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Baltic states
The term Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations or Baltic countries) refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (from north to south); Finland also fell within the scope of the term from the 1920s to 1939.Estonia is only considered Baltic geographically, not linguistically or culturally, as Estonians and Finns are descendants of the Baltic Finns.
The term in the indigenous languages of the Baltic states is:
The term "Baltic" stems from the name of the Baltic Sea – a hydronym dating back to the 11th century (Adam of Bremen mentioned Latin: Mare Balticum) and earlier.
The Latvian and Lithuanian term Baltija most likely originates from the Indo-European root *bhel meaning white, fair. In modern Baltic languages, namely, Lithuanian language, baltas literally means white, and in Latvian language balts means white also.
Beginning in the Middle Ages and through the present day, the Baltic Sea appears on the maps subscribed in Germanic languages as German: Ostsee, Danish: Østersøen, Dutch: Oostzee, Swedish: Östersjön, etc. In English "Ost" is "East", and in fact, the Baltic Sea mostly lies to the east for Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Clearly, part of the Baltic Sea lies to the east of Germany and Sweden, and due north of parts of Germany.
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Birmingham
Birmingham (
i/ˈbɜrmɪŋəm/ BUR-ming-əm, locally /ˈbɜrmɪŋɡəm/ BUR-ming-gəm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 (2010 estimate), and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Birmingham's metropolitan area is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.
A medium-sized market town during the medieval period, Birmingham grew to international prominence in the 18th century at the heart of the Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw the town at the forefront of worldwide developments in science, technology and economic organisation, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society. By 1791 it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town in the world". Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly-skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century. Its resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of broad-based political radicalism, that under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy.
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Brazil
Brazili/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, 
listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to the rank of kingdom and the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese colonial empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal.Independence was achieved in 1822 with the formation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. Its current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.
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Detroit
Detroit ( /diˈtrɔɪt/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 313 (its telephone area code) Detroit became known as the "great arsenal of democracy" for its support of the U.S. role among the Allied powers during World War II.
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Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.
The festival organiser Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970. Fourteen people, including John Hoare, invested everything they had to build the stage.
The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field. After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.
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KJLH
KJLH is an Urban Contemporary radio station serving the Los Angeles area and offers More of a variety of Today's R&B & Classic Soul with a taste of Hip-Hop, Gospel and sometimes Smooth Jazz. The station, which is owned by Stevie Wonder's Taxi Productions, operates at 102.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of 5.6 kW and is licensed to Compton, California. Its studios operate from Inglewood.
KJLH, whose signal was originally licensed to Long Beach, California, but relocated to Compton, debuted with a R&B format in 1979, the year Stevie Wonder purchased the station from its original owner, John Lamar Hill, thus the call letter's origins. It was Wonder who gave KJLH its on-air slogan to match the call letters, which stand for "Kindness, Joy, Love & Happiness."
During its first eight years, KJLH enjoyed modest success as a R&B/Urban station and a great familiarity with the African-American community. But it was hampered by the fact that the station was on a Class-A FM signal, which meant their signal was limited to the central and southern portions of Los Angeles County (Including Downtown and South Central Los Angeles), while in other areas like the San Fernando Valley the signal would either fade out or be scratchy, depending on where you would hear the station (despite a signal upgrade from 2.25 kW to 5.6 kW in 2000). They were also (At the time, from the late 1970s up to the late 1980s) one of five R&B/Urban stations in the market who targeted the African-American community during its tenure, along with AMs KGFJ and KDAY and FMs KACE and KUTE. Of the four that since flipped formats, only the KDAY calls have since been revived, but on the FM side as the market's only Urban/Hip-Hop station to date, and like KJLH they also have limited signal coverage.
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Manchester
Coordinates: 53°28′N 2°14′W / 53.467°N 2.233°W / 53.467; -2.233
Manchesteri/ˈmæntʃɛstər/ is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England with an estimated population of 498,800 in 2010. Manchester lies within one of the United Kingdom's largest urban areas; the Greater Manchester Urban Area which has a population of 2.2 million. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian and the local authority is Manchester City Council.
Manchester is situated in the south-central part of North West England, fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south and the Pennines to the north and east. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium, which was established in c. 79 AD on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically, most of the city was a part of Lancashire, although areas south of the River Mersey were in Cheshire. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but it began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city. An early 19th-century factory building boom transformed Manchester from a township into a major mill town and borough that was granted city status in 1853. In 1894 the Manchester Ship Canal was built, creating the Port of Manchester.
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Michigan
Michigan (i/ˈmɪʃɨɡən/) is a state located in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit. Michigan was admitted into the Union on January 26, 1837 as the 26th state.
Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. Michigan is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating. The state has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than six miles (9.7 km) from a natural water source or more than 85 miles (137 km) from a Great Lakes shoreline. It is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River.
Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula (often referred to as "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The two peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge. The Upper Peninsula is economically important due to its status as a tourist destination. There is also a variety of natural resources to be found there, including a sizable amount of iron ore.
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North Carolina
North Carolina (i/ˌnɔrθ kærəˈlaɪnə/) is a state in the Southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 10th most populous of the 50 United States.
North Carolina is comprised of 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. In the past five decades, North Carolina's economy has undergone a transition from heavy reliance upon tobacco and furniture making to a more diversified economy with engineering, biotechnology, and finance sectors.
North Carolina has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet (2,037 m) at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the Eastern US. The climate of the coastal plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles (500 km) from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,145,905. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban area known as the Wasatch Front, which has a population of 2,328,299. It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada), and the largest in the Intermountain West.
The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young and his Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named "Great Salt Lake City"—the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868. Although Salt Lake City is still home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church today.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's colonnades connected the new wings. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt.
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50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and The Massacre (2005). His album Get Rich or Die Tryin' has been certified eight times platinum by the RIAA.
Born in the South Jamaica of Queens, New York City, Jackson began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s crack epidemic. After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000. After releasing his album Guess Who's Back? in 2002, Jackson was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world's highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo.
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Adolph Green
Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday. Many people thought the pair were married; they were not, but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits.
Green was born in The Bronx to Hungarian-Jewish immigrants Daniel and Helen Weiss Green. After high school, he worked as a runner on Wall Street while he tried to make it as an actor. He met Comden through mutual friends in 1938 while she was studying drama at New York University. They formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed at the Village Vanguard, a club in Greenwich Village. Among the members of the company was a young comedian named Judy Tuvim, who later changed her name to Judy Holliday, and Green's good friend, a young musician named Leonard Bernstein, frequently accompanied them on the piano. The act's success earned them a movie offer and the Revuers traveled west in hopes of finding fame in Greenwich Village, a 1944 movie starring Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche, but their roles were so small they barely were noticed, and they quickly returned to New York.
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Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is a pianist and composer of American musical theatre and film.
Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, The Shaggy Dog, Enchanted, and most recently, Tangled. Menken has collaborated on several occasions with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, and Stephen Schwartz. With nineteen nominations and eight wins, Menken has won the third most Oscars of any person, after Walt Disney (twenty-two wins) and Alfred Newman (nine wins).
Menken was born in New York, NY to a Jewish family, the son of Judith and Norman Menken, a dentist. He developed an interest in music at an early age, studying piano and violin. He went to New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York. He attended college as a pre-med student, but later changed his focus to music at NYU Steinhardt. After college, he attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. He performed frequently in local clubs and worked as a composer of jingles and songs and as an accompanist.
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Albhy Galuten
Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.
He produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has won two Grammies, a Dramalogue award (theatre) and a BMI award (as a songwriter).
His record productions include the soundtracks Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease" and songs or albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton ("Islands in the Stream"), Samantha Sang ("Emotion"), Diana Ross ("Chain Reaction"), Eric Clapton ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door"), Titanic Love Affair and Bee Gees (nine number one songs).
Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt (director of paradigm).
He is currently a technology executive at Sony and has been an executive at Universal Music Group (Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology) and Ion (Vice President, New Technology). In his various roles as a technology executive Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (Chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).
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Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, OMRI, OMDSM (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa boˈtʃɛlli]; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident.
Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994, Bocelli has recorded thirteen solo studio albums, of both pop and classical music, two greatest hits albums, and eight complete operas, selling over 75 million records worldwide. Thus, he is the biggest-selling solo artist in the history of classical music and has caused core classical repertoire to "cross over" to the top of international pop charts and into previously uncharted territory in popular culture.
In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first, and so far only time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price, in 1961.The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the top 3 positions on the US classical albums charts. Six of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, and a record-setting 8, have topped the classical albums charts in the United States.
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André Previn
André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings.
Previn was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Charlotte (née Epstein) and Jack Previn, who was a lawyer, judge, and music teacher. He is said to be "a distant relative of" the composer Gustav Mahler. However, In a pre-concert public interview at the Lincoln Center, in May 2012, Previn laughed at the suggestion that he is related to Mahler. The year of his birth is uncertain. Whilst most published reports give 1929, Previn himself has stated that 1930 is his birth year. This situation is a consequence of his the family losing Previn's birth certificate when they left Germany in 1938.[citation needed] His elder brother was director Steve Previn.[citation needed] The Previn family, which was Jewish,[citation needed] emigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime in Germany.[citation needed]
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
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Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as both an assistant, producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. His collaborations include working with Queen, The Bee Gees, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Scritti Politti, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, Norah Jones, Richard Marx, Culture Club and Jewel. Mardin was awarded 11 Grammy Awards.
Arif Mardin was born in Istanbul into a renowned family that included statesmen, diplomats and leaders in the civic, military and business sectors of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. His father was co-owner in a petroleum gas station chain.
Mardin grew up listening to the likes of Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. Through his sister he met jazz critic Cuneyt Sermet, who turned him onto this music and eventually became his mentor. After graduating from Istanbul University in Economics and Commerce, Mardin studied at the London School of Economics. Influenced by his sister's music records and jazz, he was also an accomplished orchestrator and arranger, but he never intended to pursue a career in music. However, he made two solo albums: Glass Onion, in 1970, and Journey, in 1975. In Journey, he was the composer and arranger, but he also played electric piano and percussion, and was accompanied by many stars of jazz (Randy and Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham and many others).
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Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is a Grammy-award winning American singer-songwriter, a poet, and a Golden Globe winning actor. He was also half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, which split in 1970, at the height of their popularity.
Highlights of his solo music career include a top 10 hit, three top 20 hits, six top 40 hits, 14 Adult Contemporary top 30 singles, five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones and a People's Choice Award. Through his solo and collaborative work, Garfunkel has earned six Grammys, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1990, he and former musical partner Paul Simon were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Art Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, the son of housewife Rose and traveling salesman Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel on November 5, 1941. Art has two siblings; the older one named Jules and the younger one named Jerome, who was an actor in his earlier years in Dayton, Ohio, before becoming a travelling menswear salesman. He is Jewish. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Iași in Romania. His cousin on his mother's side is founder of 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, Lou Pearlman. Garfunkel attended the Forest Hills High School. According to the Across America DVD, Garfunkel's love for singing "came in the first grade. When we were lined up in size order, and after everyone else had left, I'd stay behind and enjoy the echo sound of the stairwell tiles and sing 'Unchained Melody' and 'You'll Never Walk Alone', learning to love this goose-bumps song from the tender age of five." Later, Garfunkel's father bought him a wire recorder and from then on, Garfunkel spent his afternoons singing, recording and playing it back, so he could listen for flaws and learn how to improve.
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Australians
Australian people, or simply Australians, are the citizens of Australia. Australia is a multi-ethnic nation, and therefore the term "Australian" is not a racial identifier. Aside from the Indigenous Australian population, nearly all Australians or their ancestors immigrated within the past 230 years. Colloquial names used to refer to Australians include Aussies, and Antipodeans.
The mainstream Australian culture (occasionally defined as the Anglo-Celtic culture), is a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Western European migrants beginning with the early settlers from England, Scotland, and Ireland. The populations of Sydney, Melbourne and the other major cities are different from the demographics of rural Australia as a result of the differing migration patterns.
Australian people can refer to:
The earliest accepted timeline for the first arrivals of indigenous Australians to the continent of Australia places this human migration to at least 40,000 years ago most probably from the islands of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (
i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Barry Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE (born 1 September 1946) is a singer, songwriter, producer and both the eldest and last surviving Gibb brother.
He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the second-eldest of five siblings. With his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, he formed the Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. Their younger brother Andy was also a popular singer. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major success when they returned to England.
Known for his high-pitched falsetto singing voice, Gibb shares the record with John Lennon and Paul McCartney for consecutive Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones as a writer with six. The book of Guinness World Records lists Barry Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history behind Paul McCartney.
Barry Gibb was born to Barbara and Hugh Gibb (d. 1992) in the Isle of Man. He has an older sister, Lesley (b. 1945), and had three younger brothers, fraternal twins Robin (1949–2012) and Maurice (1949–2003), and Andy (1958–1988). He and his family moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester in 1953. When he was 12 years old, his family moved to Brisbane, Australia, settling in one of the city's poorest suburbs, Cribb Island. The suburb was later bulldozed to make way for Brisbane Airport. It was in Australia that Gibb and his brothers Robin and Maurice started performing as the Bee Gees. The Gibb family returned to England in 1967. Shortly afterward, the Bee Gees became international stars.
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s.
The group sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognisable; Robin's clear vibrato lead was a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the late 1970s and 1980s. The brothers wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
Born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived their first few years in Chorlton, Manchester, England, then moved in the late 1950s to Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, where they began their musical careers. After achieving their first chart success in Australia with "Spicks and Specks" (their 12th single), they returned to the United Kingdom in January 1967 where producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience.
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958, he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.
The National Endowment for the Arts honored Benny Carter with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award for 1986. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, winner of the Grammy Award in 1994 for his solo "Prelude to a Kiss", and also the same year, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2000 awarded the National Endowment for the Arts, National Medal of Arts, presented by President Bill Clinton.
Born in New York in 1907, the youngest of three children and the only boy, received his first music lessons on piano from his mother. Largely self-taught, by age fifteen, Carter was already sitting in at Harlem night spots. From 1924 to 1928, Carter gained valuable professional experience as a sideman in some of New York's top bands. As a youth, Carter lived in Harlem around the corner from Bubber Miley who was Duke Ellington's star trumpeter, Carter was inspired by Miley and bought a trumpet, but when he found he couldn't play like Miley he traded the trumpet in for a saxophone. For the next two years he played with such jazz greats as cornetist Rex Stewart, clarinetist-soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, pianists Earl Hines, Willie "The Lion" Smith, pianist Fats Waller, pianist James P. Johnson, pianist Duke Ellington and their various groups.
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Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy, Jr. (born November 28, 1929) is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries.
Berry Gordy, Jr. (born in Detroit, Michigan) was the seventh of eight children (Fuller, Esther, Anna, Loucye, George, Gwen, Berry and Robert), born to the middle-class family of Berry Gordy II (a.k.a. Berry Gordy, Sr.) and Bertha Fuller Gordy (1899–1975), who had relocated to Detroit from Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1922. Gordy was brought up in a tight-knit family with strong morals.[citation needed] Berry Gordy II (1888–1978) was the son of Berry Gordy I and a woman named Lucy Hellum. Berry Gordy I was the son of James Thomas Gordy, a white plantation owner in Georgia, and his female slave Esther Johnson. Berry Gordy, Jr. is distantly related to former president Jimmy Carter through Carter's mother, Bessie Lillian Gordy.
Berry Gordy II was lured to Detroit by the many job opportunities for black people offered by booming automotive businesses.
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Betty Comden
Betty Comden (May 3, 1917 – November 23, 2006) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein.
Betty Comden was born Basya Cohen in New York City, attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, and studied drama at New York University. In 1938, mutual friends introduced her to Adolph Green, an aspiring actor. Along with the young Judy Holliday and Leonard Bernstein, Comden and Green formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed at the Village Vanguard, a club in Greenwich Village. Due to the act's success, the Revuers appeared in the 1944 film Greenwich Village, but their roles were so small they barely were noticed, and they quickly returned to New York.
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Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (née Beyoncé Giselle Knowles; September 4, 1981), known mononymously as Beyoncé ( /biˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say), is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. 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.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003, which spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy"—and became one of the most successful albums of that year, earning her a then record-tying five Grammy Awards. Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Knowles released her second solo album, B'Day, in 2006, which spawned the top 10 singles "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Her third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), spawned the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Halo" and "Sweet Dreams". The album helped Knowles earn six Grammys in 2010, breaking the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. Knowles' fourth solo album, 4 (2011), became her fourth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 as a solo artist. This made her the third artist in history to have her first four studio albums debut atop the chart.
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Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the situation comedy The Bill Cosby Show. He was one of the major characters on the children's television series The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby has also acted in a number of films.
During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered to be one of the decade's defining sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which aired eight seasons from 1984 to 1992. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. He also produced the spin-off sitcom A Different World, which became second to The Cosby Show in ratings. He starred in the sitcom Cosby from 1996 to 2000 and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things for two seasons.
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Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was a musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. Preston became famous, first as a session musician with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and was later successful as a solo artist with such hit pop singles as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from Nothing", and a string of albums.
Alongside Tony Sheridan, Billy Preston was the only other musician to be credited on a Beatles recording after he was credited on the group's number-one hit, "Get Back", with the record title listed as The Beatles with Billy Preston. Steven Stills asked Preston if he could use Preston's phrase "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" in a song and created the legendary eponymous hit.
William Everett Preston was born on September 2, 1946 in Houston, Texas. At the age of three, the family moved to Los Angeles where Preston began playing piano while sitting on his mother Robbie's lap. Noted as a child prodigy, by the age of ten, Preston was playing organ onstage backing several gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland and Andrae Crouch. At twelve, he appeared in the W.C. Handy biopic starring Nat King Cole entitled, St. Louis Blues, playing W.C. Handy at a younger age. A year prior, Preston appeared on Cole's national TV show singing the Fats Domino hit, "Blueberry Hill".
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment).
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of Nazi Party, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He relocated to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder established his directorial reputation after helming Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend, about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( /ˈbjɜrk/; [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] (
listen); born 21 November 1965), known as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and folk.
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10.[citation needed] Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
Björk has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark. She was ranked thirty-sixth in VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll", eighth in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music", and sixtieth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and 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, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored 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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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Burt Bacharach
Burt F. Bacharach ( /ˈbækəræk/ BAK-ə-rak; born May 12, 1928) is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick. Following on with the initial success of this collaboration, Bacharach went on to produce hits with Dusty Springfield, Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon and others.
As of 2006[update], Bacharach had written 70 Top 40 hits in the U.S., and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK.
Burt Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but grew up in the Forest Hills section of New York City, graduating from Forest Hills High School in 1946. He is the son of Irma (née Freeman) and Bert Bacharach, a well-known syndicated newspaper columnist, and is of German-Jewish descent. Bacharach studied music at McGill University, under Helmut Blume, at the Mannes School of Music, and at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California. His composition teachers included Darius Milhaud, Henry Cowell, and Bohuslav Martinů. Following service in the Army, Bacharach worked as a pianist, both as a solo player and as an accompanist for singers such as Vic Damone, Polly Bergen, Steve Lawrence, the Ames Brothers and Paula Stewart (who became his first wife). For some years he was musical arranger for Marlene Dietrich as well as touring with her.
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Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., (born May 20, 1972), better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes. Early in his career, he was known for his wild style and fashion, and today is best known for his intricate rapping technique, which involves rapping at a fast rate with lots of internal rhyme and half rhyme, and to date has received eleven Grammy nominations for his musical work. About.com included him on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987–2007), while Steve Huey of Allmusic called him one of the best and most prolific rappers of the '90s.
Busta was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, to Jamaican parents Geraldine Green and Trevor Smith, Sr. in 1972. Smith attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, alongside Jay-Z, DMX and The Notorious B.I.G. He went to Uniondale High School on Long Island, graduating in 1990.
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Canadians
Canadians (singular Canadian) are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be genetic, residential, legal, historical, cultural or ethnic. For most Canadians, several (frequently all) of those types of connections exist and are the source(s) of them being considered Canadians.
Aside from the Aboriginal peoples, who according to the 2006 Canadian Census numbered 1,172,790, 3.8% of the country's total population, the majority of the population is made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. After the initial period of French and then British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-aboriginal peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continues today. Elements of Aboriginal, French, British and more recent immigrant customs, languages and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by that of its linguistic, geographic and economic neighbour, the United States.
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Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. Throughout her career, she has amassed 13 Top 40 hits including "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "Coming Around Again".
The former wife of another notable singer-songwriter, James Taylor, she has two children, Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor and Ben Taylor, who are also musicians.
She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994.
Carly Simon was born in New York City, New York. Her father, of Jewish descent, was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster), a pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann), a civil rights activist and singer, of black and German descent. In a 2004 interview with fashion designer Michael Kors for the July issue of Interview Magazine, she revealed her full ancestry as Jewish, African, Cuban, and French.
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Carole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8,[citation needed] 1947) is an American lyricist, songwriter, singer, and painter.
Carole Bayer was born in New York City to parents Anita and Eli Bayer. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech. She had already co-written her first pop hit, "A Groovy Kind of Love", with Toni Wine, while still a student at the New York City High School of Music and Art. It was recorded by the British invasion band The Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100. This song was later recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins, whose rendition for the film Buster reached Number one in 1988. She also had a minor career of singing songs as well—her biggest hit was her 1977 single, You're Moving Out Today.
Sager's first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included the #1 international single[citation needed] "You're Moving Out Today", a song which she co-wrote with Bette Midler. (Paul Buckmaster provided horn and string arrangements for the album.) The album went platinum in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It was followed by ...Too in 1978 and a third and last album, co-produced by Burt Bacharach, entitled Sometimes Late at Night (1981), which included a top 30 hit single "Stronger Than Before", later recorded by Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, her Tapestry album topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
She was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961 at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason" for Aerosmith, but instead it was sung by Celine Dion.
In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most recent non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, a collaboration with James Taylor, which reached number 4 on the charts in its first week, and has sold over 600,000 copies.
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Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953), frequently known as the "Queen of Funk", is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman 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 as a solo performer, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing" which she wrote for her then husband Richard Holland, "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes. He also is well known for his roles in the films The Greatest Show on Earth and Touch of Evil.
Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
Heston was born John Charles Carter, the son of Lilla (née Charlton; 1899–1994) and Russell Whitford Carter (1897–1966), a sawmill operator. Most sources state that he was born in Evanston, Illinois. Heston's autobiography, however, and some other sources place his birth in No Man's Land, Illinois, which usually refers to a then-unincorporated area now part of Wilmette, a wealthy northern suburb of Chicago. Heston said in a 1995 interview that he was not very good at remembering addresses or his early childhood.
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Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan (1998).
In 1999, Aguilera came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera, which was a commercial success spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." Her sophomore and her debut Latin-pop album, Mi Reflejo (2000), a Christmas third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and several collaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success, though she was displeased with her lack of input in her music and image. After parting from her management, Aguilera took creative control over her fourth studio album, Stripped (2002). The album's second single, "Beautiful", was a commercial success and helped the album's commercial performance amidst controversy over Aguilera's image. Aguilera followed up Stripped with the soul, jazz and blues inspired, Back to Basics (2006), released to positive critical acclaim. The album produced three singles "Ain't No Other Man", "Hurt" and "Candyman". Four years later Aguilera released her sixth studio album, Bionic (2010), which incorporated aspects of R&B, electropop, and synthpop and was met with mixed reviews and low sales. Aguilera's seventh studio album is set to be released in 2012.
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Christine McVie
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, 12 July 1943, in Bouth, near Ulverston, Lancashire, England) is an English rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Christine was born in the small village of Bouth in the Lake District of England and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham, where her father, Cyril P.A.Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham. Christine's mother Beatrice E.M.(called Tee) née Reece, was a medium, psychic, and faith healer. Her grandfather had been an organist at Westminster Abbey. Although Christine was introduced to the piano at the age of four, it was not until age eleven that she studied music seriously, when she was re-introduced to the instrument by Philip Fisher, a local musician and school friend of her older brother John.[citation needed] Continuing her classical training until the age of fifteen, her musical focus made a radical shift to rock & roll when John brought home a Fats Domino songbook. Other early influences included The Everly Brothers.
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Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Charles Geppert; May 3, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his US Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", the last of which he recorded for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore. "Sailing" earned three Grammy Awards in 1981, while "Arthur's Theme" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981 (with co-composers Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen).
Cross first played with a San Antonio-based cover band named Flash (not to be confused with the early 1970s English band of the same name) before signing a solo contract with Warner Bros.
Cross released his self-titled debut album, Christopher Cross, in 1979, which garnered him five Grammy Awards. He was the first solo artist to win all four General Field Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist) in the same year. Hot 100 top 20 hits from this album included "Ride Like the Wind" (featuring backing vocals by Michael McDonald), "Sailing", "Never Be the Same", and "Say You'll Be Mine" (featuring backing vocals by Nicolette Larson).
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Clarence Paul
Clarence Otto Pauling (March 19, 1928 – May 6, 1995), better known as Clarence Paul, was a songwriter and record producer for Detroit's Motown Records.
He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, and was the brother of the "5" Royales guitarist/songwriter, Lowman Pauling Jr. Their father was a coal miner in Bluefield, West Virginia, where the brothers listened to country music on the town's only radio station. In Winston-Salem, the brothers formed the gospel group, the Royal Sons Quintet, later to become the "5" Royales. Paul dropped the "ing" from his last name after moving to Detroit, Michigan, in the 1950s, so he would not to be confused with his older brother.
At Motown, he gained fame as Stevie Wonder's mentor and main producer, during Wonder's teenage years. He also sang backup vocals on Wonder's top-ten version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind". Paul also produced early Temptations records and wrote/co-wrote such hits as "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" originally for Wonder, and later given to Aretha Franklin who made it a hit, and "Hitch Hike" for Marvin Gaye.
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Clay Aiken
Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken (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.
After the release of On My Way Here, Aiken left RCA and later signed with Decca Records. His first album with Decca, Tried and True, was released June 1, 2010 and his second Steadfast, was released March 26, 2012.
In the years following his American Idol appearance, Aiken has launched ten tours, authored a New York Times best-selling book Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life with Allison Glock, and was the executive producer for a 2004 televised Christmas special, A Clay Aiken Christmas and his televised live concert special in 2010 on PBS Tried & True Live!. He has been a frequent talk show guest, particularly on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He appeared as a guest star on Scrubs, Drop Dead Diva, 30 Rock and participated in comedy skits on numerous other shows.
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Coolio
Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (born August 1, 1963), better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American Grammy Award winning musician, rapper, actor, and record producer. He is best known for the song "Gangsta's Paradise", and the theme song for Kenan & Kel a Nickelodeon show from 1996 to 2000.
He recorded two singles in the late 1980s, titled "Watcha Gonna Do" and "You're Gonna Miss Me". Neither single was successful, but Coolio had made connections in the Los Angeles rap scene, and ended up joining the group WC and the Maad Circle in 1991. WC was the group's lead rapper, but Coolio was another rapper in the group. He had a few verses on the group's debut album, Ain't a Damn Thang Changed, including on the single "Dress Code". The album was regionally successful, but did not make much impact on a national scale.
Three years later in 1994, Coolio signed to Tommy Boy Records and released his debut solo album, It Takes a Thief. The lead single "Fantastic Voyage" was put into heavy rotation on MTV, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Fantastic Voyage" would become one of the biggest rap singles of the year. The album also contained a few minor hits in "County Line" and "I Remember". It Takes a Thief eventually peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 200, becoming certified Platinum. The album received praise for bringing a humorous and lighthearted perspective to often violent and profane themes of typical gangsta rap.
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Dave Marsh
Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950, Detroit, Michigan) is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host. He was a formative editor of Creem magazine, has written for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and has published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on rock music.
Marsh briefly attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1979, Marsh wrote a now-famous review in Rolling Stone of the album Jazz by Queen, in which he wrote, "Queen may be the first truly fascist rock band." (Rolling Stone, Feb. 8th 1979). Previously, he had described lead singer Freddie Mercury as possessing a merely "passable pop voice."
In his 1980 review on Bob Seger's album Against the Wind, Marsh stated, "I'd like to say that this is not only the worst record Bob Seger has ever made, but an absolutely cowardly one as well."
In the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide on Journey, Marsh wrote, "Journey was a dead end for San Francisco area rock." He awarded all of the band's albums the minimum possible score of 1/5 stars.
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David Shire
| name = David Shire | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = David Lee Shire | birth_date = (1937-07-03) July 3, 1937 (age 74) |birth_place =Buffalo, New York | occupation = Composer | instrument = Piano | genre = Film score
musicals
Television score | years_active = 1960s–present
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film) and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film, Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire. He met his long-time theater collaborator lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. at Yale University, where they wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramatic Association. Shire also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet, and was a Phi Beta Kappa honors student, with a double major in English and music. He was a member of the Pundits and Elihu and he graduated magna cum laude in 1959.
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Dean Pitchford
Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.
Pitchford was born in Honolulu, where he attended Star Of The Sea School and graduated (1968) from Saint Louis High School.
Pitchford began his performance career as an actor and singer with the Honolulu Community Theatre (now Diamond Head Theatre), the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, among others.
While studying at Yale University, Pitchford performed with numerous campus drama groups, but his focus gradually turned off-campus, where he worked with the Wooster Square Revival, an experimental theatre company that offered acting opportunities to recovering addicts and alcoholics. In 1969, Pitchford returned to Honolulu as a writers’ assistant to authors Faye Hammel and Sylvan Levey, updating the popular guidebook Hawai’i on $5 and $10 A Day, and researching TWA’s Budget Guide to Hawai’i, the first of a series of guidebooks that would eventually metamorphose into the popular series TWA Getaway Guides.
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Dick Halligan
Richard (Dick) Halligan (born August 29, 1943 in Troy, New York) is an American musician and composer, best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Halligan was BS&T's trombonist on their first album, Child Is Father to the Man. When Al Kooper left the band after that first album, Halligan began playing other instruments including piano, organ, and flute. He received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance for "Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie" from the album Blood, Sweat & Tears. Halligan also arranged many of the band's charts during this time period, and he wrote several songs including "Redemption" and "Lisa Listen To Me." Halligan left BS&T in 1971 after recording their fourth album, when the band began to shift to more rock-oriented music.
In the 1970s and 1980s Halligan composed and arranged music for a number of motion pictures, television, and commercials.
As of 2006 he is active as a composer and performer for various types of music, including jazz and chamber music.
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Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick (born Marie Dionne Warrick; December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
Having been in a partnership with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era (1955–1999), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. Warwick ranks second only to Aretha Franklin as the most-charted female vocalist with 56 singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998. She is also a cousin of Whitney Houston.
Warwick was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warwick (1911–1977), who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and later a Certified Public Accountant; and Lee Drinkard Warwick (1920–2005), manager of The Drinkard Singers (see below). Warwick had a sister Delia "Dee Dee" and a brother, Mancel Jr., who was killed in an accident in 1968 at the age of 21.[citation needed]. She has African American, Native American, Brazilian and Dutch ancestry.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( /ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and, occasionally, singer.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
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Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.
Box office takes from Murphy's films make him the second-highest grossing actor in the United States. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls.
Eddie Murphy's work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek series and the dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan. In some of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in Dr. Strangelove and elsewhere. Murphy has played multiple roles in Coming to America, Wes Craven's Vampire In Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films (where he played the title role in two incarnations, plus his father, brother, mother, and grandmother), Bowfinger, Norbit, and Meet Dave.
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Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III ( /ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and a rewrite of the book for the unsuccessful musical version of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee continues to experiment in new works, such as The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia? (2002).
According to Magill's Survey of American Literature (2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in Virginia (the popular belief is that he was born in Washington, D.C.). He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York in Westchester County, where he grew up. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, the wealthy son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II, owned several theaters. Here the young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. His adoptive mother, Reed's third wife, Frances tried to raise Albee to fit into their social circles.
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Edward Villella
Edward Villella (born October 1, 1936, Bayside), New York, is a danseur and choreographer, frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer at the time.
Villella enrolled in the School of American Ballet at age ten, but then interrupted his studies to complete his college education. He attended the New York Maritime Academy, where he lettered in baseball and was a championship boxer. He graduated with a marine science degree in 1959, and rejoined the School of American Ballet.
Villella became a member of the New York City Ballet in 1957, rising to soloist in 1958 and principal dancer in 1960. Among his most noteworthy performances were Oberon in George Balanchine's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream (with music by Felix Mendelssohn), Tarantella, Rubies in the Balanchine ballet Jewels, and Prodigal Son.
Villella was the first American male dancer to appear with the Royal Danish Ballet, and the only American ever asked to dance an encore at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. He danced at the inaugural for President John F. Kennedy, and performed for Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. He won an Emmy Award in 1975 for his CBS television production of Harlequinade. He danced in two television versions of The Nutcracker (in different roles), in a ballet film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in a 1966 TV production of Brigadoon, in which he played the tragic suitor Harry Beaton. During the 1960s he and his dancing partner Patricia McBride, who starred together in a 1965 television version of The Nutcracker, appeared often on the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1973, Villella appeared as himself in an episode of The Odd Couple titled "Last Tango in Newark" during which he said (much to Felix's dismay) that he always wanted to be a professional football player; his son, Roddy, also appeared. In 1983, Villella guest-starred on the soap opera Guiding Light.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He is considered as one of the most influential film music composers of the 20th century.
Born in Rome, Italy, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
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Eric Ericson
Eric Ericson (help·info) (born 26 October 1918, Borås), is a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. He graduated from the Royal College of Music (Kungl. Musikhögskolan) in Stockholm in 1943 and went on to complete his studies abroad, at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, and in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.
Renowned for his innovative teaching methods and the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire, Ericson was the principal conductor of the Orphei Drängar choir at Uppsala University from 1951 until 1991, and choirmaster until 1982 of the Swedish Radio Choir which was established on his initiative in 1951. Also in 1951, he began his teaching career at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he became a legendary and inspirational figure, and he was appointed to the chair of choral conducting there in 1968.
He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1995, and in 1997 Ericson shared the Polar Music Prize with Bruce Springsteen: the citation was for "pioneering achievements as a conductor, teacher, artistic originator and inspirer in Swedish and international choral music". On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1998, Swedbank of Sweden endowed an "Eric Ericson Chair in Choral Directing" to Uppsala University.
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Etta James
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer. Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.
James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and is the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008.Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists.
Jamesetta Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Hawkins, who was only 14 at the time. Her father has never been identified. James speculated that her father was the pool player, Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, and met him briefly in 1987. Due to her mother being often absent from their Watts apartment, conducting relationships with various men, James lived with a series of foster parents, most notably "Sarge" and "Mama" Lu. James referred to her mother as "the Mystery Lady".
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Fayard Nicholas
Fayard Antonio Nicholas (October 20, 1914 – January 24, 2006) was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He, along with his brother Harold, made up the Nicholas Brothers tap-dance duo who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and Hard Four (2007). Fayard Nicholas was a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
Fayard was inducted into the National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in 2001, along with his brother Harold Nicholas.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola ( /ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman, and George Lucas who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.
He co-wrote the script for Patton (1970), which won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay). His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather (1972), a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from critics and public alike. It won three Academy Awards, including his second, for Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.
Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II (1974), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed Apocalypse Now (1979); notorious for its overlong and strenuous production, but critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. To this day, Coppola is one of only seven filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards, and is the only filmmaker to win both in the same decade.
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Franke Previte
Franke Jon Previte is a composer who grew up in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He was with the New Jersey rock quintet Franke and the Knockouts as the singer and songwriter. Previously he had sung with the Oxford Watch Band and the heavy metal band Bull Angus. Franke and the Knockouts were signed by Millennium Records in 1981 and had three U.S. Top 40 singles and two Top 50 albums. Franke and the Knockouts' biggest single, "Sweetheart" was written by Previte and Knockout guitarist Billy Elworthy and became a Top 10 hit in 1981. The group's other two Top 40 hits were "You're My Girl" and "Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)". The band switched to Music Corporation of America in 1984, but they split up around 1986. Franke Previte co-wrote music for the hit soundtrack to the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. He has a sister who is a Ph.D. scientist in the pharmaceutical industry.
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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.
Ebb was born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, the son of Anna Evelyn (née Gritz) and Harry Ebb. He worked during the early 1950s bronzing baby shoes, as a trucker's assistant, and was also employed in a department store credit office and at a hosiery company. He graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, and also earned his Master’s Degree in English from Columbia University.
One of his early collaborators was Phil Springer, and a song they wrote together ("I Never Loved Him Anyhow") was recorded by Carmen McRae in 1956. Another song Ebb wrote with Springer was "Heartbroken" (1953), which was recorded by Judy Garland, the mother of his future protégée, Liza Minnelli. Other Springer-Ebb tunes include "Moonlight Gambler" and "Nevertheless I Never Lost the Blues". "Don't Forget", which he wrote with Norman Leyden, was recorded by singer Eddy Arnold in 1954.
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Fred Lipsius
Fred Lipsius (born 19 November 1943, The Bronx, New York, U.S.) was the original saxophonist and arranger for the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, for which he played alto saxophone and piano. He was with the band from 1967 to 1971.
Before Blood, Sweat & Tears, Lipsius played with the Ronn Metcalfe Orchestra.
