Maxwell (musician)
Gerald Maxwell Rivera, (born May 23, 1973), better known by his stage name Maxwell, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Along with fellow musicians D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited with helping to shape what has been termed the "neo soul" movement that rose to prominence during the late 1990s.
Early life
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. Maxwell's father died in a plane crash when Maxwell was three years old. The experience made him a deeply religious child, and during his childhood he sang in a Baptist church. At age 14 he worked at Pizza Hut. He did not really get serious about music until age 17.
Career
Beginnings
After receiving a low-cost Casio keyboard from a friend, the Brooklyn, New York-native began composing material at age 17. Raised in the borough's East New York-section, Maxwell's previous musical experience included his beginnings as a singer in the congregation of his Baptist church, which had become an integral part of his life after the death of his father in a plane crash. Already a fan of what he described as "jheri curl soul", which was the trademark of early 1980s R&B acts such as Patrice Rushen, S.O.S. Band and Rose Royce, Maxwell began to teach himself to play a variety of instruments. According to him, the R&B of the early 1980s contained "the perfect combination of computerized instrumentation with a live feel", and that the genre's dynamics later became lost due to the influence of hip hop on R&B. Despite facing ridicule from classmates for being shy and awkward, he progressed and continued to develop his musical abilities, and he also adopted the look of a more bohemian style outwardly in his clothing, growing long sideburns and letting his hair grow out wildly and combed in an extreme style, or sometimes putting his hair in long dreads.
'Maxwell' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
There Are No Second Takes In Life...Take 2 (2014)
Actors: Stephen Cerf (actor), Stephen McNamee (actor), Paul Valenti (actor), Allegra Cohen (actress), Veronica Cooper (actress), Natasha Coppola-Shalom (actress), Linda Elizabeth (actress), Deborah Harris (actress), Erica Hernandez (actress), Gina Marie Jamieson (actress), Rebecca Knowles (actress), Nivedita Kulkarni (actress), Leah Lamarr (actress), Katya Martin (actress), Nick Abeel (actor),
Plot: After considering all the things that are difficult about making a web series (finding a film crew, scheduling actors, filming numerous episodes, editing episodes in post, etc.), Stephen McNamee tried to think of a way to circumvent these obstacles, and he came up with THERE ARE NO SECOND TAKES IN LIFE... TAKE 2. THERE ARE NO SECOND TAKES IN LIFE... TAKE 2 is a daily web series where every episode is between 20 seconds and 3 minutes and where every episode is filmed with one continuous shot. Also, the web series is filmed without a film crew - there is no one behind the camera and no one holding a microphone.
Genres: Comedy,Black Martini (2014)
Actors: Max Aruj (actor), Michael Anthony Cohen (actor), Theo Crisell (actor), Tim Halpin (actor), Mel Kohl (actor), Pablo Lewin (actor), Greg Lucey (actor), Angel Ozuna (actor), Brian Pasternak (actor), Christian Reeve (actor), Russ Salmon (actor), Frank Scozzari (actor), Barry Stem (actor), John H. Tobin (actor), Willie Amakye (actor),
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Short,Girl Most Likely (2012)
Actors: Murray Bartlett (actor), Joseph Basile (actor), David Bernon (actor), Reed Birney (actor), Bronson (actor), Helmar Augustus Cooper (actor), Jon Cooper (actor), Nate Corddry (actor), Darren Criss (actor), Matt Dillon (actor), Matt Dillon (actor), Jake DuPree (actor), Christopher Fitzgerald (actor), Mike Gillman (actor), Bob Balaban (actor),
Plot: Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.
Keywords: adult-returns-home, brother-sister-relationship, failed-writer, fake-suicide-attempt, fired-from-job, hospital-gown, long-lost-father, man-child, mother-daughter-relationship, new-jerseyGenres: Comedy,
Taglines: She has a lot to live up to. And a few things to live down.
