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Séamus Irish pronunciation: [ˈʃeɪməs], is a male first name of Celtic origin. It is the Gaelic equivalent of the name James. The name James is the English New Testament variant for the Hebrew name Jacob. It entered the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages from the French variation of the late Latin name for Jacob, Iacomus; a dialect variant of Iacobus, from the New Testament Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), and ultimately from Hebrew word יעקב (Yaʻaqov), i.e. Jacob. Its meaning in Hebrew is "one who supplants" or more literally "one who grabs at the heel". When the Hebrew patriarch Jacob was born, he was grasping his twin brother Esau's heel.

Variant spellings include Séamas, Seumus, Shaymus, Sheamus and Shamus. Diminutives include Séimí, Séimín and Séamaisín. In the United States, the name "Shamus" is sometimes used as a slang word for private detective.^[1]

Given name[link]

• Seamus, Stuart / Stewart Kings of Scotland numbers 1 through to 6
• Seamus Blackley, American physicist, talent agent, and co-creator of the original Xbox console
• Séamus Brennan (1948–2008), Irish politician and Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism
• Séamus Burke (1893–1967), Irish politician
• Séamus Coleman (born 1988), Irish footballer
• Séamus Cunningham (born 1942), Irish Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
• Séamus de Brún (1911–2003), Irish senator and Irish-language promoter
• Seamus Dever (born 1976), American actor
• Séamus Egan (born 1969), Irish musician
• Seamus Heaney (born 1939), Nobel-prize winning Irish poet, writer and lecturer
• Seamus Mallon {born 1936), Irish politician: Senator, MP, MLA, and deputy First Minister of the North of Ireland
• Seamus McCaffery (born 1950), American judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice
• Seamus McGarvey (born 1967), Northern Irish cinematographer
• Seamus O'Doherty (born 1989), Machinima Respawn Director, specialized in uploading
• Seamus O'Donovan, Irish explosives expert and leading volunteer in the Irish Republican Army
• Seamus O'Regan (born 1971), Canadian broadcast journalist
• Seamus Ryan, a.k.a. MC Esoteric, American hip-hop artist
• Sheamus (born 1978), ring name of Irish professional wrestler Stephen Farrelly

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See also[link]

• Articles beginning with "Seamus"
• Seamus incident
• Seamus (song)
• James (name)
• Jacob (name)
• SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States)

Seamus Haji (born 30 December 1968) is a British record producer, who had a number one on the UK Dance Chart, with a cover of Indeep's, "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life". He originally released this as a single in 2004.^[1] The single originally reached #69 on the UK Singles Chart,^[2] and #13 on re-issue in March 2007 and #1 on the UK Dance Chart.

He is of Irish and Indian descent.^[3] He has remixed many tracks by other artists, some of which have been promoted as the main version of the track in question. " Boogie 2nite" by Booty Luv, which reached number 2 on the UK chart, being one such track. Haji has worked with many of the biggest names in music, including Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Moby, Mika and most recently, Jamiroquai and Estelle.

He often produces in partnership with Paul Emanuel, and together they had a UK Singles Chart hit in 2005, with their cover of True Faith and Bridgette Grace with Final Cut's, "Take Me Away".^[4]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

• 1996 "Big Bang Theory"
• 2004 "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" #69 UK
• 2004 "Freaky" (With ATFC)
• 2004 "Ooh Ooh Ah!" (With ATFC)
• 2005 "Angels Of Love"
• 2005 "Changes" (With Def-E)
• 2005 "Weekend" (With Paul Emanuel)
• 2005 "Take Me Away" (With Paul Emanuel) #20 Finland; #73 UK
• 2006 "Devotion (A Bit More Lovin')" (With Timmy Vegas)
• 2006 "Happy" (With Steve Mac)
• 2007 "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (Re-release) (featuring KayJay) - #6 Finland, #13 UK
• 2007 "If" - (With Paul Emanuel featuring Robert Owens)
• 2008 "Head To Toe" (featuring Doug Lazy)
• 2008 "24 Hours (Nice Tight Derriere)" (With Lords Of Flatbush)
• 2009 "The Pressure" (With Paul Emanuel featuring Beverly Knight & Bryan Chambers)
• 2009 "I've Been Looking" (With Romain Curtis)
• 2009 "Speaker" (With ATFC featuring K.C Flightt)
• 2009 "In The Moment" (With Paul Emanuel featuring Roachford)
• 2009 "My Destiny" (With Dino Psaras)
• 2010 "So Far Away" (With Kaskade)
• 2010 "Good Times" (With Funkagenda & Mark Knight)^[5]
• 2010 "Just A Friend" (With Romain Curtis)