Lipsius has performed with Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, and jazz greats Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Eddie Gomez, Al Foster, George Mraz, Larry Willis, Randy Brecker, Rodney Jones and many others. He has written music for and performed on over 30 CDs as both a leader and sideman. He has authored six books/CDs on jazz improvisation and jazz reading.
Lipsius now teaches at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Born in the Bronx, New York City on November 19, 1943, Lipsius began playing the clarinet at age 9, alto and tenor saxophones in Junior High School, and the piano at Music and Art High School in Manhattan. He continued his studies at Berklee School of Music (1961–62).
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Freddie Perren
Frederick "Freddie" Perren (May 15, 1943 – December 16, 2004) was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor best known as co-songwriter and co-producer of such mega-hits as "Boogie Fever" by the Sylvers, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches & Herb.
Perren was born on May 15, 1943, in Englewood, New Jersey, and graduated from Englewood's Dwight Morrow High School in 1961. Perren attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. graduating in 1966. It was here he would meet future songwriting partner Fonce Mizell as well as Larkin Arnold. He met Christine Yarian in 1967, and they married in 1970.
Shortly after moving to California from Washington, D.C., in 1968, Perren and bassist Mizell met guitarist Deke Richards. They started writing songs together. In 1969 Motown president Berry Gordy invited them to be part of his collective The Corporation, a collection of songwriters and record producers for The Jackson 5. "I Want You Back" was the first hit from this new collaboration, going to number one on the Hot 100 in early 1970. They would go on to write and produce more Jackson 5 hits such as "ABC", "The Love You Save", "Mama's Pearl", and "Maybe Tomorrow", among others. Perren and The Corporation continued their work for Motown on soundtracks such as Hell Up in Harlem and Cooley High, which featured "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (later a hit for Boyz II Men).
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Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand (born 21 August 1947 in Paris), a Franco-Tunisian citizen, was the French Minister of Culture and Communication. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director.
Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the President of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule".[citation needed]
He went to the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at J'informe. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of films, and was in the 1980s active as a producer and director in TV productions.
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Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, KBE, /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/ (21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was an orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Hungary, he studied in Budapest with Béla Bartók, Leo Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis, and because he was a Jew he fled the increasingly restrictive anti-semitic laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Not permitted to conduct there, he earned a living as a pianist.
After the war Solti was appointed musical director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1946. In 1952 he moved to the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained in charge for nine years. He took German citizenship in 1953. In 1961 he became musical director of the Covent Garden Opera Company in London. During his ten-year tenure, he introduced changes that saw standards raised to the highest international levels. Under his musical directorship the status of the company was recognised with the grant of the title "the Royal Opera". He became a British subject in 1972.
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George Harrison
George Harrison,MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience. Following the band's break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! 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.
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
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Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiɫˈbɛʁtu ʒiɫ]) or (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiu̯ˈbɛɾtʊ ʒiu̯]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including Rock music, Brazilian genres including samba, African music, and reggae.
Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician, and then grew to write songs that reflected a focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and was best known as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of actress screen legends.
Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, the only child of William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977). Ginger's parents separated soon after her birth, and she and her mother went to live with her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona (née Ball) Owens, in nearby Kansas City. Rogers' parents fought over her custody. After her mother denied him visitation, her father reportedly absconded with his daughter twice. After her parents divorced, Rogers stayed with her grandparents while her mother wrote scripts for two years in Hollywood. Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather (much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California so that he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios).[citation needed]
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Giorgio Moroder
Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder, named on record sleeves often only Giorgio (born 26 April 1940, Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy) is an Italian (of Ladin ethnicity) record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records. He collaborated with Donna Summer during the era of disco (including "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love") and is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, which was used as a recording studio by artists including the Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Queen and Elton John.
In addition to producing several hits with Donna Summer, Moroder also produced a number of electronic disco hits for The Three Degrees, two albums for Sparks, a handful of songs on Bonnie Tyler's album Bitterblue as well as her 1985 single "Here She Comes" and a score of songs for performers including David Bowie, Irene Cara, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan, and France Joli.
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Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author. She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.
Knight was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth (née Woods) and Merald Woodlow Knight, Sr., a postal worker. She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of 7 in 1952. The following year, she, her brother Merald, sister Brenda, and cousins William and Elenor Guest formed a musical group called The Pips (named after another cousin, James "Pip" Woods). By the end of the decade, the act had begun to tour, and had replaced Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest with Gladys Knight's cousin Edward Patten and friend Langston George.
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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
One of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.
Eldred Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, California, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of Irish (maternal) heritage and English (paternal) heritage, and his mother was of Scots (paternal) and English (maternal) ancestry. Peck's father was a Catholic and his mother converted upon marrying his father. Peck's Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.
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Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born 26 October 1981) is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. Since 2010 he has been a judge on Australia's The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi-platinum albums, including a number one and two. He has also released 11 top 15 singles, including eight top tens, with five achieving number one. He has the most number one singles for an Australian male artist in Australian music history, and is equal third overall for all Australian acts. Four of his singles have reached multi-platinum certification, with "Angels Brought Me Here", "Who's That Girl" and "Don't Worry Be Happy" achieving 4× platinum. "Angels Brought Me Here" was the highest selling song in Australia last decade. With 30 platinum and two gold certifications and combined album and single sales of over 2.2 million in Australia, Sebastian has the highest certifications and sales of any Australian Idol contestant.
"Angels Brought Me Here" also reached number one in four Asian countries and New Zealand. Sebastian had a second number one in New Zealand with "Who's That Girl", two other top ten singles and a number three album, and gained four platinum and two gold certifications there. He has worked with a number of well-known American musicians. He co-wrote songs with Brian McKnight and Robin Thicke for his album Beautiful Life, which also included a duet with Mýa. The Memphis Album was recorded with members of the MGs including Steve Cropper, and they were his band on his 2008 Australian tour. Like It Like That has three tracks with John Mayer on guitar and backing vocals, and "Art of Love" featuring Jordin Sparks. "Who's That Girl" from his album Twenty Ten features US rapper Eve.
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian: Ligeti György Sándor, [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating and becoming an Austrian citizen.
Ligeti was born in Dicsőszentmárton, which was renamed Târnăveni in 1945, in Transylvania to a Hungarian Jewish family. Ligeti recalls that his first exposure to languages other than Hungarian came one day while listening to a conversation among the Romanian-speaking town police. Before that he hadn't known that other languages existed. He moved to Kolozsvár (Cluj) with his family when he was 6, and he was not to return to the town of his birth until the 1990s.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj), and during the summers privately with Pál Kadosa in Budapest.
In 1940, Northern Transylvania was occupied by Hungary following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944, Ligeti's education was interrupted when he was sent to a forced labor brigade by the Horthy regime. His brother, age 16, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, and both of his parents were sent to Auschwitz. His mother was the only other survivor of his immediate family.
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Harold Nicholas
Harold Lloyd Nicholas (March 27, 1921 – July 3, 2000) was an American dancer specializing in tap. He was the younger half of the world famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas. Harold was married to actress Dorothy Dandridge from 1942 to 1951.
Nicholas was born to drummer and orchestra leader Ulysses Domonick and pianist Viola Harden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. By the age of three, his older brother Fayard enjoyed sitting in the audience of the black vaudeville theater where his parents performed, enraptured by the great performers on stage. Immersed in show business, when the Nicholases added a second son to the family, seven-year-old Fayard insisted that the child be named after his idol, Harold Lloyd, the silent screen comedian. Soon after Harold was born the two brothers began dancing. They quickly gained acclaim for their elegant acrobatic moves and mastery of tap. When Fayard turned 16 and Harold 9, they had made their first appearance at the legendary Cotton Club in New York City. They were popular immediately.
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Harold Prince
Harold Smith "Hal" Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards.
Prince wasCole was her born in New York City to Milton A. Prince, a stockbroker, and Blanche Stern. He entered the University of Pennsylvania at age 16, where he followed a liberal arts curriculum and graduated three years later. He later served two years with the United States Army in post-WWII Germany.
Prince began work in the theatre as an assistant stage manager to theatrical producer and director George Abbott. Along with Abbott, he co-produced The Pajama Game, which won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He went on to direct his own productions in 1962 beginning with A Family Affair and hit a series of unsuccessful productions.
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Harry Wayne Casey
Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band, and as a producer of several hits for other artists.
Born in Opa-Locka, Florida, to an Irish-American father and an Italian-American mother, Casey became interested in music at an early age. As a teenager he played and sang with several local bands and played piano at the Pentecostal church his family attended. He also attended Hialeah High School in Hialeah, Florida, that is where Casey further developed his music talent. He studied music at Miami-Dade Community College and worked part-time in a record store. KC noticed that often customers would come in not remembering the titles of the records they wanted, and the store would lose the sale — this is the reason so many of his songs repeat their titles over and over.
While working at the record store, Casey often made deliveries to the headquarters of TK Records in Hialeah, and spent so much time visiting the studio that he was eventually hired to work in the warehouse. On August 12, 1973, Casey signed a contract with TK and formed KC and the Sunshine Junkanoo Band, using other recording artists at the studio for backgrounds and instrumentation. The Miami Junkanoo Band was a local group brought in to perform on the record. Casey played electric piano and sang lead with the group. As the second single, "Sound Your Funky Horn", was released, the group's name was finalized as KC and the Sunshine Band. Casey brought in Richard Finch's musical talents and their production team (also the only white members of the group) was initiated. In 1974, they had their first Number One hit as songwriters with George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby." Casey and Finch also wrote and produced songs for Betty Wright and Jimmy "Bo" Horne.
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Howard Ashman
Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the music.
Ashman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley Thelma (née Glass) and Raymond Albert Ashman, an ice cream cone manufacturer. He was the artistic director of the WPA Theater in New York. His first two plays, Cause Maggie's Afraid of the Dark and Dreamstuff, were met with mixed reviews. His play The Confirmation was produced in 1979 at Princeton's McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi. He first worked with Alan Menken on a 1979 musical adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. They also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with Ashman as director, lyricist, and librettist, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
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Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis (Greek pronunciation: [ˈʝanis kseˈnakis], Greek: Γιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalized citizen of France. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances.
Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–4) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the Sainte Marie de La Tourette, on which the two architects collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed alone.
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Irene Cara
Irene Cara (born March 18, 1959) is an American singer and actress. She became famous for her role in the 1980 film Fame, earning her a Golden Globe nomination, and her recording of the song "Fame" became an international hit. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling, which also became an international hit."
She married Hollywood stuntman Conrad Palmisano in 1986. They divorced in 1991.
Cara's father, Gaspar Cara, was Puerto Rican and Cara's mother, Louise, was an American of Cuban descent. Cara has two sisters and two brothers. At age three, Irene Cara was one of five finalists for the 'Little Miss America' pageant. Cara began to play the piano "by ear" and soon thereafter, she began seriously studying music, acting, and dance. Cara's performing career started when she was a child on Spanish-language television, professionally singing and dancing. She made early TV appearances on the Original Amateur Hour (singing in Spanish) and Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. She was a regular on PBS’s educational program The Electric Company, which starred Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno, and Morgan Freeman. As a child, Cara recorded a Latin-market Spanish-language record; an English Christmas album soon followed. She also appeared in a major concert tribute to Duke Ellington which also featured Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis Jr, and Roberta Flack.
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Исаак Стерн, Russian: Айзек Стерн; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinist and conductor. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother, then in 1928 enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis Persinger. He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study for five years with Naoum Blinder, to whom he said he owed the most. At his public début on February 18, 1936, aged 15, he played Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Pierre Monteux. Reflecting on his background, Stern once memorably quipped that cultural exchanges between the US and Soviet Russia were simple affairs: "They send us their Jews from Odessa, and we send them our Jews from Odessa."
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Lemmon was born in an elevator[citation needed] at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He had stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947), where he lived in Adams House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs - becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club - as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen. He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, organ, and the double bass.
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Jack Nitzsche
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) was an arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others. He also worked extensively in film scores, winning a song of the year Oscar in 1983 for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from An Officer and a Gentleman.)
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, Nitzsche moved to Los Angeles, California in 1955 with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist. He found work copying musical scores, where he met Sonny Bono, with whom he wrote the song "Needles and Pins" for Jackie DeShannon, later covered by Cher, The Searchers, The Ramones, Crack the Sky and Willy DeVille and Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks (Pack up the Plantation). His own instrumental composition "The Lonely Surfer" became a minor hit, as did a big-band swing arrangement of Link Wray's "Rumble".
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Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage, and in film and television. He is a winner of the Tony Award, two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award. He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II.
He became famous playing works of Eugene O'Neill, an American playwright, and regularly performed in O'Neill's works throughout his career. Robards was cast in both common-man roles and as well-known historical figures.
Robards was born in Chicago, the son of Hope Maxine (née Glanville) Robards and Jason Robards, Sr., an actor who regularly appeared on the stage and in such early films as The Gamblers (1929). Robards was of English, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish descent.
The family moved to New York City, New York, when Jason Jr. was still a toddler, and then moved to Los Angeles, California, when he was six years old. Later interviews with Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents' divorce, which occurred during his grade-school years, greatly affected his personality and worldview.
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Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine LaJuane Jackson (also known as Mohammad Abdul Aziz) (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5 and occasional film director. He also produced and recorded duets with American singer Whitney Houston in her early years as a recording artist and was also a producer for Bobby DeBarge's band Switch.
Jackson is the fourth child of Joseph and Katherine Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana after his brother Tito Jackson. His brothers and sisters are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, La Toya, Marlon, Michael, Randy and Janet. He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by his devout mother (though he later converted to Islam in 1989 after a trip to Bahrain). Jermaine was the original lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Jackson Brothers—an earlier incarnation of The Jackson Five—until 1968, when younger brother Michael began assisting with lead vocals. He remained the lead vocalist with Michael for many years. Jackson graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California in 1973.
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Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman (born September 15, 1945) is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is among some of the most highly successful performers in classical music. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore.
Jessye Mae Norman was born on September 15, 1945 in Augusta, Georgia to Silas Norman, an insurance salesman, and Janie King-Norman, a school teacher. She was one of five children in a family of amateur musicians; her mother and grandmother were both pianists, her father a singer in a local choir. Norman's mother insisted that she start piano lessons at an early age. Norman attended Charles T. Walker Elementary School, A.R. Johnson Junior High School, and Lucy C. Laney Senior High School, all in downtown Augusta.
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Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry. She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name "Joanne". Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him and he told her he remembered her doing it.
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John DeNicola
John DeNicola (born October 4, 1955) is an American songwriter and producer who, in 1988, won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as receiving a Grammy nomination for co-writing the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", which became the signature theme in the soundtrack of the film Dirty Dancing. In 1989 he was the co-winner of ASCAP Awards' "Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures" for "Time of My Life" as well as for "Hungry Eyes", another song from the film. In addition to Dirty Dancing hits for Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes and Eric Carmen, he has also written songs with and for Eddie Money, John Waite, Kristine W, Steve Holy, Jeannie Kendall, Sugar Jones, Annie Haslam, Bernie Worrell, The Sighs and Martin Briley.
A native of New York City and a longtime resident of its historic, traditionally associated with artists, neighborhood of Greenwich Village, John DeNicola began his musical career as a bass player with "Flight", a band which recorded for Motown in 1980 and was sampled by Erikah Badu on her hit song "Back in the Day". He subsequently played bass with such pop recording artists as Paul Young and Corey Hart, before concentrating on songwriting and producing.
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John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. Throughout his life Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed. He performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his enthusiasm for music, and relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts including country & western, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, in all earning him 12 gold and 4 platinum albums with his signature songs "Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Rocky Mountain High", "Annie's Song", and "Calypso".
Denver further starred in films and several notable television specials in the 1970s and 1980s. In the following decades he continued to record, but also focused on calling attention to environmental issues, lent his vocal support to space exploration, and testified in front of Congress to protest censorship in music. He is known for his love of the state of Colorado, which he sang about numerous times. He lived in Aspen, Colorado, for much of his life, and influenced the governor to name him Poet Laureate of the state in 1974. The Colorado state legislature also adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its state songs in 2007. He was an avid pilot, and died while flying his personal aircraft at the age of 53. Denver was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s.
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John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
Kander was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bernice (née Aaron) and Harold S. Kander. Kander attended The Pembroke Country-Day School and Oberlin College before earning a Master's degree at Columbia University where he was a protégé of Douglas Moore and studied composition with Jack Beeson.
Kander began his Broadway career as substitute rehearsal pianist for West Side Story. The stage manager for West Side Story then asked Kander to play the auditions for her next show, Gypsy. During the auditions, Kander met the choreographer, Jerome Robbins, who suggested that Kander compose the dance music for the show in 1959. After that experience, he wrote dance arrangements for Irma la Douce in 1960.
His first produced musical was A Family Affair, written with James and William Goldman. He met lyricist Fred Ebb in 1962 and began a songwriting collaboration that would last for more than four decades. Later that year rising star Barbra Streisand recorded two of the duo's songs, "My Coloring Book" and "I Don't Care Much." In 1965, Kander and Ebb landed their first show on Broadway, Flora the Red Menace, produced by Hal Prince, directed by George Abbott, and with book by George Abbott and Robert Russell,[disambiguation needed
] in which Liza Minnelli made her initial Broadway appearance. Kander and Ebb have since been associated with writing material for both Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, and have produced special material for their appearances live and on television.
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John Legend
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He has won nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career gained momentum through a series of successful collaborations with multiple established artists. Stephens added his voice to those of other artists, assisting in them reaching chart-topper hits. He lent his voice to Kanye West's All of the Lights, on Slum Village's "Selfish" and Dilated Peoples' "This Way". Other artists included Jay-Z's "Encore", and he sang backing vocals on Alicia Keys' 2003 song "You Don't Know My Name" and Fort Minor's "High Road." Stephens played piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything."
Stephens was born on December 28, 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. He is the son of Phyllis, a seamstress, and John Mills, a factory worker and former National Guardsman. Throughout his childhood, Stephens was homeschooled on and off by his mother. At the age of four, he began playing the piano and at the age of seven, he performed with his church choir. When he was ten, his parents divorced, causing his mother to suffer a breakdown. At the age of 12, Stephens attended North High School, from which he graduated four years later. He graduated salutatorian.
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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 founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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John McVie
John Graham McVie (born 26 November 1945) is a British bass guitarist best known as a member of rock groups John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of Mick Fleetwood, was the inspiration for the band's name. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, replacing temporary bassist Bob Brunning.
In 1968 he married blues pianist and singer Christine Perfect, who became a member of Fleetwood Mac two years later. John and Christine McVie divorced, however, in 1977. Around this time the band recorded the album Rumours, a major artistic and commercial success that borrowed its title from the turmoils in McVie's and other band members' marriages and relationships. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work in Fleetwood Mac.
John Graham McVie was born in Ealing, west London, to Reg and Dorothy McVie and attended Walpole Grammar School. At age 14 he began playing the guitar in local bands, covering songs by The Shadows. He soon realised that his friends were learning lead guitar so he decided to play the bass guitar instead. Initially he just removed the top two (E and B) strings from his guitar to play the bass parts until his father bought him a pink Fender bass guitar, the same as that used by McVie's major early musical influence Jet Harris, The Shadows' bass player. John was in 3J class with Roger Warwick, a baritone sax player who had studied under Don Rendell and was to emerge in the London rock-jazz scene. Their teacher, Mr Howell (a pianist), although not really appreciating this "funny" music, was intelligent and open-minded enough to give pupils space and time to use school facilities to practise and listen to the new wave.[citation needed]
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John Rockwell
John Rockwell (born 1940 in Washington D.C.) is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture.
Rockwell began his journalistic career at the Oakland Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. In 1972 he began writing at the New York Times, first as a classical music critic and reporter, then as the paper's chief pop music critic, and, from 1992 to 1994, as the European cultural correspondent. Between 1994 to 1998, he served as the first director of the Lincoln Center Festival. He returned to the New York Times to become the editor of the paper's Sunday Arts and Leisure section. In 2004 he was named the chief dance critic. He left the Times at the end of 2006 to pursue independent projects.
He lives in Manhattan.
In January 2008, John Rockwell was a Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin.
On WNYC Radio, Rockwell examined cultural topics and events in the news for his weekly Monday night segment, Rockwell Matters. from October 2007 until May 2008 (Archives can be heard online.)
Rockwell is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian on KPFA following the publication of his book “All American Music: Composition of the late 20th Century” 1983
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Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
Although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s Carson became an American icon and remained so until his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Late night hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Fallon have all cited Carson's influence on their late-night talk shows, which resemble his in format and tone.
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in the year 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson, who was of Irish descent. He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight. At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at fourteen and was paid $3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), 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 icon, 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. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
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Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for the serious social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia explored in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works, Rent and tick, tick... BOOM!. He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock opera Rent.
Larson was born to Jewish parents, Allan and Nanette Larson, in White Plains, New York. He was exposed to the performing arts, especially music and theatre from an early age, as he played the trumpet, tuba, was involved in his school's choir, and took formal piano lessons. His early musical influences were his favorite rock musicians such as Elton John, The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, and Billy Joel, as well as the classic composers of musical theatre, especially Stephen Sondheim. Larson was also involved in acting in high school, performing in lead roles in various productions at White Plains High School.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made. Musically restless, Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring her radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris."
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José Antonio Abreu
José Antonio Abreu (born May 7, 1939 in Valera) is a Venezuelan pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician.
Born in the city of Valera in 1939, Abreu graduated ¨Summa Cum Laude¨ as an Economist at Universidad Católica Andres Bello and he was awarded a PhD degree in Petroleum Economics from the same university in 1961. Abreu also did some graduate work at the University of Michigan. He served as a Deputy at the Chamber of Deputies in the Congress of Venezuela. After his political career, he also worked as a professor of economics and law at Universidad Simón Bolívar and his Alma Mater. He would return to politics briefly in 1983 to serve as Minister of Culture.
Abreu began to study music with Doralisa Jiménez de Medina in Barquisimeto. Later, he attended the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy in 1957, where he studied piano with Moisés Moleiro, organ and harpsichord with Evencio Castellanos, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. In 1967, he received the Symphonic Music National Prize for his musical ability. It was in 1975 that he founded El Sistema, formally known as the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela.
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Judith Jamison
Judith Ann Jamison (born May 10, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Jule Styne
Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.
Styne was born in London, England as Julius Kerwin Stein of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.
Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating. It would be the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne would compose in his career.
Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (#1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945), "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning "Three Coins in the Fountain". He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (#1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a #2 hit for Doris Day in 1948) and "I Fall in Love Too Easily".
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Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias (born Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva; September 23, 1943) is a Spanish singer and songwriter whose romantic image, magnetic stage presence, and expressive music made him one of the best-selling artists of all time. By the early 21st century he had sold hundreds of millions of albums in more than a dozen languages. He has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best-selling music artists in history. While Iglesias rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as a performer of romantic ballads, his success has continued on as he entered new musical endeavors. He is the father of singer Enrique Iglesias.
Iglesias was born in Madrid, the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat. Iglesias' father's family was from Galicia, and Iglesias' mother an Andalusian.
In the 1960s, he studied law in Madrid and was a goalkeeper for one of Real Madrid's football teams. On September 22, 1963, he was involved in a car crash, resulting in an injury to his spinal cord. He said, "I had a car accident; [a] very, very strange car accident...I lost control of the car and rolled it, resulting in what they call 'paraparexia,' which is not paraplegia. It's a compression in the [spinal] cord, in the sense of the neck...my spinal cord; and I was very, very ill for three years." His doctors thought he would never walk again; indeed, his legs were left permanently weakened, and they continued to require therapy as of late October 2010. However, slowly, he began recovering his health. To develop and increase the dexterity of his hands, he began playing guitar. When he recovered from his accident, he resumed academic studies and traveled to the United Kingdom to study the English language, first in Ramsgate, then at Bell Educational Trust's Language School in Cambridge.
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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Her work came in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. Hepburn's characters were often strong, sophisticated women with a hidden vulnerability.
Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years in the theatre, favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in the film industry were marked with success, including an Academy Award for her third picture, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures. In 1938 she was labeled "box office poison". Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. In the 1940s she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy. The screen-partnership spanned 25 years, and produced nine movies.
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Keith Forsey
Keith Forsey (born 2 January 1948, in London) is an English soundtrack composer,drummer, songwriter and record producer.
Forsey's first recordings were as the younger member of the group The Spectrum, better known for the end title theme for Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet, but hit makers across Europe in their own right, scoring hits in Germany and Spain on RCA Victor Records.
As drummer and long-time associate of producer Giorgio Moroder, Forsey can be heard on several albums of Donna Summer before 1981. He co-wrote several songs on the albums Bad Girls, The Wanderer and I'm a Rainbow. Forsey also formed a dance band called TRAX with Moroder's co-producer Pete Bellotte and produced two dance albums.
Forsey's drum sound was the mainstay of many Moroder productions during the 1970s including Sparks' album No. 1 in Heaven, Get on the Funk Train by Munich Machine (Moroder/Bellotte's house band), as well as various other studio/disco acts based in Munich at this time such as Boney M.. He also played on Moroder's Son of My Father, along with the as yet undiscovered, Donna Summer.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.
Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as a group leader and a solo performer. His improvisations draw not only from the traditions of jazz, but from other genres as well, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
Jarrett grew up in suburban Allentown, Pennsylvania, with significant early exposure to music. He possessed absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. The young Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions. Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.
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Ken Caillat
Kenneth Douglas "Ken" Caillat ( /kæˈleɪ/ kal-LEI; born August 12, 1946) is an American record producer. He is best known for producing the Fleetwood Mac albums Rumours, Tusk, Mirage, Live, and The Chain Box Set.
Caillat was the president of 5.1 Entertainment Group Digital Production Services, which has worked on albums for Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, Wilson Phillips, the Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, David Becker Tribune and Alice Cooper as well as Christine McVie on her solo album In the Meantime, in addition to Fleetwood Mac, remastering in 5.1 DVD audio format. He won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Rumours.
In addition to production, he has been a director, studio engineer, author and musician. In 2012 he released his memoir on his experiences co-producing and engineering the 1977 Rumours album, called Making Rumours (http://www.makingrumours.com)
He is the father of singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat and produced her albums Coco (2007), Breakthrough (2009), and All of You (2011).
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Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, Russian: И́сер Даниело́вич; December 9, 1916) is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Spartacus (1960), and Lonely Are the Brave (1962).
He is No.17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community."
Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch, a businessman. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel, Belarus. His father's brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas's family adopted in the United States. In addition to their surname, his parents also changed their given names to Harry and Bertha. Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the Navy during World War II.
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Klaus Voormann
Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, noted musician, and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer was his work with the band Trio, including their worldwide hit "Da Da Da". As a musician, Voormann is best known for being the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969, and for performing as a session musician on a host of recordings, including many by former members of The Beatles.
His association with The Beatles dated back to their time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John Lennon and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners, and designed the cover of their album Revolver, for which he won a Grammy. Following the band's split, rumours circulated of the formation of a group named The Ladders, consisting of Lennon, Harrison, Starr and Voormann. This failed to materialise, outside of all four Ladders (plus Billy Preston) performing on the Ringo Starr track "I'm the Greatest", although Voormann did play on albums by Lennon, Harrison and Starr, and was for a time a member of the Plastic Ono Band. In the 1990s, he designed the artwork for the Beatles Anthology albums.
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Lamont Dozier
Lamont Herbert Dozier (born June 16, 1941) is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.
Dozier is best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. Along with Brian Holland, Dozier served as the team's musical arranger and producer. After H-D-H left Motown in 1967 to form the Invictus/Hot Wax labels, Dozier began recording as an artist on their labels. Dozier departed from H-D-H in the mid-1970s, and was replaced by new arranger/producer Harold Beatty.
Dozier had another #1 hit as a songwriter in the 1980s, combining with Phil Collins to write the song "Two Hearts" from the movie soundtrack for Buster. "Two Hearts" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song. Collins and Dozier also co-wrote "Loco in Acapulco" for The Four Tops, which is also featured on the Buster soundtrack.
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall ( /ˌlɔrən bəˈkɔːl/; born Betty Joan Perske, September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946) and Dark Passage (1947), as well as a comedienne in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. Bacall has also worked on Broadway in musicals, gaining Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
In 1999, Bacall was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."
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Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye (born December 27, 1946) is an American guitarist, composer and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.
Lenny was born on December 27, 1946, in the Washington Heights area of upper Manhattan, New York, along the Hudson River in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge. Growing up in Queens and Brooklyn, Lenny originally began playing accordion, but by the end of the 1950s, had dropped the instrument in favor of collecting records. His family moved to North Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1960 where Lenny attended high school, and later, college, graduating Rutgers in 1967. Though he majored in American History, his true avocation was musical, and it was there that he first began playing in bands, on a college mixer and fraternity circuit later immortalized in National Lampoon's Animal House. His first gig, with the Vandals ("Bringing down the house with your kind of music"), was at Alpha Sigma Phi on November 7, 1964.
As musician, writer, and record producer, Lenny Kaye has been intimately involved with an array of artists and bands. He has been a guitarist for poet-rocker Patti Smith since her band's inception more than thirty years ago, and is the co-author of Waylon, The Life Story of Waylon Jennings. He has worked in the studio with such artists as R.E.M., Suzanne Vega, Jim Carroll, Soul Asylum, Kristen Hersh and Allen Ginsberg, as well as his own solo muse. His seminal anthology of sixties' garage-rock, Nuggets, has long been regarded as defining a genre. You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon, an impressionistic study of the romantic singers of the 1930s, was published by Villard/Random House in 2004.
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Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger, whose “retro” style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion himself when recording. He is known for his elaborate stage performances and music videos.
He won the Grammy Award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category and most consecutive wins in one category for a male. He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, BRIT Awards and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. On December 1, 2011, Kravitz was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He played the role of Cinna in the film The Hunger Games.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music.
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, he began playing piano at the age of four. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this time he was already performing at Tulsa nightclubs. After moving to Los Angeles, he became a session musician, working as a pianist on the recordings of many notable musical artists since the 1960s. By the late 1960s, Russell diversified, becoming successful as an arranger and wrote/co-wrote songs. As a musician, he worked his way from gigs as a sideman to well known performers. By 1970 he had graduated to solo recording artist, although he never ended all his previous roles within the music industry.
Russell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, March 14, 2011, at a black-tie dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
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Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and 1997 to present day. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and two live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In Fleetwood Mac's heyday, Buckingham was known for his finger picking guitar style and wide vocal range as well as the famous (sometimes tense) chemistry between himself and former girlfriend and fellow bandmate Stevie Nicks.
Born in Palo Alto, California, Buckingham was the third and youngest child of Rutheda (née Elliott) and Morris Buckingham. He had two older brothers, Jeff and Greg. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area community of Atherton, Buckingham and his brothers were encouraged to swim competitively. Though Buckingham dropped out of athletics to pursue music, his brother Greg went on to win a silver medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1908, and was raised by his grandmother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s—while still a teenager—Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and started playing drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. From 1968, he was a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records. Richie made his solo debut in 1982 with the album Lionel Richie and number-one hit "Truly".
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Alberta R. (Foster) and Lionel Brockman Richie. Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather's house was across the street from the home of the president of the college. His family moved to Joliet, Illinois, where he graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, and graduated with a major in economics. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Tuskegee, Richie briefly attended graduate school at Auburn University. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968 he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House." Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Still," and the tragic breakup ballad "Sail On."
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Lou Adler
Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, manager, director, and an owner of famous The Roxy Theatre.
Adler was born in Chicago, Illinois in December 1933, and raised in East Los Angeles. In 1964, Adler founded and co-owned Dunhill Records. He was President of the label as well as the chief record producer from 1964 to 1967. That summer he sold Dunhill for three million dollars to ABC Records. Later in 1967, he founded Ode Records. In June 1967, Adler helped to produce the Monterey International Pop Festival, as well as the film version, Monterey Pop.
He formerly managed Jan & Dean and produced Sam Cooke, The Mamas & the Papas, Johnny Rivers, Barry McGuire, Scott McKenzie, The Grass Roots, Spirit, Carole King, The Weaver Temptations, and Cheech and Chong.
He won two Grammy Awards in 1972 in the Record of the Year category for producing It's Too Late by Carole King and in the Album of the Year category for Tapestry (also by King).
In 1975, Adler produced the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and in 1981, its follow-up, Shock Treatment.
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Lula Mae Hardaway
Lula Mae Hardaway (January 11, 1930, Eufaula, Alabama – May 31, 2006, Los Angeles, California) was the mother of blind soul musician Stevie Wonder. Hardaway spent most of her adult life in Saginaw, Detroit (where Wonder was born) and from 1975 lived in Los Angeles.
Hardaway co-wrote many of her son's songs during his teenage years, including the hit singles "I Was Made to Love Her" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours". For co-writing the latter song, she was nominated for the 1970 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.
Hardaway was the subject of a 2002 biography entitled Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother (ISBN 0-7435-2695-3).
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Malcolm Cecil
Malcolm Cecil (born 9 January 1937, London) is a British jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winning record producer.
A founding member of the UK's leading jazz quintet of the late 1950s, The Jazz Couriers, he went on to join a number of British jazz combos led by Dick Morrissey, Tony Crombie and Ronnie Scott in the late 50s and early 60s. He later joined Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated.
He later joined Robert Margouleff to form the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around a unique combination of synthesizers which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-winning albums of the early 70s.
With Robert Margouleff, he formed the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around synthesizers. The duo were closely associated with Stevie Wonder's multiple Grammy Award winning Talking Book (1972), sharing the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical award as well as collaborating on and co-producing classic Wonder albums such as Music of My Mind, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale.
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Maria Tallchief
Elizabeth Maria Tallchief (born January 24, 1925) was the first Native American to become prima ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is even better known for her time with the New York City Ballet, from its founding in 1947 through 1965. Known professionally as Maria Tallchief, her family called her Betty Marie.
She was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma to a father who was a chief in the Osage Nation and a Scots-Irish mother.
Of her childhood she wrote, "I was a good student and fit in at Sacred Heart (Catholic school). But in many ways, I was a typical Indian girl — shy, docile, introverted. I loved being outdoors and spent most of my time wandering around my big front yard, where there was an old swing and a garden. I'd also ramble around the grounds of our summer cottage hunting for arrowheads in the grass. Finding one made me shiver with excitement. Mostly, I longed to be in the pasture, running around where the horses were...".
She enjoyed music, dancing and ballet. Her desire to pursue a career in the arts was a challenging dream for a Native American child in those days. The family moved to Beverly Hills, California in 1933, where Maria studied ballet with Bronislava Nijinska for five years. Madame Nijinska's philosophy of discipline made sense to Tallchief. "When you sleep, sleep like a ballerina. Even on the street waiting for the bus, stand like ballerina".
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.
Horne was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, but moved with her parents to Long Beach, California, when she was 11. At the age of 13, she became part of the newly formed Los Angeles Concert Youth Chorus. She attended the University of Southern California where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She is an alumna of Long Beach Polytechnic High School and returned in 1989 in a performance to benefit its music program. As a high school student, Marilyn was part of the St. Luke's Choir of Long Beach under the direction of William Ripley Dorr. This prestigious choir often worked for the movie studios and recorded on Capitol Records. Marilyn and her sister Gloria were part of St. Luke's Quartet along with tenor, Bob James and baritone, Philip D. Haynes.
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Marion Williams
Marion Williams (August 29, 1927 – July 2, 1994) was an American gospel singer.
Marion Williams was born in Miami, Florida, to a religiously devout mother and musically inclined father. She left school when she was nine years old to help support the family, and worked as a maid, a nurse, and in factories and laundries. She began singing in front of auiences while young. As was common in the area, Williams learned African-American blues and jazz, alongside Caribbean calypso. Poverty caused Williams to leave school at fourteen, working with her mother at a laundry. She was singing at church and on street corners, inspired by a wide range of musicians, including Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Smith Jubilee Singers. She stuck with gospel in spite of pressure to switch to popular blues tunes or the opera.
In 1946, while visiting a friend in Philadelphia, Williams happened to sing before an audience that included Clara and Gertrude Ward. They recognized her talent and offered her a job. A year later, she became part of the famous Ward Singers. Her growling, hands-on-the-hips vocal style made her the group's undisputed star.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
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Maurice Gibb
Maurice Ernest Gibb, CBE (22 December 1949 – 12 January 2003) was a musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the twin brother of Robin Gibb and younger brother to Barry. He is best known as a member of the singing/songwriting trio the Bee Gees, formed with his brothers. Their younger brother Andy was a popular solo singer. The trio got their start in Australia, and found major success when they returned to England. The Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups ever.
Born Maurice Ernest Gibb to Barbara (née Pass) and Hugh Gibb (d.1992) on the Isle of Man, Maurice was the fraternal twin brother of Robin Gibb, and the younger of the two by 35 minutes. The fourth-born of five children, he had one older sister, Lesley (b. 1945), and three brothers, Barry (b. 1946), twin Robin (1949–2012), and Andy (1958–1988). In the 1950s, the family moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, England, then in late 1958, they moved to Brisbane, Australia, settling in one of the city's poorest suburbs, Cribb Island, which was subsequently demolished to make way for the Brisbane Airport.
