed. Highly anticipated pre-release, the film eventually became the top-grossing Bollywood film of the year at both the Indian and the international box office, earning over Rs. 750 million worldwide, in addition to being showcased at numerous prominent film festivals around the world. The music of the film, based on old compositions by the late Madan Mohan with lyrics by Javed Akhtar, was also successful. Upon its theatrical release, Veer-Zaara received mostly positive reviews from critics. The film won several awards in major Indian film <b>...</b>
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Ek Main Hoon (Aaja Ve Mahi) - Fida (2004) *HD* 1080p *BluRay* Music Videos
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- Published: 15 Jun 2011
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Ek Main Hoon - Fida (2004) *HD* 1080p *BluRay* Music Videos "Ek Main Hoon" Hindi Love Romantic Song, Shahid Kapoor & Kareena Kapoor Officlal HD Music Video Song BluRay, Hot And Sexy kareena Kapoor New Songs, Acclaim, It Had An Average Run At The Box Office, Fida (2004) Full Movie Part 1, Fida Movie cast, Fardeen Khan as Vikram Singh Kareena Kapoor as Neha Verma Shahid Kapoor as Jai Malhotra Kim Sharma as Sonia Akhilendra Mishra as Babu Anna Viju Khote as a Potential buyer Dinesh Hingoo as a Real estate agent Naresh Suri Viveck Vaswani as a Bank employee, Fida (2004) , Aaja Ve Mahi Song Lyrics Ek Main Hoon, Ek Tu Hai Chaahatein Hain, Aarzoo Hai Aashiqui Bhi Ab Shuru Hai Aaja Ve Maahi Ve Soniya Ek Main Hoon, Ek Tu Hai Chaahatein Hain, Aarzoo Hai Aashiqui Bhi Ab Shuru Hai Aaja Ve Maahi Ve Soneya Jaaniya Kya Kiya Dil Tujhe De Diya Jaaniya Kya Kiya Dil Tujhe De Diya Aankhon Hi Aankhon Mein Baaton Hi Baaton Mein Tune Churaaya Jiya Aaja Ve Maahi Let's Do Balle Balle - 4 Ek Main Hoon Ek Tu Hai Chaahatein Hain Aarzoo Hai Aashiqui Bhi Ab Shuru Hai Aaja Ve Maahi Ve Soneya You And Me We'll Get It All Right Just You And Me Gettin On Tonight Only Me Only You, Yo Girl You Know I'm In Love With You When I See You Pass And I See You There You Know I Gotta Gotta Gotta Stop And Stare You Know I Gotta Gotta Be Everywhere You Know I Gotta Gotta Lotta Love To Share You And Me Yo Baby Girl It's True Yeah, I'm In Love With You Aaja Ve Maahi Let's Do Balle Balle - 4 Main Tere Pyaar Mein Kho Gayi <b>...</b>
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La Rage - Keny Arkana - French Rap (English subtitles)
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- Duration: 4:13
- Published: 31 May 2008
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- Author: oclandestin
La Rage (The Rage) by French female rap artist Keny Arkana, released in 2006. Keny Arkana is part of La Rage Du Peuple (The Rage of the People), a music collective formed in 2004 in Marseille, activists in the alter-globalization movement: www.laragedupeuple.org Official site & Downloads: www.keny-arkana.com ***** Thanks for all the comments and views... I do not own the rights to this video. Due to spam, all comments are subject to approval so please don't post the same comment more than once. All racist, nationalist and sectarian comments will be deleted. Thank you _
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Lasgo - Megamix
With the songs: Something - Alone - Pray - Surrender - All night long - Lying Lasgo is a trio of dance music musicians from Belgium. The group formed in 2000 and is composed of Evi Goffin as the vocalist, (before 2008) and Peter Luts and Dave McCullen as the producers. The group has sold more than 5 million copies of their albums Some Things and Far Away, and the singles from those albums. Lasgo's first appearance was on the Holiday Party, one of the biggest out parties in Belgium. The Music Factory recorded the show to produce a video clip. In October, Lasgo also won the best national single award on the Belgian TMF Awards 2001. At the same time, it went gold in the charts with 25000 copies sold. On November 2, 2001, Lasgo released their second single "Alone" in Belgium. This single was taken from Lasgo's first full album called Some Things, which was released on November 19, 2001. The music video for "Alone" was shot in the night of November 25-November 26 in a large office in Berlin, Germany. Alone peaked at #3 in the official Belgian CD charts. Due to all the success in other countries, Peter Luts was asked to remix Delerium's track Underwater for EMI Germany and also crafted a Lasgo remix for Aurora's song "The Day It Rained Forever" on Positiva Records (UK). During 2002, Lasgo was nominated for several awards: International Dance Club Hit of the Year (with "Something") and International New Dance Group of the Year at the Danish Dance Awards and Best Trance Act at <b>...</b>
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YANNI - BEST, energetic ,sexiest ,live music (1)
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- Published: 28 Sep 2010
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Yanni is a self-taught pianist who began his musical career by giving recitals for family members though he had no formal training and could not read music. He was also a competitive swimmer in Greece and set a national record in the 50-meter freestyle competition at the age of 14. At the age of 18 he attended the University of Minnesota. While a student there, Yanni joined an up-and-coming local group called Chameleon where he met drummer Charlie Adams. Chameleon earned some modest commercial success touring throughout the Midwest, particularly in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and South Dakota. After receiving a BA in psychology, he sought a life in music. He moved to Los Angeles, in pursuit of movie soundtrack work. In 1987 he put together a small band which included John Tesh and Charlie Adams, and began touring to promote his earliest instrumental albums, Keys to Imagination, Out of Silence, and Chameleon Days. 2000s In 2000, after a two-year sabbatical, Yanni released his first studio album in seven years: If I Could Tell You. Yanni toured in 2003--2004 with the debut of the Ethnicity album extending his "One World, One People" philosophy. This album sparked what would become the 4th largest concert tour of the year ranked by Billboard Magazine. On May 6, 2004, the University of Minnesota conferred upon Yanni the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. He kicked off his 2004--2005 "Yanni Live!" tour at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, and <b>...</b>
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Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For Official Music Video
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- Published: 21 Dec 2007
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The music video from Gwen Stefani for "What You Waiting For" from the album "Love, Angel, Music, Baby"
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Sleepin Pillow-Pathetic
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- Published: 05 Oct 2010
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Sleepin Pillow is a 6 member band formed in 2004, in Thessaloniki -- Greece. The band's music philosophy is based on bringing together modern psychedelic rock along with greek and eastern traditional music and English lyrics. The song is taken from their second album "Superman's Blues" (2010).Released by Shift Records. www.sleepinpillow.com http Line up: • Nomik-vocals • Aisha_sama-bass • Rispa-guitars • Antoine-keys and guitars • Nick Jacqueline-wind pipes and percussions • The Skinman-drums DeadactiveKoudouna® For I.
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Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You World Music Awards 2004
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- Published: 30 Oct 2009
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Going to the Mat Part 2/10
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- Published: 18 Dec 2008
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Jace is the new kid at school, and he's also blind. Thinking that his talent on the drums is his ticket in he shows off in music class, only to find out the teacher is also blind. He soon finds out that to be accepted you have to be a jock, so he joins the wrestling team.
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The Phantom Of The Opera 2004 (Official HQ song)
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- Published: 04 Jan 2011
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- Author: IoannkaPapa
Lyrics: Christine: In sleep he sang to me, In dreams he came. That voice which calls to me, And speaks my name And do I dream again? For now I find, The Phantom of the Opera is here, Inside my mind Phantom: Sing once again with me, Our strange duet. My power over you, Grows stronger yet. And though you turn from me, To glance behind. The Phantom of the Opera is there, Inside your mind. Christine: Those who have seen your face, Draw back in fear. I am the mask you wear. Phantom: It's me they hear. Both: My/your spirit and my/your voice, In one combined. The Phantom of the Opera is here/there Inside your/my mind Christine: He's there, the Phantom of the Opera! Phantom: Sing my angel of music sing my angel sing for me sing my angel sing for me! Phantom: I have brought you, To the seat of sweet music's throne. To this kingdom where all must pay homage to music, Music. You have come here. For one purpose and one alone. Since the moment I first heard you sing, I have needed you with me to serve me, to sing, For my music. My music
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Jesus of Suburbia music Video
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- Duration: 9:06
- Published: 16 Jul 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: b0btheasian
© 2005 WMG Jesus Of Suburbia (Video)
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The Dresden Dolls 'Coin-Operated Boy' music video
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 03 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: dresdendolls
The Dresden Dolls' video for "Coin-Operated Boy" from their self titled debut record. 2004 8-foot Records Shot, Cut, & Directed by Michael Pope
http://wn.com/The_Dresden_Dolls_'Coin-Operated_Boy'_music_video
Rush - Resist (Acoustic) 8-18-2004
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 03 Jun 2008
- Uploaded: 25 Feb 2012
- Author: RollTheFemers
Rush playing at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on August 18, 2004, as part of their 30th Anniversary tour.
http://wn.com/Rush__Resist_Acoustic_8-18-2004
YANNI - ,BEST, energetic ,live music (3)
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- Duration: 8:50
- Published: 03 Oct 2010
- Uploaded: 28 Feb 2012
- Author: PRAGEETHLIYANAGE
Yanni kicked off a South American tour in September 2010 that includes Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and continuing to Hato Rey, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic in November 2010. The release of a new album Yanni Mexicanisimo is scheduled for October 19, 2010, which is dedicated as a tribute to Mexico, a combination of Mexican music with Yanni's style.Yanni is a self-taught pianist who began his musical career by giving recitals for family members though he had no formal training and could not read music. He was also a competitive swimmer in Greece and set a national record in the 50-meter freestyle competition at the age of 14. At the age of 18 he attended the University of Minnesota. While a student there, Yanni joined an up-and-coming local group called Chameleon where he met drummer Charlie Adams. Chameleon earned some modest commercial success touring throughout the Midwest, particularly in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and South Dakota. After receiving a BA in psychology, he sought a life in music. He moved to Los Angeles, in pursuit of movie soundtrack work. In 1987 he put together a small band which included John Tesh and Charlie Adams, and began touring to promote his earliest instrumental albums, Keys to Imagination, Out of Silence, and Chameleon Days. 2000s In 2000, after a two-year sabbatical, Yanni released his first studio album in seven years: If I Could Tell You. Yanni <b>...</b>
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Incubus - Talk Shows On Mute
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- Duration: 4:18
- Published: 14 Mar 2010
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: IncubusVEVO
Music video by Incubus performing Talk Shows On Mute. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 413544. (C) 2004 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
http://wn.com/Incubus__Talk_Shows_On_Mute
Genesis - Mama
Music video by Genesis performing Mama (2004 Digital Remaster).
http://wn.com/Genesis__Mama
BRYAN FERRY - Avalon & Slave To Love (Montreux 2004)
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- Duration: 8:41
- Published: 15 Sep 2010
- Uploaded: 28 Feb 2012
- Author: kanecaptain
Bryan Ferry performs two classics live at Montreux in 2004, firstly the title track from 1982s classic ROXY MUSIC album AVALON and then SLAVE TO LOVE from BRYAN FERRY's brilliant solo album of 1985 BOYS & GIRLS.
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AVIATOR (2004) - The crash of the XF-11
On July 7th, 1946 Howard Hughes crashed with his XF-11 airplane in the Beverly Hills neighborhood near the Los Angeles Country Club golf course. Martin Scorsese recreated this horrible incident quite impressively in his 2004 biopic about the famous aviator Hughes with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. The music which underscores this sequence is the "Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor, BWV 565" an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach in a transcribition by Leopold Stokowski. The piece itself is conducted by Eugene Ormandy and performed by The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra,
http://wn.com/AVIATOR_2004__The_crash_of_the_XF-11
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
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- Duration: 4:28
- Published: 17 Jun 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: Maroon5VEVO
Music video by Maroon 5 performing She Will Be Loved. (C) 2004 OctoScope Music, LLC
http://wn.com/Maroon_5__She_Will_Be_Loved
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Kurt Nilsen wins ''World Idol''.
January 3 – Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas.
January 5 – Britney Spears' marriage to Jason Allen Alexander is annulled.
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February 8 – The 46th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Outkast's ''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' becomes the first rap album to win Album of the Year. Beyoncé won 5 awards.
February 17
BRIT Awards held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake, and KRS-One are among the winners.
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March 9 – Westlife member Brian McFadden departed from the band.
March 10 – George Michael announces that ''Patience'' will be his last commercially released record. Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
March 13 – Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in ''Tosca'' at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
March 16 – Godsmack releases an EP titled The Other Side, which contains acoustic reworkings of some of their songs
March 23 – Usher releases his " Confessions " album selling 1.1 million copies its first week , making him the first R&B; artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.
April 6
A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called ''My Mother's Hymn Book'' is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.
Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band releases Good News for People Who Love Bad News.
April 20 – Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album ''Archetype''.
April 26
Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.
Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
May – ''Blender'' magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.
May – Peter Tägtgren Replaces Mikael Åkerfeldt In Bloodbath.
May 10 – Keane release ''Hopes and Fears'' which becomes the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8x platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album.
May 18 to May 23 – European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) in Basel.
May 24 – Madonna starts ''The Re-Invention Tour'' in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million.
May 25- Avril Lavigne released her highly anticipated second album Under My Skin which debut in number one of 15 countries around the world including U.S, Australia, Mexico, UK, Hong Kong and more.
Jam band Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.
Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called ''The Greater Wrong of the Right''.
May 26 – Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of ''American Idol'', defeating Diana DeGarmo.
Staind start recording their fourth album, produced by David Bottrill.
Velvet Revolver's first album ''Contraband'' debuts in the top slot on the ''Billboard'' album charts, selling over 250,000 copies its first week out.
The Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is hospitalized in Los Angeles with prostate cancer and diagnosed.
June 4
Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.
Creed dissolved. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, Drummer Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall (ex Bassist of Creed) were working on side project Alter Bridge along with Myles Kennedy of The Mayfield Four Their first album is ''One Day Remains'', which is scheduled to be released on August 10.
June 10 – Legendary blues and soul pianist and singer Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73.
June 12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
June 22 – 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)
June 23 – UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.
July 10 – Ex-S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief. American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record.
July 11 – McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.
July 20 – Van Halen releases ''The Best of Both Worlds'', a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
July 24 – The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf der Maur.
July 31 – Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wes Borland returns to Limp Bizkit. Björk presents her brand new single "Oceanía" in the opening act for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
August 8 – Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
August 15 – Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
September 18 – Britney Spears gets married to Kevin Federline.
September 26 – Avril Lavigne kick off her second world tour the Bonez Tour which visit every single continent around the world touring exactly for one year.
September 28 – Brian Wilson completes ''Smile'', 37 years after its original planned release.
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October 11 – The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album ''Astronaut'', which was preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise".
October 16 – Avril Lavigne earns her fourth #1 single "My Happy Ending"(written by singer/songwriter Butch Walker), second single and lead song of her album 'Under My Skin'.
October 23 – Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip-synching after an abortive live performance on the television show ''Saturday Night Live''.
November 4 – Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the then-recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.
November 9 – Britney Spears releases her first compilation album titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.
November 12 – Eminem's fourth major studio album, ''Encore'' is released four days before
planned to combat bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the billboard charts.
November 16- Destiny's Child released their fourth and final studio album Destiny Fulfilled by Columbia Records in North America.
November 24 – Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute.
November 30 – Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album Collision Course debuts at number #01 at the Billboard 200, and the album converted in the most selling CD/DVD of that year.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.
December 7 – Lindsay Lohan releases her début album Speak
December 8 – Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage while performing in Columbus, Ohio.
December 11–12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver.
December 14 – Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records.
Jack Owen leaves Cannibal Corpse to Focus on Adrift.
New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as The Killers begin to oust nu metal bands.
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"In the Shadows" – Rasmus
"Last Train Home" – Lostprophets
"La Rivière de notre enfance" – Garou and Michel Sardou
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"Left Outside Alone" – Anastacia
"Let's Get It Started" – The Black Eyed Peas
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"Lying from You" – Linkin Park
"Milkshake" – Kelis
"Mockingbird" – Eminem
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"My Secret Life" – Eric Burdon
"Naughty Girl" – Beyoncé
"Not in Love" – Enrique Iglesias featuring Kelis
"Obsesión" – Aventura
"Pain – Jimmy Eat World
"Physical – Alcazar
"Pieces of Me" – Ashlee Simpson
"Predictable" – Good Charlotte
"Run" – Snow Patrol
"She Will Be Loved" – Maroon 5
"Shadow" – Ashlee Simpson
"Shut Up" – The Black Eyed Peas
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"Somewhere Only We Know" – Keane
"Sunshine" – Twista featuring Anthony Hamilton
"Superstar" – Jamelia
"Take Me Out" – Franz Ferdinand
"Talk About Our Love" – Brandy featuring Kanye West
"Thank You" – Jamelia
"These Words" – Natasha Bedingfield
"Time Is Running Out" – Muse
"Tipsy" – J-Kwon
"The Reason" – Hoobastank
"This Is the World We Live In" – Alcazar
"This Love" – Maroon 5
"Toxic" – Britney Spears
"Trick Me" – Kelis
"What You Waiting For? – Gwen Stefani
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Louis Andriessen – ''Racconto dall'Inferno''
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George Crumb – ''Winds of Destiny'' for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
Mario Davidovsky – ''Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes'', baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
Joël-François Durand – ''Ombre/Miroir'' for flute and 14 instruments
Ivan Fedele – ''Odos''
Lorenzo Ferrero – ''Guarini, the Master'' for violin and strings
Philip Glass – Symphony No. 7 ''Toltec''
Georg Friedrich Haas – ''Haiku''
Hans Werner Henze – ''Sebastian im Traum''
Alun Hoddinott – Trombone Concerto
York Höller – ''Ex Tempore''
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Jan Klusák – ''Axis Temporum''
Rolands Kronlaks – ''Paion''
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Theo Loevendie – ''De 5 Driften''
Roderik de Man – ''Mensa Sa''
Peter Maxwell Davies
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Martijn Padding – ''And Trees Would Sing''
Thomas Adès – ''The Tempest''
Harrison Birtwistle – ''The Io Passion''
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''Bombay Dreams'' Broadway production
''Fiddler On The Roof'' Broadway revival
''Jerry Springer - The Opera'' by Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee
''The Woman in White'' – music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Opened on September 15 at the Palace Theatre, London.
''People Are Wrong!'' Off-Broadway production
''Beyond the Sea'', starring Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin
''De-Lovely'' released June 13 starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd
''Home on the Range'', a Disney animated feature
''Ray'', starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
''Red Riding Hood''
''Pixel Perfect'', a Disney Channel Original Movie that is also a musical.
