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Maria reactor
The Maria reactor is Poland's second research nuclear reactor and the only one still in use. It is located at Świerk-Otwock, near Warsaw and named in honor of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It is the only reactor of Polish design.
Maria is a multifunctional research tool, with a notable application in production of radioisotopes, research with utilization of neutron beams, neutron therapy, and neutron activation analysis. It operates about 4000 hours annually, usually in blocks of 100 hours.
The technical details of the reactor are given in the reference.
Maria is a pool type reactor with a power of 20 to 30 MW (thermal). Despite it being a pool reactor, it contains channels (aluminum tubes) individually connected to the primary coolant. The water pool provides cooling for elements (e.g., fuel elements) that are not otherwise cooled, and also acts as radiation shielding. Maria uses enriched uranium as fuel (80% enrichment in 235U till year 1999; 36% since). The fuel elements and channels are vertical but arranged conically. Water and beryllium blocks serve as the moderator (70% and 30% of the moderation, respectively). Elements of boron carbide sheathed in aluminum are utilized for control, compensation, and safety. The use of beryllium blocks results in a comparatively large fuel lattice pitch, and consequently large volume for payload targets. There is also a graphite reflector (aluminum sheathed). Maria supplies a neutron flux of 4x1014 n/cm2s (thermal neutrons) and 2x1014 n/cm2s (fast neutrons). There are six horizontal channels for controlled use of neutron beams. There is also a window of lead-containing glass through which the core can be viewed. The reactor is housed in a sealed containment.
wn.com/Maria_reactor
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170 Maria
170 Maria is a Main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid.
It is the namesake of the Maria asteroid family.
It was discovered by J. Perrotin on January 10, 1877. Its orbit was computed by Antonio Abetti, and the asteroid was named after his sister, Maria.
An occultation of a star by Maria was observed from Manitoba, Canada, on June 10, 1997.
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Madia Gond
Madia Gonds or Madia or Maria are one of the endogamous Gond tribes living in Chandrapur District and Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra State, and Bastar division of Chhattisgad State India. They have been granted the status of a Primitive Tribe by the Government of Maharashtra under its affirmative action or reservation programme. The Madia Gonds are strongly affected by Naxal activities. The Madia Gond use the self designation Madia, and call the area where they live Madia Desh. The Ethnologue code for classification, classifies the Madia language as :Dravidian/South-Central/Gondi-Kui/Gondi/Maria.
A study mentions living megalithic practices amongst the Madia Gonds. One of the findings of The Bench Mark Survey done in 1997-1998 91.08 percent of Madia Gond families lived Below Poverty Line
Madias today are doctors, teachers, government employees and naxalites. Performance of school going Madia children is on par with other children of the state, a Madia girl student has figured in the merit list of candidates at the state level. The following are the descriptions of the Madia Gond as recorded by the British Rulers in the District Gazettes, which has been carried in the Gazettes of independent India.
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Roman Statkowski
Roman Statkowski (24 December 1859 – 12 November 1925) was a Polish composer, most notable for his operas and chamber music.
Statkowski was born in Szczypiorno, near Kalisz, and initially trained as a lawyer. When he deserted the law for a musical career, he studied with Władysław Żeleński in Warsaw and then at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Soloviev and Anton Rubinstein, graduating at the age of 31 in 1890.
His musical influences were mainly Russian, specifically Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, but he was also attracted to German music such as the tone poems of Richard Strauss and the operas of Hans Pfitzner. His work has been described as linking the post-Moniuszko composers and the generation of Szymanowski.
Statkowski's two operas were Philaenis (or Filenis) (1897, first performed in 1904) and Maria (1903-4, first performed in 1906). The latter is based on a novel of the same name by Antoni Malczewski. It has achieved some popularity in its native country and has been performed in various Polish cities between 1919 and 1965. It was staged by Wexford Festival Opera in late 2011.
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Maria Filmography
- Dralle Schlecker-Mäulchen (2005)
- Auf der Sperma-Alm (2004)
- Achtung! Spritzgefahr! (2004)
- Die Sperma Infusion (2004)
- Sperma Eskapaden (2004)
- Sperma macht schön! (2004)
- Susi sucht Sperma (2004)
- Die Spermafalle (2003)
- Die Spermaschleuder (2003)
- Auch ich möcht' schlucken (2003)
- Kelly im Spermahimmel (2003)
- Komm rein und spritz ab! (2003)
- Mädchen suchen Sperma (2003)
- Niedlich, süß & vollgespritzt (2003)
- Piss & Sperma Rallye (2003)
- Schluck-Unterricht (2003)
- Schwester! Ich muss abspritzen!! (2003)
- Sperma-Kränzchen (2003)
- Sperma-Shop (2003)
- Bin ich zu jung? (2003)
- Für einen Mund voll Sperma (2003)
- Hallo, ich soll hier schlucken? (2003)
- Sperma schlucken? Cool! (2002)
- Sperma in Arsch, Fotze & Mund! (2002)
- Sperma-Dschungel (2002)
- Ich liebe Sperma!! (2002)
- Ich tanze für Sperma! (2002)
- Ficken & Sperma das bringt's!!! (2002)
- Die Spermapraktikantin (2002)
- Das Beste aus 'Junge Debütantinnen' (1999)
- Junge Debütantinnen 2: Sommer, Sex... und heiße Mädchen (1995)
- Junge Debütantinnen 1: Scheue Talente (1995)
Maria Filmography
- Männer Träume (2006)
- Vivian Schmitt Spezial 1 - Geil ohne Grenzen (2006)
- Anal Kommando (2003)
- Versicherung pervers - Arschgeil & hemmungslos (2003)
- Casting by Coco (2002)
- Teeny Exzesse 68 - Kesse Bienen (2002)
- Bordello (2002)
- Junge Debütantinnen 19: Deutsche Debütantinnen - Hart & herzlich (2001)
- Hot Girlz (2001)
Maria Filmography
- In the VIP 4 (2011)
- Ass Quest #2 (2001)
- Natural Wonders of the World 12 (2001)
- The Best by Private 28: Cum Guns (2001)
- Dangerous Things 2 (2000)
- Natural Wonders of the World 8 (2000)
- Bra Busters 2 (1993)
Maria
Cast
- Atsuko Asano
- Maki Gotô
- Kumiko Okae
- Rei Kikukawa
- Keiko Kishi
- Mikihisa Azuma
- Yoshinori Okada
- Sachiko Kokubu
- Yôko Moriguchi
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Mô ichido hito wo shinjiyô to omotta
Japan:4 July 2001...
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Episode 2: (#1.2)
Japan:11 July 2001...
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Episode 3: (#1.3)
Japan:18 July 2001...
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Episode 4: (#1.4)
Japan:25 July 2001...
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Episode 5: (#1.5)
Japan:1 August 2001...
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Episode 6: (#1.6)
Japan:15 August 2001...
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Episode 7: (#1.7)
Japan:22 August 2001...
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Episode 8: (#1.8)
Japan:29 August 2001...
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Episode 9: (#1.9)
Japan:5 September 2001...
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Episode 10: (#1.10)
Japan:12 September 2001...
- Maria - Perry Como
- Maria - George Strait
- Maria - Michael Jackson
- Maria - Andy Williams
- Maria - Jackson 5
- Maria - Green Day
- Maria - Ricky Martin
- Maria - Modern Talking
- Maria - Steven Curtis Chapman
- Maria - James
- Maria - Wu-Tang Clan
- Maria - Michael Ball
- Maria - Patti Smith
- Maria - Jane Siberry
- Maria - The Jackson 5
- Maria - Blondie
- Maria - Lucinda Williams
- Maria - Subway To Sally
- Maria - Justin Bieber
- Maria - Townes Van Zandt
- Maria - Demis Roussos
- Maria - Janis Ian
- Maria - Robert Earl Keen
- Maria - Ken Hensley
- Maria - Gourds
- Maria - The Blue Dogs
- Maria - Rage Against The Machine
- Maria - Alex Ubago
- Maria - Chapman Steven Curtis
- Maria - David Sylvian
- Maria - Bambix
- Maria - New York Room
- Maria - Chris Cagle
- Maria - American Steel
- Maria - Kathleen Edwards
- Maria - Hatsune Miku
- Maria - Guano Apes
- Maria - Andy Tielman
- Maria - Pink Spiders
- Maria - Men At Work
- Maria - Us5
- Maria - X-Files: Episodes Soundtrack
- Maria - Redwalls
- Maria - Tiro de Gracia
- Maria - Still Remains
- Maria - P.j. Proby
- Maria - Abandon All Ships
- Maria - Animal Liberation Orchestra
- Maria - The Sound of Music soundtrack
- Maria - Dj Rankin
- Maria - El Mastuerzo
- Maria - The New York Room
- Maria - Total Tragedy
- Maria - Richard Rodgers
- Maria - Vittorio Grigolo
- Weakness - Maria
- Intoxicated - Maria
- My Soul - Maria
- You, Me, and She - Maria
- I Give, You Take - Maria
- Hate To Love You - Maria
- Miss You - Maria
- Simplified - Maria
- Always - Maria
- Nowadays - Maria
- Lonely - Maria
- Coffee In Bed - Maria
- Maria - Jean Ferrat
- Maria - Akb48
- Maria - Dave Grusin
- Maria - Heo Young Saeng
- Maria - US 5
- Maria - Bony King Of Nowhere
( The most beautiful sound I ever heard )
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
( All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word )
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
Maria, Maria . . .
Maria!
I've just met a girl named Maria!
And suddenly that name will never be the same to me . . .
Maria!
I've just kissed a girl named Maria!
And suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be . . .
Maria!
Say it loud and there's music playin',
Say it soft and it's almost like prayin',
Maria!
I'll never stop sayin' Maria!
Maria!
I've just kissed a girl named Maria!
And suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be . . .
Maria!
Say it loud and there's music playin',
Say it soft and it's almost like prayin',
Maria!
I'll never stop sayin' Maria!
( The most beautiful sound I ever heard )
Maria!
( Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . . )
There's a soft rain tappin' on your window
There's a cool breeze blowin' off the bay
And a warm flame dancin' with our shadows
To music playin' far away
I never meant to stay an hour
I thought that I was passin' through
Another town along the highway
I never meant to fall for you
But I can't speak for you, Maria
I only know the way I feel
When I sleep with you, Maria
There's nothing' left for dreams to steal
On a Bible by the mirror
The only treasures that we hold
The only secrets that we're keepin'
A watch, a chain, a cross of gold
But I can't speak for you, Maria
I only know the way I feel
When I sleep with you, Maria
There's nothing' left for dreams to steal
When the sunlight brings the mornin'
I can't tell you what I'll do
But I've a mind to take you with me
And I've a heart to stay with you
But I can't speak for you, Maria
I only know the way I feel
When I sleep with you, Maria
There's nothing' left for dreams to steal
When I sleep with you, Maria
He got flat baby
Kick in the back baby
A heart attack baby
I need your body
A hot kiss honey
He's just a bitch baby
You make me sick baby
So unrelying
I'm such a swine baby
All down the line daddy
I hate your kind baby
So unreliable
A hot buzz baby
He's one of us baby
Another drug baby
You so desire
Trust in me
Trust in me
Put all your trust in me
You're doin' morphine
Hoo!
They got place baby
Kicked in the face baby
You hate your race baby
You're just a liar
Your every lick baby
Your dog's a bitch baby
You make me sick baby
You soul survivor
She never cut from me
She never cut baby
I had to work baby
You just a rival
Always to please daddy
Right up and leave daddy
You're throwing shame daddy
So undesirable
Trust in me
Just in me
Put all your trust in me
You're doin' morphine
Go'on babe
Relax
This won't hurt you
Before I put it in
Close your eyes and count to 10
Don't cry
I won't convert you
There's no need to dismay
Close your eyes and drift away
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking Demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking Demerol
He's tried
Hard to convince her
To be over what he had
Today he wants it twice as bad
Don't cry
I won't resent you
Yesterday you had his trust
Today he's taking twice as much
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Hee-hee-hee
Demerol
Demerol
Oh my Oh God it's Demerol
Oooh
He got shit baby
Your dog's a bitch baby
You make me sick baby
You are a liar
Is truth a game daddy
To win the fame baby
It's all the same baby
You're so reliable
Trust in me
Trust in me
Put all your trust in me
She's doin' morphine
Hoo!
You just sit around just talkin' nothing
You're takin' morphine
Hoo!
Go'on baby
You just sit around just talking about it
You're takin' morphine
Hoo-hoo!
Just sit around just talking nothing about it
You're takin' morphine
You just sit around just talking about it
You're taking morphine
You just sit around just talkin' nothin'
And takin' morphine
Hoo-hoo
I'm going down baby
You're talkin' Morphine
Go'on baby!
Hoo!
Hoo!
Morphine!
Do it!
Hoo!
He's takin' morphinep
Morphine!
Morphine!
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.
Maria, I've just met a girl named Maria,
and suddenly the name will never be the same to me.
Maria! I've just kissed a girl named Maria.
And suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be.
Maria, say it loud and there's music playing.
Say it soft and it's almost like praying,
Pretty little senorita
They come from miles around to see ya
Aah, to get your love it's not easy
I hope I'll get a chance to meet you
You know I'm shakin'
Don't drive me crazy
If I cause trouble
Then there's one thing I know, hey, hey, hey
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria, you're my love
Maria can I see ya
I just wanna love ya
The best man under pressure
Maria, my love
Darlin' won't you take me serious
I take ya all around the world
We can have our own fiesta
Only if you say you're my girl
Ooh, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with her
I don't know, I don't wanna share her love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with her
And there's one thing I know, hey, hey, hey
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria, you're my love
Maria can I see ya
I just wanna love ya
I just wanna hug ya
Maria, my love
Ooh, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with her
I don't know, I don't wanna share her love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'll let her know
Maria
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria, you are my love
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria, you are my love
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria, you are my love
She smashed the radio with the board of education
Turn up the static left of the state of the nation
Turn up the flame, step on the gas
Burning the flag at half mast
She's a rebel's forgotten son
An export of the revolution
She is the first voice of the last ones in the line
She'll drag the lake to keep the vendetta alive
Bring in the head of the government
The dog ate the document
Somebody shot the President
And no one knows where Maria went?
Maria, Maria, Maria,
Where did you go?
Be careful what you're offering
Your breath lacks the conviction
Drawing the line in the dirt
Because the last decision
Un, dos, tres un pasito pa'lante, Maria
Un, dos, tres un pasito pa'atras. Un, dos, tres. Un, dos, tres
Es que me tiene loco
She's the one that always turns me on
Sexy angel fallen from heaven
She's the one that always drives me wild
In her arms she's driving forever
Asi es Maria, blanca como el dia
Pero es veneno, si te quieres enamorar
Asi es Maria, tan caliente y fria
Que si te la bebes, de segura te va a matar
Un, dos, tres, un pasito pa'lante
Maria
Un, dos, tres, un pasito pa'atras
Aunque me muera, ahora Maria
Un, dos, tres un pasito pa'delante,
Maria
Un, dos, tres un pasito pa'atras
(Maria, I wanna make you mine)
Es que me tiene loco
Maria es
An angel in disguise
Feeds my love with her devotion
Search for a special place to hide
As she conquers all my emotion
Asi es Maria, blanca como el dia
Pero es veneno, si te quieres enamorar
Asi es Maria, tan caliente y fria
Que si te la bebes, de segura te va a matar
Un pasito pa'delante, un pasito pa'atras
Un, dos, tres
Un, dos, tres
Un, dos, tres, un pasito pa'delante,
Maria
Un, dos, tres, un pasito pa'atras
Asi es Maria, blanca como el dia
Pero es veneno, si te quieres enamorar
Asi es Maria, tan caliente y fria
Oh, when she speaks, these Spanish words
It's like a fire in my soul, and it hurts
And when she moves, I cannot sleep
I think I'm strong, but I know I'm so weak
When she's next to me, oh, it's like extasy
Lonely Maria, Maria, Maria
You're such a beautiful but lonely senorita
Lonely Maria, Maria, Maria
Oh, do you have the time, to kiss me, oh, Maria
Maria, Maria, I know, Maria, I miss you so
Maria, Maria don't go, baby, I need you so
Oh, when she dances and when she smiles
It's like an old, old Spanish lullaby
And when she talks, see how she dance
It's like an old, old Spanish love romance
Maria -she's too young to understand, but old enough to fell the pain
Of living where no love can grow with no hope for change
Maria - her world is an angry place but she makes sure that scars don't show
And with every hurt her tender heart is growing cold (but)
CHORUS
Who, who's gonna love Maria
Who, who's gonna touch her with the tenderness she longs for
Like a desert longs for rain
She's got a hunger deep inside and with every tear she cries
She wonders if there's someone out there somewhere
Who's gonna love Maria
(Maria) she looks in the mirror now and the little girl is gone
But still the search for someone's love goes on and on for Maria
But does anybody care or even notice her at all
Is anyone listening close enough to hear her call (and who)
CHORUS
Who, who's gonna love Maria
Who, who's gonna touch her with the tenderness she longs for
Like a desert longs for rain
She's got a hunger deep inside and with every tear she cries
She wonders if there's someone out there
BRIDGE
Maria if you can hear me, please know that you're not forgotten
Somebody's trying to get to you
There¡¯s a Malayan stripper of sex unknown
Some Siamese twins from a broken home
Maria¡¯s party, what a show going down
Maria loves her life, but she¡¯ll show you how
There¡¯s a strong man tearing himself into pieces
A magician who will spin you on the end of his spinderly fingers
There¡¯s a show going on
Maria loves her life, she¡¯ll show you how, how, how
There¡¯s a high wire act on the telephone wire
And another Buddhist monk has set himself on fire
There¡¯s a fakir outside being buried alive
Maria¡¯s mad aunt has yet to arrive
A dahlia that dances, and a frog with wings,
A bear in a tutu that just loves to sing, karaoke
Maria loves her life, and that¡¯s all, and that¡¯s all, and that¡¯s all.
La La La La La La La etc.
You will love her forever when the scene hits your town
La La La La La La La etc.
You will love her forever
You will all love her forever
Maria¡¯s Party
And that¡¯s all.
You my Daddy whore
Whoever she gonna do anyway
But bust it, bust it though baby, bust it
Who else, who else is gonna...
This is dedicated to all you bitches
Knew this bitch named Traj, she had a hella fine ass
Candy-ass, blew my hole in the past
Niggarette gave me gonorrhea
Pussy dick to the tippy toe like ballerina
Boy you shoulda seen her
She had a babyface creamer Purinas
Called up talkin Tina
I put my dick in a broom
She blew my head like a balloon
I had her walkin on the moon
Yo, I seen you at the five and dime wastin your time
Oh you shine, I'm lookin at your ass from behind
You walked by smellin like watermelon
You might make me a felon, my eyeballs swellin
My nuts start yellin, excuse my prick
Wanna have a talk with you, I'm sick
My medicine is can I walk with you, fantasy
After that we can cheat, laid on the bed
Handcuffed with hard meat, long stroke smackin
Smack it then broke, nothin can't stop my
continous poke, compound
Porno flick music, Daddy came with it when I wrote it
Dirt Dog be bouncin on bitches like fog
I pollute the air up like smog, bitch
I'm up my jacuzzi, peepin this smoothie
My bitch is a floozy, Dirt Dog ain't choosy
Pussy move me, pretty black dick up in the booty
I like it muddy or swampy
By now you find your ass up shitty creeky
Don't got no fuckin room me and my momma and my TV
Blackberry squeeze
Bitch who a tease, titties small, I got used to the squeaks
Fuck that shit, I'm through with this bitch
Old hen please can't get a bank of these
welfare cheese, now to blow fifty G's
overseas, I'm doin the breeze, in my 850
Suicidal, she been in more hotels than bibles
Idle worshippin bitch wasn't the type to make bridle
Sprung, on how the bitch maneuvered her tongue
>From the top of his dick, to the bottom of his ass split
I told the God to jet quick this wicked bitch was a harlot
but had him trapped up inside the Charlotte Web
She wasn't choosy fucked for movie and a loose leaf
cigarette, pussy stay wet and juicy like lemons
Big ass in tight denim
Had the most faithful niggaz sinnin against their women
and enjoyed, to watch relationships get destroyed
This unemployed welfare bitch was non-void
and shameless, her attitude was blameless
Even though she had a hundred dicks on her namelist
Her obsession, caused niggaz to get, the ass cheek injection
The bitched lied, said she had urinary tract infection
I tried to warn em, and bomb em, but she conned em
Wanted niggaz to fuck her raw dog without no condom
oooooh, ahahhh, ohh
You people are all trying to acheive the impossible
That's exactly what we've done
But you'll fail, and you'll all die
If we die, the next generation will fight them too
And the one after them, for as long as they must
(leonard bernstein/stephen sondheim)
The most beautiful sound I've ever heard
Maria, maria, maria
Oh, the most beautiful sounds of all the world
A single world
Maria, maria, maria
I've just met a girl named maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same to me
Maria, I've just kissed a gril named maria
I 've suddenly found how wonderful a sound can be
Maria, say it loud
And it's almost like music playing
Say it soft, it's almost like praying.
I'll never stop saying
Maria, maria, maria, maria
Maria, maria, maria, maria
Maria, maria
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say if soft
Maria
I'll never stop saying maria
The most beautiful sound I've ever heard
At the edge of the world
Where you were no one
Yet you were the girl the only one
At the edge of the world in the desert heat
One shivering star, sweet, indiscreet
I knew you when we were young
I knew you when we were young
Now you're gone
In a little narcissus pool, drowned by a spell
We saw ourselves, raw, excitable
I knew you when we were young
I knew you when we were young
Now you're gone
We didn't know
the precariousness
of our young powers
All the emptiness
Wild wild hair, such sad eyes
White shirt black tie you were mine
You grabbed the ring of the carousel
Time going from heaven to hell
maria...maria...maria...maria...
maria is on my mind
everything you do, everything you say
everytime you run, everytime you play
everytime you sing, everytime you pray
long ago and far away
long ago and here today
long ago and far away
long ago and here today
and here to stay
Pretty little se'orita
They come from miles around to see ya
Aah to get your love it's not easy
I hope I'll get a chance to meet you
You know I'm shakin'
Don't drive me crazy
If I cause trouble
Then there's one thing I know...
Hey, hey, hey
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria you're my love
Maria can I see yah
I just wanna love ya
The best man under pressure
Maria my love... uh
Darlin won't you take me serious
I take ya all around the world
We can have our own fiesta
Only if you say you're my girl
Oooh I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with her
I don't know , I don't wanna share her love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with her
And there's one thing I know...
Hey, hey, hey
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria you're my love
Maria can I see yah
I just wanna love ya
I just wanna hug ya
Maria my love... uh
Ooh I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with her
I don't know , I don't wanna share her love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'll let her know
Maria
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria you are my love
Maria my love you're just too much
I don't think they're tough enough
If I have to fight for you all night
Maria you are my love
[Repeat]
She moves like she don't care
Smooth as silk, cool as air
Ooh, it makes you wanna cry
She doesn't know your name
And your heart beats like a subway train
Ooh, it makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take her
Wanna make her all your own?
Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Latina, Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights
I've seen this thing before
In my best friend and the boy next door
Fool for love and full of fire
Won't come in from the rain
She's oceans running down the drain
Blue as ice and desire
Don't you wanna make her?
Ooh, don't you wanna take her home?
Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Latina, Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights
Ooh, don't you wanna break her?
Ooh, don't you wanna take her home?
She walks like she don't care
You wanna take her everywhere
Ooh, it makes you wanna cry
She's like a millionaire
Walking on imported air
Ooh it makes you wanna die
Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Latina, Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights
Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Latina, Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights
Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Latina, Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights
Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Latina, Ave Maria
A million and one candlelights
Maria, you're still wild and restless
and I can just see ya ridin' in a rodeo
you might even make it down to Texas
or you might head out west to New Mexico
so pack up all of your belongings
a pick-up will take you where you wanna go
you can ride out when you hear mountains calling
out to Canada or the canyouns of Colorado
New York City was always your home
but in your heart you know you were born to roam
and you're gonna leave as soon as you get the money
after you sell everything you own
Maria, is loneliness a virtue
or does it steal you blind and leave you split apart
Maria, can you give me an answer
are the songs we sing worth the broken heart
the highway has always been your lover
and someday you may know his name
wherever you stay, it wouldn't really matter
'cause all those cities start to look the same
some folks will try to take your heart away
and just when you think you've really got it made
you wake up and find madness in the morning
but damn the pain and damn those restless days
Ein Nebel schleicht vom Sumpf herauf
auch er will heute Nacht
wie ich bei dir zuhause sein
er hat das Bett gemacht
das bleiche Tuch ist na? und kalt
wir liegen tief im Tau
ich sterb ein Stuck in deinem Arm
bis tief ins Morgengrau
Maria komm her
diese Stunde wiegt zweitausend Jahre schwer
ich spur dein Blut wie's hei? und
laut
in deinen Adern rinnt
wir kussen uns die Lippen wund
verloren wie wir sind
dein schwarzes Haar es legt sich mir
wie Efeu um den Hals
ich trinke wie im Fieber
von deiner Haut das Salz
Maria komm her
She says she met me on the tour
She keeps knocking on my door, she won't leave me
Leave me alone
This girl, she wouldn't stop
Almost had to call the cops
She was scheming, ooh, she was wrong
Cause she wanted all my attention
And she was dragging my name through the dirt(no)
She was dying for my affection
And she keep making up and give it to 'em
I'm talking to you!
Mariaa!
Why you wanna do me like that?
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
Mariaa!
Why you wanna play me like that?
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
But she talking in, and she need a squeeze
But never this, all I know is she's not mine
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
But she falling out, what she talking about
Let me tell you now that girl, she's not mine
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
Now she's in the magazines, on TV, making a scene
Oh she's crazy, crazy in love
And she's all over the news, saying everything but the
truth!
She's faking, faking it all
Cause she wanted all my attention
And she was dragging my name through the dirt(no)
She was dying for my affection
And she keep making up and give it to 'em
I'm talking to you!
Mariaa!
Why you wanna do me like that?
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
Mariaa!
Why you wanna play me like that?
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
But she talking in, and she need a squeeze
But never this, all I know is she's not mine
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
But she falling out, what she talking about
Let me tell you now that girl, she's not mine
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
Why are you trying, trying to lie girl
When I never met you at all
Saying goodbye, but how could ya
You throw this, you throw this
Your foolness, seduces
Mariaa!
Why you wanna do me like that?
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
Mariaa!
Why you wanna play me like that?
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
But she talking in, and she need a squeeze
But never this, all I know she's not mine
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
But she falling out, what she talking about
Let me tell you now that girl she's not mine
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
That ain't my baby, that ain't my girl
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
She ain't my baby, she ain't my girl
She ain't my baby,
By townes van zandt
Well, the diamonds fades quickly when matched to the face of maria
All the harps they sound empty when she lifts her lips to the sky
The brown of her skin makes her hair seem a soft golden rainfall
That spills from the mountains to the bottomless depths of her eyes
Well, she stands all around me her hands slowly sifting the sunshine
All the laughter that linger down deep 'neath her smilin' is free
Well, it spins and it twirls like a hummingbird lost in the morning
And caresses the south wind and silently sails to the sea
Ah, the sculpter stands stricken and the artist he throws away his brushes
When her image comes dancin' the sun she turns sullen with shame
And the birds they go silent the wind stops his sad mournful singing
When the trees of the forest start gently to whisper'in her name
So as softly she wanders I'll desperately follow her footsteps
And I'll chase after shadows that offer a trace of her sight
Ah, they promise eternally that she lays hidden within them
But I find they've decieved me and sadly I bid them goodbye
So the serpent slide softly away with these moments of laughter
And the the old washy woman has finish her cleanin' and gone
But the bamboo hang heavy in the bondage of quicksilver daydreams
Con gli occhi suoi,
lei mi toccò
e il fuoco mi arrivò,
per me ballò e cominciò la festa fra di noi.
Il sole messicano sopra il corpo si fermò,
mi prese piano ed io non dissi no.
Un quadro di Madonna
il suo volto mi sembrò,
non so se fosse donna,
a far l’amore mi insegnò,
poi tenera la notte un letto grande ci prestò
ed il suo nome sempre griderò.
Non scordo mai Maria,
il solo amore della vita mia.
Non scordo mai Maria,
il tuo ricordo è la mia poesia.
I gesti suoi,
i baci suoi,
li so a memoria ormai,
gli occhi chiusi, al buio, io la riconoscerei.
Seguendo quel profumo un po’ selvaggio che ha lei,
un’altra volta io la stringerei.
Non scordo mai Maria,
il solo amore della vita mia.
Non scordo mai Maria,
il tuo ricordo è una poesia.
OH MARIA
YOUR EYES ARE LIKE A DEMON LOVER’S CHILD
AND LIPS OF VELVET ISSUE INVITATION
EVERY TIME YOU SMILE
YOU SUCKED ME IN, I MUST ADMIT
THAT I WAS WAITING FOR A SIGN
WON’T YOU LEAVE ME ON THE CORNER
BY THE LIGHT
BECAUSE I’M STEPPING OUT TONIGHT
OH MARIA
I ENVY ANY MANY WHO KNOWS YOUR NAME
THOUGH ONCE I KNEW YOU WELL
I’M NOT ASHAMED TO BE THE ONE
WHO DRAGS YOU DOWN
YOUR LIFE IS LIKE A MOVIE
LIKE A STORY PASTED UP ON SUBWAY WALLS
WON’T YOU LEAVE ME SOMETHING SACRED
WHEN YOU FALL
UNLESS THERE’S NOTHING LEFT AT ALL
YOUR LIPS ARE LIKE A FADED SPANISH ROSE
AND EVERY MOMENT STRIKES A POSE
ON EVERY TECHNICOLOR CLOSE
AND OTHER WOMEN SHOW THEIR TEETH
AND SCHOOLBOY HUSBANDS BEG RELIEF
AND EMPTY LOVERS SEARCH THE STREET
MARIA
CONVINCE ME IN THE NIGHT YOU KNOW THE WAY
THOUGH EVERY LOVER BRINGS ANOTHER
SCREAMING TO THE LIGHT OF DAY
WON’T YOU LEAVE ME BY THE LAMP POST
IN THE HAZE OF YOUR PERFUME
NIGHT FADES AWAY
WON’T YOU LEAVE ME BY THE LAMP POST
IN THE HAZE OF YOUR PERFUME
There's a salt grain tapping on your window
There's a cool breeze blowing off the bay
And a warm flame dancing with our shadows
To music playin' far away
I never meant to stay an hour
I thought that I was passin' through
Another town along the highway
I never meant to fall for you
Well, I can't speak for you, Maria
I only know the way I feel
When I sleep with you, Maria
There's nothin' left for dreams to steal
On a Bible by the mirror
The only treasures that we hold
The only secrets that we're keepin'
A watch, a chain, a cross of gold
Well, I can't speak for you, Maria
I only know the way I feel
When I sleep with you, Maria
There's nothin' left for dreams to steal
When the sunlight brings the mornin'
I cannot tell you what I'll do
But I've a mind to take you with me
And I've a heart to stay with you
I can't speak for you, Maria
I only know the way I feel
When I sleep with you, Maria
There's nothin' left for dreams to steal
When I sleep with you, Maria
Maria
I just met a girl named Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same to me
Maria
I just kissed a girl named Maria
And suddenly I've found
How wonderful a sound can be
Maria
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Maria
I'll never stop saying Maria
Oh maria hands it out
She comes from guatamala
She helps me get around
She helps when I'm in trouble
When the ice cream hit the ground
The federales they were a'coming
She had made arrangements with a vendor
The stupid gringo - he got away
Now if I had a $100's
And maracas in my hand
I'd shake them for maria
I'd pressure her old man
To let me take her back to texas
In the white pickup truck
Where she had done a dozen favors
To get me out of dutch
La...