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Melle Mel
Melle Mel ( /ˈmɛli ˈmɛl/; born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961), also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Melvin Glover was the first rapper to call himself "MC" (Master of Ceremony). Other Furious Five members included his brother The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams) & Cowboy (Keith Wiggins). While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term "hip-hop" while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.
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Michael Gore
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1980 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.
Gore wrote the music for the notorious Broadway flop Carrie - The Musical. Two of his songs, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, were featured in the 2003 movie Camp.
He also composed the theme and score for the 1983 hit film Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger, notching a hit on the Adult Contemporary chart (and briefly the pop charts) under his own name with the "Theme" from this film.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, 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 seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work in Fleetwood Mac.
Aside from his work as a drummer, he also helped form the different incarnations of his band Fleetwood Mac, and is the sole member to stay with the band through its ever-changing lineup. In 1974, he met and invited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks contributed to much of Fleetwood Mac's later commercial success, while Fleetwood's determination to keep the band together was essential to the group's longevity.[citation needed]
Fleetwood was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to John Joseph Kells and Bridget Maureen (née Brereton) Fleetwood. His sister, Susan Fleetwood, was an actress. In early childhood he and his family followed his father, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, to Egypt. After about six years they moved to Norway where his father was posted. He attended school there and acquired fluency in the Norwegian language. According to his autobiography, Fleetwood had an extremely difficult and trying time academically at the English boarding schools he attended, including the Kings School, Sherbone Park, Glos. He performed poorly on exams which he attributes to his persistent inability to commit facts to memory. He dropped out of school aged 15, and, in 1963, moved to London to pursue a career as a drummer.
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist.
In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music in the U.S. and around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.
She actively campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of apartheid she returned home. She died on 10 November 2008 after performing in a concert organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the Region of Campania.
Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma (traditional healer-herbalist). Her father, who died when she was six years old, was a Xhosa. When she was eighteen days old, her mother was arrested for selling umqombothi, an African homemade beer brewed from malt and cornmeal. Her mother was sentenced to a six-month prison term, so Miriam spent her first six months of life in jail. As a child, she sang in the choir of the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, a primary school that she attended for eight years.
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Morton Gould
Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six. Gould studied at the Institute of Musical Art, although his most important teachers were Abby Whiteside and Vincent Jones.
During the Depression, Gould, while a teenager, worked in New York City playing piano in movie theaters, as well as with vaudeville acts. When Radio City Music Hall opened, Gould was hired as the staff pianist. By 1935, he was conducting and arranging orchestral programs for New York's WOR radio station, where he reached a national audience via the Mutual Broadcasting System, combining popular programming with classical music.
In the 1940s, Gould appeared on the Cresta Blanca Carnival program as well as The Chrysler Hour on CBS where he reached an audience of millions.
Gould composed Broadway scores such as Billion Dollar Baby and Arms and the Girl; film music such as Delightfully Dangerous, Cinerama Holiday, and Windjammer; music for television series such as World War One; and ballet scores including Interplay, Fall River Legend, and I'm Old Fashioned.
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Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that were made into movies. He also has written the books for several musicals, including Sweet Charity.
Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City to Irving Simon, a garment salesman, and his wife Mamie. He was their second son and grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan during the Great Depression. His father often abandoned the family, causing financial and emotional difficulties. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated at the age of sixteen.
He attended New York Universitybriefly from 1944 to 1945, where he was enlisted in the Army Air Force Reserve training program. He was assigned to Lowry Air Force Base during 1945 and attended the University of Denver from 1945 to 1946. He was a sports editor for the military magazine Rev-Meter.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt) (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement. Around 1970, Harnoncourt started to conduct opera and concert performances, soon leading renowned international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals. His repertoire has since widened to include composers of the 19th and 20th century. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert. Harnoncourt is also the author of several books, mostly on questions of performance history and musical aesthetics.
Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, Germany. He was raised in Graz, Austria and studied music in Vienna. His mother, Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the granddaughter of the Habsburg Archduke Johann, the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from various Holy Roman Emperors and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, was an engineer working in Berlin who had two children from a previous marriage. Two years after Nikolaus's birth, his brother Philipp was born. The family eventually moved to Graz, where Eberhard had obtained a post in the state-government (Landesregierung) of Styria.
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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", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. 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. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.
Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of July 2011, these donations exceeded $300 million.
Newman was born in Shaker Heights (a suburb of Cleveland). He was the son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store. His father was Jewish (Paul's paternal grandparents, Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, were immigrants from Hungary and Poland). His mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Humenné, Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austria–Hungary (now Humenné in Slovakia). Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, stating that "it's more of a challenge". Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is a grammy award winning American singer-songwriter, poet and guitarist.
Simon's international fame and success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, launched in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.
Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
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Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th-century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes.
As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964, and The Seekers in 1966. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In the PBS "American Masters" episode Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Seeger states it was he who changed the lyric from the traditional "We will overcome" to the more singable "We shall overcome".
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Peter Allen
Peter Allen (10 February 1944 – 18 June 1992) was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Elkie Brooks, Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, with one, "Arthur's Theme", winning an Academy Award in 1981. In addition to recording many albums, he enjoyed a cabaret and concert career, including appearing at Radio City Music Hall riding a camel. His marriage to Liza Minnelli ended in divorce, and culminated his heterosexual guise. He subsequently proclaimed his homosexual desires and publicly entered a gay relationship with Gregory Connell that lasted until Connell's death, 15 years later.
Peter Allen was born Peter Richard Woolnough in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia. He was the grandson of George Woolnough, whom Allen immortalised in his song "Tenterfield Saddler". Allen began his performing career with Chris Bell as one of the "Allen Brothers", who were a popular cabaret and television act in the early 1960s in Australia. Mark Herron, the husband of Judy Garland, discovered Allen while he was performing in Hong Kong. He was invited to return with them to London and the United States, where he performed with Garland.[citation needed]
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song is the most played music video in the history of the station.
More recently, Gabriel has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers.” Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1975 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis. His singles, sometimes dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", dance pop of "Sussudio", piano-driven "Against All Odds", to the political statements of "Another Day in Paradise".
Collins's professional music career began as a drummer, originally in a band called The Real Thing with Andrea Bertorelli, who later became his first wife. Collins played drums and shared lead vocals (with Brian Chatton) in Flaming Youth which recorded one album, (Ark II). In 1970, he took over drums for Genesis, which had already recorded two albums. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: "For Absent Friends" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. Following Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer.
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Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone (born 1941) is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.
As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods.
In 1959, he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording (the initials were derived from the last initials of Ramone and his then-business partner Jack Arnold). There he quickly gained a reputation as a sound engineer and music producer, in particular for his use of innovative technology. Among those whose music he has produced are Clay Aiken, Burt Bacharach, Laura Branigan, Ray Charles, Karen Carpenter, Chicago, Peter Cincotti, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Sheena Easton, Melissa Errico, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Patricia Kaas, B. B. King, Julian Lennon, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Richard Marx, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Liza Minnelli, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, Sinéad O'Connor, Fito Páez, Luciano Pavarotti, Peter Paul and Mary, Andre Previn, Diane Schuur, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, The Guess Who, and Dionne Warwick. He is also credited with recording Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" to President John F. Kennedy [1].also Phoebe Snow
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Phil Spector
Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector on December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter.
The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits in 1960–1965. Some of his famous girl groups are The Ronettes and The Crystals. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim. He produced The Beatles' Academy Award winning album Let It Be, and the Grammy Award–winning Concert for Bangladesh by former Beatle George Harrison. In 1989, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. The 1965 song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced and co-written by Spector for The Righteous Brothers, is listed by BMI as the song with the most U.S. airplay in the 20th century.
In 2009 Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California home. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ bu.lɛːz]) (born 26 March 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.
Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics. He pursued the latter at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and the wife of Arthur Honegger, Andrée Vaurabourg.
Through Messiaen, Boulez discovered twelve-tone technique — which he would later study privately with René Leibowitz — and went on to write atonal music in a post-Webernian serial style. Boulez was initially part of a cadre of early supporters of Leibowitz, but due to an altercation with Leibowitz, their relations turned divisive, as Boulez spent much of his career promoting the music of Messiaen instead.
The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23. Thereafter, Boulez was influenced by Messiaen's research to extend twelve-tone technique beyond the realm of pitch organization, serialising durations, dynamics, mode of attack, and so on. This technique became known as integral serialism.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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Ralph MacDonald
Ralph MacDonald (March 15, 1944 – December 18, 2011) was a Trinbagonian-American percussionist, song-writer, musical arranger, record producer, steelpan virtuoso and philanthropist.
Growing up in Harlem, U.S.A. under the close mentorship of his Trinbagonian father, Patrick MacDonald (a calypsonian and bandleader originally from Trinidad and Tobago who went by the stage name "Macbeth the Great"), MacDonald began showing his musical talent, particularly with the steelpan, and when he was seventeen he landed a job playing pan for the Harry Belafonte show.
He remained with the Belafonte outfit for a decade before deciding to strike out on his own. In 1967, together with Bill Eaton and William Salter, he formed the Antisia Music Incorporated. Anisitia is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
In 1971, Roberta Flack recorded Where Is the Love, which MacDonald and Salter had written. The duet with Donny Hathaway won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The single was awarded gold status and sold more than one million copies. MacDonald played on the session for the song.
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Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins, May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J. Blige, and John Legend.
He and D'Angelo were occasional members of The Ummah, a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and J Dilla of the Detroit-based group Slum Village.
Saadiq's critically acclaimed album, The Way I See It, released on September 16, 2008, featuring artists Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone, and Jay-Z, received three Grammy Award Nominations and was voted Best Album on iTunes of 2008. His fourth studio album, Stone Rollin', was released on March 25, 2011. For the album, Saadiq worked with steel guitarist Robert Randolph; former Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn; Swedish/Japanese indie rock songstress Yukimi Nagano (of Little Dragon fame); Funk legend Larry Graham (on the bonus cut Perfect Storm) plus soul newcomer Taura 'Aura Jackson' Stinson.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and 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.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Arabella.
A Richard Tucker Award winner, she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music.
Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi."
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Richard Dashut
Richard Charles Dashut (born September 19, 1951) is a record producer who produced several Fleetwood Mac albums including Rumours and Tusk, and later an album by Matthew Sweet, Altered Beast. Dashut also co-wrote several songs with Lindsey Buckingham during his time with Fleetwood Mac. Dashut was born in West Hollywood, California, and started his career sweeping floors in a recording studio.
Richard is currently producing Kalsey Kulyk: together, their sound is unique and is a mix between Country, Rock and pop.
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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 and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals 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"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
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Risë Stevens
Risë Stevens ( /ˈriːsə/; born June 11, 1913, New York City) is a retired American operatic mezzo-soprano.
Born Risë Steenberg to Christian and Sarah (née Mechanic) Steenberg, known as "Sadie". Her father was of Norwegian Lutheran descent and her mother was Jewish, of Polish and Russian descent. She had a younger brother, Lewis "Bud" Steenberg. She studied at New York's Juilliard School for three years. She went to Vienna, where she was trained by Marie Gutheil-Schoder and Herbert Graf. She made her début as Mignon in Prague in 1936 and stayed there until 1938, also appearing in guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera.
She was engaged at the Teatro Colón in 1938 (as Octavian) and was invited to the Glyndebourne Festival in 1939 where she was heard as Dorabella and Cherubino. In 1938 she made her début at the Metropolitan Opera as Mignon. Three days later, she sang Octavian opposite Lotte Lehmann. The film industry in Hollywood produced several films for her, including The Chocolate Soldier (1941) with Nelson Eddy and Going My Way (1944) with Bing Crosby, the latter film crediting Stevens as a contralto.
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Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".
One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns. He also spent 37 years as music editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created the annual Pazz & Jop poll.
Christgau grew up in New York City, where he says he became a rock and roll fan when disc jockey Alan Freed moved to the city in 1954. He left New York for four years to attend Dartmouth College, graduating in 1962 with a B.A. in English. While at college Christgau's musical interests turned to jazz, but he quickly returned to rock after moving back to New York.
He initially wrote short stories, before giving up fiction in 1964 to become a sportswriter, and later, a police reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. Christgau became a freelance writer after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in New Jersey was published by New York magazine. He was asked to take over the dormant music column at Esquire, which he began writing in early 1967. After Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to The Village Voice in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor.
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Robert Margouleff
Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award–winning American record producer, recording engineer, electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer.
Most noted for his work with electronic music synthesizer programming for Stevie Wonder (beginning in the 1970s) for award-winning albums including Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Jungle Fever, all projects which featured Margouleff (with collaborator Malcolm Cecil) as associate producers, engineers and synthesizer programmers.
By helping Stevie Wonder develop many new textures and sounds never heard before, Margouleff and Cecil played a major role in bringing synthesizers to the forefront of popular music. As an influential electronic music duo - Tonto's Expanding Head Band - they recorded the album Zero Time (1971) attracting attention from many other leading artists of that era to the newly emerging music technology.
Robert Margouleff was an early customer, friend and collaborator of fellow New Yorker and music instrument pioneer Robert Moog contributing early insight toward Moog's musical instrument development for artists to routinely program and use synthesizers as part of their evolving sound ecology.
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Robert Moog
Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Bob Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.
A native of New York City, Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York, graduating in 1952. Moog earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College, New York in 1957, another in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University. Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (New York City) and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania).
During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments. He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000. He spent the early 1990s as a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his fraternal twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry. Their younger brother Andy was also a singer.
Born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the family later moved to Manchester before settling in Brisbane, Australia. Gibb began his career as part of the family trio and when the group found their first success they returned to the United Kingdom where they achieved worldwide fame. In 2004, the Bee Gees received their CBEs from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace for their "contribution to music". With record sales estimated in excess of 200 million units, the Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all time. Music historian Paul Gambaccini described Gibb as "one of the major figures in the history of British music" and "one of the best white soul voices ever".
After a career spanning six decades, Gibb last performed on stage in February 2012 supporting injured British servicemen and women at a charity concert at the London Palladium. On 20 May 2012, Gibb died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure.
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Ron Kersey
Tyrone Garfield "Ron (Have Mercy)" Kersey (April 7, 1949 – January 25, 2005) was an American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger most known for writing the music to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.
Kersey was born in Philadelphia, PA, and served in the US Air Force. He was a member of the disco band The Trammps and received a Grammy Award for the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever which included "Disco Inferno". He was also a member of MFSB and The Salsoul Orchestra. Kersey suffered a stroke in 1997 and died in Philadelphia in 2005.
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Ronald White
Ronald "Ronnie" White (5 April 1939 – 26 August 1995) was an African American soul singer and songwriter, notable as a founding member of The Miracles, and the only member to survive all of that group's line-up changes. He is also noted as the man who discovered Stevie Wonder, then White's 11-year-old neighbor, and brought him to the attention of Motown head, Berry Gordy Jr.
White was a childhood friend of fellow Miracle William "Smokey" Robinson. The pair began singing together in grade school and released a few singles while with the Miracles as a duo called Ron & Bill.
White collaborated with Robinson on several of his most notable compositions, including The Temptations' "Don't Look Back" and their #1 hit "My Girl"; Marvin Gaye's Top-10 "Ain't That Peculiar"; and Mary Wells' Top-10 "You Beat Me To The Punch".
White died of leukemia in August 1995. His first wife, Earlyn, with whom he had two daughters, Michelle and Pamela, succumbed to breast cancer several years earlier. White was also predeceased by his first-born, Michelle, who, like him, died of leukemia. White is survived by his second wife, Gloria, daughter Pamela White English (and her daughter Maya), and son Ronnie White II.
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Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music," Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
Acuff began his music career in the 1930s, and gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group, the Smoky Mountain Boys. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938, and although his popularity as a musician waned in the late 1940s, he remained one of the Opry's key figures and promoters for nearly four decades. In 1942, Acuff co-founded the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company—Acuff-Rose Music—which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers. In 1962, Acuff became the first living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Roy Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee to Ida (née Carr) and Simon E. Neill Acuff, the third of five children. The Acuffs were a fairly prominent Union County family. Roy's paternal grandfather, Coram Acuff, had been a Tennessee state senator, and Roy's maternal grandfather was a local physician. Roy's father was an accomplished fiddler and a Baptist preacher, his mother was proficient on the piano, and during Roy's early years the Acuff house was a popular place for local gatherings. At such gatherings, Roy would often amuse people by balancing farm tools on his chin. He also learned to play harmonica and jaw harp at a young age.
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle from 1951 through 1961.
He was best known for producing several albums with Simon and Garfunkel, including the Grammy-winning Bridge Over Troubled Water. He is mentioned in their 1965 song "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)", written by Paul Simon. He has also worked with other groups such as The Byrds, Journey (on their first album Journey), Willie Nile, Laura Nyro, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Blue Angel.
Halee was named to the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Salomé de Bahia
Salomé de Bahia is a Brazilian vocalist, living in Paris, France.
De Bahia musical career started in 1958. She met Parisian DJ and producer Bob Sinclar in 1997 in Paris jazz caffe Chez Felix. De Bahia has gained wider popularity in 1998 when she started to cooperate with Bob Sinclar and they released the compilation Sun Sun on Sony records. She also adopted songs from Stevie Wonder's "Another Star", listed as "Sambala", and Barry Manilow's "Copacabana". She is a versatile singer and sings in various musical genres like bossa nova, salsa, jazz and electronic music.
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Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain".
Cahn was born as Samuel Cohen in the Lower East Side of New York City, the only son (he had four sisters) of Abraham and Elka Reiss Cohen, who were Jewish immigrants from Galicia, Austria. His sisters, Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn, all studied the piano. His mother did not approve of Sammy studying it though, for she thought the piano was a woman's instrument, so he took violin lessons. After three lessons and following his bar mitzvah, he joined a small dixieland band called Pals of Harmony, that would tour the Catskill Mountains in the summer and also did private parties. This new dream of Cahn's destroyed any hopes his parents had for him to be a professional man.
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).
Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again). In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock. He was knighted in July 2000. Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century".
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Sha Money XL
Michael Clervoix III (born February 11, 1975), better known as Sha Money XL, is a Haitian-American record producer.
He is the founder of Money Management Group; a firm through which he manages a group of new producers. He helped bring rapper 50 Cent to the mainstream and has produced numerous tracks including "Poor Lil Rich", "Beg For Mercy", and "This Is 50". After Interscope granted 50 Cent his own label, Sha Money XL was appointed president of G-Unit Records. He has produced singles for other artists including Slim Thug, Cormega, Snoop Dogg, Paul Wall, Juvenile, Scarface and four tracks from a 2Pac album, Pac's Life.
At the age of nine, Clervoix's mother sent him to piano lessons; he would later claim that he "just knew how to play." He got bored of playing piano and later moved onto DJing. He recalls
With Distribution from The Orchard, Sha Money founded a new record label, Dream Big Ventures. Quickly upon its creation, Sha Money signed close Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit affiliates DJ Whoo Kid and Stat Quo, as well as former Young Money artist, Kidd Kidd. Sha is currently trying to launch the label into mainstream.
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Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later Shirley Temple Black, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She began her film career in 1932 at the age of three, and in 1934, found international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935, and film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid-to-late 1930s. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her wholesome image included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Her box office popularity waned as she reached adolescence, and she left the film industry at the age of 12 to attend high school[clarification needed]. She appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid-to-late teens, and retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. She was the top box-office draw four years in a row (1935–38) in a Motion Picture Herald poll.
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Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ( /ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ or /ˈpwɑːti.eɪ/; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.
In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, making him the top box office star of that year. In all three films, issues revolve around the race of the characters Poitier portrays. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Poitier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 22nd on the list of 25.
Poitier has directed a number of popular movies such as A Piece of the Action; Uptown Saturday Night, and Let's Do It Again (with friend Bill Cosby), and Stir Crazy (starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder). In 2002, 38 years after receiving the Best Actor Award, Poitier was chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Award, designated "To Sidney Poitier in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being." Since 1997 he has been the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. On August 12, 2009, Sidney Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is most notable for being the founder and front man of the popular Motown vocal group, The Miracles, for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer. Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as The Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the stage to focus on his role as Motown's vice president.
However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year, later having solo hits such as "Baby That's Backatcha", "Quiet Storm", "The Agony and the Ecstasy", "Cruisin'", "Being With You" and "Just to See Her". Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left Motown in 1990. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Robinson was born in Detroit and raised in the city's North End section. At one point, he and Diana Ross were next-door neighbors; he said he has known Ross since she was eight. Robinson later told reporters when he was a child, his uncle christened him "Smokey Joe", which Robinson assumed was a "cowboy name for me" until he was later told that smokey was a pejorative term for dark-skinned Blacks. Robinson, who is mainly of African American descent and is light-skinned, remembers his uncle saying to him, "I'm doing this so you won't ever forget that you're black." Robinson grew up as a fan of Western films.
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Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper 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.
Snoop's debut album Doggystyle, was released in 1993 under Death Row Records making a debut at No.1 on both the Billboard 200 and R&B charts. Selling almost a million copies in the first week of its release, Doggystyle quickly became certified 4× platinum in 1994 and spawned several hit singles, including "What's My Name" and "Gin & Juice". In 1994, Snoop released a soundtrack on Death Row Records for the short film Murder Was The Case, starring himself. In early 1996, Snoop Dogg was cleared of charges over his bodyguard's 1993 murder of Philip Woldemariam. His second album, late 1996's Tha Doggfather, also debuted at No.1 on both charts with "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" as the lead single. The album sold only half as well, being certified double platinum in 1997.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian: Софи́я Асгатовна Губайду́лина, Tatar Cyrillic: София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина, Latin: Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.
Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations. In Erwartung combines percussion (bongos, güiros, temple blocks, cymbals and tam-tams among others), bayan and saxophone quartet.
Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, in the Tatar ASSR. She studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In Moscow she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. She was awarded with Stalin-fellowship. Her music was deemed "irresponsible" during her studies in Soviet Russia, due to its exploration of alternative tunings. She was supported, however, by Dmitri Shostakovich, who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path". However, she was allowed to express her modernism in various scores she composed for documentary films, including the 1968 production, On Submarine Scooters, a 70mm film shot in the unique Kinopanorama widescreen format.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
Although Rollins was born in New York City, his parents were born in the United States Virgin Islands. Rollins received his first saxophone at age 13. He attended Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He said that a concert by Frank Sinatra there, accompanied by a plea for racial harmony, changed his life.
Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1946. During his high-school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor. He was first recorded in 1949 with Babs Gonzales ( J. J. Johnson was the arranger of the group). In his recordings through 1954, he played with performers such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk.
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Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee's movies have examined race relations, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award. He has also received two Academy Award nominations.
Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll (née Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer. Lee moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York when he was a small child. (The Fort Greene neighborhood is home to Lee's production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, and other Lee-owned or related businesses.) As a child, his mother nicknamed him "Spike." In Brooklyn, he attended John Dewey High School. Lee enrolled in Morehouse College where he made his first student film, Last Hustle in Brooklyn. He took film courses at Clark Atlanta University and graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication from Morehouse College. He then enrolled in New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim ( /ˈsɒnd.haɪm/) (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for his contributions to musical theatre. He is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award. Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as "the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theatre", his most famous works include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.
Sondheim has also written material for movies, including the 1981 Warren Beatty film Reds, contributing the song "Goodbye For Now". He also wrote five songs for the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", which won the Academy Award for Best Song.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich ( /ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass.
His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described, in The Guardian by music critic Andrew Clements, as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer."
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Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles (including Nicks's song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only US number one) and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth best-selling album of all time.
Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the 8 million selling album Bella Donna, and she has produced six more solo studio albums to date. Her seventh solo studio album entitled In Your Dreams, and her first in ten years, was produced largely by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame and Glen Ballard and was released on May 3, 2011. After the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone deemed her "The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll". Having overcome cocaine addiction, and dependency on tranquilizers, Nicks remains a popular solo performer. As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and, with Fleetwood Mac, a further five, of which one was the 1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours, which they won. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Nicks is known for her distintive voice, mystical visual style and symbolic lyrics as well as the famous (sometimes tense) chemistry between herself and former boyfriend and guitarist/vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray "Stevie" Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and a notable recording artist. Often referred to by his initials, SRV, he is best known as the leader of the blues rock band Double Trouble, with whom he recorded four studio albums. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Vaughan emphasized intensity and emotion in his guitar playing, and favored vintage guitars and amplifiers. He became one of the leading blues rock musicians, encompassing multiple styles, including jazz and ballads.
Born and raised in Dallas as the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan, he moved to Austin at the age of 17, and formed the band, Triple Threat Revue, that evolved into a band called Double Trouble, in 1978. Accompanied by drummer Chris Layton, bassist Tommy Shannon, and later, keyboardist Reese Wynans, Vaughan became an important figure in Texas blues, a loud, swing-driven fusion of blues and rock. Despite the breakthrough success of Double Trouble's debut Epic album, Texas Flood (1983), Vaughan entered a period of alcohol and drug addiction. In 1986, he successfully completed rehabilitation and released the album In Step in (1989). On August 27, 1990, while departing a concert venue by helicopter in East Troy, Wisconsin, Vaughan was killed when the helicopter crashed into the side of a ski hill. His death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and as many as 3,000 people reportedly attended his public memorial service in Dallas.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Syreeta Wright
Syreeta Wright (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.
Syreeta was born Syreeta Wright in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1946, and started singing at age four. Her father died while serving in the Korean War and Wright and her two sisters, Yvonne (later a songwriter in her own right) and Kim, were raised by their mother Essie and their grandmother. The Wrights moved back and forth from Detroit to South Carolina before finally settling in Detroit just as Wright entered high school. Money problems kept Wright from pursuing a career in ballet so Wright focused her attention on a music career joining several singing groups before landing a job as a receptionist for Motown in 1965. Within a year, she became a secretary for Mickey Stevenson, just as Martha Reeves had done before her.
A year later, Edward Holland of the famous Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team noticed Wright's singing and decided to try her out for demos of Supremes songs. Motown CEO Berry Gordy shortened her birth name to "Rita," and Wright released her first solo single, "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You", in January,1968. The song was initially written for the Supremes (by then billed as "Diana Ross & the Supremes"). They later recorded the song in 1968 and Diana Ross re-recorded the song for her solo album, Surrender. Wright's version became a hit for Northern soul audiences in the United Kingdom, a country where Wright would enjoy success.
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. They were managed early on by the Wilsons' father, Murry. The band's leader, composer, arranger and producer Brian Wilson was responsible for writing most of the band's early singles and albums. After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits including "Surfin' Safari", "Surfin' USA", "Surfer Girl", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Be True to Your School", "In My Room", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "I Get Around", "Dance Dance Dance", "Help Me Rhonda" and "California Girls". These songs and their accompanying albums were internationally popular, making The Beach Boys one of the biggest acts of their time. The band's early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. By the mid-1960s, Brian's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group's musical direction. The primarily Brian-composed Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single (both released in 1966) featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound.
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Tom Whitlock
Thomas Ross "Tom" Whitlock (born 1954) is a songwriter and lyricist best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe winning song "Take My Breath Away" from the film Top Gun, which he co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder.
Whitlock was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri. As a drummer, he played in many bands and on many recording sessions. In 1977, he was signed to his first recording contract with Mercury Records. In 1983, Mr. Whitlock became a recording engineer in Los Angeles, focusing primarily on film scores and songs for movies such as Scarface, Beverly Hills Cop and II, as well as many others.
With Giorgio Moroder, he co-wrote five songs on the Top Gun soundtrack, including "Take My Breath Away" and the Kenny Loggins hit "Danger Zone". Whitlock was Moroder's mechanic, fixing his Ferraris, before turning into a lyricist. ASCAP shows 113 songs registered, performed by artists such as Berlin, Bonnie Tyler, Jennifer Rush, Michael McDonald, Ray Charles, Graham Nash, Diana Ross, Teddy Pendergrass, Roger Daltrey and John Entwhistle.
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926), is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a serious and accomplished painter, having created works — under the name Benedetto — that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York City.
Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as an infantryman with the U.S. Army in the European Theatre. Afterwards, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records, and had his first number one popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several top hits such as "Rags to Riches" followed in the early 1950s. Bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and his personal life then suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.
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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide as of 2010, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time. The themes of most of Tupac's songs are the violence and hardship in inner cities, racism, social problems, and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground.
Both of his parents and several other family members were members of the Black Panthers, and Tupac made reference to the organization in the song "Changes". Shakur was involved in a West-coast East-coast rivalry after a major feud with East-coast rappers, producers and record-label members of staff.
On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he died six days later.
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev PAR (Russian: Валерий Абисалович Гергиев, Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери/Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
Gergiev, born in Moscow, is the son of Tamara Tatarkanovna and Abisal Zaurbekovich. He and his siblings were raised in Vladikavkaz in their native North Ossetia in the Caucasus. He began piano at secondary school, before going on to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Leningrad from 1972 to 1977. His principal conducting teacher was Prof. Ilya Musin (Илья Мусин), one of the greatest conductor-makers in Russian musical history. His sister, Larissa Gergieva, is a pianist and director of the Mariinsky's singers' academy.
In 1978, he became assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the Mariinsky Opera, under Yuri Temirkanov, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 until 1985 – the year he made his debut in the United Kingdom, along with pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin, at The Lichfield Festival.
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Victor Borge
Victor Borge ( /ˈbɔrɡə/ BOR-gə; 3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish and American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.
Borge was born Børge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen, Denmark, into a Jewish family. His parents, Bernhard and Frederikke Rosenbaum, were both musicians—his father a violist in the Royal Danish Orchestra and his mother a pianist. Like his mother, Borge began piano lessons at the age of two, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy. He gave his first piano recital when he was eight years old, and in 1918 was awarded a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying under Olivo Krause. Later on, he was taught by Victor Schiøler, Liszt's student Frederic Lamond, and Busoni's pupil Egon Petri.
Borge played his first major concert in 1926 at the Danish concert-hall Odd Fellow Palæet (The Odd Fellow's Lodge building). After a few years as a classical concert pianist, he started his now famous "stand up" act, with the signature blend of piano music and jokes. He married American Elsie Chilton in 1933, the same year he debuted with his revue acts. Borge started touring extensively in Europe, where he began telling anti-Nazi jokes.
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Walter Murphy
Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger. He rose to fame with the hit instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of passages from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in 1976, when disco was at the height of its popularity.
Murphy was born on December 19, 1952, in New York City, New York, and grew up in Manhattan. At age four, he attended music lessons hosted by Rosa Rio, studying an array of instruments, including the organ and piano. Rio frequently opted for him to star in television advertisements for the Hammond organ. Murphy studied classical piano and attended Mount Saint Michael Academy, where he studied jazz and played a number of his own compositions. Referring to his studies, Murphy stated "There never was a time when I wasn't studying music." Against the objections of his father, who was a real estate agent and wished to pass down his business to his son, Murphy enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music in 1970; recalling his experiences with his father, Murphy stated "He wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer—or something you can depend on." During the year, Murphy married his wife Laurie, who worked in the plastics industry.
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Warren G
Warren G (born Warren Griffin III, November 10, 1970), is an American West Coast rapper and hip hop producer.
Warren G grew up in Long Beach, California listening to his parents’ collection of jazz, funk and soul; nurturing a deep love for music. In 1990, he formed the group 213, named after the Long Beach area code, with his friends Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg. The current area code in Long Beach, California is 562. While practicing with “213,” and working a full time job, the young Warren used all his free time on creating his own sound and dreamed of making it big.
The trio “213” dissolved when two of its members signed with Death Row Records. Although Warren G had the option of joining Death Row and work with his step-brother Dr. Dre, Warren preferred, from the very beginning of his career, to focus primarily on his solo career. True to his independent spirit, Warren G dedicated himself to creating his own sound; a distinct style that was later to become known, worldwide, as the legendary G-Funk.
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Whitney Houston
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 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.
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Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings (born June 27, 1944, in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for My Heart Will Go On, the theme for the film Titanic. He has been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and has won several awards including a Grammy, two Golden Globe awards, and two Academy Awards.
Jennings attended school just outside Tyler, Texas, in the nearby Chapel Hill Independent School District. In 1967, Jennings earned his B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University, located in Nacogdoches, Texas. He then taught at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire for three years and eventually attended the same institution in 1982.
Throughout his career, Jennings has written for a wide variety of artists including Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Sample, Rodney Crowell, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett, Barry Manilow and Roy Orbison.
With Steve Winwood, Jennings wrote a series albums including While You See A Chance, Arc of a Diver and Back in the High Life, an album which contained the hits Higher Love, The Finer Things, and Back in the High Life Again. Winwood won the Record Of The Year and Outstanding Male Vocal Performance. Both Jennings and Winwood were nominated for the Song of the Year award for "Higher Love."
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Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office and the only one to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (pronounced /wɪli nɛlsən /; born April 30, 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed at the end of the 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
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Witold Lutosławski
Witold Lutosławski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvitɔld lutɔsˈwafski]; January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures. He began to develop his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s. His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, several instrumental concertos and orchestral song cycles.
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Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Marianne Elliman (born December 29, 1951) is an American singer who performed for four years in the first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. She scored a number of hits in the 1970s and achieved a #1 hit with "If I Can't Have You." After a long hiatus in the 80s and 90s, during which time she dedicated herself to her family, she made a comeback album as a singer-songwriter in 2004.
Elliman's father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese and Chinese ancestries. She was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970. Her father taught her how to play the piano. She played in the high-school band, and after graduation she moved to London.
Elliman's singing career began in 1969 in London where she performed as a singer at various bars and clubs. At the time she did not like what she was singing and was singing for the money. She was doing drugs and liked the music of the Jefferson Airplane. An unknown, she was discovered by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who asked her to sing Mary Magdalene's part in Jesus Christ Superstar, and later invited her to join the traveling cast, which she did for four years. This performance led to a 1974 Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for the film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar". She had her first hit single in 1971 with the ballad "I Don't Know How to Love Him", from Jesus Christ Superstar. The song was her first entry on the U.S. charts, peaking at #28 pop in 1971, although a cover version by Helen Reddy was a bigger hit. In the end, she sang Jesus Christ Superstar on the 1970 concept album, in the original Broadway cast (1971), and starred and sang it in the 1973 film by the same title.
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The Lovers
Cast
- Joan Scott
- Paula Wilcox
- Richard Beckinsale
- Robin Nedwell
- Alison King
- Paul McCartney
- Maureen Lipman
- Bill Dean
- Ian Sharp
- John Flanagan
- Neil Boorman
- Judith Jones
- Gillian Rhind
- Wendy McConnell
- Julie Sinclair
- Dick Haydon
- Bert Palmer
- Brenda Elder
- Jacqueline Stanbury
- Maureen Sutcliffe
- Anna Gymer
- Stephen Bent
- Gerry Cowan
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Sardine Sandwiches
UK:27 October 1970...
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Episode 2: The Date
UK:3 November 1970...
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Episode 3: Freckle Face
UK:10 November 1970...
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Episode 4: Brainwashing
UK:17 November 1970...
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Episode 5: A Pipe and a Moustache
UK:24 November 1970...
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Episode 6: The Truth Game
UK:1 December 1970...
- Season 2
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Episode 1: The Engagement
UK:7 October 1971...
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Episode 2: Breaking It Off
UK:14 October 1971...
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Episode 3: The Birthday
UK:21 October 1971...
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Episode 4: A Joint Bank Account
UK:28 October 1971...
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Episode 5: The Better Homes Exhibition
UK:4 November 1971...
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Episode 6: A Trial Marriage
UK:11 November 1971...
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Episode 7: The Best Laid Plans
UK:18 November 1971...