Big Bang Theory

• 1997 "Stepping"
• When U Touch Me" (featuring Carolyn Harding)
• 1998 "All Nite EP"
• 1998 "All Nite EP Vol.2"
• 2001 "God's Child/Oh Yeah"
• 2002 "God's Child" (Re-release) - #51 UK Singles Chart
• 2003 "Do U Got Funk?" (featuring Derek Conyer)
• 2003 "Haven't Been Funked Enough"

Mekkah

• 2001 "I Got You" (featuring Bryan Chambers)
• 2002 "Race Of Survival" (featuring Stephen Granville)
• 2003 "Found A Love" (featuring Bryan Chambers)
• 2003 "Dimensions (I'm Happy)" (featuring Stephen Granville)

Get This!

• 2003 "Ya Underwear"
• 2003 "Work That Sucka"
• 2004 "Party People"

11th Dimension

• 2002 "Beat Goes On" (With Paul Emanuel)
• 2003 "The Force" (With Paul Emanuel)
• 2004 "The Rhythm" (With Paul Emanuel)

Heart & Soul

• 2003 "Share Your Love" (featuring Tommy Blaize)

Sonz Of Soul

• 1995 "Race Of Survival" (With Steve McCucheon)

Ijah

• 2004 "Love The Way U Move"
• 2007 "Nitelife" (featuring D'empress)

Undercover Lover

• 2009 "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?"

Remixes[link]

2003:

• Scape feat D'empress - "Be My Friend" Big Love

2005:

• Asle - "Golden Sun" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emmanuel Remix) - CR2
• Axwell featuring Tara McDonald - "Feel The Vibe (Til The Morning Comes)" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Data
• Dannii Minogue featuring The Soul Seekerz - "Perfection" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emmanuel remix)
• Late Night Alumni - "Empty Streets" (Haji & Emanuel Remix) - Hed Kandi

2006:

• Sugababes - "Easy" (Haji & Emanuel Remix) - Island
• Blu-ray featuring Jimmy Somerville - "You & Me" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix) - All Around The World
• Bon Garcon - Freak You (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel TD Edit)
• Booty Luv - "Boogie 2Nite" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Hed Kandi
• Chanel - "My Life" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Hed Kandi
• Route 33 featuring Alex James - "Looking Back" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix) - Apollo/Universal

2007:

• Booty Luv - "Don't Mess with My Man" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Hed Kandi
• Calvin Harris - "Colours" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Columbia
• Ijah featuring D'Empress - "Nitelife" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Big Love Music
• J. Holiday - "Bed" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Just Jack - "Writer's Block" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Mercury
• Mr Hudson & The Library - "Picture Of You" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Mercury
• Rihanna - "Take a Bow" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix) - Universal
• Rihanna - "Umbrella" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix) - Universal
• Roisin Murphy - "Overpowered" (Seamus Haji Remix) - EMI
• Stonebridge - "SOS" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Apollo/Stoney Boy
• One Night Only - "Just For Tonight" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Orson - "Aint No Party" (Seamus Haji Remix) Mercury
• Brand New Heavies - "I Don't Know Why (I Love You)"
• DJ Pierre - "Destroy This Track" (Seamus Haji Remix) Big Love
• Mish Mash - "Speechless" - (Seamus Haji Remix) Data
• Paul Harris - "Find A Friend" (Seamus Haji Remix) Toolroom

2008:

• Mariah Carey - "Touch My Body" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix) - Universal
• Moby - "I Love To Move In Here" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Mute
• One Night Only - "Just For Tonight" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Mercury
• Teamsters featuring Tara McDonald - "Shake It Off" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix) - Positiva
• The Ting Tings - "Shut Up and Let Me Go" (Haji & Emanuel Remix) - Columbia
• Shakedown - "At Night" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Brandy - "Right Here (Departed)" - (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix)
• Robyn - "Who's That Girl" - (Seamus Haji Remix) Positiva
• Paul Harris & Cevin Fisher - "Deliver Me" Big Love

