quarta-feira, setembro 09, 2026
Hoje é dia de ouvir Michael Bublé...
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Marcadores: Big Band, Canadá, Everything, jazz, Michael Bublé, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues
Michael Bublé celebra hoje cinquenta e um anos
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Marcadores: Big Band, Canadá, Everything, jazz, Michael Bublé, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues
domingo, agosto 30, 2026
John Phillips, dos The Mamas & The Papas, nasceu há noventa e um anos...
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Os Xistos de Burgess foram descobertos há 117 anos
History and significance
The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott
on 30 August 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He
returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a
quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The significance of soft-bodied
preservation, and the range of organisms he recognised as new to
science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924.
At that point, aged 74, he had amassed over 65,000 specimens. Describing
the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in
1927. Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to
categorise all fossils into living taxa, and as a result, the fossils
were regarded as little more than curiosities at the time. It was not
until 1962 that a first-hand reinvestigation of the fossils was
attempted, by Alberto Simonetta. This led scientists to recognise that
Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in
the Burgess Shale, and also made it clear that the organisms did not
fit comfortably into modern groups.
Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington,
and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher
up Fossil Ridge. Whittington, with the help of research students Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge,
began a thorough reassessment of the Burgess Shale, and revealed that
the fauna represented were much more diverse and unusual than Walcott
had recognized. Indeed, many of the animals present had bizarre anatomical features and only the slightest resemblance to other known animals. Examples include Opabinia, with five eyes and a snout like a vacuum cleaner hose and Hallucigenia, which was originally reconstructed upside down, walking on bilaterally symmetrical spines.
With Parks Canada and UNESCO
recognising the significance of the Burgess Shale, collecting fossils
became politically more difficult from the mid-1970s. Collections
continued to be made by the Royal Ontario Museum. The curator of invertebrate palaeontology, Desmond Collins, identified a number of additional outcrops, stratigraphically
both higher and lower than the original Walcott quarry. These
localities continue to yield new organisms faster than they can be
studied.
Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life,
published in 1989, brought the Burgess Shale fossils to the public's
attention. Gould suggests that the extraordinary diversity of the
fossils indicates that life forms at the time were much more disparate
in body form than those that survive today, and that many of the unique
lineages were evolutionary experiments that became extinct. Gould's
interpretation of the diversity of Cambrian fauna relied heavily on Simon Conway Morris's
reinterpretation of Charles Walcott's original publications. However,
Conway Morris strongly disagreed with Gould's conclusions, arguing that
almost all the Cambrian fauna could be classified into modern day phyla.
The Burgess Shale has attracted the interest of paleoclimatologists who want to study and predict long-term future changes in Earth's climate. According to Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee in the 2003 book The Life and Death of Planet Earth, climatologists study the fossil records in the Burgess Shale to understand the climate of the Cambrian explosion,
and use it to predict what Earth's climate would look like 500 million
years in the future when a warming and expanding Sun combined with
declining CO2 and oxygen levels eventually heat the Earth toward temperatures not seen since the Archean
Eon 3 billion years ago, before the first plants and animals appeared,
and therefore understand how and when the last living things will die
out.
After the Burgess Shale site was registered as a World Heritage Site in 1980, it was included in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks WHS designation in 1984.
In February 2014, the discovery was announced of another Burgess Shale outcrop in Kootenay National Park to the south. In just 15 days of field collecting in 2013, 50 animal species were unearthed at the new site.
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Marcadores: Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, Câmbrico, Canadá, Charles Walcott, explosão câmbrica, formação Stephen, Lagerstätte, Ottoia, Paleontologia, pedreira de Walcott, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Xistos de Burgess
Hoje é dia de ouvir The Mamas and The Papas...
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Marcadores: anos 60, Canadá, folk, John Phillips, Monday Monday, música, pop, The Mamas and The Papas
sábado, agosto 29, 2026
Amanda Marshall nasceu há cinquenta e quatro anos
Amanda Marshall (Toronto, 29 de agosto de 1972) é uma cantora canadiana, mais conhecida pelo seu êxito de 1996, "Let it Rain".