Now we never spank the children
And the house is pretty small
And I never learned the language
Of old guatamal
But there are frijoles when I'm hungry
And I drink tequila when I'm dry
And the coffee is oh so good
And maria hands it out
With waving dark hair and brown eyes
She stares you into focus
While pretending not to care
She's wondering if you really notice
That she can drive you insane
And she stop a train in those jeans
There's no other way to tell you
She knows what love really means
Maria, she's one in a million to me
Maria, she is the only one for me
And little does she know
she's the reason for every single dream
And little does she know
I'm comin apart at the seams
With one touch of her hand
she reminds me why i came to be
And I think it's time she knows
She's the only one for me
Chorus
Chorus
Chorus
The sun ablaze as Maria's foot
Touches the surface of sand
On northern land
As human contraband
Some Rico from Jalisco
Passed her name to the boss
She stuffed ten to a trucked
She clutches her cross
Here come the exhaust
And it rips through her lungs
Shes off fast to the pasture
Like cattle shell cross
Degree 106
Sweat and vomit are thrown
And she prays and suffocates
Upon the memories of home
Of yanqui guns for blood debts on the loans
Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones
Of graves hidden trapped up in visions of war
Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more
These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
And through historys rivers of blood she regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
She's eternally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here
To tear away at the mask
And now she got a quota
The needle and thread crucifixion
Sold and shipped across the new line
Of Mason Dixon
Ripping through Denim
The point an inch from her vein
The foreman approach
His steps now pound in her brain
His presence it terrifies
And eclipses her days
No minutes to rest
No moments to pray
And with a whisper
He whips her
Her soul changed to his will
My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill
Her arm jerks the sisters gather round her and scream
As if in a dream, eyes on the crimson stream
Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to the floor
I am nothing, no one, nobody, no more
These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
And through historys rivers of blood she regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
Maria she's eternally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here
To tear away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
No moment to rest
No moment to pray
No moments to rest
No moments to pray
No moments to rest
[Incomprehensible]
No moment to pray
To tear away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
Maria sabe llenar mis horas
Me regala su sonrisa y su calor
Y si no esta lo demás no importa se vuelve absurdo
Maria esconde un millón de estrellas
Le ha robado al cielo el alma y la razón
Será por eso que si estoy con ella se para el mundo
Y cuando la luna deja de brillar
Ella me alumbra con el sol
Y si la música deja de sonar
Ella me da la voz
Es todo lo que me hace falta para caminar
Es todo lo que necesito para no tropezarme
La lluvia apagará
El fuego que me quema el alma de mi soledad
El tiempo que me pesa tanto por no verla soñando
Aquí conmigo
Maria te enseña que la vida
No es tan solo aquello que podemos ver
También las cosas que están escondidas en cada uno
Maria puede quitarte el sueño
Con un beso ya te puede convencer
Y te hace parte de su universo y para el mundo
Y cuando la luna deja de brillar
Ella me alumbra con el sol
Y si la música deja de sonar
Ella me da la voz
Es todo lo que me hace falta para caminar
Es todo lo que necesito para no tropezarme
La lluvia apagará
El fuego que me quema el alma de mi soledad
El tiempo que me pesa tanto por no verla soñando
Aquí conmigo
Es todo lo que me hace falta para caminar
Es todo lo que necesito para no tropezarme
La lluvia apagará
El fuego que me quema el alma de mi soledad
El tiempo que me pesa tanto por no verla soñando
ik zing dit lied voor jou met heel mijn hart
omdat jij zoveel van mij houd
met heel jou hart
je brengt de zon in huis
je maakt alles goed
en ik ben je dankbaar
voor alles wat je doet
voor geen miljoen laat ik je gaan
voor geen ander laat ik je staan
nee ik deins niet meer terug voor
wat mijn hart niet geeft
want jij bent degene waar ik voor leef
wees niet bang om die stap te nemen
voor eeuwig en altijd blijf ik jou trouw
ik doe mijn ogen dicht en zie jou daar staan
op die ene zomernacht
mijn hart kon jou niet laten gaan
jij bent de rode draad in mijn leven
oh jij hebt mijn leven zin gegeven en ik ben je dankbaar
voor geen miljoen laat ik je gaan
voor geen ander laat ik je staan
nee ik deins niet meer terug voor wat mijn hart niet geeft
want jij bent degene waar ik voor leef
wees niet bang om die stap te nemen
voor eeuwig en altijd, voor eeuwig en altijd
voor geen miljoen laat ik je gaan
voor geen ander laat ik je staan
nee ik deins niet meer terug voor wat mijn hart niet geeft
want jij bent degene waar ik voor leef
wees niet bang om die stap te nemen
voor eeuwig en altijd blijf ik jou trouw
voor eeuwig en altijd blijf ik jou trouw
"Climb the stairs
And step into my dreamhouse"
These words are yours, Maria
The waters warm
(Hold me)
The table bare
(Till the worst is past)
Until the summer nights return
Until we close our eyes
Maria, your every thought's my heartbeat
Maria, save a thought for me
Maria, your every thought's my heartbeat
At school they taught her
To always pray real hard
Then God would come and give
Some peace to her heart
But with her unborn son
Hidden in a bin
She couldn’t pray no more
Cause where should she begin
And now she wants love
She don’t want pain
She sits and dreams and
She’s waiting for a sign
From the Very Holy God
High up in the air
Saying to Maria
Girl, I do care
She knows just what she’s done
And that she lives in sin
But something just went wrong
A fight she could not win
Although she begged him no
And God did not come down
The angels in her head
They made her wedding-gown
And now she wants love
She don’t want pain
She kneels down and
She’s waiting for a sign
Her mummy threw her out
Her dad he spat on her
The unholy Maria
Discarded girl
And now she wants love
She don’t want pain
She sits and prays and
She’s waiting for a sign
From the Holy God
To get off his cloud and hurl
Shouting to Maria
Maria, my Maria
sit alongside me
Maria, sweet Maria
stay with me
why aren't you
running to
the arms of God ?
don't close your eyes
he will close them for you
don't give into
the things they say
don't give into
that dark place
where pain hides
Maria, my Maria
sit alongside me
Maria, sweet Maria
I'm exhausted
Tryin' to catch my breath the morning after
Pour my coffee
With shakin' hands and my world in disarray
Lost in the softness and strength that's in her hands
I see her face and I can barely stand
But oh, the sweet redemption every time she mentions
That she wants me, oh, that she needs me, oh
Maria
Your kisses knock me over
Make me drunk and then leave me sober
They let me know that I'm a man
Maria
Your touch, it almost kills me
Then it turns around and heals me
I get lost and found again
In the arms of a woman that a mother gave the name Maria
Tender power
The gift she gives me gets me through the day
Midnight hour
I reach across the bed where she lay
Then I look up and see the moon dance on her skin
My heart starts poundin' once again
It's a sweet intoxication, a powerful frustration
How I want her, oh how I need her
Maria
Your kisses knock me over
Make me drunk and then leave me sober
They let me know that I'm a man
Maria
Your touch, it almost kills me
Then it turns around and heals me
I get lost and found again
In the arms of a woman
In the arms of a woman that a mother
In the arms of a woman that a mother gave the name Maria
I'm exhausted
I'm still tryin' to catch my breath.
Maria
The say these colors don't run
But they bleed in your face
like a bully spitting up a bad taste
after being knocked down a few pegs
you sigh as hard as a rock
it cuts your laugh lines absurd
i'm smiling with irish eyes bloodshot
christmas colored you don't know what you've got
i'm falling apart at the seams
i'm mending this fifth of old age
minding these six strings
it don't do me a damn
that you got a pretty face baby
it don't seem to you a damned thing
you got soothsayer nay-saying
red herrings never spoke to us
we don't believe in fate or metaphor
they got healing lips but their tongues are poison tipped
maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you
im whistling with conviction like a young man in love
like a young man with his pride on sale
baby
join the club
well you're just darling
with your exclaimed travesties
its a long road so keep your chin up
you got soothsayer nay-saying
red herrings never spoke to us
we don't believe in fate or metaphor
they got healing lips but their tongues are poison tipped
maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you
i once held a stone also
staring at you naked
daring us to throw
maria you see the good in everything
now i know stones and bones fall
to where they came from
maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
Oh Maria I waited too long
The phone rang three times, but you were gone
Take it from me, move out on me
I only weigh you down
And I'm not so dumb I can take a hint
Gave you 48 hours and then I split
Now I'm high on the road trying to get home
I want my bubble car
Took the turn and drove too far
I want my airplane
Pop some pills to feel the same
MARIA itetsuita kokoro no fukaku ni anata ga iru kara
MARIA moesakaru honoo no naka kara kikoeru sakebi ga
ima mo takaku hibiite watashi no mune o tsukisasu
watashi no kono te o machitsuzuketeita
Silent Hill.
You promised that you'd take me there again someday.
But you never did.
Well I'm alone there now...
In our "special place"...
Waiting for you...>
MARIA moesakaru honoo no naka demo kogoeru hodo samui
kono kyoufu ni kizuite anata no moto e yuku kara
ima mo nemuru umi no fukaku e to
kono te o nigirishime itsuwari no anata o ayame
Maria, ...
Raw muscles in you
and you kill for the thrill to get into this
might not be sure
to get into the sin for the human race
Maria, ...
Raw muscles in you
and you kiss for the thrill to get into this
might not be sure
to get into the sin for the human race
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.
Maria, I've just met a girl named Maria,
and suddenly the name will never be the same to me.
Maria! I've just kissed a girl named Maria.
And suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be.
Maria, say it loud and there's music playing.
Say it soft and it's almost like praying,
We're melting in between
The building and the bus
It's you and me, but honestly,
It's still not us,
'Cause you've got plans, I understand
And I'll be on tour when you get back
And while we're so unlikely, love,
It's only you I'm thinking of
But it's so hard
When you won't let me tell you
What you want to hear
Let down your guard,
If only just a little,
'Cause you know I already have
And please, leave, Maria
'Cause every lie you step inside
Just drives me to the edge
And please, leave, Maria
'Cause falling out of love is worse
Than falling from the ledge
Together sleeping on the ceiling secretly,
Somehow the air we're in has stolen the gravity
And I don't care if people stare
Or say I've changed, 'cause that's not fair
It's just that I'm not quite so cold,
I'm happy not to sleep alone
But it's so hard
When you won't let me tell you
What you want to hear
Let down your guard,
If only just a little,
'Cause you know I already have
And please, leave, Maria
'Cause every lie you step inside
Just drives me to the edge
And please, leave, Maria
'Cause falling out of love is worse
Than falling from the ledge
And is it love?
'Cause I never thought about it any other way
And if it's love, I think that you'll know,
And even if you think you can't,
Please just try to understand
And please, leave, Maria
'Cause every lie you step inside
Just drives me to the edge
And please, leave, Maria
'Cause falling out of love is worse
Maria was born in the country
She loved her homeland
Maria was from a poor family
For their girl they had greater plans
Across the sea not yet twenty
Sailed our Maria, a man to see
Perhaps marry dreams our Maria
This was to be eventually for our Maria
Maria made plans for the future
Sh had sons to her man
Maria grew sad as the years passed
She did not understand
You must believe me
Though its not easy, trust in me
My life's been wasted
There's nothing sacred I can see
Though we're together
It seems we've never known the way
These lives we started
Now broken hearted everyday
Maria works in the factory
She makes shoes for the man
Maria lives for her family
Now she does what she can.
Hold on to me
Hold on to me Maria
For this was to be
A tragedy for our Maria
Oh Maria don't you cry
Oh Maria dry your eyes
Intro:
Ma Ma Maria
I Wanna See Ya (I Wanna See Ya)
Ah Can You Feel Me Too
Verse1-Mikel:
She’s the kind of girl, makes you look twice
Makes the fellas nod their heads
So fine, that every man would wanna hold her hand
It’s crazy (oh yeah)
Richie: Lookin so good to me, she was so tight
Simple words just can’t describe
She was something like a beauty queen from a fashion magazine
(oh maria)
Bridge
Deep inside, girl I can’t deny it
What I feel, I can’t really hide it
Mi amor, girl my heart is true for you
I need you Maria
Chorus
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Maria
Finest of all the sweet senoritas
Lookin so good I would like to me ya (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Maria
I get a chill whenever I see ya
Shorty I like the way that your booty rolls (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Ma Ma Maria
I Wanna See Ya (I Wanna See Ya)
Ah Can You Feel Me Too
Verse2-Chris:
She’s a perfect ten and she knows it
From her head down to her toes
The kind that makes you want to settle down
And just get married (oh yea)
Jay: I would do anything to be near her
Give her all I have and more
Baby girl you are the one for me
You’re my pin-up fantasy (oh Maria)
C-part
Baby I need you endlessly
Cause with you is where I wanna be (ohooh)
Chorus
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Maria
Finest of all the sweet senoritas Alle
Lookin so good I would like to me ya (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) US
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Maria
I get a chill whenever I see ya Maria
Shorty I like the way that your booty rolls (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) Songtexte
Ma Ma Maria
I Wanna See Ya (I Wanna See Ya) Songtext
Ah Can You Feel Me Too
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) Lyrics
The most beautiful sound I ever heard
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word - Maria
I just met a girl named Maria, and suddenly that name
Will never be the same to me.
Maria - I just kissed a girl named Maria
And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be
Maria - say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying - Maria
I'll never stop saying Maria, Maria, Maria...
Oh Maria all has been in vain
Oh Maria
All we know that's changed
'Cause nothing's turning out
the way I planned
And darling I just hope
you understand
And though nothing's really over
'til it's through
And darling I still believe in you
Oh Maria
Won't you come out tonight
I'd love to see ya
Standing under the light
With the moon going by
And them stars in the sky
Hold your head up high for me
Oh Maria
Won't you come out tonight
I'd like to see ya
Standing under the light
With that moon in the sky
And those stars in your eyes
Hold your head high for me
Please
oh Maria all that's passed us by
oh Maria hang your head and cry
'Cause nothing's turning out
the way we planned
And darling don't you think
I'll understand
But nothing's really over
'til it's done
And if we haven't lost
I guess we've won
Oh Maria
Won't you come out tonight
I'd like to see ya
Standing under the light
All them stars in the sky
With that moon in your eyes
Hold your head up high for me
Please
Oh Maria
Won't you come out tonight
I'd like to see ya
Standing under the light
All the stars in the sky
With that moon in your eyes
Hold your head up high for me
María, María te quiero todavia ya mis horas no me importan por quemarte vida mia, ya mis manos con mis dedos te comienzo a enrrollas no me aguanto ni un segundo para poderte ya fumar. Eres mia en el papelillo te huelo te miro eres tu la democracia la gracia en plena magia
Ganya ganya hui hui. Ganya ganya hui hui.
He dejado sano juicio por que estes dentro de mi entre el cielo y la tierra amandote en silencio yo yo no tengo miedo llevame luego a ese juego por que quiero entrar en ese mundo tan tan especial eres tu María solo tu y nadie mas yo no soy ecologista pero viva tu sativa, hay María me quemo los dedos por quedar bien arriba me escapo en este momento y estoy en el ritual escucha lo que te digo y enciendete otro mas hombre sincero de donde crece esta planta llamalo como quieras pero defendamos a la ganya.
Ganya ganya hui....
Para aumentar la inspiracion saco otro de los mios enciendo inspiro ya estoy amarillo opaco el poder de seduccion de labios a María madre sativa no me dejes de noche ni diate quiero amo tu color el cual me da la vida y es que ya no puedo parar.
Ganya...
Maria,
I told you to stay here,
Here...
[x2]
Maria,
I told you to stay here,
Here...
[x2]
All I want to know is how they broke you,
All I want to know is how they broke you,
[x4]
Struggle to keep your life,
Don't let them take,
Don't let them take,
You,
Struggle to keep your life,
Don't let them take,
Don't let them take,
You,
Struggle to keep your life,
Don't let them take,
Don't let them take,
You...
I Need It.
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.
Maria, I've just met a girl named Maria,
And suddenly the name will never be the same to me.
Maria! I've just kissed a girl named Maria.
And suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be.
Maria, say it loud and there's music playing.
Say it soft and it's almost like praying,
Do Dah Do Dah Dah Do Do Do (x2)
(Eheheh, Myspace)
Do Dah Do Dah Dah Do Do Do (x8)
Maria, Maria, we like it loud x4
Maria, Maria, we like it f*cking loud.
Maria, believe me, i like it loud.
Come on and sing with me.
Oh Maria, I’m in the dark
Searching for something that’s already in my heart
You are the moon light, my source of heat
Glowing so strong and pure, so soft and sweet
Well I’m just over flowing with love for you
Cause you fill my cup and my body too
Yeah you fill my cup and my body too
Oh Maria, I know I should
I should get back to you now just like I said I would
You are an ocean, my emerald sea
I think ahead to the days when your waves will envelope me
Well I’m just overflowing with love for you
Cause you fill my cup and my body too
Yeah you fill my cup and my body too
And if we loose our balance
And we start to drift and fall
And we wind up on our knees
Well remember we still can crawl
Oh my sweetness, you know that I
I want to walk with you into these restless tides
My Maria, so endlessly
Flowing through my veins and through my dreams
Well I’m just bubbling over with gratitude
Because you take my dreams and you make them true
Well I’m overflowing with love for you
‘Cause you fill my cup and my body too
She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee
Her dress has got a tear
She waltzes on her way to Mass
And whistles on the stair
And underneath her wimple
She has curlers in her hair
I even heard her singing in the abbey
She's always late for chapel
But her penitence is real
She's always late for everything
Except for every meal
I hate to have to say it
But I very firmly feel
Maria's not an asset to the abbey
I'd like to say a word in her behalf
Maria makes me laugh
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
When I'm with her I'm confused
Out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly where I am
Unpredictable as weather
She's as flighty as a feather
She's a darling! She's a demon! She's a lamb!
She'd outpester any pest
Drive a hornet from its nest
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
She is gentle! She is wild!
She's a riddle! She's a child!
She's a headache! She's an angel!
She's a girl!
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
there you'll be Faith Hill
when i think back on these times
and the dreams we left behind
i'll be glad that i was blessed to give to have u in my life
when i look back on these days i'll look and see your face you where there for me
chourus
in my dreams i'll always see you sore above the sky
in my heart they'll always be a place for you for all my life
i keep apart of you with me
and every where i am theyre you'll be
and everywhere i am theyre you' be
if u show me how it feels to feel the sky with in my reach
and i will always will remember the sweet u gave to me
your love mae me make it through ohh i owe so much to you
you where right there for me
(chorus)
cos i always saw nd u my light my strength
and i wanna thanks you no for all the way
u wer right there for me ( u wer right there 4 me)
you where right there 4 me always
chorus
María, sigue sangrando esta herida,
sigue doliendo la vida,
la mentira sigue erguida en el umbral.
María,
los buitres rasgan el vientre
de una verdad inocente
de unicornios que aterrados morirán.
el odio, la ira,
la transa, el miedo,
la venganza, la iniquidad.
la guerra es la nada
y con la paz como mortaja
la vida se ira.
María,
los sueños, las utopías,
están aquí todavía
esperando
como espero el que vendrás.
estoy en la orilla en esta amarga pesadilla
que me aturde, que me tira,
que me arrastra que me hunde;
mientras tanto, nada tengo
y sin embargo tengo todo
para ti, María.
María,
hay una vela encendida,
un colibrí que me espía;
hay un pan, una cebolla,
tu sonrisa que me importa,
la esperanza que me arropa
junto a ti,
María
Maria, my Maria
sit alongside me
Maria, sweet Maria
stay with me
why aren't you
running to
the arms of God ?
don't close your eyes
he will close them for you
don't give into
the things they say
don't give into
that dark place
where pain hides
Maria, my Maria
sit alongside me
Maria, sweet Maria
stay with me
Maria
When the day is beautiful and silent
Thousand dreams are gathering soul
It seems like has never ending
Blooded minds haunted sacred soul
Maria...
Spirit of dream
Maria...
Melted in the dark
Something hidden inside (frightened face)
I'm the woman (the powerless)
Become a flower crushed under
(under suffered) by shadow of grief
My heart of life is dying
My tear is still dripping down
Become a flower crushed under
(under suffered)
Maria... Maria... Maria...
She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee
Her dress has got a tear
She waltzes on her way to Mass
And whistles on the stair
And underneath her wimple
She has curlers in her hair
I even heard her singing in the abbey
She's always late for chapel
But her penitence is real
She's always late for everything
Except for every meal
I hate to have to say it
But I very firmly feel
Maria's not an asset to the abbey
I'd like to say a word in her behalf
Maria makes me laugh
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
When I'm with her I'm confused
Out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly where I am
Unpredictable as weather
She's as flighty as a feather
She's a darling! She's a demon! She's a lamb!
She'd outpester any pest
Drive a hornet from its nest
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
She is gentle! She is wild!
She's a riddle! She's a child!
She's a headache! She's an angel!
She's a girl!
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
The most beautiful sound I ever heard
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word
Maria
I just met a girl named Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same to me
Maria
I just kissed a girl named Maria
And suddenly I found
How wonderful a sound can be
Maria
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Maria
I'll never stop saying
Maria
Maria, Maria...
Maria
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Maria
I'll never stop saying
Maria
The most beautiful sound I ever heard
Please stop pretending we're not the same
That you don't feel no pain when I know
And don't try to turn away, cover up when you're afraid
Don't be afraid, 'cause I know
Sometimes it's hard to tell
That it's ok, yes, it's ok, baby, with me
You can cry, baby, it's alright
Let them fall and I'll dry your eyes
Don't you feel no shame, 'cause I love your weakness
You can cry, baby, it's alright
When you hurt, you don't have to hide
Just let down your guard, 'cause I love your weakness
Baby, you weakness, I love your weakness
So feel safe, and know you can speak your mind
Put all your pride aside, 'cause I know
When things get too hard to take, just give into my embrace
And I'll keep you safe, 'cause I know
Did the world disappoint you, babe
Leave you sold, took your innocence away
Let me compensate, I'll be there if it falls apart, let me in
Temporarily, I lost my mind, but it feels alright
When you're here with me, I get so high
I taste you on my lips, and you begin, to get under my skin
You know I can't resist, letting you in
Right where I wanna be
With you inside of me
And I cant hardly breath
'Cause you're so intoxicating, I'm loving everything you do
Constantly you've got me craving, I cant get enough of you
'Cause you're so intoxicating, I'm loving everything you do
Constantly you've got me craving, just another hit of you
I'm surrendering, and you can tell that I'm about to melt
Better than a dream, I lost myself, now I'm in so deep like a breeze
You come over me, if I had the strength to speak
I'd whisper to you softly, that I'm
Feels like I'm falling from the sky
But when I am with you, I can fly
And in that moment, it happens again
Why you wanna make me cry
Aren't you tired of disappointing me
Don't you know that I deserve better
Than you ever gave to me
You know it's just the way
I give, you take, baby
Every time I'm up then you come around
And you try to bring me down, my soul
Keeps on telling me that I've gotta let you go
My soul, and with all your lies
Boy, you've tainted everything
My soul, I've gotta let you go, 'cause I know
You're poisoning my soul
Remember when you gave me strength
Baby, now you only make me weak
I pray somehow that I can break
The spell you put on me
I can't live with you, I can't live without your love
You keep telling me and when you come around I just break on down
Seems like lately, you're far away
Even when you're sitting near
Drives me crazy, that you don't seem to care
Feels so lonely, I know that something's wrong
I can tell with just a touch
I'm not the only one that you're thinking of
Why do you say that you're mine, when its plain to see
Your past ain't too far behind and now it's catching up with me
Didn't know every time that you said "we"
You knew she was still around
Boy, I thought it was only you and me
Cant you see that three's a crowd
Didn't know when you said we'd always be
You were really thinking 'bout
We'd always be, you and me and she
Can't you see that three's a crowd
Left unspoken, that when you gave your heart
I wouldn't have to share, now mine's broken
You know that's unfair when you were so blessed
I have you everything, my heart, my soul, my time
Wish I would've known this, was all built on lies
That's why I've got to let you go, if you can't choose then, baby, I'll have to
Tell you how it's gonna be, now when you think of me
If you cut, I will bleed, bring me down to my knees
You make me feel what I am is never good enough
Can you help me understand, thought I made you a better man
I guess somehow along the way, things just change
It seems just like a distant memory
That you used to be good for me
But, baby, now it's clear
I give you take, somehow it's gonna break
I pray for the strength, I hate to say
I know we can't go on this way
I give you take, I know we're gonna break
And it hurts my soul, I hate to say
We can't go on this way
With your words you pull me in, I always lose I just can't win
And though I see my heart is blind, it gives in every time
You've got me on constant repeat, I need a cure or a remedy
'cause if I stay there won't be, nothing left for me...
Now there's nothing left for us to save 'cause only bitterness remains
What we have is like a house of cards and it's falling apart
And It's impossible to get it back with the bridges that you've burned
I still believe that if you and i
Could turn the clocks back, we'd realize
That what we have has gone from worse to bad
It's clear, things are not what they appear
Tell me what happened to butterflies
I used to get them, when you;d walk by
And i'd just have to touch you
To know that you were mine, ain't it funny how time flies
I hate to love you, but i get the feeling
When o'm thinking of you, it's crazy but true
I hate to love you, but i keep believing
It's the way to you, like i do
I keep on chossing to never learn
Can't win for losing so i return
To what i know, and even though
I pray for change, same old story, same old game
There's no denying that we both tried
But what good is trying, if every time
We breakup to makeup
I'm tired of the trend, i feel it coming 'round again
How many times will i say goodbye
How many tears so i have to cry
How many wrongs will it take to make it right
I know i told you i don't feel the way i used to
I know i said things that were hard to accept from me
But please believe that now tha pain's catching up with me
Tell me how can i make you see
That, baby, all the hurt i've caused, i'm making up for it now
And i've had some time all to myself and i think i've figured it out
I never miss you 'til you're gone away from me
I took your love for granted, now it's killing me
And every time it happens this way, right when i let you go
Imean stay, and i never miss you 'til you're gone away from me
And it's so funny 'cause i never though i'd feel like this now
And if you never come back what am i to do now
Will i ever mend this broken heart, i know i'm the one to blame
Know i need you in my life for everything to be the same
Was searching for someone i thought would be everything i need
It's more than chemistry, I feel
Just the thought of you's surreal
Should I be afraid to feel this way
Knowing that my heart revealed
I keep thinking we're two of a kind
I've given you the sign
I can't make it any more simplified
'Cause I wanna love you, baby
No one else will do, can I
Only love you, and no one else
See, I won't hesitate or doubt
With you, I've been blessed somehow
It's like d©j vu, feels so right with you
Just seem to know what I'm about
When it's getting hard to breath
I know the only remedy
Nothing seems complicated
Don't even have to say it
You already know what I mean
I know you're feeling me
Why don't you say, what's on your mind
Stop playing games, and wasting my time
'Cause we both know that for far too long
We've tried to hide that something still is going on
I still feel you when you're gone
Should I still want you if it's wrong
'Cause though I've tried, baby, my heart won't be
Can't fight what I feel
So no matter what I say,
And no matter what I do
And no matter who I love, I'm always loving you
Always, can't help myself, always, always, baby
Let's find a way, to make this last
You be my future, not just my past
'Cause it might be right, when it feels so strong
Help me find out, what the hell is going
If you promise me, you'll be loving me, exclusively
Baby, you will see, we've got endless possibilities
Why you wanna make me cry
Aren't you tired of disappointing me
Don't you know that I deserve better
Than you ever gave to me
You know it's just the way
I give, you take, baby
Every time I'm up then you come around
And you try to bring me down, my soul
Keeps on telling me that I've gotta let you go
My soul, and with all your lies
Boy, you've tainted everything
My soul, I've gotta let you go, 'cause I know
You're poisoning my soul
Remember when you gave me strength
Baby, now you only make me weak
I pray somehow that I can break
The spell you put on me
I can't live with you, I can't live without your love
You keep telling me and when you come around I just break on down
I've been alone, since the day that you left me
'cause i never told, just what you mean to me
I guess im afraid, of those kind of feelings
Didn't mean to push you away, i realize i made a big mistake
'cause you know i know, and i know you know
That every time you do, i get so lonely
I know you know, and you know i know
That every time you go, i get so lonely
Never fely this way, 'til you came into my life
And you made me feel, something that i thought i'd never like
Deep down you know, that you're everything i need
So why pretend, that you dont know its hurting me, 'cause
Tell me what it takes to make you come back home
Tell me what i have to say, 'cause i dont like being alone
Yes, you're everything i want, you're the better part of me
I thought you know mw well enough that you could tell
That just one thing will do when I'm in this mood
And what I'm craving is, you flavor on my lips
So won't you fill me up, 'cause I've waited for this
All day long it's on my mind
There's no way to unwind
Until I get back home, and you put it on
I like my coffee in bed
It only takes one sip to go to my head
I never have to say no sugar or cream, baby
'Cause you know what I need, my black coffee
Now if I seem selfish, it's 'cause I can't resist
Even though I've tried, I still crave I crave that high
And yeah, it's obvious that I can't get enough
So if you serve it hot, I'll say when to stop
Baby, you're getting so close I can't taste it
I don't want a drop to be wasted
So just slow down and take your time
Maria avait deux enfants, deux garçons don't elle était fière
Et c'était bien la même chair, et c'était bien le même sang
Ils grandirent sur cette terre, près de la Méditerrannée
Ils grandirent dans la lumière, entre l'olive et l'oranger
C'est presque au jour de leurs vingt ans qu'éclata la guerre civile
On vit l'Espagne rouge de sang crier dans un monde immobile
Les deux garçons de Maria n'étaient pas dans le même camp
N'étaient pas du même combat, l'un était rouge, et l'autre blanc
Qui des deux tira le premier, le jour où les fusils parlèrent
Et lequel des deux s'est tué sur le corps tout chaud de son frère?
On ne sait pas. Tout ce qu'on sait, c'est qu'on les retrouva ensemble
Le blanc et le rouge mêlés à même les pierres et la cendre
Si vous lui parlez de la guerre, si vous lui dites liberté
Elle vous montrera la pierre où ses enfants sont enterrés
Maria avait deux enfants, deux garçons don't elle était fière
MARIA MARIA MARIA
No na o yoba sete kudasai
Haruka chiheisen ni
Nagai yogaakeru-ji
Warui yume kara same
Sekai wa umarekawareru yo
Ikutsu mo no tsumi o
Aoi sora ga
Moto shitekureru
Hito wa daredemo
Orokana kako o
Tsugunaeru
Ashita ga aru yo
MARIA MARIA MARIA
KMkai no namida
Nagasu yori saki ni
Inori sasage
MARIA MARIA MARIA
No na o yoba sete kudasai
MMichido
Don'na areta tochi mo
Hitotsu no tane makeba +
Yagate me o dashitara
KibM no mi o tsukerudarou
Kanashimi no ame mo
Ten'nomegumi
Misute wa shinai
Hito wa darenimo
Ikiruchikara to
Aruku michi o
Atae rarete…
MARIA MARIA MARIA
Yowai jibun ga
Ykwaku no mori de
Mayowanu yM ni
MARIA MARIA MARIA
Chikaku ni ite omamori kudasai
Itsu demo…
Hito wa daredemo
Shinjirukoto de
YM ga noboru
KyM to iu hi
MARIA MARIA MARIA
KMkai no namida
Nagasu yori saki ni
Inori sasage
MARIA MARIA MARIA
No na o yoba sete kudasai
Maria . . .
(sings)
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word .
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
Maria!
I've just met a girl named Maria,
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me.
Maria!
I've just kissed a girl named Maria,
And suddenly I've found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!
Maria!
Say it loud and there's music playing,
Say it soft and it's almost like praying.
Maria,
I'll never stop saying Maria!
The most beautiful sound I ever heard.
Maria ibyeo-riran seulpeun ttang wiie
Jo-geuman nun-mulnamuga dweheoyo
Keudaereul tteonabonaen igose seoseo
Nun-mu-llo jaraneun namujyo
Maria kadeung meun geuri-umeuro
Haneobshi heunteu-llineun nun-mulnamu
Kallajin shimjang-cheoreom apeun sumkyeollo
Hayahke piyeonan nun-mul -ggot
Keudael eotteohke ijeul-kka
Keudaereurijeul su isseul-kka
Chu-un gyeoulboda deo gaseum shirin naldeulppuninde
Nae-ge-neun haessaldo baramdo sesangdo modu da duryeowo
Keudae chu-eongman butjab-go ppeodeo-ganeun
Nun-mul kaji-ga kkeokgigo sang-cheo nado
Keu apeumeul samgimyeo kyeondyeoya hae
Tashi do-raol keudaeraneun georal-gie
Naneun gidaryeo maria
Tteonaneun geu keo-reumeul hwahnhi bituge
Talbiteul keo-reo nohneun nun-mulnamu
Meo-reojin geurimjareul jikyeoboda-ga
Seoreob-ge tteo-reojin nun-mul -ggot
Keudael eotteohke ijeul-kka
Keudaereurijeul su isseul-kka
Chu-un gyeoulboda deo gaseum shirin naldeulppuninde
Nae-ge-neun haessaldo baramdo sesangdo modu da duryeowo
Keudae chu-eongman butjab-go ppeodeo-ganeun
Nun-mul kaji-ga kkeokgigo sang-cheo nado
Keu apeumeul samgimyeo kyeondyeoya hae
Tashi do-raol keudaeraneun geol
Keochin barami na-reul sewodo
Jiteun eodumi nuneul karyeodo
Byeonhameobshi nae mameul jigil-keyo yeah
Keudae sarang-hae
Keudae chu-eongman butjab-go ppeodeo-ganeun
Nun-mul kaji-ga kkeokgigo sang-cheo nado
Keu apeumeul samgimyeo kyeondyeoya hae
Tashi do-raol keudaeraneun geol maria
Keudae chu-eongman butjab-go ppeodeo-ganeun
Nun-mul kaji-ga kkeokgigo sang-cheo nado
Nan yeongwonhi igoseul jikyeoya hae
Nae-ge sarangeun geudaeppunin geol maria maria
Tashi do-raol keudaeraneun georal-gie naneun gidaryeo maria
V1
She's the kind of girl, makes you look twice
Makes the fellas nod their heads
So fine, that
every man would wanna hold her hand
It's crazy (oh yeah)
Lookin so good to me, she was so tight
Simple
words just can't describe
She was something like a beauty queen from a fashion magazine
(oh
maria)
Bridge
Deep inside, girl I can't deny it
What I feel, I can't really hide it
Mi amor,
girl my heart is true for you
I need you Maria
Chorus
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Maria
Finest
of all the sweet senoritas
Lookin so good I would like to me ya (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-Maria
I
get a chill whenever I see ya
Shorty I like the way that your booty rolls (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
V2
She's
a perfect ten and she knows it
From her head down to her toes
The kind that makes you want to settle
down
And just get married (oh yea)
I would do anything to be near her
Give her all I have and more
Baby
girl you are the one for me
You're my pin-up fantasy (oh Maria)
C-part
Baby I need you endlessly
Cause
with you is where I wanna be (ohooh)
Here we are
I feel fine
When you're full
full of cries
When I saw the light
the only thing I heared
heared it was dark
Oh, it's time to go
The light
they have come
they took me high
in heaven
and it was nice
oh love
'cause it was nice
so nice
Here we are
you make it good
When you die
die will I feel
That it's so easy
in the dark
Where I can't see
no, nor feel
Oh, it's time to go
The light
they have come
they took me high
in heaven
and it was nice
oh love
'cause it was nice
so nice
ALBUMS
- Lonely
- I Give, You Take
- My Soul
- Nowadays
- Coffee in Bed
- You, Me & She
- Dreams from the Hills (Interlude)
- Intoxicated
- Weakness
- Always
- Simplified
- Hate to Love You
- Miss You
ALBUMS
RELEASE
ALBUMS
Born: 2005-10-25
Died: 2010-04-03
RELEASE
ALBUMS
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Blondie - Maria (HQ)
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- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Blondie singing Maria, golden oldie video clip in High Quality
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Blondie singing Maria, golden oldie video clip in High Quality
Maria - Blondie
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Blondie, Maria
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West Side Story-Maria
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
West Side Story-Maria
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Justin Bieber - Maria
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Follow us on twitter for updates about Justin Bieber daily: Twitter.com Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria
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Follow us on twitter for updates about Justin Bieber daily: Twitter.com Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria Justin Bieber - Maria
- published: 12 Jun 2012
- views: 4330246
- author: believepromo
Ricky Martin - María
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Music video by Ricky Martin performing María. (C) 2008 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Music video by Ricky Martin performing María. (C) 2008 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
- published: 03 Oct 2009
- views: 12997980
- author: RickyMartinVEVO
Maria Maria
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- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Music video by Santana performing Maria Maria. (C) 1999 Arista Records, Inc.
