Susanna Hoffs - 65 anos!

Susanna Lee Hoffs (Los Angeles, 17 de janeiro de 1959) é uma cantora, compositora, guitarrista e atriz americana. Ela é mais conhecida por ser a co-fundadora do The Bangles. 

 

Início

Hoffs nasceu em Los Angeles, Califórnia, numa família judaica. Ela é filha de Tamar Ruth (née Simon) e Joshua Allen Hoffs, um psicanalista. A sua mãe tocava música dos Beatles para Hoffs quando era criança e começou a tocar viola na adolescência. Hoffs estudou na Palisades High School, em Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, formando-se em 1976. Enquanto estava na faculdade, ela trabalhou como assistente de produção e fez sua estreia de atuação no filme Stony Island de 1978.

Em 1980, Hoffs formou-se na Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, em Berkeley, com um bacharelado em Artes. Quando entrou em Berkeley, ela era fã de bandas de rock clássicas que tocavam em grandes estádios. Enquanto estudante em Berkeley, ela participou do último show dos Sex Pistols no Winterland Ballroom e um show de Patti Smith. A exposição ao punk rock mudou o seu objetivo de carreira de uma dançarina para músico numa banda. Ela juntou-se a Vicki Peterson e Debbi Peterson no que mais tarde se tornaria o grupo de pop rock The Bangles. 

 

The Bangles

A primeira versão gravada dos Bangles foi um EP auto-intitulado em 1982, pela gravadora Faulty Products. The Bangles lançaram o seu primeiro álbum de estúdio All Over the Place em 1984, pela Columbia Records. Eles tiveram um sucesso moderado com o single "Hero Takes a Fall", mas o seu sucesso comercial veio com o segundo álbum, Different Light, em 1986, que produziu os singles de sucesso "Manic Monday", "If She Knew What She Wants" e "Walk Like an Egyptian".

Em 1986, Hoffs co-escreveu "I Need a Disguise" para o álbum Belinda de Belinda Carlisle, integrante do grupo do grupo The Go-Go's. Com a crescente fama, Hoffs também apareceu nas capas de inúmeras revistas, e a marca de guitarra Rickenbacker emitiu um modelo Susanna Hoffs 350, que ela personalizou.

Em 1987, Hoffs estrelou o filme The Allnighter, que foi dirigido por sua mãe, Tamar Simon Hoffs, e também apresentou Joan Cusack e Pam Grier. O filme foi criticamente criticado e falhou nas bilheteiras. Hoffs disse mais tarde: "Não foi um ótimo filme, mas toda a experiência foi fantástica".

The Bangles lançaram o seu terceiro álbum Everything em 1988, com o single "Eternal Flame", o mais vendido, que foi co-escrito e cantado por Hoffs. Durante o documentário da BBC "I'm in a Girl Group", Hoffs revelou que ela realmente cantou a gravação de estúdio da música completamente nua, devido ao produtor Davitt Sigerson aprovar a ideia, dizendo que Olivia Newton John tinha feito o mesmo. Mais tarde, ele veio a dizer que Hoffs que estava mentindo o tempo todo.

As Bangles separaram-se em 1989, mas no final da década de 90, Hoffs reencontrou as amigas das Bangles, com a esperança de se reunirem. Elas gravaram o single "Get the Girl" para o segundo filme de Austin Powers em 1999. Posteriormente, elas anunciaram a sua decisão de se reunir a tempo integral em 2000. O quarto álbum, Doll Revolution, foi lançado em 2003. 

   

 A solo

Hoffs lançou um álbum solo, When You're a Boy, em 1991, que gerou um U.S Top 40, com "My Side of the Bed". No Reino Unido, o single ficou no nº 44, por apenas 4 semanas no gráfico, e o álbum também vendeu decentemente na Europa. Desse álbum de Hoffs a canção "Unconditional Love" fez muito sucesso no Brasil por ter sido incluído na banda sonora internacional da novela "O Dono do Mundo", de Gilberto Braga, exibida pela TV Globo entre 1991/1992. Na trama a canção foi tema da personagem "Yara", interpretada por Daniella Perez.

Hoffs gravou outro álbum em 1993-94, antes de deixar a Columbia Records, mas não foi lançado. Em 1996, Hoffs lançou o seu segundo álbum solo, Susanna Hoffs. Embora tenha recebido muitos elogios nos media e tenha produzido um menor impacto dos EUA, foi hit do Reino Unido no número #33 por 2 semanas, com um cover do single "All I Want", do Lightning e não foi um grande sucesso comercial.

Hoffs gravou um cover de "The Look of Love", para a banda sonora do filme de Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery e um cover da música "Alfie", para a banda sonora do terceiro filme Austin Powers em Goldmember. Ela gravou um cover da música de Oingo Boingo "We Close Our Eyes", para a banda sonora de Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Ela também é responsável pela música "Now and Then", do filme de 1995 com o mesmo nome. 

Hoffs também contribuiu com uma música para o filme Red Roses and Petrol. Intitulado "The Water is Wide". A música pode ser ouvida nos créditos de encerramento e está disponível na banda sonora do filme. Em fevereiro de 2009, Hoffs apareceu no palco no Key Club em Los Angeles, cantando com thenewno2, a banda de blues psicadélico "pós-Bristol", liderada por Dhani Harrison.