- Bee Gees
- Olivia Newton-John
- Babyface
- The Bee Gees
- ABBA
- Deftones
- Natalie Cole
- David Gray
- Dark Moor
- Ladytron
- The Runaways
- Runaways
- Rico Love
- Aqua
- Jackie Evancho
- The Kinleys
- Kinleys
- Secret & Whisper
- Tears
- The Tears
- Secret And Whisper
- Compulsion
- Heroes
- Kacey Jones
karaoke
We'll be lovers, lovers , lovers -- got to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers , lovers --I wanna hold you in my hand
We'll be lovers, lovers , lovers
Wanna be a part of you
And I wanna make you part of me (sweet inspiration)
Oh , we can make it (make it) , make it for the world to see
Don't be blind, time is one our side
And together we can touch the sky
We can make it if we really try
Ah, together you and I
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- got to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- Ah, got to hold you in my hand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers
Wanna be a part of you
And I wanna make you part of me ( sweet inspiration)
Oh, we can make it (make it) ,make it for the world to see
Yesterday I had a feeling of a flame of burning desire
And you know we can make it if we really try
Oh, together you and I
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- you to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- Oh, got to hold you in my hand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers
(break)
Oh, lovers, lovers, lovers -- I got to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers
Wanna be a part of you
And I wanna make you part of me (sweet inspiration)
Oh , we can make it (make it ) for the world to see
Yesterday I had a vision of a flame of burning desire
And you know we can make it if we really try
Oh together you and I
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- till my dying day
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- don't you ever turn away
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- want to get close to you
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- that's what I want to do
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers-- got to hold you in my hand
(Mickey Newbury)
Once they were lovers but now they're not friends
She's found another--he says it's the end
To think they once tore down the wall for a door
But now they don't speak anymore
So he walks the streets--the few nights he can stand
Drinking her memory away when he can
Friends once would reach out to them from the shore
But now they don't cry anymore
How does it all come to happen
That's not what loving is for
And if I thought it was, I'd leave here in the morning
I'd sooner sleep on the floor
Oh when will we learn really what loving is
It's not what you get in return but what you give
To think they once tore down the wall for a door
But now they don't speak anymore
Let's take our time and concentrate
The mood is right for living, ooh I can't wait
I've waited so long to be with you this special way
Don't be afraid, afraid to stay
And share your love with me this way
I understand baby it's your very first time
I'll be gentle with you baby, it's gonna be alright
And so if we're gonna be together tonight
I'll be good to you baby, sweet to you lady
Guess what we're gonna be tonight
Lovers
Baby, let me be your lover
Lovers
Let me be the only one
Lovers
Baby let me be your lover
Lovers
Let me be the one
Don't let your thoughts get in the way
The time is right for love, it's not too late
The feeling's so strong to be as one this special way
Just take my hand, I'll lead the way
I need you so much, baby won't you stay
I understand baby it's your very first time
I'll be gentle with you baby, it's gonna be alright
And so if we're gonna be together tonight
I'll be good to you baby, sweet to you lady
Guess what we're gonna be tonight
I wanna hold you
I wanna touch you
I wanna squeeze you
I'll never tease you
Hold you tight all through the night
I'm gonna make you feel alright
We'll be lovers, lovers , lovers -- got to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers , lovers --I wanna hold you in my hand
We'll be lovers, lovers , lovers
Wanna be a part of you
And I wanna make you part of me (sweet inspiration)
Oh , we can make it (make it) , make it for the world to see
Don't be blind, time is one our side
And together we can touch the sky
We can make it if we really try
Ah, together you and I
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- got to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- Ah, got to hold you in my hand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers
Wanna be a part of you
And I wanna make you part of me ( sweet inspiration)
Oh, we can make it (make it) ,make it for the world to see
Yesterday I had a feeling of a flame of burning desire
And you know we can make it if we really try
Oh, together you and I
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- you to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- Oh, got to hold you in my hand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers
(break)
Oh, lovers, lovers, lovers -- I got to make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers
Wanna be a part of you
And I wanna make you part of me (sweet inspiration)
Oh , we can make it (make it ) for the world to see
Yesterday I had a vision of a flame of burning desire
And you know we can make it if we really try
Oh together you and I
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- till my dying day
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- don't you ever turn away
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- want to get close to you
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- that's what I want to do
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers -- make you understand
We'll be lovers, lovers, lovers-- got to hold you in my hand
(fade)
Sit down and listen 'cause I've got good news for you
It was in the papers today
Some physician had made a discovery
This' what she had to say:
(Oooh you know that)
She said that every result she had backed her
Claiming that love's a longevity factor
So lovers live a little longer, baby
You and me, we got a chance to live twice
Lovers live a little longer, ain't that nice
Lovers live a little longer, baby
What a feeling when I hold you tight
Lovers live a little longer, yeah
I can imagine, I'll see in my fantasy
I'll enjoy every day
Making love is a dynamite drug, baby
So why don't we start right away
(Ahh, please don't wait)
I don't care if they're watching 'cause listen
We've got a reason for each time we're kissing
'Cause lovers live a little longer, baby
You and me, we got a chance to live twice
Lovers live a little longer, ain't that nice
Lovers live a little longer, baby
What a feeling when I hold you tight
Lovers live a little longer, yeah
I just don't care if they're watching 'cause listen
We've got a reason for each time we're kissing
'Cause lovers live a little longer, baby
You and me, we got a chance to live twice
Lovers live a little longer, ain't that nice
Lovers live a little longer, baby
What a feeling when I hold you tight
Lovers live a little longer, yeah
Lovers live a little longer, baby
You and me, we got a chance to live twice
Through the air and time
We came to see her
Where the sun collides
She carried us all...
For the first time
I wish she'd come
(through the air)
I wish she'd call
And to blame our take
She'll prevail in us all
For the first time
I wish she'd come
For the first time
I wish she'd come
The more you wait...
The more you burn...
Before we break...
Everywhere I go, in every face I see
The sign of love shining so brightly
Ohh, it's in the air, it's everywhere
I can feel it in my bones
People holding hands, making love
Really, really getting it on
I'm crazy about lovers, beautiful lovers
Yeah yeah lovers, beautiful lovers
Everywhere
And everywhere I go I hear people say
That they wouldn't mind checking it out
Ahh, getting on down
Don't you know that life can be beautiful
Life can be wonderful when you can always have
That special someone around?
And I'm crazy about lovers, ooh beautiful lovers
Don't you know that they're everywhere?
Lovers, beautiful lovers
Everywhere, everywhere
Everywhere, everywhere in the air
If you like romancing and you don't want no dancing
Then check this groove out baby, you'll see
It is the sweetest sugar that you'll ever taste
You gotta chase those blues, get over them
Don't stop now controlling them
Then you'll find you're shaking them
Get if all while you can have a ball
There's a feeling and it's catching
Look what's happening
Take a trip, make it hip, you might dig it
Lovers
Lovers
Lovers
Beautiful lovers
Everywhere
Lovers
Lovers
We are lovers girl, me and you
small faced lovers girl oh
you know its true
Get through the winter time
and the spring sun starts to grow
I'm your white faced lover girl
oh don't you know
You're so warm with me
i never feel the cold
what have you done with me i've never felt this old
come through the orange summer
and stand and watch the red leaves fall
maybe by next summertime
we'll have forgotten it all
ah, we are lovers girl, me and you
small faced girl, you know it's true
come through the orange summer
and stand and watch the red leaves fall
maybe by next summertime
Underneath the starshine
where the while light glows
lovers in the skyline
cupid shoots his bow
one promise, true love forever
or one life calmed in wealth
to choose passion or stealth
(chorus)
in my heart, the love is in my heart
the dream beneath the sun
the lovers will be one
the night brings a sweet love caress,
a broken feeling possess
my heart in the doubt
that fills my distress
in every soul there is a light,
a dream that drives each fate
that just love celebrates.
We're the silence that wakes your day
We're the son of your neighbor's [Incomprehensible]
We're the signs across the street
Where the lane becomes an avenue
Oh, we're right under your nose
We're the lovers that you don't know
Baby, we go and you follow
We are the lovers, the lovers you don't know
We're the lovers that you don't know
We're the son of your neighbor's [Incomprehensible]
We're the signs across the street
Where the lane becomes an avenue
Oh, we're right under your nose
We're the lovers that you don't know
Baby, we go and you follow
We are the lovers, the lovers you don't know
Oh, we're right under your nose
We're the lovers that you don't know
Baby, we go and you follow
(Joan Jett/Kim Fowley)
I want something bad and nice - hot love
I want it nice from paradise - your love
All night long I'm chasing fast - true love
Make me scream, make it fast
We lovers never say goodbye
We lovers never die
We stop and go so quietly
Cold lovers fade away
I'm the one for you
You know what I say is true
I won't cry to tell you why
I know that you love me too
You do a 1, 2, 3, 4
Oh yeah come on nowI want a kiss wet and real - strong love
I wanna tell you how I feel - right now
All night long it rained and rained - my love
Make me scream hey what's your name?
We lovers never say goodbye
We lovers never die
We stop and go so quietly
Cold lovers fade away
(Joan Jett/Kim Fowley)
I want something bad and nice - hot love
I want it nice from paradise - your love
All night long I'm chasing fast - true love
Make me scream, make it fast
We lovers never say goodbye
We lovers never die
We stop and go so quietly
Cold lovers fade away
I'm the one for you
You know what I say is true
I won't cry to tell you why
I know that you love me too
You do a 1, 2, 3, 4
Oh yeah come on now
I want a kiss wet and real - strong love
I wanna tell you how I feel - right now
All night long it rained and rained - my love
Make me scream hey what's your name?
We lovers never say goodbye
We lovers never die
We stop and go so quietly
chorus
you know that this right here goes out to
all of my lovers
i'll be looking if you are right in the front
tell her you love her
i am sending out the message
to all of my lovers
for all of my lovers around the world
all of my lovers
all of my lovers
she likes to tell me that she love me
she kiss and hugs me and everybody knows she is my girl
that's why she means the world to me yeah
and i want to give her everything that she wants
even if it's diamonds and pearls
i wanna give her everything
so i grab her and never let her go
let my girl know she truly has my heart
chorus
where yo0u're at girl? where you're out?
when your body's down know how to act girl
they are running back ever since you gave me that girl
missing pretty one but none of them is that girl
and i take her to all my favorite places
keep her tight to my arm
the other can't come close cause she is the one
i grab her and never let her go
Written by babyface, l.a. reid, dee bristol, kevin roberson (1986)
Performed by babyface
Let's take our time and concentrate
The mood is right for living, ooh I can't wait
I've waited so long to be with you this special way
Don't be afraid, afraid to stay
And share your love with me this way
I understand baby it's your very first time
I'll be gentle with you baby, it's gonna be alright
And so if we're gonna be together tonight
I'll be good to you baby, sweet to you lady
Guess what we're gonna be tonight
Lovers
Baby, let me be your lover
Lovers
Let me be the only one
Lovers
Baby let me be your lover
Lovers
Let me be the one
Don't let your thoughts get in the way
The time is right for love, it's not too late
The feeling's so strong to be as one this special way
Just take my hand, I'll lead the way
I need you so much, baby won't you stay
I understand baby it's your very first time
I'll be gentle with you baby, it's gonna be alright
And so if we're gonna be together tonight
I'll be good to you baby, sweet to you lady
Guess what we're gonna be tonight
Hook
Hook
Hook 3 times
I wanna hold you
I wanna touch you
I wanna squeeze you
I'll never tease you
Hold you tight all through the night
I'm gonna make you feel alright
There was a field in my old town
Where we always played hand in hand
The wind was gently touching the grass
We were so young, so fearless
Then I dreamt over and over
Of you holding me tight under the stars
I made a promise to my dear lord
I will love you forever
Time has passed
So much has changed
But the field remains in my heart
Oh, where are you?
I need to tell you I still love you
So I reach out for you
You fly around me like butterfly
Your voice still echoes in my heart
You are my true love
There was a field in my old town
Where in spring all flowers blossomed wide
We were chasing butterflies
Hand in hand 'til close of day
(Leslie Satcher/Wynn Varble)
In a fit of anger fueled by romance
She drug a key down the side of his Cadillac
Parked right outside the honky tonk
Jr. Wilson says he saw it all
In a fit of anger fueled by revenge
He ran off with her best friend
Just to make sure that she found out
He drove by her mama's with the windows down
It's always somethin'
If it ain't one thing it's another
All this cryin' and all this fightin'
Well, it makes you wonder why they call them loversIn a fit of anger at the Horseshoe Lounge
She took a swing and she knocked that hussy down
Wiped the cherry lip gloss of the back of her hand
Said, ";If you don't mind honey I'll have this dance";
It's always somethin'
If it ain't one thing it's another
All this cryin' and all this fightin'
Well, it makes you wonder why they call them lovers
In a fit of passion in that Cadillac
He said ";I love you baby"; and she took him back
It's been reported they were havin' a ball
Jr. Wilson says he saw it all
In a fit of anger fueled by romance
She drug a key down the side of his Cadillac
Parked right outside the honky tonk
Jr. Wilson says he saw it all
In a fit of anger fueled by revenge
He ran off with her best friend
Just to make sure that she found out
He drove by her mama's with the windows down
It's always somethin'
If it ain't one thing, it's another
All this cryin' and all this fightin'
Well, it makes you wonder, why they call them lovers
In a fit of anger at the Horseshoe Lounge
She took a swing and she knocked that hussy down
Wiped the cherry lip gloss of the back of her hand
Said, "If you don't mind, honey, I'll have this dance"
It's always somethin'
If it ain't one thing, it's another
All this cryin' and all this fightin'
Well, it makes you wonder, why they call them lovers
In a fit of passion in that Cadillac
He said, "I love you, baby", and she took him back
It's been reported they were havin' a ball
If love was lost at sea then mourn its passing carefully
Some day when your heart subsides
Then give into the open tide
I set you apart; you are a girl of mystery
I set you apart from time and history
Waiting all her life,
You have been spending your days all alone
Like a widow grieving
You hold onto the promise that you will see him again
Like lovers in the evening
Look softly into her eyes; a figure of bluish green
You are familiar as a lullaby,
or an actress on the silver screen
For the open and great unknown,
You're leaving your heart at home
Cruel and vast black waters,
You leave behind your daughters
He regrets all his memories
She shivers in the rain
It's the capital connecting with her veins
Stepping under statues and on trains
'Till we are under covers
She giggles like a child
With no sign of all the tension in her life
It's written on her T-shirt and in her eyes
That there is no other
'Cause we are the lovers, we are the lovers
We're different colours but we stand up as one
We are the lovers, we are the lovers
Two different colours but we stand up as one
All the silly things we do
Just remind me of the flippancy of youth
Kissing under statues, throwing food
And getting into trouble
She shivers in the cold
It's the capital connecting with her bones
Jumping into taxis, here we go
Yes there is no other
Cause we are the lovers, we are the lovers
We're different colours but we stand up as one
We are the lovers, we are the lovers
She shivers in the rain
It's the capital connecting with her veins
Stepping under statues and on trains
'Till we are under covers
She giggles like a child
With no sign of all the tension in her life
It's written on her T-shirt and in her eyes
That there is no other
'Cause we are the lovers, we are the lovers
We're different colours but we stand up as one
We are the lovers, we are the lovers
Two different colours but we stand up as one
All the silly things we do
Just remind me of the flippancy of youth
Kissing under statues, throwing food
And getting into trouble
She shivers in the cold
It's the capital connecting with her bones
Jumping into taxis, here we go
Yes there is no other
Cause we are the lovers, we are the lovers
We're different colours but we stand up as one
We are the lovers, we are the lovers
Two different colours but we stand up as one
If love was lost at sea then mourn its passing carefully
Some day when your heart subsides
Then give into the open tide
I set you apart; you are a girl of mystery
I set you apart from time and history
Waiting all her life,
You have been spending your days all alone
Like a widow grieving
You hold onto the promise that you will see him again
Like lovers in the evening
Look softly into her eyes; a figure of bluish green
You are familiar as a lullaby,
or an actress on the silver screen
For the open and great unknown,
You're leaving your heart at home
Cruel and vast black waters,
You leave behind your daughters
He regrets all his memories
And his soul is left to haunt the breeze alone
Love, love, lovers
Make like lovers
Love, love, lovers
Soft, soap lovers
I wanna try
I wanna try
Danger!
Danger!
Love, love, lovers
Clean cheese lovers
Love, love, lovers
Beat like lovers
I wanna try
I wanna try
Everybody wants to know
Whos lover are we
Everybody wants to know
Whos lover
Oh lover
Danger!
Danger!
Danger!
Open my eyes
When I see you standing by my side
With hope and kisses in my heart
Chorus
I opened my eyes seeing you sitting on my lap
Oh, baby.....Oh, baby
what are we doing tonight
Oh, baby.....Oh, baby
In my eyes what I can see
With flames in the darkness, with you by my side
My, love inside...
With hope and kisses in my heart
Once they were lovers, but now they are not friends
She's found another, he says it's the end
To think they once tore down a wall of a door
Now they don't speak anymore
So he walks the streets, the few nights he can stand
Drinking her memory away when he can
Friends once would reach out to them from the shore
Now they don't try anymore
How does it all come to happen
That's not what love is for and if I thought it was
I would leave you in the morning
I'll sooner sleep on the floor
Oh, when will we learn really what loving is
Not what you get in return, but what you give
To think they once tore down a wall of a door
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- No Regrets
- To Be a Dancer (I Am Alive)
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Cedar Falls
- Igloo for Ojos
- How the Story Ends
- Let's Stay Lost
- Tonight
- Wrestling Horses
- I Am What I Don't Know
- I Have Been the Moon
- Imaginary Women
- Stay Another Night
- (This Ain't) The Last Song
- Perpetual Motion, Perpetual Sound
- Frozen Floods
- Saint Jude
- From a Highway
- Dead Deer
- Lucky Ones Who Love You
- My Heart Never Sleeps
- Sivens Sings
- An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
- Take Good Care
- Seven Years
- The Air You Breathe Is Full of Ghosts
- The First Law of Thermodynamics
- A New Lease on Life
- The Garden
- Kid Quiet
- Your Handwriting (A Porch Song)
- Oh Silent Night
- Fall Like Stars
- Season's Greetings
- I Believe in Outer Space
- Ginger
- No Words Allowed
- People in Cars Don't Face Each Other
- Winter Takes a Lover
- Now That You're a Ghost
- Dream Lover / Squid Suit
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The Lovers! movie
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- Duration: 85:12
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Richard Beckinsale (Kates late father) and Paula Wilcox in the 1973 Movie version of the 70's TV series "The Lovers". This film has never been released on DVd or even video as far as I know.
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Richard Beckinsale (Kates late father) and Paula Wilcox in the 1973 Movie version of the 70's TV series "The Lovers". This film has never been released on DVd or even video as far as I know.
Michael Bolton - How Can We Be Lovers
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- Duration: 3:55
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Music video by Michael Bolton performing How Can We Be Lovers. © 1989 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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Music video by Michael Bolton performing How Can We Be Lovers. © 1989 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 1121803
- author: MichaelBoltonVEVO
Mumford & Sons - Lover Of The Light
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- Duration: 5:55
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
The single 'Lover Of The Light' is now available from iTunes bit.ly The new album 'Babel' is out now and available at www.mumfordandsons.com Buy 'Road To Red Rocks' on DVD, Blu-Ray, Special Edition Box-Set and as part of the 'Babel - Gentlemen Of The Road' edition at http Video directed by Idris Elba and Dan Cadan. Produced by @radical.media UK.
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The single 'Lover Of The Light' is now available from iTunes bit.ly The new album 'Babel' is out now and available at www.mumfordandsons.com Buy 'Road To Red Rocks' on DVD, Blu-Ray, Special Edition Box-Set and as part of the 'Babel - Gentlemen Of The Road' edition at http Video directed by Idris Elba and Dan Cadan. Produced by @radical.media UK.
- published: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 3395979
- author: MumfordAndSonsVEVO
lovers and friends
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- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
tell me again...
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Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover
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- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Music Video - 1985
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The Lover Trailer
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Jean Jacque Annaud's The Lover
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Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Music video by Kylie Minogue performing All The Lovers.
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Music video by Kylie Minogue performing All The Lovers.
- published: 01 Jun 2010
- views: 8217373
- author: parlophone
Brothertiger - Lovers
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- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Music video for "Lovers" by Brothertiger. Directed by Kiki Allgeier. Produced by Kiki Allgeier and David Ambrose. Models/Actors: Jessica Elizabeth Cole and Isobel Arnberg. From the album Golden Years on Mush Records. www.mushrecords.com lyrics: I was lost I was losing at a terrible cost You could make exceptions But I'd still be involved It wouldn't make A single difference at all You called me out There was never Any measure of doubt I was so confused On what the joke was about But I am thinking That I'm into you now You now There is nothing wrong with me Can't you see it's gonna be alright? Alright You counted down All the days You missed me hanging around Trying to forget the times I couldn't be found But I've decided That I'll be with you now You now
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Music video for "Lovers" by Brothertiger. Directed by Kiki Allgeier. Produced by Kiki Allgeier and David Ambrose. Models/Actors: Jessica Elizabeth Cole and Isobel Arnberg. From the album Golden Years on Mush Records. www.mushrecords.com lyrics: I was lost I was losing at a terrible cost You could make exceptions But I'd still be involved It wouldn't make A single difference at all You called me out There was never Any measure of doubt I was so confused On what the joke was about But I am thinking That I'm into you now You now There is nothing wrong with me Can't you see it's gonna be alright? Alright You counted down All the days You missed me hanging around Trying to forget the times I couldn't be found But I've decided That I'll be with you now You now
- published: 16 Dec 2011
- views: 52225
- author: MushRecords
Coldplay - Lovers In Japan
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Coldplay Live 2012, out now on DVD/CD/Blu-ray/digital. Get it from your local retailer at smarturl.it Lovers In Japan is out now on all digital stores -- get it from (itunes.apple.com This video was directed by Mat Whitecross in 2008 and was filmed in London. Music video by Coldplay performing Lovers in Japan. (C) 2008 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2008 EMI Records Ltd
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Coldplay Live 2012, out now on DVD/CD/Blu-ray/digital. Get it from your local retailer at smarturl.it Lovers In Japan is out now on all digital stores -- get it from (itunes.apple.com This video was directed by Mat Whitecross in 2008 and was filmed in London. Music video by Coldplay performing Lovers in Japan. (C) 2008 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2008 EMI Records Ltd
- published: 30 May 2011
- views: 1841173
- author: ColdplayVEVO
Kimbra - "Cameo Lover" [Official Music Video]
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
© 2011 WMG Official music video for Kimbra's single 'Cameo Lover' as heard on 'VOWS'. Kimbra's debut album VOWS is out now in the US, CA, Australia, and New Zealand. Get VOWS: wbr.fm For more Kimbra: Facebook.com Twitter.com KimbraMusic.com Director Guy Franklin Producer: Elizabeth Sarsfield Cinematographer: Edward Goldner Colourist: Christine J. Dobson Stylist: Sarah Banger Production Designer: Sally Addinsall Post-Production: John Gavin (The Pixel Kitchen) Gauge: 35mm (2-Perf) Thanks to Paris End Studio's, Melbourne. Mammal Films / 2011 LYRICS: this is nonstop baby you've got me going crazy you're heavier than i knew but i dont want no other youre my cameo love only here for a moment or two you stay inside that bubble with all of your trouble in your black hole you turn from the skies you dance with your demise i'll be here when you come home we've all gotta break down let me come and break down with you cos everydays like talking in ur sleep! love is like a silhoeutte in dreams! open up your heart! open up your heart and let me pull you out of here ive got high hopes baby but all you do is take me down to depths that i never knew you've got two arms baby they're all tangled in ladies of the black skies posing blue let go of your mother and turn to your brother! not a long gone lovers noose sometimes baby the hardest part of breaking is leaving pieces behind you we've all gotta get by let me come and hold you high, with you cos everydays like talking in ur sleep! love ...
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© 2011 WMG Official music video for Kimbra's single 'Cameo Lover' as heard on 'VOWS'. Kimbra's debut album VOWS is out now in the US, CA, Australia, and New Zealand. Get VOWS: wbr.fm For more Kimbra: Facebook.com Twitter.com KimbraMusic.com Director Guy Franklin Producer: Elizabeth Sarsfield Cinematographer: Edward Goldner Colourist: Christine J. Dobson Stylist: Sarah Banger Production Designer: Sally Addinsall Post-Production: John Gavin (The Pixel Kitchen) Gauge: 35mm (2-Perf) Thanks to Paris End Studio's, Melbourne. Mammal Films / 2011 LYRICS: this is nonstop baby you've got me going crazy you're heavier than i knew but i dont want no other youre my cameo love only here for a moment or two you stay inside that bubble with all of your trouble in your black hole you turn from the skies you dance with your demise i'll be here when you come home we've all gotta break down let me come and break down with you cos everydays like talking in ur sleep! love is like a silhoeutte in dreams! open up your heart! open up your heart and let me pull you out of here ive got high hopes baby but all you do is take me down to depths that i never knew you've got two arms baby they're all tangled in ladies of the black skies posing blue let go of your mother and turn to your brother! not a long gone lovers noose sometimes baby the hardest part of breaking is leaving pieces behind you we've all gotta get by let me come and hold you high, with you cos everydays like talking in ur sleep! love ...
- published: 26 Apr 2011
- views: 11886092
- author: kimbramusic
La Bouche- Be My Lover
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- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Check out my personal account at www.youtube.com I do not claim to own any of the rights to music. THIS IS FOR PURELY ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. La Bouche singing Be my lover.
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Check out my personal account at www.youtube.com I do not claim to own any of the rights to music. THIS IS FOR PURELY ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. La Bouche singing Be my lover.
- published: 13 Jun 2007
- views: 26086573
- author: xiaopinkish111
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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- Duration: 4:02
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
© 2010 WMG James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Check out the video for James Blunt's 'Goodbye My Lover', featuring Mischa Barton from The OC
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© 2010 WMG James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Check out the video for James Blunt's 'Goodbye My Lover', featuring Mischa Barton from The OC
- published: 21 Sep 2006
- views: 42086083
- author: jamesbluntmusic
Motherlover (feat. Justin Timberlake)
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- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com Happy Mother's Day! Originally aired May 9, 2009 Footage courtesy of NBC Universal for promotional use only.
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Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com Happy Mother's Day! Originally aired May 9, 2009 Footage courtesy of NBC Universal for promotional use only.
- published: 19 Apr 2011
- views: 44475818
- author: thelonelyisland
A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover
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- Duration: 4:38
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Music video by A Fine Frenzy performing Almost Lover.
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Music video by A Fine Frenzy performing Almost Lover.
- published: 22 Oct 2007
- views: 6416979
- author: virginrecords
Two Lovers
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- Duration: 110:07
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Leonard is an attractive but troubled young man living with his parents in suburbanBrooklyn when two women enter his life. The lovely but ordinary daughter of hisfather's new business partner and his beautiful but volatile neighbour trappedin a destructive affair, whose passion helpsto reignite his lust for life.
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Leonard is an attractive but troubled young man living with his parents in suburbanBrooklyn when two women enter his life. The lovely but ordinary daughter of hisfather's new business partner and his beautiful but volatile neighbour trappedin a destructive affair, whose passion helpsto reignite his lust for life.
- published: 27 Aug 2011
- author: LionsgateUKMovies
Mumford and Sons - Lovers Eyes
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- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
What a song (:
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Almost Lover - A fine Frenzy ( lyrics)
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- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
my first video using lyrics. its a song along with just 3 pictures. =] enjoy
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my first video using lyrics. its a song along with just 3 pictures. =] enjoy
- published: 02 Feb 2008
- views: 7718097
- author: vanessacandies
Mumford & Sons - Lover of the Light.
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- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Song they played for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1
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Song they played for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1
- published: 31 Jan 2010
- views: 2282376
- author: Martijn H
Film lovers will love this!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:44
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
www.ec.europa.eu Coming together to celebrate European films - every year 300 new European film projects are supported by MEDIA
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www.ec.europa.eu Coming together to celebrate European films - every year 300 new European film projects are supported by MEDIA
- published: 15 Jun 2007
- views: 8662900
- author: eutube
FOUR LOVERS - Official Teaser (HD)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:04
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL - ow.ly www.oscilloscope.net Four Lovers Dir. Antony Cordier In this sexy, French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and confusion. As their arrangement leads them down an increasingly surprising and provocative path, the lovers begin to question their personal choices and lifestyles, leading to consequences none of them could foresee.
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NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL - ow.ly www.oscilloscope.net Four Lovers Dir. Antony Cordier In this sexy, French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and confusion. As their arrangement leads them down an increasingly surprising and provocative path, the lovers begin to question their personal choices and lifestyles, leading to consequences none of them could foresee.
- published: 07 Feb 2012
- views: 25152
- author: oscopelabs
Lovers Again - ATSUSHI 【EXILE】【高画質HD】
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Lovers Again - ATSUSHI 【EXILE】【高画質HD】
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Mumford & Sons - Lover's Eyes (Live from Bonnaroo 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:17
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Mumford & Sons performing "Lover's Eyes" Live from Bonnaroo 2011.
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Mumford & Sons performing "Lover's Eyes" Live from Bonnaroo 2011.
- published: 14 Jun 2011
- views: 305080
- author: MumfordAndSonsVEVO
Summer Lovers 1982 - I'm so excited
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
"Summer Lovers" is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece. The original music score is composed by Basil Poledouris. www.imdb.com
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"Summer Lovers" is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece. The original music score is composed by Basil Poledouris. www.imdb.com
- published: 30 May 2011
- views: 42826
- author: Baudolino82
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Sade (1/21) - Cherish The Day
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (2/21) - Your Love Is King
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (3/21) - Somebody Already Broke My Heart
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (4/21) - Cherry Pie
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (5/21) - Pearls
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (6/21) - Every Word
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (7/21) - Smooth Operator
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (8/21) - Red Eye
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (9/21) - Jezebel
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (10/21) - Kiss Of Life
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
http://wn.com/Sade_10_21_Kiss_Of_Life
Sade (11/21) - Slave Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (12/21) - The Sweetest Gift
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (13/21) - The Sweetest Taboo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (14/21) - Lovers Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (15/21) - Immigrant
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (16/21) - Paradise
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (17/21) - King Of Sorrow
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (18/21) - No Ordinary Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
http://wn.com/Sade_18_21_No_Ordinary_Love
Sade (19/21) - By Your Side
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (20/21) - Flow
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Sade (21/21) - Is it a crime
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sade Lovers live (2001)
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Army of Lovers - Sexual Revolution
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sexual Revolution
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Army of Lovers - Lit de Parade
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army of Lovers - Lit de Parade
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Army Of Lovers - Give My Life (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Directed by Fredrik Boklund in 1995
Single take from the album "Les Greatest Hits"
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Directed by Fredrik Boklund in 1995
Single take from the album "Les Greatest Hits"
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 370768
- author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Obsession (Original Version!!!)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard.
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With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard.
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 1607855
- author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - King Midas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army of Lovers - King Midas
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Army of Lovers - La Plage De Saint Tropez
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
La Plage De Saint Tropez
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Army of Lovers - Hands up! HQ (2001)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Hands up baby...
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Army Of Lovers - Supernatural (TV Performance Sweden 1990)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers performing their 1990 single on Swedish television. There is also a very funny interview with La Camilla at the end. It's in Swedish though.
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Army Of Lovers performing their 1990 single on Swedish television. There is also a very funny interview with La Camilla at the end. It's in Swedish though.
Legal disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended. I do not hold the copyright to the clips I upload. I am just promoting the artists/movies/TV shows. If you are the copyright holder and still want me to remove one of the videos, please don't hesitate to send me a message. Thank you!
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 43282
- author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Let The Sunshine In (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Year - 2001;
Album - Le Grand Docu-Soap;
Members:
Alexander Bard;
Jean-Pierre Barda;
La Camilla;
Dominika Peczynski;
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Year - 2001;
Album - Le Grand Docu-Soap;
Members:
Alexander Bard;
Jean-Pierre Barda;
La Camilla;
Dominika Peczynski;
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 22122
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Israelism
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
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Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 279798
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)
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Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 96501
- author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
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Army Of Lovers - I Am
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Music video by Army Of Lovers performing I Am. (C) 1993 Universal Music AB
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Music video by Army Of Lovers performing I Am. (C) 1993 Universal Music AB
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 13067
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - We Stand United
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Behind every wheel
Heroes of steel
We know where to and how
Together we stand
We make our demands
Ain't no stopping us now
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
We started a boom
Now you consume
We shop therefore we are
Gold bars are a must
In money we trust
Multinational stars
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Demandant demandant
De la argent de la argent
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
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We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Behind every wheel
Heroes of steel
We know where to and how
Together we stand
We make our demands
Ain't no stopping us now
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
We started a boom
Now you consume
We shop therefore we are
Gold bars are a must
In money we trust
Multinational stars
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Demandant demandant
De la argent de la argent
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 48476
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Someone Somewhere
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
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Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 16312
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Venus And Mars
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
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Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 88700
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Carry My Urn To Ukraine
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Saint Petersburg 17.12.93
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Army of Lovers - Judgment Day
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Judgment Day
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Army Of Lovers - Requiem
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers - Requiem
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Army of Lovers - Everybody's gotta learn sometime
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army of Lovers - Everybody's gotta learn sometime
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Army of Lovers - Everybody's gotta learn sometime
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 19685
- author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Flying High
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers - Flying High
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Army of Lovers - Baby's Got A Neutron Bomb (1989) - HQ
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Ever since live footage from an archived local TV performance surfaced on the internet in late 2000, it has been treated as an actual video by the fans. Due to popular demand, we've decided to reupload the clip in better quality. For more info, visit: www.armyoflovers.net
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Ever since live footage from an archived local TV performance surfaced on the internet in late 2000, it has been treated as an actual video by the fans. Due to popular demand, we've decided to reupload the clip in better quality. For more info, visit: www.armyoflovers.net
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 28278
- author: Scott Barnes
Army of lovers - Hasta Manana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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![[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 1](http://web.archive.org./web/20121231043400im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rV8fvMHwrZI/default.jpg "[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 1")
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 16123
- author: chocongaugau
![[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 2](http://web.archive.org./web/20121231043400im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQWb5PGCmIc/default.jpg "[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 2")
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 7602
- author: chocongaugau
![[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 3](http://web.archive.org./web/20121231043400im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nTmlmVHhG2Q/default.jpg "[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 3")
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 4219
- author: chocongaugau
![[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 4](http://web.archive.org./web/20121231043400im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rxUHSgvEHb4/default.jpg "[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 4")
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 6226
- author: chocongaugau
![[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 1](http://web.archive.org./web/20121231043400im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xxwzjXvaDLA/default.jpg "[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 1")
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 4142
- author: chocongaugau
![[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 2](http://web.archive.org./web/20121231043400im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1tTLcpRu2Ew/default.jpg "[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 2")
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 4878
- author: chocongaugau
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[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 12977
- author: chocongaugau
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BWO - Open Door
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
BWO great video
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BWO Save My Pride
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
BWO looks better than ever in this quirky video directed by Kalle Haglund.
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BWO looks better than ever in this quirky video directed by Kalle Haglund.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 177466
- author: Horserailroad
BWO - Temple Of Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Music video from Sweden's coolest band
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BWO - Give Me The Night
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
A hilarious nuclear vaudeville video from the Swedish electro-pop band BWO.
Martin as Tarzan, Alexander as the clown and the strong man (with a supercute mini-me) and Marina as the diva in the trapeze. My favorite up-tempo track from the "Fabricator" album. Absolutely Brilliant!!! Loves it!!
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A hilarious nuclear vaudeville video from the Swedish electro-pop band BWO.
Martin as Tarzan, Alexander as the clown and the strong man (with a supercute mini-me) and Marina as the diva in the trapeze. My favorite up-tempo track from the "Fabricator" album. Absolutely Brilliant!!! Loves it!!
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 211608
- author: Horserailroad
Bodies Without Organs "Sunshine In The Rain" Music Video
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
"Sunshine in the Rain" by BWO.
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bWo - Living in a Fantasy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The first video of Alexander Bard's (Army of Lovers' former leader) new band , taken from their first album "Prototype".
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The first video of Alexander Bard's (Army of Lovers' former leader) new band , taken from their first album "Prototype".
- published: 10 Mar 2009
- views: 10890
- author: Horserailroad
Sixteen tons of hardware - BwO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Denna är en av mina favoriter =)
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BWO - Conquering America
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
HOT BWO Dance Tune
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BWO The Destiny Of Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The crash test dummy video. The stunning new video, with high-speed camera special effects, from Swedish electro heroes BWO.
http://wn.com/BWO_The_Destiny_Of_Love
The crash test dummy video. The stunning new video, with high-speed camera special effects, from Swedish electro heroes BWO.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 39318
- author: Horserailroad
BWO - Sunshine in the rain (UK version)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
BWO Sunshine in the rain UK version
http://wn.com/BWO_Sunshine_in_the_rain_UK_version
BWO - Will My Arms Be Strong Enough
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Swedens best band ever!
http://wn.com/BWO_Will_My_Arms_Be_Strong_Enough
BWO - Gone
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
BWO are singing the song Gone on "Melodifestivalen" (The Swedish ESC)2005
http://wn.com/BWO_Gone
BWO are singing the song Gone on "Melodifestivalen" (The Swedish ESC)2005
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 44345
- author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers-Crucified
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The glamorous music group Army of Lovers and their stylish but hilarious video "Crucified."
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers-Crucified
The glamorous music group Army of Lovers and their stylish but hilarious video "Crucified."
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 2890787
- author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Obsession (Original Version!!!)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard.
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_Obsession_Original_Version!!!
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 1607855
- author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Sexual Revolution
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_Sexual_Revolution
Army of Lovers - Let the Sunshine In
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_Let_the_Sunshine_In
Army of Lovers - Israelism
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Weird and oh-so-wonderful. The Army of Lovers' music video "Israelism." Be warned: you may walk about chanting in Hebrew for a few days.
EDIT: Due to being called a racist and other such unfounded insults (one person actually sent me a message EXPLAINING why I'm a 'rascist' and pointed out obscure references I didn't even know about), I feel I must quote waitressboy:
"Honestly, I think that the only way to enjoy Army Of Lovers' art is... stop thinking. I mean, you can't try to find the explanation for whatever that's the thing they're doing. Just listen to the music, watch the videos, and laugh like you're having the devil inside your body."
So, just shush and enjoy. If you don't enjoy, don't watch, don't comment. That is all.
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_Israelism
Weird and oh-so-wonderful. The Army of Lovers' music video "Israelism." Be warned: you may walk about chanting in Hebrew for a few days.