2009:

• Brandy - Right Here (Departed) (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Club Mix)
• Craig David - "Insomnia" (Haji & Emanuel Remix)
• The-Dream featuring Kanye West - "Walkin' On the Moon" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Club Mix)
• Utada - "Come Back to Me" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix) - Island Def Jam
• Mariah Carey - "Obsessed" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix)
• Carolina Liar - "Show Me What I'm Looking For" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Club Remix)
• Huggy & Dean Newton Feat Sam Obernik - "Get Lifted" (Seamus Haji Vocal Edit)
• Mika - "Rain" (Seamus Haji Big Love Remix)
• Sneaky Sound System - "It's Not My Problem" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• One Eskimo - "Hometime" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Mimo - "Will You Be There" (Seamus Haji Remix) Mute
• Simply Red - "Money's Too Tight To Mention" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix)

2010:

• Craig David - "One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows)" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix)
• Estelle - "Fall In Love" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Jamiroquai - "White Knuckle Ride" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Mercury
• Loick Essiene - "Love Drunk" (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Remix)
• EmIi - "Mr Romeo" (Seamus Haji Remix) - EMI
• Tiffany Dunn - "Shut The Front Door (Got My Girls)"
• The Big Bang Club - "Chemistry" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Kaci Battaglia - "Crazy Possessive" (Seamus Haji Extended Mix & Radio Edit) - Curb

2011:

• Hurts - "Sunday"(Seamus Haji Club Mix & Radio Edit)
• Grace - "When The lights Go Down" (Seamus Haji Remix) Dream Merchant 21
• Dionne Bromfield - "Foolin'" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Universal
• Tatiana Opuknik- "Been A Fool" (Seamus Haji Remix) - Island
• Avi Elman and Danny J feat Nuwella - "Whats The Point" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Donae'O - "I" (Seamus Haji Soul Love Mix)
• Jessie J - "Who You Are" (Seamus Haji Radio Mix)

2012:

• Rebecca Ferguson - "Too Good To Lose" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Niki & The Dove - "DJ Ease My Mind" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah - "R.I.P" (Seamus Haji Remix)
• Scissor Sisters - "Shady Love" (Seamus Haji Dub Remix)
• Scissor Sisters - "F***" (Seamus Haji Remix)

See also[link]

• Biglovemusic.com
• Discogs.com

References[link]

Joe Bonamassa
Bonamassa in Manchester, 2010
Background information
Born	(1977-05-08) May 8, 1977 (age 35) New Hartford, New York United States
Genres	Blues rock, hard rock, rock and roll
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, theremin
Years active	1989–present
Labels	J&R Adventures, Provogue
Associated acts	Bloodline, Black Country Communion, Beth Hart
Website	Official website
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul Gibson ES335 Fender Stratocaster Fender Telecaster Gibson Flying V

Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer. He began his career playing guitar in the band Bloodline, which featured the offspring of several famous musicians (such as Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and Berry Oakley of The Allman Brothers Band)^[1]. He released his first solo album A New Day Yesterday in 2000, and has since released nine more solo studio albums, four live albums and three live DVDs, along with two albums with the band Black Country Communion and one album in collaboration with vocalist Beth Hart^[2]. He tours the world regularly, and has developed a large following in the U.K. especially. His most recent album, Driving Towards The Daylight, reached #2 on the U.K. Top 40 Albums Chart, and he completed an arena tour there in 2012. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Classic Rock Magazine "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" award^[3], and The Guardian said of him: "the 32-year-old from upstate New York has consolidated a reputation as the pre-eminent blues-rock guitarist of his generation"^[4].

Bonamassa has collaborated with numerous artists, including B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Beth Hart, Paul Rodgers, Leslie West, Jon Lord, Vince Gill, Sandi Thom and Glenn Hughes. He also plays with Hughes in Black Country Communion, along with Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian^[5].

Joe Bonamassa's music contains a mix of several different genres: although it is primarily blues rock, since relocating to Santorini, Greece in 2009 to record the album Black Rock (named after the studios in which it was created), his music has gained eastern influences, with the addition of instruments such as the bouzouki and clarino (for instance, on Black Lung Heartache from Dust Bowl and Athens to Athens from Black Rock ^[6]). He has also covered songs by John Hiatt and Leonard Cohen^[7].

