Burt Bacharach faz hoje 93 anos

   

Burt Freeman Bacharach (Kansas City, Missouri, May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of popular hit songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with popular lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.

  

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O músico Burt Bacharach faz hoje noventa anos

Burt Freeman Bacharach (Kansas City, Missouri, May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of popular hit songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with popular lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.

His music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. Most of Bacharach & David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the composing duo work with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels, and Jerry Butler. Following the initial success of these collaborations, Bacharach went on to write hits for Gene Pitney, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Jackie DeShannon, Bobbie Gentry, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B. J. Thomas, the Carpenters, among numerous other artists. He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output.

Songs that he co-wrote which have topped the Billboard Hot 100 include "The Look of Love" (1967), "This Guy's in Love with You" (1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (1969), "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (1970), "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (1981), "That's What Friends Are For" (1986) and "On My Own" (1986).

A significant figure in easy listening. Bacharach is described by writer William Farina as "a composer whose venerable name can be linked with just about every other prominent musical artist of his era." In later years, his songs were newly appropriated for the soundtracks of major feature films, by which time "tributes, compilations, and revivals were to be found everywhere". He has been noted for his influence on later musical movements such as chamber pop and Shibuya-kei. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David at number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. In 2012, the duo received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first time the honor has been given to a songwriting team.
  

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Tom Jones - 73 anos

Sir Tom Jones, nascido Thomas Jones Woodward (Pontypridd, 7 de junho de 1940) é um cantor de música pop do País de Gales.

Aos dezasseis anos ele casou e teve um filho, muito antes de se tornar um ídolo pop. Apesar das suas frequentes e bem divulgadas relações extra-conjugais (incluindo um romance com a ex-Miss Mundo de 1973, Marjorie Wallace), ele permanece casado e é tido como um homem de família. Jones mora nos Estados Unidos, mas visita frequentemente a sua terra natal, no País de Gales.

Tom alcançou a fama durante os anos 60, e depois de vários sucessos no Reino Unido, tornou-se um cantor de casinos de Las Vegas. Entre os seus principais sucessos de começo de carreira estão:

• It's Not Unusual (1965)
• What's New Pussycat?, composta por Burt Bacharach (1965)
• Thunderball, tema do filme homónimo de James Bond (1966)
• The Green, Green Grass of Home (1966), o seu LP de maior sucesso, que passou então a ser associado com o País de Gales
• I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1967)
• Delilah (1968)
• Can't Help Yourself (1968)
• Without Love (1969)
• She's A Lady (1971)

A carreira de Jones estagnou a partir de então, e só conseguiria novo fôlego em 1987, com o lançamento de "A Boy From Nowhere". Depois disso ele passou a gravar com uma geração mais nova de músicos.

O penúltimo álbum de Jones, Reload, lançado em 2000, transformou-se no maior sucesso da sua carreira: apresentava versões de outros artistas, gravadas em duetos com os mesmos, utilizando seus produtores e métodos de gravação. Em seguida veio Mr.Jones, lançado em 2002, e no ano seguinte Tom seria premiado com um Brit Awards pela sua contribuição à música. Tom é quem canta o tema de abertura da série de desenhos animados Duck Dodgers. Tom também participou do filme Marte Ataca, sendo ele mesmo no filme.

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