Quotes:
Libby: What about your family?::Imogene: Uhhm, I grew up in the Atlantic City area, near the beach, so...::Libby: Then every day was like summer, right?::Imogene: No, every day was not like summer; every day was like being impaled with a blunt wooden object, over and over again.::Libby: Anyway...Snitch (2011)
Actors: John Bobek (actor), Billy Burns (actor), P.J. Byrne (actor), Daz Crawford (actor), Gary Fink (actor), Nikolas Frederick (actor), Edward Furlong (actor), Brian Gregorie (actor), Cal Johnson (actor), Jermaine Steve Johnson (actor), Patrick G. Keenan (actor), Brian Krause (actor), Matthew MacFadzean (actor), David J. Mack (actor), Edward Asner (actor),
Plot: Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. When Anthony Torino, the volatile heir-apparent, turns his deadly sights on the DA prosecuting him for the cold-blooded murder of his own cousin, Johnny is finally moved to act. Despite his role as family accountant, Johnny is quite the marksman. He convinces a reluctant Anthony into letting him eliminate DA Elizabeth Jones. Johnny's plan to simply warn her instead is thwarted by the arrival of a pair of Torino family goons sent to supervise his first hit. The ensuing shootout leaves Elizabeth wounded, one goon dead, and Johnny arrested. Johnny rolls on Anthony and enters the Witness Security Program. Shortly after Anthony is arrested, he escapes and contacts his mole to get the locations of Johnny and the others who were going to testify against him. When Vince, Torino family hit-man and Johnny's lifelong friend, shows at the sheep farm where Johnny has been hidden away, Johnny finds himself once again scrambling to save the lives of those who have crossed Anthony, including his own. Along the way, he realizes that he's not alone in this mission.
Keywords: christian, district-attorney, murder, new-identity, redemption, u.s.-marshal, witness-protectionGenres: Thriller,
Taglines: He's so busy trying to save her, he doesn't realize she's saving him. He thought he was saving her, he had no idea she was saving him. Redemption's a beautiful thing. For the biggest crime family, loyalty is above all. They will always protect their own. If you want to get out, you have to change the rules. Sometimes loyalty can get you killed.
Dirty Bent Bastards (2009)
Actors: Alberto (actor), Rocco Banks (actor), Des Barron (actor), Juan Blas (actor), Carlo Cox (actor), Tony de Grasse (actor), Tim Fordyce (actor), Butch Grand (actor), Ross Hurston (actor), Eduardo Lindner (actor), Daniel Marvin (actor), Svetlana Quinn (actor), Trojan Rock (actor), Cimarron Rosario (actor), Michael T. Smith (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Short,Hidden Agenda (1990)
Actors: John Benfield (actor), Bernard Bloch (actor), Stephen Brigden (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), Gerry Fearon (actor), Llew Gardner (actor), Ron Kavana (actor), Patrick Kavanagh (actor), John Keegan (actor), Ivan Little (actor), Oliver Maguire (actor), Des McAleer (actor), Jim McAllister (actor), Bernard Archard (actor),
Plot: When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, arrest, audio-tape, belfast-northern-ireland, cassette-tape, cautionary-tale, conspiracy, corrupt-official, corruption, cover-upGenres: Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Murder... Torture... Corruption... The Truth Can Never Be Buried. Every government has one. When a government seeks revenge...nobody is safe.
Quotes:
Kerrigan: [furious] I am conducting an investigation, for Christ's sake!Kerrigan: Go back to America. Get out of Belfast, you're in danger here. Ingrid, it's finished.::Ingrid Jessner: Not for them, it isn't. Not for Nevin and the others. They're not going to disappear, you know they're still in place. I have a plane to catch, Mr. Kerrigan.
Supt. Fraser: Do you mind if I smoke?::Kerrigan: Yes, I do. [the stenographer lady grins at Kerrigan's challenge of a superior officer]
Kerrigan: God, you people are living in the dark ages.
[repeated line]::Kerrigan: Did he give you the tape?