Early life[link]

Bonamassa was born and raised in New Hartford, New York. His parents owned and ran a guitar shop. He is a fourth-generation musician; with a great-grandfather and grandfather who both played trumpet, and a father who plays guitar, Bonamassa credits his parents with fostering an appreciation of music in his life as early as he can remember. When he was a young child, he would listen to his parents' large record collection. He recalls at age 7, sitting with his parents on Saturdays and listening to Guitar Slim, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Eric Clapton, and Jethro Tull. Thus, he sees his music as an amalgam of all the various rock and blues he heard as a child.^[8]

He received his first guitar from his father at the age of 4, and by age 7 he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix tunes note for note. At the age of 11, during a short period of being mentored by Danny Gatton, he learned such styles as country and jazz as well as polka. During this time with Gatton, Bonamassa sat in with Gatton's band whenever they played in New York. He first opened for B. B. King at 12 years of age. At 14, he was invited to attend a Fender guitar event; during that trip to the West Coast he met Berry Oakley, Jr., with whom he founded the group Bloodline, along with Miles Davis' son Erin and Robby Krieger's son Waylon. They released one album which produced two chart singles — "Stone Cold Hearted", and "Dixie Peach." He has since played with Buddy Guy, Foreigner, Robert Cray, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Paul Jones, Steve Lukather, Ted Nugent, Warren Haynes, Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, and Jack Bruce.

Influences[link]

Unlike other successful blues-rock guitarists, Bonamassa cited his influences as being British and Irish blues acts, rather than American artists. Within the blues genre, hearing the traditional blues players, as with Guitar Slim, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and all the traditional American blues players, (with the exception of B.B. King), comparing the music in the United States to the "European" versions of the blues, Bonamassa found the English blues, fostered by the Jeff Beck Group, Eric Clapton and the Irish blues player Rory Gallagher, to be far more interesting to him than the original Delta blues players.^[8] In an interview in Guitarist magazine (issue 265), he cited the three albums that had the biggest influence on his playing: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (the Beano album), Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour and Goodbye by Cream. He also stated that Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood was a big influence at a young age.

Bonamassa performing in Stafford, Texas, 2007

He elaborated further on his influences in his interview:

"You know, my heroes were the Columbine guys – Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, Eric Clapton. There’s so many - there’s Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher – another Irish musician who played the same things, but don’t tell him that. But those guys were my guys – Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. There’s a certain sophistication to their approach to the blues that I really like, more so than the American blues that I was listening to. B. B. King’s a big influence – he’s probably my biggest traditional influence. I love Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker and stuff like that, but I couldn’t sit down… I was always forcing myself to listen to whole records by them, where I’d rather listen to Humble Pie do "I'm Ready" than Muddy Waters, you know? I think, the English interpretation of the blues just hit me a lot better, you know?"

And in his October 2008 interview with Express & Star:

“When I heard Kossoff playing "Mr. Big" and when I heard Clapton playing "Crossroads" and when I heard Rory Gallagher playing "Cradle Rock", I was like, 'This is way cooler'.... "British blues are my thing. When I heard Rod Stewart and the Jeff Beck Group singing "Let Me Love You", it changed my life. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Those are my influences".

These influences are evident in his music, but Bonamassa has been influenced by other artists; notable examples include B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Danny Gatton, Eric Johnson, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Buddy Guy. Bonamassa's style of playing incorporates rock, blues-rock, Delta blues, electric blues, jazz, country - and even prog rock as evidenced by Yes's "Heart of the Sunrise" and the "Würm" section of "Starship Trooper" being regular features of live performances.

Solo career[link]

Bonamassa's solo début, in 2000, was his Top 10 Blues disc A New Day Yesterday, named after the 1969 Jethro Tull classic that Bonamassa makes his own with what allmusic.com called “a jaw-dropping performance”. Produced by the late Tom Dowd, the album featured guest shots by Gregg Allman, Rick Derringer and Leslie West. "Miss You, Hate You" remains a cornerstone of Bonamassa's repertoire, as does "Cradle Rock". Bonamassa followed it up in 2002 with "So, It's Like That", which included "Pain And Sorrow". The album was his first to hit #1 on Billboard's Blues Chart.