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Music video by Santana performing Maria Maria. (C) 1999 Arista Records, Inc.
- published: 25 Feb 2010
- views: 15045549
- author: SantanaVEVO
BLONDIE - maria
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- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
www.youtube.com Deborah Ann (Debbie) Harry (Miami, 1 juli 1945) is een Amerikaanse zangeres en filmactrice, die vooral bekend werd als zangeres van de popgroep Blondie.
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www.youtube.com Deborah Ann (Debbie) Harry (Miami, 1 juli 1945) is een Amerikaanse zangeres en filmactrice, die vooral bekend werd als zangeres van de popgroep Blondie.
- published: 10 Dec 2007
- views: 2431070
- author: malleep
Maria(Korean Ver.) / actress 김아중(Kim Ah-joong) / original song by BLONDIE
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- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Originally a singer : Blondie(America New Wave punk band;vocal-Deborah Ann Harry) Song title : Maria Album : 'No Exit'(in 1999) Arranger : Lee Jae-hak (Korean modern rock band 'LOVEHOLIC' bassist) Singer : Kim Ah-joong (Korean actress) * Korean film '200 pounds beauty' OST Please DON'T ask me mp3 or movie!!! OST global.yesasia.com DVD global.yesasia.com Source : koreanfilm.org 200 POUNDS BEAUTY. ("Minyeoneun Goerowo") Kim Yong-hwa, the director of Oh! Brothers, is finally making his second feature length film. It will be a romantic comedy based on a best-selling manga written by Yumiko Suzuki. The story is about a chubby and plain young lady who undergoes plastic surgery which makes her drop-dead gorgeous. Cast in the lead role of Hanna is Kim Ah-joong (When Romance Meets Destiny) and Joo Jin-mo (Wanee & Junah, Real Fiction) will play opposite her as Sang-joon. Other familiar faces in the cast include Kim Yong-geon (Mr. Butterfly, Please Teach Me English), Seong Dong-il (Running Seven Dogs), Im Hyeon-shik (See You After School, YMCA Baseball Team), Lee Han-wi (April Snow), Lee Won-jong (This Charming Girl), Kim Hyeon-sook (Unborn But Forgotten), and Park No-shik (He Was Cool). This movie is a Zenith Pictures/KM Culture co-production.
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Originally a singer : Blondie(America New Wave punk band;vocal-Deborah Ann Harry) Song title : Maria Album : 'No Exit'(in 1999) Arranger : Lee Jae-hak (Korean modern rock band 'LOVEHOLIC' bassist) Singer : Kim Ah-joong (Korean actress) * Korean film '200 pounds beauty' OST Please DON'T ask me mp3 or movie!!! OST global.yesasia.com DVD global.yesasia.com Source : koreanfilm.org 200 POUNDS BEAUTY. ("Minyeoneun Goerowo") Kim Yong-hwa, the director of Oh! Brothers, is finally making his second feature length film. It will be a romantic comedy based on a best-selling manga written by Yumiko Suzuki. The story is about a chubby and plain young lady who undergoes plastic surgery which makes her drop-dead gorgeous. Cast in the lead role of Hanna is Kim Ah-joong (When Romance Meets Destiny) and Joo Jin-mo (Wanee & Junah, Real Fiction) will play opposite her as Sang-joon. Other familiar faces in the cast include Kim Yong-geon (Mr. Butterfly, Please Teach Me English), Seong Dong-il (Running Seven Dogs), Im Hyeon-shik (See You After School, YMCA Baseball Team), Lee Han-wi (April Snow), Lee Won-jong (This Charming Girl), Kim Hyeon-sook (Unborn But Forgotten), and Park No-shik (He Was Cool). This movie is a Zenith Pictures/KM Culture co-production.
- published: 06 Dec 2006
- views: 4221811
- author: soombisory
Maria Sharapova Gangnam Style
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- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 31 Jan 2013
Maria Sharapova is encouraging 'Gangnam Style' on the court.
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Maria Sharapova is encouraging 'Gangnam Style' on the court.
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 203891
- author: morningshow
Schubert - Ave Maria (Opera)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 03 Feb 2013
Jetzt bei Amazon.de kaufen: www.amazon.de
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In Form VS Non In Form - DI MARIA 87 PLAYER REVIEW FIFA 13 ultimate team
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
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ANDREA BOCELLI (HQ) AVE MARIA (SCHUBERT)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 03 Feb 2013
ANDREA BOCELLI - AVE MARIA - FRANZ SCHUBERT ROMA
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ANDREA BOCELLI - AVE MARIA - FRANZ SCHUBERT ROMA
- published: 11 Jul 2009
- views: 4801455
- author: DREAMER100PRE
Maria Kowroski (NYCB): The Evolution of an Artist
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:19
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Maria Kowroski: The Evolution of an Artist from DancePulp. Like this? Visit www.dancepulp.com New York City Ballet principal ballerina Maria Kowroski speaks about the pros and cons of being a tall ballerina, the advantages of having choreographers create on you, and shares thoughts on personal struggle and inspiration. See all episodes of DancePulp at http or www.youtube.com
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Maria Kowroski: The Evolution of an Artist from DancePulp. Like this? Visit www.dancepulp.com New York City Ballet principal ballerina Maria Kowroski speaks about the pros and cons of being a tall ballerina, the advantages of having choreographers create on you, and shares thoughts on personal struggle and inspiration. See all episodes of DancePulp at http or www.youtube.com
- published: 22 Nov 2012
- views: 270
- author: TenduTV
Bach - Ave Maria - Maria Callas
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- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Johann Sebastian Bach Ave Maria Maria Callas
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Julión Álvarez Y Su Norteño Banda - La Maria
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- Duration: 2:40
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
Music video by Julion Alvarez Y Su Norteño Banda performing La Maria. (C) 2010 Disa Latin Music A Division Of UMG Recordings Inc.
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Music video by Julion Alvarez Y Su Norteño Banda performing La Maria. (C) 2010 Disa Latin Music A Division Of UMG Recordings Inc.
- published: 07 May 2010
- views: 4020601
- author: JAlvarezYSuNrtnoVEVO
Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Act - Oh Maria
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- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 03 Feb 2013
Einmal für Jule hochgeladen... Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Act - Oh Maria Hail holy Queen enthroned above, Oh Maria, Hail mother of Mercy and of Love, Oh Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim! Sing with us ye seraphim! Heaven and Earth, resound the hymn! Salve (salve), salve, salve Regina! (Clapping Hands) Hail holy Queen enthroned above, Oh Maria, Hail mother of Mercy and of Love, Oh Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim! Sing with us ye seraphim! Heaven and Earth, resound the hymn! Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! (Piano) Our life, our sweetness here below, (Oh-oo)Oh Maria, Our hope in sorrow and in woe (woe-oh-oh), Oh Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim (cherubim), Sing with us ye seraphim (seraphim), Heaven and Earth resound the Hymn! Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! A-le-lu-iah Mater ad mater inter marata Sanctus sanctus dominus Virgo respice mater ad spice Sanctus sanctus dominus A-le-lu-iah (A-le-lu-iah) Our life, our sweetness here below, Oh-o-oh-o Maria, Our hope in sorrow and in woe, Woh-o-oh-o Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim (cherubim), Sing with us ye seraphim (sweet seraphim) Heaven and Earth, resound the Hymn! Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! (Salve yeah) Salve Regina! (woh-o-oh) Salve Regina!
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Einmal für Jule hochgeladen... Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Act - Oh Maria Hail holy Queen enthroned above, Oh Maria, Hail mother of Mercy and of Love, Oh Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim! Sing with us ye seraphim! Heaven and Earth, resound the hymn! Salve (salve), salve, salve Regina! (Clapping Hands) Hail holy Queen enthroned above, Oh Maria, Hail mother of Mercy and of Love, Oh Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim! Sing with us ye seraphim! Heaven and Earth, resound the hymn! Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! (Piano) Our life, our sweetness here below, (Oh-oo)Oh Maria, Our hope in sorrow and in woe (woe-oh-oh), Oh Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim (cherubim), Sing with us ye seraphim (seraphim), Heaven and Earth resound the Hymn! Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! A-le-lu-iah Mater ad mater inter marata Sanctus sanctus dominus Virgo respice mater ad spice Sanctus sanctus dominus A-le-lu-iah (A-le-lu-iah) Our life, our sweetness here below, Oh-o-oh-o Maria, Our hope in sorrow and in woe, Woh-o-oh-o Maria, Triumph all ye cherubim (cherubim), Sing with us ye seraphim (sweet seraphim) Heaven and Earth, resound the Hymn! Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! (Salve yeah) Salve Regina! (woh-o-oh) Salve Regina!
- published: 24 Oct 2007
- views: 9750944
- author: petconsoe
Sister Act - Oh Maria
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- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 03 Feb 2013
Sister Act (1992)
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Decode the Scene GAME - Philippe Noiret Maria Grazia Cucinotta Linda Moretti MOVIE CLIPS
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- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 30 Jan 2013
Philippe Noiret Maria Grazia Cucinotta Linda Moretti MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) and Mario (Massimo Troisi) are married, with the Communist Neruda (Philippe Noiret) as their best man. TM & © Miramax Films (2012) Cast: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi,...
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Philippe Noiret Maria Grazia Cucinotta Linda Moretti MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) and Mario (Massimo Troisi) are married, with the Communist Neruda (Philippe Noiret) as their best man. TM & © Miramax Films (2012) Cast: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi,...
- published: 12 Sep 2012
- views: 50
- author: movieclipsGAMES
Decode the Scene GAME - Jason Segel Jack McBrayer Maria Thayer MOVIE CLIPS
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- Duration: 2:50
- Updated: 30 Jan 2013
Jason Segel Jack McBrayer Maria Thayer MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp At breakfast, Peter (Jason Segel) encounters a newlywed couple, recovering from a night of inept lovemaking. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Jack McBrayer, Kalani Robb, Jason Segel, Francesca DelBanco, Maria Thayer Director: Nicholas Stoller MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson, Rodney Rothman, Richard Vane Screenwriter: Jason Segel Film Description: In desperate need of a vacation after being unceremoniously dumped by his TV-star girlfriend, a man travels to a lavish Hawaiian resort to nurse his wounds and forget his heartache, only to discover that his ex and her handsome new boyfriend are currently staying at the exact same island hot spot. Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) may be just another struggling musician, but for the past six years he's been dating Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), one of the hottest stars on television. Sarah is everything in the world to Peter, so when she kindly but firmly tells him that they should each go their separate ways, he is absolutely devastated. Later, after attempting to salvage his ego by awkwardly attempting to become a womanizer and nearly losing his job because of a nervous breakdown, an emotionally fragile Peter attempts to put the past behind him by escaping to the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu. While at first it seems as if Peter has discovered the ...
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Jason Segel Jack McBrayer Maria Thayer MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp At breakfast, Peter (Jason Segel) encounters a newlywed couple, recovering from a night of inept lovemaking. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Jack McBrayer, Kalani Robb, Jason Segel, Francesca DelBanco, Maria Thayer Director: Nicholas Stoller MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson, Rodney Rothman, Richard Vane Screenwriter: Jason Segel Film Description: In desperate need of a vacation after being unceremoniously dumped by his TV-star girlfriend, a man travels to a lavish Hawaiian resort to nurse his wounds and forget his heartache, only to discover that his ex and her handsome new boyfriend are currently staying at the exact same island hot spot. Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) may be just another struggling musician, but for the past six years he's been dating Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), one of the hottest stars on television. Sarah is everything in the world to Peter, so when she kindly but firmly tells him that they should each go their separate ways, he is absolutely devastated. Later, after attempting to salvage his ego by awkwardly attempting to become a womanizer and nearly losing his job because of a nervous breakdown, an emotionally fragile Peter attempts to put the past behind him by escaping to the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu. While at first it seems as if Peter has discovered the ...
- published: 02 Oct 2012
- views: 93
- author: movieclipsGAMES
JackitK Tries - Super Maria
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- Duration: 17:39
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
Today covers a game that takes a strong inspirational influence from a jumping Italian plumber... a very strong influence. Link to flash game: www.newgrounds.com In "JackitK Tries" I generally play a game for the first time, give my thoughts about it, and if I would recommend the game for you viewers. Some weeks it's be game demos, other weeks Flash games, and if you're real lucky, it could even be of a game I got right out of it's box.
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Today covers a game that takes a strong inspirational influence from a jumping Italian plumber... a very strong influence. Link to flash game: www.newgrounds.com In "JackitK Tries" I generally play a game for the first time, give my thoughts about it, and if I would recommend the game for you viewers. Some weeks it's be game demos, other weeks Flash games, and if you're real lucky, it could even be of a game I got right out of it's box.
- published: 15 Sep 2012
- views: 214
- author: Jackitkong
Luan Santana - "Meu Destino" para Maria Mariana
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- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
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The Kevin Nealon Show - Maria Bamford - Dating
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- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 30 Jan 2013
Maria Bamford (@mariabamfoo) seeks inappropriate love on the Kevin Nealon show at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Hollywood, CA, home of the best stand up comedians. Have you subscribed to the Laugh Factory's channel yet? Click here: youtube.com Tell us what you thought in the comments and don't forget to like and add this video to your favorites if you LOL'd! FOLLOW @thelaughfactory on Twitter: twitter.com LIKE the Laugh Factory on Facebook: facebook.com VISIT the Laugh Factory's website: laughfactory.com LIVE SHOW TICKETS bit.ly FOLLOW @mariabamfoo on Twitter: twitter.com LIKE Maria Bamford's Facebook fan page: facebook.com VISIT Maria's website: mariabamford.com SUBSCRIBE to Maria Bamford's YouTube channel youtube.com
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Maria Bamford (@mariabamfoo) seeks inappropriate love on the Kevin Nealon show at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Hollywood, CA, home of the best stand up comedians. Have you subscribed to the Laugh Factory's channel yet? Click here: youtube.com Tell us what you thought in the comments and don't forget to like and add this video to your favorites if you LOL'd! FOLLOW @thelaughfactory on Twitter: twitter.com LIKE the Laugh Factory on Facebook: facebook.com VISIT the Laugh Factory's website: laughfactory.com LIVE SHOW TICKETS bit.ly FOLLOW @mariabamfoo on Twitter: twitter.com LIKE Maria Bamford's Facebook fan page: facebook.com VISIT Maria's website: mariabamford.com SUBSCRIBE to Maria Bamford's YouTube channel youtube.com
- published: 14 Feb 2012
- views: 31800
- author: TheLaughFactory
TRAGÉDIA EM INCENDIO SANTA MARIA.- RS - (BOATE KISS) 27 DE JANEIRO 2013
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- Duration: 1:31
- Updated: 02 Feb 2013
TRAGÉDIA EM INCENDIO EM SANTA MARIA.- RS - (BOATE KISS) 27 DE JANEIRO 2013 Tragedy in Brazil at the club santa maria kiss - strong scenes - Brazil Night Club fire killed 90 Tragedy in Brazil at the club santa maria kiss - strong scenes - Brazil Night Club fire killed 90 Tragedy in santa maria kiss nightclub in Brazil - ORIGINAL strong scenes - Brazil club fire
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TRAGÉDIA EM INCENDIO EM SANTA MARIA.- RS - (BOATE KISS) 27 DE JANEIRO 2013 Tragedy in Brazil at the club santa maria kiss - strong scenes - Brazil Night Club fire killed 90 Tragedy in Brazil at the club santa maria kiss - strong scenes - Brazil Night Club fire killed 90 Tragedy in santa maria kiss nightclub in Brazil - ORIGINAL strong scenes - Brazil club fire
- published: 27 Jan 2013
- views: 114097
- author: Germano Costa
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The Maria Bamford Show - 01 - Dropout
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- Duration: 5:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
because I wasn't finding it anywhere else
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The Maria Bamford Show 02 Maria Gets A Job
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- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
alright fine
we all gotta do our part for the revolution
it seems no one else is picking up the task of making the Maria Bamford Show available,
so I suppose I will have to do it myself
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alright fine
we all gotta do our part for the revolution
it seems no one else is picking up the task of making the Maria Bamford Show available,
so I suppose I will have to do it myself
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The Maria Bamford Show 03 Kicked Out
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- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
enjoy
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The Maria Bamford Show 04 Search for Meaning
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- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
for serious
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The Maria Bamford Show 05 Ready for Love
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- Duration: 4:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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The Maria Bamford Show 06 Mother's Day
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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The Maria Bamford Show - 07 - Show time
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- Duration: 5:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
people keep asking me about these, so I might as well add another one
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people keep asking me about these, so I might as well add another one
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 79333
- author: Tveir
The Maria Bamford Show 08 Crevasse
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- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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The Maria Bamford Show - 09 - Bread
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
can you dig it?
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The Maria Bamford Show 10 Dark
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
why am I still the only one uploading these?
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The Maria Bamford Show 11 Will
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- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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The Maria Bamford Show - 12 - Faith
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
I knew this was going to be my brother's favourite episode
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I knew this was going to be my brother's favourite episode
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 84829
- author: Tveir
The Maria Bamford Show - 13 - Oh - CD
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
enjoy
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The Maria Bamford Show 14 Death and Happiness
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
I'll upload one of these every once in a while, until I reach the legendary episode 20
remember to support the cultural revolution, kids
knowledge is free
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I'll upload one of these every once in a while, until I reach the legendary episode 20
remember to support the cultural revolution, kids
knowledge is free
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 54968
- author: Tveir
The Maria Bamford Show 15 Boredom
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- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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The Maria Bamford Show 16 Acting Out
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- Duration: 2:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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The Maria Bamford Show 17 Horror
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
you people are adorable
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The Maria Bamford Show 18 Moving
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- Duration: 3:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
soon to be concluded
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The Maria Bamford Show 19 Replacement
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
almost there
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The Maria Bamford Show 20 Exit
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
at last
completeness has been achieved
and for those who haven't found them yet, allow me to suggest a pair of torrents:
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at last
completeness has been achieved
and for those who haven't found them yet, allow me to suggest a pair of torrents:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4044784/First_17_episodes_of__The_Maria_Bamford_Show___320x240_.mp4
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4116779/Last_3_episodes_the_Maria_Bamford_Show___320x240_.mp4
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 45043
- author: Tveir
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Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Paschimattanasana and Purvattanasana
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- Duration: 1:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Paschimattanasana and Purvattanasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
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Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Paschimattanasana and Purvattanasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 18455
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana
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- Duration: 1:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
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Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 155926
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana I and II
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- Duration: 2:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Villella demonstrates Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana A and B from the standing postures of the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
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Maria Villella demonstrates Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana A and B from the standing postures of the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 64848
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Villella demonstrates Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
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Maria Villella demonstrates Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 186998
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Villella demonstrates Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
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Maria Villella demonstrates Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 28288
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Janu Sirsasana A and B
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- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Janu Sirsasana A and B. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
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In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Janu Sirsasana A and B. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 14264
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Trailer
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Trailer for "Ashtanga Yoga with MARIA VILLELLA". In the full video available at http://www.yogiclife.com, Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrates the entire Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with strength, grace and control. As you watch, and listen, to the video you will hear the vinyasas for each posture counted, the names of the postures as well as the opening and closing prayers all spoken in Sanskrit. MUSIC FOR THIS TRAILER: "Decisions" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Trailer for "Ashtanga Yoga with MARIA VILLELLA". In the full video available at http://www.yogiclife.com, Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrates the entire Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with strength, grace and control. As you watch, and listen, to the video you will hear the vinyasas for each posture counted, the names of the postures as well as the opening and closing prayers all spoken in Sanskrit. MUSIC FOR THIS TRAILER: "Decisions" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 55892
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Marichasana B
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- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Marichasana B. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
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In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Marichasana B. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 14136
- author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Marichasana A
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- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Marichasana A. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
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In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Marichasana A. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 4668
- author: findayogateacher
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Bellini -La Sonnambula - Care Compagne (1955 Studio)
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- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas sings "Care Compagne, Teneri Amici...Sovra Il Sen La Man Mi Posa" From "Callas At La Scala"
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Maria Callas sings "Care Compagne, Teneri Amici...Sovra Il Sen La Man Mi Posa" From "Callas At La Scala"
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 9769
- author: Annabelwei
Bellini - La Sonnambula - Ah! Non Credea Mirarti(1955Studio)
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- Duration: 8:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Callas sings "Ah! Non Credea Mirarti...Ah! Non Giunge" from "Callas At La Scala"
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Callas sings "Ah! Non Credea Mirarti...Ah! Non Giunge" from "Callas At La Scala"
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 24021
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas,Giuseppe di Stefano Lucia di Lammermoor Live 1955 Sextett
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- Duration: 7:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Lucia di Lammermoor
1955 Live in Berlin
Maria Callas
Giuseppe di Stefano
Rolando Panerai
Nicola Zaccaria
Giuseppe Zampieri
Luisa Villa
Coro di Scala, Milano
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Chi mi frena in tal momento
Sextett
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Lucia di Lammermoor
1955 Live in Berlin
Maria Callas
Giuseppe di Stefano
Rolando Panerai
Nicola Zaccaria
Giuseppe Zampieri
Luisa Villa
Coro di Scala, Milano
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Chi mi frena in tal momento
Sextett
- published: 31 May 2010
- views: 30261
- author: Annabelwei
MARIA CALLAS. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. ( Live in Athens 5/8/1957) G. DONIZETTI.
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- Duration: 8:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Regnava nel silencio.
Orquesta del Festival de Atenas.
Dir. Antonino Votto.
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Regnava nel silencio.
Orquesta del Festival de Atenas.
Dir. Antonino Votto.
- published: 31 May 2010
- views: 12255
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962
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Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 184480
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas: "Pace, pace mio Dio" - Forza del Destino Verdi, 1954
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas nell'agosto 1954 a Milano ha inciso in studio "La Forza del Destino" di Giuseppe Verdi. Qui viene eseguita l'aria "Pace, pace, mio Dio!". Direttore Tullio Serafin, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala. Le fotografie sono tratte dallo splendido volume di Eugenio Gara, edito nel 1959, e dedicato alla Divina.
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Maria Callas nell'agosto 1954 a Milano ha inciso in studio "La Forza del Destino" di Giuseppe Verdi. Qui viene eseguita l'aria "Pace, pace, mio Dio!". Direttore Tullio Serafin, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala. Le fotografie sono tratte dallo splendido volume di Eugenio Gara, edito nel 1959, e dedicato alla Divina.
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 171875
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas: Havanaise Carmen
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- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas: Havanaise Carmen
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Maria Callas
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Covent Garden,4 November 1962;
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Callas & Di Stefano in duet from Mascagni's Cavalleria
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- Duration: 6:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973
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Callas & Di Stefano in final scene from Bizet's Carmen
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- Duration: 7:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973
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Callas & Di Stefano in duet from Verdi's Don Carlo
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- Duration: 7:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973
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Maria Callas
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- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas was born in New York City in 1923 to Greek parents. The uniqueness of her angelic voice and her unmatched artistry of interpreting operatic music are the reasons why she was an opera superstar. Ms. Callas passed away in 1977. The soundtrack is "Suicidio!" from "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
P.S.: check out my other channel "SundroidHD": http://www.youtube.com/SundroidHD or my website: http://www.shisun.net
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Maria Callas was born in New York City in 1923 to Greek parents. The uniqueness of her angelic voice and her unmatched artistry of interpreting operatic music are the reasons why she was an opera superstar. Ms. Callas passed away in 1977. The soundtrack is "Suicidio!" from "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
P.S.: check out my other channel "SundroidHD": http://www.youtube.com/SundroidHD or my website: http://www.shisun.net
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 1657302
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas Otello: Ave Maria
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- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Otello
"Ave Maria"
http://wn.com/Maria_Callas_Otello_Ave_Maria
Callas sings La Sonnambula
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- Duration: 8:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
TRIBUTE TO MARIA CALLAS
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her death, I made a slideshow with some of her most beautiful photos accompanied by her haunting interpretation of Amina's Mad Scene:
"Ah non credea mirarti... Ah non giunge"
1957
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TRIBUTE TO MARIA CALLAS
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her death, I made a slideshow with some of her most beautiful photos accompanied by her haunting interpretation of Amina's Mad Scene:
"Ah non credea mirarti... Ah non giunge"
1957
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 134938
- author: Annabelwei
Callas day 1977-1997 part3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
documentario
http://wn.com/Callas_day_1977-1997_part3
Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 1
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- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 1
Second Act, Begining (1)
at Covent Garden
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Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 1
Second Act, Begining (1)
at Covent Garden
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 80393
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 2
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- Duration: 9:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 2
Second Act, Begining (2)
at Covent Garden
http://wn.com/Maria_Callas_Tosca,_second_Act_part_2
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 2
Second Act, Begining (2)
at Covent Garden
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 34018
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 3 (Torture Scene p1)
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 3
Second Act, Torture Scene (1)
at Covent Garden
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Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 3
Second Act, Torture Scene (1)
at Covent Garden
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 39183
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 4 (Torture Scene p2)
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- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 4
Second Act, Torture Scene (2)
at Covent Garden
http://wn.com/Maria_Callas_Tosca,_second_Act_part_4_Torture_Scene_p2
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 4
Second Act, Torture Scene (2)
at Covent Garden
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 38520
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 5
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- Duration: 6:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 5
Second Act
at Covent Garden
http://wn.com/Maria_Callas_Tosca,_second_Act_part_5
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 5
Second Act
at Covent Garden
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 38870
- author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 7 (Finale)
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- Duration: 10:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 7
Second Act, Finale
at Covent Garden
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Maria Callas
Tosca
Part 7
Second Act, Finale
at Covent Garden
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 128770
- author: Annabelwei
Maria CALLAS sings Carmen HABANERA in covent garden
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- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Maria callas sings habanera in covent garden 1962.
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Maria callas sings habanera in covent garden 1962.
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 2564910
- author: Annabelwei
Callas day 1977-1997 part4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Documentario
http://wn.com/Callas_day_1977-1997_part4
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The Maria Bamford Show 02 Maria Gets A Job
alright fine
we all gotta do our part for the revolution
it seems no one else is picking...
published: 15 Nov 2009
author: Tveir
The Maria Bamford Show 02 Maria Gets A Job
alright fine
we all gotta do our part for the revolution
it seems no one else is picking up the task of making the Maria Bamford Show available,
so I suppose I will have to do it myself
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 157996
- author: Tveir
5:14
The Maria Bamford Show - 07 - Show time
people keep asking me about these, so I might as well add another one...
published: 15 Nov 2009
author: Tveir
The Maria Bamford Show - 07 - Show time
people keep asking me about these, so I might as well add another one
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 79333
- author: Tveir
3:48
The Maria Bamford Show 14 Death and Happiness
I'll upload one of these every once in a while, until I reach the legendary episode 20
re...
published: 15 Nov 2009
author: Tveir
The Maria Bamford Show 14 Death and Happiness
I'll upload one of these every once in a while, until I reach the legendary episode 20
remember to support the cultural revolution, kids
knowledge is free
- published: 15 Nov 2009
- views: 54968
- author: Tveir
Vimeo results:
9:55
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ...
published: 04 Jul 2010
author: blu
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU
http://www.blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
http://www.artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
many thanks to (in random order):
xm24 bologna, csoa mezzacanaja, ericailcane, robert rebotti, andrea bagni, paper resistance, studiocromie, rifrazioni festival, sasso passo, sibe, festival de cine experimental de maldonado (uruguay), gianluigi toccafondo, orilo, maria de brea, bs as stencil, run don't walk, franco fasoli, modo infoshop, pietro and icone festival, doma, cesare romani, popup festival and all the blu's family
2:08
WE MISS YOU
Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...
www.wemissyou.de
CREDITS
FILMACADEMY BADE...
published: 03 Jul 2011
author: fireapple films
WE MISS YOU
Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...
www.wemissyou.de
CREDITS
FILMACADEMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG presents a HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH film “WE MISS YOU” CORNELL ADAMS DANELL FORTSON director of photography JANN DÖPPERT production designer JILL SCHWARZER costume designer ANDY BESUCH editor BENJAMIN ENTRUP music by PHILIPP NOLL & AXEL HUBER sounddesign & mixing by CHRISTIAN HECK vfx supervisor SEBASTIAN NOZON vfx TONIO FREITAG screenplay by HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH & ALEX ESLAM produced by SEBASTIAN BANDEL & STEFFEN WILHELM directed by HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH
AWARDS
Special Jury Award - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best European Branded Short - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best European Filmschool - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best Filmschool Film - German Commercial Award 2011
1st Prize - Kurzundschön Film Festival 2011
Silver Award - Porsche Advertising Award 2011
Winner G-Technology Driven Creativity Competition 2011
Winner Saatchi & Saatchi - New German Directors Showcase 2011
Winner Caligari Award 2010
5:39
Afghanistan – touch down in flight
– Update: We want to go back to Afghanistan to shoot our first feature documentary "The Ha...
published: 01 Nov 2011
author: Augustin Pictures
Afghanistan – touch down in flight
– Update: We want to go back to Afghanistan to shoot our first feature documentary "The Hard Places". Please support our endeavor on kickstarter and spread the word.
http://kck.st/UqPnmr
www.thehardplaces.com
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As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.
We hope the pictures you know will merge with the pictures you see and will enrich your view on the country in the Hindu Kush.
locations:
Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif
We wanted to go to other places as well but there were several incidents and security was too bad. Just one day after shooting at the blue mosque in Mazar-e Sharif a mob started from the very same place storming the UN building.
I have lived from 2006-2008 in Kabul doing my civil service for a humanitarian aid organization. This March I had the chance to go back with my fiancée to show her the place I love and to capture the beauty of this country with our cameras.
At the same time I made this as a tribute to a dear friend, who was shot in the streets of Kabul. Gayle inspired me in her love and dedication for the Afghans.
After a full summer with other work we had now the chance to do the editing.
Lisa-Maria Puy who composed the music for us was wonderful to work with. We met her on Zanzibar island and back in Germany she composed this wonderful soundtrack within just 3 days (and nights). She studied music at HfM Detmold in Germany and is a very talented artist and we hope to work with her again.
You can contact her on: puy-music[at]gmx.de
Last week the clip got published in the iPad edition of Süddeutsche-Zeitung Magazin.
I hope you enjoy and we are happy for your honest feedback.
Lukas and Salome Augustin
Equipment used:
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Canon 24-105mm L IS 4f
Canon 16-35mm L
Canon 50mm 1.4f
Canon 85mm 1.8f
Glidetrack HD
Handgrip Nighthawk and D|Focus V3 (shoulder mount)
Zoom H1
2x Rode Videomic Pro
Manfrotto 501 HD and 701 HDV
LCW ND Filter Fader MK II
We edited and colour graded the entire clip on Final Cut Pro X
website:
www.lukasaugustin.de
more information and production photos:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Augustin-Pictures/161244407238332
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/LukasAugustin
© by Lukas and Salome Augustin
All rights reserved
fell free to watch it on Vimeo, to share on Facebook, Twitter etc. but please ask for embed permission and please don't upload the video on Youtube or any other site. Thank you!
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The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known b...
published: 08 Jan 2013
author: fedelpeye
The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building.
A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities.
If you love architecture, for more stuff you can follow us in www.ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com
Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez
Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez
Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and George Ruble, (Creative Commons)
you can download it here: https://vimeo.com/musicstore/track/10358
www.fedelpeye.tv
Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it.
Alvar AAlto _ Säynätsalo Town hall - Finland
Luis Barragán _ satellite towers - Mexico city
Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon - Satolas airport railway station - lyon France
Luís Domènech i Montaner _ Antoni Tàpies foundation - Barcelona
Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego's House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal
Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England
frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain
herzog & de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina
Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona
Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state
Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city
le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain
oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Brasília
Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna - Austria
César Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giacomo Quarenghi _ the Smolny Institute _ St. Petersburg, Russia.
Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers _ Pompidou Centre _ Paris, Francia
Álvaro Siza _ Ibere camargo foundation _ porto alegre _ Brazil
kenzo Tange _ Tokyo Olympic Stadium - Japan
Jørn Utzon _ Sydney Opera House _ Australia
William Van Alen _ Chrysler Building _ New York City
frank lloyd wright _ guggenheim new york _ United state
Iannis Xenakis _ Philips pavilion _ Expo '58 in Brussels
Minoru Yamasaki _ World Trade Center
Zaha Hadid_The Pierres Vives building _ Montpellier, France
Youtube results:
1:59
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Paschimattanasana and Purvattanasana
Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Paschimattanasana and Pur...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Paschimattanasana and Purvattanasana
Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Paschimattanasana and Purvattanasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 18455
- author: findayogateacher
1:36
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana
Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Utthita Hasta Padangustha...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana
Short clip of Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrating Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 155926
- author: findayogateacher
2:38
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana I and II
Maria Villella demonstrates Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana A and B from the standing postures ...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana I and II
Maria Villella demonstrates Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana A and B from the standing postures of the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 64848
- author: findayogateacher
2:16
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana
Maria Villella demonstrates Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana from the Ashtang...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana
Maria Villella demonstrates Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana and Supta Kurmasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 186998
- author: findayogateacher
2:59
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana
Maria Villella demonstrates Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana from the Ashtang...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with Maria Villella: Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana
Maria Villella demonstrates Baddha Konasana, Upavistha and Supta Konasana from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. Full video available at http://yogiclife.com/store/. Visit www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria. Yoga room courtesy of YogaCo, a donation based studio in Santa Monica, CA . www.yogaco.com Maria teaches the morning Mysore style Ashtanga class at YogaWorks Montana Mon-Fri.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 28288
- author: findayogateacher
3:03
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Janu Sirsasana A and B
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demo...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Janu Sirsasana A and B
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Janu Sirsasana A and B. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 14264
- author: findayogateacher
1:28
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Trailer
Trailer for "Ashtanga Yoga with MARIA VILLELLA". In the full video available at http://ww...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Trailer
Trailer for "Ashtanga Yoga with MARIA VILLELLA". In the full video available at http://www.yogiclife.com, Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrates the entire Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with strength, grace and control. As you watch, and listen, to the video you will hear the vinyasas for each posture counted, the names of the postures as well as the opening and closing prayers all spoken in Sanskrit. MUSIC FOR THIS TRAILER: "Decisions" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 55892
- author: findayogateacher
1:26
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Marichasana B
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demo...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Marichasana B
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Marichasana B. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 14136
- author: findayogateacher
1:40
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Marichasana A
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demo...
published: 27 Dec 2011
author: findayogateacher
Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA: Marichasana A
In this clip from the video "Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA", Maria demonstrates Marichasana A. Visit http://www.mariavillella.com for more info on Maria Villella. Purchase the full video at http://www.yogiclife.com.