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Marcadores: Amanda Marshall, anos 90, Canadá, Let It Rain, música, rythm and blues contemporâneo, soft rock
sexta-feira, agosto 28, 2026
Shania Twain celebra hoje sessenta e um anos
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Marcadores: Canadá, country, música, pop, Shania Twain, That Don't Impress Me Much
...para que ela se continue a sentir uma mulher...!
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Marcadores: Canadá, country, Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, música, pop, Shania Twain
domingo, agosto 09, 2026
Robbie Robertson morreu há três anos...
- 1968 Music from Big Pink
- 1969 The Band
- 1970 Stage Fright
- 1971 Cahoots
- 1972 Rock of Ages
- 1973 Moondog Matinee
- 1975 Northern Lights - Southern Cross
- 1977 Islands
- 1978 The Last Waltz
- 1995 Live at Watkins Glen
- 1974 Before the Flood
- 1974 Planet Waves
- 1975 The Basement Tapes
- 1998 The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
- 1987 Robbie Robertson (com U2 e Peter Gabriel)
- 1991 Storyville
- 1994 Music for The Native Americans
- 1998 Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
- 2018 Soundtrack for The Irishman
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Marcadores: Canadá, folk rock, guitarra, Robbie Robertson, Rock, The Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
sexta-feira, julho 31, 2026
Alissa White-Gluz, vocalista dos Arch Enemy, nasceu há 41 anos
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Alissa White-Gluz (Montreal, 31 July 1985) is a Canadian singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, and former lead vocalist and founding member of the Canadian metalcore band the Agonist. Her vocal style includes both growling and clean vocals (singing). Although primarily associated with melodic death metal and metalcore, she has appeared as a guest vocalist for power metal, symphonic metal and deathcore bands, notably Kamelot, Delain, Carnifex and Powerwolf, and has performed live with Nightwish and Tarja Turunen.
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Marcadores: Alissa White-Gluz, Arch Enemy, Canadá, Handshake With Hell, Melodic death metal, Metal, Metalcore, música, power, symphonic metal, The Agonist
quinta-feira, julho 30, 2026
Hoje é preciso ouvir Paul Anka...
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Marcadores: Canadá, Doo-Wop, jazz, música, Paul Anka, pop, swing, You Are My Destiny
Paul Anka celebra hoje oitenta e cinco anos...!
Paul Anka (Ottawa, 30 de julho de 1941) é um cantor e compositor canadiano, de origem síria, que se tornou cidadão norte-americano em 1990.
Com catorze anos, gravou "I Confess", encorajado pelos seus pais. Em 1957, Anka foi para Nova Iorque onde fez um teste para a ABC, cantando uma canção de amor que escrevera para uma babysiter, Diana Ayoub. A canção, "Diana", trouxe fama instantânea a Paul. "Diana" é uma das mais vendidas da época na história da música (no Brasil também fez sucesso a versão em português cantada por Carlos Gonzaga). Ele seguiu com quatro músicas que chegaram às top 20 de 1958, fazendo-o o maior ídolo dos adolescentes da época. Ele fez turnês no Reino Unido e depois, com Buddy Holly, na Austrália.
O seu talento foi além, escrevendo "It Doesn't Matter Anymore", um grande sucesso de Buddy Holly; o tema do Tonight Show de Johnny Carson (na época); o maior sucesso de Tom Jones, "She's A Lady"; e My Way, cantado por Elvis Presley e Frank Sinatra, entre outros. My Way era a versão para inglês da música francesa Comme d'habitude, de autoria de Claude François e Jacques Revaux.
Nos anos 60, Anka começou a atuar em filmes, assim como escrevendo músicas para eles, mais notavelmente o tema de The Longest Day. Tornou-se então um dos primeiros cantores de pop a apresentar-se nos casinos de Las Vegas.