Joe Bonamassa performing at the Manchester Apollo, October 2010

In 2003 – designated "Year Of The Blues" by Congress – Bonamassa returned with Blues Deluxe. In the liner notes, Harris Cohen observed that Bonamassa, "never loses touch with the raw emotion that makes the blues what it is." Reviewing "Blues Deluxe", former Creem editor Jaan Uhelszki added, "New York guitar phenom walks tall in the blues tradition…jettisoning fiery riffs inspired by John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Elmore James, and Albert Collins into the future with furious playing, a hard-rock sensibility, and a grizzled voice that owes a debt to Gregg Allman. Equally inspired by the Delta blues and the mid-'60s British blues boom, the young firebrand … is able to fuse those two schools together, creating edgy blues rock." Had To Cry Today followed in 2004.

In 2006, Bonamassa released his fifth full-length studio album, You & Me. This album also reached #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. For the recording of this album, he enlisted Jason Bonham, while "Your Funeral And My Trial", featured harmonica player L.D. Miller, and the bassist Carmine Rojas. The title of the album was taken from the Django Reinhardt song "Vous et Moi" (1942). The violin introduction of that song inspired Bonamassa to write "Django", the seventh track on the album. Longer live versions would later appear on Live From Nowhere in Particular in 2009, and at the Royal Albert Hall Concert (Live DVD). For this tour, Bonamassa used former Johnny Winter Bassist Mark Epstein and former Kenny Wayne Shepherd drummer Bogie Bowles.

Bonamassa performing on a double necked guitar in Madrid, Spain on June 2, 2009

Sloe Gin was released in August 2007, and spent several weeks at the top of the Billboard Blues Chart. Bonamassa's touring band underwent another change for this album's tour; bassist Carmine Rojas replaced Mark Epstein, and keyboardist Rick Melick was added. Both of the new band members took part in the recordings of You & Me and Sloe Gin, and toured on select dates during promotion of You & Me.

Bonamassa presented his first live show as a DJ on the UK radio station Planet Rock on November 9, 2008, playing tracks from B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallagher and Eric Clapton.

In November 2008, Bonamassa announced he would be playing at the Royal Albert Hall in London on May 4, 2009. Tickets for the concert sold out in less than a week. Bonamassa described the event to the Express & Star as "the complete culmination of 20 years of work for me."^{[citation needed]}

At the Royal Albert Hall concert, Bonamassa mentioned that the first song that he learned to play was "Further on Up the Road" and he then introduced Eric Clapton and together they performed the song. Later Bonamassa paid tribute to the Paul Jones Radio Hour on BBC Radio for playing his material on the air, then introduced Paul Jones who played the harmonica on a Sonny Boy Williamson II song, "Your Funeral, My Trial."

In March 2010, Bonamassa released his tenth full-length solo album Black Rock^[9] which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and #38 on the Billboard 200.

In May 2010, Ian Anderson guested at his concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo, and they played "A New Day Yesterday" along with "Locomotive Breath". At the end of 2010, Bowles announced his departure and Tal Bergman took over as touring drummer.

The Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian supergroup is now called Black Country Communion. The band were forced to add 'Communion' to their original name Black Country after another band with the same name raised an objection.

In March 2011, Bonamassa released his eleventh full-length solo album, Dust Bowl, followed in September of the same year by a collaboration with Beth Hart called "Don't Explain".

In early 2012, Bonamassa completed the recording of his twelfth studio album. The title was confirmed by Bonamassa in a post on his official Facebook page on March 12 2012 as Driving Towards The Daylight^[10]. Bonamassa debuted the title track during his UK Tour in the same month^[11]

Discography[link]

DVDs[link]

Live at the Rockpalast was released in 2005, and recorded at the Burg Satzvey in Mechernich, Germany.^[12]

A live DVD titled A New Day Yesterday, Live was given away for a short period of time with So, It's Like That. This concert was later re-released as a full CD and DVD.

An instructional DVD, Signature Sounds, Styles and Techniques, was released in 2006.

A live DVD, Joe Bonamassa: Live From Royal Albert Hall was released in September 2009, featuring Eric Clapton as a guest performer.

Bonamassa's performance with pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph, Randolph's Family Band and Pino Daniele at the 2010 edition of Crossroads Guitar Festival appears on the Crossroads 2010 DVD. The song they played is Going Down.

A live DVD, "Joe Bonamassa Live from New York Beacon Theatre" was released in 2012.

References[link]

External links[link]

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