- published: 27 Dec 2011
- views: 4668
- author: findayogateacher
Vimeo results:
9:55
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ...
published: 04 Jul 2010
author: blu
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU
http://www.blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
http://www.artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
many thanks to (in random order):
xm24 bologna, csoa mezzacanaja, ericailcane, robert rebotti, andrea bagni, paper resistance, studiocromie, rifrazioni festival, sasso passo, sibe, festival de cine experimental de maldonado (uruguay), gianluigi toccafondo, orilo, maria de brea, bs as stencil, run don't walk, franco fasoli, modo infoshop, pietro and icone festival, doma, cesare romani, popup festival and all the blu's family
2:08
WE MISS YOU
Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...
www.wemissyou.de
CREDITS
FILMACADEMY BADE...
published: 03 Jul 2011
author: fireapple films
WE MISS YOU
Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...
www.wemissyou.de
CREDITS
FILMACADEMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG presents a HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH film “WE MISS YOU” CORNELL ADAMS DANELL FORTSON director of photography JANN DÖPPERT production designer JILL SCHWARZER costume designer ANDY BESUCH editor BENJAMIN ENTRUP music by PHILIPP NOLL & AXEL HUBER sounddesign & mixing by CHRISTIAN HECK vfx supervisor SEBASTIAN NOZON vfx TONIO FREITAG screenplay by HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH & ALEX ESLAM produced by SEBASTIAN BANDEL & STEFFEN WILHELM directed by HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH
AWARDS
Special Jury Award - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best European Branded Short - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best European Filmschool - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best Filmschool Film - German Commercial Award 2011
1st Prize - Kurzundschön Film Festival 2011
Silver Award - Porsche Advertising Award 2011
Winner G-Technology Driven Creativity Competition 2011
Winner Saatchi & Saatchi - New German Directors Showcase 2011
Winner Caligari Award 2010
5:39
Afghanistan – touch down in flight
– Update: We want to go back to Afghanistan to shoot our first feature documentary "The Ha...
published: 01 Nov 2011
author: Augustin Pictures
Afghanistan – touch down in flight
– Update: We want to go back to Afghanistan to shoot our first feature documentary "The Hard Places". Please support our endeavor on kickstarter and spread the word.
http://kck.st/UqPnmr
www.thehardplaces.com
-
As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.
We hope the pictures you know will merge with the pictures you see and will enrich your view on the country in the Hindu Kush.
locations:
Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif
We wanted to go to other places as well but there were several incidents and security was too bad. Just one day after shooting at the blue mosque in Mazar-e Sharif a mob started from the very same place storming the UN building.
I have lived from 2006-2008 in Kabul doing my civil service for a humanitarian aid organization. This March I had the chance to go back with my fiancée to show her the place I love and to capture the beauty of this country with our cameras.
At the same time I made this as a tribute to a dear friend, who was shot in the streets of Kabul. Gayle inspired me in her love and dedication for the Afghans.
After a full summer with other work we had now the chance to do the editing.
Lisa-Maria Puy who composed the music for us was wonderful to work with. We met her on Zanzibar island and back in Germany she composed this wonderful soundtrack within just 3 days (and nights). She studied music at HfM Detmold in Germany and is a very talented artist and we hope to work with her again.
You can contact her on: puy-music[at]gmx.de
Last week the clip got published in the iPad edition of Süddeutsche-Zeitung Magazin.
I hope you enjoy and we are happy for your honest feedback.
Lukas and Salome Augustin
Equipment used:
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Canon 24-105mm L IS 4f
Canon 16-35mm L
Canon 50mm 1.4f
Canon 85mm 1.8f
Glidetrack HD
Handgrip Nighthawk and D|Focus V3 (shoulder mount)
Zoom H1
2x Rode Videomic Pro
Manfrotto 501 HD and 701 HDV
LCW ND Filter Fader MK II
We edited and colour graded the entire clip on Final Cut Pro X
website:
www.lukasaugustin.de
more information and production photos:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Augustin-Pictures/161244407238332
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/LukasAugustin
© by Lukas and Salome Augustin
All rights reserved
fell free to watch it on Vimeo, to share on Facebook, Twitter etc. but please ask for embed permission and please don't upload the video on Youtube or any other site. Thank you!
1:38
The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known b...
published: 08 Jan 2013
author: fedelpeye
The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building.
A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities.
If you love architecture, for more stuff you can follow us in www.ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com
Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez
Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez
Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and George Ruble, (Creative Commons)
you can download it here: https://vimeo.com/musicstore/track/10358
www.fedelpeye.tv
Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it.
Alvar AAlto _ Säynätsalo Town hall - Finland
Luis Barragán _ satellite towers - Mexico city
Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon - Satolas airport railway station - lyon France
Luís Domènech i Montaner _ Antoni Tàpies foundation - Barcelona
Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego's House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal
Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England
frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain
herzog & de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina
Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona
Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state
Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city
le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain
oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Brasília
Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna - Austria
César Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giacomo Quarenghi _ the Smolny Institute _ St. Petersburg, Russia.
Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers _ Pompidou Centre _ Paris, Francia
Álvaro Siza _ Ibere camargo foundation _ porto alegre _ Brazil
kenzo Tange _ Tokyo Olympic Stadium - Japan
Jørn Utzon _ Sydney Opera House _ Australia
William Van Alen _ Chrysler Building _ New York City
frank lloyd wright _ guggenheim new york _ United state
Iannis Xenakis _ Philips pavilion _ Expo '58 in Brussels
Minoru Yamasaki _ World Trade Center
Zaha Hadid_The Pierres Vives building _ Montpellier, France
5:58
Bellini -La Sonnambula - Care Compagne (1955 Studio)
Maria Callas sings "Care Compagne, Teneri Amici...Sovra Il Sen La Man Mi Posa" From "Calla...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Bellini -La Sonnambula - Care Compagne (1955 Studio)
Maria Callas sings "Care Compagne, Teneri Amici...Sovra Il Sen La Man Mi Posa" From "Callas At La Scala"
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 9769
- author: Annabelwei
8:12
Bellini - La Sonnambula - Ah! Non Credea Mirarti(1955Studio)
Callas sings "Ah! Non Credea Mirarti...Ah! Non Giunge" from "Callas At La Scala"...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Bellini - La Sonnambula - Ah! Non Credea Mirarti(1955Studio)
Callas sings "Ah! Non Credea Mirarti...Ah! Non Giunge" from "Callas At La Scala"
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 24021
- author: Annabelwei
7:30
Maria Callas,Giuseppe di Stefano Lucia di Lammermoor Live 1955 Sextett
Lucia di Lammermoor
1955 Live in Berlin
Maria Callas
Giuseppe di Stefano
Rolando Panerai
...
published: 31 May 2010
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas,Giuseppe di Stefano Lucia di Lammermoor Live 1955 Sextett
Lucia di Lammermoor
1955 Live in Berlin
Maria Callas
Giuseppe di Stefano
Rolando Panerai
Nicola Zaccaria
Giuseppe Zampieri
Luisa Villa
Coro di Scala, Milano
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Chi mi frena in tal momento
Sextett
- published: 31 May 2010
- views: 30261
- author: Annabelwei
8:02
MARIA CALLAS. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. ( Live in Athens 5/8/1957) G. DONIZETTI.
Regnava nel silencio.
Orquesta del Festival de Atenas.
Dir. Antonino Votto....
published: 31 May 2010
author: Annabelwei
MARIA CALLAS. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. ( Live in Athens 5/8/1957) G. DONIZETTI.
Regnava nel silencio.
Orquesta del Festival de Atenas.
Dir. Antonino Votto.
- published: 31 May 2010
- views: 12255
- author: Annabelwei
2:16
Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962
Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962...
published: 17 Feb 2010
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962
Maria Callas sings Carmen "Seguedille" in Hamburg 1962
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 184480
- author: Annabelwei
6:23
Maria Callas: "Pace, pace mio Dio" - Forza del Destino Verdi, 1954
Maria Callas nell'agosto 1954 a Milano ha inciso in studio "La Forza del Destino" di Giuse...
published: 17 Feb 2010
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas: "Pace, pace mio Dio" - Forza del Destino Verdi, 1954
Maria Callas nell'agosto 1954 a Milano ha inciso in studio "La Forza del Destino" di Giuseppe Verdi. Qui viene eseguita l'aria "Pace, pace, mio Dio!". Direttore Tullio Serafin, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala. Le fotografie sono tratte dallo splendido volume di Eugenio Gara, edito nel 1959, e dedicato alla Divina.
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 171875
- author: Annabelwei
4:13
Maria Callas: Havanaise Carmen
Maria Callas: Havanaise Carmen...
published: 17 Feb 2010
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas: Havanaise Carmen
Maria Callas: Havanaise Carmen
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 32152
- author: Annabelwei
9:55
Maria Callas
Covent Garden,4 November 1962;...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas
Covent Garden,4 November 1962;
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 129141
- author: Annabelwei
6:33
Callas & Di Stefano in duet from Mascagni's Cavalleria
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Callas & Di Stefano in duet from Mascagni's Cavalleria
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 118644
- author: Annabelwei
7:20
Callas & Di Stefano in final scene from Bizet's Carmen
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Callas & Di Stefano in final scene from Bizet's Carmen
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 139051
- author: Annabelwei
7:11
Callas & Di Stefano in duet from Verdi's Don Carlo
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Callas & Di Stefano in duet from Verdi's Don Carlo
Royal Festival Hall. London, 1973
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 48744
- author: Annabelwei
4:19
Maria Callas
Maria Callas was born in New York City in 1923 to Greek parents. The uniqueness of her an...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas
Maria Callas was born in New York City in 1923 to Greek parents. The uniqueness of her angelic voice and her unmatched artistry of interpreting operatic music are the reasons why she was an opera superstar. Ms. Callas passed away in 1977. The soundtrack is "Suicidio!" from "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
P.S.: check out my other channel "SundroidHD": http://www.youtube.com/SundroidHD or my website: http://www.shisun.net
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 1657302
- author: Annabelwei
4:34
Maria Callas Otello: Ave Maria
Maria Callas
Otello
"Ave Maria"...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Maria Callas Otello: Ave Maria
Maria Callas
Otello
"Ave Maria"
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 3957695
- author: Annabelwei
8:50
Callas sings La Sonnambula
TRIBUTE TO MARIA CALLAS
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her death, I made a sl...
published: 31 Aug 2008
author: Annabelwei
Callas sings La Sonnambula
TRIBUTE TO MARIA CALLAS
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her death, I made a slideshow with some of her most beautiful photos accompanied by her haunting interpretation of Amina's Mad Scene:
"Ah non credea mirarti... Ah non giunge"
1957
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 134938
- author: Annabelwei
Vimeo results:
9:55
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ...
published: 04 Jul 2010
author: blu
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU
http://www.blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
http://www.artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
many thanks to (in random order):
xm24 bologna, csoa mezzacanaja, ericailcane, robert rebotti, andrea bagni, paper resistance, studiocromie, rifrazioni festival, sasso passo, sibe, festival de cine experimental de maldonado (uruguay), gianluigi toccafondo, orilo, maria de brea, bs as stencil, run don't walk, franco fasoli, modo infoshop, pietro and icone festival, doma, cesare romani, popup festival and all the blu's family
2:08
WE MISS YOU
Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...
www.wemissyou.de
CREDITS
FILMACADEMY BADE...
published: 03 Jul 2011
author: fireapple films
WE MISS YOU
Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...
www.wemissyou.de
CREDITS
FILMACADEMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG presents a HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH film “WE MISS YOU” CORNELL ADAMS DANELL FORTSON director of photography JANN DÖPPERT production designer JILL SCHWARZER costume designer ANDY BESUCH editor BENJAMIN ENTRUP music by PHILIPP NOLL & AXEL HUBER sounddesign & mixing by CHRISTIAN HECK vfx supervisor SEBASTIAN NOZON vfx TONIO FREITAG screenplay by HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH & ALEX ESLAM produced by SEBASTIAN BANDEL & STEFFEN WILHELM directed by HANNA MARIA HEIDRICH
AWARDS
Special Jury Award - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best European Branded Short - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best European Filmschool - Young Director Award 2011, Cannes
Best Filmschool Film - German Commercial Award 2011
1st Prize - Kurzundschön Film Festival 2011
Silver Award - Porsche Advertising Award 2011
Winner G-Technology Driven Creativity Competition 2011
Winner Saatchi & Saatchi - New German Directors Showcase 2011
Winner Caligari Award 2010
5:39
Afghanistan – touch down in flight
– Update: We want to go back to Afghanistan to shoot our first feature documentary "The Ha...
published: 01 Nov 2011
author: Augustin Pictures
Afghanistan – touch down in flight
– Update: We want to go back to Afghanistan to shoot our first feature documentary "The Hard Places". Please support our endeavor on kickstarter and spread the word.
http://kck.st/UqPnmr
www.thehardplaces.com
-
As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.
We hope the pictures you know will merge with the pictures you see and will enrich your view on the country in the Hindu Kush.
locations:
Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif
We wanted to go to other places as well but there were several incidents and security was too bad. Just one day after shooting at the blue mosque in Mazar-e Sharif a mob started from the very same place storming the UN building.
I have lived from 2006-2008 in Kabul doing my civil service for a humanitarian aid organization. This March I had the chance to go back with my fiancée to show her the place I love and to capture the beauty of this country with our cameras.
At the same time I made this as a tribute to a dear friend, who was shot in the streets of Kabul. Gayle inspired me in her love and dedication for the Afghans.
After a full summer with other work we had now the chance to do the editing.
Lisa-Maria Puy who composed the music for us was wonderful to work with. We met her on Zanzibar island and back in Germany she composed this wonderful soundtrack within just 3 days (and nights). She studied music at HfM Detmold in Germany and is a very talented artist and we hope to work with her again.
You can contact her on: puy-music[at]gmx.de
Last week the clip got published in the iPad edition of Süddeutsche-Zeitung Magazin.
I hope you enjoy and we are happy for your honest feedback.
Lukas and Salome Augustin
Equipment used:
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Canon 24-105mm L IS 4f
Canon 16-35mm L
Canon 50mm 1.4f
Canon 85mm 1.8f
Glidetrack HD
Handgrip Nighthawk and D|Focus V3 (shoulder mount)
Zoom H1
2x Rode Videomic Pro
Manfrotto 501 HD and 701 HDV
LCW ND Filter Fader MK II
We edited and colour graded the entire clip on Final Cut Pro X
website:
www.lukasaugustin.de
more information and production photos:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Augustin-Pictures/161244407238332
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/LukasAugustin
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The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known b...
published: 08 Jan 2013
author: fedelpeye
The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building.
A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities.
If you love architecture, for more stuff you can follow us in www.ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com
Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez
Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez
Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and George Ruble, (Creative Commons)
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Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it.
Alvar AAlto _ Säynätsalo Town hall - Finland
Luis Barragán _ satellite towers - Mexico city
Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon - Satolas airport railway station - lyon France
Luís Domènech i Montaner _ Antoni Tàpies foundation - Barcelona
Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego's House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal
Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England
frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain
herzog & de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina
Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona
Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state
Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city
le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain
oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Brasília
Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna - Austria
César Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giacomo Quarenghi _ the Smolny Institute _ St. Petersburg, Russia.
Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers _ Pompidou Centre _ Paris, Francia
Álvaro Siza _ Ibere camargo foundation _ porto alegre _ Brazil
kenzo Tange _ Tokyo Olympic Stadium - Japan
Jørn Utzon _ Sydney Opera House _ Australia
William Van Alen _ Chrysler Building _ New York City
frank lloyd wright _ guggenheim new york _ United state
Iannis Xenakis _ Philips pavilion _ Expo '58 in Brussels
Minoru Yamasaki _ World Trade Center
Zaha Hadid_The Pierres Vives building _ Montpellier, France
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NEW DELHI — A crowd of Tibetans came here to India’s capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet admixture of hope and despair. A grim countdown was under way. The number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in Tibet had reached 99, one short of an anguished milestone. Enlarge This Image. Freetibet.org, via Associated Press ... Related ... Connect With Us on Twitter ... (Mr ... Mr ... ....(size: 10.7Kb)
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Look up Maria or María in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Maria (given name) is a given name, usually for a female, but occasionally male.
Maria or María may also refer to:
- Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome
- Madia Gond or Maria, a people of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra State, India
- María, Spain, a municipality of Andalusia, Spain
- Maria, Siquijor, a municipality in the Philippines
- Maria, Maevatanana
- Maria, Quebec
- Maria (daughter of Maurice), the name of a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor
- Maria Prophetissa reputed founder of alchemy first mentioned by Zosimus.
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Language and literature[link]
- Maria language (India)
- Maria language (Papua New Guinea)
- María (novel), a 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
- Maria (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel
- Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft
Science and technology[link]
- 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
- Lunar maria, large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
- Maria (reachability analyzer), a reachability analyzer, used in computer science for concurrent systems
- Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland
- Maria (storage engine), a storage engine for MySQL (renamed Aria in 2010)
- MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database
- Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
- MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces
Ships[link]
- SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
- SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946-59
Music[link]
Songs[link]
- "María" (song), by Ricky Martin
- "Maria" (1956 song), from the musical West Side Story
- "Maria" (1959 song), from the musical The Sound of Music
- "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
- "María" (Franco song), 1988
- "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
- "Maria", a 1980 song by Redgum from the album Virgin Ground
- "Maria (I Like It Loud)", by Scooter, a cover of "I Like It Loud" by Marc Acardipane
- "Maria", by Animal Liberation Orchestra from Roses & Clover
- "María", by Café Tacuba from Café Tacuba
- "Maria", by Gackt from Rebirth
- "Maria", a 1987 song by David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive
- "Maria", by Green Day from International Superhits!
- "Maria", by The Jacksons from 2300 Jackson Street
- "Maria", by Kim Ah-joong from the Korean film 200 Pounds Beauty
- "Maria", by Men at Work from Two Hearts
- "Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles
- "Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from West Textures
- "Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Forever
Performers[link]
- Maria (band), a Japanese all-female band
- Maria (Bulgarian singer) (born 1982), Bulgarian pop/folk singer
- Maria (Japanese singer) (born 1987), Japanese pop singer
- Maria (singer) (born 1978), Danish R&B singer
Other[link]
- Maria (Counting Crows), a recurring character in the songs written by Adam Duritz
- Maria (album), a 1995 album by Jane Siberry
- "Maria", a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on poem by Polish poet, Malczewski)
Other uses[link]
- Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2
- Maria biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit
- María (film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
- Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011
- Maria (Twelfth Night), a fictional character in the play Twelfth Night
See also[link]
- Marie (disambiguation)
- Mariah (disambiguation)
- Mary (given name)
- Ave Maria (disambiguation)
- Latin plural of 'mare': see lunar mare
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| Justin Bieber | |
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 Justin Bieber at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France in 2012 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Justin Drew Bieber[1] |
| Born | (1994-03-01) March 1, 1994 (age 18)[2] London, Ontario, Canada |
| Origin | Stratford, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Pop, R&B, teen pop[3][4][5] |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician, actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, percussion,[6] trumpet[7] |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Labels | Island, RBMG |
| Associated acts | Usher, Ludacris |
| Website | justinbiebermusic.com |
Justin Drew Bieber (
/ˈbiːbər/ BEE-bər, born March 1, 1994)[2] is a Canadian Pop/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.[3][5] Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun,[8] who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Usher in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher,[9] and then to a recording contract with Island Records offered by L.A. Reid.[6][10] Bieber's debut single, "One Time", was released in 2009 and peaked in the top twenty in Canada and charted in the top thirty in several international markets. His debut album, the seven-track EP My World, followed in November 2009, and was soon certified platinum in the United States. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100.[11]
Bieber's first full-length studio album, My World 2.0, was released in March 2010. It debuted at number one or within the top ten in several countries and was certified platinum in the United States. It was preceded by the worldwide top-ten single, "Baby". The music video of "Baby" is currently ranked as the most viewed and most discussed YouTube video.[12] Bieber followed up the release of his debut album with his first headlining tour, the My World Tour, the remix albums My Worlds Acoustic and Never Say Never – The Remixes, and the 3D biopic-concert film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, that nearly matched the record for the biggest opening weekend gross for a concert-film. Bieber released his second studio album, Under the Mistletoe, in November 2011, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Bieber has received numerous awards, including Artist of the Year at the 2010 American Music Awards, and has been nominated for such awards as Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 53rd Grammy Awards. In 2012, Bieber was named Forbes 3rd most powerful celebrity in the world, earning $55 million. As of May 2012, Bieber has sold 15 million albums.[13]
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Early life[link]
Bieber was born on March 1, 1994, in London, Ontario in St Joseph's Hospital,[14][15] and was raised in Stratford, Ontario.[16] Bieber's mother, Patricia Lynn "Pattie" Mallette, was 18 years old when she became pregnant. Mallette, originally from Stratford, raised her son with the help of her parents, Bruce and Diane.[17] Mallette worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a single mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father, Jeremy Jack Bieber, who married another woman and had two children.[18][19][20] Bieber's great-grandfather was from Germany.[21] Bieber's mother's ancestry is French Canadian.[22] Bieber attended a French immersion elementary school in Stratford called Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School.[17]
During his childhood, Bieber was interested in hockey, soccer, and chess; he often kept his musical aspirations to himself.[18] As he grew up, Bieber taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet.[16][23] In early 2007, when he was twelve, Bieber sang Ne-Yo's "So Sick" for a local singing competition in Stratford and was placed second.[6][23] Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. She continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Bieber's popularity on the site grew.[10] Chris Hicks, Bieber's A&R at Island/Def Jam, explained the young artist's huge online following to HitQuarters by saying:
"He was doing something different. He was an attractive white kid singing very soulful R&B hits. That set him apart immediately from anyone in his range because no one was covering or singing these kind of records. But equally important was that you believed in these songs – it was real. And you wanted to hear more."[24]
Career[link]
[edit] 2008–09: Discovery and My World
While searching for videos of a different singer, Scooter Braun, a former marketing executive of So So Def, clicked on one of Bieber's 2007 videos by accident.[18] Impressed, Braun tracked down the theater Bieber was performing in, located Bieber's school, and finally contacted Mallette. Mallette was reluctant because of Braun's Jewish religion; she remembered praying, "God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label! ... you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?"[18] However, after praying with her church elders and receiving their encouragement, she permitted Braun to fly Bieber, then 13,[10] to Atlanta, Georgia, to record demo tapes.[18] A week after arriving, Bieber sang for R&B singer/songwriter Usher.[25] Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher.[9] Justin Timberlake was also reportedly in the running to sign Bieber, but lost the bidding war to Usher.[9][26] Usher then sought assistance in finding a label home for the artist from then manager Chris Hicks, who helped engineer an audition with his contact Antonio L.A. Reid of Island Def Jam Music Group.[24] Reid signed Bieber to Island Records in October 2008 (resulting in a joint venture between RBMG and Island Records) and appointed Hicks as executive Vice-President of Def Jam where he would be able manage Bieber's career at the label.[6][9][10][24] At that point, Bieber and his mother moved to Atlanta temporarily, also the home of Usher and Braun, to record and get counseling from Braun.[9] Braun became Bieber's manager.[10]
Bieber's first single, "One Time", was released to radio while Bieber was still recording his debut album.[27] The song reached number 12 on the Canadian Hot 100 during its first week of release in July 2009,[10] and later peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. During fall 2009 it had success in international markets.[28] The song was certified Platinum in Canada and the US and Gold in Australia and New Zealand.[29][30][31] Bieber's first release, an extended play entitled My World, was released on November 17, 2009. The album's second single, "One Less Lonely Girl", and two promo singles, "Love Me", and "Favorite Girl", were released exclusively on the iTunes store and charted within the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100.[28] "One Less Lonely Girl" was later also released to radio and peaked within the top fifteen in Canada and the US, being certified Gold in the latter.[28] My World was eventually certified Platinum in the US and Double Platinum in both Canada and the UK.[31][32][33] To promote the album, Bieber performed on several live shows such as mtvU's VMA 09 Tour, European program The Dome, YTV's The Next Star, The Today Show,[34][35] The Wendy Williams Show, Lopez Tonight, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, It's On with Alexa Chung, Good Morning America, Chelsea Lately, and BET's 106 & Park with Rihanna. Bieber also guest starred in an episode of True Jackson, VP in late 2009.[36]
Bieber performed Stevie Wonder's "Someday at Christmas" for U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at the White House for Christmas in Washington, which was broadcast on December 20, 2009, on U.S. television broadcaster TNT.[37] Bieber was also one of the performers at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on December 31, 2009.[38] Bieber was a presenter at the 52nd Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010. He was invited to be a vocalist for the remake of We Are The World (a song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie) for its 25th anniversary to benefit Haiti after the earthquake. Bieber sings the opening line, which was sung by Lionel Richie in the original version.[39] On March 12, 2010, a version of K'naan's "Wavin' Flag" recorded by a collective of Canadian musicians known as Young Artists for Haiti was released. Bieber is featured in the song, performing the closing lines.
[edit] 2010–11: My World 2.0 and Never Say Never film
"Baby", the lead single from his debut album, My World 2.0, which features Ludacris, was released in January 2010 and became his biggest hit thus far, charting at number five in the U.S. and reaching the top ten in seven other countries.[28] Two promo singles "Never Let You Go", and "U Smile" were top thirty hits on the U.S. Hot 100, and top twenty hits in Canada.[28] According to review aggregator Metacritic, the album has received "generally favorable reviews".[40] It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making Bieber the youngest solo male act to top the chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963.[41] My World 2.0 also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, Irish Albums Chart, Australian Albums Chart, and the New Zealand Albums Chart[28] and reached the top ten of fifteen other countries.[42][43] To promote the album, Bieber appeared on several live programs including The View, the 2010 Kids Choice Awards, Nightline, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Dome and 106 and Park.[44] Bieber collaborated with Sean Kingston on his single "Eenie Meenie" which also appeared on Bieber's debut album. The song reached the top ten in the United Kingdom and Australia, and the top-twenty of most other markets.
On April 10, 2010, Bieber was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live.[45] On July 4, 2010, Bieber performed at the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular in New York City.[46] The second single from My World 2.0, "Somebody to Love", was released in April 2010, and a remix was released featuring Bieber's mentor Usher. The single reached number ten in Canada, number fifteen in the United States, and the top twenty in multiple international countries.
On June 23, 2010, Bieber went on his first official headlining tour, the My World Tour, starting in Hartford, Connecticut, to promote My World and My World 2.0.[47] In July 2010, it was reported that Bieber was the most searched for celebrity on the Internet.[48] That same month his music video, "Baby", surpassed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" to become the most viewed, and most disliked YouTube video ever.[49] In September 2010, it was reported that Bieber accounted for three percent of all traffic on Twitter, according to an employee of the social-networking site.[50]
Bieber began recording his second album in July 2010 in New York City.[51] At this point, because of puberty, his voice was deeper than it was when he recorded his first album. In April 2010, the singer discussing his vocals remarked, "It cracks. Like every teenage boy, I'm dealing with it and I have the best vocal coach in the world. [...] Some of the notes I hit on "Baby" I can't hit anymore. We have to lower the key when I sing live."[52]
Bieber guest-starred in the season premiere of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which aired on September 23, 2010. He played a "troubled teen who is faced with a difficult decision regarding his only brother", who is also a serial bomber. Bieber was also in a subsequent episode which aired on February 17, 2011, in which his character is killed.[53] Bieber performed a medley of "U Smile", "Baby", and "Somebody to Love" and briefly played the drums at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010.[54] Bieber announced in October 2010 that he would release an acoustic album, called My Worlds Acoustic.[55] It was released on Black Friday in the United States and featured acoustic versions of songs from his previous albums, and accompanied the release of a completely new song titled "Pray".[56]
A 3-D part-biopic, part-concert film starring Bieber entitled Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, was released on February 11, 2011, directed by Step Up 3D director Jon Chu. It topped the box office with an estimated gross of $12.4 million on its opening day from 3,105 theaters.[57] It grossed $30.3 million for the weekend and was narrowly beaten by the romantic comedy Just Go With It, which grossed $31 million.[58] Never Say Never is said to have exceeded industry expectations, nearly matching the $31.1 million grossed by Miley Cyrus's 2008 3-D concert film, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, which holds the record for the top debut for a music-documentary.[59][60] Never Say Never grossed a total of $98,441,954 worldwide.[61] The film is accompanied by his second remix album, Never Say Never – The Remixes, released February 14, 2011, and features remixes of songs from his debut album, with guest appearances from Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown, and Kanye West, among others.[62]
[edit] 2011–present: Under The Mistletoe and Believe
On February 27, 2011, Bieber attended the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party with American actress and singer Selena Gomez,[63] confirming several months of media speculation about a romantic relationship between the pair.[64][65][66][67][68][69]
In June 2011, Bieber was ranked number 2 on the Forbes list of Best-Paid Celebrities under 30. He is the youngest star and 1 of 7 musicians on the list raking in with $53 million earned in a 12 month period.[70] On November 1, 2011, Bieber released Under the Mistletoe, his second studio album.[71] It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 210,000 copies in its first week of release.[72]
In late 2011, Bieber began recording his third studio album, entitled Believe. Kanye West and Drake are confirmed to be featured on the album.[73] On February 22, 2012, Bieber announced via Twitter that the first single off Believe will be released in March 2012.[74] The following week, Bieber appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to announce that the first single will be called "Boyfriend" and was released on March 26, 2012.[75] The song was co-written by Mike Posner.[76] The second single, Die In Your Arms, was released on May 29th, 2012. [77]
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Justin Bieber has a higher score on the Klout online "influence" scale than Barack Obama or The Dalai Lama.[78] According to Jan Hoffman of The New York Times, part of Bieber's appeal stems from his YouTube channel. Long before he released his EP, My World, in mid-November, the YouTube videos attracted millions of views.[18] Braun recognized the appeal. Prior to flying him to Atlanta, Braun wanted to "build him up more on YouTube first" and had Bieber record more home videos for the channel. "I said: 'Justin, sing like there’s no one in the room. But let's not use expensive cameras.' We'll give it to kids, let them do the work, so that they feel like it's theirs", recalled Braun.[18] Bieber continues to upload videos to the same channel and has opened a Twitter account, from which he interacts with fans regularly;[10] his account was reported in November 2010 to have over 6 million followers.[79] Since then he has been consistently gaining followers at an average of 24,000 per day.[80] The accounts also serve marketing purposes; for example, Bieber's music video for "One Time" only began selling quickly after it was uploaded to YouTube.[81]
Usher comments that while he and Bieber were both signed at the same age, "I had the chance to ramp up my success, where this has happened to Bieber abruptly." As a result, Usher, Braun, Bieber's bodyguard Kenny, and other adults surrounding Bieber constantly coach him on handling fame and his public image.[18] After signing Bieber, Usher appointed one of his former assistants, Ryan Good, to be Bieber's road manager and stylist. Good, once nicknamed Bieber's "swagger coach", created a "streetwise look" for the singer which consisted of baseball caps, hoodies, dog chains and flashy sneakers. Amy Kaufman of The Los Angeles Times comments, "Though a product of a middle-class suburban upbringing in Stratford, Ontario, Bieber's manner of dress and speech ("Wassup man, how you doin'?" or "It's like, you know, whateva' ") suggest he's mimicking his favorite rappers."[82]
Bieber is often featured in teen magazines such as Tiger Beat,[18] and has been labeled as a "teen heartthrob".[83] Bieber has released a collection of nail varnishes to raise awareness for charity.[84] Wax statues of Bieber are on display at Madame Tussauds wax museums in New York, Amsterdam and London.[85] His change of hairstyle in 2010, and the consequent alterations to Bieber products, led to it being called 'the most expensive musical haircut of all time;[86] one company spent $100,000 to fix its dolls for the 2011 Christmas season.[87]
Bieber has been criticized for looking and sounding younger than his age, his teen-pop music, image, and frequent media attention.[88] He has been a frequent target of Internet bloggers and message board posters, notably by users of Internet message board 4chan and users of YouTube.[89] Nick Collins of The Daily Telegraph speculated that "Bieber's character also appears to strike a particularly sour note with his Internet critics, with many remarks commenting on his youthful appearance, his teen-pop songs, his image as a heart-throb to young teenage girls and his manner of speech".[90]
Personal views and life[link]
Bieber is a Christian,[91] and said he has a relationship with Jesus, talks to him and that "he's the reason I'm here".[92]
Bieber's comments in a February 2011 profile in Rolling Stone sparked controversy.[93] Asked about abstinence, Bieber responded, "I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them." He said he does not "believe in abortion" and that it is "like killing a baby".[94] He described sexual orientation as "everyone's own decision."[95] Bieber has contributed to the It Gets Better Project,[96] which aims to prevent suicide among LGBT youth.[97]
Bieber has said he is not interested in obtaining United States citizenship and has criticized America's health care system. Praising Canada as being "the best country in the world", he cited its health care system as a model example.[94]
In May 2012, Bieber purchased a 10,000 square-foot mansion on 1.3 acres of land, located in the community of Calabasas, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.[98]
Twitter[link]
Main article: Justin Bieber on Twitter
As of April 2012[update], Bieber's Twitter account (@justinbieber) is the second most popular celebrity account behind that of Lady Gaga.[99] By mid-April 2012, he had over 20 million followers.[100][101] His follower acquisition is one new follower every other second.[102][103] His popularity on Twitter at one point accounted for three percent of all Twitter related traffic, with a Twitter employee commenting that "racks of servers are dedicated" to Bieber.[103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112] This resulted in over 180 million page views for the service each month.[105] Bieber was frequently a trending topic on Twitter when the feature first launched[105] because his fans frequently discussed him on the network. [113] and was named the top trending star on Twitter in 2010;[114] Klout gave his account a score of 100.[115][116]
The size of Bieber's and Gaga's follower bases are cited as a reason why marketers should pay attention to Twitter:[117] with an ability to reach millions of people with a single tweet.[117] 8.3% of tweets mentioning "bieber" were semi-automated and probably Twitter related spam.[118] Research done about Twitter and the 2011 Egyptian revolution includes Bieber as he made tweets about the topic at a time when he had roughly 8 million followers. His multiple tweets resulted in 32,000 responses each, which made Bieber's Twitter account one of the single largest nodes for discussion about the uprising one of the largest on Twitter.[119][120]
In March 2012, Bieber fans launched an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Lady Gaga as the most popular celebrity on Twitter. Neither Bieber nor Lady Gaga discussed their mutual fanbase's campaigns on Twitter.[121]
Discography[link]
Main article: Justin Bieber discography
- My World 2.0 (2010)
- Under the Mistletoe (2011)
- Believe (2012)
Tours[link]
- 2009: Urban Behavior Tour
- 2010–2011: My World Tour
- 2012-2013: Believe Tour
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | True Jackson, VP | Himself | Guest star |
| My Date With... | |||
| 2010 | Silent Library | ||
| School Gyrls | Cameo | ||
| Saturday Night Live | Guest star/performer | Ep 35.18 | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Jason McCann | Shock Waves (Season 11, Episode 1) | |
| Hubworld | Guest star | Season 1, Episode 1 | |
| The X Factor (UK) | Performer | Series 7, Week 8 | |
| 2011 | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Guest star[122] | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Jason McCann | Targets of Obsession (Season 11, Episode 15). | |
| Khloé & Lamar | Himself | Episode:The Father In Law (uncredited) Himself playing the NBA Celebrity All Star Game | |
| Saturday Night Live | Guest star | Ep. 36.14 | |
| Justin Bieber: Never Say Never[123] | Himself | Film produced by MTV Films and distributed by Paramount Pictures released February 2011 in United States; and March to April worldwide[124] The official movie trailer was released on October 26[125] | |
| Dancing With The Stars | Guest star | Week 7 Result Show | |
| So Random! | Himself | He performed in December 2011. | |
| Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade | Guest star | Performed at Walt Disney World Resort | |
| The X Factor (UK) | Performer | Series 8, Week 9 | |
| 2012 | Men in Black 3 | Baby Alien |
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Justin Bieber
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Further reading[link]
- Justin Bieber (October 12, 2010). Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-203974-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=a2iAh-KFdIgC&pg=PP1.