''The Phantom of the Opera'', starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as the Phantom
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January 17
*Czeslaw Niemen, 65, Polish rock singer
*Tom Rowe, 53, musician
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*Billy May, 87, US big band & pop music arranger
*Ann Miller, 80, actress, singer and dancer
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February 3 – Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
February 8 – Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
February 16 – Doris Troy, 67, R&B; singer
February 21 – Bart Howard, 88, composer and pianist
February 23
*Don Cornell, 84, US singer
*Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist
March 4 – John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with ''Magazine'', ''Siouxsie and the Banshees'' and ''PiL''
March 6 – Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
March 16 – Vilém Tauský, 93, Czech conductor and composer
March 18 – Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
March 26 – Jan Berry, 62, US singer of Jan and Dean
April 3 – Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer
April 9 – Harry Babbitt, 90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
April 10 – Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
April 15
*Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
*Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly musician
May 1 – Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (''Double'')
May 5 – Coxsone Dodd, 72, Jamaican record producer
May 12
*John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
*John Whitehead, 55, R&B; artist (shot dead)
May 17 – Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz Drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
May 19 – Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
May 23 – Gundars Mauševics, 29, Latvian guitarist of Brainstorm
June 2 – Billboard, 25, rapper, The Game's best friend
June 4 – Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer
June 6 – Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist
June 10 – Ray Charles, 73, US singer and pianist
June 15 – James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four Lads
June 17 – Jackie Paris, 77, US jazz singer
July 6 – Syreeta Wright, 57, singer
July 13 – Carlos Kleiber, 74, conductor
July 21 – Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
July 22
*Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
*Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
August 6
*Rick James, 56, US funk singer
*Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
*Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist
August 9 – David Raksin, 92, US composer
August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer
August 20 – María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
August 26 – Laura Branigan, 47, US singer (brain aneurysm)
August 31 – Carl Wayne, 61, vocalist (The Move)
September 2 – Billy Davis
September 11 – Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
September 12
*John Buller, 77, British composer
*Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist
September 15 – Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of ''The Ramones'' (prostate cancer)
September 16 – Izora Armstead, 62, member of The Weather Girls
October 25 – John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster (heart attack)
October 28 – Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer
November 1 – Mac Dre, 34, Bay Area rapper (highway shooting)
November 12 – Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
November 13
*John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
*Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper
*Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
November 14 – Michel Colombier, 65, composer
November 18 – Cy Coleman, 75, US composer
December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist (shot to death in Ohio)
December 13 – Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils (suicide)
December 14 – Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist
December 19 – Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
December 20 – Son Seals, 62, blues musician
December 26 – Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian jazz saxophonist (tsunami)
December 30 – Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader
ARIA Music Awards of 2004
2004 BRIT Awards
Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Grammy Awards of 2004
Juno Awards of 2004
2004 MTV Video Music Awards
Triple J Hottest 100, 2004
KATS-FM
New Rock 94.7 The Zone – WZZN-FM – Chicago
Pause & Play's On The CD Front
VH1
MTV
Rolling Stone
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Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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Bands formed
''See Musical groups established in 2004''
Bands disbanded
Bands re-formed
Albums released
January
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |1 | ''Alea Jacta Est'' || WarCry ||- |- | ''Not Quite Me'' || Tess Wiley ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |6 | ''Phantom Planet'' || Phantom Planet ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |12 | ''The Glorious Burden'' || Iced Earth ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |13 | ''Legion of Boom'' || The Crystal Method ||- |- | ''The Opera Band'' || Amici Forever ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |19 | ''The Moan'' || The Black Keys || EP |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |20 | ''Educated Guess'' || Ani DiFranco ||- |- | ''Civilization'' || Front Line Assembly ||- |- | ''The Devil Isn't Red'' || Hella ||- |- | ''The Early Chapters'' || Soilwork || EP |- | ''Kimi Ga Suki'' || Matthew Sweet ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |24 | ''The Slackers and Friends'' || The Slackers || Re-issue |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |26 | ''Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker'' || The Coral ||- |- | ''Immortal Memory'' || Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy ||- |- | ''Do You Know'' || Michelle Williams ||- |- |rowspan="15" valign="top" |27 | ''Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings'' || 10,000 Maniacs || Compilation |- | ''Sirens and Condolences'' || Bayside ||- |- | ''Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001'' || The Cure || Box Set |- | ''Daft Club'' || Daft Punk || US; Remix |- | ''Live at the Deaf Club'' || Dead Kennedys || Live |- | ''Delìrium Còrdia'' || Fantômas ||- |- | ''Hypnotic Underworld'' || Ghost ||- |- | ''Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997)'' || Helmet || Compilation |- | ''Ripp Tha Game Bloody: Street Muzic'' || RBX ||- |- | ''Because I Can'' || Katy Rose ||- |- | ''Kamikaze'' || Twista ||- |- | ''Live at the House of Blues'' || The Vandals || Live |- | ''The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection'' || Yes || US; Box Set |- | ''Elements, Pt. 1'' || Stratovarius ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |28 | ''Tomatteita Tokei ga Ima Ugokidashita'' || Zard ||- |- |}
February
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |2 | ''Evolution Purgatory'' || Persuader ||- |- | ''Scissor Sisters'' || Scissor Sisters || UK |- | ''Bows + Arrows'' || The Walkmen ||- |- |rowspan="6" valign="top" |3 | ''The Battle for Everything'' || Five for Fighting ||- |- | ''A Crow Left of the Murder'' || Incubus ||- |- | ''Start Something'' || Lostprophets ||- |- | ''Upsettin' Ernesto's'' || The Slackers || Live |- | ''Critical Energy'' || Threshold ||- |- | ''50 First Dates'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |6 | ''The Sunday Best'' || This Providence || EP; re-release |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |8 | ''That's What I'm Talking About'' || Shannon Noll ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |9 | ''Free Me'' || Emma Bunton || UK |- |rowspan="13" valign="top" |10 | ''Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition'' || Carpenters || Compilation |- | ''New Found Power'' || Damageplan ||- |- | '''Merican'' || The Descendents || EP |- | ''Lucky'' || Melissa Etheridge ||- |- | ''Shamrocks & Shenanigans'' || House of Pain & Everlast || Compilation |- | ''Feels like Home'' || Norah Jones ||- |- | ''America's Sweetheart'' || Courtney Love ||- |- | ''Miles Gurtu'' || Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu ||- |- | ''Body Language'' || Kylie Minogue || US |- | ''Turn of the Screw'' || 1208 ||- |- | ''Pau-Latina'' || Paulina Rubio ||- |- | ''Greatest Hits'' || Thalía || Compilation |- | ''The College Dropout'' || Kanye West ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |16 | ''Late Night Tales: Turin Brakes'' || Turin Brakes || Compilation |- | ''The Runaway Found'' || The Veils ||- |- | ''The Focusing Blur'' || Vintersorg ||- |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |17 | ''Talkie Walkie'' || Air || US |- | ''On The Front Line'' || The Casualties ||- |- | ''She's in Control'' || Chromeo ||- |- | ''Writer's Block'' || Evergreen Terrace ||- |- | ''All That We Let In'' || Indigo Girls ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |19 | ''A War Story Book II'' || Psycho Realm ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |23 | ''Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses'' || Atreyu || Limited edition |- | ''The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992'' || George Harrison || Box Set |- |rowspan="16" valign="top" |24 | ''A Natural Disaster'' || Anathema || US |- | ''About a Burning Fire'' || Blindside ||- |- | ''The Wretched Spawn'' || Cannibal Corpse ||- |- | ''Music as a Weapon II'' || Disturbed, Chevelle, Taproot & Unloco || Live |- | ''Schizophrenic'' || JC Chasez ||- |- | ''Shadows Collide With People'' || John Frusciante ||- |- | ''Bodysong'' || Jonny Greenwood || US; Soundtrack |- | ''The Arrival'' || Hypocrisy ||- |- | ''Sea of Faces'' || Kutless ||- |- | ''Punk Statik Paranoia'' || Orgy ||- |- | ''The Hard Way'' || Owsley ||- |- | ''Devil's Ground'' || Primal Fear ||- |- | ''Death Is Certain'' || Royce Da 5'9" ||- |- | ''Nude'' || VAST ||- |- | ''Chick Magnet'' || Paul Wall ||- |- | ''The Life of Joseph W. McVey'' || Z-Ro ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |29 | ''Schmack!'' || Steriogram ||- |- |}
March
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |1 | ''Mellow'' || Maria Mena ||- |- | ''When It Falls'' || Zero 7 || UK |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |2 | ''Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine'' || Cee-Lo ||- |- | ''Guilt Show'' || The Get Up Kids ||- |- | ''Modern ARTillery'' || The Living End || US |- | ''The Kinnitty Sessions'' || Lunasa || Live |- | ''The Best of LeAnn Rimes'' || LeAnn Rimes || Compilation |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |8 | ''Sunrise Over Sea'' || The John Butler Trio ||- |- | ''Suburban Rock 'N' Roll'' || Space ||- |- |rowspan="12" valign="top" |9 | ''Here Come the Brides'' || Brides of Destruction ||- |- | ''Live at the Deaf Club'' || Dead Kennedys || Live |- | ''Tempo of the Damned'' || Exodus ||- |- | ''Something Beautiful*'' || Great Big Sea || US |- | ''All of Our Names'' || Sarah Harmer ||- |- | ''Rare Tracks'' || Jet || Japan |- | ''Neither Here Nor There'' || Melvins || Compilation |- | ''The Moon & Antarctica'' || Modest Mouse || Re-issue |- | ''Don't Stop the Music'' || Play ||- |- | ''Black & White'' || The Samples ||- |- | ''Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes'' || TV on the Radio ||- |- | ''Pawn Shoppe Heart'' || The Von Bondies ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |12 | ''Hella/Four Tet Split'' || Hella/Four Tet || Split EP |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |15 | ''From Ohio with Love'' || A Day in the Life/Hit the Lights/The Red Affair || 3-way Split |- | ''And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997-2004'' || HIM || Compilation |- | ''Live and Demos'' || Raging Speedhorn || Compilation |- |rowspan="8" valign="top" |16 | ''The Very Best of Jackson Browne'' || Jackson Browne || Compilation |- | ''Split Personality'' || Cassidy ||- |- | ''The Other Side'' || Godsmack || EP |- | ''Afterlife'' || Joe Jackson ||Live |- | ''Patience'' || George Michael ||- |- | ''Dead Letters'' || The Rasmus || US |- | ''Frustration Plantation'' || Rasputina ||- |- | ''You Are Here'' || UFO ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top"|17 |''The Roy Clark Method (album)'' || The Roy Clark Method ||- |- |rowspan="26" valign="top" |23 | ''It's Never Enough'' || Ace Troubleshooter ||- |- | ''One Way Out'' || The Allman Brothers Band || Live |- | ''LP'' || Ambulance LTD || US |- | ''Misery Is a Butterfly'' || Blonde Redhead ||- |- | ''Sings Greatest Palace Music'' || Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ||- |- | ''Me and Mr. Johnson'' || Eric Clapton || Tribute album |- | ''Till Death Do Us Part'' || Cypress Hill ||- |- | ''Cool to Be You'' || The Descendents ||- |- | ''Peace, Love, Death Metal'' || The Eagles of Death Metal ||- |- | ''Live at the House of Blues'' || Goldfinger || Live |- | ''Greatest Hits'' || Guns N' Roses || Compilation |- | ''All of Our Names'' || Sarah Harmer ||- |- | ''Finally Woken'' || Jem ||- |- | ''MP3'' || Marcy Playground ||- |- | ''Good Side, Bad Side'' || Master P ||- |- | ''Absolution'' || Muse || US |- | ''Fly or Die'' || N.E.R.D. ||- |- | ''Redefine'' || Soil ||- |- | ''Tour 2003'' || Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band || Live |- | ''Let's Talk About It'' || Carl Thomas ||- |- | ''Confessions'' || Usher ||- |- | ''Winning Days'' || The Vines ||- |- | ''Night of Joy'' || Widespread Panic || Live |- | ''The Punisher'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack |- | ''Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! 15'' (U.S. series) || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |24 | ''Bee Hives'' || Broken Social Scene ||- |- | ''COM LAG (2plus2isfive)'' || Radiohead || EP |- | ''Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do'' || Sigur Rós || EP |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |29 | ''Anastacia'' || Anastacia ||- |- | ''Smack Smash'' || Beatsteaks ||- |- | ''Absent Friends'' || The Divine Comedy ||- |- | ''Soundtrack to Your Escape'' || In Flames ||- |- | ''Alphabetical'' || Phoenix ||- |- |rowspan="11" valign="top" |30 | ''Honkin' on Bobo'' || Aerosmith || Covers album |- | ''Classics: Vol 1'' || Big Moe || Compilation |- | ''Population Override'' || Buckethead ||- |- | ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall'' || Bob Dylan || Live |- | ''Damita Jo'' || Janet Jackson || US |- | ''U Gotta Feel Me'' || Lil' Flip ||- |- | ''Los Lonely Boys'' || Los Lonely Boys ||- |- | ''In With the Old'' || Pepper ||- |- | ''Live & Off the Record'' || Shakira || Live LP & DVD |- | ''Prophecy'' || Soulfly ||- |- | ''You Are Here'' || UFO ||- |- |}
April
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |4 | ''Indestructible Object'' || They Might Be Giants || EP |- | ''Soundtrack To Your Escape'' || In Flames || Korean Edition |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |5 | ''Greatest Hits'' || Atomic Kitten || Compilation |- | ''The Dissociatives'' || The Dissociatives ||- |- | ''J Wess Presents Tha LP'' || J-Wess ||- |- | ''Best of Both Worlds'' || Midnight Oil || DVD |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! 57'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="10" valign="top" |6 | ''Convict Pool'' || Calexico || EP |- | ''Hellfire Club'' || Edguy ||- |- | ''My Mother's Hymn Book'' || Johnny Cash ||- |- | ''Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?'' || Local H ||- |- | ''2 Nights Live!'' || Barry Manilow || Live |- | ''Good News for People Who Love Bad News'' || Modest Mouse ||- |- | ''Matters'' || Pulley ||- |- | ''Liars'' || Todd Rundgren ||- |- | ''Ludo'' || Ludo ||- |- | ''The Neon God: Part 1 - The Rise'' || W.A.S.P. ||- |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |13 | ''Crossfade'' || Crossfade ||- |- | ''Baron von Bullshit Rides Again'' || Modest Mouse || Live |- | ''Is There Love in Space?'' || Joe Satriani ||- |- | ''Palm Trees and Power Lines'' || Sugarcult ||- |- |rowspan="24" valign="top" |20 | ''BYO Split Series, Vol. 5'' || Alkaline Trio/One Man Army || Split LP |- | ''Music of Mass Destruction'' || Anthrax || Live |- | ''Hangover Music Vol. VI'' || Black Label Society ||- |- | ''The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell'' || Buckethead ||- |- | ''I'd Like a Virgin'' || Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine ||- |- | ''Desensitized'' || Drowning Pool ||- |- | ''Franz Ferdinand'' || Franz Ferdinand ||- |- | ''Archetype'' || Fear Factory ||- |- | ''The Pretty Toney Album'' || Ghostface Killah ||- |- | ''Impossible Dream'' || Patty Griffin ||- |- | ''Underneath'' || Hanson ||- |- | ''Feels like Home'' || Norah Jones ||- |- | ''Fire It Up'' || The Kottonmouth Kings ||- |- | ''Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003'' || Little Feat || Live |- | ''Through the Ashes of Empires'' || Machine Head || US |- | ''Musicology'' || Prince ||- |- | ''Stone Age Complications'' || Queens of the Stone Age || EP |- | ''Ratatat'' || Ratatat ||- |- | ''The Blue Jukebox'' || Chris Rea ||- |- | ''Sunsets and Car Crashes'' || The Spill Canvas ||- |- | ''2 a.m. Wakeup Call'' || Tweaker ||- |- | ''Mute Print'' || A Wilhelm Scream ||- |- | ''Hurt No More'' || Mario Winans ||- |- | ''Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1'' || Various Artists, Rock Against Bush || Compilation |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |24 | ''Rejoicing in the Hands'' || Devendra Banhart ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |26 | ''Walk The Tightrope'' || Human Nature ||- |- |rowspan="12" valign="top" |27 | ''Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978)'' || Black Sabbath || Box Set |- | ''D12 World'' || D12 ||- |- | ''The Dresden Dolls'' || The Dresden Dolls || Re-issue |- | ''The Last of Tha Pound'' || Tha Dogg Pound || Compilation |- | ''The Inner Circle'' || Evergrey ||- |- | ''re.present'' || Jimmie's Chicken Shack ||- |- | ''The Girl in the Other Room'' || Diana Krall ||- |- | ''Van Lear Rose'' || Loretta Lynn ||- |- | ''Trampin''' || Patti Smith ||- |- | ''Souls to Deny'' || Suffocation ||- |- | ''Z-Ro Tolerance'' || Z-Ro ||- |- | ''American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics'' || Various Artists ||- |- |}
May
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |3 | ''My Angel Rocks Back and Forth'' || Four Tet || EP |- | ''Marbles'' || Marillion ||- |- |rowspan="11" valign="top" |4 | ''Chopstick Bridge'' || Avoid One Thing ||- |- | ''Horse of a Different Color'' || Big & Rich ||- |- | ''Endangered Species'' || Flaw ||- |- | ''Platinum & Gold Collection'' || Lit || Collection |- | ''One Love'' || Kimberley Locke ||- |- | ''The Ride'' || Los Lobos ||- |- | ''i'' || The Magnetic Fields ||- |- | ''Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry'' || Petey Pablo ||- |- | ''Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies'' || Pixies || Compilation |- | ''Just for You'' || Lionel Richie ||- |- | ''Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live'' || Sevendust || Live |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |5 | ''Greatest Hits'' || A*Teens || Compilation |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |8 | ''Lafcadio'' || As Tall as Lions ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |10 | ''Hopes and Fears'' || Keane ||- |- | ''All Roads to Fault'' || yourcodenameis:milo || EP |- |rowspan="8" valign="top" |11 | ''Come Again'' || Thornley || Debut. |- | ''The End of Heartache'' || Killswitch Engage ||- |- | ''Express Yourself'' || Erik van der Luijt ||- |- | ''Here for the Party'' || Gretchen Wilson ||- |- | ''Sonic Firestorm'' || DragonForce ||- |- | ''Metalogy'' || Judas Priest || Compilation |- | ''Dis/Location'' || Seven Mary Three ||- |- | ''E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals'' || The Matches || re-release under new name |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |16 | ''Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996'' || De La Soul || Live |- | ''A Song Is A City'' || Eskimo Joe ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |17 | ''Meltdown'' || Ash ||- |- | ''Happiness in Magazines'' || Graham Coxon ||- |- |rowspan="14" valign="top" |18 | ''Asobi Seksu'' || Asobi Seksu ||- |- | ''Faded Seaside Glamour'' || Delays || US |- | ''Hell To Pay'' || Dokken ||- |- | ''Dynamite Boy'' || Dynamite Boy ||- |- | ''My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue'' || Fall Out Boy || EP/DVD |- | ''Guster on Ice'' || Guster || Live |- | ''Baptism'' || Lenny Kravitz ||- |- | ''Tical 0: The Prequel'' || Method Man ||- |- | ''So-Called Chaos'' || Alanis Morissette ||- |- | ''You Are the Quarry'' || Morrissey ||- |- | ''Catalyst'' || New Found Glory ||- |- | ''Now Here Is Nowhere'' || The Secret Machines ||- |- | ''A Grand Don't Come for Free'' || The Streets ||- |- | ''Fuckin A'' || The Thermals ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |21 | ''Spectral'' || Skyfire ||- |- | ''Here We Go Again'' || SR-71 ||- |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |24 | ''Hits 58'' || Various artists || Compilation |- | ''The Human Equation'' || Ayreon ||- |- | ''Exposures - In Retrospect and Denial'' || Dark Tranquillity || Compilation |- | ''Sirius B'' || Therion ||- |- | ''Lemuria'' || Therion ||- |- |rowspan="12" valign="top" |25 | ''Fading Days'' || Amber Pacific || EP |- | ''Long Gone Before Daylight'' || The Cardigans || US |- | ''White Trash Beautiful'' || Everlast ||- |- | ''Rock the Night: The Very Best of Europe'' || Europe || Compilation |- | ''Play to Win'' || Gabrielle ||- |- | ''Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead'' || Grateful Dead || Live |- | ''Under My Skin'' || Avril Lavigne ||- |- | ''It's About Time'' || Christina Milian ||- |- | ''Monolithic Baby!'' || Monster Magnet ||- |- | ''Achilles Heel'' || Pedro the Lion ||- |- | ''The Greater Wrong of the Right'' || Skinny Puppy ||- |- | ''Vol. 3: the Subliminal Verses'' || Slipknot ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |30 | ''Final Straw'' || Snow Patrol || US |- | ''Just Be'' || Tiësto ||- |- | ''Joe's Corsage'' || Frank Zappa || Compilation |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |31 | ''Uh Huh Her'' || PJ Harvey || UK |- | ''Wayward Angel'' || Kasey Chambers ||- |- | ''I Com'' || Miss Kittin ||- |- | ''Borrowed Heaven'' || The Corrs ||- |- |}
June
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |1 | ''Falling Up'' || Digby ||- |- | ''No Said Date'' || Masta Killa ||- |- | ''Auf der Maur'' || Melissa Auf der Maur ||- |- | ''Ready Now'' || Truth Hurts ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |5 | ''Loud, Mean, Fast and Dirty'' || Peter Pan Speedrock ||- |- |rowspan="7" valign="top" |7 | ''Louden Up Now'' || !!! ||- |- | ''No Roots'' || Faithless ||- |- | ''The Lost Riots'' || Hope of the States || Debut; UK |- | ''Rewired'' || Mike + The Mechanics ||- |- | ''Once'' || Nightwish ||- |- | ''Sonic Nurse'' || Sonic Youth ||- |- | ''Supergrass Is 10'' || Supergrass || Compilation |- |rowspan="19" valign="top" |8 | ''Greatest Hits '93-'03'' || 311 || Compilation |- | ''The Empire Strikes First'' || Bad Religion ||- |- | ''Two'' || The Calling ||- |- | ''Un'' || Chumbawamba ||- |- | ''Fast Moving Cars'' || The Clarks ||- |- | ''Borrowed Heaven'' || The Corrs ||- |- | ''One Soul Now'' || Cowboy Junkies ||- |- | ''Keep Your Wig On'' || Fastball ||- |- | ''White Light Rock & Roll Review'' || Matthew Good ||- |- | ''Vengo a Cobrar'' || Mellow Man Ace ||- |- | ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' || My Chemical Romance ||- |- | ''The Art of Live'' || Queensrÿche || Live |- | ''Asshole'' || Gene Simmons ||- |- | ''International War Criminal'' || The Slackers || EP |- | ''Sonic Nurse'' || Sonic Youth ||- |- | ''Contraband'' || Velvet Revolver ||- |- | ''Egypt'' || Youssou N'Dour ||- |- | ''2004 Warped Tour Compilation'' || Various Artists || Compilation |- | ''Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9'' || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |12 | ''A New Day... Live in Las Vegas'' || Céline Dion || Live |- | ''Maximum XS'' || Nazareth || Compilation |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |14 | ''Sound Shattering Sound'' || Gyroscope ||- |- | ''To the 5 Boroughs'' || Beastie Boys ||- |- | ''Dark Matter'' || IQ ||- |- | ''Live in Boston'' || Fleetwood Mac || Live DVD |- |rowspan="8" valign="top" |15 | ''Obsession'' || Eighteen Visions ||- |- | ''The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)'' || The Fall || US |- | ''Hot Fuss'' || The Killers ||- |- | ''Disclaimer II'' || Seether ||- |- | ''The Blind Watchmaker'' || Mana ERG ||- |- | ''It's About Time'' || Christina Milian || US |- | ''Undermind'' || Phish ||- |- | ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' || Underøath ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |16 | ''Rock the 40 Oz: Reloaded'' || Leftöver Crack || Compilation |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |18 | ''Split'' || Cipher System and By Night || EP |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |21 | ''One Plus One Is One'' || Badly Drawn Boy ||- |- | ''Aren't You Dead Yet?'' || Carnal Forge ||- |- | ''A Semblance of Normality'' || Skyclad ||- |- |rowspan="13" valign="top" |22 | ''Will to Death'' || John Frusciante ||- |- | ''Kiss of Death'' || Jadakiss ||- |- | ''JoJo'' || JoJo ||- |- | ''Lit'' || Lit ||- |- | ''Scream & Whisper'' || Edwin McCain ||- |- | ''1.22.03.Acoustic'' || Maroon 5 || Live |- | ''Houses of the Molé'' || Ministry ||- |- | ''Power of the Blues'' || Gary Moore ||- |- | ''Inferno'' || Motörhead ||- |- | ''Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love'' || Jonathan Richman ||- |- | ''Unbreakable'' || Scorpions ||- |- | ''A Ghost Is Born'' || Wilco ||- |- | ''Gettin' in Over My Head'' || Brian Wilson ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |24 | ''Dangerously in Love'' || Beyoncé ||- |- | ''ForThemAsses'' || OPM ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |28 | ''Afrodisiac'' || Brandy ||- |- | ''The Cure'' || The Cure ||- |- | ''Up All Night'' || Razorlight ||- |- |rowspan="19" valign="top" |29 | ''Watch Out!'' || Alexisonfire ||- |- | ''The Curse'' || Atreyu ||- |- | ''We Are Not Alone'' || Breaking Benjamin ||- |- | ''Mojave'' || Concrete Blonde ||- |- | ''Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count'' || From First to Last ||- |- | ''Who Still Kill Sound?'' || Kid 606 ||- |- | ''Tha Carter'' || Lil Wayne ||- |- | ''The Gorge'' || Dave Matthews Band || Live |- | ''Forget What You Know'' || Midtown ||- |- | ''Revival'' || The Reverend Horton Heat ||- |- | ''This Magnificent Distance'' || Chris Robinson ||- |- | ''Feedback'' || Rush || Covers album |- | ''Nina Sky'' || Nina Sky ||- |- | ''Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit)'' || Slum Village ||- |- | ''White2'' || Sunn O))) ||- |- | ''Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise'' || Tiger Army ||- |- | ''In Between Evolution'' || The Tragically Hip ||- |- | ''Hollywood Potato Chip'' || The Vandals ||- |- | ''Seventy Two and Sunny'' || Uncle Kracker ||- |- |}
July