Anos 80, Paul Anka fez dueto com Peter Cetera na canção "Hold Me Til The Morning Comes" que fez parte da banda sonora da novela Guerra dos Sexos de 1983. Paul Anka fez dueto com Julia Migenes na canção "No Way Out" que pertence a banda sonora do filme Sem Saída de 1987.
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Marcadores: Canadá, Doo-Wop, jazz, música, Paul Anka, pop, Put Your Head On My Shoulder, swing
quarta-feira, julho 29, 2026
Geddy Lee, o baixista, vocalista e teclista dos Rush, comemora hoje 73 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: Canadá, Fly By Night, Geddy Lee, guitarra, hard rock, heavy metal, música, Rock Progressivo, Rush, teclas
segunda-feira, julho 20, 2026
James Doohan morreu há vinte e um anos...
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Marcadores: actor, Canadá, cinema, James Doohan, Star Trek, televisão
domingo, julho 05, 2026
Robbie Robertson nasceu há oitenta e três anos...
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Marcadores: Canadá, folk rock, guitarra, Robbie Robertson, Rock, The Band, The Weight
Música para recordar Robbie Robertson, músico dos The Band...
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Marcadores: Canadá, folk rock, guitarra, Robbie Robertson, Rock, The Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
quarta-feira, julho 01, 2026
Dan Aykroyd faz hoje 74 anos
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Marcadores: actor, Blues Brothers, Canadá, cinema, Dan Aykroyd, música
Hoje é dia de ouvir cantar Dan Aykroyd...
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Marcadores: actor, Blues Brothers, Canadá, cinema, Dan Aykroyd, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, música
domingo, junho 28, 2026
Terry Fox morreu há 45 anos...
sábado, junho 20, 2026
Donald Sutherland morreu há dois anos...
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Donald McNichol Sutherland (Saint John, New Brunswick, 17 July 1935 – Miami, Florida, 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor and anti-war activist whose film career spanned over seven decades. He received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. He has been cited as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. He received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017.
Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films such as The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), and Kelly's Heroes (1970). He subsequently starred in many films both in leading and supporting roles, including Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975), Fellini's Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), 1900 (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), Eye of the Needle (1981), A Dry White Season (1989), Backdraft (1991), JFK (1991), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Without Limits (1998), The Italian Job (2003), and Pride & Prejudice (2005). More recently, Sutherland portrayed President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise.
Sutherland also received accolades for his television roles. For his portrayal of Colonel Mikhail Fetisov in Citizen X (1995) he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He played Adam Czerniaków in Uprising (2001), and Clark Clifford in Path to War (2002) earning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on 18 December 1978 and promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. He maintained a home in Georgeville, Quebec.
Sutherland married three times. His first marriage, to Lois May Hardwick, lasted from 1959 to 1966. His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas, daughter of Canadian social democratic politician and the "father" of Canada's universal healthcare system, Tommy Douglas. Sutherland and Douglas have two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel. From 1970 to 1972, he had an affair with married Klute co-star Jane Fonda.
Sutherland married French Canadian actress Francine Racette in 1972, after meeting her on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder. They have three sons – Rossif Sutherland, Angus Redford Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland – all of whom were named after directors Sutherland had worked with. Kiefer is named after American-born director and writer Warren Kiefer, who, under the assumed name of Lorenzo Sabatini, directed Sutherland in his first feature film, the Italian low-budget horror film Il castello dei morti vivi (Castle of the Living Dead); Roeg is named after director Nicolas Roeg; Rossif is named after French director Frédéric Rossif; and Angus Redford has his middle name after Robert Redford.
Sutherland became a blogger for the American news website The Huffington Post during the 2008 United States presidential election campaign. In his blogs, he stated his support for Barack Obama.
Documents declassified in 2017 show that Sutherland was on the National Security Agency watchlist between 1971 and 1973 at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency because of his anti-war activities.
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