- Ronny Bloom (April 15, 2010). Justin Bieber. Penguin Group USA. ISBN 978-0-8431-9903-1.
- Chas Newkey-Burden (September 1, 2010). Justin Bieber: The Unauthorized Biography. Michael O'Mara. ISBN 978-1-84317-523-0.
- Sarah Oliver (October 1, 2011). Justin Bieber A-Z. John Blake. ISBN 978-1-84358-379-0.
- Sarah Parvis; Gail Herman (February 8, 2011). Superstars! Justin Bieber: In the Spotlight and Behind the Scenes. Time Home Entertainment. ISBN 978-1-60320-902-1.
- Marc Shapiro (August 17, 2010). Justin Bieber: The Fever!. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-67878-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=LyrqE1c66mwC&pg=PP1.
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| Ricky Martin | |
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 Ricky Martin in the Casa Rosada, September 2011. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Enrique Martín Morales |
| Born | (1971-12-24) December 24, 1971 (age 40) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Genres | Pop, Latin pop, dance-pop, world, reggae, urban pop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Labels | Columbia, Sony Music Latin, Sony Music Mexico |
| Associated acts | Menudo |
| Website | rickymartinmusic.com |
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican[1] pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991. Throughout his career, he has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide.[2] He is the founder of the Ricky Martin Foundation (in Spanish Fundación Ricky Martin), a non-profit charity organization aimed at human trafficking.
Martin got his start at age twelve with the all-boy pop group Menudo; after five years with the group, he released his Spanish-language solo album, Ricky Martin, in 1991. He also acted on stage and on TV in Mexico, becoming a modest star in the country. In 1994 he starred on the American TV soap opera General Hospital, playing a Puerto Rican singer. In 1999, after several albums in Spanish, he released his first English-language album (also titled Ricky Martin), which included "Livin' la Vida Loca". The album sold 22 million copies and brought Martin international fame.[3] His other studio albums include: Me Amarás (1993), A Medio Vivir (1995), Vuelve (1998), Sound Loaded (2000), Almas del Silencio (2003), Life (2005), and Música + Alma + Sexo (2011).
On the edge of the new millennium, Martin—almost by himself—gave Latino music an international face. An acclaimed performance at the 1999 Grammy Awards launched Martin into worldwide super-stardom. As Entertainment Weekly's Andrew Essex reported, "his leather-pants, electro-pelvis version of 'La Copa de la Vida' single-handedly goosed a very dull [Grammy] telecast, earning him a standing ovation." In 2010, Martin announced that he was a "fortunate homosexual man", ending years of fan speculation on the topic. His twin sons, Matteo and Valentino, were born via a surrogate mother in 2008. Martin also co-owns a Miami restaurant, Casa Salsa, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. On November 4, 2011, Ricky Martin was granted Spanish citizenship for his artistic merits and for his grandmother being Iberian born. Martin currently stars as Che in the Broadway revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita.
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Early life[link]
Martin was born on December 24, 1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico,[4] the son of Nereida Morales, an accountant, and Enrique Martín Negroni, a psychologist. His parents divorced when he was two; his father remarried. Martin has two maternal half-brothers, Fernando and Ángel Fernández, and two paternal half-brothers, Eric and Daniel Martín, and a paternal half-sister Vanessa Martín.[5] Martin grew up in a Roman Catholic home and was an altar boy until he joined Menudo.[6] Martin has Spanish ancestry through his grandmother who was born in Spain[7] and some Corsican ancestry as his paternal fourth great-grandfathers were born in Rogliano, Cap Corse, Corsica, and Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia (Spain).[8][9]
Ricky Martin was a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo between 1984 and 1989. After completing high school, Martin left San Juan and moved to New York City. Later, Martin moved to Mexico City where he attended the national school of space. He played lead role in a 1989 musical-theatre release named Mis Tennis Rojos (My Red Tennis Shoes) next to Angélica Vale and then followed another theater production Mama Ama el Rock (Mom Loves Rock).
Career[link]
Early solo work: 1991–1994[link]
In 1991, Ricky Martin participated in a telenovela titled Alcanzar una estrella II next to Sasha Sokol. Out of this soap opera a musical group was formed named Muñecos de Papel in which he was one of the six members; they toured several cities in Mexico and recorded two albums. His main single was "Juego de Ajedrez". A film based on the TV series was also produced in which Martin played Pablo, earning a Heraldo Award in 1993.
While acting in Mexico, Martin was signed to Sony Discos, the Sony Music Entertainment's Latin imprint, in 1990. He released his first solo album, the Spanish-language Ricky Martin, in November 1991, which included the hit singles: "Fuego Contra Fuego" and "El Amor de Mi Vida". Later, Ricky Martin performed a string of sold-out concert dates across South America.
In May 1993, Martin released his second solo album, Me Amarás, which featured a Spanish-language cover of the Laura Branigan song "Self Control", titled "Que Dia Es Hoy".
Martin moved to Los Angeles, California in 1994 and landed a role as bartender and singer Miguel Morez in the American soap opera General Hospital.
Breakthrough: 1995–1998[link]
In 1995, Martin refocused on his music career, and his third album, A Medio Vivir, became an international breakthrough. With this album, Martin made a shift from formulaic hit ballads to a more risky fusion of music centered around traditional Latin sounds, epitomized by the hit "Maria". The song broke Martin into Europe via Spain.[10] "Maria" went to number one in France, Belgium Wallonia and Australia, and reached the top ten in most European countries; it even charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eighty-eight.[11] With the ballad "Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo", Martin furthered his expansion from Latin American and Spanish-speaking audiences to the European and Asian markets.[12] The album has sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
After the conclusion of a worldwide tour, Martin returned to New York to appear in a Broadway theatre production for the first time, joining the cast of the hit musical Les Misérables to play the romantic lead, Marius Pontmercy.
While on Broadway, Martin returned to the studio and recorded his fourth album, Vuelve (1998). The title track and the ballad "Perdido Sin Tí" both hit number one on the Hot Latin Songs. The album's pinnacle, however, was "La Copa de la Vida", which Martin made a major hit in an English version when he was chosen to sing the anthem of the 1998 FIFA World Cup. "La Copa de la Vida" reached number one on the charts around the world and went gold and platinum in various countries. It was awarded Pop Song of the Year at the 1999 Lo Nuestro Awards.[13] Further singles included: "La Bomba", "Por Arriba, Por Abajo" and "Corazonado". Vuelve spent twenty-six weeks at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums. It became Martin's first top forty album on the Billboard 200 in the United States, where it was certified platinum by the RIAA. The album also went to number one in Spain and Norway, and sold over eight million copies worldwide.[14]
Martin was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for Vuelve, and was booked to sing on the 41st Grammy Awards live TV broadcast. The now-legendary performance of "The Cup of Life" stopped the show, earning Martin an unexpected standing ovation and introducing the star to the mainstream American audience.[15][16] Martin capped off the evening by winning the Grammy Award.
Crossover to English: 1999–2002[link]
After several years as a major star in Spanish-speaking countries, Martin prepared his first English album in 1999. The self-titled album contained material by writers and producers such as Desmond Child, Diane Warren, William Orbit, George Noriega and his longtime childhood friend Draco Rosa. The album also featured special guests: Madonna on the Spanish-English duet "Be Careful (Cuidado con mi Corazón)" and Meja on "Private Emotion".
The first and most prominent single was "Livin' la Vida Loca", which reached number one in many countries around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. It was followed by "She's All I Ever Had" which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Both tracks peaked at number one on the Hot Latin Songs. "Livin' la Vida Loca" is generally seen as the song that began the Latin pop explosion of 1999 and made the transition of other Latin artists (first Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias, then later Shakira) into the English-speaking market easier. Ricky Martin became one of the top-selling albums of 1999, and was certified 7× platinum in the United States, selling over 22 million copies worldwide. In October 1999, Martin embarked on a very successful year-long Livin' la Vida Loca Tour.
After this success, a new English-language album, Sound Loaded, was released in November 2000. It debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified 2× platinum by the RIAA. "She Bangs" and "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" (duet with Christina Aguilera) peaked at number twelve and thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Both singles reached number one on the Hot Latin Songs. Sound Loaded has sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
In February 2001, Martin released a Spanish greatest hits album entitled La Historia, which went to number one for five weeks on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and debuted at number eighty-three on the Billboard 200. It also topped the chart in Sweden for three weeks. The album contained reworkings of two of his early songs "Fuego Contra Fuego" and "El Amor de Mi Vida". In November 2001, an English-language greatest hits album, The Best of Ricky Martin was released outside North America. It contained two new remixes of "Amor".
[edit] Almas del Silencio and Life: 2003–2006
In May 2003, Martin released a new Spanish album Almas del Silencio. The first single, "Tal Vez", debuted at number one on the Hot Latin Songs and stayed there for eleven weeks. Martin said of the new album: "I really needed to go back to focus, to my center, to the beginning. I had the need to search within, and really dig deep, and find those emotions that, because of the adrenaline and the euphoria that I lived for a couple of years, were probably sabotaged."[17] Almas del Silencio debuted at number twelve on the Billboard 200 and reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums where it stayed for six weeks. The album sold more than one million copies worldwide.[18] The next singles, "Jaleo" and "Y Todo Queda en Nada", reached number one on the Hot Latin Songs. "Jaleo" also topped the chart in Spain for four weeks.
In October 2005, Martin released his first English-language album since 2000's Sound Loaded and the tenth album of his career. Most of the songs on the album, called Life, were co-written by Martin. He commented on the album: "I was really in touch with my emotions. I think this album is very multi-layered, just like life is. It's about feeling anger. It's about feeling joy. It's about feeling uncertainty. It's about feeling. And all my emotions are part of this production."[19] The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "I Don't Care", featured guest appearances by Fat Joe and Amerie. It peaked at number three on the Hot Dance Club Songs and number sixty-five on the Billboard Hot 100. Another song from the album, "It's Alright" was re-recorded as a duet with French singer M. Pokora. It was successful in French-speaking countries, reaching number four in France.
Soon after, Martin announced his One Night Only with Ricky Martin tour. Starting in Mexico City, the tour premiered on November 15, 2005. After finishing the first leg which included Latin America and the United States, Martin performed at the 2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in Turin. A few days later, he announced the second leg of his world tour, which included Europe and Africa. The second leg started on April 21, 2006 in Manchester, UK, and ended on June 3, 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
[edit] MTV Unplugged and a world tour: 2006–2007
On August 17, 2006, Ricky Martin taped his MTV Unplugged concert in Miami. It premiered on MTV Latin America, MTV Tr3s and MTV Puerto Rico in October 2006 and was released on CD and DVD in November 2006. The album was a critical and commercial success. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and number thirty-eight on the Billboard 200. At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008, MTV Unplugged received Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album and for Best Long Form Music Video. The first single, "Tu Recuerdo" which featured La Mari of Chambao, reached number one for three weeks on the Hot Latin Songs. The next single, "Pégate" peaked at number six on the Hot Dance Club Songs.
On February 19, 2007, Martin began his worldwide Black and White Tour[20] which started with a performance at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico and concluded with a presentation at the Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 14, 2007.[20] He also recorded a duet with Eros Ramazzotti, "Non siamo soli" which topped the Italian chart for eleven consecutive weeks.
Career break: 2007–2010[link]
After finishing his worldwide tour, Martin took a break from the music industry and focused on his private life. In November 2007, Sony BMG Norte released Ricky Martin Live: Black and White Tour on CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc. One year later, a Spanish-language greatest hits album was released, entitled 17. It was a summary of seventeen years of Martin's musical career, which included mostly Spanish-language songs.
Autobiography and a new album: 2010–present[link]
Ricky Martin's autobiography, Me, was published on November 2, 2010. The book became The New York Times Best Seller list,[21] debuting at number five on the Hardcover Nonfiction list. A Spanish-language edition entitled Yo was published simultaneously.
Martin's single, "The Best Thing About Me Is You" featuring Joss Stone also premiered on November 2, 2010 and peaked at number seventy-four on the Billboard Hot 100. The Spanish version, "Lo Mejor de Mi Vida Eres Tú" topped the Hot Latin Songs for two weeks. It was followed by a new studio album, Música + Alma + Sexo released on January 31, 2011.[22] It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and became the highest charting, primarily-Spanish language album in the United States, since Dreaming of You by Selena.[23] Música + Alma + Sexo also represents the highest ever chart debut on the Billboard 200 for a Sony Music Latin release.[24] It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums. On March 25, 2011, Martin started his Música + Alma + Sexo World Tour, which ended on November 12, 2011. The second single from the album, "Más" was released on April 5, 2011 and peaked at number seven on the Hot Dance Club Songs. "Frío" featuring Wisin & Yandel was chosen as the third single.
17: Greatest Hits was released on July 11, 2011 exclusively in the United Kingdom. Ricky Martin will be playing Ché in the Broadway revival of the show Evita, scheduled to begin previews on Broadway in March 2012, ahead of an opening in April 2012.[25] He received mixed reviews.
Ricky Martin guest-starred as a Spanish teacher on the FOX TV show Glee episode "The Spanish Teacher" on February 7, 2012.[26] Martin premiered his "Ricky's Lip Conditionioner" lip balm in April 2012 as part of the M.A.C Cosmetics "Ricky and Nicki for Viva Glam" campaign. The advertisements for the range paired him with rapper Nicki Minaj. Martin's signature is featured on the lip balm packaging.[27]
Personal life[link]
In the past Martin stated he was in love with Mexican TV host Rebecca de Alba, with whom he had an on-again off-again relationship for over 14 years. They even talked of starting a family together,[28][29][30] and at one point Martin planned on proposing.[31] However with the release of Life in 2005, Martin confirmed he and De Alba had parted ways.[32][33]
In August 2008, Martin became the father of twin boys, Matteo and Valentino. The babies were birthed by a surrogate mother.[34]
After the success of "Livin' la Vida Loca", Martin's personal life became a subject of interest due to his large gay following, and he was questioned about his sexual orientation. In a December 2000 interview with The Mirror, Martin was asked to comment on the rumors surrounding his sexuality. He replied that "I don't think I should have to tell anyone if I am gay or not, or who I've slept with or not."[35][36] On March 29, 2010, Martin publicly acknowledged his homosexuality in a post on his official website stating, "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am."[37][38] Martin said that "these years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within, and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed."[39] In 2010, prior to Martin coming out, Barbara Walters expressed some regret for pushing Martin in a 2000 interview to admit if he was gay. The Toronto Star quoted her as saying, "When I think back on it now, I feel it was an inappropriate question."[40][41]
Martin announced on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was in a relationship.[42] In 2011, during his acceptance speech of the Vito Russo Award at the 22nd GLAAD Media Awards, Martin publicly thanked his boyfriend, Carlos González Abella, an economist.[43][44] Martin has also expressed support for same-sex marriage in an interview on Larry King Live, and commented on his experience of being closeted and coming out. "Everything about saying that I am gay feels right...", Martin stated, adding "if I’d known how good it was going to feel, I would have done it ten years ago."[45]
Martin was raised Catholic, but says he is open to all sorts of religious beliefs, especially the Buddhist philosophy, although he does not identify as a Buddhist.[46]
On November 4, 2011, he acquired Spanish nationality in recognition of his artistic talents and for having roots in the country-Martin's grandmother is Spanish, and he owns a residence in Madrid. As a Spanish citizen he can now marry his boyfriend in Spain. Although he could also marry in some states of the United States, Martin wishes to marry in Spain to recognize the efforts of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in defense of LGBT rights.[47] [48] On September 9, 2011 he sold his home in Miami for $6.3 million that he had bought in 2007 for $16.5 million.[49] He was married to his partner in a New York ceremony on January 28, 2012.[50][51] In a public statement, written in Spanish, Martin explicitly stated that he has not abandoned his Puerto Ricaness: "I was born in Puerto Rico, I am a Puerto Rican, and that (Puerto Rico) is my country. Spain is a country that conjures up many sentiments for me due to my ancestral roots, and the strong love the country has given me since I first visited."[citation needed]
Humanitarian work[link]
Main article: Ricky Martin Foundation
Martin is the founder of Fundación Ricky Martin (Ricky Martin Foundation), a non-profit organization. Among the events promoted by the foundation was a summer camp, which included Martin's personal participation.[52]
Martin has been honored with many accolades for his humanitarian efforts including: Leadership in the Arts Award, Billboard's Spirit of Hope Award, ALMA Award, Vanguard Award, International Humanitarian Award by the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, Hispanic Heritage Award for his humanitarian work through the Sabera Foundation in rescuing three orphan girls from the streets of Kolkata (September 2002).
Martin has also collaborated with the International Organization for Migration on the Llama y Vive (Call and Live), a campaign which is aimed to facilitate prevention of human trafficking, protection of the youngest victims of child trafficking, and prosecution of the traffickers. For his work against human trafficking, the United States Department of State named Martin one of its Heroes in Ending Modern-Day Slavery in 2005.
Politics[link]
Martin was a headliner in the 2001 inauguration ball for President George W. Bush; he even invited the newly elected president to join him on stage to dance. This image was captured by photographers and broadcast in various media throughout the world. Martin referred to it in a later song, "Asignatura Pendiente".
Martin has since changed his position on the former President. In a concert in Puerto Rico during the song Asignatura Pendiente Martin thrust his middle finger disapprovingly in the air while singing the line "photo with Bush". The gesture met with audience approval but caused a minor controversy with the media. Martin said in an e-mail statement sent to the Associated Press via a spokesman: "My convictions of peace and life go beyond any government and political agenda and as long as I have a voice onstage and offstage, I will always condemn war and those who promulgate it".[53]
Discography[link]
Main articles: Ricky Martin discography and Ricky Martin videography
- Ricky Martin (1991)
- Me Amarás (1993)
- A Medio Vivir (1995)
- Vuelve (1998)
- Ricky Martin (1999)
- Sound Loaded (2000)
- Almas del Silencio (2003)
- Life (2005)
- Música + Alma + Sexo (2011)
Filmography[link]
- 1987 : Por siempre amigos (TV series) as Ricky
- 1990 : Alcanzar una estrella (TV series) as Pablo Loredo
- 1991 : Alcanzar una estrella II (TV series) as Pablo Loredo
- 1992 : Más que alcanzar una estrella as Enrique
- 1993 : Getting By (TV series) as Martin
- 1994 : General Hospital (TV series) as Miguel Morez (1994–95)
- 1996 : Barefoot in Paradise (TV series) as Sandoval
- 1997 : Hercules (Spanish Language, Voice Only) as Hercules
- 2002 : Les Diables as Brian Rodriguez
- 2012 : Glee (TV series) as David Martinez
Theatre[link]
- Les Misérables (1996), Broadway – Marius
- Evita, (2012), Broadway – Ché
Tours[link]
- Ricky Martin Tour (1992)
- Me Amaras Tour (1993–1994)
- A Medio Vivir Tour (1995–1997)
- Vuelve World Tour (1998)
- Livin' la Vida Loca Tour (1999–2000)
- One Night Only with Ricky Martin (2005–2006)
- Black and White Tour (2007)
- Música + Alma + Sexo World Tour[54] (2011)
Records and achievements[link]
- Martin was chosen along with Félix Trinidad in 1999, to lead Puerto Rico's worldwide tourism campaign, both exemplifying Puerto Rico's youthfulness, enthusiasm and indefatigable character.
- In February 2004, Martin received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lo Nuestro Awards in Miami.
- Martin was honored as the 2006 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy on November 1, 2006. He was chosen for his accomplishments as a world renowned entertainer, consummate performer and passionate humanitarian. A portion of the proceeds from the evening's tribute dinner was used for benefitting Ricky Martin's charitable efforts.
- On October 16, 2007, Martin received the 2351st Hollywood Walk of Fame star,[55] shortly after receiving the key to the city of Miami Beach, Florida on October 11. The star is located beside the Hollywood and Highland complex. Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Rita Moreno were invited to the unveiling ceremony.[20]
- In 2008, Puerto Rico declared August 31 to be International Ricky Martin Day.
- In 2011, Martin was awarded Spanish citizenship to honor his contributions to the arts.[1]
- In addition to the numerous awards received throughout his musical career, Martin has also been honored with many accolades for his humanitarian efforts.
| Awards | ||||
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| Grammy | ||||
| Preceded by Luis Miguel for Romances |
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album 1999 for Vuelve |
Succeeded by Rubén Blades for Tiempo |
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| Latin Grammy | ||||
| Preceded by Gloria Estefan for "No Me Dejes de Querer" |
Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video 2001 for "She Bangs" |
Succeeded by Shakira for "Suerte" |
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| Preceded by Ricardo Arjona for Adentro |
Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album 2007 for MTV Unplugged |
Succeeded by Juanes for La Vida... Es Un Ratico |
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| Preceded by Diego El Cigala for Blanco Y Negro En Vivo |
Latin Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video 2007 for MTV Unplugged |
Succeeded by Julieta Venegas for MTV Unplugged |
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See also[link]
- List of best-selling music artists
- List of Puerto Ricans
- Honorific nicknames in popular music
- White Latin American
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- ^ American Choreography Awards: Show-stopping, standing ovation
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| Country |  Russia |
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| Residence | Bradenton, Florida, United States |
| Born | (1987-04-19) April 19, 1987 (age 25) Nyagan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] |
| Weight | 59 kilograms (130 lb)[1] |
| Turned pro | April 19, 2001 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Career prize money | $ 19,323,417[2] |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 441–109 |
| Career titles | 26 WTA, 4 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (August 30, 2005) |
| Current ranking | No. 2 (May 28, 2012)[3] |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | W (2008) |
| French Open | SF (2007, 2011) |
| Wimbledon | W (2004) |
| US Open | W (2006) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Championships | W (2004) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 23–17 |
| Career titles | 3 WTA |
| Highest ranking | 41 (January 30, 2012) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2003, 2004) |
| US Open | 2R (2003) |
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Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мария Юрьевна Шарапова [mɐˈrʲijə ˈjurʲjɪvnə ʂɐˈrapəvə] (
listen), US: /ʃɑrəˈpoʊvə/, UK: /ʃærəˈpoʊvə/; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and former world no. 1. A United States resident since 1994,[4] Sharapova has won 26 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open. She has also won the year-end WTA Tour Championships in 2004. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked Sharapova world no. 1 in singles on four separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on August 22, 2005, and last regained the ranking for the fourth time on May 19, 2008. As of May 28, 2012, Sharapova is ranked world no. 2. She has been in six Grand Slam finals with the final record 3–3.
Sharapova made her professional breakthrough in 2004 at age 17, when she defeated two-time defending champion and top seed Serena Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final for her first Grand Slam singles title. She entered the top 10 of the WTA Rankings with the win. Despite not winning a major in 2005, Sharapova briefly held the no. 1 ranking, and reached three Grand Slam semifinals, losing to the eventual champion each time. She won her second major at the 2006 US Open defeating then-world no. 1 Amélie Mauresmo in the semifinals and world no. 2 Justine Henin in the final.
Sharapova's 2007 season was plagued with a chronic shoulder injury and saw her ranking fall out of the top 5 for the first time in two years. She won her third Grand Slam at the 2008 Australian Open, defeating Henin in the quarterfinals and Ana Ivanović in the final. After reclaiming the no. 1 ranking in May 2008, Sharapova's shoulder problems re-surfaced, requiring surgery in October and forcing her out of the game for 10 months. Sharapova returned in May 2009 and was ranked no. 126 in the world due to her extensive lay-off. Since her comeback, Sharapova has won seven singles titles (bringing her career total to 26) and improved her ranking to no. 2 in the world.
Sharapova has been featured in a number of modeling assignments, including a feature in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has been featured in many advertisements, including for Nike, Prince and Canon, and is the face of several fashion houses, most notably Cole Haan. Sharapova was the most searched-for athlete on Yahoo! in 2005 and 2008.[5][6][7] Since February 2007, she has been a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, concerned specifically with the Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme. In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time.[8]
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Early life[link]
Maria Sharapova's parents, Yuri and Elena, are from Gomel, Belarus. Concerned about the regional effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, they left their homeland shortly before Sharapova was born.[9] When Sharapova was two, the family moved to Sochi. There her father befriended Aleksandr Kafelnikov, whose son Yevgeny would go on to win two Grand Slam singles titles and became Russia's first no. 1 world-ranked tennis player. Aleksandr gave Sharapova her first tennis racket at the age of four, whereupon she began practicing regularly with her father at a local park.[10] She took her first tennis lessons with veteran Russian coach Yuri Yutkin, who was instantly impressed when he saw her play, noting her "exceptional hand-eye coordination."[11]
At the age of seven, Sharapova attended a tennis clinic in Moscow run by Martina Navratilova, who recommended professional training at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, which had previously trained players such as Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, and Anna Kournikova.[10] With money tight, Yuri was forced to borrow the sum that would allow him and his daughter, neither of whom could speak English, to travel to United States, which they finally did in 1994.[11] Visa restrictions prevented Sharapova's mother from joining them for two years.[9] Arriving in Florida with savings of US$700,[11] Sharapova's father took various low-paying jobs, including dish-washing, to fund her lessons until she was old enough to be admitted to the academy. In 1995, she was signed by IMG, who agreed to pay the annual tuition fee of $35,000 for Sharapova to stay at the academy, allowing her to finally enroll at the age of 9.[10]
Tennis career[link]
2001–03[link]
Sharapova first gained attention on the tennis scene in November 2000, when she won the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships in the girls' 16 division at the age of just 13.[12] She was then given a special award, the Rising Star Award, which is awarded only to players of exceptional promise.[13] She made her professional debut in 2001 on her birthday on April 19, and played her first WTA tournament at the Pacific Life Open in 2002, winning a match before losing to Monica Seles. Due to restrictions on how many professional events she could play, Sharapova went to hone her game in junior tournaments, where she reached the finals of the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2002. She was the youngest girl ever to reach the final of the Australian Open junior championship at 14 years and 9 months.[14]
From 2003, Sharapova played a full season, and made a rapid climb into the top 50 by the end of the year.[15] She made her debuts at both the Australian Open and the French Open, but failed to win a match in either.[16] It was not until the grass season that she began to fulfill her promise, beating a top-20 player for the first time and reaching her first semifinal at the WTA level. Then, as a wildcard at Wimbledon, she defeated 11th seed Jelena Dokić to reach the fourth round, where she lost in three sets to Svetlana Kuznetsova.[16]
By the end of September, Sharapova had already captured her first WTA title at a smaller event, the Japan Open Tennis Championships, before winning her second in her final tournament of the season, the Bell Challenge. To cap off her first full season as a professional, she was awarded the WTA Newcomer of the Year honor.
2004[link]
Sharapova was defeated in the third round of the Australian Open by seventh seed Anastasia Myskina.[17] The highlight of the remainder of her spring hard-court season was a run to the semifinals at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, where she ultimately lost to eventual champion Vera Zvonareva.[17]
During the spring clay-court season, Sharapova entered the top 20 on the WTA world rankings as a result of reaching the third round of the Qatar Telecom German Open[17] and the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, both of which were Tier I events.[17] At the latter event, she defeated a player ranked in the top 10 for the first time with a straight-sets win over world no. 10 and 2004 French Open finalist Elena Dementieva. Later that clay-court season, she went on to make the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time at the French Open, losing there to Paola Suárez.
Sharapova won the third title of her career at the Wimbledon warm-up DFS Classic, defeating Tatiana Golovin in the final.[17] Seeded 13th and aged 17 at Wimbledon, she reached her first Grand Slam semifinal by defeating Ai Sugiyama. There, she came back from a 6–2, 3–1 deficit to defeat fifth seed and former champion Lindsay Davenport. In the final, Sharapova upset top seed and defending champion Serena Williams to win her first Grand Slam singles title, and become the third youngest woman to win the Wimbledon title, behind only Lottie Dod and Martina Hingis. Sharapova also became the second Russian woman (after Anastasia Myskina had won the year's previous major at Roland Garros) to win a Grand Slam singles title. The victory was hailed by the media as "the most stunning upset in memory",[18] with other writers commenting on her arrival as a serious challenger to the Williams' dominance at Wimbledon.[19] She entered the top 10 in the rankings for the first time as a result of the win.[17]
Following her Wimbledon win, attention and interest in Sharapova in the media greatly increased, a rise in popularity dubbed as "Maria Mania."[20] However, on court, she was struggling to achieve results, winning just three of six matches in her preparations for the US Open. At the US Open itself, she reached the third round, before being eliminated by Mary Pierce. In order to regain confidence, Sharapova played and won consecutive titles in Asia in the fall, the Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships and the Japan Open Tennis Championships.
In October, Sharapova defeated Venus Williams en route to making the final of a Tier I event for the first time at the Zurich Open, losing in the final to Alicia Molik. She then made her debut at the year-ending WTA Tour Championships. There, she won two of her three round-robin matches (including a win over US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova) in order to advance to the semifinals, where she defeated Myskina. In the final, she defeated Serena Williams, 4–6, 6–2, 6–4, after trailing 4–0 in the final set.[17]
World No 1[link]
Sharapova started the year at the Australian Open, where she defeated fifth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the second Grand Slam semifinal of her career. Sharapova held match points in the third set of her semifinal match, before losing to eventual champion Serena Williams.[21] In February, Sharapova won back-to-back tournaments, the Toray Pan Pacific Open and the Qatar Total Open,[21] allowing her to reach the top 3 in the world rankings for the first time.
In the semifinals of the Tier I Pacific Life Open, Sharapova was defeated by Lindsay Davenport, 0–6, 0–6, the first time she had failed to win a game in a match.[21][22] The following fortnight, she defeated former world no. 1 players Justine Henin and Venus Williams to reach the final at the Tier I NASDAQ-100 Open, where she lost to Kim Clijsters.[21]
Sharapova made the semifinals of a clay-court tournament for the first time at the Italian Open, where she lost to Patty Schnyder.[21] Sharapova would have become world no. 1 for the first time had she won the tournament.[23] Sharapova then reached the quarterfinals of the French Open for the second consecutive year, before losing to eventual champion Henin.[21] On grass, Sharapova won her third title of the year when she successfully defended her title at the DFS Classic, defeating Jelena Janković in the final. As the defending champion at Wimbledon, Sharapova reached the semifinals without dropping a set and losing a service game just once, extending her winning streak on grass to 24 matches. However, she was then beaten by eventual champion Venus Williams.[21]
A back injury sustained by world no. 1 Davenport at Wimbledon prevented her from playing tournaments during the summer hard-court season, which meant she could not earn new ranking points to replace those that were expiring from the previous year. Sharapova, although also injured for much of this time, had far fewer points to defend, and so she became the first Russian woman to hold the world no. 1 ranking on August 22, 2005.[24] Her reign lasted only one week, however, as Davenport reclaimed the top ranking after winning the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament.[24]
As the top seed at the US Open, Sharapova lost in the semifinals to Kim Clijsters, meaning she had lost to the eventual champion in every Grand Slam of the season. However, she once again leapfrogged Davenport to take the world no. 1 ranking on September 12, 2005. She retained it for six weeks, but after playing few tournaments while injured, she again relinquished the ranking to Davenport.[24] To conclude the year, Sharapova failed to defend her title at the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships in Los Angeles, defeating Davenport in one of her round-robin matches, but ultimately losing in the semifinals to eventual champion Amélie Mauresmo.[21]
2006[link]
Sharapova started 2006 by losing in the semifinals of the Australian Open in three sets to Henin,[25] also losing a rematch several weeks later at the Dubai Tennis Championships, having defeated former world no. 1 Martina Hingis and world no. 3 Lindsay Davenport in earlier rounds of the tournament.[25] Sharapova claimed her first title in nine months at the Tier I tournament in Indian Wells, defeating Hingis in the semifinals and Elena Dementieva in the final.[25] The following fortnight, she reached the final in Miami before losing to Kuznetsova.[25]
Missing the entire clay-court season with injury, Sharapova returned for the French Open. There, after saving match points in defeating Mashona Washington in the first round, she was eliminated by Dinara Safina in the fourth round.[25]
On grass, Sharapova was unsuccessful in her attempt to win in Birmingham for the third consecutive year, losing in the semifinals to Jamea Jackson.[25] Despite that, she was among the title favorites at Wimbledon, where the eventual champion Mauresmo ended up beating her in the semifinals.[25]
Sharapova claimed her second title of the year at the Tier I Acura Classic, defeating Clijsters for the first time in the final.[25] As the third seed at the US Open, Sharapova defeated top seed Mauresmo for the first time in the semifinals, and then followed up by beating second seed Justine Henin[25] in order to win her second Grand Slam singles title.[25]
That autumn, Sharapova won titles in back-to-back weeks at the Zurich Open and the Generali Ladies Linz.[25] By winning all three of her round-robin matches at the WTA Tour Championships, she extended her win streak to 19 matches, before it was snapped in the semifinals by eventual champion Henin.[25] Sharapova would have finished the season as world no. 1 had she won the event. As it was, she finished ranked world no. 2, her best year-end finish yet.