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |5 | ''Room on the 3rd Floor'' || McFly ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |6 | ''Wild Dances'' || Ruslana ||- |- | ''Stone Love'' || Angie Stone || US |- | ''Fortress In Flames'' || The Crüxshadows || EP |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |8 | ''Oceanic Remixes and Reinterpretations'' || Isis || Remix |- | ''Star Trails'' || Spirit of the West ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |12 | ''The Futureheads'' || The Futureheads ||- |- | ''Armed Love'' || The (International) Noise Conspiracy ||- |- | ''Braxton Hicks'' || Jebediah ||- |- |rowspan="25" valign="top" |13 | ''Back to Basics'' || Beenie Man ||- |- | ''License to Chill'' || Jimmy Buffett ||- |- | ''Indian Summer'' || Carbon Leaf ||- |- | ''To Tha X-Treme'' || Devin the Dude ||- |- | ''Hell To Pay'' || Dokken ||- |- | ''At Our Worst'' || Evergreen Terrace ||- |- | ''Blueberry Boat'' || The Fiery Furnaces ||- |- | ''Viking'' || Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards ||- |- | ''Eat Your Face'' || Guttermouth ||- |- | ''Letters to the President'' || Hawk Nelson ||- |- | ''Keep Right'' || KRS-One ||- |- | ''Mutual Admiration Society'' || Mutual Admiration Society ||- |- | ''It's About Time'' || Christina Milian ||- |- | ''Humboldt Beginnings'' || The Pharcyde ||- |- | ''Caught by the Window'' || Pilot Speed || US |- | ''Together We're Heavy'' || The Polyphonic Spree ||- |- | ''Out of the Shadow'' || Rogue Wave ||- |- | ''The Tipping Point'' || The Roots ||- |- | ''Shhh...Don't Tell'' || Adam Sandler ||- |- | ''Lock-Sport-Krock'' || Nikola Sarcevic ||- |- | ''Happy Love Sick'' || Shifty ||- |- | ''Porcelain'' || Sparta ||- |- | ''The Spine'' || They Might Be Giants ||- |- | ''Über Cobra'' || Widespread Panic || Live |- | ''The Funeral of God'' || Zao ||- |- |rowspan="9" valign="top" |20 | ''Miss Machine'' || The Dillinger Escape Plan ||- |- | ''No Roots'' || Faithless ||- |- | ''Autobiography'' || Ashlee Simpson ||- |- | ''Hazen Street'' || Hazen Street ||- |- | ''Tyrannosaurus Hives'' || The Hives ||- |- | ''B Is for B-sides'' || Less Than Jake || Compilation |- | ''White Turns Blue'' || Maria Mena ||- |- | ''Beneath... Between... Beyond...'' || Static-X || Compilation |- | ''The Best of Both Worlds'' || Van Halen || Compilation |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |22 | ''Waste of MFZB'' || Zebrahead ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |24 | ''Drivetrain'' || .38 Special ||- |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |26 | ''Live in Hyde Park'' || Red Hot Chili Peppers || Live |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! 58'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="15" valign="top" |27 | ''Throwback, Vol. 1'' || Boyz II Men || Covers album |- | ''Studio X Sessions E.P.'' || Death Cab for Cutie || EP |- | ''Whiskey Tango Ghosts'' || Tanya Donelly ||- |- | ''Until the End'' || Kittie ||- |- | ''Hymns of the 49th Parallel'' || k.d. lang ||- |- | ''Kevin Lyttle'' || Kevin Lyttle ||- |- | ''Live in Hamburg'' || Maria McKee || Live |- | ''The Beginning of Survival'' || Joni Mitchell ||- |- | ''Testimony Live'' || Neal Morse || DVD |- | ''Live at Benaroya Hall'' || Pearl Jam || Live |- | ''Scissor Sisters'' || Scissor Sisters || US |- | ''Where You Want to Be'' || Taking Back Sunday ||- |- | ''True Story'' || Terror Squad ||- |- | ''Lost & Found'' || Ian Van Dahl ||- |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! 16'' (U.S. series) || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |29 | ''Pass the Flask'' || The Bled ||- |- | ''Alive and Well... In Krakow'' || Green Carnation || Live |- |}
August
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="6" valign="top" |3 | ''Firestarter'' || Jimmy Eat World || EP |- | ''Ride This - The Covers EP'' || Los Lobos || EP |- | ''A Long Hot Summer'' || Masta Ace ||- |- | ''Riders In The Sky Present: Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier'' || Riders in the Sky ||- |- | ''An Elixir for Existence'' || Sirenia ||- |- | ''Subsurface'' || Threshold ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |6 | ''2Pac Live'' || 2Pac || Live |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |9 | ''Safri Duo 3.0'' || Safri Duo ||- |- |rowspan="12" valign="top" |10 | ''My Own Best Enemy'' || Richard Marx ||- |- | ''Automatic Writing'' || Ataxia ||- |- | ''The Best of Coal Chamber'' || Coal Chamber || Compilation |- | ''Crosby & Nash'' || David Crosby & Graham Nash ||- |- | ''Whiskey Tango Ghosts'' || Tanya Donelly ||- |- | ''One Day Remains'' || Alter Bridge ||- |- | ''The Blessed and The Damned'' || Iced Earth || Compilation |- | ''Bubblegum'' || Mark Lanegan ||- |- | ''Creamfields'' || Paul Oakenfold || Remix |- | ''Siren Song of the Counter Culture'' || Rise Against ||- |- | ''Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer'' || Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer || Debut, re-issue |- | ''Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2'' || Various Artists, Rock Against Bush || Compilation |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |11 | ''Partytime'' || The Cheeky Girls ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |12 | ''Bob Powell Anthology'' || Bob Powell || Box Set |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |13 | ''We Were Born in a Flame'' || Sam Roberts ||- |- |rowspan="9" valign="top" |17 | ''The Hard Way'' || 213 ||- |- | ''Take It All Away'' || Ryan Cabrera ||- |- | ''Decadence'' || Head Automatica ||- |- | ''Love Everybody'' || The Presidents of the United States of America ||- |- | ''Up All Night'' || Razorlight ||- |- | ''More Adventurous'' || Rilo Kiley ||- |- | ''Survival of the Sickest'' || Saliva ||- |- | ''Soviet Kitsch'' || Regina Spektor ||- |- | ''Seven Circles'' || The Tea Party || Final Album |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |23 | ''Winchester Cathedral'' || Clinic ||- |- | ''Pigs of the Roman Empire'' || Lustmord & The Melvins ||- |- | ''Leaders Not Followers: Part 2'' || Napalm Death || Covers album |- | ''Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned'' || The Prodigy || UK |- |rowspan="20" valign="top" |24 | ''Potter's Field'' || 12 Stones ||- |- | ''Throwback, Vol. 1'' || Boyz II Men || Covers album |- | ''Tessie'' || Dropkick Murphys || EP |- | ''Super D'' || Ben Folds || EP |- | ''Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom'' || Jason Mraz ||- |- | ''Beat Cafe'' || Donovan ||- |- | ''The Dirty South'' || Drive-By Truckers ||- |- | ''The Revolution Starts Now'' || Steve Earle ||- |- | ''Hide Nothing'' || Further Seems Forever ||- |- | ''Half Smiles of the Decomposed'' || Guided by Voices ||- |- | ''Legacy of Blood'' || Jedi Mind Tricks ||- |- | ''On My Way To Church'' || Jim Jones ||- |- | ''Happy People/U Saved Me'' || R. Kelly ||- |- | ''Welcome Back (album)'' || Mase ||- |- | ''Live Like You Were Dying'' || Tim McGraw ||- |- | ''A Valid Path'' || Alan Parsons ||- |- | ''Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones'' || The Rolling Stones || US; Compilation |- | ''Lift'' || Sister Hazel ||- |- | ''She Loves You'' || The Twilight Singers || Covers album |- | ''The Secondman's Middle Stand'' || Mike Watt ||- |- | ''Luminaria'' || Ian Moore ||- |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |30 | ''Silent Nation'' || Asia ||- |- | ''Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow'' || Faithless ||- |- | ''Killing Heidi'' || Killing Heidi ||- |- | ''The Libertines'' || The Libertines ||- |- |rowspan="11" valign="top" |31 | ''Medúlla'' || Björk ||- |- | ''Circle of Snakes'' || Danzig ||- |- | ''Hell's Pit'' || Insane Clown Posse ||- |- | ''Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection'' || Kansas || Compilation+DVD |- | ''Ashes of the Wake'' || Lamb of God ||- |- | ''The DEFinition'' || LL Cool J ||- |- | ''Getting Away with Murder'' || Papa Roach ||- |- | ''Rhythm of Time'' || Jordan Rudess ||- |- | ''Leviathan'' || Mastodon ||- |- | ''Fuck World Trade'' || Leftöver Crack ||- |- | ''The Spine Hits the Road'' || They Might Be Giants || Live |- |}
September
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |1 | ''The Romance of Kenny G'' || Kenny G || Compilation |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |6 | ''Temple of Shadows'' || Angra ||- |- | ''Unwritten'' || Natasha Bedingfield || UK |- | ''Rubber Factory'' || The Black Keys ||- |- | ''The Sound of White'' || Missy Higgins || |- | ''Voice'' || Alison Moyet || UK, covers album |- |rowspan="9" valign="top" |7 | ''The Big Eyeball in the Sky'' || Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains ||- |- | ''I Got Love In These Streetz - The Album'' || Daz Dillinger ||- |- | ''Master of the Moon'' || Dio ||- |- | ''Home for an Island'' || The Exit ||- |- | ''The Very Best of Macy Gray'' || Macy Gray || US; Compilation |- | ''Stealing of a Nation'' || Radio 4 ||- |- | ''Let It Enfold You'' || Senses Fail ||- |- | ''Underdog Victorious'' || Jill Sobule ||- |- | ''Living Things'' || Matthew Sweet ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |8 |''EXODUS'' || Utada || Japan |- |rowspan="6" valign="top" |13 |''Out of Nothing'' || Embrace || UK |- |''Season for Assault'' || 8 Foot Sativa ||- |- | ''Nino Rojo'' || Devendra Banhart ||- |- | ''Singles Box Set 1986-1995'' || Duran Duran || Box Set |- | ''The Tension and the Spark'' || Darren Hayes ||- |- | ''Kasabian'' || Kasabian || UK |- |rowspan="17" valign="top" |14 | ''Funeral'' || Arcade Fire ||- |- | ''A Hangover You Don't Deserve'' || Bowling for Soup ||- |- | ''The Revelry || Bullets and Octane ||- |- | ''Wayward Angel'' || Kasey Chambers ||- |- | ''Eat My Heart Out'' || The Dollyrots ||- |- | ''Turn'' || The Ex || Double LP |- | ''Wet From Birth'' || The Faint ||- |- | ''Within a Mile of Home'' || Flogging Molly ||- |- | ''DC EP'' || John Frusciante || EP |- | ''Trouble'' || Ray LaMontagne ||- |- | ''The System Has Failed'' || Megadeth ||- |- | ''Sweat and Suit Double albums || Nelly ||- |- | ''Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned'' || The Prodigy ||- |- | ''Everybody Loves a Happy Ending'' || Tears for Fears ||- |- | ''So Jealous'' || Tegan and Sara ||- |- | ''Studio 150'' || Paul Weller ||- |- | ''QuAUDIOPHILIAc'' || Frank Zappa ||- |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |20 | ''Hits 59'' || Various artists || Compilation |- | ''Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus'' || Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ||- |- | ''Welcome to the North'' || The Music ||- |- | ''One for the Road'' || Ocean Colour Scene || Live |- |rowspan="22" valign="top" |21 | ''Future Perfect'' || Autolux ||- |- | ''Shine'' || Meredith Brooks || Reissue of 2002's ''Bad Bad One'' |- | ''This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)'' || Chevelle ||- |- | ''London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition'' || The Clash || LP & DVD |- | ''You Fail Me'' || Converge ||- |- | ''The Delivery Man'' || Elvis Costello ||- |- | ''Il Sogno'' || Elvis Costello ||- |- | ''Deja Vu (All Over Again)'' || John Fogerty ||- |- | ''American Idiot'' || Green Day ||- |- | ''There Will Be a Light'' || Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama ||- |- | ''Eucademix'' || Yuka Honda ||- |- | ''The New What Next'' || Hot Water Music ||- |- | ''Romeoland'' || Lil' Romeo ||- |- | ''Songs In The Key Of Eh!'' || Mad Caddies || Live |- | ''Remixed!'' || Scissor Sisters || EP |- | ''This Is My Time'' || Raven Symone ||- |- | ''Noise from the Basement'' || Skye Sweetnam ||- |- | ''Dreaming In Color'' || Jump5 ||- |- | ''Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home'' || These Arms Are Snakes ||- |- | ''Be Here'' || Keith Urban || US |- | ''Night on Fire'' || VHS or Beta ||- |- | ''Saul Williams'' || Saul Williams ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |22 | ''Start from the Dark'' || Europe ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |23 | ''The Other Side of Earth'' || The Last Goodnight ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |24 | ''Dreamland'' || Joni Mitchell ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |27 | ''Nightmares Made Flesh'' || Bloodbath ||- |- | ''Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret'' || Rhapsody ||- |- | ''Never Apologise Never Explain'' || Therapy? ||- |- |rowspan="20" valign="top" |28 | ''Advance and Vanquish'' || 3 Inches of Blood ||- |- | ''Goodies || Ciara ||- |- | ''Hilary Duff'' || Hilary Duff ||- |- | ''180°'' || Gerardo ||- |- | ''Antics'' || Interpol ||- |- | ''Shangri-La'' || Mark Knopfler ||- |- | ''Scores'' || Barry Manilow ||- |- | ''Beautiful Soul'' || Jesse McCartney ||- |- | ''Trouble'' || Bonnie McKee ||- |- | ''Bat out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra'' || Meat Loaf || Live |- | ''Reset'' || MUTEMATH || EP |- | ''Lionheart'' || Saxon ||- |- | ''The War Within'' || Shadows Fall ||- |- | ''Mind, Body & Soul'' || Joss Stone ||- |- | ''Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll'' || Social Distortion ||- |- | ''The Beautiful Struggle'' || Talib Kweli ||- |- | ''In Love and Death'' || The Used ||- |- | ''The Neon God, Pt. 2: The Demise'' || W.A.S.P. ||- |- | ''Jackassolantern'' || Widespread Panic || Live |- | ''Smile'' || Brian Wilson ||- |- |}
October
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |1 | ''While You Are Gone || Bradley Joseph ||- |- | ''Joe's Domage || Frank Zappa ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |4 | ''Late Night Tales: Four Tet'' || Four Tet || Compilation |- | ''Falling Out'' || Peter Bjorn and John ||- |- | ''Confessions'' || Usher || UK |- |rowspan="24" valign="top" |5 | ''Soul of a New Machine'' || Fear Factory || Reissue/Remastered |- | ''Barenaked for the Holidays'' || Barenaked Ladies || Christmas |- | ''Pressure Chief'' || Cake ||- |- | ''The Grind Date'' || De La Soul ||- |- | ''Live at Budokan'' || Dream Theater || Live |- | ''Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear 1994-2004'' || Everclear || Compilation |- | ''Black Tape'' || The Explosion ||- |- | ''Palookaville'' || Fatboy Slim ||- |- | ''The Chronicles of Life and Death'' || Good Charlotte ||- |- | ''The Lost Riots'' || Hope of the States || US |- | ''Audit in Progress'' || Hot Snakes ||- |- | ''Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101'' || Wyclef Jean ||- |- | ''Legs to Make Us Longer'' || Kaki King ||- |- | ''ClassiKhan'' || Chaka Khan ||- |- | ''Greatest Hits, Volume 1'' || Korn || Compilation |- | ''The Audio Injected Soul'' || Mnemic ||- |- | ''Unshattered'' || Peter Murphy ||- |- | ''Around the Sun'' || R.E.M. ||- |- | ''Has Been'' || William Shatner ||- |- | ''The Place You're In'' || Kenny Wayne Shepherd ||- |- | ''50 Number Ones'' || George Strait || Compilation |- | ''EXODUS'' || Utada || US, Germany, Luxembourg |- | ''Real Gone'' || Tom Waits ||- |- | ''Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground'' || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="8" valign="top" |11 | ''The Collection'' || Cast || Compilation |- | ''Cosima'' || Cosima De Vito ||- |- | ''10 Years of Hits'' || Ronan Keating || Compilation |- | ''The Collection'' || Shed Seven || Compilation |- | ''Sirenian Shores'' || Sirenia || EP |- | ''Reckoning Night'' || Sonata Arctica ||- |- | ''Back to Bedlam'' || James Blunt || Debut |- | ''False Alarm'' || KT Tunstall || EP |- |rowspan="18" valign="top" |12 | ''Frank Black Francis'' || Frank Black ||- |- | ''Platinum & Gold Collection'' || Toni Braxton || Compilation |- | ''The Artist Collection: Busta Rhymes'' || Busta Rhymes || Compilation |- | ''New Roman Times'' || Camper Van Beethoven ||- |- | ''Heart & Soul'' || Joe Cocker ||- |- | ''Songs of the Unforgiven'' || Crash Test Dummies ||- |- | ''Scenic'' || Denver Harbor ||- |- | ''Miracle'' || Céline Dion ||- |- | ''Astronaut'' || Duran Duran || LP & DVD |- | ''Tarantula'' || Flickerstick ||- |- | ''Christmas'' || Chris Isaak ||- |- | ''Shake off the Dust... Arise'' || Matisyahu ||- |- | ''The New Danger'' || Mos Def ||- |- | ''Straylight Run'' || Straylight Run ||- |- | ''Chuck'' || Sum 41 ||- |- | ''Deceiver'' || Chris Thile ||- |- | ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' || Trans-Siberian Orchestra ||- |- | ''P.S.I.entology'' || Pitchshifter || DVD |- |rowspan="6" valign="top" |18 | ''Alizée En Concert'' || Alizée || Live |- | ''A Smile'' || Dappled Cities Fly ||- |- | ''One'' || Dirty Vegas ||- |- | ''Silver Box'' || Simple Minds || Box Set |- | ''Origin Vol. 1'' || The Soundtrack of Our Lives || Europe |- | ''Who Killed...... The Zutons?'' || The Zutons ||- |- |rowspan="14" valign="top" |19 | ''The Rest Is History'' || Jin ||- |- | ''Never Breathe What You Can't See'' || Jello Biafra & The Melvins ||- |- | ''Alpha and Omega'' || Bizzy Bone ||- |- | ''The Greatest Hits Collection II'' || Brooks & Dunn || Compilation |- | ''You Just Gotta Love Christmas'' || Peter Cetera || Christmas |- | ''Panopticon'' || Isis ||- |- | ''Futures'' || Jimmy Eat World ||- |- | ''The Greatest Hits'' || Juvenile || Compilation |- | ''As/Is'' || John Mayer || Live |- | ''Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits'' || John Mellencamp || Compilation |- | ''Graveyard Classics 2'' || Six Feet Under || Covers album |- | ''From a Basement on the Hill'' || Elliott Smith ||- |- | ''Stardust: the Great American Songbook 3'' || Rod Stewart || Covers album |- | ''Revolver (The Haunted album)'' || The Haunted ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |24 | ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Vol. 1'' || Powerman 5000 || Compilation |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |25 | ''Live Twice'' || Darius ||- |- | ''Best of Def Leppard'' || Def Leppard || Compilation |- |rowspan="20" valign="top" |26 | ''All for You'' || Annihilator ||- |- | ''Buju and Friends'' || Buju Banton || Compilation |- | ''Live at Wolf Trap'' || The Doobie Brothers || Live |- | ''Dear Heather'' || Leonard Cohen ||- |- | ''Please Describe Yourself'' || Dogs Die in Hot Cars ||- |- | ''Gold Medal'' || The Donnas ||- |- | ''Flyleaf'' || Flyleaf || EP |- | ''Inside of Emptiness'' || John Frusciante ||- |- | ''War Party'' || GWAR ||- |- | ''Our Kind of Soul'' || Hall & Oates ||- |- | ''Unfinished Business'' || Jay-Z & R. Kelly ||- |- | ''Ultimate Jerky Boys'' || The Jerky Boys || Compilation |- | ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins'' || Pavement ||- |- | ''2067'' || Rheostatics ||- |- | ''Still Not Getting Any...'' || Simple Plan || LP & DVD |- | ''Key'' || Son, Ambulance ||- |- | ''Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets'' || Trick Daddy ||- |- | ''Then and Again'' || Voltaire ||- |- | ''Wolfmother'' || Wolfmother || EP |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |29 | ''One Way'' || Selwyn ||- |- |}
November
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="7" valign="top" |1 | ''Interim'' || The Fall || Compilation |- | ''Aha Shake Heartbreak'' || Kings of Leon || UK |- | ''Acoustic'' || John Lennon || Compilation |- | ''Lifeblood'' || Manic Street Preachers ||- |- | ''Live Licks'' || The Rolling Stones || Live |- | ''This is Music: The Singles 92-98'' || The Verve || UK; Compilation |- | ''A Brief History...'' || The Waifs || Australia; Live |- |rowspan="16" valign="top" |2 | ''Dead Eyes See No Future'' || Arch Enemy || EP |- | ''Live!'' || Catch 22 || Live |- | ''Closure EP'' || Everclear || EP/Compilation |- | ''Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970'' || Jethro Tull || Live |- | ''Live at St. Ann's Warehouse'' || Aimee Mann || Live |- | ''One'' || Neal Morse ||- |- | ''Devotion'' || Newsboys ||- |- | ''eMOTIVe'' || A Perfect Circle || Covers album |- | ''Reise, Reise'' || Rammstein ||- |- | ''Mmhmm'' || Relient K ||- |- | ''Alive at Last'' || Train || Live |- | ''Singles'' || Travis || Compilation |- | ''Adicción, Tradición, Revolución'' || Voodoo Glow Skulls ||- |- | ''My Brother & Me'' || Ying Yang Twins || Compilation |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! 17'' (U.S. series) || Various Artists || Compilation |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! DVD 2'' (U.S. series) || Various Artist || DVD/Compilation |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |7 | ''The Beginning and the End'' || Bizzy Bone ||- |- | ''Mistaken Identity'' || Delta Goodrem ||- |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |8 | ''Second First Impression'' || Daniel Bedingfield ||- |- | ''R.U.L.E.'' || Ja Rule ||- |- | ''Live! Thirty Days Ago'' || Phoenix || Live |- | ''Allow Us to Be Frank'' || Westlife || Covers album |- | ''Wet Wet Wet: The Greatest Hits'' || Wet Wet Wet || Compilation |- |rowspan="16" valign="top" |9 | ''Mexico En La Piel'' || Luis Miguel ||- |- | ''Number Ones'' || Bee Gees || Compilation |- | ''Harmonium'' || Vanessa Carlton ||- |- | ''The Tigers Have Spoken'' || Neko Case || Live |- | ''Real Talk'' || Fabolous ||- |- | ''Horn of Plenty || Grizzly Bear ||- |- | ''Occasus'' || The Amenta ||- |- | ''Peachtree Road'' || Elton John ||- |- | ''The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!)'' || NOFX || Compilation |- | ''Home Movies'' || Pennywise || Re-issue; DVD |- | ''Vulture Street'' || Powderfinger || US |- | ''Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'' || Britney Spears || Compilation & DVD |- | ''All In'' || Stroke 9 ||- |- | ''Greatest Hits'' || Shania Twain || Compilation |- | ''Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl'' || Queen || US; Live LP & DVD |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |12 | ''Encore'' || Eminem ||- |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |15 | ''Best of Blue'' || Blue || UK; Compilation |- | ''This is Music: The Singles 92-98'' || The Verve || US; Compilation |- | ''The Silent Force'' || Within Temptation ||- |- | ''Now That's What I Call Music! 59'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation |- |rowspan="18" valign="top" |16 | ''Merry Christmas with Love'' || Clay Aiken || Christmas |- | ''The Capitol Albums, Volume 1'' || The Beatles || Box Set |- | ''100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong'' || Bon Jovi || Box Set |- | ''Greatest Hits'' || Bone Thugs-n-Harmony || Compilation |- | ''The Ransom EP'' || Cartel || EP |- | ''Powerballin''' || Chingy ||- |- | ''Youth'' || Collective Soul ||- |- | ''Destiny Fulfilled'' || Destiny's Child ||- |- | ''Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection'' || Michael Jackson || Box Set |- | ''The Kottonmouth Xperience'' || Kottonmouth Kings ||- |- | ''The Best of Mandy Moore'' || Mandy Moore || Compilation |- | ''The Popsicle EP'' || Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer || EP |- | ''rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003)'' || Pearl Jam || Compilation |- | ''aMOTION'' || A Perfect Circle || LP & DVD |- | ''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'' || Puffy AmiYumi || Compilation |- | ''Our Worlds Divorce'' || This Providence ||- |- | ''Want Two'' || Rufus Wainwright ||- |- | ''Greatest Hits'' || Neil Young || Compilation |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |22 | ''Greatest Hits'' || Creed || Compilation |- | ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'' || U2 ||- |- |rowspan="18" valign="top" |23 | ''The Greater of Two Evils'' || Anthrax || Compilation |- | ''So Cold'' || Breaking Benjamin || EP |- | ''Anywhere But Home'' || Evanescence || Live |- | ''Free Yourself'' || Fantasia ||- |- | ''A Sphere in the Heart of Silence'' || John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer ||- |- | ''Live in Buffalo: July 4th 2004'' || Goo Goo Dolls || Live |- | ''Family Style'' || Jet || DVD |- | ''At Last...The Duets Album'' || Kenny G || Covers album |- | ''Lonely Runs Both Ways'' || Alison Krauss & Union Station ||- |- | ''The Red Light District'' || Ludacris ||- |- | ''Ultimate Kylie'' || Kylie Minogue || Compilation |- | ''With the Lights Out'' || Nirvana || Box Set |- | ''Play Around the Christmas Tree'' || Play || Christmas |- | ''Rejoyce: The Christmas Album'' || Jessica Simpson || Christmas |- | ''R&G; (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece'' || Snoop Dogg ||- |- | ''I Need an Angel'' || Ruben Studdard ||- |- | ''Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'' || Gwen Stefani || Solo debut |- | ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'' || U2 ||- |- |rowspan="4" valign="top" |29 | ''Three Imaginary Boys: Deluxe Edition'' || The Cure || Re-issue |- | ''Irish Son'' || Brian McFadden || Solo debut |- | ''Platinum Collection'' || Genesis || Box Set |- | ''Downside Up'' || Siouxsie and the Banshees || Box Set |- |rowspan="5" valign="top" |30 | ''Collision Course'' || Linkin Park and Jay-Z || EP & DVD |- | ''Breakaway'' || Kelly Clarkson ||- |- | ''Head for the Door'' || The Exies ||- |- | ''Street's Disciple'' || Nas ||- |- | ''Urban Legend'' || T.I. ||- |- |}
December
{|class="wikitable" !Day !Album !Artist !Notes |- |rowspan="1" valign="top" |6 | ''Invisible'' || Nightingale ||- |- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |7 | ''Purple Haze'' || Cam'ron ||- |- | ''Speak'' || Lindsay Lohan ||- |- | '' The Dirtiest Thirstiest '' || Yung Wun |- |rowspan="1" valign"top" |9 | ''Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge'' || U2 || Live EP; iTunes |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |10 | ''Artist Collection: Run DMC'' || Run-D.M.C. || Compilation |- | ''Almanac'' || They Might Be Giants || Live |- | ''Venue Songs'' || They Might Be Giants || Live |- |rowspan="2" valign="top" |13 | ''For You'' || Casey Donovan ||- |- | ''Eye To The Telescope'' || KT Tunstall ||- |- |rowspan="3" valign="top" |14 | ''Loyal to the Game'' || 2Pac ||- |- | ''Concrete Rose'' || Ashanti ||- |- | ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'' || Xzibit ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign"top" |21 | ''The Mind of Mannie Fresh'' || Mannie Fresh ||- |- |rowspan="1" valign"top" |28 | ''300 Lésions'' || Kyo ||- |}
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Top hits
Top 10 selling albums of the year in the US
# Confessions / Usher ~ 7,978,594 # Under My Skin / Avril Lavigne ~ 6,970,000 # In The Zone / Britney Spears~ 4,535,102 # Encore / Eminem ~ 3,917,097 # Feels like Home / Norah Jones ~ 3,842,920 # Autobiography / Ashlee Simpson ~ 3,534,912 # When the Sun Goes Down / Kenny Chesney ~ 3,072,224 # Here for the Party / Gretchen Wilson ~ 2,931,097 # Live Like You Were Dying / Tim McGraw ~ 2,786,840 # Songs About Jane / Maroon 5 ~ 2,708,415
Top 15 selling albums of the year globally
# Confessions – Usher # Under My Skin – Avril Lavigne # Encore – Eminen # Love. Angel. Music. Baby. – Gwen Stefani # Feels Like Home – Norah Jones # Greatest Hits – Robbie Williams # Greatest Hits – Shania Twain # Destiny Fulfilled – Destiny's Child # Greatest Hits – Guns N' Roses # Songs About Jane – Maroon 5 # American Idiot – Green Day # Elephunk – The Black Eyed Peas # Greatest Hits: My Prerogative – Britney Spears # Here for the Party – Gretchen Wilson # Anastacia – Anastacia
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Awards
The following artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Jackson Browne, The Dells, George Harrison, Prince, Bob Seger, Traffic, Z Z Top
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BRIT Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
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Jordan Roseman (aka DJ Earworm) is a San Francisco/London-based mashup artist who has achieved recognition for his technically sophisticated, songwriting oriented music and video mashups. His annual “United State of Pop” mashups, short mixes featuring the top 25 songs of the year according to Billboard magazine, have reached the Top 100 for national radio play.