Det. Sgt. Hughes: Classified information.::Kerrigan: Classified, my bullshit! What the fuck you people are running in here? You're own private shooting war?
Ingrid Jessner: Mr. Kerrigan, how far you'll be willing to go with this?::Kerrigan: If... and still would be if, if Harris is in anyway connect with the shooting I don't care whose toes I thread on, he becomes part of the investigation. No more, no less. Okay?
Kerrigan: What happened to the film?::Ingrid Jessner: Never got made.::Kerrigan: Too controversial?::Ingrid Jessner: Too honest, I think. It was about how Mr. Kissinger, the CIA and the Pentagon have made Chile safe for democracy.
[last lines]::Maxwell: Can we go?::Kerrigan: Yes, yes.
Paul Sullivan: I don't believe it.::Ingrid Jessner: Tribal rites.::Paul Sullivan: It's frightening.
Hunter's Gold (1977)
Actors: Bruce Allpress (actor), Robert Bell (actor), Ken Blackburn (actor), Terence Cooper (actor), Bernard Esquilant (actor), Andrew Hawthorn (actor), Ross Jolly (actor), Richard Moss (actor), Ian Mune (actor), Roger Oakley (actor), Robert Pratt (actor), Gabriel Prendergast (actor), Ernie Stanley (actor), Scott Taylor (actor), Peter Thorpe (actor),
Plot: New Zealand, 1860. Thirteen year old Scott Hunter becomes anxious about his father, a gold prospector, when his personal belongings return home without him. Scott goes off to Tuckers Gully in search and en route has various adventures, not least when he hitches a ride with a travelling showman, Marvello The Magician. On arriving at Tuckers Gully Scott finds that his father's colleague has been found murdered. Scott's father, whom no one has seen for some weeks, is the prime suspect and there is a price on his head. Scott finds that his father struck gold and is being held prisoner by the real murderers, Ryan and Dodd, and manages to convince the folk of Tuckers Gully the truth.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family,Touch of Death (1961)
Actors: Christopher Brett (actor), Keith Campbell (actor), Victor Charrington (actor), Frank Coda (actor), Glynn Dale (actor), Geoffrey Denton (actor), Clifford Earl (actor), Roy Evans (actor), Frank Forsyth (actor), Kenneth Gilbert (actor), Thomas Kyffin (actor), Reg Lever (actor), William Lucas (actor), John Martin (actor), Ray Barrett (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Ask Any Girl (1959)
Actors: John Brennan (actor), Albert Carrier (actor), Robert Foulk (actor), James Gonzalez (actor), Percy Helton (actor), James Maloney (actor), John Melfi (actor), Read Morgan (actor), Jerry Murray (actor), David Niven (actor), Mickey Shaughnessy (actor), Reginald Simpson (actor), Jim B. Smith (actor), William Smith (actor), Jim Backus (actor),
Plot: When Meg Wheeler, a naive young girl, goes to big city looking for a husband she lands a job in a marketing firm run by brothers Miles and Evan Doughton. She convinces stodgy Miles to market her as a potential wife to playboy Evan. Miles plays Pygmalion.
Keywords: based-on-novel, kissing-on-a-doorstep, lingerie-slip, luggageGenres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: The Funniest Idea Ever...For Making a Male Into a Mate!
The Old Barn Dance (1938)
Actors: Chris Allen (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Bob Card (actor), Champion (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Victor Adamson (actor),
Plot: Sally Dawson gets Gene to sign a contract to sing on her struggling radio station. Gene is selling horses and unknown to him the sponsor of his program is the tractor company he is competing against. When the ranchers that bought tractors can't make their payments and Maxwell forecloses, the ranchers blame Autry.