2007[link]
Sharapova was the top seed at the Australian Open due to top-ranked Justine Henin's withdrawal. After being two points away from defeat in the first round against Camille Pin, rallying for a 6–3, 4–6, 9–7 victory, she went on to reach the final of the tournament for the first time, but was routed there by Serena Williams, 1–6, 2–6, ranked world no. 81 at the time.[26] After reaching the final, Sharapova recaptured the world no. 1 ranking.[24] She held it for seven weeks, surrendering it back to Henin after failing to defend her title at the Pacific Life Open, instead losing in the fourth round to Vera Zvonareva after struggling with a hamstring injury. The following fortnight, she defeated Venus Williams in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open, before suffering another defeat, 1–6, 1–6, to Serena Williams.
A shoulder injury forced Sharapova to miss most of the clay-court season for the second consecutive year, resulting in her only tune-up for the French Open being the Istanbul Cup, where she lost in the semifinals to Aravane Rezaï.[26] Despite her lack of preparation, she reached the semifinals of the French Open for the first time in her career (having saved match points against Patty Schnyder in the fourth round), before losing to Ana Ivanović.[26]
On grass, Sharapova was runner-up to Jelena Janković at the DFS Classic.[26] Following that, she experienced her earliest Wimbledon loss since 2003 by losing in the fourth round to eventual champion Venus Williams.[26]
Sharapova clinched the US Open Series by defending her title at the Acura Classic, her only championship of the year, and reaching the semifinals in Los Angeles.[24] In her US Open title defense, Sharapova was upset in her third round match to 30th seed Agnieszka Radwańska,[27] making it her earliest exit at a Grand Slam singles tournament since the 2004 US Open, where she lost in the same round.[24]
Following the US Open loss, Sharapova did not play again until the Kremlin Cup in October, where she lost her opening match to Victoria Azarenka.[26] Shortly after this, she fell out of the top 5 in the world rankings for the first time since 2004. She qualified for the eight-woman year-end Sony Ericsson Championships due to a withdrawal by Venus Williams before the start of the tournament.[24] Despite having not previously won a match in two months, Sharapova topped her round-robin group at the tournament, after winning all three of her matches, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova, Ana Ivanović, and Daniela Hantuchová. She then defeated Anna Chakvetadze in the semifinals.[26] In the final, she lost to world no. 1 Henin in a match that lasted 3 hours and 24 minutes. Sharapova reached the top five again to end the year.
===2008=== Shoulder Injury Sharapova was seeded fifth at the Australian Open,[28] but was not considered a favorite. Nevertheless, she defeated former world no. 1 Lindsay Davenport in the second round, and then world no. 1 Henin in the quarterfinals,[29] ending the latter's 32-match winning streak.[30] She proceeded to the finals by defeating Jelena Janković in the semifinals, where she defeated Ana Ivanović to win her third Grand Slam title,[31] having not dropped a set all tournament.
After the Australian Open, Sharapova extended her winning streak to 18 matches.[31] This run encompassed two wins in singles rubbers when making her debut for Russia in the Fed Cup[32] against Israel[31] and victory at the Tier I Qatar Total Open.[31] Her winning streak was ended in the semifinals of the Pacific Life Open by Kuznetsova.[31] In April, Sharapova won the Bausch & Lomb Championships, having survived her longest-ever match, at 3 hours and 26 minutes long, in the third round against Anabel Medina Garrigues.[33][34] The following week, at the Family Circle Cup, she lost in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams, her fourth consecutive loss to the American.[35]
In May, Sharapova regained the world no. 1 ranking because of Henin's sudden retirement from professional tennis and request to the WTA that her own ranking be removed immediately.[36] As the top-seeded player at the French Open[31] Sharapova was within two points[37] of being knocked out by Evgeniya Rodina in the first round, before eventually winning.[38] As a result of losing to eventual finalist Dinara Safina in the fourth round (after serving for the match),[39] she relinquished her no. 1 ranking.[40] Her dip in form continued at Wimbledon, where she lost in the second round to world no. 154 Alla Kudryavtseva.[31] This was her earliest loss ever at Wimbledon, and at any Grand Slam in almost five years.[41]
Sharapova withdrew from the Rogers Cup tournament in August due to a shoulder injury.[42][43] An MRI scan revealed that she had been suffering from a rotator cuff tear since April, forcing her out of all tournaments for the rest of the season, including the Beijing Olympics, the US Open, and the WTA Tour Championships. In spite of that, she still finished the year ranked world no. 9.[44] In October, after a failed attempt to rehabilitate the shoulder, Sharapova had surgery to repair the tear.
2009[link]
Sharapova did not attempt to defend her Australian Open title, as she continued to recover from surgery.[45][46] She returned to the sport in March, in the doubles tournament at the BNP Paribas Open, but she and partner Elena Vesnina lost in the first round. After this, Sharapova withdrew from further singles tournaments, resulting in her standing in the world rankings being severely affected. She dropped out of the top 100 for the first time in six years in May, the nadir being world no. 126.
Playing her first singles tournament in nearly ten months, Sharapova made the quarterfinals of the clay-court Warsaw Open in May, losing to finalist Alona Bondarenko. The following week, in the first Grand Slam appearance since her surgery, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, before her run was ended by Dominika Cibulková.
During the summer grass-court season, Sharapova played in Birmingham, losing in the semifinals. Sharapova then played at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships as the 24th seed. She was upset in the second round by Gisela Dulko in three sets.
Sharapova enjoyed considerable success in the summer months, reaching the quarterfinals at the Bank of the West Classic, the semifinals at the LA Women's Tennis Championships, and finishing runner-up at the Rogers Cup to Elena Dementieva. At the 2009 US Open, Sharapova was seeded 29th. She entered her way into the third round defeating Tsvetana Pironkova and Christina McHale all in straight sets. She was stunned in the third round by American teenager Melanie Oudin 3–6, 6–4, 7–5. It was the first time in Sharapova's career that she lost to a teenager at a Grand Slam event. The devastating loss made Sharapova's ranking go down to no. 32.
The final stretch of the season brought Sharapova her first title of the year in Tokyo, after opponent Jelena Janković retired after being down 2–5 to Sharapova in the final. By virtue of that result, she was the recipient of a bye at the China Open, but failed to capitalize on it, losing to Peng Shuai in the third round. She ultimately finished the season at world no. 14, having improved from no. 126 when she starting her comeback from injury.
2010[link]
After playing two exhibition tournaments in Asia, Sharapova officially began her season at the Australian Open, where she was upset in her first-round match against Maria Kirilenko. The loss meant that for the first time since 2003, Sharapova had lost her opening match at a Grand Slam event.[47] She then rebounded by winning a smaller American event, the Cellular South Cup, her 21st career WTA title and first of the year.[48]
At the BNP Paribas Open, Sharapova lost in the third round to Zheng Jie, aggravating a bruised bone on her right elbow in the process, which resulted in her eventual withdrawal from the Sony Ericsson Open[49] and the Family Circle Cup.[50]
Returning at the 2010 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, Sharapova lost in the first round to Lucie Šafářová. She continued her French Open preparation at the Internationaux de Strasbourg as a wildcard, advancing to the final, where she beat Kristina Barrois. This was her first title on red clay and 22nd overall title.[51] At the French Open, Sharapova's brief clay season culminated with a third-round loss to four-time champion Justine Henin.
Sharapova began her preparations for Wimbledon at the AEGON Classic. She advanced to the final for the fourth time, where she lost to Li Na. As the 16th seed at Wimbledon, Sharapova lost in the fourth round to world no. 1 and eventual champion Serena Williams, 6–7, 4–6, despite having three set points in the opening set.[52] The match was seen as another encouraging performance for Sharapova, with some stating their belief that she was approaching the form that would see her contending for Grand Slams once more,[53] and Sharapova herself that stating she felt that she was "in a much better spot than I was last year."[54]
During the US Open Series, Sharapova made two straight finals, losing to Victoria Azarenka at the Bank of the West Classic, and to Kim Clijsters at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open. In the latter match, Sharapova held three match points while leading 5–3 on Clijsters's serve late in the second set, but could not convert them.
At the U.S. Open, Sharapova was the 14th seed. She made it to the fourth round, where she played top seed and 2009 finalist Caroline Wozniacki and lost, 3–6, 4–6.
Sharapova's last two tournaments of the season ended in disappointment. She played in the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, where she was upset in the first round by 39-year-old former world no. 4 Kimiko Date-Krumm.[55] Her last tournament of the year was the China Open, where she lost in the second round to fellow Russian Elena Vesnina.[56] Days later, she announced the end of her 2010 season.[57] She ended the year at number 18 in the world.[58]
Back to Form[link]
It was announced that Sharapova would bring in Thomas Hogstedt as a coach for the 2011 season, joining Michael Joyce.[59] On December 5, Sharapova played an exhibition match against world no. 2 Vera Zvonareva in Monterrey, Mexico. She won the match 6–1, 7–5.[60] It was also announced that Maria would start endorsing the Head YOUTEK IG Instinct Racquet range. This ended her career long use of Prince racquets.
In Sharapova's first ever official Australian Open warm-up tournament at the 2011 ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, she was seeded 1st. She lost to the Hungarian veteran and eventual champion Gréta Arn 2–6, 5–7 in the quarterfinals. After the ASB Classic, Sharapova decided to take a hiatus from Joyce's coaching, despite having worked together for a number of years, including during her successful years where she became a multiple Grand Slam champion.[61]
Sharapova participated in the first Grand Slam of the season at the Australian Open, where she was the 14th seed, but lost to Andrea Petkovic, 2–6, 3–6 in the fourth round.[62]
Sharapova's next appearance was at the 2011 Fed Cup tie against France, which she lost to Virginie Razzano, 3–6, 4–6. She then withdrew from the 2011 Open GDF Suez in Paris because of viral illness.[63] She also had to pull out of the 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships and 2011 Qatar Ladies Open due to an ear infection.
Sharapova returned to the tour in March by taking part in the 2011 BNP Paribas Open, where she was seeded 16th. She defeated former world No. 1 Dinara Safina, 6–2, 6–0, in the fourth round en route to the semifinal, where she lost to world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, 1–6, 2–6. With this result, Sharapova returned to the top 10 for the first time since February 2009.
At the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Sharapova upset fourth seed Samantha Stosur in the fourth round. She then defeated 26th seed Alexandra Dulgheru 3–6, 7–66, 7–65 in the quarterfinals in a match that lasted 3 hours and 28 minutes, the longest match of her career. In the semifinals, Sharapova took her Australian Open reprisal on Germany's Andrea Petkovic by defeating her 3–6, 6–0, 6–2. In the final, she was defeated by Victoria Azarenka, 1–6, 4–6, despite a late comeback in the second set.
During the clay-court season, Sharapova participated in 2011 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, where she lost to Dominika Cibulková 5–7, 4–6, in the third round and the 2011 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where she was seeded seventh. She defeated top seed Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals and sixth seed Samantha Stosur, 6–2, 6–4, in the final to take home the title, marking her biggest clay-court victory to date.[64]
At the 2011 French Open, Sharapova was seeded seventh. She defeated French wildcard Caroline Garcia in the second round, despite trailing 3–6, 1–4, before winning the last 11 games of the match. In the quarterfinals, she defeated 15th seed Andrea Petkovic, 6–0, 6–3, marking her first Grand Slam semifinal since her comeback from the career-threatening shoulder injury. She then lost to sixth seed and eventual champion Li Na, 4–6, 5–7, in the semifinals, ending her clay season with a win-loss record of 12–2.[65] This marks her most successful clay season to date.
At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, Sharapova had not dropped a set entering the final, before losing to eighth seed Petra Kvitová in straight sets, 3–6, 4–6.[66] This marked her first final in over three years at a Grand Slam event.
Sharapova started her summer hard court season at the 2011 Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, USA. In a highly anticipated match, Sharapova lost to the eventual champion Serena Williams 1–6, 3–6, in the quarterfinals.[67] In her next event at 2011 Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada, Sharapova lost to Galina Voskoboeva in the third round, marking her 100th career loss.[68]
Sharapova then contested at the 2011 Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, Ohio. As the fourth seed, she received a bye into the second round. On the way to her fourth final of the year, she beat Anastasia Rodionova, 6–1, 6–3,[69] 14th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–2, 6–3,[70] 10th seed Samantha Stosur, 6–3, 6–2,[71] and 2nd seed Vera Zvonareva 2–6, 6–3, 6–3.[72] In the final, she defeated fellow former world no. 1 Jelena Jankovic, 4–6, 7–6, 6–3, in 2 hours and 49 minutes, making it the longest WTA tour final of the year.[73] She subsequently moved up to world no. 4, her highest ranking since August 2008 and the highest since her comeback from her shoulder injury.[74]
Sharapova entered the US Open in fine form, where she was seeded third. She beat British up-and-comer Heather Watson, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3, and Anastasiya Yakimova, 6–1, 6–1, to reach the third round. She was then upset by Flavia Pennetta, 3–6, 6–3, 4–6. However, because of the fall of Kim Clijsters and Vera Zvonareva in the rankings, Sharapova climbed to world no. 2.[75]
Sharapova's next tournament was the 2011 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan. As second seed, she received a bye into the second round, where she beat Tamarine Tanasugarn, 6–2, 7–5. She then beat 13th seed Julia Goerges 7–6, 7–6, before retiring against Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinal, 3–4, after slipping on the baseline, suffering an ankle injury. This also forced her to withdraw from the 2011 China Open the following week. Sharapova then flew to Istanbul to prepare for the 2011 WTA Tour Championships, her first time qualifying since 2007. During the WTA Tour Championships, Sharapova withdrew during the round-robin stage after defeats against Samantha Stosur, 1–6, 5–7, and Li Na, 6–7, 4–6, due to the ankle injury she had suffered in Tokyo.
Sharapova ended the year as number 4 in the world, her first top-10 finish since 2008 and first top-5 finish since 2007.
2012[link]
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Sharapova withdrew from the 2012 Brisbane International because of her ongoing ankle injury.[76] Her first tournament of the season was the 2012 Australian Open, where she was seeded fourth. Sharapova advanced to the fourth round conceding just five games, defeating Gisela Dulko, Jamie Hampton and the 30th seed Angelique Kerber en route. In the fourth round, Sharapova defeated the fourteenth seed, Sabine Lisicki in three sets, 3–6, 6–2, 6–3 to reach her first hardcourt Grand Slam quarterfinal in 4 years. She then defeated compatriot, Ekaterina Makarova in straight sets, 6–2, 6–3 to reach the semifinals. There she defeated the world no. 2 Petra Kvitová, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4 to reach her third Australian Open final, and her sixth grand slam singles final overall. She lost to Victoria Azarenka in the final 3–6, 0–6. As a result her ranking improved to world no. 3.
In February, Sharapova aided Russia to a 3–2 victory over Spain during the 2012 Fed Cup quarterfinal with a 6–2, 6–1 win over Silvia Soler-Espinosa.[77] She then played in Paris, where she lost in the quarterfinal to eventual champion Angelique Kerber 4–6, 4–6. As a result her ranking improved to World No. 2. At Indian Wells, Sharapova faced Gisela Dulko in the first round and won 6–2, 6–0. Sharapova defeated Simona Halep and Roberta Vinci en route to reaching the quarterfinals. After battling for over 3 hours, she defeated compatriot Maria Kirilenko 3–6 7–5 6–2, to set up a semifinal meeting with Ana Ivanovic. Sharapova won the first set 6–4 and advanced to the final after Ivanovic retired due to a hip injury. In the final she played world no. 1 Victoria Azarenka in a rematch of the Australian Open final, but lost again 2–6, 3–6.
Sharapova's next tournament was the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open, where she was seeded 2nd. She received a bye to the second round where she faced Shahar Peer and won in three sets 4–6, 6–3, 6–3. Her next opponent was Sloane Stephens. Sharapova won in straight sets 6–4, 6–2. In the fourth round she won in straight sets, 6–4, 7–6 against countrywoman Ekaterina Makarova and advanced to the quarterfinals where she faced Li Na, whom she beat 6–3, 6–0. Her semifinal opponent was fellow former world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki. After an inconsistent first set, Sharapova won the match 4–6, 6–2, 6–4. In the final, Maria lost in straight sets to 5th seeded Agnieszka Radwanska 7–5, 6–4. This was her third loss of the year in finals out of four tournaments played so far. Sharapova's next tournament was the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, where she was seeded second. She had a bye in the first round, and advanced to the third round after Alize Cornet retired in the second set. In the quarterfinal, she defeated No. 5 Samantha Stosur 6–75, 7–65, 7–5 after saving a match point in the second set, and advanced to the final with a 6–4, 7–63 win over No. 3 Petra Kvitova. She won her first title of the year in Stuttgart after defeating world number one Victoria Azarenka 6–1, 6–4. In doing so, Sharapova defeated three current Grand Slam title holders to win the tournament. It was also her first win against Azarenka in five finals, and the third of such this season.
Sharapova's next tournament was a premier mandatory event, the 2012 Mutua Madrid Open. She eased through the first round in straight sets against Irina-Camelia Begu 6–0, 6–3. In the next round she faced Klara Zakopalova and also won in straight sets with 6–4, 6–3. In the third round Sharapova's opponent Lucie Safarova was unable to compete and with drew from the tournament, earning Sharapova a walkover into the quarter finals. She was then beaten by eventual champion Serena Williams in straight sets 6–1, 6–3.
As the defending champion and number two seed at the Italian Open, Sharapova had a bye in the first round. She battled through the first round against 20 year-old Christina McHale and prevailed 7–5, 7–5. She then faced thirteenth seed Ana Ivanovic and won 7–64, 6–3 in 1 hour 47 minutes to advance to the quarterfinals. Sharapova then defeated former world no. 1 Venus Williams 6–4, 6–3, meaning that Sharapova has reached the quarterfinals or better in all nine tournaments she has played this year. In the semifinals, Sharapova avenged her defeat to Angelique Kerber in Paris earlier in the year by beating her 6–3, 6–4 to advance to the final for the second year in a row. In the final, Maria saved match point for a 2 hour 52 minute, 4–6, 6–4, 7–6(5) win over Li Na for her 26th career title.[78] This marked the fourth time Sharapova had successfully defended a title.
Sharapova's currently in action at the French Open, where she is seeded 2nd. She moved through to the second round by defeating Alexandra Cadantu 6-0, 6-0 in 48 minutes. She defeated Ayumi Morita 6-1, 6-1 to reach the third round, where she will face Peng Shuai.
Fed Cup participation[link]
Sharapova has lived in the United States since moving there at the age of seven, but retains her Russian citizenship, and is therefore eligible to play in the Fed Cup for Russia.[79] However, the behavior of Sharapova's father during her matches on the WTA Tour, combined with a perceived lack of commitment by her to the Fed Cup, has made her selection for the Russian Fed Cup team cause controversy in the past.
After Sharapova had beaten fellow Russian Anastasia Myskina at the 2004 WTA Tour Championships, Myskina criticized Sharapova's father, saying: "He was just yelling and screaming instructions to her and I thought he just might jump right on the court at one point in the match." At the Fed Cup semi-finals two weeks later, Myskina stated she would stop playing for Russia if Sharapova joined the Russian team the following season: "If she joins our team next season you won't see me there for sure. His behaviour is totally incorrect, simply rude. I don't want to be around people like him." Larisa Neiland, assistant to Russia Fed Cup captain Shamil Tarpishchev, added: "Her father's behaviour (at the WTA Tour Championships) was simply outrageous. I just don't see how he could work with the rest of us." However Tarpishchev himself played down the problem, insisting: "I feel that things will calm down soon and we'll have Myskina, Sharapova, Kuznetsova and everyone else playing for Russia."[80]
At the end of 2005, Sharapova stated she was now keen to make her Fed Cup debut[81] and was set to play against Belgium in April 2006, but withdrew.[82] She later withdrew from ties against Spain in April 2007[83] and against the United States in July 2007 because of injuries.[84] The latter withdrawal led to Russia's captain saying she would be "ineligible for selection" for the Fed Cup final in September.[85] However, Sharapova attended the final, cheering from the sidelines and acting as a "hitting partner" in practices, resulting in some of her Russian teammates implying that she was attending only to enable her to play at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (rules state that players must have "shown commitment" to Fed Cup in order to play). Svetlana Kuznetsova said, "She said she wanted to be our practice partner but if you can't play how then can you practice?"[86]
Sharapova finally made her Fed Cup debut in February 2008, in Russia's quarterfinal tie against Israel.[32] She won both her singles rubbers, against Tzipora Obziler and Shahar Pe'er, helping Russia to a 4–1 victory.[87] For the semifinals, she was given permission to skip the tie, with Tarpishchev announcing that she will be on the team for the final.[88] However, the date of the final coincided with the lay-off from her shoulder injury, and thus she did not play.[89]
In the 2011 first round tie, Maria played Virginie Razzano of France and lost. Maria was supposed to play Alize Cornet, but Sharapova was suffering from a viral illness. So teammate, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova played instead of Sharapova where she would go to help Russia come back from their 0–2 deficit by beating Alize Cornet 3–6 6–3 6–2 and secure the win for Russia against France 3–2. Maria continued to participate in 2012 and helped Russia to a 3–2 win against Spain in the first round tie. Sharapova defeated Silver Soler Espinosa in the first rubber, but was unable o play her second rubber due to illness.
Playing style[link]
Sharapova is an aggressive baseliner, with power, depth, and angles on her forehand and backhand.[90] She is one of the few players on the WTA who uses the reverse forehand a lot. Instead of using a traditional volley or overhead smash, she often prefers to hit a powerful "swinging" volley when approaching the net or attacking lobs.[91] Sharapova is thought to have good speed around the court, especially considering her height.[90] At the beginning of 2008, some observers noted that Sharapova had developed her game, showing improved movement and footwork and the addition of a drop shot and sliced backhand to her repertoire of shots.[92][93] Despite her powerful game, Sharapova's greatest asset is considered to be her mental toughness and competitive spirit, with Nick Bollettieri stating that she is "tough as nails". Hall-of-famer John McEnroe said of Sharapova, "she's one of the best competitors in the history of the sport."[94] Sharapova is known for on-court "grunting", which reached a recorded 101 decibels during a match at Wimbledon in 2005.[95] During her second round match in Birmingham in 2003, Sharapova was asked to tone down the level of her grunt after opponent Nathalie Dechy complained to the umpire, with Sharapova's response saying that her grunting was "a natural instinct."[96] Monica Seles suggested that grunting is involuntary and a part of tennis.[97] When questioned by the media about her grunting, Sharapova urged the media to "just watch the match."[98] Her defensive game has been worked on by her new coach, and this has reflected in her results, making consecutive semi-finals at premier mandatory events on the tour.
Serve[link]
Early in her career Sharapova's first and second serves were regarded as powerful,[90] and she was believed to possess one of the best deliveries on the Tour.[99] Since the beginning of 2007, however, problems with her shoulder have reduced the effectiveness of her serve.[99] The shoulder injury not only resulted in her inconsistent first serves, but also her hitting high numbers of double faults.[100] Two-time US Open singles champion Tracy Austin believes that Sharapova often loses confidence in the rest of her game when she experiences problems with her serve and consequently produces more unforced errors and generally plays more tentatively,[101] while tennis writer Joel Drucker remarked that her serve was the "catalyst for her entire game", and that her struggles with it left her "unmasked."[99]
In her return from layoff in 2008 to 2009, she used an abbreviated motion, which was somewhat less powerful, and though producing aces also gave a very high number of double faults. After her early loss at the 2009 US Open, Sharapova returned to a more elongated motion, similar to her pre-surgery serve. She has since been able to produce speeds greater than before, including a 121 mph serve hit at the Birmingham tournament in 2010 – the fastest serve of her career.[102]
However since her shoulder operation Sharapova has been unable to control her serve. This has led to numerous faults, as she can't feel how much power she is generating.[103] The new action led to an elbow injury, but under Thomas Hogstedt it has improved but can still be erratic.[104]
Surfaces[link]
Because she predicates her game on power, Sharapova's preferred surfaces are the fast-playing hard and grass courts, as evident through her 24 victories on hard court and grass court. This is most notable when she won the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 U.S. Open and 2008 Australian Open crowns, where she had her career breakthrough and played her peak tennis level, respectively.
Sharapova, however, is not as well-suited to the slower clay courts as she is on hard and grass courts. Sharapova has admitted that she is not as comfortable with her movement on clay compared with other court surfaces and once described herself as like a "cow on ice" after a match on clay,[105] due to her inability to slide. Despite this, she has shown improvement on this surface with respect to experience, as evident with her first WTA red clay title at the 2010 Internationaux de Strasbourg, 7 years since playing on the WTA circuit. Less than a year later, she won her biggest red clay title at the Tier I 2011 Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Sharapova is still showing rapid improvement on clay courts as evident by winning the 2012 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart and then a month later being able to successfully defend her 2011 title in Rome, by winning the 2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, these results are making Sharapova an obvious favourite for the 2012 French Open.
Ground strokes and net-play[link]
Sharapova is also known for her phenomenally accurate and powerful groundstrokes. She has a powerful forehand which tends to set up points and create successful winners. Sharapova occasionally utilizes a reverse follow-through on her forehand, similar to that of Lindsay Davenport and Rafael Nadal, which allows her to hit the ball later than normal and add top-spin, while it can also lead to timing issues resulting in errors. The backhand, although not as dominant in setting points up, is her more reliable shot with many tennis analysts[who?] considering this to be her best asset, and one of tennis' great shots. Her net play is good when on the attack, often she will choose to drive the volley instead of slice volleys, but this is not seen as a strength—this seems to be continually worked on.
Personal life[link]
Sharapova has lived in the United States since moving there at the age of seven. She has a residence in Manhattan Beach, California and in Netanya, Israel.[106][107] Sharapova is engaged to Slovenian professional basketball player Sasha Vujačić, who plays for the Anadolu Efes S.K. in Istanbul, Turkey.[108][109] The two have been dating since 2009.[110] In 2011, Sharapova was named in Forbes Celebrity 100. This lists her as one of the top 100 most powerful celebrities of the year.[111] Sharapova has made varying remarks on how long she intends to maintain her tennis career. Following the retirement of 25-year-old Justine Henin in 2008, Sharapova said, "If I was 25 and I'd won so many Grand Slams, I'd quit too."[112] In an interview after the 2008 Australian Open, she balked at the idea of playing for another ten years, saying that she hoped to have a "nice husband and a few kids" by then.[113] However in an interview before her 2012 Australian Open semifinal, Sharapova changed her stance, claiming she intended to continue playing tennis for as long as she enjoyed playing the game. Sharapova stated "I'm sure when I was 17 years old and someone said, you'll be playing for another eight years, it would be like, you're not going to see me at a press conference at 25 years old. But years go on. I missed a year in my career—I didn't play that year. I've said this, just before the tournament, a few weeks before, I woke up and I was just so happy to be going back on the court. I felt so fresh, full of energy, just with a really good perspective. Times change, obviously. I see myself playing this sport for many more years because it's something that gives me the most pleasure in my life. I think it helps when you know you're good at something, and you can always improve it. It obviously helps with the encouragement."[114]
At the 2004 US Open, Sharapova, along with several other Russian female tennis players, wore a black ribbon in observance of the tragedy after the Beslan school hostage crisis, which took place only days before.[115] In 2005, she donated around US$50,000 to those affected by the crisis.[24] On February 14, 2007, Sharapova was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and donated US$210,000 to UNDP Chernobyl-recovery projects. She stated at the time that she was planning to travel back to the area after Wimbledon in 2008,[116] though it didn't happen as she had to travel back to the US because of shoulder injury.[117] She fulfilled the trip in late June – early July 2010. Sharapova has helped to promote the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.[118] In addition, with Angela Haynes, Maria Kirilenko, Nicole Vaidišová, Rennae Stubbs, Governor Jeb Bush and Jennifer Capriati, Sharapova participated in an exhibition in Tampa in December 2004, raising money for the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund.[119] In July 2008, Sharapova sent a message on DVD to the memorial service of Emily Bailes, who had performed the coin toss ahead of the 2004 Wimbledon final that Sharapova had gone on to win.[120]
Endorsements[link]
Sharapova's tennis success and appearance have enabled her to secure commercial endorsements that greatly exceed the value of her tournament winnings.[121][122] In March 2006, Forbes magazine listed her as the highest-paid female athlete in the world, with annual earnings of over US $18 million,[123] the majority of which was from endorsements and sponsorships. She has topped that list every year since, even after her 2007 shoulder injury.[124][125][126] In April 2005, People named her one of the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world.[127] In 2006, Maxim ranked Sharapova the hottest athlete in the world for the fourth consecutive year. She posed in a six-page bikini photoshoot spread in the 2006 Valentine's Day issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, alongside 25 supermodels.[128] In a poll run by Britain's FHM magazine, she was voted the seventh most eligible bachelorette,[129] based on both "wealth and looks."
Immediately after her win at the 2004 Wimbledon Championship, mobile phone company Motorola signed Sharapova to endorse their mobile phone line.[130] Additionally, she appeared in commercials for Land Rover and Canon, as well as approved of namesake items by watch brand Tag Heuer and jeweller Tiffany.[130] Tiffany also provides Sharapova with earrings from the "Tiffany for Maria Sharapova" collection at the four major events, that are also retailed globally.[131] She also starred in an award winning campaign for the sports clothing brand Nike, "Pretty", in the summer of 2006. She signed a sponsorship deal in January 2007 with Gatorade and Tropicana.[132] In 2007, Sharapova was featured in a number of Canon USA's commercials for the PowerShot.[133] Sharapova has also been depicted in many tennis-related video games. Some of the titles include the Top Spin series, Virtua Tennis series, and Grand Slam Tennis series. During the layoff due to her shoulder surgery, sensing the fleeting nature of a professional athlete's career, Sharapova decided to focus on developing her name as a brand, beginning with meeting with her sponsors more extensively to further her brand.[130] In January 2010, it was announced that Sharapova had renewed her contract with Nike, signing an 8 year deal for $70 million. This is the most lucrative deal ever for a sportswoman, dwarfing the previous record, which was Venus Williams' $43 million deal with Reebok.[134]
Following in the footsteps of tennis players who started clothing lines such as Fred Perry and René Lacoste, Sharapova launched her own tennis apparel line, the "Nike Maria Sharapova Collection", in 2010. The collection includes dresses that she designed for all the major tournaments, in collaboration with Nike and Cole Haan.[135] She had previously found that the outfits given to her by Nike did not suit her frame and were worn by too many other players.[130] She comes up with design ideas and sketches in a process that begins 18 months before the event[135] and receives royalties from the sale of the collection, of which the corresponding dresses are coordinated to be available simultaneously with the corresponding major tournament.[130] The collection is worn by other WTA players, including Sofia Arvidsson, Kai-Chen Chang, Andrea Hlavackova, Madison Keys, Anastasia Pivovarova as well as junior players such as Indy De Vroome.[135] Sharapova had earlier collaborated with Nike on the "little black dress" that she wore for her night matches at the 2006 US Open.[130] The dress featured a round crystal studded collar and was inspired by Audrey Hepburn[130] The dress was well publicized and received but was not mass produced.[130][135][136] Additionally, she designs shoes and handbags for Cole Haan, for which her signature ballerina flats are one of the biggest sellers of the entire brand.[130]
Sharapova used the Prince Triple Threat Hornet for part of 2003 and then used several different Prince racquets until the US Open. She gave the racquet she used in the 2004 Wimbledon final to Regis Philbin when taping Live with Regis and Kelly. Sharapova began using the Prince Shark OS at that tournament and had a major part in the production of the Shark racquet.[citation needed] She then switched to the Prince O3 White racquet in January 2006. She switched to the Prince O3 Speedport Black in July 2008.[137][138] After being with Prince for ten years,[139] Sharapova began endorsing Head racquets in 2011 and uses the Head YOUTEK IG Instinct.[140][141]
Career statistics and awards[link]
Main article: Maria Sharapova career statistics
Grand Slam Finals[link]
Singles: 6 (3–3)[link]
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 2004 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Serena Williams |
6–1, 6–4 |
| Winner | 2006 | US Open | Hard |  Justine Henin |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 2007 | Australian Open | Hard | Serena Williams |
1–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 2008 | Australian Open | Hard |  Ana Ivanović |
7–5, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 2011 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Petra Kvitová |
3–6, 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 2012 | Australian Open | Hard |  Victoria Azarenka |
3–6, 0–6 |
Single's timeline[link]
| Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | SR | W–L | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | 1R | 3R | SF | SF | F | W | A | 1R | 4R | F | 1 / 8 | 34–8 | 81% |
| French Open | A | A | 1R | QF | QF | 4R | SF | 4R | QF | 3R | SF | 0 / 9 | 30–9 | 77% | |
| Wimbledon | A | A | 4R | W | SF | SF | 4R | 2R | 2R | 4R | F | 1 / 9 | 34–8 | 81% | |
| US Open | A | A | 2R | 3R | SF | W | 3R | A | 3R | 4R | 3R | 1 / 8 | 24–7 | 77% | |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–4 | 15–3 | 19–4 | 20–3 | 16–4 | 11–2 | 7–3 | 8–4 | 16–4 | 6–1 | 3 / 34 | 122–32 | 79% |
Awards[link]
- 2003
- Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Newcomer of the Year[142]
- 2004
- 2005
- ESPY Best Female Tennis Player[143]
- Named the country's best female player for the year by Russia's tennis federation
- Master of Sports of Russia
- Prix de Citron Roland Garros[144]
- 2006
- Named the country's best female player for the year by Russia's tennis federation
- Whirlpool 6th Sense Player of the Year[143]
- 2007
- ESPY Best Female Tennis Player[143]
- ESPY Best International Female Athlete[143]
- ESPN Hottest Female Athlete
- 2008
- Named the January 2008 female Athlete of the Month by the United States Sports Academy for her performance at the Australian Open
- ESPY Best Female Tennis Player[145]
- 2010
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| Born | (1958-09-22) 22 September 1958 (age 53) Pisa, Toscana, Italy |
| Genres | Adult contemporary, classical, easy listening, Latin pop, opera, operatic pop, pop, vocal |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboards, flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harp, harmonica, guitar, drums, melodica |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Universal, Philips, PolyGram, Decca, Sugar |
| Website | Andrea Bocelli |
Andrea Bocelli, OMRI, OMDSM (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa boˈtʃɛlli]; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist.[1][2][3] Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident.[4][5]
Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994,[6] 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.[7][8][9][10] 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.[1][11][12][13][14][15]
In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.[4] 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.[1][16] 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.[1][16] 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.[1][16] Six of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200,[17] and a record-setting 8, have topped the classical albums charts in the United States.[18][19]
With 5 million units sold worldwide,[20] Sacred Arias became the biggest-selling classical album by a solo artist of all time,[1][16] and with over 20 million copies sold worldwide,[20][21] his 1997 pop album, Romanza, became the best-selling album by an Italian artist of any genre in history,[20] as well as the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Canada,[22][23][24] and a number of other countries in Europe and Latin America.[16] The album's first single, "Time to Say Goodbye", topped charts all across Europe, including Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks, breaking the all-time sales record, with over 3 million copies sold in the country.[1][16] The single went on to sell over 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.[21][25][26]
Widely regarded as both the most popular Italian and classical singer in the world,[27] Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2006,[28][29] and on March 2, 2010, was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Live Theater.[30][31]
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Early life[link]
Childhood and education[link]
Bocelli was born in 1958 to Alessandro and Edi Bocelli. They lived on the family farm, selling farm machinery and making wine in the small village of La Sterza, a frazione of Lajatico, Tuscany, Italy, which is about 40 km south of Pisa. Bocelli's mother and younger brother Alberto still live in the family home. Bocelli's father died in 2000.