"Irreplaceable"- Beyonce
" Umbrella"- Rihanna ft. Jay-z
"The Sweet Escape"- Gwen Stefani ft. Akon
"Big Girls Don't Cry"- Fergie
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"- T-Pain ft. Young Joc
"Before He Cheats"- Carrie Underwood
"Hey There Delilah"- Plain White T's
" I Wanna Love You"- Akon ft. Snoop Dogg
"Say It Right"- Nelly Furtado
" Glamorous"- Fergie ft. Ludacris
"Don't Matter"- Akon
" Girlfriend"- Avril Lavigne
"Makes Me Wonder"- Maroon 5
"Party Like a Rockstar"- Shop Boyz
"Smack That"- Akon ft. Eminem
"This Is Why I'm Hot"- Mims
" It's Not Over"- Daughtry
"The Way I Are"- Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson
"Fergalicious"- Fergie
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)*- Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
" Give It to Me"- Timbaland with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado
"What Goes Around... Comes Around"- Justin Timberlake
"Cupid's Chokehold"- Gym Class Heroes ft. Patrick Stump
" How to Save a Life"- The Fray
" Home"- Daughtry
" Low"- Flo Rida ft. T-Pain
"Bleeding Love"- Leona Lewis
" No One"- Alicia Keys
" Lollipop"- Lil Wayne ft. Static Major
" Apologize"- One Republic ft. Timbaland
"No Air"- Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
" Love Song"- Sara Bareilles
"Love in This Club"- Usher ft.Young Jeezy
" With You"- Chris Brown
" Forever"- Chris Brown
"Sexy Can I"- Ray J ft. Young Berg
" Take a Bow"- Rihanna
"Viva La Vida"- Coldplay
"I Kissed a Girl"- Katy Perry
" Whatever You Like"-T.I.
"Disturbia"- Rihanna
" Don't Stop the Music"- Rihanna
" Pocketful of Sunshine"- Natasha Bedingfield
" Kiss Kiss"- Chris Brown ft. T-pain
" Closer"- Ne-Yo
"Bubbly"- Colbie Caillat
"Touch My Body"- Mariah Carey
" 4 Minutes "- Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake
" So What"- Pink
"Paralyzer"- Finger Eleven
"Boom Boom Pow"- The Black Eyed Peas
" Poker Face"- Lady Gaga
"Just Dance"- Lady Gaga ft.Colby O'Donis
"I Gotta Feeling"- Black Eyed Peas
" Love Story"- Taylor Swift
"Right Round"- Flo Rida ft. Kesha
" I'm Yours"- Jason Mraz
"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)"- Beyonce
" Heartless"- Kanye West
"Gives You Hell"- All-American Rejects
"You Belong with Me"- Taylor Swift
"Dead and Gone"- T.I ft. Justin Timberlake
"You Found Me"- The Fray
"Use Somebody"- Kings of Leon
"Knock You Down"- Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo
"Blame It"- Jamie Foxx ft. T-Pain
"I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"- Pitbull
"Live Your Life"- T.I ft. Rihanna
"Kiss Me Thru the Phone"- Soulja Boy Tell 'Em ft. Sammie
" Down"- Jay Sean ft. Lil Wayne
"The Climb"- Miley Cyrus
" Best I Ever Had"- Drake
"My Life Would Suck Without You"- Kelly Clarkson
" Halo"- Beyonce
"Hot n Cold"- Katy Perry
"Tik Tok"- Kesha
"Need You Now"- Lady Antebellum
"Hey, Soul Sister"- Train
"California Gurls"- Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg
" OMG"-Usher ft. Will.I.Am
"Airplanes"-B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams
"Love the Way You Lie"- Eminem ft. Rihanna
"Bad Romance"-Lady Gaga
" Dynamite"- Taio Cruz
"Break Your Heart"- Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris
"Nothin' on You"- B.o.B ft. Bruno Mars
" I Like It"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull
"BedRock"-Young Money Entertainment ft. Lloyd
" In My Head"- Jason Derülo
"Rude Boy"- Rihanna
" Telephone"- Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce
"Teenage Dream"- Katy Perry
"Just The Way You Are"- Bruno Mars
"Cooler Than Me"- Mike Posner
"Imma Be"- The Black Eyed Peas
"Empire State of Mind"- Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys
"DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love"- Usher ft. Pitbull
"Billionaire"- Travie McCoy ft. Bruno Mars
"Not Afraid"-Eminem
"Replay"- Iyaz
DJ Earworm Homepage
Biography
Roseman was born into a big family of musicians and raised in eastern Iowa and Evanston, Illinois. In his early life, he played piano and produced original electronic music on a computer, later majoring in music theory and computer science at the University of Illinois. He began making mashups recreationally in 2003 using ACID. After encouragement from DJ Adrian at Club Bootie, Roseman created the moniker DJ Earworm ("earworm" referencing a song that repeats uncontrollably in one's mind) and began releasing mashups via a website.DJ Earworm has a unique mashup style that consists of a compositional, songwriting approach. He gradually layers samples on top of one another, matching keys and subtly altering melodies. His mashups often convey an entirely new meaning than the original material, such as a political message in “No More Gas”. He has been contrasted with mashup artist Girl Talk, who has a more DJ-oriented style.
He is the author of ''Audio Mashup Construction Kit'' (Wiley, 2006), a how-to manual for creating mashups.
At the 2008 IDEA conference, he revealed that he has made mashups using Ableton Live₨, and now DJs live with the same software.
"United State of Pop" series
2007
Earworm's 2007 mashup, "United State of Pop” consisted of the top 25 songs of 2007 according to ''Billboard''. The song crossed beyond the online download market, reaching the Top 100 for national radio play in February 2008. Earworm is the first mashup artist to have a bootleg mashup enter Billboard’s charts. As of August 12, 2011, the song has surpassed 4.5 million views on YouTube, and it has peaked at number 71 on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart.Mix Includes:
2008
On December 25, 2008 he released another mashup called "United State of Pop 2008 (Viva la Pop)", prominently featuring Coldplay's song "Viva la Vida" as the backing track, and an intro by Natasha Bedingfield's Pocketful of Sunshine beat. The official YouTube video of the song had 200,000 views within the first two weeks of release. The mashup peaked at number 58 on ''Billboard'''s Pop Airplay chart, and entered the Pop 100 chart. As of August 12, 2011, the video has received over 9.2 million views on YouTube, and it has peaked at number 81 on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart.Mix Includes:
2009
On December 27, 2009 he released a third year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame it on the Pop)". The music video has reached over 38.5 million views as of August 17, 2011.Mix Includes:
2010
On December 28, 2010 he released the fourth year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2010 (Don't Stop the Pop) includes the top 25 singles of 2010. The music video has reached over 12.7 million views as of August 17, 2011.Mix Includes:
2011
The fifth year-end mashup is set to be released in December 2011.*The Billboard Hot 100 Chart contacted DJ Earworm early, due to his mashups coming out so late. They gave him the official top 25 songs of 2011:" Rolling In The Deep"- Adele "Firework"- Katy Perry "Party Rock Anthem"- LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & GoodRock "Grenade"- Bruno Mars "E.T"-Katy Perry ft. Kanye West "Give Me Everything"-Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo & Nayer "Born This Way"- Lady Gaga "F**k You"-Cee Lo Green "F**king Perfect"- P!nk "S&M;"- Rihanna "Raise Your Glass"- P!nk "Tonight(I'm Lovin'You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris "The Edge Of Glory"-Lady Gaga "Lighters"- Bad Meets Evil ft. Bruno Mars "What's My Name"- Rihanna ft. Drake "Just Can't Get Enough"- The Black Eyed Peas "Till The World Ends"- Britney Spears "Last Friday Night(T.G.I.F)"- Katy Perry "On The Floor"- Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull "Black & Yellow"- Wiz Khalifa "Super Bass"- Nicki Minaj "The Lazy Song"- Bruno Mars "We R Who We R"- Kesha "How To Love"- Lil Wayne "Only Girl(In The World)"- Rihanna
Official Mashups
While most mashup artists must rely on bootleg samples and public releases to make mashups, Earworm has been contacted by prominent musicians to make mashups from their source material. DJ Earworm was given multitracks by Annie Lennox to create a unique mashup piece called "Backwards/Forwards," which contains nine of her songs.On September 12, 2009, Earworm released an official Sean Kingston mashup called "A Beautiful Mashup."
Like OMG, Baby
"Like OMG, Baby", released in the summer of 2010, was shown as part of a concert at Wembley Stadium in London for Capital FM's Summertime Ball, where all fifteen of the featured artists performed. The mashup is Earworm's fourth song to chart on the CHR/Top 40 ''Mediabase'' radio chart, where it peaked at number 83. As of August 8, 2011, the video has received 10.2 million views and counting on YouTube, making it by far his most popular non-United State of Pop mashup and surpassing the 2008 year-end video. In 2011 the song was honored with two Sony Radio Academy Awards. Here is the list of songs used: #Alexandra Burke - All Night Long #Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love #Chipmunk feat. Esmee Denters - Until You Were Gone #Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers #Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed #Jason Derulo - In My Head #JLS - One Shot #Justin Bieber - Baby #Ke$ha - Tik Tok #Pixie Lott - Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) #Rihanna - Rude Boy #Scouting For Girls - This Ain't a Love Song #Tinie Tempah - Pass Out #Usher feat. Will.I.Am - OMG #The Wanted - All Time Low
Free At Night
On December 10, 2010, Earworm released a Nelly Furtado mashup titled "Free At Night", composed of 13 songs from Furtado's recent greatest hits album, The Best of Nelly Furtado. The music video has over 541,000 views as of August 8, 2011. Here is the list of songs used: #I'm Like a Bird #Turn Off the Light #Powerless (Say What You Want) #Try #Força #Promiscuous #Maneater #Say It Right #All Good Things (Come To An End) #Girlfriend in This City #Night Is Young #Stars #Manos al Aire
The Only Time is Tonight
To promote YouTube's Android app, Earworm released a mashup called "The Only Time is Tonight". The mashup heavily used Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" instrumental and vocals. It was released on May 31, 2011 on YouTube's official account. As of August 22, 2011, the video has reached over 1.5 million views. Here is the list of songs used: #Avril Lavigne - What the Hell #Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) #Chris Brown - Yeah 3x #Enrique Iglesias - Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) #Kesha - We R Who We R #Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) #Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
Party on the Floor
After 2010's "Like OMG, Baby", Earworm released the 2011 version. He released it on June 12, 2011. It is entitled, "Party On The Floor". As of August 23, 2011, the music video has reached over 3 million views. This mash up was used at the start of the Capital FM summertime ball 2011 at Wembley Stadium. Here are the songs used: #Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On the Floor #Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude #Jessie J feat. B.o.B.- Price Tag #LMFAO feat. Lauren Barrett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem #Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath #Example - Changed the Way You Kiss Me #Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me #Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster #The Wanted - Glad You Came #Far East Movement feat. The Cataracs & Dev - Like A G6 #JLS feat. Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut #JLS - Love You More #Katy B - Katy on a Mission #Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite - Lights On #Cee-Lo Green - Forget You #Cee-Lo Green feat. Wiz Khalifa - Bright Lights, Bigger City #Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I Like It #Wretch 32 - Traktor #Mann - Buzzin'
References
External links
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| name | Tiësto |
|---|---|
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| birth name | Tijs Michiel Verwest |
| alias | DJ Tiësto, Allure, Da Joker, Drumfire, Handover Circuit, Paradise In Dubs, Passenger, Roze, Steve Forte Rio, Stray Dog, Tom Ace, Wild Bunch |
| born | January 17, 1969Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands |
| genre | Electronic dance, trance, progressive trance, electro house, house |
| occupation | Musician, disc jockey, record producer |
| years active | 1994–present |
| label | Noculan (1994)Basic Beat (1994–1997)Lightning (1995–1996)XSV Music (1997)Black Hole (1997–2009)Ultra Records (2007-present)Musical Freedom (2009–present) |
| associated acts | Current: Jedidja, Clear View, TaxigirlFormer: Gouryella, Kamaya Painters (more) |
| website | |
| notable instruments | }} |
Tijs Michiel Verwest, (; born 17 January 1969), known as Tiësto (), is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto. On his latest productions, however, he has dropped the "DJ" label and is now known simply as "Tiësto", an alias which is a twist of his childhood nickname.
In 1997, he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink, where he released the ''Magik'' and ''In Search of Sunrise'' CD series. Tiësto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in 1998, and the two have worked together extensively since then. Reijers is credited as producer, writer, composer, or arranger on many of Tiësto's releases. Then, in 1999 and 2000 he collaborated with Ferry Corsten to create Gouryella. His 2000 remix of Delerium's "Silence" featuring Sarah McLachlan exposed him to more mainstream audiences. In 2001, he released his first solo album ''In My Memory'' which gave him several major hits that launched his career. He was named "World’s No.1 DJ" 3 consecutive times by DJ Magazine from 2002 through 2004.
Just after releasing his second studio album ''Just Be'' in 2004 at the Summer Olympics, he performed live at the opening ceremony in Athens, Greece, becoming the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympics. Tracks he made especially for the Olympics were mixed together and released as the mix compilation ''Parade of the Athletes'' later that year. In April 2007 Tiësto launched both his radio show ''Tiësto's Club Life'' on Radio 538 in the Netherlands and released his third studio album titled ''Elements of Life''. The album reached number one on the Dutch album chart as well on "Billboard Top Electronic Albums" in the U.S. and received a nomination for a Grammy Award in 2008. Tiësto released his fourth studio album called ''Kaleidoscope'' in October 2009.
Life and musical career
Early life and career
Tijs Michiel Verwest was born in Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands on January 17, 1969. He had an interest in music since the age of twelve. When he was fourteen he decided to dedicate more time to it and began DJing professionally at school parties. He then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985 and 1994 at several clubs in the Netherlands after his manager and friend Wilfred encouraged him. However, it was at ''The Spock'', a small club in Breda, where he was able to fine-tune his own style by playing in a separate room from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. on weekends. In the beginning of his career, as a DJ he played mostly New Beat and acid house.In 1994, he began releasing material on Noculan Records' sub-labels Chemo and Coolman. During these years, he produced hardcore/gabber tracks under aliases such as Da Joker and DJ Limited. He was later discovered by the general manager of Rotterdam-based Basic Beat Recordings. In late 1994, he signed to Basic Beat where he met Arny Bink, Tiësto released records on the sub-label Trashcan, founded by Arny, and later created the Guardian Angel sub-label with Arny in which they introduced the popular Forbidden Paradise series. Meanwhile from 1995 to 1996 he released four extended plays on Bonzai Jumps and XTC, sub-labels of Lightning Records. In 1997, Tiësto joined his friend Yves Vandichel on his sub-label, DJ Yves, a division of the now defunct Human Resource label XSV Music. In the fall of 1997, both Arny and Tiësto decided to leave Basic Beat and create their own parent label, now known as Black Hole Recordings, Trashcan was discontinued and Guardian Angel continued releasing music until 2002. Through Black Hole, Tiësto released the ''Magik'' series and also created two major sub-labels in 1998; In Trance We Trust and SongBird.
From 1998 to 1999, Tiësto released music on Planetary Consciousness where he met A&R; Hardy Heller and invited him to release some records on Black Hole. Tiësto later included the ''In Search of Sunrise'' series on SongBird. In 1999, Tiësto joined forces with fellow Dutch deejay Ferry Corsten to create the trance based duo of Gouryella. He also collaborated with Benno de Goeij from 1998 to 2000 under the name Kamaya Painters. Since November 1999, he performed monthly as a resident at Gatecrasher in Sheffield, one of the most popular clubs in England. In 1999 he also played in a 12-hour set, being his longest lasting concert in Amsterdam.
Late in 2000, Tiësto decided to concentrate on his personal work and left Corsten by himself to write and produce Gouryella's next single with John Ewbank, the record company was demanding more tracks and neither Tiësto or Ferry could work together at the time. Tiësto introduced Armin van Buuren, Johan Gielen and Ferry Corsten to the mainstream with his first compilations and the ''In Trance We Trust'' series. ''Summerbreeze'' became Tiësto's debut DJ mix album in the US with the help of a contract signed to Nettwerk. ''Summerbreeze'' featured his remix of Delerium's "Silence", which spent four weeks in the UK's Top Ten chart and reached number three in the ''Billboard'' dance chart. ''In Search of Sunrise 2'' was released in 2000. Tiësto decided to create a sub-label, known as Magik Muzik. The label began releasing Tiësto’s own releases, but it has also released tracks for the Filterheadz, Oliver Lieb, Mark Norman, Mojado, Phynn and Jes Brieden. The label became a trademark that stands for high quality electronic dance music which was due to the release of Tiësto's classic dance anthem "Flight 643" in 2001.
''In My Memory'' era (2001–2004)
Tiësto's fame started to rise in the early 2000s after his set at the first ID&T; Innercity party (''Live at Innercity: Amsterdam RAI''), and the release of ''In My Memory'', his first solo album released in 2001 which contained 10 singles and 5 major hits; The singles from the album were: "Lethal Industry" which was actually produced in 1999 and had only 3 copies released at that time, the track was officially released in 2001 which was remixed by Richard Durand in 2006 along with "Flight 643" which was another leading single that was later adapted with vocals by Suzanne Palmer and released as "643 (Love's on Fire)". Other tracks were "Obsession" in which Tiësto worked alongside Junkie XL, the instrumental tracks "Dallas 4PM" and "Suburban Train" with "Urban Train" as its B-Side which contained some vocals. The last singles to be released were "In My Memory" which is the title track for the album as it only received high ratings in the United States and the opening track "Magik Journey" which opened Tiësto in Concert (2003). On February 2, 2002 Tiësto played nine consecutive hours during the second edition of the Dutch Dimension festival. On February 27 he was awarded a Zilveren ('Silver') Harp music award. The same year he also received a Lucky Strike Dance Award in the category Best DJ Trance/Progressive. In August he became part of Moby's Area2 Tour. For eighteen days he travelled through the United States with artists such as Moby himself, but also David Bowie and Busta Rhymes. In January 2003, Tiësto received the annual Dutch Popprijs ('Pop Award') during the Noorderslag festival. After touring with Moby, Tiësto remixed two songs from him, "We Are All Made of Stars" and "Extreme Ways" in the same year, having "We Are All Made of Stars" reach number 13 in the Hot Dance Club Play. In 2002 he released his first ''In Search of Sunrise'' mix to feature a place on its name, ''In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama''. On March 28, 2003; Tiësto, Dieselboy, Bad Boy Bill, and Noel Sanger joined the PlayStation2 Dual Play tour. Tiësto and Noel's appearance began on April 13 and ended on June 6.His fame continued to skyrocket in the early 2000s, following his six-hour "Tiësto Solo" sets which he performed without other DJs or opening acts. This idea, of one DJ playing alone to a large crowd, was brought to its pinnacle when Tiësto was the first DJ to hold a solo concert in a stadium; on May 10, 2003, he performed for over 25,000 people in Arnhem's GelreDome. This concert was later called ''Tiësto in Concert'', the event was an enormous success. He repeated the same type of concert the following year during two consecutive nights in late October. In addition to holding these two concerts for 35,000 of his fans, he held another concert for a crowd of 20,000 in Hasselt, Belgium the following week. DVDs of both his May 10, 2003 and October 30, 2004 concerts have been released, having the other DVD titled ''Tiësto in Concert 2''. The DVD's show the journey from the first idea to the main event, it features live performances by Andain, Dinand Woesthoff, and Jan Johnston. The event includes live music and dancers performing at different times throughout the set. The theme of the event is a mystical, musical journey around the world based on the theme of ''Magik''. It consists of 200+ minutes of performances with a second disc with special features, It includes a behind-the-scenes looking at ''The Making Of the event'', the music video for his song "Traffic" and TV Commercials for the event. The second DVD has performances from Aqualung and violin player DJ Mason, Micha Klein and the Bulgarian Children of Orpheus choir. During this period, he was crowned as "No. 1. DJ in the World" by DJ Magazine (UK) in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
''Just Be'' era (2004–2007)
In 2004, he released his second artist album ''Just Be'', which featured his first single "Traffic" which is the first non-vocal track to reach number one spot in the Dutch national charts for 23 years. The track "Sweet Misery" was originally written for Evanescence but it did not meet the deadline for the release of their album. In support to his ''Just Be'' album, he played at Breda, Eindhoven, Utrecht, and Amsterdam; these stops were later named Just Be: Train Tour. On May 20, 2004 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
The Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC) asked Tiësto to perform at the Olympic Games, making him the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens, where he played for 90 minutes. Tiësto flew to Athens in January 2004 to have a meeting with the ATHOC. His ''Tiësto in Concert'' DVD caught their attention, after which he was asked to write more tracks based on his opening tune "Adagio for Strings" which could fit in with the Olympic spirit and combine the classical with the modern age; They also requested that he play his own produced music. The first rehearsal was on Saturday August, 7, for an empty stadium; the second rehearsal was on Sunday August 8 with 35,000 volunteers, a lot of the people recognised some tracks like "Traffic" and "Adagio for Strings". The last rehearsal included almost 60,000 people in the stadium which was on Tuesday August 10, there were some technical problems, the mixer broke down, the monitors dropped out a couple of times and the music in the stadium was not continuously on the right volume.
During the parade on Friday, August 13, 2004, all participating nations introduced their athletes—10,500 in total There were 80,000 spectators, only 75,000 knowing about dance music. During the course of his performance the Dutch athletes started dancing in front of the DJ booth and had to be moved on by officials. The performance included new tracks produced especially for the Opening Ceremony and songs that were created to complement the spirit and theme of the ceremony. A condensed studio-recorded album of the songs played on the Olympic set was later released, including new songs specially composed for the occasion, entitled ''Parade of the Athletes'' in October 2004. In the liner notes, he noted the IOC requested that the music not contain any lyrics as they could be inadvertently misinterpreted.
In late 2004, he began his touring across Latin America, with his release of ''In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama'' in which he gained influence from the sun and sand in summer 2002. The tour continued in 2005, and Tiësto performed live at Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. Following the tours, ''In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin America'' was released in 2005, featuring a second CD for the first time in the ''In Search of Sunrise'' series.
In 2005, his ''Perfect Remixes Vol. 3'' compilation was released through Warlock Records, containing ten tracks which were created during the beginning of his career, between those is Junkie XL, Mauro Picotto and The Roc Project. On August 20, 2005, Verwest took ''Tiësto in Concert'' to the US when he played to 16,000 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena with Cirque du Soleil dancers. For the second year in a row he performed live at a New Year's Eve/New Year's concert in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Orleans Arena to a sell-out crowd. Despite his four-city US tour being postponed due to the hurricane damage in New Orleans and Miami, playing such cities further expanded and cemented his popularity among mainstream audiences. This was surpassed later in summer 2007 when some 250,000 danced on Ipanema Beach, Brazil, becoming the second largest concert in history. BPM magazine has an annual poll in the US which is unveiled in the WMC, in 2005 Tiësto took the No. 1 spot. The influences of Los Angeles remained with him and would later influence his ''In Search of Sunrise'' compilation.
A wax sculpture of Tiësto was placed behind a turntable at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam where visitors can mix Tiësto's music together. In the fall of 2005 he went on a very successful tour across Central and Eastern Europe where he played once in each country to crowds of 10,000 to 15,000 fans. Stops were made in Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, Poland and South Africa. The United States tour that was part of ''Tiësto in Concert'' was dwarfed by his appearance at Sensation White in 2006 where he performed to over 45,000 people in the world's biggest dance event in Amsterdam, Holland.
''In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles'' was released in 2006 which was certified Gold in Canada for sales over 50,000 copies. It also charted, peaking at number 34 in Canada and number 59 in Austria. The compilation was launched in the Winter Music Conference at Mansion in South Beach Miami to support his release, Tiësto went on his In Search of Sunrise 5 Asia Tour for more than three weeks.
In September 2006, Tiësto was admitted to hospital after experiencing pain in his chest. He was diagnosed with pericarditis and subsequently had to cancel a number of shows. With the diagnosis, he was invited to support Dance4Life to help teens who are not aware of the risks of HIV/AIDS. He was chosen as the official ambassador for the Dance4Life foundation in May 2006, and released the song "Dance4Life" with Maxi Jazz to help spread the awareness of HIV/AIDS.