EDIT: Due to being called a racist and other such unfounded insults (one person actually sent me a message EXPLAINING why I'm a 'rascist' and pointed out obscure references I didn't even know about), I feel I must quote waitressboy:
"Honestly, I think that the only way to enjoy Army Of Lovers' art is... stop thinking. I mean, you can't try to find the explanation for whatever that's the thing they're doing. Just listen to the music, watch the videos, and laugh like you're having the devil inside your body."
So, just shush and enjoy. If you don't enjoy, don't watch, don't comment. That is all.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 149977
- author: Horserailroad
Army of lovers - lit de parade
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Army_of_lovers_lit_de_parade
Army Of Lovers - Ride The Bullet 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army Of Lovers - Ride The Bullet
http://wn.com/Army_Of_Lovers_Ride_The_Bullet_1
Army of Lovers - Baby's Got A Neutron Bomb
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Years ago performing Babys Got A Neutron Bomb
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_Baby's_Got_A_Neutron_Bomb
Years ago performing Babys Got A Neutron Bomb
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 118344
- author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_Candyman_Messiah
Army of Lovers - My Army of Lovers
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
My Army of Lovers
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_My_Army_of_Lovers
Army of Lovers - King Midas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Army of Lovers - King Midas
http://wn.com/Army_of_Lovers_King_Midas
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32. Cool Notes - My Tune - Lovers rock revival
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
another popular hit at parties back in 1980. The b. side is called "you are what you are" a real catchy tune if ever there was one. if you like this then go listen to 'Thank you for the many things' by Cassandra.
http://wn.com/32_Cool_Notes_My_Tune_Lovers_rock_revival
another popular hit at parties back in 1980. The b. side is called "you are what you are" a real catchy tune if ever there was one. if you like this then go listen to 'Thank you for the many things' by Cassandra.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 44269
- author: Navigator MC
Junior English - In Loving You - Lovers Rock Revival
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
One of the most requested lovers tunes of all time. Enjoy
http://wn.com/Junior_English_In_Loving_You_Lovers_Rock_Revival
One of the most requested lovers tunes of all time. Enjoy
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 18061
- author: Navigator MC
Beshara - Men Cry Too
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Available on iTUNES, eMusic!!!!!!!
Beshara were formed 1976 in Birmingham and were formely named ''Cool Dimension'' which then changed to ''The Kushites''.
The Band enjoyed success with early recordings such as ''Men Cry Too'', which reached number 6 in the reggae charts, whilst ''Shadow Of Love'', ''Glory Glory'' and Candi also received some success.
The Band recieved much acclaim when they toured with UB40, Beres Hammond, Simply Red, Dennis Brown, Bad Manners and John Holt.
You can find out more information about them at www.myspace.com/besharamuzic
http://wn.com/Beshara_Men_Cry_Too
Available on iTUNES, eMusic!!!!!!!
Beshara were formed 1976 in Birmingham and were formely named ''Cool Dimension'' which then changed to ''The Kushites''.
The Band enjoyed success with early recordings such as ''Men Cry Too'', which reached number 6 in the reggae charts, whilst ''Shadow Of Love'', ''Glory Glory'' and Candi also received some success.
The Band recieved much acclaim when they toured with UB40, Beres Hammond, Simply Red, Dennis Brown, Bad Manners and John Holt.
You can find out more information about them at www.myspace.com/besharamuzic
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 70301
- author: Navigator MC
The Natural-Ites - Lately
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Natural-Ites - Lately
http://wn.com/The_Natural-Ites_Lately
Sylvia Tella - Spell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sylvia Tella - Spell
http://wn.com/Sylvia_Tella_Spell
Janet Kay - Rock The Rhythm
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
One of our original Queens of UK lovers rock, singing at her best.
http://wn.com/Janet_Kay_Rock_The_Rhythm
One of our original Queens of UK lovers rock, singing at her best.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 68879
- author: Navigator MC
Sugar Minott (R.I.P.) - You've Lost It - Lover's Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sugar Barrington minott passed away at the University hospital, Kingston. july 11th 2010 from a long term illnes. Such a friendly bloke who well be greatly missed.
http://wn.com/Sugar_Minott_RIP_You've_Lost_It_Lover's_Rock
Sugar Barrington minott passed away at the University hospital, Kingston. july 11th 2010 from a long term illnes. Such a friendly bloke who well be greatly missed.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 31353
- author: Navigator MC
235. Eargasm - This Is Lovers Rock 1980
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Name that tune!! Classic reggae lovers from 1980. In the British party's, this would have been the number 3 behind Janet Kay's "Silly Games" and Sugar Lincoln "granulated sugar" Minott's Good Thing Going. Ok Fred and "Don't let it go to.... dont really count, do they?"
http://wn.com/235_Eargasm_This_Is_Lovers_Rock_1980
Name that tune!! Classic reggae lovers from 1980. In the British party's, this would have been the number 3 behind Janet Kay's "Silly Games" and Sugar Lincoln "granulated sugar" Minott's Good Thing Going. Ok Fred and "Don't let it go to.... dont really count, do they?"
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 59501
- author: Navigator MC
71. Claudia Fontain - Natural High - Mikie Dread Tv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
lovers rock from 1980 and sounding just as fresh now as it did then. for those of you who want a gentle introduction into reggae, you cant go far wrong by starting with the tunes from this era
http://wn.com/71_Claudia_Fontain_Natural_High_Mikie_Dread_Tv
lovers rock from 1980 and sounding just as fresh now as it did then. for those of you who want a gentle introduction into reggae, you cant go far wrong by starting with the tunes from this era
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 38719
- author: Navigator MC
258. Revelations - With You Boy (Lovers)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
One of the greatest lovers rock tunes ever!! Trust me on that.
http://wn.com/258_Revelations_With_You_Boy_Lovers
One of the greatest lovers rock tunes ever!! Trust me on that.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 16708
- author: Navigator MC
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love. From the classic lover's rock album Hopelessly in Love released in 1981.
http://wn.com/Carroll_Thompson_Hopelessly_In_Love
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love. From the classic lover's rock album Hopelessly in Love released in 1981.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 90916
- author: Navigator MC
carroll thompson sing me a love song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
ohh the memories
http://wn.com/carroll_thompson_sing_me_a_love_song
janet kay and carroll thompson
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
janet kay and carroll thompson lovers reggae your love
http://wn.com/janet_kay_and_carroll_thompson
janet kay and carroll thompson lovers reggae your love
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 89627
- author: Navigator MC
Janet Kay feel no way
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
:
http://wn.com/Janet_Kay_feel_no_way
Portia Morgan - Let Me Be Your Angel
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sweet lovers rock sound.
http://wn.com/Portia_Morgan_Let_Me_Be_Your_Angel
Junior English - Take Good Care of Your Self
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
More Classic Lovers Rock
http://wn.com/Junior_English_Take_Good_Care_of_Your_Self
Junior English - Never Win Never Lose (Loose)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Several variations on the title of this rhythm, that is also on the Win Some Lose Some album. But nothing detracts from yet another reggae classic from Junior English.
And for those of you that want to listen to some more great music from Mr English, check out my other posts or you can download his albums on itunes!
http://wn.com/Junior_English_Never_Win_Never_Lose_Loose
Several variations on the title of this rhythm, that is also on the Win Some Lose Some album. But nothing detracts from yet another reggae classic from Junior English.
And for those of you that want to listen to some more great music from Mr English, check out my other posts or you can download his albums on itunes!
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 33422
- author: Navigator MC
351. Ruddy Thomas - When I Think Of You - Lovers Rock Revival
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
One of the smoothest lovers tunes ever! hope you enjoy this classic HAWKEYE production.
http://wn.com/351_Ruddy_Thomas_When_I_Think_Of_You_Lovers_Rock_Revival
One of the smoothest lovers tunes ever! hope you enjoy this classic HAWKEYE production.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 32162
- author: Navigator MC
Louisa Marks (R.I.P.)- Caught You In A Lie - Lovers Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Possibly one of the best Reggae Lover's tunes of all time. This is a real "Shubene" tune with enough bass to make your knees shake. enjoy
http://wn.com/Louisa_Marks_RIP_Caught_You_In_A_Lie_Lovers_Rock
Possibly one of the best Reggae Lover's tunes of all time. This is a real "Shubene" tune with enough bass to make your knees shake. enjoy
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 29499
- author: Navigator MC
236. Maria Taylor - I Love You Always - (Lovers Rock)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The ultimate lovers rock classic!! if you could'nt find a partner when this came on, then you were either, drunk,sweaty,too short,tracksuited, or just too dam hugly. I dedicate this to the London ites.
http://wn.com/236_Maria_Taylor_I_Love_You_Always_Lovers_Rock
The ultimate lovers rock classic!! if you could'nt find a partner when this came on, then you were either, drunk,sweaty,too short,tracksuited, or just too dam hugly. I dedicate this to the London ites.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 43517
- author: Navigator MC
Investigators - Baby I'm Yours - Lovers Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tune!
http://wn.com/Investigators_Baby_I'm_Yours_Lovers_Rock
Bunny Maloney - Baby I've Been Missing You - Revival
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Probably one of the best reggae rubadub oldskool wallpaper strippers known to maN! if you like this tune then go listen to my tune called MEN CRY TOO by BESARA, it bloody amazing if you wanna break out the tissues. i have the original disco 45 if you wanna make me an offer of 500 quid. peace
http://wn.com/Bunny_Maloney_Baby_I've_Been_Missing_You_Revival
Probably one of the best reggae rubadub oldskool wallpaper strippers known to maN! if you like this tune then go listen to my tune called MEN CRY TOO by BESARA, it bloody amazing if you wanna break out the tissues. i have the original disco 45 if you wanna make me an offer of 500 quid. peace
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 25631
- author: Navigator MC
Arema - In Love - Lovers Rock Classic
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This tune is bangin!! very ska-esq with a decent vocal to boot. pump up yer speakers, open yer windows and bawl out "I'M IN LOVE", then play it again. If you like this tune then you'll love a tune by Matumbi called "blue beat and ska". Bless
http://wn.com/Arema_In_Love_Lovers_Rock_Classic
This tune is bangin!! very ska-esq with a decent vocal to boot. pump up yer speakers, open yer windows and bawl out "I'M IN LOVE", then play it again. If you like this tune then you'll love a tune by Matumbi called "blue beat and ska". Bless
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 74233
- author: Navigator MC
6:47
Sade (1/21) - Cherish The Day
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (1/21) - Cherish The Day
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 131220
- author: gferdinandus2
4:39
Sade (2/21) - Your Love Is King
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (2/21) - Your Love Is King
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 173759
- author: gferdinandus2
5:16
Sade (3/21) - Somebody Already Broke My Heart
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (3/21) - Somebody Already Broke My Heart
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 63525
- author: gferdinandus2
6:07
Sade (4/21) - Cherry Pie
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (4/21) - Cherry Pie
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 78227
- author: gferdinandus2
4:48
Sade (5/21) - Pearls
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (5/21) - Pearls
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 74958
- author: gferdinandus2
4:14
Sade (6/21) - Every Word
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (6/21) - Every Word
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 131781
- author: gferdinandus2
4:07
Sade (7/21) - Smooth Operator
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (7/21) - Smooth Operator
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 46420
- author: gferdinandus2
4:12
Sade (8/21) - Red Eye
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (8/21) - Red Eye
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 77378
- author: gferdinandus2
6:43
Sade (9/21) - Jezebel
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (9/21) - Jezebel
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 37476
- author: gferdinandus2
5:05
Sade (10/21) - Kiss Of Life
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (10/21) - Kiss Of Life
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 75321
- author: gferdinandus2
4:22
Sade (11/21) - Slave Song
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (11/21) - Slave Song
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 45831
- author: gferdinandus2
2:46
Sade (12/21) - The Sweetest Gift
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (12/21) - The Sweetest Gift
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 28368
- author: gferdinandus2
6:30
Sade (13/21) - The Sweetest Taboo
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (13/21) - The Sweetest Taboo
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 92582
- author: gferdinandus2
4:25
Sade (14/21) - Lovers Rock
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (14/21) - Lovers Rock
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 215651
- author: gferdinandus2
Vimeo results:
3:11
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through ...
published: 08 Apr 2008
author: Carlos Lascano
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.
you can find more about the making of at this link: http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html
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Join Carlos on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lascanofilms
2:40
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures a...
published: 04 May 2009
author: DUMAIS
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures and...
3 x pimped out stills cameras
2000 square feet of studio
11 x Obama lovers
2 x Producers with whips
450 kg of props
360 degrees of dolly track
15 hours of makeup
1 x clip on rat tail
2 x actors standing still for 22 hrs
1 x grown woman wearing a child sized dragon outfit
1 x 72 hr work work day
1 x "Bapapa" song
See the website at www.dumaisstudio.com for more information, download and insight.
...
Animated short done as a creative project made to promote a team of fine folks:
Starring Melissa Hood & Greg Lanzillotta
Sylvain Dumais | Director, Animator, Writer
Full Serve Productions | Producer
Daniel Shipp | Director Of Photography
Caitlin Durlak | Assistant Camera
Sandra Dumais | Art Direction, Writer
Michael Brown | Motion, Credits
Brian MacMillan | Music
Iantha Goldberg | Hair, Makeup
Amber Chase | Hair, Makeup
Cheryl Thompson | Prop Stylist
Dwayne Kennedy | Wardrobe Stylist
...
www.DUMAISSTUDIO.com
www.FULLSERVEPRODUCTIONS.com
3:57
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into...
published: 25 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Dowie
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into the life of talented South Australian glass blower, Llewelyn Ash.
Llewelyn's work has a distinctive and unique style that is sensitive to his surroundings. A lover of the outdoors, surf, sun, and skating, you can see his influences unfold in the stunning pieces he creates.
Llewelyn’s glass is now being exhibited in art galleries Australia wide. With exhibitions held in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney in the last two years, including the Design Institute of Australia award, and the Australian National Glass Museum Student Award show.
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See more of Llewelyn's work, or contact him via the links below:
http://llewelynashglass.com
http://www.facebook.com/llewelynashglass
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MUSIC
'Featherstone' // The Paper Kites
http://www.facebook.com/thepaperkitesband
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Shot with a 7D
Cut & graded with FCP 7
http://beanpole.com.au/
©2011 Beanpole Productions
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3:37
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardr...
published: 23 Feb 2011
author: Adanowsky
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardrobe Stylist: Yasmin Than / Emily De Groot
Feather Headdresses: Kate Thompson
Makeup: Sarai Fiszel
Hair: Ramsell Martinez & Abraham Esparza
Production Designer: Isaac Gabaeff
Producer: Cara Casey & Ross Levine
Grip & Electric: Robert Oliva & Nick Amato
Special Thanks: Devendra Banhart, Melinda Love Steele, Adarsha Benjamin
& all the wonderful cast and crew that came to help out!
The video was shot while Adanowsky recorded his album in Los Angeles at the old house of Ke$ha and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. In order to give authenticity to the Love-In, the cast and crew were put into a sexual trance thanks to a white magic breathing exercise the directors learned from Electricity Aquarian, a surviving member of Los Angeles spiritual cult The Source Family. Over forty people then channeled their erotic energy to help give birth to Adanowsky's new alter-ego, El Amador: "The Lover."
Youtube results:
4:14
Sade (15/21) - Immigrant
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (15/21) - Immigrant
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 100581
- author: gferdinandus2
4:31
Sade (16/21) - Paradise
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (16/21) - Paradise
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 78079
- author: gferdinandus2
4:52
Sade (17/21) - King Of Sorrow
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (17/21) - King Of Sorrow
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 99221
- author: gferdinandus2
5:48
Sade (18/21) - No Ordinary Love
Sade Lovers live (2001)...
published: 12 May 2008
author: gferdinandus2
Sade (18/21) - No Ordinary Love
Sade Lovers live (2001)
- published: 12 May 2008
- views: 185390
- author: gferdinandus2
4:01
Army of Lovers - Sexual Revolution
Sexual Revolution...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Sexual Revolution
Sexual Revolution
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 69230
- author: Scott Barnes
3:22
Army of Lovers - Lit de Parade
Army of Lovers - Lit de Parade...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Lit de Parade
Army of Lovers - Lit de Parade
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 155398
- author: Scott Barnes
4:10
Army Of Lovers - Give My Life (Official Video)
Directed by Fredrik Boklund in 1995
Single take from the album "Les Greatest Hits"...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Give My Life (Official Video)
Directed by Fredrik Boklund in 1995
Single take from the album "Les Greatest Hits"
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 370768
- author: Scott Barnes
3:46
Army of Lovers - Obsession (Original Version!!!)
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard....
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Obsession (Original Version!!!)
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard.
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 1607855
- author: Scott Barnes
3:58
Army of Lovers - King Midas
Army of Lovers - King Midas...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - King Midas
Army of Lovers - King Midas
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 289897
- author: Scott Barnes
3:32
Army of Lovers - La Plage De Saint Tropez
La Plage De Saint Tropez...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - La Plage De Saint Tropez
La Plage De Saint Tropez
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 199451
- author: Scott Barnes
3:16
Army of Lovers - Hands up! HQ (2001)
Hands up baby......
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Hands up! HQ (2001)
Hands up baby...
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 101109
- author: Scott Barnes
4:09
Army Of Lovers - Supernatural (TV Performance Sweden 1990)
Army Of Lovers performing their 1990 single on Swedish television. There is also a very fu...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Supernatural (TV Performance Sweden 1990)
Army Of Lovers performing their 1990 single on Swedish television. There is also a very funny interview with La Camilla at the end. It's in Swedish though.
Legal disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended. I do not hold the copyright to the clips I upload. I am just promoting the artists/movies/TV shows. If you are the copyright holder and still want me to remove one of the videos, please don't hesitate to send me a message. Thank you!
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 43282
- author: Scott Barnes
4:03
Army of Lovers - Let The Sunshine In (HQ)
Year - 2001;
Album - Le Grand Docu-Soap;
Members:
Alexander Bard;
Jean-Pierre Barda;
La C...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Let The Sunshine In (HQ)
Year - 2001;
Album - Le Grand Docu-Soap;
Members:
Alexander Bard;
Jean-Pierre Barda;
La Camilla;
Dominika Peczynski;
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 22122
- author: Scott Barnes
3:08
Army Of Lovers - Israelism
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Israelism
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 279798
- author: Scott Barnes
4:32
Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)
Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)
Army Of Lovers - When The Night Is Cold (1987)
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 96501
- author: Scott Barnes
3:07
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
Army of Lovers - Candyman Messiah
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 118150
- author: Scott Barnes
3:57
Army Of Lovers - I Am
Music video by Army Of Lovers performing I Am. (C) 1993 Universal Music AB...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - I Am
Music video by Army Of Lovers performing I Am. (C) 1993 Universal Music AB
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 13067
- author: Scott Barnes
3:42
Army Of Lovers - We Stand United
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Behind every wheel...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - We Stand United
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Behind every wheel
Heroes of steel
We know where to and how
Together we stand
We make our demands
Ain't no stopping us now
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
We started a boom
Now you consume
We shop therefore we are
Gold bars are a must
In money we trust
Multinational stars
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
Demandant demandant
De la argent de la argent
And in the business hours
Lost in material dreams
Building a golden tower
Reigning a love supreme
We stand united
Our fans are invited
We stand united
I feel so excited
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 48476
- author: Scott Barnes
Vimeo results:
3:11
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through ...
published: 08 Apr 2008
author: Carlos Lascano
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.
you can find more about the making of at this link: http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html
-----------------------------
Join Carlos on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lascanofilms
2:40
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures a...
published: 04 May 2009
author: DUMAIS
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures and...
3 x pimped out stills cameras
2000 square feet of studio
11 x Obama lovers
2 x Producers with whips
450 kg of props
360 degrees of dolly track
15 hours of makeup
1 x clip on rat tail
2 x actors standing still for 22 hrs
1 x grown woman wearing a child sized dragon outfit
1 x 72 hr work work day
1 x "Bapapa" song
See the website at www.dumaisstudio.com for more information, download and insight.
...
Animated short done as a creative project made to promote a team of fine folks:
Starring Melissa Hood & Greg Lanzillotta
Sylvain Dumais | Director, Animator, Writer
Full Serve Productions | Producer
Daniel Shipp | Director Of Photography
Caitlin Durlak | Assistant Camera
Sandra Dumais | Art Direction, Writer
Michael Brown | Motion, Credits
Brian MacMillan | Music
Iantha Goldberg | Hair, Makeup
Amber Chase | Hair, Makeup
Cheryl Thompson | Prop Stylist
Dwayne Kennedy | Wardrobe Stylist
...
www.DUMAISSTUDIO.com
www.FULLSERVEPRODUCTIONS.com
3:57
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into...
published: 25 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Dowie
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into the life of talented South Australian glass blower, Llewelyn Ash.
Llewelyn's work has a distinctive and unique style that is sensitive to his surroundings. A lover of the outdoors, surf, sun, and skating, you can see his influences unfold in the stunning pieces he creates.
Llewelyn’s glass is now being exhibited in art galleries Australia wide. With exhibitions held in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney in the last two years, including the Design Institute of Australia award, and the Australian National Glass Museum Student Award show.
••••••••••••••
See more of Llewelyn's work, or contact him via the links below:
http://llewelynashglass.com
http://www.facebook.com/llewelynashglass
/////////////////
MUSIC
'Featherstone' // The Paper Kites
http://www.facebook.com/thepaperkitesband
•••••••••••••••
Shot with a 7D
Cut & graded with FCP 7
http://beanpole.com.au/
©2011 Beanpole Productions
▲
3:37
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardr...
published: 23 Feb 2011
author: Adanowsky
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardrobe Stylist: Yasmin Than / Emily De Groot
Feather Headdresses: Kate Thompson
Makeup: Sarai Fiszel
Hair: Ramsell Martinez & Abraham Esparza
Production Designer: Isaac Gabaeff
Producer: Cara Casey & Ross Levine
Grip & Electric: Robert Oliva & Nick Amato
Special Thanks: Devendra Banhart, Melinda Love Steele, Adarsha Benjamin
& all the wonderful cast and crew that came to help out!
The video was shot while Adanowsky recorded his album in Los Angeles at the old house of Ke$ha and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. In order to give authenticity to the Love-In, the cast and crew were put into a sexual trance thanks to a white magic breathing exercise the directors learned from Electricity Aquarian, a surviving member of Los Angeles spiritual cult The Source Family. Over forty people then channeled their erotic energy to help give birth to Adanowsky's new alter-ego, El Amador: "The Lover."
Youtube results:
3:15
Army Of Lovers - Someone Somewhere
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Someone Somewhere
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 16312
- author: Scott Barnes
3:24
Army Of Lovers - Venus And Mars
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Venus And Mars
Army Of Lovers, Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela De La Cour, Dominika Peczynski, La Camilla
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 88700
- author: Scott Barnes
5:03
Army Of Lovers - Carry My Urn To Ukraine
Saint Petersburg 17.12.93...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army Of Lovers - Carry My Urn To Ukraine
Saint Petersburg 17.12.93
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 14615
- author: Scott Barnes
3:59
Army of Lovers - Judgment Day
Judgment Day...
published: 19 Jul 2011
author: Scott Barnes
Army of Lovers - Judgment Day
Judgment Day
- published: 19 Jul 2011
- views: 6172
- author: Scott Barnes
13:42
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 1
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 1
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 16123
- author: chocongaugau
10:02
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 2
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 2
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 7602
- author: chocongaugau
12:17
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 3
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 3
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 4219
- author: chocongaugau
12:30
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 4
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD1 clip 4
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 6226
- author: chocongaugau
14:30
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 1
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 1
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 4142
- author: chocongaugau
14:30
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 2
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 2
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 4878
- author: chocongaugau
14:30
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 3
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-compl...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: chocongaugau
[maydream net] Lovers Vanished vietsub - CD2 clip 3
Download HD: http://www.maydreams.net/newhome/f21/movie-2010-lovers-vanished-vietsub-completed-376.html
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 12977
- author: chocongaugau
Vimeo results:
3:11
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through ...
published: 08 Apr 2008
author: Carlos Lascano
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.
you can find more about the making of at this link: http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html
-----------------------------
Join Carlos on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lascanofilms
2:40
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures a...
published: 04 May 2009
author: DUMAIS
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures and...
3 x pimped out stills cameras
2000 square feet of studio
11 x Obama lovers
2 x Producers with whips
450 kg of props
360 degrees of dolly track
15 hours of makeup
1 x clip on rat tail
2 x actors standing still for 22 hrs
1 x grown woman wearing a child sized dragon outfit
1 x 72 hr work work day
1 x "Bapapa" song
See the website at www.dumaisstudio.com for more information, download and insight.
...
Animated short done as a creative project made to promote a team of fine folks:
Starring Melissa Hood & Greg Lanzillotta
Sylvain Dumais | Director, Animator, Writer
Full Serve Productions | Producer
Daniel Shipp | Director Of Photography
Caitlin Durlak | Assistant Camera
Sandra Dumais | Art Direction, Writer
Michael Brown | Motion, Credits
Brian MacMillan | Music
Iantha Goldberg | Hair, Makeup
Amber Chase | Hair, Makeup
Cheryl Thompson | Prop Stylist
Dwayne Kennedy | Wardrobe Stylist
...
www.DUMAISSTUDIO.com
www.FULLSERVEPRODUCTIONS.com
3:57
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into...
published: 25 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Dowie
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into the life of talented South Australian glass blower, Llewelyn Ash.
Llewelyn's work has a distinctive and unique style that is sensitive to his surroundings. A lover of the outdoors, surf, sun, and skating, you can see his influences unfold in the stunning pieces he creates.
Llewelyn’s glass is now being exhibited in art galleries Australia wide. With exhibitions held in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney in the last two years, including the Design Institute of Australia award, and the Australian National Glass Museum Student Award show.
••••••••••••••
See more of Llewelyn's work, or contact him via the links below:
http://llewelynashglass.com
http://www.facebook.com/llewelynashglass
/////////////////
MUSIC
'Featherstone' // The Paper Kites
http://www.facebook.com/thepaperkitesband
•••••••••••••••
Shot with a 7D
Cut & graded with FCP 7
http://beanpole.com.au/
©2011 Beanpole Productions
▲
3:37
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardr...
published: 23 Feb 2011
author: Adanowsky
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardrobe Stylist: Yasmin Than / Emily De Groot
Feather Headdresses: Kate Thompson
Makeup: Sarai Fiszel
Hair: Ramsell Martinez & Abraham Esparza
Production Designer: Isaac Gabaeff
Producer: Cara Casey & Ross Levine
Grip & Electric: Robert Oliva & Nick Amato
Special Thanks: Devendra Banhart, Melinda Love Steele, Adarsha Benjamin
& all the wonderful cast and crew that came to help out!
The video was shot while Adanowsky recorded his album in Los Angeles at the old house of Ke$ha and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. In order to give authenticity to the Love-In, the cast and crew were put into a sexual trance thanks to a white magic breathing exercise the directors learned from Electricity Aquarian, a surviving member of Los Angeles spiritual cult The Source Family. Over forty people then channeled their erotic energy to help give birth to Adanowsky's new alter-ego, El Amador: "The Lover."
3:28
BWO - Open Door
BWO great video...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Open Door
BWO great video
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 129447
- author: Horserailroad
4:00
BWO Save My Pride
BWO looks better than ever in this quirky video directed by Kalle Haglund....
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO Save My Pride
BWO looks better than ever in this quirky video directed by Kalle Haglund.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 177466
- author: Horserailroad
3:31
BWO - Temple Of Love
Music video from Sweden's coolest band...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Temple Of Love
Music video from Sweden's coolest band
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 158628
- author: Horserailroad
3:16
BWO - Give Me The Night
A hilarious nuclear vaudeville video from the Swedish electro-pop band BWO.
Martin as Tar...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Give Me The Night
A hilarious nuclear vaudeville video from the Swedish electro-pop band BWO.
Martin as Tarzan, Alexander as the clown and the strong man (with a supercute mini-me) and Marina as the diva in the trapeze. My favorite up-tempo track from the "Fabricator" album. Absolutely Brilliant!!! Loves it!!
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 211608
- author: Horserailroad
3:22
Bodies Without Organs "Sunshine In The Rain" Music Video
"Sunshine in the Rain" by BWO....
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Bodies Without Organs "Sunshine In The Rain" Music Video
"Sunshine in the Rain" by BWO.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 575516
- author: Horserailroad
3:35
bWo - Living in a Fantasy
The first video of Alexander Bard's (Army of Lovers' former leader) new band , taken from ...
published: 10 Mar 2009
author: Horserailroad
bWo - Living in a Fantasy
The first video of Alexander Bard's (Army of Lovers' former leader) new band , taken from their first album "Prototype".
- published: 10 Mar 2009
- views: 10890
- author: Horserailroad
3:24
Sixteen tons of hardware - BwO
Denna är en av mina favoriter =)...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Sixteen tons of hardware - BwO
Denna är en av mina favoriter =)
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 36049
- author: Horserailroad
3:19
BWO - Conquering America
HOT BWO Dance Tune...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Conquering America
HOT BWO Dance Tune
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 96137
- author: Horserailroad
3:51
BWO The Destiny Of Love
The crash test dummy video. The stunning new video, with high-speed camera special effects...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO The Destiny Of Love
The crash test dummy video. The stunning new video, with high-speed camera special effects, from Swedish electro heroes BWO.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 39318
- author: Horserailroad
3:24
BWO - Sunshine in the rain (UK version)
BWO Sunshine in the rain UK version...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Sunshine in the rain (UK version)
BWO Sunshine in the rain UK version
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 183840
- author: Horserailroad
4:19
BWO - Will My Arms Be Strong Enough
Swedens best band ever!...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Will My Arms Be Strong Enough
Swedens best band ever!
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 83255
- author: Horserailroad
3:09
BWO - Gone
BWO are singing the song Gone on "Melodifestivalen" (The Swedish ESC)2005...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
BWO - Gone
BWO are singing the song Gone on "Melodifestivalen" (The Swedish ESC)2005
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 44345
- author: Horserailroad
3:42
Army of Lovers-Crucified
The glamorous music group Army of Lovers and their stylish but hilarious video "Crucified....
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers-Crucified
The glamorous music group Army of Lovers and their stylish but hilarious video "Crucified."
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 2890787
- author: Horserailroad
3:46
Army of Lovers - Obsession (Original Version!!!)
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard....
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Obsession (Original Version!!!)
With LA CAMILLA, Jean Pierre Barda and Alexander Bard.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 1607855
- author: Horserailroad
Vimeo results:
3:11
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through ...
published: 08 Apr 2008
author: Carlos Lascano
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.
you can find more about the making of at this link: http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html
-----------------------------
Join Carlos on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lascanofilms
2:40
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures a...
published: 04 May 2009
author: DUMAIS
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures and...
3 x pimped out stills cameras
2000 square feet of studio
11 x Obama lovers
2 x Producers with whips
450 kg of props
360 degrees of dolly track
15 hours of makeup
1 x clip on rat tail
2 x actors standing still for 22 hrs
1 x grown woman wearing a child sized dragon outfit
1 x 72 hr work work day
1 x "Bapapa" song
See the website at www.dumaisstudio.com for more information, download and insight.
...
Animated short done as a creative project made to promote a team of fine folks:
Starring Melissa Hood & Greg Lanzillotta
Sylvain Dumais | Director, Animator, Writer
Full Serve Productions | Producer
Daniel Shipp | Director Of Photography
Caitlin Durlak | Assistant Camera
Sandra Dumais | Art Direction, Writer
Michael Brown | Motion, Credits
Brian MacMillan | Music
Iantha Goldberg | Hair, Makeup
Amber Chase | Hair, Makeup
Cheryl Thompson | Prop Stylist
Dwayne Kennedy | Wardrobe Stylist
...
www.DUMAISSTUDIO.com
www.FULLSERVEPRODUCTIONS.com
3:57
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into...
published: 25 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Dowie
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into the life of talented South Australian glass blower, Llewelyn Ash.
Llewelyn's work has a distinctive and unique style that is sensitive to his surroundings. A lover of the outdoors, surf, sun, and skating, you can see his influences unfold in the stunning pieces he creates.
Llewelyn’s glass is now being exhibited in art galleries Australia wide. With exhibitions held in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney in the last two years, including the Design Institute of Australia award, and the Australian National Glass Museum Student Award show.
••••••••••••••
See more of Llewelyn's work, or contact him via the links below:
http://llewelynashglass.com
http://www.facebook.com/llewelynashglass
/////////////////
MUSIC
'Featherstone' // The Paper Kites
http://www.facebook.com/thepaperkitesband
•••••••••••••••
Shot with a 7D
Cut & graded with FCP 7
http://beanpole.com.au/
©2011 Beanpole Productions
▲
3:37
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardr...
published: 23 Feb 2011
author: Adanowsky
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardrobe Stylist: Yasmin Than / Emily De Groot
Feather Headdresses: Kate Thompson
Makeup: Sarai Fiszel
Hair: Ramsell Martinez & Abraham Esparza
Production Designer: Isaac Gabaeff
Producer: Cara Casey & Ross Levine
Grip & Electric: Robert Oliva & Nick Amato
Special Thanks: Devendra Banhart, Melinda Love Steele, Adarsha Benjamin
& all the wonderful cast and crew that came to help out!
The video was shot while Adanowsky recorded his album in Los Angeles at the old house of Ke$ha and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. In order to give authenticity to the Love-In, the cast and crew were put into a sexual trance thanks to a white magic breathing exercise the directors learned from Electricity Aquarian, a surviving member of Los Angeles spiritual cult The Source Family. Over forty people then channeled their erotic energy to help give birth to Adanowsky's new alter-ego, El Amador: "The Lover."
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3:57
Army of Lovers - Sexual Revolution
...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Sexual Revolution
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 547675
- author: Horserailroad
4:16
Army of Lovers - Let the Sunshine In
...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Let the Sunshine In
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 1306893
- author: Horserailroad
3:34
Army of Lovers - Israelism
Weird and oh-so-wonderful. The Army of Lovers' music video "Israelism." Be warned: you may...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Army of Lovers - Israelism
Weird and oh-so-wonderful. The Army of Lovers' music video "Israelism." Be warned: you may walk about chanting in Hebrew for a few days.
EDIT: Due to being called a racist and other such unfounded insults (one person actually sent me a message EXPLAINING why I'm a 'rascist' and pointed out obscure references I didn't even know about), I feel I must quote waitressboy:
"Honestly, I think that the only way to enjoy Army Of Lovers' art is... stop thinking. I mean, you can't try to find the explanation for whatever that's the thing they're doing. Just listen to the music, watch the videos, and laugh like you're having the devil inside your body."
So, just shush and enjoy. If you don't enjoy, don't watch, don't comment. That is all.
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 149977
- author: Horserailroad
3:15
Army of lovers - lit de parade
...
published: 22 Mar 2008
author: Horserailroad
Army of lovers - lit de parade
- published: 22 Mar 2008
- views: 173103
- author: Horserailroad
3:43
32. Cool Notes - My Tune - Lovers rock revival
another popular hit at parties back in 1980. The b. side is called "you are what you are"...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
32. Cool Notes - My Tune - Lovers rock revival
another popular hit at parties back in 1980. The b. side is called "you are what you are" a real catchy tune if ever there was one. if you like this then go listen to 'Thank you for the many things' by Cassandra.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 44269
- author: Navigator MC
4:10
Junior English - In Loving You - Lovers Rock Revival
One of the most requested lovers tunes of all time. Enjoy...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Junior English - In Loving You - Lovers Rock Revival
One of the most requested lovers tunes of all time. Enjoy
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 18061
- author: Navigator MC
4:04
Beshara - Men Cry Too
Available on iTUNES, eMusic!!!!!!!
Beshara were formed 1976 in Birmingham and were formel...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Beshara - Men Cry Too
Available on iTUNES, eMusic!!!!!!!
Beshara were formed 1976 in Birmingham and were formely named ''Cool Dimension'' which then changed to ''The Kushites''.
The Band enjoyed success with early recordings such as ''Men Cry Too'', which reached number 6 in the reggae charts, whilst ''Shadow Of Love'', ''Glory Glory'' and Candi also received some success.
The Band recieved much acclaim when they toured with UB40, Beres Hammond, Simply Red, Dennis Brown, Bad Manners and John Holt.
You can find out more information about them at www.myspace.com/besharamuzic
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 70301
- author: Navigator MC
4:57
The Natural-Ites - Lately
The Natural-Ites - Lately...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
The Natural-Ites - Lately
The Natural-Ites - Lately
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 75682
- author: Navigator MC
5:23
Sylvia Tella - Spell
Sylvia Tella - Spell...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Sylvia Tella - Spell
Sylvia Tella - Spell
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 19124
- author: Navigator MC
3:06
Janet Kay - Rock The Rhythm
One of our original Queens of UK lovers rock, singing at her best....