As a young boy, Bocelli showed a great passion for music. His mother has said that music was the only thing that would comfort him. At the age of six, he started piano lessons, and later also learned to play the flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harp, guitar and drums.
Bocelli would also spend time singing during his childhood.[32] At the age of 14 he won his first song competition, the Margherita d'Oro in Viareggio with O sole mio.[32]
After finishing secondary school in 1980, he studied law at the University of Pisa.[32] To earn money Bocelli performed evenings in piano bars. He completed law school and spent one year as a court-appointed lawyer. It was there, in 1987, that he met his future wife, Enrica.
Loss of sight[link]
It was evident at birth that Bocelli had problems with his sight, and after visits to many doctors, he was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma. In 1970, at the age of 12, he lost his sight completely following an accident during a football game.[4][5] He was accidentally hit on the head during a match and suffered a brain haemorrhage. Doctors resorted to leeches in a desperate last-ditch effort to save his sight, but they were unsuccessful, and he remained blind.[33]
Career[link]
[edit] 1992–94: Sanremo and Il mare calmo della sera
In 1992, Italian rock star Zucchero held auditions for tenors to make a demo tape with of the song Miserere from his album of the same name, to send to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. After hearing Bocelli on tape, Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Bocelli instead of him. The demo tape was from Caterina Caselli, who had discovered Bocelli. Caselli is Bocelli's current manager and producer.
Zucchero eventually persuaded Pavarotti to record the song with him, and it became a hit throughout Europe. In Zucchero's European concert tour in 1993, it was Bocelli who accompanied him to sing the duet, and he was also given solo sets in the concerts, singing "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's Turandot.[34] Bocelli signed with the Sugar Music label in Milan after the group's president heard Bocelli sing Miserere and "Nessun Dorma" at a birthday party for Zucchero.
In December Bocelli entered the preliminary round of the Sanremo Music Festival in the category of Giovani, performing both parts of the duet Miserere. He won the preliminary competition with the highest marks ever recorded in the Newcomers section. On 28 December, he debuted in the classical world in a concert at the Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia.[34]
In February 1994 he entered the main Sanremo Festival competition with "Il mare calmo della sera", and he won the "Newcomers" section, again with a record score. His debut album, of the same name, was released and immediately entered the Italian Top Ten, going platinum within weeks.[34]
In May he toured with Italian pop singer Gerardina Trovato.[34] In September he sang at Pavarotti's annual Charity Gala concert, Pavarotti International in Modena, where he sang Ruggiero Leoncavallo's "Mattinata" and sang a duet with Pavarotti, Maurizio Morante's Notte e Piscatore. He also sang "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata in the finale, along with Nancy Gustafson, Giorgia, Andreas Vollenweider and Bryan Adams; and also Adams' song All for Love.[34]
In September he made his opera debut as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa.[35] Bocelli had been an agnostic, but around 1994, partly as a result of immersing himself in the works of Tolstoy, he returned to the practice of the Catholic faith.[36] He performed the hymn, "Adeste Fideles" in Rome before Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica at Christmas.[34]
[edit] 1995–97: Bocelli and Romanza – Conquering Europe and Latin America
As winner of the 1994 Newcomers section at the Sanremo Festival, he was invited to return the following year, entering the main competition with "Con te partirò" and finishing in fourth place.[37]
The song was included in his album Bocelli which was produced by Mauro Malavasi and released in the spring. His third album, Viaggio Italiano, was released in autumn.[37] Bocelli sang "Miserere" and "Funiculì, Funiculà" with guitarist John Miles.[37] In Belgium, "Con te partirò" became the best-selling single of all time.[38]
In 1996, Bocelli was invited to sing a duet with English soprano Sarah Brightman at the final bout of German IBF World Light-Heavyweight boxing champion Henry Maske. Brightman, a friend of Maske, approached Bocelli after she heard him singing "Con te partirò" whilst she was dining in a restaurant. Changing the title lyric of the song to "Time to Say Goodbye", they re-recorded it as a duet with members of the London Symphony Orchestra and sang it as a farewell for Maske. The single debuted atop the German charts, where it stayed for fourteen weeks. With sales nearing three million copies, and a sextuple platinum award, "Time to Say Goodbye" eclipsed the previous best-selling single by more than one million copies.[37] He topped the Spanish singles chart in 1996 with a duet with Marta Sanchez, "Vivo Por Ella", the Spanish version of "Vivo per lei", recorded with Giorgia for the Romanza album. He also recorded a Portuguese version of the song with Sandy Leah.
The same year, Bocelli recorded "Je vis pour elle", the French version of "Vivo per lei", as a duet with French singer Hélène Ségara. Released in December 1997, the song became a hit in Belgium (Wallonia) and France, where it reached #1 on the charts. To date, it is the best-selling single for Ségara, and the second for Bocelli after "Time to Say Goodbye". On 3 March he appeared in Hamburg, Germany, with Sarah Brightman to receive the ECHO music award for "Best Single of the Year".[37]
In August, Bocelli appeared at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy, and then at the World Youth Festival in Paris, where he again sang in the presence of the Pope. In the summer, he gave 22 open air concerts in Germany, as well as an indoor concert in Oberhausen on 31 August. In September he performed in concert at the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa for the home video A Night in Tuscany (Italian: una notte nella Toscana) with guests Nuccia Focile, Sarah Brightman and Zucchero. The concert was also Bocelli's first concert to air on PBS. On 14 September in Munich, Germany, he received an ECHO Klassik "Best seller of the year" award for his album, Viaggio Italiano.[37][39]
Back in Italy in Bologna on 27 September, he yet again sang before the Pope at the International Eucharistic Congress. On 19 October, he sang at the TeleFood benefit concert held in the Vatican City, and organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization to raise awareness about world hunger. On 25 October he received a Bambi award, an annual television and media prize awarded by the German media company Hubert Burda Media, in the Klassik category in Cologne, Germany.[37]
[edit] 1998–99: Aria, Sogno and Sacred Arias – Breaking into the United States
Bocelli made his debut in a major operatic role in 1998 when he played Rodolfo in a production of La bohème at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari from 18 February to 25 February. His fifth album Aria - The Opera Album was released in March.[40] On 19 April Bocelli entered the United States (US) market with a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., followed the next day by a reception at the White House with then US President Bill Clinton.[40] On 5 May, he appeared in Monte Carlo, winning two World Music Awards, one in the category "Best Italian Singer", and one for "Best Classical Interpretation".[40][41] He was also named one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people of 1998.[4]
In June, July, and August, he toured North and South America. Bocelli's final concert of the tour which was also his debut at Madison Square Garden on August 6, 1998, was sold out. In September, he received his next Echo Klassik award, this time for "Best selling classical album" with Aria - the opera album.[40] On Thanksgiving Eve Bocelli appeared as a guest on Céline Dion's Television special These Are Special Times in which he joined Dion with their hit The Prayer from Dion's album These Are Special Times and he also sang Ave Maria solo. Dion introduced him by saying, "I heard someone say – If God had a singing voice, he would sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli." As a result of his appearance on the show, his popularity in the US further increased.[40] Dion's album containing The Prayer was released in 1998 and re-issued with the DVD of the TV special in 2007. The song appeared on the Quest for Camelot soundtrack in 1998 and on Bocelli's album, Sogno, the following year.
At the New Year, he performed two concerts at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. The hotel used Con te partirò in its advertisements, further increasing his popularity in the US.[40] He also performed the first Internet live-opera broadcast in its entirety from the Detroit Opera House, with Denyce Graves.[citation needed] At the 56th Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on 24 January, The Prayer won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song from the film Quest for Camelot.[42] At the 41st Grammy Awards ceremony held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on 24 February, Bocelli was nominated in the Best New Artist category which was won by Lauryn Hill. Bocelli and Dion received a standing ovation after singing The Prayer.[42] The song was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and performed by Bocelli and Dion at the ceremony held at the Los Angeles Music Center on 21 March.[42]
From 11 April to 24 April, he toured the West coast of North America from San Diego to Vancouver, with a final performance before over 18,000 spectators at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Actress Elizabeth Taylor stood by his side on the stage during the encore, while he sang The Prayer.[42]
At the invitation of Steven Spielberg, Bocelli sang in Los Angeles on 15 May before Bill Clinton at an event on behalf of the Democratic Party. At the end of May he toured Portugal and Spain and sang with the Portuguese Fado singer Dulce Pontes. On 27 June he took part in the Michael Jackson benefit concert for suffering children in Munich's Olympic Stadium.[42]
From 10 July to 27 August, he appeared in a guest role at seven performances of The Merry Widow at the Verona Arena in Rome.[35][42] As the "Tenor Conte Andrea" he performed three arias: "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto; "Tu, che m' hai preso il cuor" from Franz Lehár's Land des Laechelns and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from Verdi's La traviata, again receiving standing ovations.[42]
On 10 September, together with soprano Daniela Dessi and two Polish singers, he performed at the Great Theatre of Łódź in Poland. From 7 October to 19 November, he made his United States operatic debut in Jules Massenet's Werther at the Detroit Opera House with the Michigan Opera Theater.[35] He was cheered by the audiences, but criticized by the press.[42]
He also performed at Rodeo Drive in Hollywood and gave further concerts in Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago, and made an appearance on Jay Leno's first installment of The Tonight Show. Then Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani gave him the Crystal Apple, a gift to celebrated personalities from New York City. His seventh album Sacred Arias, which contains exclusively sacred music, was released worldwide on 8 November, and two weeks later reached first place in the US Classic Billboard charts – making Bocelli the first vocalist to hold all top three places on the chart, with Aria, the opera album in second place, and Viaggio Italiano in third place. The album also included the hymn of the Holy Year 2000 which was chosen as the official version by the Vatican in October.[42] To promote "Sacred Arias", Bocelli recorded his second PBS concert of the same name at the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome, in 1999, with an orchestra conducted by Myung-whun Chung, singing most of the songs from the album. The special was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program during the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
Immediately after his return to Italy, Bocelli sang in Florence at a meeting of the centre-left Heads of State. Invited by Queen Elizabeth II, he performed at the annual Royal Variety Performance in Birmingham, UK, on 29 November. On 30 November, his book La musica del silenzio, an autobiographical novel, was released in Italy.[42]
From 12 December to 21 December he performed six concerts in Barcelona, Strasbourg, Lisbon, Zagreb, Budapest and Messina, directed by Lorin Maazel, some of which were broadcast on local television. He also performed on German television; Wetten, dass..? on 11 December and the José Carreras Gala in Leipzig on 17 December. On 31 December, he finished a marathon twenty-four concerts in thirty days, with a concert at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York in front of 8,000 people, welcoming in the new millennium.[42]
[edit] 2000–01: Verdi and Cieli di Toscana
At the 42nd Grammy Awards on 23 February, Bocelli was nominated twice. The Prayer was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Bocelli performed it with Dion at the ceremony. His "World Tour 2000" started on 31 March. In May his Sacred Arias album was voted album of the year by listeners of the Classic FM radio station in the UK. His world tour continued from 12 May to 14 May with four concerts in Japan and South Korea. At the end of the UEFA European Football Championship he performed with Valery Gergiev and Renée Fleming at a concert on the River Maas in Rotterdam. On 6 July he performed at the Statue of Liberty in New York City for his third PBS special. The concert was a dedication to his father, who died in the beginning of 2000. He was accompanied by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Steven Mercurio with special guest Soprano Ana Maria Martinez and a surprise appearance by Sarah Brightman to sing with Bocelli on "Time To Say Goodbye." For the final encore he dedicated "Sogno" to his late Father. On 17 August, he performed in Giuseppi Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the Verona Arena in Rome. His seventh album Verdi was released on 11 September. In September he also performed three concerts in Australia. He received another Echo Klassik award for "Bestseller of the year" for Sacred Arias. In November his first complete opera recording, La Bohème was released. In December he received another award in Germany, the Goldene Europa for classical music.[43]
In January 2001, Bocelli portrayed the main character in Pietro Mascagni's opera L'amico Fritz at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and again performed the tenor part in Verdi's Requiem. On 19 March the Requiem album was released with Bocelli as tenor. From 22 March to 6 April he toured North America accompanied by Cecilia Gasdia and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. On 17 June he performed at the re-opening of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In July he performed two concerts in Dublin with Ana María Martínez and the New Symphony Orchestra. At the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice on 4 October he presented his new album Cieli di Toscana and was recognised for having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. In October he opened the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sicilian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini in Catania. On 28 October, he sang Franz Schubert's Ellens dritter Gesang as a representative of the Roman Catholic faith, during a memorial concert at Ground Zero in New York City for the victims of the September 11 attacks there. In November he received the Platinum Europe Award for one million sales of the album Cieli di Toscana, and at the Italian Music Awards he was given a special award from the Federation of the Italian Music Industry for his merits as an "Ambassador of Italian music in the world". He performed seven more concerts in the US accompanied by Ana María Martínez, and on 23 December, in front of the President of Italy and other guests of honour, he sang the Italian national anthem as well as works of Bellini and Verdi at the traditional Christmas concert in the Italian Senate, which was broadcast live on television for the first time.[44]
[edit] 2002–05: Sentimento and Andrea
In Berlin on 5 February he received a Goldene Kamera award in the "Music & Entertainment" category. On 6 March he received two World Music Awards in Monte Carlo: "World best selling classical artist" and "Best selling Italian artist". On 11 March, he gave a concert for peace at the Basilica di San Marco a Venezia in Venice, accompanied by the orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice and conducted by Lorin Maazel. On 15 March he took part in the opening of Walt Disney Studios Park in Marne-la-Vallée France. On 7 May Bocelli and Tony Renis received a Telegatto Italian Television award for the soundtrack of the series Cuore. On 23 May he received the 2002 Classical BRIT Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Music".[45] On 27 May he performed at the Villa Madama in Rome in front of US president George W. Bush and Italian president Silvio Berlusconi. On 28 May he took part in "Pavarotti & Friends" charity concert in Modena in aid of Angola. In June he again toured the US, then on 26 July and 3 August he portrayed Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the 48th Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. On 14 October he and Lorin Maazel presented his new album Sentimento to a worldwide audience. Further presentations took place in Milan and New York, and the album was released on 4 November, selling over two million copies in 40 days. On 24 October he started his Sentimento tour in Zürich which took in large arenas in several European and North American cities.[46]
In February 2003, Bocelli performed Madama Butterfly in an exclusive Monte Carlo concert, which was attended by Caroline, Princess of Hanover. In March for the first time he appeared as a producer, at the Sanremo Festival, where the young artists Allunati and Jacqueline Ferry sang for his new record label, Clacksong.[47] In May his second complete opera, Tosca, was released. At a private benefit gala for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Bocelli sang in front of the British Royal Family.[47] A day later he received two awards for Sentimento at the 2003 Classical BRIT Award held at the Royal Albert Hall in London – "Best selling classical album" and "Album of the year".[48] On 24 May he performed in a benefit concert for the Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, with sopranos Maria Luigia Borsi and Lucia Dessanti, baritone Soo Kyung Ahn, and violinist Ruth Rogers, accompanied by Marcello Rota and the Orchestra Città di Pisa. Three days later he was again invited to perform at "Pavarotti & Friends" in Modena and sang a medley of Neapolitan songs together with Pavarotti. In June he continued his Sentimento tour in Athens and Cyprus. In September he took part in a concert for the Justice ministers and Interior ministers of the European Union at the Parco della Musica in Rome. He then resumed his tour, accompanied by Maria Luigia Borsi, Ruth Rogers and Marcello Rota.[47]
Bocelli won the "Favourite Specialist Performer" award at the UK National Music Awards in October 2003.[49] In November he once again toured in the United States, this time accompanied by Ana Maria Martinez, Kallen Esperian and Steven Mercurio. In December he gave his first concert in China and at the end of the month, sang Gounod's Ave Maria at Pavarotti's wedding in Modena.[47]
In Bologna in January he performed as Werther in four performances of the opera of the same name. In April and May he toured Asia again, visiting Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore. In May he took part in a concert at Circo Massimo in Rome organised by Quincy Jones to launch the "We are the Future" project. In June his third complete opera Il trovatore was released. In July he played the part of Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca at the 50th Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and he took part in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) global campaign for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[50]
In September he performed his "Once in a Lifetime" tour in Australia with concerts in Sydney and Melbourne and one concert in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was joined on stage by New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra.[51]
On 15 October he performed at the People Conference Hall in Beijing, China, and on 17 October at the Great Hall in Shanghai.[52]
During early 2005 Bocelli was on tour including performances in Madeira, Hungary, Norway, US, UK, Italy and Germany.[53] He also appeared in Sesame Street singing "Time to Say Goodnight" a parody of Time to Say Goodbye as a lullaby to Elmo.[54] On 21 March he performed on the Music for Asia benefit concert in Rome, televised on Italia 1, in aid of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake appeal.[55]
In June he performed at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin. On 2 July he performed at the Paris concert as part of the Live 8 event. Also during the second part of the year, he performed in Croatia, Serbia, Italy, the US, Dubai, Switzerland and finally in Scandinavia.[53] On 28 August he performed at the Faenol Festival held in Vaynol, Wales and organised by Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.[55] In December his first contemporary music concert took place at a Lake Las Vegas village resort in Nevada, US, which was recorded for PBS and released as the Under the Desert Sky DVD. He also took part in the Royal Christmas Show, which took place in several cities in the US in December. The album Werther was released in December. During 2005 he was invited by Pope Benedict XVI, George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II to perform at special events.[53]
[edit] 2006–07: Amore and Vivere, Greatest hits
On 18 February he sang at the Toyota Center in Houston during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2006 All-Star Weekend, and broadcast live on the TNT Cable television network.[56]
On 26 February Bocelli sang "Because We Believe" from his Amore album in the Carnevale section of the closing ceremony of the Torino Olympics with a worldwide television audience.[29] He also began another tour with a concert at the Piazza di Castello in Turin.[57] In March he was honoured by the Italian state with a Grande Ufficiale Italian Order of Merit (Grand Officer of the Italian Republic), given to him by then President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for his worldwide work for his country as a singer. The award was presented to him at the Sanremo Festival where he performed a duet with American singer Christina Aguilera on 4 March.[28][29] From 31 March to 2 April he took part in the Maggio Musicale in Florence where he sang the Canto di pace (Canto of peace) by Marco Tutino[58] and the tenor part from Gioachino Rossini's Messa di Gloria and in Naples where he took part in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.[29][57]
In April 2006, he featured as a guest coach on American Idol helping the finalists sing the week's themed songs, "Greatest Love Songs." He also performed on that week's results show.[59] American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee performed at three of Bocelli's concerts in California from 9 June to 11 June singing duets of Somos Novios and The Prayer with Bocelli. They also performed on 'J. C. Penney Jam: The Concert for America's Kids[60] and recorded duet versions of Somos Novios for the resulting album, and also Can't Help Falling in Love on the CD of the Under the Desert Sky DVD.
In June he sang the Italian duet version of "Because We Believe", "Ama, credi e vai", with Gianna Nannini at the "großen Fan Party" at the opening of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, in Berlin in front of billions of worldwide television viewers.
On 1 July 2007, Bocelli performed "The Music of the Night" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, in a special musicals medley during the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium in London, England.[61] Bocelli returned to his home town for a triumphant concert at the newly created Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico on 5 July 2007, with guest appearance by Kenny G, Heather Headley, Lang Lang, Elisa, Sarah Brightman and Laura Pausini. The concert was later released as Vivere Live in Tuscany. In September he debuted at the Avery Fisher Hall, in New York, with four concerts. October saw the release of the opera album of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Bocelli singing the role of Canio. In November he won the "Best Italian Artist" and "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" awards at the World Music Awards. In December he finished his 2006 tour with more concerts in North America and Europe.[29]
Bocelli and Sarah Brightman's duet version of "Con te partirò" was used in the 2007 film Blades of Glory, as an ice skating song. K-1 mixed martial arts fighter, Akiyama Yoshihiro started using "Con te partirò" as his ring entrance music. On 8 September Bocelli sang an arrangement of Mozart's Ave verum corpus at the funeral of Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Italy.
On 21 October 2007, he sang "Con te partirò" with Katherine Jenkins on the UK television series Strictly Come Dancing results show, and on 30 October, he sang "The Prayer" with Céline Dion during an ITV Special An Audience with Céline Dion. The show was broadcast on 23 December. Alongside fellow Italian singer Laura Pausini, he sang Vive Ya during the 2007 Latin Grammy Awards. The song, originally released in 1997 as a duet in Italian between Bocelli and Italian singer-songwriter Trovatto on Bocelli's Romanza, was also released in English on his 2007 album, The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere, as Dare to Live. The album, Vivere, sold over 3 million copies.
[edit] 2008: Incanto and Carmen
On 20 January 2008, Bocelli received the Italian TV award Telegatto in platinum for Italian music in the world, in Rome. He sang "La voce del silenzio" – "The voice of silence" – and "Dare to Live" during the ceremony.[62]
To promote the album, he performed "Canto della Terra" at The Alan Titchmarsh Show on the BBC in London on 1 February; was interviewed by Fabio Fazio on the Italian talk show Che tempo che fa on RAI 3 in Italy; and performed "Canto della terra", "A te" and "Besame mucho" from the album, as well as "My way" on 2 February; and made an appearance on The South Bank Show in London, where he sang the French aria "Pour mon âme" on 3 February. Then on 10 February, he performed "The Prayer" at the 50th Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles, with Josh Groban in a tribute to Luciano Pavarotti, and sang "Dare to live" with Heather Headley the following day on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[62]
In April he toured in Asia with performances in Tokyo, Taichung, Taiwan, and Seoul. Each concert was attended by over 15,000 people.[63]
On 7 May 2008, he sang at Steel Aréna in Košice, Slovakia, in front of 8,000 people.[64] Then 13 May he sang at the "Teatro delle Muse" in Ancona, Italy, for a charity concert for "Francesca Rava – N.P.H. Italia Onlus", a foundation that helps poor and disabled children around the world.[64]
On 23 May 2008 he sang The Prayer with Katharine McPhee in a Las Vegas tribute concert for Canadian producer and songwriter David Foster. Bocelli later praised Filipina teen-aged singer Charice, whom he had first heard perform at that concert.[65][66]
On 2 June 2008 he performed at the Piazza del Duomo, Milan in front of 80,000 people during a concert celebrating the anniversary of the Republic of Italy's formation.[64]
From June 17 to June 28, Bocelli played the role of Don José on stage, opposite Hungarian mezzo-soprano Ildiko Komlosi as Carmen, in Georges Bizet's opera at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, in Rome, for four nights.[67][68][69] Bocelli released the complete opera recording of Carmen in Italy in the same year, which he recorded in 2005. Myung-whun Chung conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Chœur de Radio France for the recording, and Welsh Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, was part of the Ensemble.[70] The recording was not released internationally, until March 2010.[71] Carmen: Duets & Arias, a single-disc collection of some of the arias and duets of the recording, was also released in 2010.[72]
On 20 July, Bocelli held his third concert at the Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico, his hometown. The concert was a tribute to the cinema of Italy. Its performers included Italian composer and musician Nicola Piovani, Italian ballet dancer Roberto Bolle, Israeli singer Noa, and Charice.[73] Then on 31 July, he performed at a concert in Vingis Park in Vilnius, Lithuania, in front of more than 18,000 people.[74] Australian singer Tina Arena performed two duets with Bocelli – "Canto Della Terra" and "The Prayer" – at the closing stages of the concert.[75]
On 7 August 2008, he held a benefit concert at Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina, and was accompanied by Czech National Symphony Orchestra.[74] Then, during the rest of August, he was on tour in Australia and New Zealand—for the third time—with performances at Vector Arena, Auckland, on the 20th; Entertainment Centre, Brisbane on the 22nd; Acer Arena, Sydney, on the 24th, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, on the 27th; and Burswood Dome, Perth, on the 30th. His fiancée and both of his sons accompanied him on the tour.[74] Tina Arena performed again with him in all 5 concerts during the tour.[76]
On 26 September 2008, during the 2008 Veneto Festival, he held a concert in the Church of the Eremitani in Padova, Italy, in front of about 1000 people. He was accompanied by the I Solisti Veneti orchestra, celebrating its 50th birthday and conducted by Claudio Scimone, and by the Wiener Singakademie choir. The concert was a celebration of Giacomo Puccini's 150th birthday.[77]
On 10 October and 11 he performed at Petra, singing "Dare to live" with Laura Pausini, as well as performing E Lucevan le Stelle from Tosca. On 19 October he sang "O Surdato 'Nnamurato" and a duet of "Non Ti Scordar Di Me" with Cecilia Bartoli, both from the Incanto album, during the ECHO Awards in Germany; and later presented the soprano with an ECHO award. On 24 October, he performed at Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, as a tribute to the city, where he celebrated the Italian release of Incanto. Performing with him were flautist Andrea Griminelli, Italian pop singer Massimo Ranieri and soprano Cecilia Bartoli, with Steven Mercurio conducting the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.[78] On 31 October, he performed a solo version of "The Prayer", as well as "Because", a song from Incanto, live on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[79]
On 21 November and 22, Bocelli was amongst a quartet of soloists (soprano Sabina Cvilak, mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich and bass Alexander Vinogradov) to sing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, conducted by Plácido Domingo, at the Washington National Opera in Washington, D.C.[80] Bocelli sang twice in the piece and later the two famous tenors sang The Pearl Fishers duet which would be the first aria they had ever sang together.[81] On 25 November and 26 he starred alongside soprano Verónica Villarroel in an opera in concert of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the "Municipal Auditorium" in San Antonio, Texas.[81] He later held a concert at "Atrio de la Catedral" in Campeche, Mexico, on 28 November, where he sang songs from Incanto as well as some of his Spanish hits, including Besame Mucho, Somos Novios, Amapola and Por ti Volare – the Spanish version of Con te Partiro.[81]
[edit] 2009: My Christmas, first holiday album
On May 27, 2009, Bocelli sang "Il Gladiatore", from the Gladiator soundtrack, followed by the UEFA Champions League Anthem, which is based on "Zadok the Priest" by G.F. Handel, during the opening ceremony of the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final, in the Stadio Olimpico, in Rome.
On November 3, My Christmas, his first Holiday album, produced by David Foster, was released and went on to become the best-selling Holiday album of the year.
The Andrea Bocelli & David Foster Christmas Special, the PBS special of the album, first aired on Thanksgiving night in the United States, and continued to be broadcast in the United States and Canada throughout the month of December. In late November, the program was broadcast in Mexico and in the UK; it later aired, December 15 and 25, on Italia 1, in Italy, December 19, on TVE2 and TROS, in Spain and the Netherlands, and Christmas Eve, on vtm and RTL-TVI, in Belgium and Luxembourg.
On November 3, during the World Premiere of Disney's A Christmas Carol, in Leicester Square, London, following the switching on of the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights, Bocelli led the St Paul's Cathedral Choir, and more than 14,000 people across the capital, as they broke the Official Guinness World Record for the biggest ever Christmas Carol sing-along, singing "Silent Night". He completed his performance in Leicester Square with, "God Bless Us Everyone", the closing song of the movie, which he provided the vocals for in English, Italian and Spanish.[82][83] He returned to the United Kingdom, December 16, for an appearance on The One Show, broadcast live by BBC One, and on The Alan Titchmarsh Show which aired December 18, on ITV1.
On November 21, a segment of Leute Heute, a German tabloid-program on ZDF, was about My Christmas and Bocelli's meeting in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI and 250 other artists, an event which was broadcasted live earlier that day in Italy, by Rai Uno. Bocelli was also joined by the Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano, in his home in Forte dei Marmi, where they sang "Caro Gesù Bambino", a song from My Christmas which was originally recorded by the choir in 1960. Rai Uno also broadcast the performance later that day, during the Zecchino d'Oro Festival. The following day, Bocelli was among Fabio Fazio's guests, on his popular Italian talk-show, Che tempo che fa, broadcast on Rai Tre. During the program Bocelli talked about his album and performed "The Lord's Prayer", "White Christmas", and "Silent Night". It was also announced that Bocelli would return to the show on December 20 and give a live concert of My Christmas. Bocelli also took part in the annual 2009 José Carreras Gala, on December 17, where he sang Adeste Fideles, before singing "White Christmas" with José Carreras for the very first time; this was broadcast live, by Das Erste, in Germany. He then returning to Italy, for a concert in the Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, on December 19, which was broadcast directly after the Urbi et Orbi blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, December 25, on Rai Uno.
In North America, Bocelli gave 6 concerts. On November 28, he performed in the BankAtlantic Center, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He later performed in the Air Canada Centre, in Toronto, Canada, in the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the William Saroyan Theatre, in Fresno, California (changed from the much larger Save Mart Center due to scheduling conflicts), in the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, and finally in the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California, on December 3, 5, 8, 12, and 13. His last three arena concerts alone grossed a total of over 5,6 million dollars, placing him third on Billboard Magazine's week's Hot Tours ranking, behind the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Il Divo, who both held over 5 times more concerts worldwide, compared to Bocelli's three in the United States, explaining their better showings.[84]
In the United States, Bocelli made a number of high profile TV appearances. He first performed "White Christmas" at the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, broadcast live on NBC, November 26. He performed the song again on November 30 during The Today Show also live. His appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show during her Holiday Music Extravaganza, where he sang "What Child Is This", with Mary J. Blige, and later closed the show with Adeste Fideles, was also aired the same day, and was later rebroadcast on December 23. Bocelli also sang "Adeste Fideles" and was interviewed by Barbara Walters and Joy Behar on The View, which aired December 2, on ABC. On December 8, he performed "Jingle Bells" with The Muppets on NBC's The Jay Leno Show. He also performed a number of songs from the album, including "The Christmas Song" with Natalie Cole, during a dinner at David Foster's mansion in Malibu, which was featured on The Dr. Phil Show, on December 10. Bocelli also performed "White Christmas" and "Silent Night", on the Larry King Live and Fox & Friends holiday-specials, broadcast December 23, on CNN, and December 19, 24 and 25, on Fox News.
In Brasil, following the success of the South American leg of the Incanto tour, were over 100,000 people attended his free concert at the São Paulo's "Parque Indipendencia", earlier in the year,[85] it was announced that Bocelli would hold another Open-Air, entrance free, concert in Florianópolis, on December 28, where a crowd of about a million people was expected to attend. However, due to financial and political reasons, the concert was later canceled on short notice, along with all the other events scheduled for Christmas in the city.