On April 6, 2007 Tiësto began presenting a new weekly two-hour radio show called ''Tiësto's Club Life'' on Dutch radio station Radio 538. It is syndicated worldwide and later released as a Podcast.
''Elements of Life'' era (2007–2009)
On April 16, 2007, Tiësto released his third studio album ''Elements of Life'', the album moved 73,000 units in its April release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. During the production of the album Tiësto in several cases sent a demo with the music to certain artists, and they replied back with the lyrics and vocals and other duration times. In the case of Christian Burns from BBMak, Tiësto met him through MySpace and got in contact with him and the production of the single "In the Dark". The album consists of rock, trance and experimental music, which shows the style Tiësto has grown throughout the years since his previous albums which contained lyrics, ''In My Memory'' and ''Just Be''. Producer Brian Transeau collaborated with Tiësto in three tracks, he composed "Bright Morningstar" and "Sweet Things", he also performed the vocals in the single "Break My Fall". Together, they produced more tracks which were not released in the album, Tiësto has mentioned they would work again during the coming summer. In December 2007 it was announced that the album was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the category "Best Electronic/Dance Album." The album also received gold certifications in Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, and Romania. A special release party was held at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on November 3, 2007 for ''In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza''.
His last three full-length releases broke the 70,000 mark, and the 2003 2CD compilation ''Nyana'' recently hit 87,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In support of the album, he embarked on his Elements of Life World Tour which had shows across the world. Tiësto's performance at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 10, 2007 was also sold out. The ''Copenhagen: Elements of Life World Tour'' DVD was released in a party which was held on February 29, 2008 in London at the IndigO2 club.
Tiësto announced his residence at Privilege, officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as being the largest club in the world. He played in Ibiza every Monday, from July 7 until September 22. The gigs consisted of sets in the style of his ''In Search of Sunrise'' series. In 2007, he had released ''In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza'' which was inspired by the island. The residencies also featured the performance of guest deejays, all selected by Tiësto, such as Chris Lake, Andy Duguid, Mat Zo, Cosmic Gate, Alex Kunnari and Sander van Doorn as well as exclusive appearances by Fonzerelli and Airbase.
On April 28, Tiësto released ''Elements of Life: Remixed'', a recompilation of the ''Elements of Life'' album with all songs being replaced by remixed versions. In mid-2008, Tiësto announced his In Search of Sunrise: Summer Tour 2008, which will be presented by Armani Exchange on May in support of his upcoming In Search of Sunrise 7: Asia compilation and the previously released ''In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza''. On August 8, 2008, Tiësto became the first DJ to perform at the famous O2 Arena in London as part of his In Search of Sunrise 7 summer tour, the event was sold out with a capacity of 20,000 people. Earlier that day, Tiësto had performed in-store at Armani Exchange on Regent Street in central London.
A sole production was prepared for Tiësto from June 8 to September 21 for his return at club Privilege for the second year in a row on Monday nights, after a successful year as a resident in 2008. During his time at Privilege he previewed tracks from his upcoming artist album. ''InTheBooth'', the official members-only fansite of Tiësto launched July 17, 2009. On July 31, he was the first DJ to perform for 25,000 people at an exclusive outdoor concert in Victoria Park, London.
''Kaleidoscope'' era (2009–present)
On October 6, 2009, Tiësto released his fourth studio album ''Kaleidoscope'', which featured artists such as Priscilla Ahn, Calvin Harris, Tegan & Sara and Nelly Furtado. Unlike his earlier albums, which were all mostly trance, Kaleidoscope explores other electronic genres, and is considered Tiesto's most experimental album. The first single "I Will Be Here" featuring Sneaky Sound System being released in July 2009. In its first week, the album reached the Top 10 chart on iTunes.To release the album he has set up a new record label called Musical Freedom after parting ways with Black Hole Recordings. Tiësto felt that his music was evolving in a new direction and his focus as an artist was moving away from what Black Hole was set up to support. His new tour, sharing the name of his new album, called Kaleidoscope World Tour commenced in late September.
Tiësto contributed songs to both DJ Hero and DJ Hero 2 video games and is a playable character in the second game. He contributed two exclusive mixes to the second game, and used content from DJ Hero 2 to create the official video for his single 'Speed Rail' - the world's first music video to be created entirely using in-game footage.
Tiësto has produced a trance-flavoured song on Memphis rap duo Three 6 Mafia's upcoming album ''Laws of Power'' called "Feel It," which features Flo Rida and Sean Kingston.
On March 16, 2010, Tiësto released his greatest hits album called ''Magikal Journey: The Hits Collection 1998-2008'', a two disc album focusing on his most famous songs and remixes of his songs.
On April 7, 2010, Tiësto announced that he would start a new compilation series called ''A New Dawn'' with his own label Musical Freedom. In his interview Tiësto furthermore confirmed that he would no longer have any more involvement with Black Hole Recordings.
On August 31, 2010, ''Kaleidoscope: Remixed'' was released, a remix album of his album ''Kaleidoscope''.
On December 11, 2010, Tiësto was one of the headlining acts at ZoukOut 2010, which was held in Singapore at Siloso Beach, Sentosa Island.
On April 4, 2011, his mix compilation ''Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas'' was released.
On June 13, 2011, his studio album ''Kiss from the Past'' was released under his alias Allure.
On August 15, 2011, his single ''Work Hard, Play Hard'' featuring Kay, was released.
Philanthropy
On January 6, 2005, Tiësto performed in an outdoor fundraiser in De Dam, Amsterdam. The event was free, and many famous Dutch artists like Dinand Woesthoff, BLØF, Acda & De Munnik, Di-rect, Berget Lewis, Xander de Buisonjé and Trijntje Oosterhuis were involved in it to provide financial aid to the people who suffered from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Southern and Southeastern Asia. All profits made of all TV commercials and live broadcast were given to the organisations collecting the relief funds.In April 2006, Tiësto was named the official worldwide ambassador for the Dance4Life foundation promoting awareness of HIV/AIDS, as the foundation's ambassador he has helped the organisation with fundraising along with recording the track "Dance4life" that he recorded with Maxi Jazz from Faithless. The foundation consists on a better way of living with safe sex in exchange of entertainment to the young crowd. The song was a huge success, peaking for five weeks in number 3 and eleven consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of the Dutch Singles Chart, it also reached number 5 in Belgium, number 6 in Finland and also charting in the UK and Germany. With the successful release of ''Elements of Life'', Tiësto and fashion designer Giorgio Armani collaborated together on a limited edition Tiësto T-shirt available at Armani Exchange stores. His single "Sweet Things" comes with the shirt including an exclusive "A|X Remix" by Tom Cloud which shows the great influence Tiësto has in fashion culture. The charity raised over US$300,000. On November 29, 2008 artists like Tiësto himself, Sied van Riel, Leon Bolier, Joop, and MC Gunner presented a concert at The Sand, Amsterdam promoted by Dance4Life, the sales from the event will go to the foundation to support next year's Schools4Life project.
Personal life
Until early 2006, Tiësto was in a relationship with Dutch model Monique Spronk. On January 10, 2008, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf announced that Tiësto and his girlfriend Stacey Blokzijl were going to get married on October 10, 2008 in Cartagena, Colombia. He proposed to her in December 2007 while they were visiting Mauritius. Tiësto cancelled his wedding for October 10, because he claimed to have a busy schedule and too little time for the preparations. During Christmas 2008, Blokzijl broke off the engagement due to the constant delays to their wedding.
Discography
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Tours
See also
References
External links
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| birth name | Whitney Elizabeth Houston |
|---|---|
| background | solo_singer |
| birth date | August 09, 1963 |
| birth place | |
| death date | February 11, 2012 |
| death place | |
| instrument | Vocals, piano |
| genre | R&B;, soul, pop, dance, gospel |
| occupation | Singer, actress, model, film producer, record producer, songwriter |
| years active | 1977–2012 |
| label | Arista, RCA |
| associated acts | Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Jermaine Jackson, Mariah Carey, Enrique Iglesias, Bobby Brown |
| website | 130pxWhitney Houston's Autograph }} |
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the ''Guinness World Records'' cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African-American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one ''Billboard'' 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the ''Billboard'' magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album ''Whitney Houston'' became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named ''Rolling Stone''s best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album ''Whitney'' (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart.
Houston's first acting role was as the star of the feature film ''The Bodyguard'' (1992). The film's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Its lead single "I Will Always Love You", became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. With the album, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period under Nielsen SoundScan system. The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the best-selling albums of all time, at number four. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their soundtracks, including the films ''Waiting to Exhale'' (1995) and ''The Preacher's Wife'' (1996). ''The Preacher's Wife'' soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history.
On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, of causes not immediately known. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and featured prominently in American and international media.
Life and career
1963–1976: Early life
Whitney Houston was born in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, the second child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. (September 13, 1920 – February 2, 2003), and gospel singer Cissy Houston (née Emily Drinkard). She was of African American, Native American and Dutch descent. Her mother, along with cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, godmother Darlene Love and honorary aunt Aretha Franklin were all notable figures in the gospel, rhythm and blues, pop, and soul genres. She met her honorary aunt at age 8, or 9, when her mother took her to a recording studio. Houston was raised a Baptist, but was also exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the family moved to a middle-class area in East Orange, New Jersey, when she was four.At the age of 11, Houston began to follow in her mother's footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. Her first solo performance in the church was "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah". When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Caldwell, New Jersey, where she met her best friend Robyn Crawford, whom she described as the "sister she never had". While Houston was still in school, her mother continued to teach her how to sing. In addition to her mother, Franklin, and Warwick, Houston was also exposed to the music of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack, most of whom would have an impact on her as a singer and performer.
1977–1984: Early career
Houston spent some of her teenage years touring nightclubs where her mother Cissy was performing, and she would occasionally get on stage and perform with her. In 1977, at age 14, she became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band's single "Life's a Party". In 1978, at age 15, Houston sang background vocals on Chaka Khan's hit single "I'm Every Woman", a song she would later turn into a larger hit for herself on her monster-selling ''The Bodyguard'' soundtrack album. She also sang back-up on albums by Lou Rawls and Jermaine Jackson.In the early 1980s, Houston started working as a fashion model after a photographer saw her at Carnegie Hall singing with her mother. She appeared in ''Seventeen'' and became one of the first women of color to grace the cover of the magazine. She was also featured in layouts in the pages of ''Glamour'', ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Young Miss'', and appeared in a Canada Dry soft drink TV commercial. Her striking looks and girl-next-door charm made her one of the most sought after teen models of that time. While modeling, she continued her burgeoning recording career by working with producers Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell and Martin Bisi on an album they were spearheading called ''One Down'', which was credited to the group Material. For that project, Houston contributed the ballad "Memories", a cover of a song by Hugh Hopper of Soft Machine. Robert Christgau of ''The Village Voice'' called her contribution "one of the most gorgeous ballads you've ever heard". She also appeared as a lead vocalist on one track on a Paul Jabara album, entitled ''Paul Jabara and Friends'', released by Columbia Records in 1983.
Houston had previously been offered several recording agencies (Michael Zager in 1980, and Elektra Records in 1981), however her mother declined the offers stating her daughter must first complete high school. In 1983, Gerry Griffith, an A&R; representative from Arista Records, saw her performing with her mother in a New York City nightclub and was impressed. He convinced Arista's head Clive Davis to make time to see Houston perform. Davis too was impressed and offered a worldwide recording contract which Houston signed. Later that year, she made her national televised debut alongside Davis on ''The Merv Griffin Show''.
Houston signed with Arista in 1983, but did not begin work on her album immediately. The label wanted to make sure no other label signed the singer away. Davis wanted to ensure he had the right material and producers for Houston's debut album. Some producers had to pass on the project due to prior commitments. Houston first recorded a duet with Teddy Pendergrass entitled "Hold Me" which appeared on his album, ''Love Language''. The single was released in 1984 and gave Houston her first taste of success, becoming a Top 5 R&B; hit. It would also appear on her debut album in 1985.
1985–1986: Rise to international prominence
With production from Michael Masser, Kashif, Jermaine Jackson, and Narada Michael Walden, Houston's debut album ''Whitney Houston'' was released in February 1985. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine praised Houston, calling her "one of the most exciting new voices in years" while ''The New York Times'' called the album "an impressive, musically conservative showcase for an exceptional vocal talent". Arista Records promoted Houston's album with three different singles from the album in the US, UK and other European countries. In the UK, the dance-funk "Someone for Me", which failed to chart in the country, was the first single while "All at Once" was in such European countries as the Netherlands and Belgium, where the song reached the top 5 on the singles charts, respectively.In the US, the soulful ballad "You Give Good Love" was chosen as the lead single from Houston's debut to establish her in the black marketplace first. Outside the US, the song failed to get enough attention to become a hit, but in the US, it gave the album its first major hit as it peaked at No. 3 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and No. 1 on the Hot R&B; chart. As a result, the album began to sell strongly, and Houston continued promotion by touring nightclubs in the US. She also began performing on late-night television talk shows, which were not usually accessible to unestablished black acts. The jazzy ballad "Saving All My Love for You" was released next and it would become Houston's first No. 1 single in both the US and the UK. She was then an opening act for singer Jeffrey Osborne on his nationwide tour. "Thinking About You" was released as the promo single only to R&B-oriented; radio stations, which peaked at number ten on the US R&B; Chart. At the time, MTV had received harsh criticism for not playing enough videos by black, Latino, and other racial minorities while favoring white acts. The third US single, "How Will I Know", peaked at No. 1 and introduced Houston to the MTV audience thanks to its video. Houston's subsequent singles from this, and future albums, would make her the first African-American female artist to receive consistent heavy rotation on MTV.
By 1986, a year after its initial release, ''Whitney Houston'' topped the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart and stayed there for 14 non-consecutive weeks. The final single, "Greatest Love of All", became Houston's biggest hit at the time after peaking No. 1 and remaining there for three weeks on the Hot 100 chart, which made her debut the first album by a female artist to yield three No. 1 hits. Houston was No. 1 artist of the year and ''Whitney Houston'' was the No. 1 album of the year on the 1986 ''Billboard'' year-end charts, making her the first female artist to earn that distinction. At the time, Houston released the best-selling debut album by a solo artist. Houston then embarked on her world tour, ''Greatest Love Tour''. The album had become an international success, and was certified 13× platinum (diamond) in the United States alone, and has sold a total of 25 million copies worldwide.
At the 1986 Grammy Awards, Houston was nominated for three awards including Album of the Year. She was not eligible for the Best New Artist category due to her previous hit R&B; duet recording with Teddy Pendergrass in 1984. She won her first Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for "Saving All My Love for You". Houston's performance of the song during the Grammy telecast later earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.
Houston won seven American Music Awards in total in 1986 and 1987, and an MTV Video Music Award. The album's popularity would also carry over to the 1987 Grammy Awards when "Greatest Love of All" would receive a Record of the Year nomination. Houston's debut album is listed as one of ''Rolling Stone''s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and on The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list. Houston's grand entrance into the music industry is considered one of the 25 musical milestones of the last 25 years, according to ''USA Today''. Following Houston's breakthrough, doors were opened for other African-American female artists such as Janet Jackson and Anita Baker to find notable success in popular music and on MTV.
1987–1991: ''Whitney'', ''I'm Your Baby Tonight'' and "The Star Spangled Banner"
With many expectations, Houston's second album, ''Whitney'', was released in June 1987. The album again featured production from Masser, Kashif and Walden as well as Jellybean Benitez. Many critics complained that the material was too similar to her previous album. ''Rolling Stone'' said, "the narrow channel through which this talent has been directed is frustrating". Still, the album enjoyed commercial success. Houston became the first female artist in music history to debut at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart, and the first artist to enter the albums chart at number one in both the US and UK, while also hitting number one or top ten in dozens of other countries around the world. The album's first single, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", was also a massive hit worldwide, peaking at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and topping the singles chart in many countries such as Australia, Germany and the UK. The next three singles, "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional", and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" all peaked at number one on the US Hot 100 chart, which gave her a total of seven consecutive number one hits, breaking the record of six previously shared by The Beatles and The Bee Gees. Houston became the first female artist to generate four number-one singles from one album. ''Whitney'' has been certified 9× Platinum in the US for shipments of over 9 million copies, and has sold a total of 20 million copies worldwide.At the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988, Houston was nominated for three awards, including Album of the Year, winning her second Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)". Houston also won two American Music Awards in 1988 and 1989, respectively, and a Soul Train Music Award. Following the release of the album, Houston embarked on the ''Moment of Truth World Tour'', which was one of the ten highest grossing concert tours of 1987. The success of the tours during 1986–87 and her two studio albums ranked Houston No. 8 for the highest earning entertainers list according to ''Forbes'' magazine. She was the highest earning African-American woman overall and the third highest entertainer after Bill Cosby and Eddie Murphy.
Houston was a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement. During her modeling days, the singer refused to work with any agencies who did business with the then-apartheid South Africa. On June 11, 1988, during the European leg of her tour, Houston joined other musicians to perform a set at Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate a then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday. Over 72,000 people attended Wembley Stadium, and over a billion people tuned in worldwide as the rock concert raised over $1 million for charities while bringing awareness to apartheid. Houston then flew back to the US for a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City in August. The show was a benefit concert that raised a quarter of a million dollars for the United Negro College Fund. In the same year, she recorded a song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, "One Moment in Time", which became a Top 5 hit in the US, while reaching number one in the UK and Germany. With her world tour continuing overseas, Houston was still one of the top 20 highest earning entertainers for 1987–88 according to ''Forbes'' magazine.
In 1989, Houston formed The Whitney Houston Foundation For Children, a non-profit organization that has raised funds for the needs of children around the world. The organization cares for homelessness, children with cancer or AIDS, and other issues of self-empowerment. With the success of her first two albums, Houston was undoubtedly an international crossover superstar, the most prominent since Michael Jackson, appealing to all demographics. However, some black critics believed she was "selling out". They felt her singing on record lacked the soul that was present during her live concerts.
At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, when Houston's name was called out for a nomination, a few in the audience jeered. Houston defended herself against the criticism, stating, "If you're gonna have a long career, there's a certain way to do it, and I did it that way. I'm not ashamed of it". Houston took a more urban direction with her third studio album, ''I'm Your Baby Tonight'', released in November 1990. She produced and chose producers for this album and as a result, it featured production and collaborations with L.A. Reid and Babyface, Luther Vandross, and Stevie Wonder. The album showed Houston's versatility on a new batch of tough rhythmic grooves, soulful ballads and up-tempo dance tracks. Reviews were mixed. ''Rolling Stone'' felt it was her "best and most integrated album". while ''Entertainment Weekly'', at the time thought Houston's shift towards an urban direction was "superficial".
The album contained several hits: the first two singles, "I'm Your Baby Tonight" and "All the Man That I Need" peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart; "Miracle" peaked at number nine; "My Name Is Not Susan" peaked in the top twenty; "I Belong to You" reached the top ten of the US R&B; chart and garnered Houston a Grammy nomination; and the sixth single, the Stevie Wonder duet "We Didn't Know", reached the R&B; top twenty. The album peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200 and went on to be certified 4× platinum in the US while selling twelve million total worldwide.
In 1990, Houston was the spokesperson for a youth leadership conference hosted in Washington, D.C. She had a private audience with President George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office to discuss the associated challenges.
With America entangled in the Persian Gulf War, Houston performed "The Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991. Due to overwhelming response to her rendition, it was released as a commercial single and video of her performance, and reached the Top 20 on the US Hot 100, making her the only act to turn the national anthem into a pop hit of that magnitude (Jose Feliciano's version reached No. 50 in November 1968). Houston donated all her share of the proceeds to the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund. As a result, the singer was named to the Red Cross Board of Governors.
Her rendition was considered the benchmark for singers and critically acclaimed. ''Rolling Stone'' commented that "her singing stirs such strong patriotism. Unforgettable", and the performance ranked No. 1 on the 25 most memorable music moments in NFL history list. VH1 listed the performance as one of the greatest moments that rocked TV. Following the attacks on 9/11, it was released again by Arista Records, all profits going towards the firefighters and victims of the attacks. This time it peaked at No. 6 in the Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Later in 1991, Houston put together her ''Welcome Home Heroes'' concert with HBO for the soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf War and their families. The free concert took place at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia in front of 3,500 servicemen and women. HBO descrambled the concert so that it was free for everyone to watch. Houston's concert gave HBO its highest ratings ever. She then embarked on the ''I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour''.
1992–1994: Marriage to Bobby Brown and ''The Bodyguard''
Throughout the 1980s, Houston was romantically linked to American football star Randall Cunningham and actor Eddie Murphy, whom she dated. She then met R&B; singer Bobby Brown at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards. After a three-year courtship, the two were married on July 18, 1992. On March 4, 1993, Houston gave birth to their daughter Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, her only child, and his fourth. Brown would go on to have several run-ins with the law, including some jail time.With the commercial success of her albums, movie offers poured in, including offers to work with Robert De Niro, Quincy Jones, and Spike Lee; but Houston felt the time wasn't right. Houston's first film role was in ''The Bodyguard'', released in 1992 and co-starring Kevin Costner. Houston played Rachel Marron, a star who is stalked by a crazed fan and hires a bodyguard to protect her. ''USA Today'' listed it as one of the 25 most memorable movie moments of the last 25 years in 2007. Houston's mainstream appeal allowed people to look at the movie color-blind.
Still, controversy arose as some felt the film's advertising intentionally hid Houston's face to hide the film's interracial relationship. In an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' in 1993, the singer commented that "people know who Whitney Houston is – I'm black. You can't hide that fact." Houston received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress. ''The Washington Post'' said Houston is "doing nothing more than playing Houston, comes out largely unscathed if that is possible in so cockamamie an undertaking", and ''The New York Times'' commented that she lacked passion with her co-star. Despite the film's mixed reviews, it was hugely successful at the box office, grossing more than $121 million in the U.S. and $410 million worldwide, making it one of the top 100 grossing films in film history at its time of release, though it is no longer in the top 100 due to rising ticket prices since the time the film was released.
The film's soundtrack also enjoyed big success. Houston executive produced and contributed six songs for the motion picture's adjoining soundtrack album. ''Rolling Stone'' said it is "nothing more than pleasant, tasteful and urbane". The soundtrack's lead single was "I Will Always Love You", written and originally recorded by Dolly Parton in 1974. Houston's version of the song was acclaimed by many critics, regarding it as her "signature song" or "iconic performance". ''Rolling Stone'' and ''USA Today'' called her rendition "the tour-de-force". The single peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for a then-record-breaking 14 weeks, number one on the R&B; chart for a then-record-breaking 11 weeks, and number one on the Adult Contemporary charts for five weeks, thus becoming the first single to top those three charts simultaneously for five weeks.
The single was certified 4× platinum by the RIAA, making Houston the first female artist with a single to reach that level in the RIAA history and becoming the best-selling single by a female artist in the US. The song also became a global success, hitting number-one in almost all countries, and one of the best-selling singles of all time with 12 million copies sold. The soundtrack topped the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and remained there for 20 non-consecutive weeks, the longest tenure by any album on the chart in the Nielsen SoundScan era, and became one of the fastest selling albums ever. During Christmas week of 1992, the soundtrack sold over a million copies within a week, becoming the first album to achieve that feat under Nielsen SoundScan system. With the follow-up singles "I'm Every Woman", a Chaka Khan cover, and "I Have Nothing" both reaching the top five, Houston became the first female artist to ever have three singles in the Top 11 simultaneously. The album was certified 17× platinum in the US alone, with worldwide sales of 44 million, making ''The Bodyguard'' the biggest-selling album by a female act on the list of the world's Top 10 best-selling albums, topping Shania Twain's 40 million sold for ''Come On Over''.
Houston won three Grammys for the album in 1994, including two of the Academy's highest honors, Album of the Year and Record of the Year. In addition, she won a record 8 American Music Awards at that year's ceremony including the Award of Merit, 11 Billboard Music Awards, 3 Soul Train Music Awards in 1993–94 including Sammy Davis, Jr. Award as Entertainer of the Year, 5 NAACP Image Awards including Entertainer of the Year, a record 5 World Music Awards, and a BRIT award. Following the success of the project, Houston embarked on another expansive global tour, ''The Bodyguard World Tour'', in 1993–94. Her concerts, movie, and recording grosses made her the third highest earning female entertainer of 1993–94, just behind Oprah Winfrey and Barbra Streisand according to ''Forbes'' magazine. Houston placed in the top five of ''Entertainment Weekly''s annual "Entertainer of the Year" ranking and was labeled by ''Premiere'' magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood.