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Janet Kay - Rock The Rhythm
One of our original Queens of UK lovers rock, singing at her best.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 68879
- author: Navigator MC
8:27
Sugar Minott (R.I.P.) - You've Lost It - Lover's Rock
Sugar Barrington minott passed away at the University hospital, Kingston. july 11th 2010 f...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Sugar Minott (R.I.P.) - You've Lost It - Lover's Rock
Sugar Barrington minott passed away at the University hospital, Kingston. july 11th 2010 from a long term illnes. Such a friendly bloke who well be greatly missed.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 31353
- author: Navigator MC
9:58
235. Eargasm - This Is Lovers Rock 1980
Name that tune!! Classic reggae lovers from 1980. In the British party's, this would ha...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
235. Eargasm - This Is Lovers Rock 1980
Name that tune!! Classic reggae lovers from 1980. In the British party's, this would have been the number 3 behind Janet Kay's "Silly Games" and Sugar Lincoln "granulated sugar" Minott's Good Thing Going. Ok Fred and "Don't let it go to.... dont really count, do they?"
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 59501
- author: Navigator MC
5:08
71. Claudia Fontain - Natural High - Mikie Dread Tv
lovers rock from 1980 and sounding just as fresh now as it did then. for those of you who ...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
71. Claudia Fontain - Natural High - Mikie Dread Tv
lovers rock from 1980 and sounding just as fresh now as it did then. for those of you who want a gentle introduction into reggae, you cant go far wrong by starting with the tunes from this era
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 38719
- author: Navigator MC
4:53
258. Revelations - With You Boy (Lovers)
One of the greatest lovers rock tunes ever!! Trust me on that....
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
258. Revelations - With You Boy (Lovers)
One of the greatest lovers rock tunes ever!! Trust me on that.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 16708
- author: Navigator MC
3:52
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love. From the classic lover's rock album Hopelessly in L...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love
Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love. From the classic lover's rock album Hopelessly in Love released in 1981.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 90916
- author: Navigator MC
4:18
carroll thompson sing me a love song
ohh the memories...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
carroll thompson sing me a love song
ohh the memories
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 44236
- author: Navigator MC
3:29
janet kay and carroll thompson
janet kay and carroll thompson lovers reggae your love...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
janet kay and carroll thompson
janet kay and carroll thompson lovers reggae your love
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 89627
- author: Navigator MC
7:22
Janet Kay feel no way
:...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Janet Kay feel no way
:
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 25432
- author: Navigator MC
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3:11
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through ...
published: 08 Apr 2008
author: Carlos Lascano
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION
A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.
you can find more about the making of at this link: http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_ashortlovestory.html
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Join Carlos on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lascanofilms
2:40
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures a...
published: 04 May 2009
author: DUMAIS
Stop Motion | The Long Haul
Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures and...
3 x pimped out stills cameras
2000 square feet of studio
11 x Obama lovers
2 x Producers with whips
450 kg of props
360 degrees of dolly track
15 hours of makeup
1 x clip on rat tail
2 x actors standing still for 22 hrs
1 x grown woman wearing a child sized dragon outfit
1 x 72 hr work work day
1 x "Bapapa" song
See the website at www.dumaisstudio.com for more information, download and insight.
...
Animated short done as a creative project made to promote a team of fine folks:
Starring Melissa Hood & Greg Lanzillotta
Sylvain Dumais | Director, Animator, Writer
Full Serve Productions | Producer
Daniel Shipp | Director Of Photography
Caitlin Durlak | Assistant Camera
Sandra Dumais | Art Direction, Writer
Michael Brown | Motion, Credits
Brian MacMillan | Music
Iantha Goldberg | Hair, Makeup
Amber Chase | Hair, Makeup
Cheryl Thompson | Prop Stylist
Dwayne Kennedy | Wardrobe Stylist
...
www.DUMAISSTUDIO.com
www.FULLSERVEPRODUCTIONS.com
3:57
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into...
published: 25 Oct 2011
author: Benjamin Dowie
Llewelyn Ash {Adventures of a Glass Blower}
**WINNER: Bronze ACS Award at the 2012 SA & WA Awards for Cinematography**
A glimpse into the life of talented South Australian glass blower, Llewelyn Ash.
Llewelyn's work has a distinctive and unique style that is sensitive to his surroundings. A lover of the outdoors, surf, sun, and skating, you can see his influences unfold in the stunning pieces he creates.
Llewelyn’s glass is now being exhibited in art galleries Australia wide. With exhibitions held in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney in the last two years, including the Design Institute of Australia award, and the Australian National Glass Museum Student Award show.
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See more of Llewelyn's work, or contact him via the links below:
http://llewelynashglass.com
http://www.facebook.com/llewelynashglass
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MUSIC
'Featherstone' // The Paper Kites
http://www.facebook.com/thepaperkitesband
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Shot with a 7D
Cut & graded with FCP 7
http://beanpole.com.au/
©2011 Beanpole Productions
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3:37
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardr...
published: 23 Feb 2011
author: Adanowsky
You are the one (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Directed by: SKINNY
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Graeme Pereira
Wardrobe Stylist: Yasmin Than / Emily De Groot
Feather Headdresses: Kate Thompson
Makeup: Sarai Fiszel
Hair: Ramsell Martinez & Abraham Esparza
Production Designer: Isaac Gabaeff
Producer: Cara Casey & Ross Levine
Grip & Electric: Robert Oliva & Nick Amato
Special Thanks: Devendra Banhart, Melinda Love Steele, Adarsha Benjamin
& all the wonderful cast and crew that came to help out!
The video was shot while Adanowsky recorded his album in Los Angeles at the old house of Ke$ha and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. In order to give authenticity to the Love-In, the cast and crew were put into a sexual trance thanks to a white magic breathing exercise the directors learned from Electricity Aquarian, a surviving member of Los Angeles spiritual cult The Source Family. Over forty people then channeled their erotic energy to help give birth to Adanowsky's new alter-ego, El Amador: "The Lover."
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3:24
Portia Morgan - Let Me Be Your Angel
Sweet lovers rock sound....
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Portia Morgan - Let Me Be Your Angel
Sweet lovers rock sound.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 30668
- author: Navigator MC
4:13
Junior English - Take Good Care of Your Self
More Classic Lovers Rock...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Junior English - Take Good Care of Your Self
More Classic Lovers Rock
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 66732
- author: Navigator MC
3:18
Junior English - Never Win Never Lose (Loose)
Several variations on the title of this rhythm, that is also on the Win Some Lose Some alb...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
Junior English - Never Win Never Lose (Loose)
Several variations on the title of this rhythm, that is also on the Win Some Lose Some album. But nothing detracts from yet another reggae classic from Junior English.
And for those of you that want to listen to some more great music from Mr English, check out my other posts or you can download his albums on itunes!
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 33422
- author: Navigator MC
4:38
351. Ruddy Thomas - When I Think Of You - Lovers Rock Revival
One of the smoothest lovers tunes ever! hope you enjoy this classic HAWKEYE production....
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: Navigator MC
351. Ruddy Thomas - When I Think Of You - Lovers Rock Revival
One of the smoothest lovers tunes ever! hope you enjoy this classic HAWKEYE production.
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 32162
- author: Navigator MC
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
29 Dec 2012
Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for burial ... Gatherings of more than five people have been banned in the city centre ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
photo: AP / New York City Police Department
30 Dec 2012
A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said ... Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge on Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. She faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... On Dec ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
28 Dec 2012
The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed in particular to France, Central African Republic's former colonial ruler ... 516 Share ... News ... ....(size: 19.5Kb)
photo: AP / Shaam News Network
30 Dec 2012
London. UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’ ... (ANI). For Zee News’s Updates, follow us on Twitter , Facebook, Google+, Pinterest. First Published ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba
28 Dec 2012
Galaxy Note 2 vs. iPhone 5. Do The Companies Have Their Game Plans Right?. Posted by Jay099 on December 28, 2012 02.15 pm 0. via. Mountain View at California seems to be a busy center now. Google is stepping up the gas on the march towards a holistic environment and experience for the consumers ... My Blog . My FB Page ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
Fox News
31 Dec 2012
– Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied feminists and inspired television movies, has died ... They talked about marriage early in the relationship, but that never panned out, and Harris remained his lover....(size: 6.2Kb)
The Examiner
31 Dec 2012
The 1500-acre Lafreniere Park in Metairie, LA attracts thousands of picnickers, joggers, dog lovers, music lovers, Halloween celebrants, solftball players, soccer players and participants in dozens of other events every year, but probably very few know much about the mysterious and controversial family for whom the park is named ... Location. Lafreniere Park. 30.003387 ; -90.213378 ... He is mentioned briefly on a plaque in Lafreniere Park ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
The Telegraph India
31 Dec 2012
IMDb
31 Dec 2012
When Fiz finally loses consciousness, it's her secret lover Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) who eventually finds her ... - By Daniel Kilkelly. ....(size: 0.6Kb)
Indian Express
31 Dec 2012
Sydney Morning Herald
31 Dec 2012
In 1987, Ferguson and his male lover Alexandria George Brooks abducted three children - aged six, seven, and eight - ......(size: 0.6Kb)
The Examiner
31 Dec 2012
Although their brief marriage lasted just eight days and ended with an annulment, Dennis Rodman says sex with Carmen Electra was unforgettable, and out of over 2,000 lovers, ranks his ex-wife as one of the top 10. On Dec ... Rodman added, “I’ve slept with over 2,000 women ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
Wall Street Journal
31 Dec 2012
By MOIRA HODGSON ... She caught sight of her lover, Gaston Palewski, hand in hand with another woman ... It was "so dreadful to prefer the loved one to be unhappy. . ... Close ... Ms ... Despite his flaws, and his fathering a son with one of his many lovers, he proved to be a lifelong friend to Mitford—though, if she hadn't trained herself to hide her unhappiness behind a veneer of jokes and high spirits, he probably wouldn't have stayed around at all ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
Canberra Times
31 Dec 2012
Perth has got something for everyone on New Year's Eve. A heatwave in the city is likely to continue with 40 degrees Celsius forecast for New Year's Eve before dropping to 36 degrees on New Year's Day. However, that's not expected to keep people away from festivities ... Movie lovers will see the Rooftop Movies location transformed as disco lights go up for a night of music ... . AAP ... . ....(size: 2.1Kb)
The Times of India
31 Dec 2012
SURAT. Be it any occasion, the fun-loving Surtis love to celebrate in style. At present large scale plans are afoot to bid adieu to the year gone by and welcome the New Year ... Large scale celebrations have given way to small group celebrations in the city this year ... Bond's special Virgin Martini (non-alcoholic) and cafe lounge is created for Bond lovers along with a huge dance floor and games based on Bond series ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
31 Dec 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Charges have been dismissed against a Romanian doctor accused of duping the ex-wife of a brother of casino mogul Steve Wynn out of more than $50,000 ... Misrepresentations are common in intimate relationships, Figler added. If every wealthy person sought criminal prosecution over money loaned to their younger lovers in Las Vegas, he said, "there would be a lot of people in jail and a lot of people embarrassed." ... ___....(size: 2.5Kb)
New Straits/Business Times
31 Dec 2012
HEAD to Only Mee at SACC Mall, here, to fill your belly with an extensive menu that includes noodles, one-pot meals, assorted dim sum, delectable desserts and tasty drinks. SHAH ALAM ... "For dim sum lovers, we have chicken siew mai, BBQ chicken pau, seaweed roll, seaweed sesame roll, beancurd roll alongside fried prawn and chicken wantan.". Beverages served include ice-blended lychee, honey lemon cucumber and cream soda Ribena ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
The Examiner
31 Dec 2012
2012 went by fast, and fashion was everywhere in the news. There were scandals, collaborations, and trends which some of us will never forget. The Label of the Year Award goes to H&M. Their new, three collections were what everyone was talking about in spring and fall ... Well done, H&M!View slideshow ... The Fashion Timeline of 2012 ... ( February) ... The collab got major attention because it was something Louis Vuitton lovers have ever seen....(size: 3.4Kb)
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Look up lover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Lover may refer to:
- A person who loves
- A sexual partner outside of a committed relationship
Music[link]
- "Lover" (song), by Rodgers and Hart
- "Lover" (Sophie Ellis-Bextor song)
- Lovers (Cannonball Adderley album)
- Lovers (Babyface album)
- Lovers (David Murray album)
- Lovers (Mickey Newbury album)
- Lovers (Hanna Pakarinen album)
- Lovers (The Sleepy Jackson album)
- Lovers (The Royalty album)
- "Lovers" (song), by Brothertiger
Other entertainment media[link]
- Lover (novel), by Bertha Harris
- Lovers (play), by Brian Friel
- The Lover (play), by Harold Pinter
- Lovers (film), a 1991 Spanish film noir
- "Lovers" (Saturday Night Live)
- Lovers (stock characters)
- Lovers (TV series), a 2006 Korean TV series starring Kim Jung Eun and Lee Seo-jin
- "Lovers", an episode of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly
Other uses[link]
- Lover (clothing), a fashion label
- Lover, Wiltshire, England
- The Lovers, a Tarot card
- Lővér, the Hungarian name for Luieriu village, Suseni Commune, Mureş County, Romania
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This article is about the musician. For his eponymous debut album, see Michael Bolton (album).
| Michael Bolton | |
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 Bolton performing in Barcelona, January 14, 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Bolotin |
| Born | (1953-02-26) February 26, 1953 (age 59) New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Genres | Soft rock, pop rock, hard rock, blue-eyed soul |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | RCA, Columbia, Jive, Concord |
| Associated acts | Blackjack, The Lonely Island |
| Website | Official website |
Michael Bolotin[1] (born February 26, 1953), better known as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He is best known, however, for his series of soft rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s. He is noted for his distinctive tenor/countertenor vocals.
Bolton's achievements include selling eight top 10 albums, achieving two number one singles on the Billboard charts, and receiving awards from both the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards.
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Early life[link]
Bolton was born Michael Bolotin in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Helen (Gubin) and George Bolotin. He has a brother, Orrin, and a sister, Sandra, both older. His family was Jewish, and all of his grandparents had been immigrants from Russia.[2] His parents were divorced when he was very young and his father died when Michael was 13 years old.[1]
Career[link]
Musician[link]
Bolton began recording in 1975. This first album was self-titled using his original surname, Bolotin. Early in his musical career, he focused on hard rock. His band, Blackjack, once toured with heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne.
Michael gained his first major hit as a songwriter, co-writing "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" for Laura Branigan, previously best known for singing the pop hit "Gloria". Narrowly missing the Top 10 on the US pop chart, Branigan took the song to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks in 1983. The two sought to work with each other again, and their next collaboration was when Bolton co-wrote "I Found Someone" for Branigan in 1985. Her version was only a minor hit, but two years later, Cher resurrected the song, and with it her own singing career. Bolton co-wrote several other songs for both singers.
Bolton would achieve his greatest success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a singer on the adult contemporary/easy listening charts. One of his first major hits was his 1987 interpretation of the Otis Redding classic, "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay." Always interested in soul and Motown classics, Bolton's success with that song encouraged him to tackle the standard "Georgia On My Mind," with which he had another hit. In 1991, Bolton released the album Time, Love & Tenderness which featured his Grammy Award winning cover version of "When a Man Loves a Woman".[3]
As a singer, he has performed with other artists such as: Lucia Aliberti, Patti LaBelle, José Carreras, Tony Cetinski, Ray Charles, Céline Dion, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Wynonna Judd, BB King, The Lonely Island, Luciano Pavarotti, Percy Sledge, and Zucchero.
As a songwriter, he has written and collaborated on several songs for other artis as well.
Bolton's last Top 40 single in the US in his own right was the 1997 hit "Go the Distance" (featured in the Walt Disney motion picture Hercules), which peaked at No. 1 on the US adult contemporary chart. He hired conductor Larry Baird (orchestral musical director/conductor/arranger for The Moody Blues, Three Dog Night, Al Jarreau, etc.) for his 2001 tour.
In 2006, Bolton and his then fiancee Nicollette Sheridan sang a duet, "The Second Time Around," for the album Bolton Swings Sinatra. In March 2007, Bolton toured South Africa for the first time. He was the headline act at Jacaranda 94.2 FM's two day concert.
For Over the Rainbow, an album which was recorded in five days, Bolton recorded the song "New York, New York" (also on his Bolton Swings Sinatra album). This was for an episode of the TV series, Challenge Anneka. The proceeds from the album went to children's hospices across the UK.
Bolton performed a duet entitled "Il Mio Amico" with the Italian singer Anna Tatangelo at the Sanremo Music Festival 2008. The song was originally sung by Tatangelo alone, but the duet version contained English lyrics as well. It is a song about the difficulties of being gay in Italy, written by Tatangelo's partner, Gigi D'Alessio.[citation needed]
Bolton's album Only A Woman Like You was released in 2001. The title song was co-written by Shania Twain and with background vocals by Skyler Jett. Bolton released his album One World One Love in the UK on September 21, 2009. The first single, "Just One Love," was released one week earlier.[4]
In 2011, Bolton was featured as a guest vocalist in The Lonely Island's song "Jack Sparrow" on their Turtleneck & Chain album. His performance with the notorious comedic hip-hop trio focused on his (intentionally) off-topic chorus and miscommunication with the group, and the video featured him dressed in costumes as Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, Forrest Gump, Erin Brockovich, and Tony Montana from Scarface.[5]
Bolton is currently working on his new studio album. He has collaborated with Indian musician A. R. Rahman for a song which was recorded in February 2011.[6]
Acting[link]
Bolton has made a number of cameos in films. He is also rumored to have appeared as an extra in Dune as a "spice-eyed" drummer, but Bolton has said in interviews that it is not him.[7]
Television[link]
Michael Bolton was a contestant on the eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars.[8] He and his partner, Chelsie Hightower, were the second couple to be eliminated, on September 28, 2010.
Legal troubles[link]
On May 9, 2000, a US Court of Appeals affirmed a jury's 1994 decision that Bolton's 1991 pop hit, "Love Is a Wonderful Thing," infringed on the copyright of the 1964 Isley Brothers song of the same name, and let stand the jury's award of $5.4 million against the singer, his co-author, Andrew Goldmark, and their record company, Sony Music Entertainment.[9] This was the biggest payout in musical copyright infringement to date.
Personal life[link]
Bolton was married to Maureen McGuire, but they divorced. They are the parents of three adult daughters: Isa, Holly, and Taryn.[10][11] Taryn gave birth to a daughter in October 2010.[12]
Bolton was introduced to actress Nicollette Sheridan in 1992 by adult contemporary/jazz saxophonist Kenny G.[10] Bolton and Sheridan dated until 1995, stopped dating, then reunited in 2005 and became engaged in March 2006;[10] however, it was confirmed in August 2008 that they had broken off their engagement.[13] Bolton also dated Sheridan's former Desperate Housewives co-star Teri Hatcher in the early 1990s.[14] Hatcher featured in the music video for Missing You Now, one of the songs from Bolton's Time, Love & Tenderness.[15]
Charity work[link]
In 1993, he established the Michael Bolton Foundation (now Michael Bolton Charities) to assist women and children at risk from the effects of poverty as well as emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.[16] The foundation has provided over US$3.7 million in funding to local and national charities.
Bolton also serves as the honorary chairman of Prevent Child Abuse America,[17] the national chairman for This Close for Cancer Research,[18] and a board member for the National Mentoring Partnership[19] and the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.[20]
In March 2003, Bolton joined with Lifetime Television, Verizon Wireless, and many others to lobby on behalf of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence,[21] urging legislation to provide more assistance for victims of domestic violence, such as affordable housing options.
Bolton has received the Lewis Hine Award from the National Child Labor Committee, the Martin Luther King Award from the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.[22] The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce[23] also recognized Bolton with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his musical and charitable contributions.
Discography[link]
Main article: Michael Bolton discography
Since 1975, Bolton has released at least 17 studio albums and 35 singles. Nine of his singles have peaked at No. 1 on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts in the US. He has also released numerous compilation albums and three Christmas albums.
Filmography[link]
As actor[link]
- 1997: Meet Wally Sparks
- 2002: Snow Dogs
- 2002: High Voltage
- 2008: The Onion Movie
As executive producer[link]
- 2001: Offside (short)
- 2001: Good Advice
- 2005: Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America (TV)
- 2008: The Other Side of the Tracks
See also[link]
- List of best selling music artists
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
- Michael Bolton Charities Inc.
References[link]
- ^ a b Michael Bolton: Biography, The Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, 1998.
- ^ http://www.davidovit.com/articles/Bolton.pdf
- ^ Rock on the Net.com
- ^ Official website
- ^ "Michael Bolton's love for Jack Sparrow ruins Lonely Island's new hip hop single | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews". News.com.au. 2011-05-10. http://www.news.com.au/technology/michael-boltons-love-for-pirates-ruins-hip-hop-single/story-e6frfro0-1226053162711. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Hollywood, Kollywood, Bollywood, it's all good". The New Paper. March 17, 2011. http://www.tnp.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,273872,00.html. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
- ^ Rheinberger, Joel. "Michael Bolton was not in Dune". ABC.com. http://blogs.abc.net.au/tasmania/2012/04/michael-bolton-was-not-in-dune.html?site=hobart&program=hobart_nerdzilla. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "'Dancing With the Stars' cast unveiled - Entertainment - Access Hollywood - TODAY.com". MSNBC. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/38927386/site/todayshow/ns/today-entertainment. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ Three Boys Music Corp. v. Bolton, 212 F.3d 477 (9th Cir. 2000).
- ^ a b c Michael Bolton : Celebrity : Biography, TV Guide.com.
- ^ Baker, K. C. Michael Bolton: Nicollette and I 'Remain Friends', People, September 23, 2008.
- ^ Cotliar, Sharon (2010-10-14). "Michael Bolton Becomes a Grandfather - Babies, Michael Bolton". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20434427,00.html. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Nicollette Sheridan & Michael Bolton End Engagement - Breakups, Michael Bolton, Nicollette Sheridan". People.com. 2008-08-26. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20221487,00.html. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "They Dated Who?!? Surprising Former Couples! | Access Hollywood – Celebrity News, Photos & Videos". Access Hollywood. http://www.accesshollywood.com/they-dated-who-surprising-former-couples_gallery_1588/image_77346. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ^ "Michael Bolton - Missing You Now". YouTube. 2010-09-24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-jCrIRb9g. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "The Michael Bolton Charities". The Michael Bolton Charities. http://www.michaelboltoncharities.com. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ^ "Prevent Child Abuse America". Preventchildabuse.org. http://www.preventchildabuse.org. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ^ "Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in America". Thisclose.org. http://www.thisclose.org. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Mentor: Expanding the world of quality mentoring". Mentoring.org. December 17, 2008. http://www.mentoring.org. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ^ "Children's Hospital". Jdch.com. http://www.jdch.com. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ^ "National Coalition Against Domestic Violence". Ncadv.org. May 12, 2010. http://www.ncadv.org. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- ^ http://www.neco.org/
- ^ Hollywood Chamber of Commerce[dead link]
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| Stevie Wonder | |
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 Stevie Wonder at a conference in Salvador, Brazil, in July 2006 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Stevland Hardaway Judkins |
| Also known as | Stevland Hardaway Morris, Little Stevie Wonder, Eivets Rednow |
| Born | (1950-05-13) May 13, 1950 (age 62) Saginaw, Michigan, United States |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | Soul, pop, R&B, funk, jazz |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, activist |
| Instruments | Vocals, synthesizer, piano, keyboards, harmonica, clavinet, drums, bass guitar, congas, bongos, melodica, keytar, accordion |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Labels | Tamla, Motown |
| Website | www.steviewonder.net |
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins),[1] known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century.[2] Blind since shortly after birth,[3] Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven,[2] and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life.[2] He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States.[4] In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.[5] In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Early life[link]
Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950, the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach.[3] The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and it was exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator.[6]
When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved herself and her children to Detroit. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. Morris has remained Stevie Wonder's legal surname ever since. He began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica, drums and bass. During childhood he was active in his church choir.
Discovery and early Motown recordings[link]
Ronnie White of The Miracles gives credit to his brother Gerald White for persistently nagging him to come to his friend's house in 1961 to check out Stevie Wonder.[7] Afterward, White brought Wonder and his mother to Motown. Impressed by the young musician, Motown CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label with the name Little Stevie Wonder.[1] Before signing, producer Clarence Paul gave Wonder his trademark name after stating "we can't keep calling him the eighth wonder of the world". He then recorded the regional Detroit single, "I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It the Blues", which was released on Tamla in late 1961. Wonder released his first two albums, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie and Tribute to Uncle Ray, in 1962, to little success.
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Early success: 1963–1971[link]
By age 13, Wonder had a major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)", a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motor Town Revue performance, issued on the album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts, making him the youngest artist to top the former in its history and launching him into the public consciousness.
In 1964, Stevie Wonder made his film debut in Muscle Beach Party as himself, credited as "Little Stevie Wonder". He returned in the sequel released five months later, Bikini Beach. He performed on-screen in both films, singing "Happy Street," and "Happy Feelin' (Dance and Shout)," respectively.
Dropping the "Little" from his name, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)",[8] "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover, co-sung by his mentor, producer Clarence Paul. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his label mates, including "Tears of a Clown", a number one hit performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.
In 1968 he recorded an album of instrumental soul/jazz tracks, mostly harmonica solos, under the pseudonym (and title) Eivets Rednow, which is "Stevie Wonder" spelled backwards. The album failed to get much attention, and its only single, a cover of "Alfie", only reached number 66 on the U.S. Pop charts and number 11 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts. Nonetheless, he managed to score several hits between 1968 and 1970 such as "I Was Made to Love Her";[8] "For Once in My Life" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours". In September 1970, at the age of 20, Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a songwriter and former Motown secretary. Wright and Wonder co-wrote the songs on the next album, Where I'm Coming From, which did not succeed in the charts. Reaching his twenty-first birthday on May 13, 1971, he allowed his Motown contract to expire.[9]
In 1970, Wonder co-wrote, and played numerous instruments on the hit "It's a Shame" for fellow Motown act The Spinners. His contribution was meant to be a showcase of his talent and thus a weapon in his ongoing negotiations with Gordy about creative autonomy.[10]
Classic period: 1972–1976[link]
Wonder independently recorded two albums, which he used as a bargaining tool while negotiating with Motown.[citation needed] Eventually the label agreed to his demands for full creative control and the rights to his own songs. The 120-page contract was a precedent at Motown and gave Wonder a much higher royalty rate.[11] Wonder returned to Motown in March 1972 with Music of My Mind. Unlike most previous albums on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection of singles, B-sides and covers, Music of My Mind was a full-length artistic statement with songs flowing together thematically.[11] Wonder's lyrics dealt with social, political, and mystical themes as well as standard romantic ones, while musically Wonder began exploring overdubbing and recording most of the instrumental parts himself.[11] Music of My Mind marked the beginning of a long collaboration with Tonto's Expanding Head Band (Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil).[12][13]
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Released in late 1972, Talking Book featured the No. 1 hit "Superstition",[14] which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner clavinet keyboard.[15] The song features a rocking groove that garnered Wonder an additional audience on rock radio stations.[citation needed] Talking Book also featured "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", which also peaked at No. 1. During the same time as the album's release, Stevie Wonder began touring with the Rolling Stones to alleviate the negative effects from pigeon-holing as a result of being an R&B artist in America.[7] Wonder's touring with The Rolling Stones was also a factor behind the success of both "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life".[11][16] Between them, the two songs won three Grammy Awards.[17] On an episode of the children's television show Sesame Street that aired in April 1973,[18] Wonder and his band performed "Superstition", as well as an original song called "Sesame Street Song", which demonstrated his abilities with the "talk box".
Innervisions, released in 1973, featured "Higher Ground" (#4 on the pop charts) as well as the trenchant "Living for the City" (#8).[14] Both songs reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. Popular ballads such as "Golden Lady" and "All in Love Is Fair" were also present, in a mixture of moods that nevertheless held together as a unified whole.[19] Innervisions generated three more Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.[17] The album is ranked #23 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[20] Wonder had become the most influential and acclaimed black musician of the early 1970s.[11]
On August 6, 1973, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a truck.[11][21] This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste.[22] Despite the setback, Wonder re-appeared in concert at Madison Square Garden in March 1974 with a performance that highlighted both up-tempo material and long, building improvisations on mid-tempo songs such as "Living for the City".[11] The album Fulfillingness' First Finale appeared in July 1974 and set two hits high on the pop charts: the #1 "You Haven't Done Nothin'" and the Top Ten "Boogie On Reggae Woman". The Album of the Year was again one of three Grammys won.[17]
The same year Wonder took part in a Los Angeles jam session which would become known by the bootleg album A Toot and a Snore in '74.[23][24] He also co-wrote and produced the Syreeta Wright album Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta.[25][26]
On October 4, 1975, Wonder performed at the historical "Wonder Dream Concert" in Kingston, Jamaica, a benefit for the Jamaican Institute for the Blind.[27]
By 1975, in his 25th year, Stevie Wonder had won two consecutive Grammy Awards: in 1974 for Innervisions and in 1975 for Fulfillingness' First Finale.[citation needed] In 1975 he featured on the album It's My Pleasure by Billy Preston, playing harmonica on two tracks.[not relevant]
The double album-with-extra-EP Songs in the Key of Life, was released in September 1976. Sprawling in style, unlimited in ambition, and sometimes lyrically difficult to fathom, the album was hard for some listeners to assimilate, yet is regarded by many as Wonder's crowning achievement and one of the most recognizable and accomplished albums in pop music history.[11][14][28] The album became the first of an American artist to debut straight at #1 in the Billboard charts, where it remained for 14 non-consecutive weeks.[29] Two tracks, became #1 Pop/R&B hits "I Wish" and "Sir Duke". The baby-celebratory "Isn't She Lovely?" was written about his newborn daughter Aisha, while songs such as "Love's in Need of Love Today" (which years later Wonder would perform at the post-September 11, 2001 America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon) and "Village Ghetto Land" reflected a far more pensive mood. Songs in the Key of Life won Album of the Year and two other Grammys.[17] The album ranks 56th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[20]
After such a concentrated and sustained level of creativity, Wonder stopped recording for three years, releasing only the 3 LP Looking Back, an anthology of his first Motown period. The albums Wonder released during this period were very influential on the music world: the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide said they "pioneered stylistic approaches that helped to determine the shape of pop music for the next decade";[14] Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included four of the five albums, with three in the top 90.[20]
Commercial period: 1979–1990[link]
It was in Wonder's next phase that he began to commercially reap the rewards of his legendary classic period. The 1980s saw Wonder scoring his biggest hits and reaching an unprecedented level of fame evidenced by increased album sales, charity participation, high-profile collaborations, political impact, and television appearances.
When Wonder did return, it was with the soundtrack album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants (1979), featured in the film The Secret Life of Plants. Mostly instrumental, the album was composed using the Computer Music Melodian, an early sampler. Wonder toured briefly in support of the album, and used a Fairlight CMI sampler on stage.[30] In this year Wonder also wrote and produced the dance hit "Let's Get Serious", performed by Jermaine Jackson and (ranked by Billboard as the #1 R&B single of 1980).
Hotter than July (1980) became Wonder's first platinum-selling single album, and its single "Happy Birthday" was a successful vehicle for his campaign to establish Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. The album also included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It", and the sentimental ballad, "Lately".
In 1982, Wonder released a retrospective of his 1970s work with Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, which included four new songs: the ten-minute funk classic "Do I Do" (which featured Dizzy Gillespie), "That Girl" (one of the year's biggest singles to chart on the R&B side), "Front Line", a narrative about a soldier in the Vietnam War that Stevie Wonder wrote and sang in the 1st person, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. Wonder also gained a #1 hit that year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, "Ebony and Ivory".
In 1983, Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. Wonder wrote the lyrics.
In 1983, Wonder scheduled an album to be entitled "People Work, Human Play." The album never surfaced and instead 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for The Woman in Red. The lead single, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", was a #1 pop and R&B hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom, where it was placed 13th in the list of best-selling singles in the UK published in 2002. It went on to win an Academy Award for "Best Song" in 1985. The album also featured a guest appearance by Dionne Warwick, singing the duet "It's You" with Stevie and a few songs of her own. The following year's In Square Circle featured the #1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover". The album also has a Top 10 Hit with "Go Home." It also featured the ballad "Overjoyed" which was originally written for Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, but didn't make the album. He performed "Overjoyed" on Saturday Night Live when he was the host. He was also featured in Chaka Khan's cover of Prince's "I Feel For You", alongside Melle Mel, playing his signature harmonica. In roughly the same period he was also featured on harmonica on Eurythmics' single, "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
By 1985, Stevie Wonder was an American icon,[citation needed] the subject of good-humored jokes about blindness and affectionately impersonated by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live.[citation needed] Wonder sometimes joined in the jokes himself such as in The Motown Revue with Smokey Robinson. He was in a featured duet with Bruce Springsteen on the all-star charity single for African Famine Relief, "We Are the World", and he was part of another charity single the following year (1986), the AIDS-inspired "That's What Friends Are For". He also played the harmonica on the album Dreamland Express by John Denver in the song "If Ever", a song Wonder co-wrote with Stephanie Andrews. He also wrote the track "I Do Love You" for The Beach Boys' 1985 self-titled album. Stevie Wonder also played the harmonica on a track called "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" from "Showboat" on "The Broadway Album" by Barbra Streisand.
In 1986, Stevie Wonder appeared on The Cosby Show, as himself, in the episode "A Touch of Wonder".
In 1987, Wonder appeared on Michael Jackson's Bad album on the duet "Just Good Friends". Michael Jackson also sang a duet with him titled "Get It" on Wonder's 1987 album Characters. This was a minor hit single, as were "Skeletons" and "You Will Know". In the fall of 1988, Wonder duetted with Julio Iglesias on the hit single "My Love", which appeared on Iglesias' album Non Stop.[citation needed]
Later career: 1991–2001[link]
After 1987's Characters LP, Wonder continued to release new material, but at a slower pace. He recorded a soundtrack album for Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever in 1991. From this album, singles and videos were released for "Gotta Have You" and "These Three Words". The B-side to the "Gotta Have You" single was "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land", which was played during the end credits of the movie Jungle Fever but was not included on the soundtrack. A piano and vocal version of "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land" was also released on the Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal compilation. It is rumored that "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land" was originally intended for release on Fulfillingness' First Finale Volume Two, a project that has never been confirmed as completed.
Conversation Peace and the live album Natural Wonder were also released in the 1990s. The former received its European launch at a high-profile March 1995 press conference in Paris, where Stevie mentioned how the tearing down of The Wall between East and West Berlin and the desire for a united Europe had played a significant part in the inspiration behind the album.[31]
In 1994, Wonder made a guest appearance on the KISS cover album KISS My Ass: Classic KISS Regrooved, playing harmonica and supplying background vocals for the song "Deuce", performed by Lenny Kravitz.
In 1996, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life was selected as a documentary subject for the Classic Albums documentary series. This series dedicates 60 minutes to one groundbreaking record per feature. The same year, he performed John Lennon's song "Imagine" in the closing ceremony of the Atlanta Olympic Games.[32] The same year, Wonder performed in a remix of "Seasons of Love" from the Jonathan Larson musical Rent.[33]
In 1997, Wonder collaborated with Babyface for a song about abuse (domestic violence) called "How Come, How Long" which was nominated for an award.[citation needed]
In December 1999, Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal prosthesis to partially restore his sight.[34] That same year, Wonder was featured on harmonica in the Sting song "Brand New Day".[35]
In 2000, Stevie Wonder contributed two new songs to the soundtrack for Spike Lee's Bamboozled album ("Misrepresented People" and "Some Years Ago").[36]
Current career: 2002–present[link]
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In March 2002, Wonder performed at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.[37]
On July 2, 2005, Wonder performed in the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.[38]
Wonder's first new album in ten years, A Time to Love, was released on October 18, 2005, after having been pushed back from first a May, and then a June release. The album was released electronically on September 27, 2005, exclusively on Apple's iTunes Music Store. The first single, "So What the Fuss", was released in April. A second single, "From the Bottom of My Heart" was a hit on adult-contemporary R&B radio. The album also featured a duet with India.Arie on the title track "A Time to Love".
Wonder performed at the pre-game show for Super Bowl XL in Detroit in early 2006, singing various hit singles (with his four-year-old son on drums) and accompanying Aretha Franklin during "The Star Spangled Banner".
In March 2006, Wonder received new national exposure on the top-rated American Idol television program. Wonder performed "My Love Is on Fire" (from A Time To Love) live on the show itself. In June 2006, Stevie Wonder made a guest appearance on Busta Rhymes' new album, The Big Bang on the track "Been through the Storm". He sings the refrain and plays the piano on the Dr. Dre and Sha Money XL produced track. He appeared again on the last track of Snoop Dogg's new album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, "Conversations". The song is a remake of "Have a Talk with God" from Songs in the Key of Life.
In 2006, Wonder staged a duet with Andrea Bocelli on the latter's album Amore, offering harmonica and additional vocals on "Canzoni Stonate". Stevie Wonder also performed at Washington, D.C.'s 2006 "A Capitol Fourth" celebration.