2010: Hollywood Walk of Fame and FIFA World Cup[link]
On January 31, 2010, during the 52nd Grammy Awards, Bocelli, Mary J. Blige and David Foster joined forces again, singing "Bridge over Troubled Water" to raise awareness for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.[86][87][88] The three had previously made an appearance on CNN's Larry King Live, January 28, 2010, to announce the performance.[88][89]
On March 2, he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Live Theater, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the Roosevelt Hotel.[30][31] The previous day, Bocelli, along with David Foster, were honored by L.A. Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest during a ceremony at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Hollywood, where "The Story Behind The Voice", a documentary about Bocelli's life and career was shown.[90][91]
On March 12, Bocelli made an appearance on Skavlan, in Oslo, Norway, to promote his upcoming Scandinavian tour, giving a rare interview to the show's host Fredrik Skavlan, and later performing "Voglio Vivere Cosi", from his 2008 album Incanto, with Norwegian Boys' choir, Sølvguttene.[88][92]
In April, he returned to Scandinavia, for a concert in Telenor Arena, in Oslo, Norway, on April 8, a concert in Forum Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 9, and finally a concert in the Ericsson Globe, in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 11. He was joined by Tony Award winner Heather Headley and 120 musicians from the Stockholm Concert Orchestra, in all three concerts, and by Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman in his Swedish concert.[93][94][95]
On April 30, Bocelli sang "Nessun Dorma" during the opening ceremony of the Expo 2010, in Shanghai, China, in front of twenty heads of state and government, including Chinese President Hu Jintao, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.[96][97][98] The following day, on May 1, he held a concert, titled Charming China, at Shanghai Stadium, in front of an audience of 80,000 people, along with Chinese singers Song Zuying and Jay Chou, and Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang; the China Philharmonic Orchestra accompanied them under the direction of its artistic director Yu Long.[99][100] The concert was later broadcasted by Shanghai TV, and by CCTV channels throughout mainland China.
The two appearances coincided with Bocelli's Asian tour, consisting of a concert in Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, on April 28,[101][102][103] a concert in Jamsil Gymnasium, Seoul, South Korea, on May 2,[104] a concert in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in Hong Kong, on May 4,[105][106] a concert in Taipei Arena, Taipei, Taiwan, on May 6,[105][106] and finally a free concert, organized by the YTL Corporation, at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, in Singapore, on May 8, attended by over 12,000 people, picked via public ballot, as well as prominent figures in the region, such as, the president of Singapore, S. R. Nathan and his wife, Malaysian billionaire and founder of the YTL Corporation, Yeoh Tiong Lay and his eldest son Francis Yeoh, actress Michelle Yeoh, and founder of Jimmy Choo Ltd, Jimmy Choo.[107][108][109] The concert was later broadcasted, in its entirety, by Channel NewsAsia, on May 28 and 29, and by Okto, on May 30, in Singapore. An orchid in the Botanic Gardens' National Orchid Garden was also named after Bocelli in response to the concert.[110] Australian pop singer Delta Goodrem performed again with Bocelli in all five concerts, after supporting him in his United States My Christmas 2009 winter tour.[111]
On May 18, during the 2010 World Music Awards, Bocelli performed ""Un Amore Cosi Grande" from his 2008 album, Incanto, and received his seventh World Music Award, for "Best Classical Artist".[112][113]
On July 5, Bocelli gave a concert at the opening of the Khan Shatyry Entertainment Center, in Astana, on the occasion of Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev's 70th birthday.[114][115] Among the guests were, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, the President of Tajikistan, Emomalii Rahmon, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Roza Otunbayeva, the Crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the King of Jordan, Abdullah II.[116][117][118]
On July 9, Bocelli headlined the "Celebrate Africa: The Grand Finale" Concert of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, at the Coca-Cola Dome, in Johannesburg, South Africa, to mark the end of the World Cup, two days before the World Cup final.[119][120] During the concert, Bocelli was joined by Canadian rock star, Bryan Adams, Italian flautist, Andrea Griminelli, and South African singers, Nianell and Pretty Yende.[121][122] FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, South Africain president, Jacob Zuma, and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, were among the 12,000 in attendance.[122][123]
On July 13, Montenegrin Statehood Day, Bocelli gave a concert at the seaside resort of Sveti Stefan, in western Montenegro, to mark the Golden Jubilee of the Sveti Stefan Hotel.[124] During the hour-long show, on a stage right in front of the island-hotel's perimeter wall, Bocelli sang well-known arias, as well as some of his more popular hits, to the assembled dignitaries, including Montenegro's top officials, representatives of the diplomatic corps and many faces from cultural, political and public life, as well as many current and former tourist entrepreneurs who had contributed to the development of Montenegrin tourism.[124]
On July 14, Bocelli gave a concert at the European Parliament's Espace Léopold, in Brussels, Belgium, during "Rome in the heart of the future", an event hosted by the Vice President of the European Parliament for the seventh parliament, MEP, Roberta Angelilli, "to highlight the city of Rome as the capital of international tourism through an important and ambitious project in Europe."[125][126] A screening of the film Homage to Rome, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, who was present during the event, and starring Bocelli, in his cinematographic debut, and Italian fashion model, Monica Bellucci, was shown prior to the special concert.[125][127] The event was also attended by the President of the European Parliament, MEP, Jerzy Buzek, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, Antonio Tajani, the Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, the President of Lazio, Renata Polverini.[125][128]
On July 25, Bocelli held the fifth and final edition of the Teatro del Silenzio, in his hometown of Lajatico, Tuscany, to an audience of 10,000, double the amount of the first edition of the annual Festival, held in 2006. After performing with Spanish tenor, Plácido Domingo and Welsh Mezzo-soprano, Katherine Jenkins on the previous edition of the Festival, in 2009, Bocelli's guests included the only other surviving member of The Three Tenors, Spanish Catalan tenor, José Carreras, and Italian rock singer, Zucchero. Sculptures by Swiss artist Kurt Laurenz Metzler, who attended the concert, were exhibited during this year's edition. The Teatro del Silenzio has in past incorporated sculptures by artists such as Arnaldo Pomodoro and Igor Mitoraj. Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who was also in attendance, donated a Bronze statue she had made of Bocelli, to the city of Lajatico, in the afternoon just before the concert. Bocelli was also awarded the Pisano Doc, during the dress rehearsal for the concert, on July 24, "in recognition for a great citizen, who with his extraordinary art and his humanity brings great prestige, honor and respect to the city of Pisa", and received, the 2010 Premio Lunezia nel mondo, during a private ceremony held on July 21, for "the musical-literary quality of his songs."
In September 2010, Bocelli held a concert at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, in Athens, Greece. The concert was attended by George Papandreou, the prime minister of Greece and Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, among others. All proceeds were donated to help cure cancer. Bocelli also gave concerts in Cairo, Egypt, in front of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, as well as a fundraising concert inside the famous Duomo di Milano to benefit victims of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.
As part of the 2010 leg of the My Christmas Tour, Bocelli gave two concerts in the two largest indoor arenas of the United Kingdom, The O2 Arena, in London, and The M.E.N Arena, in Manchester, and a concert in the largest indoor arena in Ireland, The O2, in Dublin, in late November 2010.[129][130][131] His sold out concert at the O2 in London, was the most attended show in the venue's history, with 16,500 people attending the event.[132] In early December, Bocelli gave 6 concerts in the United States. He performed in Madison Square Garden, in New York City, Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey, TD Garden, in Boston, Toyota Center, in Houston, Staples Center, in Los Angeles, and the MGM Grand's Garden Arena, in the Las Vegas Strip.[133] The Toyota Center concert, in Houston, was attended by former president George Bush, Sr. and first lady Barbara Bush.
Bocelli also took part in the Christmas in Washington special on December 12, in the presence of president Barack Obama and the first lady.[12][134][135] On December 19, Bocelli gave a concert, conducted by Claudio Scimone, in the Italian Senate.[136] The concert was attended by Italy's top officials including Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano, Renato Schifani, the president of the Italian Senate, Gianfranco Fini, the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See.[137]
2011: Metropolitan Opera recital, and Central Park Concert[link]
In January, Bocelli gave three concerts in Germany. The concerts in Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg were all part of the Notte Illuminata Tour, launched in Pisa, at the Teatro Verdi, December 2010. In February, Bocelli made his Metropolitan Opera debut, performing a recital, as part of the tour.[138]
In late March, early April, as part of the 2011 Latin Leg of his Incanto Tour, Bocelli gave concerts in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Panama City.
In May 2011, Bocelli held 5 concerts in East and Southeast Asia, and was joined by New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra during the Tour.[139] He first gave a concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, his first visit to the country. The concert was attended by Indonesia's top political personalities, including Golkar Party chairman, billionaire Aburizal Bakrie, PDI-P chairwoman and daughter of former president Sukarno, Megawati Sukarnoputri, herself a former president, and former president Suharto's second eldest daughter, Siti Hediyanti.[140] Bocelli held two other concerts in Taipei, and two concerts in Beijing.[141][142]
In June and July, Bocelli gave two open air concerts at historic sites, the first at Masada, in Israel,[143] with all proceeds dedicated to support the residents of the Israeli regions of Galilee and Negev,[144] and the second at Syracuse's ancient Greek theatre, in Sicily,[145] with all proceeds donated to the Fiamme di Solidarietà (Flames of Solidarity) organization, to raise awareness of issues concerning the poorest and most marginalized in Italy.[146]
Bocelli gave a free concert on September 15, on the Great Lawn of Central Park in New York City.[147] He was accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Alan Gilbert, and the Westminster Symphonic Choir.[148] Bocelli was joined by singers Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Bryn Terfel, Ana María Martínez and Pretty Yende, instrumentalists Chris Botti, Andrea Griminelli and Nicola Benedetti, and producer David Foster.[148] The concert was attended by 70,000 people, including Mayor Bloomberg and Donald Trump.[149][150] The concert was broadcast throughout the United States and Canada, by PBS, and in Italy, by Rai 1. Concerto, One Night in Central Park, the live album and the DVD were released November 15.
On September 25, Bocelli led Songs of Praise' 50th anniversary celebration, alongside LeAnn Rimes and Katherine Jenkins.[151][152]
On October 15, Bocelli performed again for Pope Benedict XVI and a crowd of 8,000 people in Vatican's Audience Hall, during a meeting honoring participants from around the world, for their work in spreading the faith.[153]
On November 7, he gave his second open air free concert of the year, at Praça Rui Barbosa in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to an audience of between 80,000 and 150,000 people.[154][155][156]
On November 17, he performed at the Children In Need Rocks Manchester concert, gaining critical acclaim for receiving a standing ovation from a crowd of pop and indie music fans.
In December, Bocelli launched the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, with a mission to fight poverty and fund medical research.
2012: Roméo et Juliette[link]
Bocelli played the role of Romeo in Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette, at the Teatro Carlo Felice, for two performances in February. He cancelled a third performance with pharyngitis after suffering vocal strain throughout.[157] The conductor Fabio Luisi commended Bocelli for performing without fee in a theatre that was suffering severe financial difficulties.[158]
On April 22, Bocelli gave an open air concert at Yerevan's Liberty Square, in Armenia, dedicated to the proclamation of Yerevan as the 2012 World Book Capital. The concert was attended by Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, prime minister Tigran Sargsyan and Yerevan mayor Taron Margaryan. Bocelli was accompanied by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marcello Rota.[159]
Voice[link]
With the exception of the negative views of some Classical music critics, Bocelli is widely celebrated as a singer and is admired around the world.[1] His voice's timbre is as recognisable as a signature, with a versatility ranging from the Bel canto to the furore of Verismo, from the sacred repertoire to popular ballads.[160]
Franco Corelli, one of the greatest Spinto tenors of the twentieth century, praised Bocelli's voice after hearing it for the first time during a Master class in 1986, in Turin, and would later give him private lessons.[161][162][163] Another great Italian tenor who championed Bocelli's singing from the very beginning was Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti publicly admired Bocelli's voice and played an early part in the younger man's career.[163][164] He reportedly stated that "There is no one finer," upon hearing his voice for the very first time.[165] Bocelli would later sing during both his wedding ceremony, in 2003, and his funeral, in 2007.[161]
After conducting Bocelli in the Verdi album, in 2000, Zubin Mehta commented that "Andrea's voice is special in many ways. First of all, he has a complete control from forte to pianissimo on any note. The end of 'Celeste Aida,' he attacks the high B flat full voice and then pulls it down to nothing — hardly anybody can do that, it's also very risky on the stage at the opera. But it's not that we tried it 15 times and he got it once; he can do it every time. He can also, in the middle of a phrase, without breathing, change the color of a note, so it's a conductor's dream to ask and to get it because most people can't do that."[166] The interview where Mehta made those comments was featured in a BBC documentary about Bocelli, entitled the "Story Behind the Voice".[164] Mehta also compared Bocelli's voice to the old Italian style of singers, such as Tito Schipa.
The same documentary also featured an interview with Spanish Catalan tenor, José Carreras. He commented that "The first time I had the possibility to listen to Andrea, he was a part of the Sanremo Festival. And I thought wow, that's a nice voice, very beautiful color, very tenor like." He proceeded by saying, "I always thought that he has a wonderful instrument, that he knows very much how to use it."[164]
Lorin Maazel, who conducted Bocelli's 2002 Classical album, Sentimento, was also featured in the documentary. In the interview he says that "Andrea Bocelli has amazing Tessitura, almost three Octaves, I would think two and a half, has excellent and very easy top notes; but he can also fill out the lower register very successfully."[164] Maazel also praised Bocelli's Musical talent and knowledge of music, and compared his voice to that of celebrated Irish tenor John McCormack, during an interview with Charlie Rose, in 2002.[167]
Similarly, during a 1999 interview on Charlie Rose, American soprano Renée Fleming praised Bocelli's voice, by saying "first of all the sound is beautiful. There is something very soulful about the way he sings and it's captured the hearts of something like, the last I've heard eleven million fans."[168] Grammy winning Puerto Rican soprano, Ana María Martínez, who regularly performs with Bocelli, also said that "More than anything, Andrea has something that is unique in that he brings this light that is always around him. And this purity of heart and beauty of sound just touches the listener. It can’t be described."[162]
French Canadian singer Celine Dion famously said while introducing him during her Christmas Special for These Are Special Times, in 1998, that "if God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli,"[1][163] and multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster, a producer of the album, often describes Bocelli's voice as the most beautiful in the world. Similarly, seven-time Grammy Award winning Jazz singer, Al Jarreau, who performed with Bocelli on the "Night of the Proms" tour in Europe, in 1995, described him as "the most beautiful voice in the world,"[165] and American talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, commented on her talk show that, "when I hear Andrea sing, I burst into tears."[161][162]
After attending Bocelli's concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 2009, the first time she'd been out "in months", American actress Elizabeth Taylor said, "My mind, my soul were transported by his beauty, his voice, his inner being. God has kissed this man and I thank God for it."[169] Taylor had been a passionate fan of Bocelli's since the beginning of his music career in the mid-1990s.[170] Other fans include, Prince Albert of Monaco, who invited the tenor to sing at his wedding, as well as Sarah, Duchess of York, and actress Isabella Rossellini.[165] Bocelli's voice was also a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother,[171] and Pope John Paul II,[165] for whom he sang on many occasions, and released Credo, a DVD dedicated to his life, shortly after his death, in 2006.[172]
Other world class artists from both the Pop and Opera worlds have also publicly expressed their admiration, including opera singers Plácido Domingo,[173] and Cecilia Bartoli, who collaborated with Bocelli, and conductor Myung-whun Chung,[174] who conducted Bocelli's 1999 album, Sacred Arias.[174]
Criticism[link]
Despite his worldwide popularity and praise, Bocelli's voice, more specifically his interpretation of opera, has been regularly criticized by classical music critics. These include Bernard Holland of The New York Times, and Andrew Clement of The Guardian.[175]
In 1999, The New York Times chief music critic Anthony Tommasini in his review of Bocelli's North American opera debut at the Detroit Opera House in the title role of Massenet's Werther commented, "The basic colour of Mr. Bocelli's voice is warm and pleasant, but he lacks the technique to support and project his sound. His sustained notes wobble. His soft high notes are painfully weak. Inadequate breath control often forces him to clip off notes prematurely at the end of phrases."[176] In December 2000 Tommasini again criticised Bocelli, this time for his La bohème album when he claimed that Bocelli "still has trouble with basic things, like breath support" and his voice had been "carefully recorded", "to help it match the trained voices of the other cast members in fullness and presence."[177]
In describing Bocelli's singing, New York Times music critic Bernard Holland noted, "the tone is rasping, thin and, in general, poorly supported. Even the most modest upward movement thins it even more, signalling what appears to be the onset of strangulation. To his credit, Mr Bocelli sings mostly in tune. But his phrasing tends toward carelessness and rhythmic jumble... The diction is not clear."[178] Furthermore, Holland observed that "The critic's duty is to report that Mr Bocelli is not a very good singer." The Associated Press reported "Passion? Yes. Power. No. Bocelli's voice – though robust in spirit and precisely in tune, even in the upper register – had a thin quality that never opened up."[179] Similarly, classical music critic Andrew Clement found Bocelli's studio opera recordings consistently disappointing in quality: "Bocelli's profoundly unmusical contribution, with its unvaryingly coarse tone, wayward intonation and never a phrase properly shaped, fatally undermines all their contributions."[180] Anne Midgette of The New York Times agreed, noting "a thinness of voice, oddly anemic phrasing (including shortchanging upper notes of phrases in a most untenorial manner), a curious lack of expression."[181]
In 2008, in a live performance, Bocelli was described by Baltimore Sun music critic Tim Smith thus: "as unaided by electronics, he produced an undernourished, often under-pitch tone. Top notes were strained, phrases monochromatic. Bocelli's most loyal fans presumably didn't mind any of the weaknesses, but, frankly, I found most of his singing embarrassing."[182]
During a 2009 performance in New York, the music critic Steve Smith wrote "For cognoscenti of vocal artistry the risks involved in Mr. Bocelli's undertakings, both then and now, need no explanation. Substantial technical shortcomings masked by amplification are laid bare in a more conventional classical setting. Mr. Bocelli's tone can be pleasant, and his pitch is generally secure. But his voice is small and not well supported; his phrasing, wayward and oddly inexpressive."[183]
In 2010, Joe Banno of the Washington Post gave an unfavorable review of Bocelli's Carmen recording, describing the oft-noted failings in Bocelli's vocal resources on full display in this performance: "Bocelli, to be fair, possesses an essentially lovely tenor and knows his stuff when it comes to selling a pop ballad. And Decca's close miking of his puny voice inflates his sound to near-Franco Corelli-like dimensions. But his short-breathed, clumsily phrased, interpretively blank and often pinched and strained singing makes his Don Jose a tough listen."[184]
An audio commentary by New York Times editor Anne Midgette providing a comparison of Bocelli's tone and technique with Luciano Pavarotti's appears below. According to the commentary, Bocelli's tone and technique is not as firm or full as Pavarotti's. And Bocelli's singing of the high note in the passage sounds "squeezed" as opposed to the "ringing" quality Pavarotti achieves when singing the same note in the passage.
In a 2011 review of an all-classical recital, Zachary Woolfe of the New York Times commented that Bocelli "seemed out of his element and ill at ease... listeners responded politely and pleasantly, as if fulfilling their duty, a bit puzzled by the gap between the cautious sounds they were hearing and the smooth polish of Mr. Bocelli's blockbuster recordings." Woolfe goes on to observe "If people don’t know the works on a program (and Sunday evening's selection was far from populist), the singer needs to make those works happen, to prove them. But Mr. Bocelli was too nervous and not a powerful enough artist to do that. Even the French songs that were seemingly the best fit for his delicate instrument fell flat. Demonstrating little responsiveness to text or emotional specificity — Fauré's "Lune Blanche" did have an aptly gauzy sheen — they passed in a blur. In Mr. Bocelli's conception of the canon there is little audible difference between Handel and Gounod, and little urgency to either, a bland homogeneity... Ringing Pavarotti-style high notes are difficult for Mr. Bocelli; his effect of choice is extended falsetto tones, with which he dramatically ended several numbers. The audience responded warmly to this easy tactic, keen for something, anything, it could recognize as charismatic, stylish singing."[185]
Recognition[link]
Honors[link]
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) awarded in Rome, on March 4, 2006.[28][29]
Made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella by the President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández in 2009, for his contributions to International art and culture.[186][187][188]
Honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contribution to live theater, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, in 2010.[30][31]
Selected awards[link]
- Winner of the 1994 Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival.[6]
- ECHO music award for "Best Single of the Year", for Time to Say Goodbye, in 1997.[37]
- ECHO Klassik "Best seller of the year" award for his album, Viaggio Italiano in 1997.[37][39]
- Bambi Award in 1997.[37]
- Two World Music Awards, one in the category "Best Italian Singer", and one for "Best Classical Interpretation" in 1998.[40][41]
- ECHO Klassik, for "Best selling classical album" with Aria - The Opera Album in 1998.[40]
- ECHO Klassik for "Bestseller of the year" for Sacred Arias in 2000.[43]
- Two 2000 Classical BRIT Awards for "Best selling classical album" and "Album of the year" for Sacred Arias in 2000.[43]
- Goldene Europa for classical music in 2000.[43]
- Goldene Kamera award in the "Music & Entertainment" category 2002.[46]
- Two World Music Awards, for "World best selling classical artist" and for "Best selling Italian artist" in 2002.[46]
- Telegatto award for the soundtrack of the series Cuore in 2002.[46]
- 2002 Classical BRIT Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Music" in 2002.[46]
- Two 2003 Classical BRIT Awards for "Best selling classical album" and "Album of the year" for Sentimento in 2003.[48]
- Two World Music Awards for "Best Italian Artist" and "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" in 2006.[29]
- Telegatto award in platinum for Italian music in the world in 2008.[62]
- World Music Awards for "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" in 2010.
Personal life[link]
Bocelli met his first wife, Enrica Cenzatti, while singing at piano bars early in his career.[32] They were married on 27 June 1992, and had two children.[34] Their first child, Amos, was born in February 1995. Their second son, Matteo was born in October 1997.[37] The couple separated in 2002.[46] Although not yet divorced,[189] Bocelli lives with his girlfriend and manager, Veronica Berti. They met in 2002. In September 2011, the couple announced that Berti is pregnant and expecting her first and Bocelli's third child, a daughter,[190] in the spring.[191] Virginia, Bocelli's first daughter, was born March 21, 2012, on the first day of spring.[192][193] The couple live in a spacious villa, which used to be a hotel, in Forte dei Marmi on the Mediterranean, complete with recording studio. Meanwhile, Bocelli's estranged wife and two sons live in the couple's previous residence in the same comune, in Versilia.[161]
On 30 April 2000, Bocelli's father, Sandro Bocelli, died. His mother encouraged him to honour his commitments, and so he sang for the Pope, in Rome, on May 1, and immediately returned home for the funeral. At his July 5 performance, filmed for PBS as American Dream—Andrea Bocelli's Statue of Liberty Concert, Bocelli dedicated the encore Sogno (Dream), from his 1999 album Sogno, to the memory of his father.[43]
A section of the way along the beach in Jesolo, on the Italian Adriatic coast, was named after Bocelli on 11 August 2003.[47]
Teatro del Silenzio[link]
Main article: Teatro del Silenzio
In 2006, Bocelli influenced the municipality of his hometown Lajatico to build an outdoor theatre, the "Teatro del Silenzio".[194] Bocelli serves as its honorary president and performs for one night only, every July, the rest of the year, the theatre remains silent.
Since the opening in 2006, Bocelli has held 5 concerts, in every July, with guests ranging from opera singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras to classical crossover artists Sarah Brightman and Katherine Jenkins, as well as Italian rock and pop stars Zucchero, Laura Pausini, and Elisa. Bocelli's guests have also included instrumentalists Lang Lang, Chris Botti, and Kenny G. The 2007 edition of the "Teatro del Silenzio" was released on DVD in 2008.[195]
Philanthropy and Charitable Work[link]
Bocelli has made a large number of contributions throughout his career. He has participated in charity benefit concerts in different countries for various charities, such as the Michael Jackson benefit concert in 1998, the Memorial Concert at Ground Zero, in New York City for the victims of the September 11 attacks, and the Music of Asia festival in 2004, for the Indian tsunami appeal.
He performed with Mary J. Blige and David Foster at the 52nd Grammy Awards to raise awareness for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He later gave an open air concert at Masada, Israel, with the proceeds going to the residents of Galilee and Negev, and another in Sicily to support the ‘Flames of Solidarity’ charity, raising awareness concerning poverty. In Greece, he held a concert at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus to help Cancer research, and performed at the ‘Children in need rocks' in Manchester, in the UK.
In 2011, The Andrea Bocelli Foundation was launched. Its two missions are to fund medical research and fight poverty.
Discography[link]
Main article: Andrea Bocelli discography
Studio albums[link]
Compilation albums[link]
Live albums[link]
Digital albums[link]
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Collaborative albums[link]
Complete opera recordings[link]
Video albums[link]
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Bibliography[link]
- 2000: The Music of Silence: A Memoir (La musica del silenzio) – Autobiography
- 2010: The Music of Silence: A Memoir – Reworked autobiography
See also[link]
- Teatro del Silenzio
- Andrea Bocelli discography
- List of Easy Listening artists
- List of Adult Contemporary artists
- List of awards and nominations received by Andrea Bocelli
- List of best-selling music artists
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- ^ Andrea Bocelli Performs to 100,000 in Brazil, classicfm.co.uk March 2009 article.
- ^ Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli on their Grammy 'Bridge' for Haiti, Billboard.com, Feb 05, 2010 article.
- ^ Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli Brought 'Heavy Emotion' To Grammy Duet For Haiti, MTV, Feb 1 2010 article.
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- ^ Transcripts of the January 30, 2010, Larry King Live episode, CNN.
- ^ L.A. Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest honors tenor Andrea Bocelli and producer David Foster, L.A. Times, March 7, 2010, article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli's "The Story Behind the Voice", a Documentary, CNN's I-Report, March 2, 2010, article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli og kokken som sa nei til Obama på Skavlan, March 10, 2010, Norwegian article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli April 2010 events
- ^ Bocelli – with a little help from Ernman, Nordstjernan March 2010, article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli i Globen Stockholm Concert Orchestra Swedish article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli on stage with Chinese girl for Shanghai Expo, People's Daily Online, April 30, 2010 article.
- ^ Size matters at Shanghai Expo 2010, The Times, April 30, 2010 article.
- ^ Sarkozy, other leaders in Shanghai for World Expo, Cyprus Weekly, April 30, 2010 article.
- ^ Glamour of China, City Weekend.
- ^ Expo showcases music, art and culture, People's Daily, April 30, 2010 article.
- ^ The last time Italian pop and classical crossover star Andrea Bocelli visited Japan in 2008, he sold an astounding 50,000 CDs in three days, Metropolis Japan, Apr 15, 2010, article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli Live in Japan 2010
- ^ Andrea Bocelli: Live in Japan 2010
- ^ Andrea Bocelli to 'Become One' With Audience, The Korea Times, April 20, 2010, article.
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- ^ 12,000 enjoy Andrea Bocelli treat, YTLcommunity, May 9, 2010, article.
- ^ Enchated Night with Andrea Bocelli, KL-lifestyle.com, May 11, 2010, article.
- ^ Singapore Botanic Gardens: Orchid named after Andrea Bocelli
- ^ Delta Goodrem to support Andrea Bocelli in the US
- ^ Jennifer Lopez shows her wild side in two animal-print dresses at the World Music Awards, Daily Mail, May 19, 2010 article.
- ^ World Music Awards Official Site
- ^ Andrea Bocelli books gig in Kazakhstan, United Press International, June 15, 2010 article.
- ^ Opening of “Khan Shatyr” Trade Entertainment Center, Official Astana website – June 25, 2010.
- ^ Giant indoor park opened for Kazakh president's birthday, The Daily Telegraph, July 5, 2010 article.
- ^ Astana Press Release July 5, 2010, Official Astana website – July 5, 2010.
- ^ World's biggest tent offers escape from Kazakhstan's big chill, The Guardian, July 6, 2010 article.
- ^ Bocelli, Bryan Adams To Headline 'Grand Finale' Concert At World Cup, Billboard.com, April 29, 2010 article.
- ^ "Bryan Adams, Bocelli to sing at World Cup finale". Vancouver Sun. April 29, 2010. http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Bryan+Adams+Bocelli+sing+World+finale/2966918/story.html.
- ^ Bryan Adams rocks World Cup bash, The Globe and Mail, July 9, 2010 article.
- ^ a b Bocelli flies in for the finale, The Times (South Africa), July 11, 2010 article.
- ^ Andre Bocelli gives the presidents his best, Eyewitness News, July 10, 2010 article.
- ^ a b The anniversary of the Sveti Stefan Hotel marked by a concert by Andrea Bocelli, July 20, 2010 article.
- ^ a b c Rome in the heart of the future: Invitation by Vice-President of the European Parliament, Roberta Angelilli MEP, EPP Group, July 13, 2010 article.
- ^ Lunchtime with Andrea Bocelli, July 14, 2010 article.
- ^ Bocelli canterà a Bruxelles, Il Tempo, July 12, 2010 article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli ambasciatore per il turismo di Roma a Bruxelles, il Giornale, July 15, 2010 article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli, O2 Arena, review, Telegraphco.uk, Nov 15, 2010 article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli concert review, citylife.co.uk, November 26, 2010 article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli live in Dublin, Ireland
- ^ Andrea Bocelli makes history at O2, Classic FM, Nov 16, 2010 article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli Brings His Christmas to the US
- ^ Andrea Bocelli joins TNT's Christmas In Washington
- ^ Andrea Bocelli on TNT's Official Website
- ^ Bocelli concert at Italian Senate, Bocelli.de.
- ^ Al Senato il Concerto di Natale con Bocelli, in aula anche Napolitano Italian
- ^ Andrea Bocelli to Make Met Recital Debut
- ^ "Hayley Westenra to perform at Bocelli concerts in Taipei". focustaiwan.tw. 2012-04-14. http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201104140022. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli Gives Stirring Performance for Gilded Crowd, Jakarta Globe, May 16, 2011 article.
- ^ 2011 Asian Tour
- ^ Bocelli shares the love with Beijing concerts, China Daily.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli at Masada Official Opera Masada website
- ^ Andrea Bocelli to sing at Masada – Famed Italian tenor to take part in one time performance in June. All proceeds dedicated to support of Galilee, Negev residents Ynetnews
- ^ Andrea Bocelli at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse
- ^ Fiamme di Solidarieta – Official Benefit concert website
- ^ Andrea Bocelli Gifts New York City With A Once In A Lifetime Musical
- ^ a b Céline Dion, Tony Bennett Among Those To Celebrate With Andrea Bocelli On Central Park’s Great Lawn
- ^ Trumps Trump Each Other at Andrea Bocelli Central Park Concert
- ^ Trump family reunion, New York Post September 18, 2011 article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli leads Songs of Praise 50th celebrations, BBC, July 31, 2011 article.
- ^ Songs Of Praise marks 50th anniversary, BBC October 2, 2011 article.
- ^ Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs for Pope Benedict XVI
- ^ FIAT 35 ANOS: Andrea Bocelli faz show emocionante para 81 mil pessoas (Portuguese)
- ^ Pela 1ª vez em BH, Andrea Bocelli mescla erudito ao pop e emociona em duetos com Sandy (Portuguese)
- ^ Sandy e o tenor italiano Andrea Bocelli cantam para mais de 150 mil pessoas em Belo Horizonte (Portuguese)
- ^ Breaking: Bocelli crashes out of Romeo, ordered to cancel all commitments
- ^ Just in: Fabio Luisi stands up for Andrea Bocelli
- ^ Andrea Bocelli performs at Yerevan’s Liberty Square
- ^ Bocelli on Artistdata.com
- ^ a b c d Andrea Bocelli: 'Some voices have tears inside', The Daily Telegraph, Oct 4, 2007 article.
- ^ a b c Andrea Bocelli's Cieli di Toscana review, bluecoupe.com, 2001 article.
- ^ a b c Interview: Andrea Bocelli, opera singer, The Scotsman, October 27, 2009 article.
- ^ a b c d Video excerpt of the Story Behind the Voice documentary, YouTube video from the BBC documentary "Story Behind the Voice".
- ^ a b c d Blind Ambition People Magazine November 10, 1997 issue.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli, Zubin Mehta To Release CD Of Verdi Arias, VH1.com, September 2, 2000 article.
- ^ A conversation with Andrea Bocelli and Lorin Maazel, Charlie Rose interview, November 18, 2002.
- ^ An interview with Renee Fleming, Charlie Rose interview, October 12, 1999.
- ^ Elizabeth Taylor makes first outing 'in months, CNN, June 9, 2009 article.
- ^ Taylor Among Bocelli's Fans / Actress pushing `The Prayer' for Oscar, SFGate.com, January 13, 1999 article.
- ^ Doctors tried to cure Andrea Bocelli's blindness with leeches, Oct 31 2010, Daily Telegraph article.
- ^ Andrea Bocelli: Credo – John Paul II, New York Times review.
- ^ Domingo And Bocelli: Keeping Opera Relevant, NPR.org November 21, 2008 interiew.
- ^ a b Great Performances – Dialogue – Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias, Great Performances, 1999 interview.
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- ^ Clements, Andrew (16 July 2004). "Verdi: Il Trovatore: Bocelli/ Villaroel/ Zaremba/ Guelfi/ Colombara/ Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania Chorus & Orchestra/ Mercurio". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/jul/16/classicalmusicandopera.shopping5. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
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- ^ Bocelli far from heavenly in Rossini Mass Baltimore Sun review.
- ^ Smith, Steve (2009-09-09). "No Mikes at Carnegie Hall – Just a Man and His Voice". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/arts/music/10bocelli.html?ref=music. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ CD review: Decca's 'Carmen,' featuring Andrea Bocelli, The Washington Post review.
- ^ Superstar Tenor Grapples With the Operatic Canon The New York Times review
- ^ Bocelli honered by the Dominican government
- ^ Andrea Bocelli, decorated in Dominican, El Universal (Mexico City) 2009 article
- ^ Decoration of Italian artist Andrea Bocelli
- ^ Andrea Bocelli worked hard to become a big draw, December 9, 2010, The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Bocelli's fiancee expecting his first daughter omg!, Yahoo! News
- ^ Andrea Bocelli joins stars in celebrating 50th anniversary of Songs Of Praise, September 23, 2011, Daily Mail.
- ^ Virginia arriva con la primavera Fiocco rosa in casa Bocelli (Italian article) La Nazione
- ^ Andrea Bocelli and fiancée Veronica welcome a baby girl named Virginia Daily Mail
- ^ Andrea Bocelli: The Story Behind the Voice (television documentary). BBC. 2007-12-25.
- ^ Vivere: Andrea Bocelli Live in Tuscany, PBS.org.
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