In October 1994, Houston attended and performed at a state dinner in the White House honoring newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela. At the end of her world tour, Houston performed three concerts in South Africa to honor President Mandela, playing to over 200,000 people. This would make the singer the first major musician to visit the newly unified and apartheid free nation following Mandela's winning election. The concert was broadcast live on HBO with funds of the concerts being donated to various charities in South Africa. The event was considered the nation's "biggest media event since the inauguration of Nelson Mandela".
1995–1997: ''Waiting to Exhale'', ''The Preacher's Wife'', and ''Cinderella''
In 1995, Houston starred alongside Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon in her second film ''Waiting to Exhale'', a motion picture about four African-American women struggling with relationships. Houston played the lead character Savannah Jackson, a TV producer in love with a married man. She chose the role because she saw the film as "a breakthrough for the image of black women because it presents them both as professionals and as caring mothers". After opening at number one and grossing $67 million in the US at the box office and $81 million worldwide, it proved that a movie primarily targeting a black audience can cross over to success, while paving the way for other all-black movies such as ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back'' and the Tyler Perry movies that have become popular in the 2000s. The film is also notable for its portrayal of black women as strong middle class citizens as opposed to stereotypes. The reviews were mainly positive for the ensemble cast. ''The New York Times'' said "Ms. Houston has shed the defensive hauteur that made her portrayal of a pop star in 'The Bodyguard' seem so distant." Houston was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress In A Motion Picture", but lost to her co-star Bassett.The film's accompanying soundtrack, ''Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album'', was produced by Houston and Babyface. Though Babyface originally wanted Houston to record the entire album, she declined. Instead, she "wanted it to be an album of women with vocal distinction", and thus gathered several African-American female artists for the soundtrack, to go along with the film's strong women message. As a result, the album featured a range of contemporary R&B; female recording artists along with Houston, such as Mary J Blige, Aretha Franklin, Toni Braxton, Patti Labelle, and Brandy. Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" peaked at No. 1, and then spent a record eleven weeks at the No. 2 spot and eight weeks on top of the R&B; Charts. "Count On Me", a duet with CeCe Winans, hit the US Top 10; and Houston's third contribution, "Why Does It Hurt So Bad", made the Top 30. The album debuted at No. 1, and was certified 7× Platinum in the United States, denoting shipments of seven million copies. The soundtrack received strong reviews as ''Entertainment Weekly'' said "the album goes down easy, just as you'd expect from a package framed by Whitney Houston tracks.... the soundtrack waits to exhale, hovering in sensuous suspense" and has since ranked it as one of the 100 Best Movie Soundtracks. Later that year, Houston's children's charity organization was awarded a VH1 Honor for all the charitable work.
In 1996, Houston starred in the holiday comedy ''The Preacher's Wife'', with Denzel Washington. She plays a gospel-singing wife of a pastor (Courtney B. Vance). It was largely an updated remake of the 1948 film "The Bishop's Wife" which starred Loretta Young, David Niven and Cary Grant. Houston earned $10 million for the role, making her one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood at the time and the highest earning African American actress in Hollywood. The movie, with its all African-American cast, was a moderate success, earning approximately $50 million at the U.S. box offices. The movie gave Houston her strongest reviews so far. ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' said Houston "is rather angelic herself, displaying a divine talent for being virtuous and flirtatious at the same time" and that she "exudes gentle yet spirited warmth, especially when praising the Lord in her gorgeous singing voice". Houston was again nominated for an NAACP Image Award and won for Outstanding Actress In A Motion Picture.
Houston recorded and co-produced, with Mervyn Warren, the film's accompanying gospel soundtrack. ''The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album'' included six gospel songs with Georgia Mass Choir that were recorded at the Great Star Rising Baptist Church in Atlanta. Houston also duetted with gospel legend Shirley Caesar. The album sold six million copies worldwide and scored hit singles with "I Believe in You and Me" and "Step by Step", becoming the largest selling gospel album of all time. The album received mainly positive reviews. Some critics, such as that of ''USA Today'', noted the presence of her emotional depth, while ''The Times'' said "To hear Houston going at full throttle with the 35 piece Georgia Mass Choir struggling to keep up is to realise what her phenomenal voice was made for".
In 1997, Houston's production company changed its name to BrownHouse Productions and was joined by Debra Martin Chase. Their goal was "to show aspects of the lives of African-Americans that have not been brought to the screen before" while improving how African-Americans are portrayed in film and television. Their first project was a made-for-television remake of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''Cinderella''. In addition to co-producing, Houston starred in the movie as the Fairy Godmother along with Brandy, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bernadette Peters. Houston was initially offered the role of Cinderella in 1993, but other projects intervened. The film is notable for its multi-racial cast and nonstereotypical message. An estimated 60 million viewers tuned into the special giving ABC its highest TV ratings in 16 years. The movie received seven Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety, Musical or Comedy, while winning Outstanding Art Direction in a Variety, Musical or Comedy Special.
Houston and Chase then obtained the rights to the story of Dorothy Dandridge. Houston was to play Dandridge, who was the first African American actress to be nominated for an Oscar. She wanted the story told with dignity and honor. However, Halle Berry also had rights to the project and she got her version going first. Later that year, Houston paid tribute to her idols such as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and Dionne Warwick by performing their hits during the three-night HBO Concert ''Classic Whitney'', live from Washington, D.C. The special raised over $300,000 for the Children's Defense Fund. Houston received The Quincy Jones Award for outstanding career achievements in the field of entertainment at the 12th Soul Train Music Awards.
1998–2000: ''My Love Is Your Love'' and ''Whitney: The Greatest Hits''
After spending much of the early and mid 1990s working on motion pictures and their soundtrack albums, Houston's first studio album in eight years, the critically acclaimed ''My Love Is Your Love'', was released in November 1998. Though originally slated to be a greatest hits album with a handful of new songs, recording sessions were so fruitful that a new full-length studio album was released. Recorded and mixed in only six weeks, it featured production from Rodney Jerkins, Wyclef Jean and Missy Elliott. The album debuted at number thirteen, its peak position, on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. It had a funkier and edgier sound than past releases and saw Houston handling urban dance, hip hop, mid-tempo R&B;, reggae, torch songs, and ballads all with great dexterity.From late 1998 to early 2000, the album spawned several hit singles: "When You Believe" (US No. 15, UK No. 4), a duet with Mariah Carey for 1998's ''The Prince of Egypt'' soundtrack, which also became an international hit as it peaked in the Top 10 in several countries and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song; "Heartbreak Hotel" (US No. 2, UK No. 25) featured Faith Evans and Kelly Price, received a 1999 MTV VMA nomination for Best R&B; Video, and number one on the US R&B; chart for seven weeks; "It's Not Right But It's Okay" (US No. 4, UK No. 3) won Houston her sixth Grammy Award for Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance; "My Love Is Your Love" (US No. 4, UK No. 2) with 3 million copies sold worldwide; and "I Learned from the Best" (US No. 27, UK No. 19). These singles became international hits as well, and all the singles, except "When You Believe", became number one hits on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance/Club Play chart. The album sold four million copies in America, making it certified 4× platinum, and a total of eleven million copies worldwide.
The album gave Houston some of her strongest reviews ever. ''Rolling Stone'' said Houston was singing "with a bite in her voice" and ''The Village Voice'' called it "Whitney's sharpest and most satisfying so far". In 1999, Houston participated in VH-1's Divas Live '99, alongside Brandy, Mary J. Blige, Tina Turner, and Cher. The same year, Houston hit the road with her 70 date ''My Love Is Your Love World Tour''. The European leg of the tour was Europe's highest grossing arena tour of the year. In November 1999, Houston was named Top-selling R&B; Female Artist of the Century with certified US sales of 51 million copies at the time and ''The Bodyguard Soundtrack'' was named the Top-selling Soundtrack Album of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She also won The Artist of the Decade, Female award for extraordinary artistic contributions during the 1990s at the 14th Soul Train Music Awards, and an MTV Europe Music Award for Best R&B;.
In May 2000, ''Whitney: The Greatest Hits'' was released worldwide. The double disc set peaked at number five in the United States, reaching number one in the United Kingdom. In addition, the album reached the Top 10 in many other countries. While ballad songs were left unchanged, the album features house/club remixes of many of Houston's up-tempo hits. Included on the album were four new songs: "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" (a duet with Enrique Iglesias), "Same Script, Different Cast" (a duet with Deborah Cox), "If I Told You That" (a duet with George Michael), and "Fine", and three hits that had never appeared on a Houston album: "One Moment in Time", "The Star Spangled Banner", and "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful", a duet with Jermaine Jackson from his 1986 ''Precious Moments'' album. Along with the album, an accompanying VHS and DVD was released featuring the music videos to Houston's greatest hits, as well as several hard-to-find live performances including her 1983 debut on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', and interviews. The greatest hits album was certified 3× platinum in the US, with worldwide sales of 10 million.
2000–2005: ''Just Whitney'', and personal struggles
Though Houston was seen as a "good girl" with a perfect image in the 1980s and early 1990s, by the late 1990s, her behavior changed. She was often hours late for interviews, photo shoots and rehearsals, and canceling concerts and talk-show appearances. With the missed performances and weight loss, rumors about Houston using drugs with her husband circulated. On January 11, 2000, airport security guards discovered marijuana in both Houston's and husband Bobby Brown's luggage at a Hawaii airport, but the two boarded the plane and departed before authorities could arrive. Charges were later dropped against them, but rumors of drug usage between the couple would continue to surface. Two months later, Clive Davis was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Houston had been scheduled to perform at the event, but failed to show up.Shortly thereafter, Houston was scheduled to perform at the Academy Awards but was fired from the event by musical director and long time friend Burt Bacharach. Her publicist cited throat problems as the reason for the cancellation. In his book ''The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards'', author Steve Pond revealed that "Houston's voice was shaky, she seemed distracted and jittery, and her attitude was casual, almost defiant", and that while Houston was to sing "Over the Rainbow", she would start singing a different song. Houston later admitted to having been fired. Later that year, Houston's long-time executive assistant and friend, Robyn Crawford, resigned from Houston's management company.
In August 2001, Houston signed the biggest record deal in music history with Arista/BMG. She renewed her contract for $100 million to deliver six new albums, on which she would also earn royalties. She later made an appearance on ''Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special''. Her extremely thin frame further spurred rumors of drug use. Houston's publicist said, "Whitney has been under stress due to family matters, and when she is under stress she doesn't eat." The singer was scheduled for a second performance the following night but canceled. Within weeks, Houston's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" would be re-released after the September 11 attacks, with the proceeds donated to the New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Fraternal Order of Police. The song peaked at No. 6 this time on the US Hot 100, topping its previous position.
In 2002, Houston became involved in a legal dispute with John Houston Enterprise. Although the company was started by her father to manage her career, it was actually run by company president Kevin Skinner. Skinner filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit and sued for $100 million (but lost), stating that Houston owed the company previously unpaid compensation for helping to negotiate her $100 million contract with Arista Records and for sorting out legal matters. Houston stated that her 81-year-old father had nothing to do with the lawsuit. Although Skinner tried to claim otherwise, John Houston never appeared in court. Houston's father later died in February 2003. The lawsuit was dismissed on April 5, 2004, and Skinner was awarded nothing.
Also in 2002, Houston did an interview with Diane Sawyer to promote her then-upcoming album. The interview was the highest-rated television interview in history. During the prime-time special, Houston spoke on topics including rumored drug use and marriage. She was asked about the ongoing drug rumors and replied, "First of all, let's get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. Okay? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is wack." The line was from Keith Haring's mural which was painted in 1986 on the handball court at 128th Street and 2nd Avenue. Houston did, however, admit to using other substances at times, including cocaine.
In December 2002, Houston released her fifth studio album, ''Just Whitney...''. The album included productions from then-husband Bobby Brown, as well as Missy Elliott and Babyface, and marked the first time that Houston did not produce with Clive Davis as Davis had been released by top management at BMG. Upon its release, ''Just Whitney...'' received mixed reviews. The album debuted at number 9 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and it had the highest first week sales of any album Houston had ever released. The four singles released from the album, didn't fare well on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, but became Hot Dance Club Play hits. ''Just Whitney...'' was certified platinum in the United States, and sold approximately three million worldwide.
On a June 2003 trip to Israel, Houston said of her visit, "I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful."
In late 2003, Houston released her first Christmas album ''One Wish: The Holiday Album'', with a collection of traditional holiday songs. Houston produced the album with Mervyn Warren and Gordon Chambers. A single titled "One Wish (for Christmas)" reached the Top 20 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and the album was certified gold in the US. Having always been a touring artist, Houston spent most of 2004 touring and performing in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Russia. In September 2004, she gave a surprise performance at the World Music Awards in a tribute to long time friend Clive Davis. After the show, Davis and Houston announced plans to go into studio to work on her new album.
In early 2004, husband Bobby Brown starred in his own reality TV program, ''Being Bobby Brown'' (on the Bravo network), which provided a view into the domestic goings-on in the Brown household. Though it was Brown's vehicle, Houston was a prominent figure throughout the show, receiving as much screen time as Brown. The series aired in 2005 and featured Houston in, what some would say, not her most flattering moments. The ''Hollywood Reporter'' said it was "undoubtedly the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television." Despite the perceived train-wreck nature of the show, the series gave Bravo its highest ratings in its time slot and continued Houston's successful forays into film and television. The show was not renewed for a second season after Houston stated that she would no longer appear in it, and Brown and Bravo could not come to an agreement for another season.
2006–2012: Return to music, ''I Look to You'', tour and film comeback
After years of controversy and turmoil, Houston separated from Bobby Brown in September 2006, filing for divorce the following month. On February 1, 2007, Houston asked the court to fast track their divorce. The divorce was finalized on April 24, 2007, with Houston granted custody of the couple's daughter. On May 4, Houston sold the suburban Atlanta home featured in ''Being Bobby Brown'' for $1.19 million. A few days later, Brown sued Houston in Orange County, California court in an attempt to change the terms of their custody agreement. Brown also sought child and spousal support from Houston. In the lawsuit, Brown claimed that financial and emotional problems prevented him from properly responding to Houston's divorce petition. Brown lost at his court hearing as the judge dismissed his appeal to overrule the custody terms, leaving Houston with full custody and Brown with no spousal support. In March 2007, Clive Davis of Arista Records announced that Houston would begin recording a new album. In October 2007, Arista released another compilation ''The Ultimate Collection'' outside the United States.Houston gave her first interview in seven years in September 2009, appearing on Oprah Winfrey's season premiere. The interview was billed as "the most anticipated music interview of the decade". Whitney admitted on the show to using drugs with former husband Bobby Brown, who "laced marijuana with rock cocaine". By 1996, she told Oprah, "[doing drugs] was an everyday thing... I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself."
Houston released her new album, ''I Look to You'', in August 2009. The album's first two singles are "I Look to You" and "Million Dollar Bill". The album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, with Houston's best opening-week sales of 305,000 copies, marking Houston's first number one album since '' The Bodyguard'', and Houston's first studio album to reach number one since 1987's ''Whitney''. Houston also appeared on European television programs to promote the album. She performed the song "I Look to You" on the German television show ''Wetten, dass..?''. Three days later, she performed the worldwide first single from I Look To You, Million Dollar Bill, on the French television show Le Grand Journal. Houston appeared as guest mentor on ''The X Factor'' in the United Kingdom. She performed "Million Dollar Bill" on the following day's results show, completing the song even as a strap in the back of her dress popped open two minutes into the performance. She later commented that she "sang [herself] out of [her] clothes".
The performance was poorly received by the British media, and was variously described as "weird" and "ungracious", "shambolic" and a "flop". Despite this reception, "Million Dollar Bill" jumped to its peak from 14 to number 5 (her first UK top 5 for over a decade), and three weeks after release "I Look to You" went gold. Houston appeared on the Italian version of ''The X Factor'', performing the same song "Million Dollar Bill" to excellent reviews. She was awarded the Gold Certificate for achieving over 50,000 CD sales of "I Look To You" in Italy. In November, Houston performed "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" at the 2009 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California. Two days later, Houston performed both songs on the Dancing With The Stars season 9 finale. As of December 2009, "I Look to You" has been certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of more than one million copies in the United States. On January 26, 2010, her debut album was re-released in a special edition entitled ''Whitney Houston – The Deluxe Anniversary Edition''.
Houston later embarked on a world tour, entitled the Nothing but Love World Tour. It was her first world tour in over ten years and was announced as a triumphant comeback. However, some poor reviews and rescheduled concerts brought some negative media attention. Houston canceled some concerts due to illness and received widespread negative reviews from fans who were disappointed in the quality of her voice and performance. Some fans reportedly walked out of her concerts.
In January 2010, Houston was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards, one for Best Female Artist and one for Best Music Video. She won the award for Best Music Video for her single "I Look to You". On January 16, she received The BET Honors Award for Entertainer citing her lifetime achievements spanning over 25 years in the industry. The 2010 BET Honors award was held at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. and aired on February 1, 2010. Jennifer Hudson and Kim Burrell performed in honor of her, garnering positive reviews. Houston also received a nomination from the Echo Awards, Germany's version of the Grammys, for Best International Artist. In April 2010, the UK newspaper ''The Mirror'' reported that Houston was thinking about recording her eighth studio album and wanted to collaborate with will.i.am (of The Black Eyed Peas), her first choice for a collaboration.
Houston also performed the song "I Look to You" on the 2011 BET ''Celebration of Gospel'', with gospel–jazz singer Kim Burrell, held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles. The performance aired on January 30, 2011. Early in 2011, she gave an uneven performance in tribute to cousin Dionne Warwick at music mogul Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. In May 2011, Houston enrolled in a rehabilitation center again, as an out-patient, citing drug and alcohol problems. A representative for Houston said that it was a part of Houston's "longstanding recovery process".
In September 2011, ''The Hollywood Reporter'' announced that Houston would produce and star alongside Jordin Sparks and Mike Epps in the remake of the 1976 film ''Sparkle''. In the film, Houston portrays Sparks' "not-so encouraging mother". Houston will have executive producer credits on top of acting credits according to Debra Martin Chase, producer of ''Sparkle''. She stated that Houston deserved the title considering she had been there from the beginning in 2001, when Houston obtained ''Sparkle'' production rights. R&B; singer Aaliyah - originally tapped to star as Sparkle – died in a 2001 plane crash. Her death derailed production, which would have begun in 2002. Houston's remake of ''Sparkle'' was filmed in the fall of 2011, and is set for release by TriStar Pictures in August 2012.
Death
On February 9, 2012, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverley Hills. That same day, she made her last public performance, when she joined Kelly Price on stage in Hollywood, CA and sang "Jesus Loves Me".On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, submerged in the bathtub. The cause of death was not immediately known. Beverly Hills paramedics arrived at approximately 3:30 p.m. and found the singer unresponsive and performed CPR. Houston was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. PST. Local police said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent."
Houston had an invitation-only memorial on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. The service was scheduled for two hours, but lasted for four hours. Among those who performed at the funeral were Stevie Wonder (rewritten version of "Ribbon in the Sky," and "Love's in Need of Love Today"), CeCe Winans ("Don't Cry" and "Jesus Loves Me"), Alicia Keys ("Send Me an Angel"), Kim Burrell (rewritten version of "A Change Is Gonna Come") and R. Kelly ("I Look to You"), interspersed with hymns by the church choir and remarks by Clive Davis, Houston’s record producer; Kevin Costner; Ricky Minor her music director; her cousin Dionne Warwick and Ray Watson, her security guard for the past 11 years. Aretha Franklin was listed on the program and was expected to sing, but was unable to attend the service. Bobby Brown, Houston's ex-husband, was also invited to the funeral but he left before the service began. Houston was buried on Sunday, February 19, 2012, in Fairview Cemetery, in Westfield, New Jersey next to her father, John Russell Houston, who died in 2003.
Reaction
The Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party that Houston was expected to attend, and that featured many of the biggest names in music and movies, went on as scheduled although it was quickly turned into a tribute to Houston. Davis spoke about Houston's death at the evening's start: "By now you have all learned of the unspeakably tragic news of our beloved Whitney's passing. I don't have to mask my emotion in front of a room full of so many dear friends. I am personally devastated by the loss of someone who has meant so much to me for so many years. Whitney was so full of life. She was so looking forward to tonight even though she wasn't scheduled to perform. Whitney was a beautiful person and a talent beyond compare. She graced this stage with her regal presence and gave so many memorable performances here over the years. Simply put, Whitney would have wanted the music to go on and her family asked that we carry on."Tony Bennett spoke of Houston's death before performing at Davis' party. He said, "First, it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now, the magnificent Whitney Houston". Bennett sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and said of Houston, "When I first heard her, I called Clive Davis and said, 'You finally found the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life.'"
Some celebrities opposed Davis' decision to continue on the party while a police investigation was being conducted in Houston's hotel room and her body was still in the building. Chaka Khan, in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan on February 13, 2012, shared that she felt the party should have been canceled, saying "I thought that was complete insanity. And knowing Whitney I don't believe that she would have said 'the show must go on.' She's the kind of woman that would've said 'Stop everything! Un-unh. I'm not going to be there.' [...] I don't know what could motivate a person to have a party in a building where the person whose life he had influenced so enormously and whose life had been affected by hers. They were like... I don't understand how that party went on." Sharon Osbourne, on February 15 episode of ''The Talk'', also condemned the Davis party, declaring "I think it was disgraceful that the party went on. I don't want to be in a hotel room when there's someone you admire who's tragically lost their life four floors up. I'm not interested in being in that environment and I think when you grieve someone, you do it privately, you do it with people who understand you. I thought it was so wrong."
Several other celebrities released statements responding to Houston's death. Dolly Parton, whose song "I Will Always Love You" was covered by Houston, said, "I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed'." Aretha Franklin said, "It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen." Mariah Carey said, "Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend ... She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth." Oprah Winfrey, who did an in-depth interview with Houston in 2009, wrote on Twitter "To me Whitney was THE VOICE. We got to hear a part of God every time she sang. Heart is heavy, spirit grateful for the GIFT of her." Quincy Jones said, "I am absolutely heartbroken at the news of Whitney’s passing. Ashford & Simpson first made me aware of Whitney when she was just sixteen, and I always regretted not having had the opportunity to work with her. She was a true original and a talent beyond compare. I will miss her terribly."
Moments after news of her death emerged, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all broke from their regularly scheduled programming to dedicate time to non-stop coverage of Houston's death. All three featured live interviews with people who knew Houston including those that have worked with her, interviewed her along with some of her peers in the music industry. ''Saturday Night Live'' displayed a photo of a smiling Houston, alongside Molly Shannon, from her 1996 appearance. MTV and VH-1 interrupted their regularly scheduled programming on Sunday February 12 to air many of Houston's classic videos with MTV often airing news segments in between and featuring various reactions from fans and celebrities.
Houston's former husband, Bobby Brown, was reported to be "in and out of crying fits" since receiving the news. He did not cancel a scheduled performance and within hours of his ex-wife's sudden death, an audience in Mississippi observed as Brown blew kisses skyward, tearfully saying: "I love you, Whitney".
Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of the 54th Grammy Awards announced that Jennifer Hudson would perform a tribute to Houston at the February 12, 2012, awards. He said "event organizers believed Hudson – an Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy Award-winning artist – could perform a respectful musical tribute to Houston". Ehrlich went on to say: "It's too fresh in everyone's memory to do more at this time, but we would be remiss if we didn't recognize Whitney's remarkable contribution to music fans in general, and in particular her close ties with the Grammy telecast and her Grammy wins and nominations over the years". At the start of the awards ceremony, a footage of Houston performing "I Will Always Love You" from 1994 Grammys was shown following a prayer read by host, LL Cool J. Later in the program following a montage of photos of musicians who died in 2011 with Houston singing "Saving All My Love for You" at the 1986 Grammys, Hudson paid tribute to Houston and the other artists by performing "I Will Always Love You".
Houston was honored in the form of various tributes at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards, held on February 17. A image montage of Houston and important black figures who died in 2011 was followed by video footage from the 1994 ceremony, which depicted her accepting two Image Awards for outstanding female artist and entertainer of the year. Following the video tribute, Yolanda Adams delivered a rendition of "I Love the Lord" from ''The Preacher's Wife Soundtrack''. In the finale of the ceremony, Kirk Franklin and The Family started their performance with "Greatest Love of All." The 2012 BRIT Awards, which took place at London's O2 Arena on February 21, also paid tribute to Houston by playing a 30-second-video montage of her music videos with a snippet of "One Moment in Time" as the background music in the ceremony's first segment. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that all New Jersey state flags would be flown at half-staff on Tuesday, February 21 to honor Houston. Accompanied by Esperanza Spalding belting out "What a Wonderful World" along with the Southern California Children's Choir, Houston was featured in the In Memoriam montage alongside other cinema greats at the 84th Academy Awards, held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26, 2012.