On August 2, 2007, Stevie Wonder announced the A Wonder Summer's Night 13 concert tour—his first U.S. tour in over ten years. This tour was inspired by the recent passing of his mother, as he stated at the conclusion of the tour on December 9 at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
On August 28, 2008, Wonder performed at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado. Songs included a previously unreleased song, "Fear Can't Put Dreams to Sleep," and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours".[39]
On September 8, 2008, Wonder started the European leg of his Wonder Summer's Night Tour, the first time he had toured Europe in over a decade. His opening show was at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. During the tour, Wonder played eight UK gigs; four at The O2 Arena in London, two in Birmingham and two at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester. Stevie Wonder's other stops in the tour's European leg also found him performing in Holland (Rotterdam), Sweden (Stockholm), Germany (Cologne, Mannheim and Munich), Norway (Hamar), France (Paris), Italy (Milan) and Denmark (Aalborg). Wonder also toured Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane) and New Zealand (Christchurch, Auckland and New Plymouth) in October and November.[40]
By June 2008, Wonder was working on two projects simultaneously: a new album titled The Gospel Inspired By Lula which will deal with the various spiritual and cultural crises facing the world, and Through The Eyes Of Wonder, an album which Wonder has described as a performance piece that will reflect his experience as a blind man. Wonder was also keeping the door open for a collaboration with Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones concerning a rumored jazz album.[41] If Wonder was to join forces with Bennett, it would not be for the first time; Their rendition of "For Once in My Life" earned them a Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals in 2006.[17] Wonder's harmonica playing can be heard on the 2009 Grammy-nominated "Never Give You Up" featuring CJ Hilton and Raphael Saadiq.[42]
Wonder performed on January 18, 2009 at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, Wonder performed the song "Brand New Day" with musician Sting. He performed his new song "All About the Love Again" and, with other musical artists, "Signed, Sealed & Delivered". On February 23, 2009, Wonder became the second recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for pop music, honored by President Barack Obama at the White House.[43]
On July 7, 2009, Wonder performed "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer" and "They Won't Go When I Go" at the Staples Center for Michael Jackson's memorial service.[44] On October 29, 2009, Wonder performed at the 25th anniversary concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Among songs with B.B. King, Wonder performed Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel', during which he became distraught and was unable to continue until he regained his composure.
On January 22, 2010, Wonder performed Bridge Over Troubled Water for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief event to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010.
On March 6, 2010, Wonder was awarded the Commander of the Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand. Wonder had been due to receive this award in 1981, but scheduling problems prevented this from happening. A lifetime achievement award was also given to Wonder on the same day, at France's biggest music awards.[45]
His 2010 tour included a two-hour set at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee,[46] a stop at London's "Hard Rock Calling" in Hyde Park, and appearances at England's Glastonbury Festival, Rotterdam's North Sea Jazz Festival, and a concert in Bergen, Norway and a concert in Dublin, Ireland at the O2 Arena on June 24.
In February 2011, the Apollo Theater announced that Stevie Wonder will be the next in line for the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame. The theater said that the singer will be inducted into the New York City institution's Hall of Fame in five months.[47]
On June 25, 2011, Wonder performed at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece.[48] On January 28, 2012, Wonder and Christina Aguilera gave a musical tribute at Etta James' funeral. Wonder played "Shelter in the Rain" and The Lord's Prayer while while Aguilera sang "At Last."[49]
Wonder performed at the February 19, 2012 memorial service for Whitney Houston at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. He changed some of the lyrics of his song Ribbon in the Sky in dedication to Ms. Houston.[50]
Legacy[link]
A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and won twenty-two Grammy Awards[17] (the most ever won by a solo artist) as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also won an Academy Award for Best Song,[51] and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll[52] and Songwriters[53] halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.[54] American music magazine Rolling Stone named him the ninth greatest singer of all time.[55][56] In June 2009 he became the fourth artist to receive the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award.[57] Stevie Wonder was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2005.[58] His hit recording of "Superstition" was selected as a Legendary Michigan Song in 2010.[59]
He has ten U.S. number-one hits on the pop charts as well as 20 R&B number one hits, and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums, bass guitar, bongos, organ, melodica, and clavinet. In his childhood, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocal ability. Wonder was the first Motown artist and second African American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his 1984 hit single "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red.[citation needed]
Classic period[link]
Wonder's "classic period" is generally agreed to consist of the concept albums[60] he created in the early- to mid-1970s, peaking in 1976.[61] Some observers see in 1971's Where I'm Coming From certain indications of the beginning of the classic period, such as its new funky keyboard style which Wonder used throughout the classic period.[61] Some determine Wonder's first "classic" album to be 1972's Music of My Mind, on which he attained personal control of production, and on which he programmed a series of songs integrated with one another to make a concept album.[61] Others skip over early 1972 and determine the beginning of the classic period to be Talking Book in late 1972,[62] the album in which Wonder "hit his stride".[61]
Impact[link]
Wonder's songs are renowned for being quite difficult to sing. He has a very developed sense of harmony and uses many extended chords utilizing extensions such as ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, diminished fifths, etc. in his compositions. Many of his melodies make abrupt, unpredictable changes. Many of his vocal melodies are also melismatic, meaning that a syllable is sung over several notes. Some of his best known and most frequently covered songs are played in keys which are more often found in jazz than in pop and rock. For example, "Superstition", "Higher Ground" and "I Wish" are in the key of E flat minor, and feature distinctive riffs in the E flat minor pentatonic scale (i.e. largely on the black notes of the keyboard).[citation needed]
Wonder played a large role in bringing synthesizers to the forefront of popular music. He developed many new textures and sounds never heard before.[citation needed] In 1981, Wonder became the first owner of an E-mu Emulator.[63]
Songs sampled by other musicians[link]
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Wonder has recorded with Jon Gibson, a Christian Soul musician, on a remake of his own song, "Have a Talk With God" (from the 1989 album Body & Soul), covered by Gibson in which Wonder plays harmonica.[64] The two men met in the early 1980s through a shared music agent (Bill Wolfer).[65]
Red Hot Chili Peppers covered "Higher Ground" in 1989 on their Mother's Milk album. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble covered "Superstition" and Wonder made a cameo appearance in the official music video for the song.[citation needed]
De La Soul sampled "Hey Love" in their song "Talkin' Bout Hey Love" on their 1991 album De La Soul Is Dead.
"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" was rendered by English band Incognito in 1992 and John Legend covered this song for the 2005 film, Hitch. George Michael and Mary J. Blige covered "As" in the late 1990s. In 1999, Salomé de Bahia made a Brazilian version of "Another Star". Tupac Shakur sampled "That Girl" for his hit song "So Many Tears".[citation needed]
"Pastime Paradise" would become an interpolation for Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" while Will Smith would use "I Wish" as the basis for the theme song to his movie, Wild Wild West. The elements of "Love's In Need of Love Today" were used by 50 Cent in the song "Ryder Music", and Warren G sampled "Village Ghetto Land" for his song "Ghetto Village".[citation needed]
Mary Mary did a cover of his song "You Will Know" on their 2002 album, Incredible. Australian soul artist Guy Sebastian recorded a cover of "I Wish" on his Beautiful Life album. In 2003, Raven-Symoné recorded a cover of "Superstition" for the soundtrack to Disney's The Haunted Mansion. In 2005, Canadian singer Dave Moffatt, from the group The Moffatts, sang the song "Overjoyed" from the In Square Circle album on Canadian Idol. Clay Aiken performed "Isn't She Lovely?" in the episode "My Life in Four Cameras" of Scrubs.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
Wonder has been married twice: to Motown singer Syreeta Wright from 1970 until their divorce in 1972; and since 2001, to fashion designer Kai Millard Morris.[66] He has seven children from his two marriages and several relationships.[66]
Stevie met Yolanda Simmons when she applied for a job as his secretary for his publishing company.[67] Simmons bore Wonder a daughter on February 2, 1975: Aisha Morris.[68][69]) According to Stevie, the name Aisha is "African for strength and intelligence".[67] After she was born, Stevie said "she was the one thing that I needed in my life and in my music for a long time.[67] It was this in mind, she was the inspiration for his hit single "Isn't She Lovely." Aisha Morris is a singer who has toured with her father and accompanied him on recordings, including his 2005 album, A Time 2 Love. Wonder has two sons with Kai Millard Morris; the older is named Kailand and he occasionally performs as a drummer on stage with his father. The younger son, Mandla Kadjay Carl Stevland Morris, was born May 13, 2005, his father's 55th birthday.[66] In May 2006, Wonder's mother died in Los Angeles, at the age of 76. During his September 8, 2008 UK concert in Birmingham, he spoke of his decision to begin touring again following his loss. "I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around."[70]
Wonder's Taxi Productions owns Los Angeles radio station KJLH.
Charting discography[link]
Main article: Stevie Wonder discography
Top 40 singles[link]
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [71] |
US R&B | US Dance | US AC | UK | ||
| 1963 | "Fingertips – Pt. 2" | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 1966 | "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 14 |
| "Blowin' in the Wind" | 9 | 1 | – | – | 36 | |
| "A Place in the Sun" | 9 | 3 | – | – | 20 | |
| 1967 | "I Was Made to Love Her" | 2 | 1 | – | – | 5 |
| 1968 | "For Once in My Life" | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 |
| "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" | 9 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| 1969 | "My Cherie Amour" | 4 | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" | 7 | 5 | – | – | 2 | |
| 1970 | "Never Had a Dream Come True" | 26 | 11 | – | – | 5 |
| "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 15 | |
| "Heaven Help Us All" | 8 | 2 | – | – | 29 | |
| 1971 | "We Can Work It Out" | 13 | 3 | – | – | 27 |
| "If You Really Love Me" | 8 | 4 | – | – | 20 | |
| 1972 | "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" | 33 | 13 | – | – | – |
| "Superstition" | 1 | 1 | – | – | 11 | |
| 1973 | "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" | 1 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| "Higher Ground" | 4 | 1 | – | – | 29 | |
| "Living for the City" | 8 | 1 | – | – | 15 | |
| "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" | 16 | 2 | – | – | - | |
| 1974 | "He's Misstra Know It All" | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| "You Haven't Done Nothin'" (with The Jackson 5) |
1 | 1 | – | – | 30 | |
| "Boogie On Reggae Woman" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 12 | |
| 1977 | "I Wish" | 1 | 1 | – | – | 5 |
| "Sir Duke" | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
| "Another Star" | 32 | 18 | – | – | 29 | |
| "As" | 36 | 36 | – | – | – | |
| 1979 | "Send One Your Love" | 4 | 5 | – | – | – |
| 1980 | "Master Blaster (Jammin')" | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" | 10 | 4 | – | – | 11 | |
| 1981 | "Lately" | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| "Happy Birthday" | – | 17 | – | – | 2 | |
| "That Girl" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 39 | |
| 1982 | "Do I Do" | 7 | 2 | – | – | 10 |
| "Ebony and Ivory" (with Paul McCartney) | 1 | 8 | – | – | 1 | |
| "Ribbon in the Sky" | – | 9 | – | – | – | |
| 1984 | "I Just Called to Say I Love You" | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 |
| 1985 | "Part-Time Lover" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| "That's What Friends Are For" (with Dionne Warwick, Elton John and Gladys Knight) |
1 | 1 | – | 1 | 16 | |
| "Love Light in Flight" | 17 | 4 | 6 | 10 | – | |
| 1986 | "Go Home" | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| "Land of La La" | – | 19 | – | – | – | |
| "Overjoyed" | 24 | 8 | – | 1 | 17 | |
| 1987 | "Skeletons" | 17 | 1 | 20 | – | – |
| 1988 | "Get It" (with Michael Jackson) | – | 4 | – | – | 37 |
| "My Eyes Don't Cry" | – | 6 | 12 | – | – | |
| "You Will Know" | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
| 1989 | "With Each Beat of My Heart" | – | 28 | – | – | – |
| 1990 | "Keep Our Love Alive" | – | 24 | – | – | – |
| 1991 | "Fun Day (From "Jungle Fever")" | – | 6 | – | – | – |
| "Gotta Have You (From "Jungle Fever")" | – | 3 | – | – | – | |
| 1992 | "These Three Words" | – | 7 | – | – | – |
| 1995 | "For Your Love" | – | 11 | – | 30 | 23 |
| 2005 | "So What the Fuss" | – | 34 | – | 40 | 19 |
| "From the Bottom of My Heart" | – | 25 | – | 7 | – | |
U.S. and UK albums[link]
| Year | Album | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [72] |
US R&B | UK [73] |
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| 1963 | Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius | 1 | – | – |
| 1966 | Up-Tight | 33 | 2 | – |
| 1966 | Down to Earth | 72 | 8 | – |
| 1967 | I Was Made to Love Her | 45 | 7 | – |
| 1968 | For Once in My Life | 50 | 4 | – |
| 1969 | My Cherie Amour | 34 | 3 | 17 |
| 1970 | Signed, Sealed, and Delivered | 25 | 7 | – |
| 1971 | Where I'm Coming From | – | 7 | – |
| 1972 | Music of My Mind | 21 | 6 | – |
| 1972 | Talking Book | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| 1973 | Innervisions | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 1974 | Fulfillingness' First Finale | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1976 | Songs in the Key of Life | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1979 | Journey through the Secret Life of Plants | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| 1980 | Hotter than July | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1982 | Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1984 | The Woman in Red | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 1985 | In Square Circle | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 1987 | Characters | 17 | 1 | 33 |
| 1995 | Conversation Peace | 17 | 2 | 8 |
| 1996 | Natural Wonder | – | 88 | – |
| 1996 | Song Review A Greatest Hits Collection | – | 100 | 19 |
| 2000 | At the Close of a Century | – | 100 | – |
| 2002 | The Definitive Collection | 35 | 28 | – |
| 2004 | Best Of Stevie Wonder: 20th Century Masters Christmas Collection | – | 90 | – |
| 2005 | A Time to Love | 5 | 2 | 24 |
| 2007 | Number 1's | 171 | 40 | 23 |
Awards and recognition[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
Wonder has won 22 Grammy Awards:[17] as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award which he was presented in 1996.[74]
| Year | Award | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "Superstition" |
| 1973 | Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male | "Superstition" |
| 1973 | Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | "You are the Sunshine of My Life" |
| 1973 | Album of the Year | Innervisions |
| 1974 | Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "Living for the City" |
| 1974 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "Boogie On Reggae Woman" |
| 1974 | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| 1974 | Album of the Year | Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| 1976 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "I Wish" |
| 1976 | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | Songs in the Key of Life[75] |
| 1976 | Best Producer of the Year* | N/A |
| 1976 | Album of the Year | Songs in the Key of Life |
| 1985 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | In Square Circle |
| 1986 | Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (awarded to Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Wonder) |
"That's What Friends Are For" |
| 1995 | Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "For Your Love" |
| 1995 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "For Your Love" |
| 1998 | Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) (awarded to Herbie Hancock, Robert Sadin, and Wonder) |
"St. Louis Blues" |
| 1998 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "St. Louis Blues" |
| 2002 | Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (awarded to Wonder and Take 6) |
"Love's in Need of Love Today" |
| 2005 | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | "From the Bottom of My Heart" |
| 2005 | Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (awarded to Beyoncé and Wonder) |
"So Amazing" |
| 2006 | Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (awarded to Tony Bennett and Wonder) | "For Once In My Life" |
- From 1965 to 1980 a self-produced artist received one GRAMMY Award as an artist and an additional one as a producer in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories
Other awards and recognition[link]
- 1983: inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[53]
- 1984: received an Academy Award for Best Song for "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red.[51]
- 1989: inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[52]
- 1999: received the Polar Music Prize[54] and Kennedy Center Honors.[76]
- 2002: received the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's Spring Sing.[77] The same year, Wonder received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[78]
- 2004: received the Billboard Century Award.[79] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Artists of All Time.[80]
- 2006: was inducted, as one of the first inductees, into the Michigan Walk of Fame.[81] The same year, Wonder received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.[82]
- 2008: Ranked at number five on "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists", making him as the third most successful male artist in the history of Billboard Hot 100 chart.[83]
- 2009: Recipient of the second Gershwin Prize For Popular Song.[84]
- 2009: Recipient of the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award.[57] This special award underlines a popular artist’s extraordinary contribution to the musical world. The Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award is in bronze.
- 2009: Named a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations.[5]
See also[link]
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- List of number-one hits (United States)
- List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
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| Alternative names | Judkins, Stevland Hardaway; Morris, Stevland Hardaway |
| Short description | American singer-songwriter and record producer |
| Date of birth | May 13, 1950 |
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| Birth name | Kylie Ann Minogue |
| Born | (1968-05-28) 28 May 1968 (age 44) Melbourne, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, synthpop, nu-disco,[1][2] dance-pop |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, fashion designer, author, entrepreneur, showgirl |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | PWL, Mushroom, Deconstruction, Parlophone, Warner Music Australia |
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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( /ˈkaɪliː mɨˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968) — often known simply as Kylie — is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, showgirl, 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, and received generally positive reviews.
Initially presented as a "girl next door", Minogue attempted to convey a more mature style in her music and public image. Her singles were well received, but after four albums her record sales were declining, and she left Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992 to establish herself as an independent performer. Her next single, "Confide in Me", reached number one in Australia and was a hit in several European countries in 1994, and a duet with Nick Cave, "Where the Wild Roses Grow", brought Minogue a greater degree of artistic credibility. Drawing inspiration from a range of musical styles and artists, Minogue took creative control over the songwriting for her next album, Impossible Princess (1997). It failed to attract strong reviews or sales in the UK, but was successful in Australia.
Minogue returned to prominence in 2000 with the single "Spinning Around" and the dance-oriented album Light Years, and she performed during the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Her music videos showed a more sexually provocative and flirtatious personality and several hit singles followed. "Can't Get You Out of My Head" reached number one in more than 40 countries, and the album Fever (2001) was a hit in many countries, including the United States, a market in which Minogue had previously received little recognition. Minogue embarked on a concert tour but cancelled it when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2005. After surgery and chemotherapy treatment, she resumed her career in 2006 with Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. Her tenth studio album X was released in 2007 and was followed by the KylieX2008 tour. In 2009, she embarked upon her For You, For Me Tour, her first concert tour of the United States and Canada, and the following year released her eleventh studio album, Aphrodite.
Minogue has achieved worldwide record sales of more than 68 million,[3] and has received notable music awards, including multiple ARIA and Brit Awards and a Grammy Award. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and received a Mo Award for "Australian Entertainer of the Year" for her live performances. Bestowed from the Queen of Australia Queen Elizabeth II, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) at Buckingham Palace in 2008 "for services to music". In the same year she was awarded France's highest cultural honour, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture. In 2011, "I Should Be So Lucky" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry.[4][5] While also in 2011, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) degree by Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom of for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. On 27 November 2011, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, Kylie Minogue was inducted by the Australian Recording Industry Association into the ARIA Hall of Fame.[6]
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Life and career[link]
1968–86: Early life and career beginnings[link]
Kylie Ann Minogue was born 28 May 1968 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest child of Ronald Charles Minogue, an accountant of Irish ancestry[7] and Carol Ann (née Jones), a former dancer from Maesteg, Wales.[8] Kylie's sister, Dannii Minogue, was also a pop singer[7] and is a judge on Australia's Got Talent, while her brother, Brendan, works as a news cameraman in Australia.[9] The Minogue children were raised in Surrey Hills, Melbourne, and educated at Camberwell High School.[10]
The Minogue sisters began their careers as children on Australian television.[7] From the age of 11, Kylie appeared in small roles in soap operas such as The Sullivans and Skyways, and in 1985 was cast in one of the lead roles in The Henderson Kids.[11] Interested in following a career in music, she made a demo tape for the producers of the weekly music programme Young Talent Time,[12] which featured Dannii as a regular performer.[13] Kylie gave her first television singing performance on the show in 1985 but was not invited to join the cast. Dannii's success overshadowed Kylie's acting achievements,[7] until Kylie was cast in the soap opera Neighbours in 1986,[10] as Charlene Mitchell, a schoolgirl turned garage mechanic. Neighbours achieved popularity in the UK, and a story arc that created a romance between her character and the character played by Jason Donovan, culminated in a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted an audience of 20 million British viewers.[14]
Her popularity in Australia was demonstrated when she became the first person to win four Logie Awards in one event, and the youngest recipient of the "Gold Logie" as the country's "Most Popular Television Performer", with the result determined by public vote.[15]
[edit] 1987–92: Kylie, Enjoy Yourself, Rhythm of Love and Let's Get to It
During a Fitzroy Football Club benefit concert with other Neighbours cast members, Minogue performed "I Got You Babe" as a duet with the actor John Waters, and "The Loco-Motion" as an encore, and was subsequently signed to a recording contract with Mushroom Records in 1987.[16] Her first single, "The Loco-Motion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian music charts. It sold 200,000 copies,[12] became the highest selling single of the 1980s,[17] and Minogue received the ARIA Award for the year's highest selling single.[18] Its success resulted in Minogue travelling to England with Mushroom Records executive Gary Ashley to work with Stock, Aitken & Waterman. They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote "I Should Be So Lucky" while she waited outside the studio.[19] The song reached number one in the UK, Australia, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Israel and Hong Kong.[20] Minogue won her second consecutive ARIA Award for the year's highest selling single, and received a "Special Achievement Award".[21] Her debut album, Kylie, a collection of dance-oriented pop tunes spent more than a year on the British album charts, including several weeks at number one.[22] The album went gold in the United States, and the single, "The Loco-Motion", reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart,[23] and number one on the Canadian Singles Chart. "It's No Secret", released only in the U.S., peaked at number 37 in early 1989,[23] and "Turn It Into Love" was released as a single in Japan, where it reached number one.
In July 1988, "Got To Be Certain" became Minogue's third consecutive number one single on the Australian music charts,[24] and later in the year she left Neighbours to focus on her music career. Jason Donovan commented "When viewers watched her on screen they no longer saw Charlene the local mechanic, they saw Kylie the pop star."[7] A duet with Donovan, titled "Especially for You", sold almost one million copies in the UK in early 1989, but critic Kevin Killian wrote that the duet was "majestically awful ... [it] makes the Diana Ross, Lionel Richie 'Endless Love' sound like Mahler."[25] She was sometimes referred to as "the Singing Budgie" by her detractors over the coming years,[26] however Chris True's comment about the album Kylie for Allmusic suggests that Minogue's appeal transcended the limitations of her music, by noting that "her cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable".[27]
Her follow-up album Enjoy Yourself (1989) was a success in the United Kingdom, Europe, New Zealand, Asia and Australia, and contained several successful singles, including the British number one "Hand on Your Heart",[22] but it failed throughout North America, and Minogue was dropped by her American record label Geffen Records. She embarked on her first concert tour, the Enjoy Yourself Tour, in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia, where Melbourne's Herald Sun wrote that it was "time to ditch the snobbery and face facts—the kid's a star."[28] In December 1989, Minogue was one of the featured vocalists on the remake of "Do They Know It's Christmas",[29] and her debut film, The Delinquents, premiered in London. It was poorly received by critics,[29] and the Daily Mirror reviewed Minogue's performance with the comment that she "has as much acting charisma as cold porridge",[30] but it proved popular with audiences; in the UK it grossed more than £200,000,[31] and in Australia it was the fourth-highest grossing local film of 1989 and the highest grossing local film of 1990.[32]
Rhythm of Love (1990) presented a more sophisticated and adult style of dance music and also marked the first signs of Minogue's rebellion against her production team and the "girl-next-door" image.[33] Determined to be accepted by a more mature audience, Minogue took control of her music videos, starting with "Better the Devil You Know", and presented herself as a sexually aware adult.[34] Her relationship with Michael Hutchence was also seen as part of Minogue's departure from her earlier persona; Hutchence was quoted as saying that his hobby was "corrupting Kylie", and that the INXS song "Suicide Blonde" had been inspired by her.[35] The singles from Rhythm of Love sold well in Europe and Australia and were popular in British nightclubs. Pete Waterman later reflected that "Better the Devil You Know" was a milestone in her career and said that it made her "the hottest, hippest dance act on the scene and nobody could knock it as it was the best dance record around at the time".[7] "Shocked" became Minogue's thirteenth consecutive British top-10 single.[22]
In May 1990, Minogue performed her band's arrangement of The Beatles's "Help!" before a crowd of 25,000 at the John Lennon: The Tribute Concert on the banks of the River Mersey in Liverpool. Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon offered Minogue their thanks for her support of The John Lennon Fund, while the media commented positively on her performance. The Sun wrote "The soap star wows the Scousers — Kylie Minogue deserved her applause".[36] Her fourth album, Let's Get to It (1991), reached number 15 on the British album charts and was the first of her albums to fail to reach the Top 10;[22] her fourteenth single "Word Is Out" was the first to miss the Top 10 singles chart,[22] though subsequent singles "If You Were with Me Now" and "Give Me Just a Little More Time" reached number four and number two respectively.[22] Minogue had fulfilled the requirements of her contract and elected not to renew it.[7] She later expressed her opinion that she was stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and said, "I was very much a puppet in the beginning. I was blinkered by my record company. I was unable to look left or right."[37]
A Greatest Hits album was released in 1992. It reached number one in the UK[22] and number three in Australia,[38] and the singles "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)" and her cover version of Kool & The Gang's "Celebration" each reached the UK Top 20.[22]
[edit] 1993–98: Kylie Minogue and Impossible Princess
Minogue's subsequent signing with Deconstruction Records was highly touted in the music media as the beginning of a new phase in her career, but the eponymous Kylie Minogue (1994) received mixed reviews. It sold well in Europe and Australia, where the single "Confide in Me" spent four weeks at number one.[39] She performed a striptease in the video for her next single, "Put Yourself in My Place", inspired by Jane Fonda in the film Barbarella.[40] This single and her next, "Where Is the Feeling?" each reached the British top 20,[22] and the album peaked at number four,[22] eventually selling 250,000 copies.[41] During this period she made a guest appearance as herself, in an episode of the comedy The Vicar of Dibley. The director Steven E. de Souza was intrigued by Minogue's cover photo in Australia's Who Magazine as one of "The 30 Most Beautiful People in the World", and offered her a role opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in Street Fighter (1994).[42] The film was a moderate success, earning US$70 million in the U.S.,[42] but received poor reviews with The Washington Post's Richard Harrington calling Minogue "the worst actress in the English-speaking world".[43] She co-starred with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin in Bio-Dome (1996), but it was a failure, dismissed by Movie Magazine International as the "biggest waste of celluloid space".[42] Minogue returned to Australia where she appeared in the short film, Hayride to Hell (1995), and then to the UK where she filmed a cameo role as herself in the film Diana & Me (1997).[44]
The music video for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995) (left) was inspired by John Everett Millais' Ophelia (1851/52) (right).
Australian artist Nick Cave had been interested in working with Minogue since hearing "Better the Devil You Know", saying it contained "one of pop music's most violent and distressing lyrics" and "when Kylie Minogue sings these words, there is an innocence to her that makes the horror of this chilling lyric all the more compelling".[45] They collaborated on "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995), a brooding ballad whose lyrics narrated a murder from the points of view of both the murderer (Cave), and his victim (Minogue). The video was inspired by John Everett Millais's painting Ophelia (1851–1852), and showed Minogue as the murdered woman, floating in a pond as a serpent swam over her body. The single received widespread attention in Europe, where it reached the top 10 in several countries, and acclaim in Australia where it reached number two on the singles chart,[46] and won ARIA Awards for "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Release".[47] Following concert appearances with Cave, Minogue recited the lyrics to "I Should Be So Lucky" as poetry in London's Royal Albert Hall "Poetry Jam", at the suggestion of Cave, and later described it as a "most cathartic moment".[48] She credited Cave with giving her the confidence to express herself artistically, saying: "He taught me to never veer too far from who I am, but to go further, try different things, and never lose sight of myself at the core. For me, the hard part was unleashing the core of myself and being totally truthful in my music."[49] By 1997, Minogue was in a relationship with the French photographer Stéphane Sednaoui, who encouraged her to develop her creativity.[50] Inspired by a mutual appreciation of Japanese culture, they created a visual combination of "geisha and manga superheroine" for the photographs taken for the album Impossible Princess and the video for "German Bold Italic", Minogue's collaboration with Towa Tei.[51] Minogue drew inspiration from the music of artists such as Shirley Manson and Garbage, Björk, Tricky and U2, and Japanese pop musicians such as Pizzicato Five and Towa Tei.[52]
Impossible Princess featured collaborations with musicians such as James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore of the Manic Street Preachers. Mostly a dance album, its style was not represented by its first single "Some Kind of Bliss", and Minogue countered suggestions that she was trying to become an indie artist. She told Music Week, "I have to keep telling people that this isn't an indie-guitar album. I'm not about to pick up a guitar and rock."[53] Acknowledging that she had attempted to escape the perceptions of her that had developed during her early career, Minogue commented that she was ready to "forget the painful criticism" and "accept the past, embrace it, use it".[48] Her video for "Did It Again" paid homage to her earlier incarnations, as noted in her biography, Kylie: La La La, "Dance Kylie, Cute Kylie, Sex Kylie and Indie Kylie all struggled for supremacy as they battled bitchily with each other."[54] Billboard described the album as "stunning" and concluded that "it's a golden commercial opportunity for a major [record company] with vision and energy [to release it in the United States]. A sharp ear will detect a kinship between Impossible Princess and Madonna's hugely successful album, Ray of Light".[49] In the UK, Music Week gave a negative assessment, commenting that "Kylie's vocals take on a stroppy edge ... but not strong enough to do much".[55] Retitled Kylie Minogue in the UK following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, it became the lowest-selling album of her career. At the end of the year a campaign by Virgin Radio stated, "We've done something to improve Kylie's records: we've banned them."[10] A poll conducted by Smash Hits voted her the "worst-dressed person, worst singer and second-most very horrible thing—after spiders".[10]
In Australia, Impossible Princess spent 35 weeks on the album chart and peaked at number four,[56] to become her most successful album since Kylie in 1988, and her Intimate and Live tour was extended due to demand.[57] The Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, hosted a civic reception for Minogue in Melbourne,[58] and she maintained her high profile in Australia with live performances, including the 1998 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras,[57] the opening ceremonies of Melbourne's Crown Casino[59] and Sydney's Fox Studios in 1999, where she performed Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend",[60] and a Christmas concert in Dili, East Timor in association with the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.[60] During this time she filmed a small role for the Australian-made Molly Ringwald film, Cut (2000).
[edit] 1999–04: Light Years, Fever and Body Language
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William Baker has cited the 1940s "Vargas Girl" pinups of Alberto Vargas as an influence, as demonstrated in the music video for "Spinning Around". (2000)
Minogue and Deconstruction Records parted company. She performed a duet with the Pet Shop Boys' on their Nightlife album and spent several months in Barbados performing in Shakespeare's The Tempest.[61] Returning to Australia, she appeared in the film Sample People and recorded a cover version of Russell Morris's "The Real Thing" for the soundtrack.[61] She signed with Parlophone Records in April 1999.[62] According to Miles Leonard, her new A&R at Parlophone, it was the label and not Minogue that was responsible for her career downturn, believing that her talent hadn't been tapped into by Deconstruction.[63] Leonard later told HitQuarters: "I believed that she was still very strong vocally, and still definitely a star ... and I knew that with the right project, the right songwriters, the right producers, the right team, she would still have a fanbase out there."[63] Parlophone wanted to reestablish Minogue as the pop artist they felt she essentially was, but that had been lost. Leonard said: "But I didn't want to make a throwaway pop record, I wanted it to have an edge and some depth."[63]
Her album Light Years (2000) was a collection of dance songs, influenced by disco music. Minogue said that her intention was to present dance-pop music in a "more exaggerated form" and to make it "fun".[62] It generated strong reviews and was successful throughout Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, selling over one million copies in the UK.[64] The single "Spinning Around" became her first British number one in ten years, and its accompanying video featured Minogue in revealing gold hot pants, which came to be regarded as a "trademark".[65][66] The single was described by a 2009 The Times article as heralding a new era in synthpop that was continuing.[1] Her second single, "On a Night Like This" reached number one in Australia[67] and number two in the UK.[22] "Kids", a duet with Robbie Williams, was also included on Williams's album Sing When You're Winning, and peaked at number two in the UK.[22]
In 2000, Minogue performed ABBA's "Dancing Queen" and her single "On a Night like This" at the 2000 Sydney Olympics closing ceremony.[68] She then embarked upon a concert tour, On A Night like This, which played to sell-out crowds in Australia and the United Kingdom. Minogue was inspired by Madonna's 1993 world tour The Girlie Show which incorporated Burlesque and theatre, William Baker also cited the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street, films such as Anchors Aweigh, South Pacific, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s and the live performances of Bette Midler.[69] Minogue was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes, turning "I Should Be So Lucky" into a torch song and "Better the Devil You Know" into a 1940s big band number. She won a "Mo Award" for Australian live entertainment as "Performer of the Year".[70] Following the tour she was asked by a Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalist what she thought was her greatest strength, and replied, "[That] I am an all-rounder. If I was to choose any one element of what I do, I don't know if I would excel at any one of them. But put all of them together, and I know what I'm doing."[71]
She appeared as "The Green Fairy" in Moulin Rouge! (2001),[72] shortly before the release of Fever, an album containing disco elements combined with 1980s electropop and synthpop.[73] Fever reached number one in Australia, the UK, and throughout Europe, eventually achieving worldwide sales in excess of eight million.[74] Its lead single "Can't Get You Out of My Head" became the biggest success of her career, reaching number one in more than 40 countries.[75] She won four ARIA Awards including a "Most Outstanding Achievement" award,[76] and two Brit Awards, for "Best international female solo artist" and "Best international album".[77] Rolling Stone states that "Can't Get You out of My Head" "was easily the best and most omnipresent dance track of the new century",[78] and following extensive airplay by American radio, Capitol Records released it and the album Fever in the U.S. in 2002.[79] Fever debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart at number three,[80] and "Can't Get You out of My Head" reached number seven on the Hot 100.[23] The subsequent singles "In Your Eyes", "Love at First Sight" and "Come into My World" were successful throughout the world, and Minogue established a presence in the mainstream North American market, particularly in the club scene. Minogue followed the success of the album by touring the United States with the Jingle Ball festival, visiting Miami, Anaheim, New York City, Philadelphia and Houston.[81][82] In 2003 she received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Dance Recording" for "Love at First Sight",[83] and the following year won the same award for "Come into My World".[84]
Minogue's stylist and creative director William Baker explained that the music videos for the Fever album were inspired by science fiction films—specifically those by Stanley Kubrick—and accentuated the electropop elements of the music by using dancers in the style of Kraftwerk. Alan MacDonald, the designer of the 2002 KylieFever tour, brought those elements into the stage show which drew inspiration from Minogue's past incarnations.[85] The show opened with Minogue as a space age vamp, which she described as "Queen of Metropolis with her drones", through to scenes inspired by Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, followed by the various personas of Minogue's career.[85] Minogue said that she was finally able to express herself the way she wanted, and that she had always been "a showgirl at heart".[85] During 2002 she worked on the animated film The Magic Roundabout, released in 2005 in Europe[86] and 2006 in the U.S.; she voiced one of the principal characters, Florence.
Minogue began a relationship with the French actor, Olivier Martinez, after meeting him at the 2002 Grammy Awards ceremony.[87] Her next album, Body Language (2003), was released following an invitation-only concert, titled Money Can't Buy, at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The event marked the presentation of a new visual style, designed by Minogue and Baker, inspired in part by Brigitte Bardot, about whom Minogue commented: "I just tended to think of BB [Bardot] as, well, she's a sexpot, isn't she? She's one of the greatest pinups. But she was fairly radical in her own way at that time. And we chose to reference the period, which was ... a perfect blend of coquette and rock and roll."[88] The album downplayed the disco style and Minogue said she was inspired by 1980s artists such as Scritti Politti, The Human League, Adam and the Ants and Prince, blending their styles with elements of hip hop.[89] It received positive reviews with Billboard Magazine writing of "Minogue's knack for picking great songs and producers".[90] Allmusic described it as "a near perfect pop record ... Body Language is what happens when a dance-pop diva takes the high road and focuses on what's important instead of trying to shock herself into continued relevance".[91] Sales of Body Language were lower than anticipated after the success of Fever,[74][79] though the first single, "Slow", was a number-one hit in the UK and Australia.[92] After reaching number one on the US club chart,[93] "Slow" received a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Dance Recording category.[83]
Body Language achieved first week sales of 43,000 in the U.S., and declined significantly in the second week.[94] The Wall Street Journal described Minogue as "an international superstar who seems perpetually unable to conquer the U.S. market".[94] Minogue commented that she had told her American record company that she was not willing to invest the time needed to establish herself in the U.S. and that she would rather enhance the success she had already achieved in other parts of the world,[94] an attitude endorsed by Billboard analyst Geoff Mayfield as a "business decision ... If I were her accountant, I couldn't blame her for making that call."[94] Minogue later commented that she was not concerned by her limited success in the U.S. and was more frustrated by assumptions that she considered her career incomplete without it.[95]
Minogue played a guest role in the season finale of the comedy series Kath & Kim, in which she referenced her earlier role as Charlene in Neighbours, during a wedding sequence. The episode achieved the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's highest ratings of the year.[96]
She released her second official greatest hits album in November 2004, entitled Ultimate Kylie, along with her music videos on a DVD compilation of the same title. The album introduced her singles "I Believe in You", co-written with Jake Shears and Babydaddy from the Scissor Sisters, and "Giving You Up". "I Believe in You" reached the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play top three,[93] and Minogue was nominated for a Grammy Award for the fourth consecutive year when the song was nominated in the category of "Best Dance Recording".
