Masser's first major composition hit, co-written with Ron Miller, was "Touch Me in the Morning," recorded by Diana Ross. He co-wrote several other hit songs in the 1970s and 1980s, including four made famous by Whitney Houston, "Greatest Love of All," "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "All at Once," and "Saving All My Love for You."
Other hit songs include "Hold Me" (Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston), "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" (Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson), "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" (Peabo Bryson), "In Your Eyes" (Jeffrey Osborne, George Benson), "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" (George Benson, Glenn Medeiros), "Miss You Like Crazy" (Natalie Cole) and "Someone That I Used To Love" (Natalie Cole), "The Greatest Love of All" (George Benson), "So Sad the Song" (Teddy Pendergrass, Gladys Knight), and "It's My Turn" and "Last Time I Saw Him" (Diana Ross). A country cover of "Last Time I Saw Him" by Dottie West also became a hit, peaking at #8 on the country charts. Masser was nominated for an Academy Award in 1976 for Best Music, Original Song, for "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)," which he wrote with Gerry Goffin. The song had actually been first recorded (also in 1975) by fellow Motown labelmate Thelma Houston as a planned single but was pulled before release so that Diana Ross could release it as a theme song (and single) for her film ''Mahogany''.
Among the many recordings that he has produced are Barbra Streisand's "Someone That I Used to Love" (originally a hit for Natalie Cole) and the duet by Judy Collins and T. G. Sheppard, "Home Again."
Masser was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
! Song | ! Artist/Album/Label/Year | ! Writers |
"Hold Me" | Whitney Houston & Teddy Pendergrass, Whitney Houston, Arista 1984 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"Saving All My Love For You" | Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston, Arista 1985 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"The Greatest Love of All" | Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston, Arista 1986 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"All At Once" | Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston, Arista 1986 | Michael Masser/Jeffrey Osborne |
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" | Whitney Houston, Whitney, Arista 1987 | Michael Masser/Will Jennings |
"You're Still My Man" | Whitney Houston, Whitney, Arista 1989 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"After We Make Love" | Whitney Houston, I'm Your Baby Tonight, Arista 1991 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Some Changes Are For Good" | Dionne Warwick, Hot! Live and Otherwise, Arista 1981 | Michael Masser/Carole Bayer Sager |
"This Time Is Ours" | Dionne Warwick, Some Changes Are For Good (B-side) - later released on No Night So Long (CD), Arista 1981 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"There's A Long Road Ahead Of Us" | Dionne Warwick, Hot! Live and Otherwise, Arista 1981 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Now We're Starting Over Again" | Dionne Warwick, Hot! Live and Otherwise, Arista 1981 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Touch Me In The Morning" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1973 | Michael Masser/Ron Miller |
"Last Time I Saw Him" | Diana Ross, Last Time I Saw Him, Motown 1974 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"No One's Gonna Be A Fool Forever" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1975 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right" | Diana Ross, single 1975 & 'Ross' album 1978, Motown | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Together" | Diana Ross, single 1975 & 'Ross' album 1978, Motown | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme From Mahogany)" | Diana Ross, Mahogany, Motown 1975 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"I Thought It Took A Little Time (But Today I Fell In Love)" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1976 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"After You" | Diana Ross, Diana Ross, Motown 1976 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"To Love Again" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1978 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"It's My Turn" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, It's My Turn (soundtrack), Motown 1980 | Michael Masser/Carole Bayer Sager |
"Stay With Me" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1981 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"One More Chance" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1981 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Crying My Heart Out For You" | Diana Ross, To Love Again, Motown 1981 | Michael Masser/Allee Willis |
"In Your Arms" | Diana Ross, Silk Electric, RCA 1983 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"First You Have To Say You Love Me" | Neil Diamond, Heartlight, Columbia 1982 | Michael Masser/Neil Diamond |
"Can't Stop Thinking About You" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"Coming Alive" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Now We're Starting Over Again" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"He's Just Not You" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Randy Goodrum |
"I'm Not The Same Girl" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Randy Goodrum |