Keywords: 1930s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, auction, b-movie, b-western, banjo, business-competition, chaseGenres: Action, Comedy, Music, Western,
Maxwell Filmography
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Sophie
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
Maxwell, Don Filmography
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1998, role: miscellaneous crew
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1997, role: miscellaneous crew
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1997, role: actor , character name: Officer #2
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1993, role: actor , character name: Sheriff
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1993, role: actor , character name: Guard
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1993, role: actor , character name: Cop #3
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1992, role: miscellaneous crew
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1992, role: actor , character name: Voice Actor
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1991, role: actor , character name: Professor
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1989, role: actor , character name: Coach Ostrow
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1989, role: actor , character name: Fire Chief
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1989, role: actor , character name: Sergeant
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1989, role: miscellaneous crew
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1988, role: actor , character name: Billy's Dad
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1988, role: actor , character name: Desk Sergeant
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1985, role: actor , character name: Delivery truck driver
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1985, role: actor , character name: Doorman
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1982, role: actor , character name: Seaman #2
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1981, role: actor , character name: 2nd Guard
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1980, role: actor , character name: Bratty Kid's Dad
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1980, role: actor , character name: Dickie Moore
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1978, role: actor , character name: U.S. General
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1978, role: actor , character name: Mr. Gries
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1977, role: actor , character name: Seldon
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1976, role: actor , character name: Cody Cop 2
Maxwell Filmography
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
Matching books:
Maxwell
ALBUMS
- BLACKsummers'night released: 2009
- For Lovers Only: The Best Of released: 2008
- Now released: 2001
- Embrya released: 1998
- Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite released: 1996
For Lovers Only: The Best Of
Released 2008- Sumthin' Sumthin'
- Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)
- Lifetime
- ... Til the Cops Come Knockin'
- For Lovers Only
- No One
- This Woman's Work
- Whenever Wherever Whatever
- Suitelady (The Proposal Jam)
- I'm You: You Are Me and We Are You
- Matrimony: Maybe You
- Silently
- Get to Know Ya
- Gotta Get: Closer (unplugged)
- The Suite Urban Theme (The Hush) (unplugged)
Max.Well
ALBUMS
- Timewarp released: 2010
Maxwell
ALBUMS
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Oooooh...
It happened the moment, when you were revealed
'Cause you were a dream that you should not have been
A fantasy real
You gave me this beating baby
This rhythm inside
And you made me feel good and feel nice and feel loved
Give me paradise
- So shouldn't I realize
You're the highest of the high
If you don't know, then I'll say it
So don't ever wonder
So tell me how long
How long it's gonna take until you speak, babe
'Cause I can't live my life
Without you here by my side
Ooh...
You gave me the feelin', feelin' in my life
Maxwell (musician)
Gerald Maxwell Rivera, (born May 23, 1973), better known by his stage name Maxwell, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Along with fellow musicians D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited with helping to shape what has been termed the "neo soul" movement that rose to prominence during the late 1990s.
Early life
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. Maxwell's father died in a plane crash when Maxwell was three years old. The experience made him a deeply religious child, and during his childhood he sang in a Baptist church. At age 14 he worked at Pizza Hut. He did not really get serious about music until age 17.
Career
Beginnings
After receiving a low-cost Casio keyboard from a friend, the Brooklyn, New York-native began composing material at age 17. Raised in the borough's East New York-section, Maxwell's previous musical experience included his beginnings as a singer in the congregation of his Baptist church, which had become an integral part of his life after the death of his father in a plane crash. Already a fan of what he described as "jheri curl soul", which was the trademark of early 1980s R&B acts such as Patrice Rushen, S.O.S. Band and Rose Royce, Maxwell began to teach himself to play a variety of instruments. According to him, the R&B of the early 1980s contained "the perfect combination of computerized instrumentation with a live feel", and that the genre's dynamics later became lost due to the influence of hip hop on R&B. Despite facing ridicule from classmates for being shy and awkward, he progressed and continued to develop his musical abilities, and he also adopted the look of a more bohemian style outwardly in his clothing, growing long sideburns and letting his hair grow out wildly and combed in an extreme style, or sometimes putting his hair in long dreads.
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