[edit] 2005–09: Breast cancer and X
Early in 2005, Kylie: The Exhibition opened in Melbourne. The free exhibition featured costumes and photographs spanning Minogue's career and went on to tour Australian capital cities receiving over 300,000 visitors,[97] and was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in February 2007.[98] Minogue commenced her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour, and after performing in Europe, travelled to Melbourne, where she was diagnosed with breast cancer.[99]
In November 2006, Minogue resumed her Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour with a performance in Sydney. She had told journalists before the concert that she would be highly emotional, and she cried before dedicating the song "Especially for You" to her father, a survivor of prostate cancer.[100] Her dance routines had been reworked to accommodate her medical condition, and slower costume changes and longer breaks were introduced between sections of the show to conserve her strength.[101] The media reported that Minogue performed energetically, with the Sydney Morning Herald describing the show as an "extravaganza" and "nothing less than a triumph".[100] The following night, Minogue was joined by Bono, who was in Australia as part of U2's Vertigo tour, for the duet "Kids", but Minogue was forced to cancel a subsequent planned appearance at U2's show, because of exhaustion.[102] Minogue's shows throughout Australia continued to draw positive reviews, and after spending Christmas with her family, she resumed the European leg of her tour with six sold-out shows in Wembley Arena, before taking her tour to Manchester for a further six shows.
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In February 2007, Minogue and Olivier Martinez announced that they had ended their relationship, but remained on friendly terms. Minogue was reported to have been "saddened by false [media] accusations of [Martinez's] disloyalty".[87] She defended Martinez, and acknowledged the support he had given during her treatment for breast cancer, commenting "He was always there, helping with the practical stuff and being protective. He was incredible. He didn't hesitate in cancelling work and putting projects on hold so he could be with me. He's the most honourable man I have ever met."[87]
Minogue released X, her tenth studio album and much-discussed "comeback" album,[103] in November 2007. The electro-styled album included contributions from Guy Chambers, Cathy Dennis, Bloodshy & Avant and Calvin Harris.[103] For the overarching visual look of X, including the music video for first single "2 Hearts", Minogue and William Baker developed a combination of the style of Kabuki theatre and the aesthetics originating from London danceclubs including BoomBox.[104] The album received some criticism for the triviality of its subject matter in light of Minogue's experiences with breast cancer; she responded by explaining the personal nature of some of the album's songs, and said "My conclusion is that if I'd done an album of personal songs it'd be seen as 'Impossible Princess 2' and be equally critiqued."[103] Rolling Stone's reviewer described Minogue as "pop divadom's party planner in chief",[105] and said of her breast cancer, "thankfully, the experience hasn't made her music discernibly deeper".[105] Minogue later said, "In retrospect we could definitely have bettered it [the album], I'll say that straight up. Given the time we had, it is what it is. I had a lot of fun doing it."[106]
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X and "2 Hearts" entered at number one on the Australian albums[107] and singles[108] charts respectively. In the UK, X initially attracted lukewarm sales,[103] although its commercial performance eventually improved,[109] and Minogue won a Brit Award for "International solo female".[110] X was released in the U.S. in April 2008, and debuted outside the top 100 on the albums chart despite some promotion.[80] Minogue called the U.S. market "notoriously difficult ... [Y]ou have so many denominations with radio. To know where I fit within that market is sometimes difficult."[111] X was nominated for the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album,[112] Minogue's fifth Grammy Award nomination.
In December 2007, Minogue participated in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway,[113] and later performed in the final of the UK talent show The X Factor with the eventual winner, Leon Jackson, whose mentor was Dannii Minogue.[114] From May 2008, Minogue promoted X with a European tour, KylieX2008, which is her most expensive tour to date with production costs of £10 million.[80][115] Although she described the rehearsals as "grim" and the set list went through several overhauls,[106] the tour was generally acclaimed and sold well.[109]
Minogue was featured in White Diamond, a documentary filmed during 2006 and 2007 as she resumed her Showgirl Homecoming Tour.[116] She appeared in The Kylie Show, which featured highly stylised set-piece song performances from Minogue as well as comedy sketches with Mathew Horne, Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan and Simon Cowell.[117] She co-starred in the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special episode, "Voyage of the Damned", as Astrid Peth, a waitress on a spaceship Titanic. The episode aired on 25 December 2007, with 13.31 million viewers, the show's highest viewing figures since 1979.[118]
It was announced in late December 2007 that Minogue was to be among those honoured in Queen Elizabeth II's 2008 New Years Honours list, with an OBE for services to music.[119] Minogue commented "I am almost as surprised as I am honoured. I feel deeply touched to be acknowledged by the UK, my adopted home, in this way."[120] She received the OBE officially from The Prince of Wales in July 2008.[121] In May 2008 Minogue was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest cultural honour. Culture Minister Christine Albanel described Minogue as a "midas of the international music scene who turns everything she touches into gold", and saluted her for publicly discussing her breast cancer.[122] In July, Minogue was named the UK's "Best Loved Celebrity" by a tabloid newspaper, who commented that she "won the hearts of the nation as she bravely battled breast cancer",[123] and won the "Best International Female Solo Artist" award at the 2008 BRIT Awards.[124]
In late September 2008, Minogue made her Middle East debut as the headline act at the opening of Atlantis, The Palm, an exclusive hotel resort in Dubai,[125] and from November, she continued with her KylieX2008 tour, taking the show to cities across South America, Asia and Australia.[126] The tour visited 21 countries, and was considered a success, with ticket sales estimated at $70,000,000.[127] She hosted the 2009 BRIT Awards on 18 February 2009 with James Corden and Mathew Horne.[128]
In September and October 2009, Minogue embarked on the For You, For Me Tour, her first North American concert tour, which included shows in the U.S. and Canada.[127] She was also featured in the Bollywood film, Blue, performing an A.R. Rahman song,[95] and had confirmed that she was working on her eleventh studio album, commenting that it would be an album of dance and pop music.[95] On 13 September 2009, Minogue performed "Super Trouper" and "When All Is Said and Done" with Benny Andersson at the ABBA tribute concert "Thank You for the Music ... a Celebration of the Music of ABBA" at London's Hyde Park, her only live performance in the UK in 2009.[129] On 14 December 2009, Minogue released a download-only concert album entitled Kylie: Live in New York. The album was recorded at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom and contains 25 live version songs.[130]
[edit] 2010–present: Aphrodite and K25 anniversary
Minogue's eleventh studio album, Aphrodite, was released in Japan on 30 June 2010 and worldwide in July 2010.[131] The lead single, "All the Lovers", premiered on radio in May 2010 and was made available for purchase in June 2010. The album debuted at number one in the UK charts, exactly twenty two years after her first UK number one hit.[132] On 3 June 2010, she hosted the inaugural AmfAR "Inspiration Gala" at the New York Public Library honouring Jean Paul Gaultier for his lifelong contribution to men's fashion and the fight against AIDS.[133] Minogue appeared on BBC1's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on 25 June 2010, during which she confirmed she is a UK resident, and announced that she will tour in 2011.[134]
In July 2010, Minogue filmed a cameo performance as a rock star in the American independent film Jack and Diane. The movie stars Juno Temple, Riley Keough and Jena Malone.[135] She also recorded a duet titled "Devotion" with British synthpop duo Hurts for their debut album Happiness, released on 6 September 2010.[136] The second single from Aphrodite, titled "Get Outta My Way" was released on 27 September 2010.[137] In October 2010, Minogue performed in front of the Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza, Egypt to celebrate the anniversary of "Enigma" magazine, with profits going to the We Owe It To Egypt Foundation.[138] A third single, "Better Than Today", was released on 6 December 2010.[139]
Minogue's singles, "All the Lovers" and "Get Outta My Way", were popular in U.S. clubs, each reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.[140] On 5 March 2011 "Better Than Today" was at number one on the chart, and her collaboration with Taio Cruz, "Higher", was at number three, making her the first artist in the chart's history to have two singles simultaneously in the top three.[141] On 1 December 2010, Minogue and Parlophone records released the EP A Kylie Christmas on iTunes, which included a cover of the 1945 song "Let It Snow" as well as "Santa Baby" which was previously available as a b-side to her 2000 single "Please Stay".[142][143] Kylie performed the song "Santa Baby" at the 2010 rockefeller tree lighing in New York on 30 November 2010.[144][145]
In August 2011, "Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)", also reached number one on the Billboard dance chart, where Minogue has now achieved five consecutive number one spots on the chart for her last five releases — including her collaboration with Taio Cruz on the track, "Higher".[146]
In 2011, Minogue embarked on the Aphrodite World Tour, travelling to Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa. A DVD/Blu-ray of the concert, filmed in London, was released at the end of November 2011.[147][148] Minogue is currently working on a new compilation album featuring re-worked versions of hits that will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of her debut single "Locomotion".[149]
To celebrate her 25 years in the music industry, Minogue began a year-long celebration in 2012. Known as "K25", the singer plans to release a greatest hits collection containing acoustic and orchestral versions of her biggest hits. On her YouTube channel, Minogue has released a video on 25 January and February showcasing two recordings at the historic Abbey Road Studios.[150] In addition, the singer has performed at various music festivals including the Sydney Mardi Gras.[151] On 5 March 2012 Minogue announced the first dates of the K25 Anti Tour. The intimate show will feature b-sides, demos and rarities from her music catalogue.[152] On 20 April 2012, Minogue's film Jack and Diane premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.[153] In May 2012, Minogue premiered in another film, Holy Motors, at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception with the audience cheering and loudly applauding.[154][155][156]
On May 4, 2012, Billboard announced that Minogue would release a brand new greatest hits album entitled The Best of Kylie Minogue.[157]
Minogue also released a new single, "Timebomb", on May 25, 2012 as part of her K25 celebrations.
Image and celebrity status[link]
Minogue's efforts to be taken seriously as a recording artist were initially hindered by the perception that she had not "paid her dues" and was no more than a manufactured pop star exploiting the image she had created during her stint on Neighbours.[37] Minogue acknowledged this viewpoint, saying, "if you're part of a record company, I think to a degree it's fair to say that you're a manufactured product. You're a product and you're selling a product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented and that you don't make creative and business decisions about what you will and won't do and where you want to go."[89] In 1993, Baz Luhrmann introduced Minogue to the photographer Bert Stern, notable for his work with Marilyn Monroe. Stern photographed her in Los Angeles and, comparing her to Monroe, commented that Minogue had a similar mix of vulnerability and eroticism.[158] During her career Minogue has chosen photographers who attempt to create a new "look" for her, and the resulting photographs have appeared in a variety of magazines, from the cutting edge The Face to the more traditionally sophisticated Vogue and Vanity Fair, making the Minogue face and name known to a broad group of people. Stylist William Baker has suggested that this is part of the reason she has entered in the mainstream pop culture of Europe more successfully than many other pop singers who concentrate solely on selling records.[159]
By 2000, when Minogue returned to prominence, she was considered to be have achieved a degree of musical credibility for having maintained her career longer than her critics had expected.[160] That same year, Birmingham Post noted "[o]nce upon a time, long before anybody had even heard of Britney, Christina, Jessica or Mandy, Australian singer Kylie Minogue ruled the charts as princess of pop. Back in 1988 her first single, I Should Be So Lucky, spent five weeks at number one, making her the most successful female artist in the UK charts with 13 successive Top 10 entries."[161] Her progression from the wholesome "girl next door" to a more sophisticated performer with a flirtatious and playful persona attracted new fans to her.[160] Her "Spinning Around" video led to some media outlets referring to her as "SexKylie", and sex became a stronger element in her subsequent videos.[160] William Baker described her status as a sex symbol as a "double edged sword" observing that "we always attempted to use her sex appeal as an enhancement of her music and to sell a record. But now it has become in danger of eclipsing what she actually is: a pop singer."[162] After 20 years as a performer, Minogue was described as a fashion "trend-setter" and a "style icon who constantly reinvents herself".[163] She has been acknowledged for mounting successful tours, and for worldwide record sales of more than 68 million.[3][164][165]
Minogue is regarded as a gay icon, which she encourages with comments such as "I am not a traditional gay icon. There's been no tragedy in my life, only tragic outfits ..." and "My gay audience has been with me from the beginning ... they kind of adopted me."[89] Minogue has explained that she first became aware of her gay audience in 1988, when several drag queens performed to her music at a Sydney pub and she later saw a similar show in Melbourne. She said that she felt "very touched" to have such an "appreciative crowd" and this had encouraged her to perform at gay venues throughout the world, as well as headlining the 1994 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.[166]
"Madonna subverts everything for her own gain. I went to see her London show and it was all so dour and humourless. She surpasses even Joan Crawford in terms of megalomania. Which in itself makes her a kind of dark, gay icon ... I love Kylie, she's the anti-Madonna. Self-knowledge is a truly beautiful thing and Kylie knows herself inside out. She is what she is and there is no attempt to make quasi-intellectual statements to substantiate it. She is the gay shorthand for joy."
Minogue has been inspired by and compared to Madonna throughout her career.[10] Her producer, Pete Waterman recalled Minogue during the early years of her success, with the observation, "She was setting her sights on becoming the new Prince or Madonna ... What I found amazing was that she was outselling Madonna four to one, but still wanted to be her."[10] Minogue received negative comments that her Rhythm of Love tour in 1991 was too similar visually to Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour of the previous year for which the critics labelled her a Madonna wannabe.[168] Kathy McCabe for The Telegraph notes that Minogue and Madonna follow similar styles in music and fashion,[167] and concludes, "Where they truly diverge on the pop-culture scale is in shock value. Minogue's clips might draw a gasp from some but Madonna's ignite religious and political debate unlike any other artist on the planet ... Simply, Madonna is the dark force; Kylie is the light force."[167] Rolling Stone comments that, with the exception of the U.S., Minogue is regarded throughout the world as "an icon to rival Madonna", and says, "Like Madonna, Minogue was not a virtuosic singer but a canny trend spotter."[78] Minogue has said of Madonna, "Her huge influence on the world, in pop and fashion, meant that I wasn't immune to the trends she created. I admire Madonna greatly but in the beginning she made it difficult for artists like me, she had done everything there was to be done ...",[168] and "Madonna's the Queen of Pop, I'm the princess. I'm quite happy with that."[167]
In January 2007 Madame Tussauds in London unveiled its fourth waxwork of Minogue; only Queen Elizabeth II has had more models created.[169] During the same week a bronze cast of her hands was added to Wembley Arena's "Square of Fame".[169] On 23 November 2007, a bronze statue of Minogue was unveiled at Melbourne Docklands for permanent display.[170]
In March 2010, Minogue was declared by researchers as the "most powerful celebrity in Britain". The study examined how marketers identify celebrity and brand partnerships. Mark Husak, head of Millward Brown's UK media practice, said: "Kylie is widely accepted as an adopted Brit. People know her, like her and she is surrounded by positive buzz".[171] She was named one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" by Men's Health.[172]
Personal life[link]
Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36 on 17 May 2005,[173] leading to the postponement of the remainder of her Showgirl — The Greatest Hits Tour and her withdrawal from the Glastonbury Festival.[174] Her hospitalisation and treatment in Melbourne resulted in a brief but intense period of media coverage, particularly in Australia, where Prime Minister John Howard issued a statement supporting Minogue.[175] As media and fans began to congregate outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks warned the international media that any disruption of the Minogue family's rights under Australian privacy laws would not be tolerated.[176] His comments became part of a wider criticism of the media's overall reaction, with particular criticism directed towards paparazzi.[177][178] Minogue underwent surgery on 21 May 2005 at Cabrini Hospital in Malvern, and commenced chemotherapy treatment soon after.[175]
On 8 July 2005, she made her first public appearance after surgery, when she visited a children's cancer ward at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital. She returned to France where she completed her chemotherapy treatment at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, near Paris.[179] In December 2005, Minogue released a digital-only single, "Over the Rainbow", a live recording from her Showgirl tour. Her children's book, The Showgirl Princess, written during her period of convalescence, was published in October 2006, and her perfume, "Darling", was launched in November.[180] This range was later augmented by eau de toilettes such as Pink Sparkle, Couture and Inverse.[181] On her return to Australia for her concert tour, she discussed her illness, and said that her chemotherapy treatment had been like "experiencing a nuclear bomb".[180] While appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2008, Minogue said that her cancer had originally been misdiagnosed. She commented, "Because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn't necessarily mean they're right",[182] but later spoke of her respect for the medical profession.[183]
Minogue was acknowledged for the impact she had made by publicly discussing her cancer diagnosis and treatment; in May 2008, the French Cultural Minister Christine Albanel said, "Doctors now even go as far as saying there is a 'Kylie effect' that encourages young women to have regular checks."[122]
Discography[link]
Main articles: Kylie Minogue singles discography and Kylie Minogue albums discography
- Kylie (1988)
- Enjoy Yourself (1989)
- Rhythm of Love (1990)
- Let's Get to It (1991)
- Kylie Minogue (1994)
- Impossible Princess (1997)
- Light Years (2000)
- Fever (2001)
- Body Language (2003)
- X (2007)
- Aphrodite (2010)
Filmography[link]
Main articles: Kylie Minogue filmography and Kylie Minogue videography
- Leading roles
- 1986-88: Neighbours, as Charlene Robinson
- 1989: The Delinquents, as Lola Lovell
- 1994: Street Fighter, as Cammy
- 1996: Bio-Dome, as Dr. Petra von Kant
- 2011: Jack and Diane, as Tara
See also[link]
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- List of awards and nominations received by Kylie Minogue
- List of Kylie Minogue concert tours
- Honorific nicknames in popular music
- List of best-selling music artists
References[link]
- Notes
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- ^ Killian, Kevin (February 2002). "Kylie Minogue and the Ignorance of the West". Bucknell. Archived from the original on 9 March 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050309120905/http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/others/killian.shtm. Retrieved 26 January 2006.
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- ^ a b Smith, p. 220
- ^ Smith, p. 151
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- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 29
- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 32
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- ^ a b Shuker, p. 164
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- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 84
- ^ Sutherland and Ellis, p. 51
- ^ a b c Smith, p. 152
- ^ Harrington, Richard (24 December 1994). "Street Fighter". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/streetfighterpg13harrington_a0ad15.htm. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
- ^ Smith, p. 153
- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 99
- ^ "Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue: Where The Wild Roses Grow (song)". Media Jungen. http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nick+Cave+%26+The+Bad+Seeds+%2B+Kylie+Minogue&titel=Where+The+Wild+Roses+Grow&cat=s. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
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- ^ a b Baker and Minogue, p. 112
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- ^ Baker and Minogue, pp. 107–112
- ^ Baker and Minogue, pp. 108–109
- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 108
- ^ Petridis, Alex (October 1997). "Kylie Chameleon". Mixmag (UK). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927003157/http://www.kylie.co.uk/press/00000002.shtml. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 113
- ^ ""Did It Again" review". Music Week (UK). 8 November 1997. http://www.kylie.co.uk/press/00000020.shtml. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
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- ^ a b Baker and Minogue, p. 125
- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 127
- ^ Baker and Minogue, p. 129
- ^ a b "Kylie: Top 10 Live Performances". Media Jungen. http://sydney.citysearch.com.au/music/1137592126005/Kylie:+Top+10+Live+Performances. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
- ^ a b Baker and Minogue, p. 146
- ^ a b Baker and Minogue, p. 145
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- Bibliography
- Baker, William; Minogue, Kylie (2002). Kylie: La La La. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-73440-X.
- Brown, Tony; Kutner, Jon; Warwick, Neil (2002). The Complete Book of the British Charts Singles and Albums. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9075-1.
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- Shuker, Roy (2001). Understanding Popular Music. Routledge, Second Edition. ISBN 978-0-415-23509-9.
- Smith, Sean (2002). Kylie Confidential. Michael O'Mara Books Limited. ISBN 1-85479-415-9.
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| Name | Minogue, Kylie |
| Alternative names | Minogue, Kylie Ann |
| Short description | pop singer, songwriter, actress |
| Date of birth | 28 May 1968 |
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia |
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| James Blunt | |
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 James Blunt in January 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | James Hillier Blount |
| Born | (1974-02-22) 22 February 1974 (age 38) Tidworth, Wiltshire, England |
| Genres | Pop rock, soft rock, folk rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, violin, percusion |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Labels | Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic, Custard |
| Website | jamesblunt.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Seagull acoustic guitars | |
James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974),[1][2] better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and former army officer, 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 can be best described as a mix of acoustic-tinged pop, rock and folk. After recording on the independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two Brit Awards, two MTV Video Music 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, was released in November 2010. Worldwide, Blunt has sold over 18 million albums,[3] and his debut album, Back to Bedlam, is the best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.[4]
Blunt was an officer in the Life Guards, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict there in 1999. While posted to Kosovo, Blunt was introduced to the work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or "Doctors Without Borders"). Since then, Blunt has supported MSF by holding meet-and-greet auctions at many of his concerts.[5]
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Early life[link]
James Blunt was born at an army hospital in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England;[6] the first child born to Jane A.F. (née Amos) and Charles Blount. James spent his early childhood living in England, Cyprus, and Germany, where his father, a colonel in the British Army Air Corps,[7] and military helicopter pilot, was posted at various times.[8]
James Blunt has two younger siblings. The Blount family has a long history of military service, dating from the 10th century.[6] His father inculcated in him a love of flying, and he earned his pilot's licence at age 16.[8] He has a keen interest in motorcycles after learning to ride when he was 16.[9]
Education[link]
Blunt was enrolled at Elstree School in Woolhampton in Berkshire, before continuing to Harrow School in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London (Elmfield House) on an army bursary. From Harrow School he gained an army-sponsored place at the University of Bristol, where he first studied aerospace manufacturing engineering and then subsequently moved on to the study of sociology.[8] He graduated with a BSc in sociology in 1996.[10]
Military service[link]
Because the British Army sponsored his university education, Blunt was obliged to serve a minimum of four years in the armed forces. He stated on an interview in his Back to Bedlam sessions that he chose to join the military as "his father was pushing for it, so that Blunt could obtain a secure work placement and income". Blunt trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[8][11] He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Life Guards, a unit of the Household Cavalry, where he rose to the rank of captain.[11][12] One of his first assignments was to British Army Training Unit Suffield in Alberta, Canada, where his battalion was posted for six months in 1998 to act as the opposing army in combat training exercises.[13]
In 1999, he served as an armoured reconnaissance officer in the NATO deployment in Kosovo. Initially assigned to reconnaissance of the Macedonia-Yugoslavia border, Blunt and his unit worked ahead of the front lines directing forces and targeting Serb positions for the NATO bombing campaign. His unit was given the assignment of securing the Pristina International Airport in advance of the 30,000-strong peacekeeping force; the Russian army had moved in and taken control of the airport before his unit's arrival. According to Blunt's own account of the incident he refused to follow orders from NATO command to attack the Russians.[14] There were less intense moments during Blunt's Kosovo assignment. Blunt had brought along his guitar, strapped to the outside of his tank. At some places, the peacekeepers would share a meal with hospitable locals, and Blunt would perform. It was while on duty there that he wrote the song "No Bravery".[15]
A keen skier, Blunt captained the Household Cavalry alpine ski team in Verbier, Switzerland, eventually becoming champion skier of the entire Royal Armoured Corps. He had extended his military service in November 2000,[16] and after an intensive six-month army riding course was posted to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment in London, England.[6] During this posting, Blunt was interviewed about his responsibilities on the television programme "Girls on Top", a series highlighting unusual career choices.[17][18] He stood guard at the coffin of the Queen Mother during the days of her lying in State and was part of the funeral procession on 9 April 2002.[19] Blunt left the army on 1 October 2002 having served six years.[20]
Music career[link]
Early career[link]
Blunt took piano and violin lessons as a child, but his first significant exposure to popular music was at Harrow School. There, he was introduced to the guitar by a fellow student, and started playing the instrument and writing songs at age 14.[6][21] At University of Bristol, his undergraduate thesis was The Commodification of Image – Production of a Pop Idol; one of his main references for the thesis was Simon Frith, a sociologist and rock critic, and current chair of the Mercury Music Prize.[22]
Blunt left the British Army in 2002 so that he could pursue his musical career.[15] It was at that period that he started using the stage name "Blunt", in part to make it easier for others to spell; "Blount" is pronounced the same way, and remains his legal surname.[23] Shortly after leaving the army, he was signed to EMI music publishers, and to Twenty-First Artists management.[24] A record contract remained elusive, with recording label executives pointing to Blunt's posh speaking voice as a barrier in class-divided Britain.[21] Linda Perry, who was just launching her own Custard Records label in early 2003, heard Blunt's promotional tape when visiting London, and soon after heard him perform live at the South by Southwest Music Festival. She made an offer to him the same night[25] and within a few days, Blunt signed a recording contract with Perry, and one month later he was in Los Angeles working with producer Tom Rothrock.[24][26]
[edit] Back to Bedlam (2003–2006)
Blunt recorded Back to Bedlam in 2003 with producer Tom Rothrock at Rothrock's home studio, using session musicians and performing on many different instruments himself.[21][27] While in Los Angeles, he lodged with actress Carrie Fisher, whom he had met through the family of a former girlfriend. Fisher was very supportive of Blunt's aspirations, suggesting the name of the album and providing use of a bathroom in her home for Blunt to record the song "Goodbye My Lover".[6] Back to Bedlam was finally released in the UK in October 2004. Blunt's debut single in the UK was "High" (co-written with Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue). This song initially peaked below the Top 100 of the UK Singles Chart, however after the subsequent success of "You're Beautiful" it finally made the Top 75 before eventually being re-released.[28] However, the song was chosen to appear in a Vodafone commercial in Italy, and was a Top 10 hit in that country.[24]
The debut album from the unknown Blunt initially attracted little critical attention, and there were no published reviews from major UK music journals. His live performances, mainly in support of better known musicians, received somewhat mixed but generally favourable reviews. Blunt's lack of performing experience and inconsistent approach with audiences was commented upon, while his music was likened to that of Damien Rice and David Gray.[29][30] In March 2004, with Blunt performing in the support role for Katie Melua in Manchester, Alex McCann of Designer Magazine wrote, "Blunt's ascendance is a dead cert and this time next year it isn't that far removed from reality to suggest that a number 1 album, Brit Award and countless accolade's [sic] will be his for the taking."[31] After release of the album, concert support slots for Elton John and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions in late 2004 and early 2005 followed, as did a band residency at London club 93 Feet East.[32] In March 2005, his second single, "Wisemen," was released.
Blunt's third single "You're Beautiful" was his break-out hit. The song debuted at number 12 in the UK, and rose all the way to the number one position six weeks after its debut.[24] The song also received massive airplay in the UK, which helped propel Back to Bedlam to number one on the UK Albums Chart.[24] The extensive airplay ultimately led to Blunt and his co-writers being awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.[33] After the success of "You're Beautiful" in the UK, the song crossed over to mainland Europe, becoming one of the biggest hits of summer 2005 across the continent. In the US, "You're Beautiful" made its debut in the summer of 2005 on WPLJ, a prominent radio station in New York City, despite not having been released to radio yet. Once the song was released to radio stations in the fall of 2005, the song climbed into the Top 10 in three radio formats: Adult Contemporary Music, Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks, and Adult album alternative.[24] Blunt became the first British artist to top the American singles chart in nearly a decade when his song "You're Beautiful" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006; the last British artist to do so had been Elton John in 1997 with the song "Candle in the Wind 1997".[24] "Goodbye My Lover" was released as the fourth UK single from the album in December 2005, and was later the second US single. The songs "High" and "Wisemen" were subsequently re-released in 2006. Blunt started off 2006 celebrating five Brit Award nominations, going on to win Best British male solo artist and Best pop act categories, having already started an 11-month tour that would take him around the world.[34] On 31 August, Blunt won two awards at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, with "You're Beautiful" winning the award for Best Male Video.[35]
There was extensive promotion in the United States starting in late 2005, with Blunt making appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Eight of the songs on the album were featured in television shows (The O.C., Grey's Anatomy and many more), films (Undiscovered), and advertising campaigns (Hilton Hotels, Sprint telecommunications) throughout 2005 and 2006.[24] Blunt performed "You're Beautiful" at the 49th Grammy Awards in February 2007, dedicating the song to the late Ahmet Ertegün of Atlantic Records, but he did not win in any of the five categories for which he had received nominations (includes one for Best New Artist Grammy, but lost to Carrie Underwood).[36]
The album eventually sold 11 million copies[37] and topped the album charts in 16 territories worldwide.[24] It sold 2.6 million in the U.S.[37] and was certified 2x platinum.[38] In Britain the album was certified 10× platinum, sold over three million copies, and entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest selling album in one year.[39]
In 2005, Blunt performed in 90 live shows, mainly across the UK and Europe, ending the year supporting Jason Mraz in a North American tour. The "Back to Bedlam World Tour" started off in January 2006, covering cities in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, as well as three separate headline tours in North America, ending in November of that year.[32] Not including promotional appearances, Blunt performed over 140 live shows in 2006. He enjoys the touring experience, saying in July 2006 that he and his band were having the time of their lives going to new places every day.[14]
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The videos for all of Blunt's singles from Back To Bedlam feature symbolism and dark imagery. In the first video for "High", he is buried in a desert. In the first video for "Wisemen", he is kidnapped and taken hostage. In the video for "You're Beautiful", he alludes to suicide by jumping off a cliff into the sea. In the "Goodbye My Lover" video, he is the outsider in a love triangle, imagining the couple, a man and woman (played by Matt Dallas of Kyle XY and Mischa Barton of The O.C.) together. The re-release video for "High" features Blunt running in a forest. The re-release video for "Wisemen" has Blunt burning identification papers, and then walking through a forest while he is on fire.
Blunt appeared on an episode of Sesame Street which aired on 14 November 2007, singing about triangles to the tune of "You're Beautiful".[40]
A parody of "You're Beautiful" titled "You're Pitiful" was recorded by Weird Al Yankovic.[41] Blunt gave personal permission for this parody to be included on a Weird Al album, but Atlantic Records, Blunt's label, stepped in to forbid the commercial release of the song. Weird Al has since made the song available as a free MP3 download on his website. In a request by Yankovic to include the song on an upcoming compilation CD, Blunt's manager replied via email, "Thanks for your email, but both James and I will never approve this parody to be released on any label."[42]
On 28 December 2009, BBC Radio 1 announced that Back to Bedlam was the biggest selling album of the noughties decade in the United Kingdom.[43]
[edit] All the Lost Souls (2007–2008)
Blunt's second studio album, All the Lost Souls, was released on 17 September 2007 in the United Kingdom and one day later in North America. It sold 65,000 units in its first week, and was certified gold in the UK after only four days.[44] By the end of January 2008, the album had sold 600,000 copies in the UK, and 4.5 million copies internationally.[45] Blunt completed the album's songs at his home in Ibiza in the winter of 2006–2007. He performed five of the ten album tracks during his 2005–2006 tours; lyrics, melodies, and harmonies were refined for the studio recording, on which his touring band played and Tom Rothrock worked as producer.[21]
While Blunt’s first album received little critical attention, critics from every major music publication, and newspapers around the world, weighed in on All the Lost Souls.[46] The album was met with generally mixed to positive reviews, and maintains a 53/100 rating at Metacritic."[46] Eric Danton, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Hartford Courant wrote that the album is "a collection so bland, it makes hardtack seem sumptuous". Yet, in her review of the album, Kerri Mason of Billboard said Blunt "shows the abandon and confidence of a long-term artist, not just a one-hit wonder". And of the album, Mason wrote, "there is not a misstep throughout".[47] Equally effusive, Liz Hoggard of The Observer wrote that "it’s impossible to resist Blunt’s troubadour yearning."[48]
The first single from All the Lost Souls, "1973", was inspired by Blunt's nights out at Pacha, an Ibiza club, which opened in that year. The song became another hit for Blunt reaching number one the Billboard European Hot 100 Singles chart.[49] D.J. Pete Tong remixed "1973" and played the track during his set at Pacha over the summer of 2007.[22] The second single, "Same Mistake", was released in early December 2007 but did not fare well in the UK charts, peaking at number 57. It was Number 1 in Brazil and a hit in many South American countries.[50] The third single from the album was "Carry You Home", released in March 2008, peaking at number 20 in the U.K charts and bringing the album back into the Top 10, six months after its release.[45] The fourth and final single from the original "All The Lost Souls" album was "I Really Want You".
Blunt collaborated twice during this album cycle. In late 2007, he worked with French rapper Sinik. They released "Je Réalise", which took elements of Blunt's song "I'll Take Everything", which hit the top 3 in France. On 14 November 2008, "Primavera in anticipo", Laura Pausini new album, was released. The title track is a duet with Blunt. The album reached the Number 1 in Italy.
Throughout 2007 and 2008, Blunt went on his second world tour, including a performance in London's O2 Arena.
On 24 November 2008, All The Lost Souls was re-released as a deluxe edition, with new album artwork, new single "Love, Love, Love" and the documentary James Blunt: Return to Kosovo.
[edit] Some Kind of Trouble (2010)
James Blunt's third studio album titled Some Kind of Trouble, was released on 8 November 2010. The album debuted at number 4 in the UK with over 100,000 copies sold in the first week. The album's first single "Stay the Night" was released on 27 October 2010. The single charted in the UK top 40 at number 37, and sat at number 2 on the European Airplay Chart for five consecutive weeks. The second single from the album, "So Far Gone" was for released on the UK on 3 January 2011. Overall critical reception has been mixed, with Allmusic saying, in a positive review, that "Some Kind of Trouble is a step in the right direction for Blunt, a move toward love songs free of pretension"[51] whilst BBC felt "When all's said, Some Kind of Trouble is not a terrible record by any means, but there's little sense that Blunt has advanced--and equally little sense that it'll make any difference to his bottom line.[52]
As of February 2011, worldwide sales stood at over one million copies.[53] The third single from the album, "If Time Is All I Have" was released in the UK on 4 April 2011.
Personal life[link]
Blunt says that he has become closer to his family since his musical success. His father manages his finances[54] and his mother arranged the purchase of his principal residence in Ibiza, where Blunt has holidayed since he was a teenager.[22] Blunt also owns a châlet in the Swiss town of Verbier, which he purchased in February 2007, and he was named "godfather" of one of the town's new ski lifts.[22]
Blunt was instrumental in introducing his sister to her eventual husband after offering her for "sale" on eBay. She was having difficulty obtaining transport to a funeral in Ireland, and Blunt listed her as a "damsel in distress". A person responded saying his friend had a helicopter his sister could charter, but it turned out he was in Sweden and she did not attend the funeral. The respondent suggested she still meet up with the helicopter owner, Guy Harrison, and they began a relationship and eventually married.[55][56]
The musician's private life has been the subject of significant commentary, particularly in the tabloid press. Blunt himself has found the degree of interest in his personal life to be bizarre, stating that "fame and celebrity is something that other people have constructed that I'm not really party to".[57]
On 8 February 2012, Hugh Tomlinson QC, representing a number of victims of the News International phone hacking affair, informed the High Court that Blunt was one of six alleged victims who had filed for damages in new civil cases.[58]
Charitable and environmental causes[link]
Blunt has raised funds for the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières through benefit concerts and by auctioning opportunities to meet him at his own shows. He first encountered MSF medical care workers during his tour of duty in Kosovo, and was impressed with the work they did under conditions of minimal support and limited security.[21]
He also supports environmental causes. He screened the trailer for An Inconvenient Truth at his concerts, and for each advance sales concert ticket purchased through his designated website a tree is planted.[59] On 7 July 2007, Blunt performed at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium, London, and is the owner of one of two prototype electric cars made by Hybrid Technologies under a Space Act partnership with NASA.
Blunt is a patron of Help for Heroes,[60] a charity aiming to raise money to provide better facilities for wounded British servicemen, and has also held benefit concerts for this charity.
Blunt has also contributed with his vocals for the charity single, "Everybody Hurts" in aid of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
Discography[link]
Main article: James Blunt discography
- Back to Bedlam (2004)
- All the Lost Souls (2007)
- Some Kind of Trouble (2010)
Awards[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
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| 2007 | James Blunt | Best New Artist | Nominated |
| "You're Beautiful" | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
| Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
| Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated | ||
| Back to Bedlam | Best Pop Vocal Album | Nominated |
2005[link]
- MTV Europe Music Awards – Best New Act
- Q Awards – Best New Act
- Digital Music Awards – Best Pop Act
2006[link]
- NRJ Music Awards (France) – Best International Newcomer
- BRIT Awards – Best pop act and Best Male Vocalist
- ECHO Awards (Germany) – Best International Newcomer
- NME Awards – Worst Album
- MTV Australia Video Music Awards – Song of the Year for You're Beautiful
- Ivor Novello Awards – Most Performed Work and International Hit of the Year
- MTV Video Music Awards – Best Male Video and Best Cinematography
- World Music Awards – Best New Artist in the World and Biggest Selling British Artist in the World
- Teen Choice Awards (United States) – Choice Music Male Artist
2008[link]
- ECHO Awards (Germany) – Best International Male Artist
2010[link]
- Virgin Media Music Awards – The Hottest Male
2011[link]
- Regenbogen Awards (Germany) – Best International Male Artist
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| Name | Blunt, James |
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| Short description | English musician |
| Date of birth | 1974-02-22 |
| Place of birth | Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, UK |
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