"Toughen Up" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Rand Goodrum |
"Together" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"I Thought It Took A Little Time" | Stacy Lattisaw, I'm Not The Same Girl, Cotillion 1985 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" | Glenn Medeiros, Glenn Medeiros, Amherst 1987 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"A Long and Lasting Love" | Glenn Medeiros, Not Me, Amherst 1988 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"The Greatest Love of All" | George Benson, The Greatest (soundtrack), Arista 1977 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"I Always Knew I Had It In Me" | George Benson, The Greatest (soundtrack), Arista 1977 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"In Your Eyes" | George Benson, In Your Eyes, Warner Brothers 1983 | Michael Masser/Dan Hill |
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" | George Benson, 20/20, Warner Brothers 1985 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"You Are the Love of My Life" | George Benson & Roberta Flack, 20/20, Warner Brothers 1985 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"Ali's Theme (Instrumental)" | Michael Masser, The Greatest (soundtrack), Arista 1977 | Michael Masser |
"After You" | Roberta Flack, Blue Lights in the Basement, Atlantic 1978 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Stay With Me" | Roberta Flack, Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway, Atlantic 1979 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" | Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack, Born to Love, EMI 1983 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Comin' Alive" | Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack, Born to Love, EMI 1983 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"If Ever You're In My Arms Again" | Peabo Bryson, Straight From The Heart, Elektra 1984 | Michael Masser/Tom Snow/Cynthia Weil |
"Learning The Ways of Love" | Peabo Bryson, Straight From The Heart, Elektra 1984 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"You're My Only Girl (Jenny)" | Barry Manilow, Greatest Hits Vol. 3, Arista 1989 | Michael Masser/Barry Manilow/John Bettis |
"Nobody Wants To Be Alone" | Crystal Gayle, Nobody Wants To Be Alone, Warner Brothers 1985 | Michael Masser/Rhonda Fleming |
"A Long and Lasting Love" | Crystal Gayle, Nobody Wants To Be Alone, Warner Brothers 1985 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"You Were There For Me" | Crystal Gayle, Nobody Wants To Be Alone, Warner Brothers 1985 | Michael Masser/Cynthia Weil |
"A New Way To Say I Love You" | Crystal Gayle, Nobody Wants To Be Alone, Warner Brothers 1985 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Crazy" | Gene Wilder, Stir Crazy (Soundtrack), Quality Records 1981 | Michael Masser/Randy Goodrum |
"Love" | Randy Goodrum, Stir Crazy (Soundtrack), Quality Records, 1981 | Michael Masser/Randy Goodrum |
"Nothing Can Stop Us Now" | Kiki Dee, Stir Crazy (Soundtrack), Quality Records 1981 | Michael Masser/Randy Goodrum |
"Hold Me" | Teddy Pendergrass & Whitney Houston, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"In My Time" | Teddy Pendergrass, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/Cynthia Weil |
"So Sad The Song" | Teddy Pendergrass, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Hot Love" | Teddy Pendergrass, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/R. Parker, Jr/Linda Creed |
"Stay With Me" | Teddy Pendergrass, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Love" | Teddy Pendergrass, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/Randy Goodrum |
"This Time Is Ours" | Teddy Pendergrass, Love Language, Elektra/Asylum 1984 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"In Your Eyes" | Jeffrey Osborne, So Emotional, A&M; Records 1987 | Michael Masser/Dan Hill |
"In Your Eyes" | Dan Hill, Love in the Shadows, Polygram Records 1983 | Michael Masser/Dan Hill |
"Piano Man" | Thelma Houston, A-side single release (later on "Motown Superstar Series" LP), Mowest/Motown 1973 | Michael Masser/K. L. Dunham |
"I'm Just a Part of Yesterday" | Thelma Houston, B-side single release (later on "Best of Thelma Houston" LP), Mowest/Motown 1973 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"No One's Gonna Be a Fool Forever" | Thelma Houston, A-side single release (later on "Best Of Thelma Houston" LP), Mowest/Motown 1972 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Your Eyes" | Thelma Houston, The Devil In Me, Motown 1977 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Someone That I Used to Love" | Natalie Cole, Don't Look Back, Capitol 1980 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Miss You Like Crazy" | Natalie Cole, Good To Be Back, EMI 1989 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin/Preston Glass |
"Starting Over Again" | Natalie Cole, Good To Be Back, EMI 1989 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"No More Blue Christmas'" | Natalie Cole, single release, EMI 1990 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Home Again" | Judy Collins & T. G. Sheppard, Home Again, Elektra 1984 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"A Long and Lasting Love" | Jane Olivor, Best Side of Goodbye, Columbia 1980 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"The Greatest Love of All" | Jane Olivor, Best Side of Goodbye, Columbia 1980 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"To Love Again" | Jane Olivor, Best Side of Goodbye, Columbia 1980 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Last Time I Saw Him" | Dottie West, Essential, RCA 1974 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"So Sad The Song" | Gladys Knight & The Pips, Pipe Dreams, Buddah 1976 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right" | Gladys Knight & The Pips, The One and Only, Buddah 1977 | Michael Masser/Pam Sawyer |