Artistry and legacy
Voice
Houston was a mezzo-soprano, and was commonly referred to as "The Voice" in reference to her exceptional vocal talent. Her vocal range extended from G below middle C (G3) to high B-flat (B5); she could belt out to treble F (F5). She was third in MTV's list of 22 Greatest Voices, and sixth on ''Online Magazine COVE''s list of the 100 Best Pop Vocalists with a score of 48.5/50. In 2008, ''Rolling Stone'' listed Houston as the thirty-fourth of the 100 greatest singers of all time, stating, "Her voice is a mammoth, coruscating cry: Few vocalists could get away with opening a song with 45 unaccompanied seconds of singing, but Houston's powerhouse version of Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' is a tour de force." Matthew Perpetua from ''Rolling Stone'' also eulogized Houston's vocal, enumerating ten performances, including "How Will I Know" from the 1986 MTV VMAs and "The Star Spangled Banner" at the 1991 Super Bowl. "Whitney Houston was blessed with an astonishing vocal range and extraordinary technical skill, but what truly made her a great singer was her ability to connect with a song and drive home its drama and emotion with incredible precision," he stated. "She was a brilliant performer, and her live shows often eclipsed her studio recordings."Jon Caramanica of ''The New York Times'' commented, "Her voice was clean and strong, with barely any grit, well suited to the songs of love and aspiration. [...] Hers was a voice of triumph and achievement, and it made for any number of stunning, time-stopping vocal performances." Mariah Carey stated, "Whitney has a really rich, strong mid-belt that very few people have. She sounds really good, really strong." While in her review of ''I Look to You'', music critic Ann Powers of the ''Los Angeles Times'' writes, "[Houston's voice] stands like monuments upon the landscape of 20th century pop, defining the architecture of their times, sheltering the dreams of millions and inspiring the climbing careers of countless imitators", adding "When she was at her best, nothing could match her huge, clean, cool mezzo-soprano".
Lauren Everitt from BBC News Magazine commented on melisma used in Houston's recording and its influence. "An early 'I' in Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' takes nearly six seconds to sing. In those seconds the former gospel singer-turned-pop star packs a series of different notes into the single syllable," stated Everitt. "The technique is repeated throughout the song, most pronouncedly on every 'I' and 'you'. The vocal technique is called melisma, and it has inspired a host of imitators. Other artists may have used it before Houston, but it was her rendition of Dolly Parton's love song that pushed the technique into the mainstream in the 90s. [...] But perhaps what Houston nailed best was moderation." Everitt said that "[i]n a climate of reality shows ripe with 'oversinging', it's easy to appreciate Houston's ability to save melisma for just the right moment".
Houston's vocal stylings have had a significant impact on the music industry. She has been called the "Queen of Pop" for her influence during the 1990s, commercially rivaling Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. Stephen Holden from ''The New York Times'', in his review of Houston's Radio City Music Hall concert on July 20, 1993, praised her attitude as a singer highly, writing, "Whitney Houston is one of the few contemporary pop stars of whom it might be said: the voice suffices. While almost every performer whose albums sell in the millions calls upon an entertainer's bag of tricks, from telling jokes to dancing to circus pyrotechnics, Ms. Houston would rather just stand there and sing." With regard to her singing style, he added: "Her [Houston's] stylistic trademarks – shivery melismas that ripple up in the middle of a song, twirling embellishments at the ends of phrases that suggest an almost breathless exhilaration – infuse her interpretations with flashes of musical and emotional lightning."
Elysa Gardner of the ''Los Angeles Times'' in her review for ''The Preacher's Wife Soundtrack'' praised Houston's vocal ability highly, commenting, "She is first and foremost a pop diva – at that, the best one we have. No other female pop star – not Mariah Carey, not Celine Dion, not Barbra Streisand – quite rivals Houston in her exquisite vocal fluidity and purity of tone, and her ability to infuse a lyric with mesmerizing melodrama."
Influence
During the 1980s, MTV was coming into its own and received harsh criticism for not playing enough videos by black artists. With Michael Jackson breaking down the color barrier for black male artists, Houston did the same for black female artists. She became the first black female artist to receive heavy rotation on the network following the success of the "How Will I Know" video. Following Houston's breakthrough, other African-American female artists, such as Janet Jackson and Anita Baker, were successful in popular music. Baker commented that "Because of what Whitney and Sade did, there was an opening for me... For radio stations, black women singers aren't taboo anymore."Allmusic noted her contribution to the success of black artists on the pop scene, commenting, "Houston was able to handle big adult contemporary ballads, effervescent, stylish dance-pop, and slick urban contemporary soul with equal dexterity" and that "the result was an across-the-board appeal that was matched by scant few artists of her era, and helped her become one of the first black artists to find success on MTV in Michael Jackson's wake". ''The New York Times'' stated that "Houston was a major catalyst for a movement within black music that recognized the continuity of soul, pop, jazz and gospel vocal traditions". Richard Corliss of ''Time'' magazine commented on her initial success breaking various barriers:
Of her first album's ten cuts, six were ballads. This chanteuse [Houston] had to fight for air play with hard rockers. The young lady had to stand uncowed in the locker room of macho rock. The soul strutter had to seduce a music audience that anointed few black artists with superstardom. [...] She was a phenomenon waiting to happen, a canny tapping of the listener's yen for a return to the musical middle. And because every new star creates her own genre, her success has helped other blacks, other women, other smooth singers find an avid reception in the pop marketplace.
Stephen Holden of ''The New York Times'' said that Houston "revitalized the tradition of strong gospel-oriented pop-soul singing". Ann Powers of the ''Los Angeles Times'' referred to the singer as a "national treasure". Jon Caramanica, other music critic of ''The New York Times'', called Houston "R&B;'s great modernizer," adding "slowly but surely reconciling the ambition and praise of the church with the movements and needs of the body and the glow of the mainstream". He also drew comparisons between Houston's influence and other big names' on 1980s pop:
She was, alongside Michael Jackson and Madonna, one of the crucial figures to hybridize pop in the 1980s, though her strategy was far less radical than that of her peers. Jackson and Madonna were by turns lascivious and brutish and, crucially, willing to let their production speak more loudly than their voices, an option Ms. Houston never went for. Also, she was less prolific than either of them, achieving most of her renown on the strength of her first three solo albums and one soundtrack, released from 1985 to 1992. If she was less influential than they were in the years since, it was only because her gift was so rare, so impossible to mimic. Jackson and Madonna built worldviews around their voices; Ms. Houston’s voice was the worldview. She was someone more to be admired, like a museum piece, than to be emulated.
''The Independant''s music critic Andy Gill also wrote about Houston's influence on modern R&B; and singing competitions, comparing it to Michael Jackson's. "Because Whitney, more than any other single artist ― Michael Jackson included ― effectively mapped out the course of modern R&B;, setting the bar for standards of soul vocalese, and creating the original template for what we now routinely refer to as the 'soul diva'," stated Gill. "Jackson was a hugely talented icon, certainly, but he will be as well remembered (probably more so) for his presentational skills, his dazzling dance moves, as for his musical innovations. Whitney, on the other hand, just sang, and the ripples from her voice continue to dominate the pop landscape." Gill said that there "are few, if any, Jackson imitators on today's TV talent shows, but every other contestant is a Whitney wannabe, desperately attempting to emulate that wondrous combination of vocal effects – the flowing melisma, the soaring mezzo-soprano confidence, the tremulous fluttering that carried the ends of lines into realms of higher yearning".
Houston was considered by many to be a "singer's singer", who had an influence on countless other vocalists, both female and male. Similarly, Steve Huey from Allmusic wrote that the shadow of Houston's prodigious technique still looms large over nearly every pop diva and smooth urban soul singer – male or female – in her wake, and spawned a legion of imitators. ''Rolling Stone'', on her biography, stated that Houston "redefined the image of a female soul icon and inspired singers ranging from Mariah Carey to Rihanna". ''Essence'' ranked Houston the fifth on their list of 50 Most Influential R&B; Stars of all time, calling her "the diva to end all divas".
A number of artists have acknowledged Houston as an influence, including Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Christina Aguilera, LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, Nelly Furtado, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Ciara, P!nk, Ashanti, Robin Thicke, Jennifer Hudson, Stacie Orrico, Amerie, and Destiny's Child. Mariah Carey, who was often compared to Houston, said, "Houston has been a big influence on me." She later told ''USA Today'' that "none of us would sound the same if Aretha Franklin hadn't ever put out a record, or Whitney Houston hadn't." Celine Dion who was the third member of the troika that dominated female pop singing in the 1990s, did a telephone interview with ''Good Morning America'' on February 13, 2012, telling "Whitney's been an amazing inspiration for me. I've been singing with her my whole career, actually. I wanted to have a career like hers, sing like her, look beautiful like her." Beyoncé told the ''Globe and Mail'' that Houston "inspired [her] to get up there and do what [she] did". She also wrote on her website on the day after Houston's death, "I, like every singer, always wanted to be just like [Houston]. Her voice was perfect. Strong but soothing. Soulful and classic. Her vibrato, her cadence, her control. So many of my life's memories are attached to a Whitney Houston song. She is our queen and she opened doors and provided a blueprint for all of us."
Mary J. Blige said that Houston inviting her onstage during VH1's ''Divas Live'' show in 1999 "opened doors for [her] all over the world". Brandy stated, "The first Whitney Houston CD was genius. That CD introduced the world to her angelic yet powerful voice. Without Whitney, half of this generation of singers wouldn't be singing." Kelly Rowland, in an ''Ebony'' feature article celebrating black music in June 2006, recalled that "[I] wanted to be a singer after I saw Whitney Houston on TV singing 'Greatest Love of All'. I wanted to sing like Whitney Houston in that red dress." She added that "And I have never, ever forgotten that song [Greatest Love of All]. I learned it backward, forward, sideways. The video still brings chills to me. When you wish and pray for something as a kid, you never know what blessings God will give you."
Alicia Keys, in an interview about her album ''The Element of Freedom'' with ''Billboard'' magazine, also said "Whitney is an artist who inspired me from [the time I was] a little girl". Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson cites Houston as her biggest musical influence. She told ''Newsday'' that she learned from Houston the "difference between being able to sing and knowing how to sing". Leona Lewis, who has been called "the new Whitney Houston", also cites her as an influence. Lewis stated that she idolized her as a little girl.
Awards and achievements
Houston was the most awarded female artist of all time, according to Guinness World Records, with two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. She held the all-time record for the most American Music Awards of any female solo artist and shared the record with Michael Jackson for the most AMAs ever won in a single year with eight wins in 1994. Houston won a record 11 Billboard Music Awards at its fourth ceremony in 1993. She also had the record for the most WMAs won in a single year, winning five awards at the 6th World Music Awards in 1994.In May 2003, Houston placed at number three on VH1's list of "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era", behind Madonna and Janet Jackson. She was also ranked at number 116 on their list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time". In 2008, ''Billboard'' magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, ranking Houston at number nine. Similarly, she was ranked as one of the "Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" by VH1 in September 2010. In November 2010, ''Billboard'' released its "Top 50 R&B;/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years" list and ranked Houston at number three whom not only went on to earn eight number one singles on the R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart, but also landed five number ones on R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums.
Houston's debut album is listed as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine and is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list. In 2004, ''Billboard'' picked the success of her first release on the charts as one of 110 Musical Milestones in its history. Houston's entrance into the music industry is considered one of the 25 musical milestones of the last 25 years, according to ''USA Today'' in 2007. It stated that she paved the way for Mariah Carey's chart-topping vocal gymnastics. In 1997, the Franklin School in East Orange, New Jersey was renamed to The Whitney E. Houston Academy School of Creative and Performing Arts. In 2001, Houston was the first artist ever to be given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award.
Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 200 million albums and singles worldwide. Although she released relatively few albums, she was ranked as the fourth best-selling female artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 55 million certified albums sold in the US alone.
She held an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Grambling State University, Louisiana.
Discography
;Studio Albums;Holiday Albums
Filmography
| + Film roles | |||
| ! Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes and awards |
| ''The Bodyguard'' | Rachel Marron | Nominated – 1993 MTV Movie Award for Best Female PerformanceNominated – 1993 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough PerformanceNominated – 1993 MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo with co-star Kevin CostnerNominated – 1992 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress | |
| ''Waiting to Exhale'' | Savannah Jackson | Nominated – 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | |
| ''The Preacher's Wife'' | Julia Biggs | ||
| Fairy Godmother | Made-for-television film, part of a revival of the ''Wonderful World of Disney''.Nominated – 1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy SpecialNominated – 1998 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie/Mini-Series | ||
| Emma | Posthumous release |
| + Television roles | ! Year | ! Title | ! Network | ! Role | Notes |
| ''Gimme a Break!'' | NBC | Rita | "Katie's College" (Season 3, Episode 20) | ||
| ''Silver Spoons'' | NBC | Herself | "Head Over Heels" (Season 4, Episode 1, Air date: September 15, 1985)She performed the edited version of "Saving All My Love for You", changing some of the words. | ||
| ''Boston Public'' | Fox | Herself | She performed "Try It On My Own" from the 2002 studio album ''Just Whitney''. |
| + Commercials | |||||||
| ! Year | ! Company | ! Promoting | ! Country | Notes | |||
| Dr Pepper/Seven Up | Canada Dry(soft drink beverage) | United States | * Houston appeared in this commercial before debut as a professional singer and sang the praises of sugar free Canada Dry Ginger Ale. | ||||
| Coca-Cola | Diet Coke(soft drink beverage) | United States | * Houston sang the Diet Coke theme song, "Just for the taste of it". | ||||
| Coca-Cola | Diet Coke(soft drink beverage) | United States | * Houston sang the other version of the Diet Coke advertising slogan at the time, "Just for the taste of it". | * Outside the United States, the second version of advertising was released, in which "Greatest Love of All" was used as background music. | 1989 MTV Video Music Awards#Video of the Year>Video of the Year winning "This Note's for You" by Neil Young, parodied parts of this advertising to criticize pop/rock stars who make commercial endorsements, most notably Michael Jackson for Pepsi and Houston for Diet Coke, using look-alikes for them. | ||
| Sanyo | Electronics(the stereo, TV) | Japan | Keith Thomas (producer)>Keith Thomas. It was released as a CD single in Japan and included in Japanese edition of ''I'm Your Baby Tonight''. | * Sanyo also sponsored Houston's 1990 Japan only Feels So Right Tour. | |||
| AT&T; | Telephone services | United States | * Houston sang its theme song, "True Voice". | ||||
| Nissin | Consumer credit business | Japan | * Houstons appeared on both print advetisement and TV commercial for Nissin, a nonbank finance company that lends to consumers and small businesses in Japan, with then the company's slogan "Make it happen with Nissin" |
| + Production | |||
| ! Year | ! Title | ! Director | Notes and awards |
| 1997 | Robert Iscove | Executive producerNominated – 50th Primetime Emmy Awards | |
| 2001 | [[Garry Marshall | ProducerWon – 2002 Young Artist Award for Best Family Feature Film – ComedyNominated – 2002 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Family Film (Live Action) Nominated – 2002 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Family FilmNominated – 2002 Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Movie, Comedy | |
| 2003 | Oz Scott | Producer | |
| 2004 | ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' | Garry Marshall | Producer |
| 2006 | Kenny Ortega | Co-executive producer |
Tours
;World tours
;Regional tours
;Televised concerts
See also
References
Further reading
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| years active | 1992–present |
|---|---|
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Britney Jean Spears |
| birth date | December 02, 1981 |
| birth place | |
| genre | Pop, dance |
| occupation | Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, record producer, author, fashion designer, video director |
| instrument | Vocals, piano |
| label | Jive |
| associated acts | InnosenseThe New Mickey Mouse Club |
| website | }} |
In 2001, she released her third studio album ''Britney'' and expanded her brand, playing the starring role in the film ''Crossroads''. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, ''In the Zone'' (2003), which yielded chart-topping singles "Me Against the Music", "Toxic" and "Everytime". After the release of two compilation albums, Spears experienced personal struggles and her career went under hiatus. Her fifth studio album, ''Blackout'', was released in 2007 and despite receiving little promotion, it spawned hits "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me". In 2008, her erratic behavior and hospitalizations caused her to be placed in a conservatorship. The same year, her sixth studio album ''Circus'' was released, with the global chart-topping lead single "Womanizer". She embarked on her highest-grossing global concert tour, The Circus Starring Britney Spears, in 2009. Her seventh studio album ''Femme Fatale'', released in 2011, has become the first of her albums to yield three top ten singles in the United States.
Spears has sold over 100 million records worldwide. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 33 million certified albums. Spears is also recognized as the best-selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall. She was ranked the 8th Artist of the 2000s by ''Billboard''. In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on ''Forbes'' list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world; she is also the third most mentioned musician on the internet, according to ''Forbes''.
Biography
1981–97: Early life and career beginnings
Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981, the second child of Lynne Irene (née Bridges) and James Parnell Spears. She is of English heritage through her maternal grandmother, who was born in London, and of distant Maltese descent. Her siblings are Bryan James and Jamie Lynn. At age three, she started to attend dance lessons in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, and was selected to perform a solo at the annual recital. During her childhood, she also attended gymnastics and voice lessons, and won many state-level competitions and children's talent shows. Spears made her local stage debut at age five, singing "What Child Is This?" at her kindergarten graduation. She said about her ambition as a child, "I was in my own world, [...] I found out what I'm supposed to do at an early age". At age eight, Spears and her mother Lynne traveled to Atlanta for an audition in the 1990s revival of ''The Mickey Mouse Club''. Casting director Matt Cassella rejected her for being too young to join the series at the time, but introduced her to Nancy Carson, a New York City talent agent. Carson was impressed with Spears's vocals and suggested enrolling her at the Professional Performing Arts School; shortly after, Lynne and her daughters moved to a sublet apartment in New York. Spears was hired for her first professional role as the understudy for the lead role of Tina Denmark in the Off-Broadway musical ''Ruthless!''. She also appeared as a contestant on the popular television show ''Star Search'', as well as being cast in a number of commercials. In December 1992, she was finally cast in ''The Mickey Mouse Club'', but returned to Kentwood after the show was canceled. She enrolled at Parklane Academy in nearby McComb, Mississippi. Although she made friends with most of her classmates, she compared the school to "the opening scene in ''Clueless'' with all the cliques. [...] I was so bored. I was the point guard on the basketball team. I had my boyfriend, and I went to homecoming and Christmas formal. But I wanted more."In June 1997, Spears was in talks with manager Lou Pearlman to join female pop group Innosense. Lynne asked family friend and entertainment lawyer Larry Rudolph for his opinion and submitted a tape of Spears singing over a Whitney Houston karaoke song along with some pictures. Rudolph decided he wanted to pitch her to record labels, therefore she needed a professional demo. He sent Spears an unused song from Toni Braxton; she rehearsed for a week and recorded her vocals in a studio with a sound engineer. Spears traveled to New York with the demo and met with executives from four labels, returning to Kentwood the same day. Three of the labels rejected her, arguing audiences wanted pop bands such as the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls, and "there wasn't going to be another Madonna, another Debbie Gibson, or another Tiffany." Two weeks later, executives from Jive Records returned calls to Rudolph. Senior vice president of A&R; Jeff Fenster stated about Spears's audition that "It's very rare to hear someone that age who can deliver emotional content and commercial appeal. [...] For any artist, the motivation—the 'eye of the tiger'— is extremely important. And Britney had that." They appointed her to work with producer Eric Foster White for a month, who reportedly shaped her voice from "lower and less poppy" delivery to "distinctively, unmistakably Britney." After hearing the recorded material, president Clive Calder ordered a full album. Spears had originally envisioned "Sheryl Crow music, but younger more adult contemporary" but felt all right with her label's appointment of producers, since "It made more sense to go pop, because I can dance to it—it's more me." She flew to Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where half of the album was recorded from March to April 1998, with producers Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Rami Yacoub, among others.
1998–00: ''...Baby One More Time'' and ''Oops!... I Did It Again''
After Spears returned to the United States, she embarked on a shopping mall promotional tour to promote her forthcoming album. Her show was a four song set and she was accompanied by two back up dancers. Her first concert tour followed, as an opening act for 'N Sync. Her debut album, ''...Baby One More Time'', was released on January 1999. It debuted at number one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 and was certified two-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America after a month. Worldwide, the album topped the charts in fifteen countries and sold over ten million copies in a year. It became the biggest selling album ever by a teenage artist. The title track was released as the lead single from the album. Originally, Jive Records wanted its music video to be animated; however, Spears rejected it, and suggested the final idea of a Catholic schoolgirl. The single sold 500,000 copies on its first day, and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, topping the chart for two consecutive weeks. "...Baby One More Time" later received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The title track also topped the singles chart for two weeks in the United Kingdom, and became the fastest-selling single ever by a female artist, shipping over 460,000 copies. It would later become the 25th most successful song of all time in British chart history. Spears is also the youngest female artist to have a million seller in the country. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" was released as the third single from the album. It became a top-ten hit worldwide and propelled ''...Baby One More Time'' to sell 26 million copies.The April 1999 cover of ''Rolling Stone'' featured Spears lying on her bed, clad with a bra, shorts and an open top. The American Family Association (AFA) referred to the shoot as "a disturbing mix of childhood innocence and adult sexuality" and called to "God-loving Americans to boycott stores selling Britney's albums." Spears responded to the outcry commenting, "What's the big deal? I have strong morals. [...] I'd do it again. I thought the pictures were fine. And I was tired of being compared to Debbie Gibson and all of this bubblegum pop all the time." Shortly before, Spears had announced publicly she would remain a virgin until marriage. On June 28, 1999, Spears began her first headlining ...Baby One More Time Tour in North America, which was positively received by critics, but generated some controversy due to her racy outfits. An extension of the tour, titled Crazy 2k, followed in March 2000. Spears premiered songs from her upcoming second album during the show. ''Oops!... I Did It Again'', her second studio album, was released in May 2000. It debuted at number one in the US, selling 1,3 million copies, breaking the SoundScan record for the highest debut sales by any solo artist. The album sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Rob Sheffield of ''Rolling Stone'' said that "the great thing about ''Oops!'' – under the cheese surface, Britney's demand for satisfaction is complex, fierce and downright scary, making her a true child of rock & roll tradition." The album's lead single, "Oops!... I Did It Again", peaked at the top of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and many other European nations. The album as well as the title track received Grammy nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, respectively.
The same year, Spears embarked on the Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour, which grossed $40.5 million; she also released her first book, ''Britney Spears' Heart-to-Heart'', co-written with her mother. On September 7, 2000, Spears performed at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. Halfway through the performance, she ripped off her black suit to reveal a sequined flesh-colored bodysuit, followed by heavy dance routine. It is noted by critics as the moment that Spears showed signs of becoming a more provocative performer. Amidst media speculation, Spears confirmed she was dating 'N Sync member Justin Timberlake.
2001–03: ''Britney'', ''Crossroads'' and ''In the Zone''
In February 2001, Spears signed a $7–8 million promotional deal with Pepsi, and released another book co-written with her mother, entitled ''A Mother’s Gift''. Her third studio album, ''Britney'', was released in November 2001. While on tour, she felt inspired by hip hop artists such as Jay-Z and The Neptunes and wanted to create a record with a funkier sound. The album debuted at number one in the ''Billboard'' 200 and reached top five positions in Australia, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called ''Britney'' "the record where she strives to deepen her persona, making it more adult while still recognizably Britney. [...] It does sound like the work of a star who has now found and refined her voice, resulting in her best record yet." The album was honored with two Grammy nominations—Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Overprotected"— and was listed in 2008 as one of ''Entertainment Weekly'''s "100 Best Albums from the Past 25 Years". The album's first single, "I'm a Slave 4 U", became a top-ten hit worldwide.Spears's performance of the single at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards featured a caged tiger and a large albino python draped over her shoulders. It was harshly received by animal rights organization PETA, who claimed the animals were mistreated and scrapped plans for an anti-fur billboard that was to feature Spears. To support the album, Spears embarked on the Dream Within a Dream Tour. The show was critically praised for its technical innovations, the ''pièce de résistance'' being a water screen that pumped two tons of water into the stage. The tour grossed $43.7 million, becoming the second highest grossing tour of 2002 by a female artist, behind Cher's Farewell Tour. Her career success was highlighted by ''Forbes'' in 2002, as Spears was ranked the world's most powerful celebrity. Spears also landed her first starring role in ''Crossroads'', released in February 2002. Although the film was largely panned, most critics actually praised Spears's acting. ''Crossroads'', which had a $11 million budget, went on to gross over $57 million worldwide. In June 2002, Spears opened her first restaurant, Nyla, in New York City, but terminated her relationship in November, citing mismanagement and "management's failure to keep her fully apprised". In July 2002, Spears announced she would take a six month break from her career; however, she went back into the studio in October to record her new album. Spears's relationship with Justin Timberlake ended after three years. In December 2002, Timberlake released the song "Cry Me a River" as the second single from his solo debut album. The music video featured a Spears look-alike and fueled the rumors that she had been unfaithful to him. As a response, Spears wrote the ballad "Everytime" with her backing vocalist and friend Annet Artani. The same year, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst confirmed that he was in a relationship with Spears, only to deny it later. In a 2009 interview, he explained that "I just guess at the time it was taboo for a guy like me to be associated with a gal like her." Spears opened the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards with Christina Aguilera, performing "Like a Virgin". Halfway through they were joined by Madonna, with whom they both kissed. The incident was highly publicized.