"Someone to Love" | Phyllis Hyman, Forever With You, Philadelphia International 1998 | Michael Masser/Linda Creed |
"Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" | Mariah Carey, Rainbow (French edition - hidden bonus track), Columbia 1999 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Someone That I Used To Love" | Barbra Streisand, A Collection: Greatest Hits & More, Columbia 1989 | Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin |
"Halfway Through the Night" | Barbra Streisand, (unreleased), Columbia 1989 | Michael Masser/Cynthia Weil |
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name | Natalie Cole |
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background | solo_singer |
birth name | Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole |
born | February 06, 1950Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
instrument | Voice, Piano |
genre | R&B;, soul, pop, soft rock, jazz, quiet storm, adult contemporary |
occupation | Singer, songwriter, pianist, actress |
years active | 1955–present |
label | Capitol (1975–1981)Epic (1982–1984)Modern (1984–1986)Capitol-EMI-Manhattan (1986–1990)Elektra (1991–2001)Verve (2001–2007)DMI / Rhino (2008–2010) |
associated acts | Nat King Cole |
website | www.nataliecole.com }} |
Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole (born February 6, 1950), better known as Natalie Cole is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B; artist with the hits "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)", "Inseparable" and "Our Love". After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole reemerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album, ''Everlasting'', and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, ''Unforgettable... with Love'', which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole numerous Grammy Awards.
Cole grew up with older adopted sister Carole "Cookie" (1944–2009) (her mother Maria's younger sister's daughter); adopted brother Nat "Kelly" Cole (1959–95), and younger twin sisters Timolin and Casey (born 1961).
Her paternal uncle Freddy Cole is a singer and pianist with numerous albums and awards. Cole attended Northfield Mount Hermon School at age 15, afer her father died of lung cancer in February 1965. Soon afterwards she began having a difficult relationship with her mother. She enrolled in the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She briefly transferred to University of Southern California where she pledged the Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She later transferred back to the University of Massachusetts, where she majored in Child Psychology and minored in German graduating in 1972.
In 1994 she released her first holiday recording, ''Holly and Ivy'', which was certified gold in 1996. Additional holiday recordings include ''A Celebration of Christmas'' (1996), recorded live in Vienna with Jose Carreras and Plácido Domingo; and ''Magic of Christmas'' (1999).
In 1995, she performed in ''The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True'' a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.
Her 1999 album ''Snowfall on the Sahara'' marked a return to the easy adult-contemporary soul that categorized her late-1980s style and included the hit "Say You Love Me". In 2002 the critically acclaimed number one jazz cd ''Ask a Woman Who Knows'' coverered songs made famous by Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan. For this recording she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist.
In September 2006, she released ''Leavin''', a cover album of tracks made popular by Shelby Lynne, Kate Bush, Sting, and Fiona Apple, and the hit remake of Aretha Franklin's "Daydreaming", for which she received a Grammy nomination.
Cole's latest album, ''Still Unforgettable'' was released September 9, 2008 including yet another virtual duet with her late father, a cover of his 1951 hit "Walkin' My Baby Back Home". ''Still Unforgettable'' won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 51st Grammy Awards.
In 1992, following the success of the ''Unforgettable: With Love'' album, PBS broadcast a special based on the album. ''Unforgettable, With Love: Natalie Cole Sings the Songs of Nat "King" Cole'' received emmy nominations for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program; and Cole received a nomination for Outstanding Individual Performance, losing to Bette Midler.
Cole has made a number of dramatic appearances on television, including guest appearances on ''I'll Fly Away'', ''Touched by an Angel'', and ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. In 2006, she made a memorable guest appearance on the popular ABC show ''Grey's Anatomy'' as a terminally ill patient. Her character visited Seattle Grace Hospital to have a fork removed from her neck that her husband had stabbed her with during a mishap; the couple had been having sex in public.
Cole has also made several appearances in feature films, most recently in the Cole Porter biopic ''De-Lovely''. She has appeared in several made-for-TV movies, most notably as the lead in ''Lily in Winter''. Cole was featured on Macy Gray's album ''Big'', singing "Finally Make Me Happy".
In 2001 she starred as herself in ''Livin' for Love: the Natalie Cole Story'', for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television, Mini-Series of Dramatic Special.
She also sang the national anthem with the Atlanta University Center Chorus at Super Bowl XXVIII.
On December 2, 2006, Cole performed for the first time in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, as part of the annual Cayman Jazz Fest.
On the February 5, 2007 episode of ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', Cole sang "I Say a Little Prayer" at a benefit dinner for Harriet Hayes (Sarah Paulson).
She can also be seen in the last scene of Nas' music video for "Can't Forget About You". The song uses a sample of her father's song "Unforgettable". Cole is sitting at a piano in a cabaret-style lounge mouthing her father's song with Nas standing beside her.
Natalie Cole also performed "Something's Gotta Give" on American Idol on April 29, 2009.
In September 2010, Cole performed with Andrea Bocelli in a concert at the Kodak Theatre, for his album ''My Christmas'', in which she recorded a duet with him, and on December 10–13, 2009, she appeared with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in their annual Christmas concerts. Both were videotaped for presentation on PBS in December 2010.
On July 22, 2011 Cole appeared on the reality television series, Real Housewives of New York City.
Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes | |||
1990 | "Comic Relief" (HBO Special) | (performed) | |
1992 | ''A Tribute To Nat King Cole'' (BBC Special) | ||
1997 | ''Cats Don't Dance''| | Sawyer | (singing voice) |
1999 | ''Freak City'' | ||
2004 | ''De-Lovely'' | ||
2006 | ''Grey's Anatomy'' | ||
2011 | ''The Real Housewives of Miami'' | ||
2011 | ''The Real Housewives of New York City'' |
Cole has been active in the Afghan World Foundation cause, supporting Sonia Nassery Cole.
In concert with the release of the book, her autobiography was turned into a made-for-TV movie, ''The Natalie Cole Story'', which aired December 10, 2000 on NBC.
Cole has also had struggles with kidney disease. Before receiving a kidney transplant on May 20, 2009, Cole had been receiving kidney dialysis three times a week. During her March 31, 2009 appearance on Larry King Live "dozens of emails flooded the CNN studio" with offers for replacement kidneys.
As of June 2009, Cole had received a kidney transplant. The news of the organ came on the same day her sister Carole died from cancer. Natalie attended the memorial services and continues to heal and grow stronger with her new kidney.
She made a triumphant stage comeback on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in LA. In December 2009 she achieved a life long dream of performing at the Christmas Extravaganza with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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With Joe Sample, Jennings wrote "Street Life" (a world-wide hit for the Crusaders with singer Randy Crawford) and several songs for various albums by the Crusaders for guest vocalists, including Joe Cocker ("I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today"), Bill Withers ("Soul Shadows"), and Nancy Wilson ("The Way It Goes"). Jennings and Sample also wrote the better part of three albums for B. B. King, ''Midnight Believer'' in 1978, ''Take It Home'' in 1979, and ''There Is Always One More Time'' in 1991.
Richard Kerr and Jennings wrote three modern classics, "Somewhere in the Night" and "Looks Like We Made It" for Barry Manilow and "I'll Never Love This Way Again" for Dionne Warwick.
Jennings has collaborated on many songs for films, the most notable songs being "Up Where We Belong," with Jack Nitzche and Buffy St.-Marie for ''An Officer and a Gentleman'', which won the Academy Award in America and the BAFTA (British Academy Award) in England for the songwriters and was a number one hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, and, in 1997, the world-wide number one Céline Dion hit “My Heart Will Go On” for ''Titanic'', for which Jennings and his collaborator James Horner won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture.
Among his other collaborations were two albums written with Jimmy Buffett and Michael Utley for Jimmy Buffett, ''Riddles in the Sand'' and ''The Last Mango in Paris'', and the Roy Orbison ''King Of Hearts'' album, containing several songs written with Orbison.
In Nashville, Jennings wrote hits with Rodney Crowell, including "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway," "What Kind of Love," which is a tune Jennings had started with Orbison and finished with Crowell and “Please Remember Me,” which was a number one country and top five pop hit for Tim McGraw in 1999.
Jennings also wrote "Tears in Heaven" with Eric Clapton, which won a Grammy in 1993 for Song of the Year and also won the Ivor Novello award (the British Grammy) for best song from a film.