Spears released her fourth studio album, ''In the Zone'', in November 2003. She assumed more creative control by writing and co-producing most of the material. ''Vibe'' called it "A supremely confident dance record that also illustrates Spears's development as a songwriter." NPR listed the album as one of "The 50 Most Important Recording of the Decade", adding that "the decade's history of impeccably crafted pop is written on her body of work." ''In the Zone'' sold over 609,000 copies in the United States and debuted at the top of the charts, making Spears the first female artist in the SoundScan era to have her first four studio albums to debut at number one. It also debuted at the top of the charts in France and the top ten in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. ''In the Zone'' sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The album produced the hit singles: "Me Against the Music", a collaboration with Madonna; "Toxic"—which won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording; "Everytime" and "Outrageous".
2004–07: Compilation albums, motherhood, personal struggles and ''Blackout''
On January 3, 2004, Spears married childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The marriage was annulled 55 hours later, stating that Spears "lacked understanding of her actions". She began The Onyx Hotel Tour in support of ''In the Zone'' in March 2004. On June 8, 2004, Spears fell and injured her left knee during the music video shoot for "Outrageous". She was taken immediately to a local hospital, where doctors performed an MRI scan and found floating cartilage. The following day, Spears underwent arthroscopic surgery. She was forced to remain six weeks with a thigh brace, followed by eight to twelve weeks of rehabilitation, which caused The Onyx Hotel Tour to be canceled. During 2004, Spears became involved in the Kabbalah Centre through her friendship with Madonna.In July 2004, she announced her engagement to American dancer Kevin Federline, whom she had met three months before. The romance received intense attention from the media, since Federline had recently broken up with actress Shar Jackson, who was still pregnant with their second child at the time. The initial stages of their relationship were chronicled in Spears's first reality show ''Britney & Kevin: Chaotic''. They held a wedding ceremony on September 18, 2004, but were not legally married until three weeks later on October 6 due to a delay finalizing the couple's prenuptial agreement. Shortly after, she released her first fragrance with Elizabeth Arden, ''Curious'', which broke the company's first-week gross for a perfume. In October 2004, Spears announced she would be taking another career break to start a family. ''Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'', her first greatest hits compilation album, was released in November 2004. Spears's cover version of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" was released as the lead single from the album, reaching the top of the charts in Finland, Ireland, Italy and Norway. The second single, "Do Somethin'", was a top ten hit in Australia, the United Kingdom and other countries of mainland Europe. Worldwide, ''Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'' sold over 5 million copies. In late 2004, Spears went on KIIS-FM radio in Los Angeles, CA to play a new demo titled "Mona Lisa." The demo was to be the first single from an upcoming album called the "Original Doll." However, Spears' label later cancelled the album for unknown reasons. Spears gave birth to her first child, Sean Preston Federline, on September 14, 2005.
In November 2005, she released her first remix compilation, ''B in the Mix: The Remixes'', which consists of eleven remixes. In February 2006, pictures surfaced of Spears driving with her son Sean, on her lap instead of in a car seat. Child advocates were horrified by the photos of her holding the wheel with one hand and Sean with the other. Spears claimed that the situation happened because of a frightening encounter with paparazzi, and that it was a mistake on her part. The following month, she guest-starred on the ''Will & Grace'' episode "Buy, Buy Baby" as closeted lesbian Amber Louise. She publicly announced she no longer studied Kabbalah in June 2006, explaining, "my baby is my religion." Two months later, Spears posed nude for the cover of ''Harper's Bazaar''. The picture was heavily compared to Demi Moore's August 1991 ''Vanity Fair'' cover. She gave birth to her second child, Jayden James Federline, on September 12, 2006. On November 7, 2006, Spears filed for divorce from Federline, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce was finalized in July 2007, when the couple reached a global settlement and agreed to share joint custody of their children. Spears's aunt Sandra Bridges Covington, with whom she had been very close, died of ovarian cancer in January. On February 16, 2007, Spears stayed in a drug rehabilitation facility in Antigua for less than a day. The following night, she shaved her head with electric clippers at a hair salon in Tarzana, Los Angeles. She admitted herself to other treatment facilities during the following weeks. After completing a month-long program at Promises, she wrote on her website, "I truly hit rock bottom. Till this day I don't think that it was alcohol or depression. [...] was like a bad kid running around with ADD." In May 2007, she produced a series of promotional concerts at House of Blues venues, titled The M+M's Tour. Spears lost physical custody of her children to Federline on October 1, 2007. The reasons of the court ruling were not revealed to the public.
Her fifth studio album, ''Blackout'', was released in October 2007. It debuted at the top of charts in Canada and Ireland, number two in the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200,—held off from the top spot by Eagles's ''Long Road out of Eden''— France, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom and the top ten in Australia, Korea, New Zealand and many European nations. In the United States, Spears became the only female artist to have her first five studio albums debut at the two top slots of the chart. ''Blackout'' sold over 3.1 million copies worldwide. Peter Robinson of ''The Observer'' said that "Britney has delivered the best album of her career, raising the bar for modern pop music with an incendiary mix of Timbaland's ''Shock Value'' and her own back catalogue." Dennis Lim of ''Blender'' commented, "Spears’s fifth studio album is her most consistent, a seamlessly entertaining collection of bright, brash electropop." ''Blackout'' won Album of the Year at MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 and was listed as the fifth Best Pop Album of the Decade by ''The Times''. Spears performed the lead single "Gimme More" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The performance was panned by many critics. David Willis of BBC stated her performance would "go down in the history books as being one of the worst to grace the MTV Awards". Despite the backlash, the single rocketed to worldwide success, peaking at number one in Canada and the top ten in almost every country it charted. The second single "Piece of Me" reached the top of the charts in Ireland and reached the top five in Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The third single "Break the Ice" was released the following year and had moderate success due to Spears not being able to promote it properly. In December 2007, Spears began a relationship with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib.
2008–10: Conservatorship and ''Circus''
On January 3, 2008, Spears refused to relinquish custody of her sons to Federline's representatives. She was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, after police that arrived at her house noted she appeared to be under the influence of an illicit substance. The following day, Spears's visitation rights were suspended at an emergency court hearing, and Federline was given sole physical and legal custody of the children. On January 31, 2008, Spears was committed to the psychiatric ward of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and put on 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold. The court placed her under temporary conservatorship of her father James Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet, giving them complete control of her assets. Spears was released on February 6, 2008. Her parents expressed disappointment and concern at the decision to release her. The following month, she guest-starred on the ''How I Met Your Mother'' episode "Ten Sessions" as receptionist Abby. She received positive reviews for her performance, as well as bringing the series its highest ratings ever. In July 2008, Spears regained some visitation rights after coming to an agreement with Federline and his counsel. On September 7, 2008, Spears opened the MTV Video Music Awards with a pre-taped comedy sketch with Jonah Hill and an introduction speech. She won Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year for "Piece of Me". A 60-minute introspective documentary, ''Britney: For the Record'', was produced to chronicle Spears' return to the recording industry. Directed by Phil Griffin, ''For the Record'' was entirely shot in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and New York City during the third quarter of 2008. Main shooting began on September 5, 2008, two days before Spears' appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards. ''For the Record'' was broadcast on MTV on November 30, 2008 to 5.6 million viewers for the two airings on the premiere night. MTV reported that Spears' documentary garnered on average, the highest rating in its Sunday night timeslot, in the network's history.Her sixth studio album ''Circus'', was released in December 2008. It received positive reviews from critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 64/100. ''Circus'' debuted at number one in Canada, Czech Republic and the United States, and inside the top in many European nations. In the United States, Spears became the youngest female artist to have five albums debut at number one, earning a place in the ''Guinness Book of World Records''. She also became the only act in the Soundscan era to have four albums debut with 500,000 or more copies sold. ''Circus'' became one of the fastest-selling albums of the year, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. Its lead single, "Womanizer", became her first number one in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 since "...Baby One More Time" and topped the charts in countries such as Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden. It was also nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording. In January 2009, Spears and her father James obtained a restraining order against her former manager Sam Lufti, ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib and attorney Jon Eardley—all of whom, court documents claim, had been conspiring to gain control of Spears's affairs. The restraining order forbids Lutfi and Ghalib from contacting Spears or coming within 250 yards of her, her property or family members. Spears embarked on The Circus Starring Britney Spears in March 2009. With a gross of U.S. $131.8 million, it became the fifth highest grossing tour of the year.
She released her second greatest hits album, ''The Singles Collection'' in November 2009. "3" became her third number one single in the US, and was the first song to debut at the top of the charts in three years. Later that month, she released an application for iPhone and iPod Touch titled "It's Britney!". In May 2010, Spears's representatives confirmed she was dating her agent Jason Trawick, and that they had decided to end their professional relationship to focus on their personal relationship. Spears designed a limited edition clothing line for Candie's, which was released in stores in July 2010. On September 28, 2010, she made a cameo appearance on a Spears-themed tribute episode of American TV show ''Glee'', titled "Britney/Brittany". Spears approved of the episode, although her appearances received mixed reviews from critics. The episode drew ''Glee'''s second largest audience, as well as the show's highest ratings ever.
2011–present: ''Femme Fatale''
In March 2011, Spears released her seventh studio album ''Femme Fatale''. Max Martin and Dr. Luke executive produced the album and the album's first single "Hold It Against Me". The single debuted at number-one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. This gave Spears her fourth number-one single on the chart, and made her only the second artist in history to have two consecutive singles debut at number-one, after Mariah Carey. The album peaked at number one in the United States(selling 276,000 copies), Canada, and Australia, and peaked inside the top ten on nearly every other chart. The album's peak in the United States ties Britney with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson for the third-most number ones among women. ''Femme Fatale'' has sold over 590,000 copies in the United States and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album received positive critical reviews after its release, receiving a score of 67 on Metacritic, her highest critical score since ''Oops!... I Did It Again,'' with many critics naming the album one of Spears's best. In April 2011, Spears appeared in a remix to the song "S&M;" by Rihanna after Rihanna asked her fans via Twitter who they wanted her to collaborate with. The song reached number one in the US in mid-April 2011, giving Britney her fifth number one on the chart. In early May, Spears' second single from ''Femme Fatale'', "Till The World Ends", reached number three on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and had ninety-eight million audience impressions on the ''Billboard'' chart, granting Spears the highest weekly audience of her 13-year chart career. ''Femme Fatale's'' third single "I Wanna Go" reached the top forty on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in June 2011. Among females in the last thirteen years, Spears now has the third-most top forty hits, with twenty-one. In August, the single managed to reach the top-ten on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, which is the first time for Spears to have three songs from one album in the top-ten. On the week ending September 24, 2011, "I Wanna Go" moved 2-1 on the mainstream top 40, becoming her sixth number-one on that chart (making her tied for third all-time) and her first number-one and third top-ten pop song for ''Femme Fatale.'' Spears now has the longest span of number ones on the mainstream top 40, with a length of twelve years, seven months, and four days.On March 2011, Spears announced that she would tour throughout the United States during summer 2011 The Femme Fatale Tour opened June 16 at the Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento, California to positive reviews. Many critics noted that Spears sang more of the concert live in response to lip-synching accusations during The Circus Starring Britney Spears, and that the dancing is some of her best in years. The first ten US dates of the tour grossed $6.2 million, landing the fifty-fifth spot on Pollstar's Top 100 North American Tours list for the half-way point of the year. The tour will travel to Europe and South and Central America later in 2011. On August 12, Spears announced that her performances at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto will be taped to air on the EPIX television channel and for a DVD release, resulting in the doubling of traffic to EPIX social sites and 'Britney Spears' becoming a worldwide trending topic on Twitter. Her first televised concert since the Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004, the show, ''Britney Spears: Femme Fatale,'' was shot in 2D and 3D on August 13 and 14 and will premiere on Epix in November.
On June 15, 2011, it was announced by ''Billboard'' that the RCA/Jive Label Group would be splitting, with Jive Records going to a restructured Epic Records, and RCA Records staying intact. In August it was announced that Spears had officially joined the RCA's roster. During the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28 2011, MTV played tribute to Spears with a group of young female dancers that memorialised Britney's music videos, performances, and style. Following which, Spears accepted the MTV Video Vanguard Award from Lady Gaga, who said that "industry wouldn't be the same without [her]".
On September 9, 2011, Spears announced that her second remix album, ''B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2'', will be released on October 11, along with the tracklist.
Musical style and performance
Following her debut, Spears was credited with leading the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s. ''The Daily Yomiuri'' reported that "[m]usic critics have hailed her as the most gifted teenage pop idol for many years, but Spears has set her sights a little higher-she is aiming for the level of superstardom that has been achieved by Madonna and Janet Jackson." ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "Britney Spears carries on the classic archetype of the rock & roll teen queen, the dungaree doll, the angel baby who just has to make a scene." Rami Yacoub who co-produced Spears's debut album with lyricist Max Martin, commented, "I know from Denniz Pop and Max's previous productions, when we do songs, there's kind of a nasal thing. With N' Sync and the Backstreet Boys, we had to push for that mid-nasal voice. When Britney did that, she got this kind of raspy, sexy voice." Following the release of her debut album, Chuck Taylor of ''Billboard'' observed, "Spears has become a consummate performer, with snappy dance moves, a clearly real-albeit young-and funkdified voice ... "(You Drive Me) Crazy", her third single ... demonstrates Spears's own development, proving that the 17-year-old is finding her own vocal personality after so many months of steadfast practice." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic referred to her music as a "blend of infectious, rap-inflected dance-pop and smooth balladry." Spears later commented, "With ''...Baby One More Time'', I didn't get to show my voice off. The songs were great, but they weren't very challenging".''Oops!...I Did It Again'' and subsequent albums saw Spears working with several contemporary R&B; producers, leading to "a combination of bubblegum, urban soul, and raga." Her third studio album, ''Britney'' derived from the teen pop niche, "[r]hythmically and melodically ... sharper, tougher than what came before. What used to be unabashedly frothy has some disco grit, underpinned by Spears' spunky self-determination that helps sell hooks that are already catchier, by and large, than those that populated her previous two albums." Guy Blackman of ''The Age'' wrote that while few would care to listen to an entire Spears album, "[t]he thing about Spears, though, is that her biggest songs, no matter how committee-created or impossibly polished, have always been convincing because of her delivery, her commitment and her presence. For her mostly teenage fans, Spears expresses perfectly the conflicting urges of adolescence, the tension between chastity and sexual experience, between hedonism and responsibility, between confidence and vulnerability."
Her vocal ability has also been criticized, often drawing unfavorable comparison to her pop rival, Christina Aguilera Critic Allan Raible derides her overdependence in Circus on digital effects and the robotic effect it creates. "She’s never been a strong vocalist..." writes Raible, "Could she handle these songs with stripped down arrangements and no vocal effects? More importantly, would anyone want to hear her attempt such a performance? Does it matter? No. The focus is still image over substance." Her image and persona are also often contrasted to Christina Aguilera. David Browne of ''Entertainment Weekly'' observed "Christina Aguilera may flash skin and belly button, but in her music and manner, she's too eager not to offend — she's a good girl pretending to be bad. Spears, however, comes across as a bad girl acting good ... Spears' artificial-sweetener voice is much less interesting than the settings, yet that blandness is actually a relief compared with Aguilera's numbing vocal gymnastics. In contrast, Allmusic comments: "Like her peer Christina Aguilera, Britney equates maturity with transparent sexuality and the pounding sounds of nightclubs ... Where Christina comes across like a natural-born skank, Britney is the girl next door cutting loose at college, drinking and smoking and dancing and sexing just a little too recklessly, since this is the first time she ''can'' indulge herself. Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine notes, "The disparity between Aguilera and Spears can't be measured solely by the timbre and octave range of their voices ... [Aguilera's] popularity has never reached the fever pitch of Britney's."
Like other dance-oriented pop stars, it has been widely reported that Spears lip-syncs in concert. Author Gary Giddins wrote in his book ''Natural selection: Gary Giddins on comedy, film, music, and books'' (2006) that "among many other performers accused of moving their lips while a machine does the labor are Britney Spears, Luciano Pavarotti, Shania Twain, Beyoncé, and Madonna." Rashod D. Ollison of ''The Baltimore Sun'' observes: "Many pop stars ... feel they have no choice but to seek vocal enhancement. Since the advent of MTV and other video music channels, pop audiences have been fed elaborate videos thick with jaw-dropping effects, awesome choreography, fabulous clothes, marvelous bodies. And the same level of perfection is expected to extend beyond the video set to the concert stage. So if Britney Spears, Janet Jackson or Madonna sounds shrill and flat without a backing track, fans won't pay up to $300 for a concert ticket." Giddins adds, "it was reported Britney Spears fans prefer her to lip-sync—despite her denials of doing so (contradicted by her own director)—because they expect flawless digitalization when they pay serious money for a concert."
In Australia, NSW Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge has advised disclaimers be printed on any ticket for concerts which contain any prerecorded vocals. She commented: "There could have been some instances where people actually go and purchase a ticket thinking that they're going to have a live performance ... for some people that means that everything is live, it's fresh, it happens instantaneously, it's not something that's been pre-recorded. You want to make sure that they're actually paying for what they think they're getting." Noting on the prevalence of lip-syncing, ''Los Angeles Daily News'' reported "in the context of a Britney Spears concert, does it really matter? Like a Vegas revue show, you don't go to hear the music, you go for the somewhat-ridiculous spectacle of it all". Similarly, Aline Mendelsohn of the ''Orlando Sentinel'' remarked: "Let's get one thing straight: A Britney Spears concert is not about the music ... you have to remember that it's about the sight, not the sound." Critic Glenn Gamboa comments her concert tours are "like her life—a massive money-making venture designed to play up her talents and distract from her shortcomings with a mix of techno-tinged sex appeal and disco-flavored flash. And, like her life, it is, more or less, a success.
Influences
Throughout her career, Spears has drawn frequent comparisons to Madonna and Janet Jackson, in terms of vocals, choreography and stage presence, citing both as influences in her work. She has also named Michael Jackson as a source of inspiration. According to Spears: "I know when I was younger, I looked up to people... like, you know, Janet Jackson and Madonna. And they were major inspirations for me. But I also had my own identity and I knew who I was, you know." In the 2002 book ''Madonnastyle'' by Carol Clerk, she is quoted saying: "I have been a huge fan of Madonna since I was a little girl. She's the person that I've really looked up to. I would really, really like to be a legend like Madonna."Many critics have argued that Spears should not be considered in the same league of talent as Jackson or Madonna. Journalists Erika Montalvo and Jackie Sheppard of the ''Rocky Mountain Collegian'' observed "[s]ome may argue that Spears is not only a good recording artist but also an important cultural icon." However, in examining her level of skill as an artist, it is questioned that "[a]lthough she has been classified among female elites such as Janet Jackson and Madonna, what does Ms. Spears really have in common with these divas of rock?" Joan Anderman of ''The Boston Globe'' remarked that "[t]hirteen costume changes in 90 minutes won't bless her with Madonna's intelligence or cultural barometer. An army of cutting-edge R&B; producers won't supply her with Janet Jackson's sense of humor or sincere smile ... Britney's heroes aren't great singers. But they're real singers. Spears sounds robotic, nearly inhuman, on her records, so processed is her voice by digital pitch-shifters and synthesizers."
Reporter Ed Bumgardner commented her transition from teen pop start to adult sex symbol with her third studio album ''Britney'' "takes its cues from two other successful performers—Madonna and Janet Jackson—both of whom she brazenly rips off and both of whom, like Spears, are passable singers, at best." Critic Shane Harrison wrote: "From the minimalist thump and "Nasty" feel of "I'm a Slave 4 U" to the scattered quotes in "Boys", [''Britney''] feels like [Spears's] attempt at 'Control'."
Citing Jackson's resolve to incorporate personal and social issues into her work and Madonna's ability to constantly redefine the boundaries of socially acceptable material in the industry, Spears's catalog ultimately pales in comparison, because "[w]hile Jackson and Madonna wrote their own music about subjects of importance, [Spears's] music sounds like an upbeat version of either, 'I want to grow up but the media won't let me,' or 'Here kitty, kitty, I'm wearing my underwear outside of my leather pants'-type ballads." In contrast, Guy Blackman argues that although "no one would argue that Spears is some kind of pioneering pop auteur, there’s still a lot to like about her back catalogue. During her world-conquering peak, she was just about as cutting edge as you could get in the world of global pop superstardom. Spears didn’t just work with big names, she gave big names their names, and maintained her high currency in the world’s most fickle industry for years, when most aspiring starlets are lucky to manage months."
After meeting Spears face to face, Janet Jackson stated: "she said to me, 'I'm such a big fan; I really admire you.' That's so flattering. Everyone gets inspiration from some place. And it's awesome to see someone else coming up who's dancing and singing, and seeing how all these kids relate to her. A lot of people put it down, but what she does is a positive thing." Madonna's respect for Spears has also been a subject of observation. Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens, authors of ''Madonna's drowned worlds: new approaches to her cultural transformations, 1983-2003'' (2004) note that the most well known cross-generational relationship exists between Spears and Madonna in which "the entertainment newsmedia almost became obsessed with their relationship of mutual admiration." The biographers also report "[s]ome observers of popular culture, however, feel that the comparisons between the two artist are meaningless and fail to recognize Madonna's unique contribution: Madonna was never 'just another pop star' whereas Britney can more easily be seen as a standard manufactured pop act."
Legacy
Spears became an international pop culture icon immediately after launching her recording career. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine wrote: "One of the most controversial and successful female vocalists of the 21st century," she "spearheaded the rise of post-millennial teen pop ... Spears early on cultivated a mixture of innocence and experience that broke the bank". She is listed by the ''Guinness World Records'' as having the "Best-selling album by a teenage solo artist" for her debut album ''...Baby One More Time'' which sold over thirteen million copies in the United States. Melissa Ruggieri of the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' reported, "She's also marked for being the best-selling teenage artist. Before she turned 20 in 2001, Spears sold more than 37 million albums worldwide".Barbara Ellen of ''The Observer'' has reported: "Spears is famously one of the 'oldest' teenagers pop has ever produced, almost middle aged in terms of focus and determination. Many 19-year-olds haven't even started working by that age, whereas Britney, a former Mouseketeer, was that most unusual and volatile of American phenomena — a child with a full-time career. While other little girls were putting posters on their walls, Britney was wanting to be the poster on the wall. Whereas other children develop at their own pace, Britney was developing at a pace set by the ferociously competitive American entertainment industry". 'Britney Spears' was Yahoo!'s most popular search term between 2005 and 2008, and has been in a total of seven different years. Spears was named as Most Searched Person in the ''Guinness World Records'' book edition 2007 and 2009. Spears has also become a major influence among many new artists, including Kristinia DeBarge, Lady Gaga, Little Boots, Selena Gomez & the Scene, Pixie Lott and Miley Cyrus who has cited Spears as one of her biggest inspirations and has also referenced Spears in her hit song "Party in the U.S.A.". Spears' personal breakdown was also cited as an inspiration for Barry Manilow's album "''15 Minutes''".
In 2011, Adam Markovitz of ''Entertainment Weekly'' commented on the cultural significance of Spears' voice and music. "We don't ask a whole lot from Britney Spears as an entertainer...we'll still send her straight up the charts simply because she's Britney. She's an American institution, as deeply sacred and messed up as pro wrestling or the filibuster. Musically, though, Spears will always have to measure up to her own gold standards of pop euphony: the operatic slither of 2004's 'Toxic' and the candied funk of 2000's 'Oops!...I Did It Again.' Spears is no technical singer, that's for sure. But backed by Martin and Dr. Luke's wall of pound, her vocals melt into a mix of babytalk coo and coital panting that is, in its own overprocessed way, just as iconic and propulsive as Michael Jackson's yips or Eminem's snarls."
Bebo Norman wrote a song about Spears, called "Britney", which was released as a single. Boy band Busted also wrote a song about Spears called "Britney", which was on their debut album. She is also mentioned in P!nk's song "Don't Let Me Get Me". She was cited as the inspiration of Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the 2010 film ''Country Strong''. Richard Cheese called Britney Spears "a remarkable recording artist" and also went on to say that she was "versatile" and what the industry calls an "artist". ''People'' magazine and MTV reported that October 1, 2008, the Bronx's John Philip Sousa Middle School, named their music studio in honor of Britney Spears. Spears herself was present during the ceremony and donated $10,000 to the school's music program.
Discography
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See also
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