Teaming again with James Horner and this time with popular singer Mariah Carey, Jennings wrote the lyrics for the central song in “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Where Are You Christmas?”, sung by a character within the film and by Faith Hill at the end of the film. And in the fall of 2002, Horner and Jennings contributed a song for the Oscar-winning film ''A Beautiful Mind''.
In the fall of 2002, Peter Wolf’s new album, ''Sleepless'', appeared to glowing reviews. The album features six new songs written by Jennings and Wolf, who collaborated previously on the critically acclaimed ''Fool’s Parade'' album which came out in 1999 on Mercury Records.
Jennings and Joe Sample, keyboard player for the Crusaders and now a successful solo artist, go back to 1978 and began by writing the Midnight Believer album for B. B. King and then wrote the hit “Street Life” for the Crusaders album of the same name, the song sung on the album by Randy Crawford. A hit Jennings and Sample wrote twenty years ago, “One Day I’ll Fly Away,” originally sung by Crawford, was featured in the film ''Moulin Rouge!'', along with another of Jennings’s songs, “Up Where We Belong.” In the film “One Day I’ll Fly Away” is sung by Nicole Kidman and in late March 2002 was released as a single in England from the second soundtrack album to emerge from ''Moulin Rouge''.
After writing two songs for Peter Wolf’s 1996 ''Long Line'' album, Wolf and Jennings continued their collaborations and 2003 saw the Peter Wolf “Sleepless” album, which includes several songs written by Jennings and Wolf, in the Rolling Stone Magazine list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The pair continued with songs for the much praised 2010 album ''Midnight Souvenirs''.
Also in 2010 Jennings collaborated with Emmylou Harris on songs for her forthcoming album.
Jennings wrote the lyrics for Udo Jürgens' composition "Leave a Little Love", which was successful at the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival 1981 in Tokyo, Japan. Jürgens received the ''Most Outstanding'' award for performance, and the ''Most Outstanding'' award for composition.
Jennings cowrote a majority of the songs on two Jimmy Buffett albums, ''Riddles in the Sand'' (1984), and ''Last Mango in Paris'' (1985). This era of Buffett's career was an experimental period, venturing into uncharted waters for him. ''Riddles'' was described as a country album, and some songs from ''Paris'' can be considered as 1980s pop (songs such as "Everybody's On the Run"). The albums were moderately successful, and the single "If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me" hit the top 20 on the country charts.
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name | Glenn Medeiros |
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background | solo_singer |
birth name | Glenn Allan Medeiros |
born | June 24, 1970Lihue - Kaua'i, Hawaii |
origin | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
instrument | Vocals |
genre | Pop rock |
occupation | Musician, Singer-songwriter, Teacher at Maryknoll School |
years active | 1987–present |
label | Amherst, MCA |
website | }} |
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Except as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we will use the information you provide us only for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or in connection with the service for which you provided such information. We may forward your contact information and inquiry to our affiliates and other divisions of our company that we feel can best address your inquiry or provide you with the requested service. We may also use the information you provide in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as generating statistics and developing marketing plans. We may share or transfer such non-personally identifiable information with or to our affiliates, licensees, agents and partners.
We may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Such third parties may be provided with access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose.
In addition, we may disclose any information, including personally identifiable information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request.
We do not want you to receive unwanted e-mail from us. We try to make it easy to opt-out of any service you have asked to receive. If you sign-up to our e-mail newsletters we do not sell, exchange or give your e-mail address to a third party.
E-mail addresses are collected via the wn.com web site. Users have to physically opt-in to receive the wn.com newsletter and a verification e-mail is sent. wn.com is clearly and conspicuously named at the point of
collection.If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by e-mailing us at michaelw(at)wn.com
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during registration and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure, however. Therefore, though we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If we decide to change our e-mail practices, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we think appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If we make material changes to our e-mail practices, we will notify you here, by e-mail, and by means of a notice on our home page.
The advertising banners and other forms of advertising appearing on this Web site are sometimes delivered to you, on our behalf, by a third party. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, the third party may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. For more information on cookies, you can visit www.cookiecentral.com.
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell certain aspects of our entities or assets. In such transactions, user information, including personally identifiable information, generally is one of the transferred business assets, and by submitting your personal information on Wn.com you agree that your data may be transferred to such parties in these circumstances.