Em dezembro de 2011, Hoffs forneceu uma música original para uso na promoção da Visit South Walton, uma agência de promoção de turismo em Condado de Walton (Flórida).

Hoffs auto-lançou o seu terceiro álbum solo (o primeiro desde o álbum auto-intitulado de 1996), chamado Someday pela Vanguard Records em 17 de julho de 2012. O trabalho foi produzido por Mitchell Froom e é influenciado pelas músicas da década de 60. American Songwriter deu a Someday, uma classificação de 4,5 de 5 estrelas e descreveu o álbum como "a declaração musical mais fácil e inegável de Hoffs, até ao momento".

Hoffs é mencionada por The Saw Doctors, em "I'd Love to Kiss the Bangles". Robbie Fulks escreveu para ela a canção "That Bangle Girl", que aparece em seu álbum The Very Best of Robbie Fulks.

Hoffs colocou o seu talento vocal na canção dos créditos finais do filme, A Dog Named Gucci, na música One Voice, que também apresenta as vozes de Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Brian May e Kathryn Calder. Foi produzido por Dean Falcone, que também escreveu a nota do filme. One Voice foi lançado pela Record Store Day, 16 de abril de 2016, com lucros da venda para instituições de beneficência de animais que se destinam a beneficiar. 

 

Vida pessoal

Em 1993, Hoffs casou com Jay Roach, diretor dos filmes Austin Powers e Meet the Parents e produtor da versão cinematográfica do The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Ela tem dois filhos. O marido Roach converteu-se ao judaísmo depois de se casar com Hoffs.

Ela é vegetariana.

 

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Vicki Peterson, a guitarrista das Bangles, faz hoje 66 anos

Victoria Anne Theresa Peterson Cowsill (Northridge, Los Angeles, January 11, 1958) is an American rock musician and songwriter. She has been the lead guitarist for the Bangles since their foundation in 1981, and after their first breakup in 1989 she has returned to the band for all subsequent reunions. In intervening years she performed with other artists, most extensively with the Continental Drifters. 

 

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A baterista Debbi Peterson das The Bangles faz hoje 62 anos

Deborah Mary Peterson (Los Angeles, 22 de agosto de 1961), mais conhecida pelo nome artístico de Debbi Peterson, é uma música norte-americana. Ela é mais conhecida por ser co-fundadora das The Bangles. Ela cantou dois dos singles lançados pela banda, "Going Down to Liverpool" (1984) e "Be with You" (1989) e é a irmã mais nova da colega de Bangles, Vicki Peterson.

Ela já tinha criado a sua primeira banda no ensino secundário e iniciou uma carreira a solo após a separação das The Bangles em 1990. Em 1992, ela formou o duo Kindde Spirit, que durou pouco, com Siobhan Maher, anteriormente dos River City People.

Eterson é casada com o engenheiro de som inglês Steven Botting desde 1989. Eles têm dois filhos. 

 

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Hazy Shade Of Winter - The Bangles
Original de Simon & Garfunkel

Time, time, time, see what's become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside, it's bound to be a better ride
Than what you've got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That's an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around, the grass is high
The fields are ripe, it's the springtime of my life

Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me

But look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground...

Hoje é dia de ouvir Continental Drifters...!

Vicki Peterson, a guitarrista das Bangles, faz hoje 65 anos...!

Victoria Anne Theresa Peterson Cowsill (Northridge, Los Angeles, January 11, 1958) is an American rock musician and songwriter. She has been the lead guitarist for the Bangles since their foundation in 1981, and after their first breakup in 1989 she has returned to the band for all subsequent reunions. In intervening years she performed with other artists, most extensively with the Continental Drifters. 

 

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Vicki Peterson, a guitarrista das Bangles, faz hoje 64 anos

Victoria Anne Theresa Peterson Cowsill (Northridge, Los Angeles, January 11, 1958) is an American rock musician and songwriter. She has been the lead guitarist for the Bangles since their foundation in 1981, and after their first breakup in 1989 she has returned to the band for all subsequent reunions. In intervening years she performed with other artists, most extensively with the Continental Drifters. 

 

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A guitarrista Vicki Peterson faz hoje 63 anos

Victoria Anne Theresa Peterson Cowsill (Northridge, Los Angeles, January 11, 1958) is an American rock musician and songwriter. She has been the lead guitarist for the Bangles since their foundation in 1981, and after their first breakup in 1989 she has returned to the band for all subsequent reunions. In intervening years she performed with other artists, most extensively with the Continental Drifters. 

 

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The Bangles - Manic Monday

Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream
But I can't be late 'cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days when you wish your bed was already made.

It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe)
I wish it was Sunday (oh-woe)
'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe)
My I don't have to runday (oh)
It's just another manic Monday.

Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane, I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train but the boss is already there.

It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe)
I wish it was Sunday (oh-woe)
'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe)
My I don't have to runday (oh)
It's just another manic Monday.

All of my nights why did my lover have to pick last night to get down (last night, last night)
Doesn't it matter that I have to feed the both of us, employment's down
He tells me in his bedroom voice:
"C'mon feal the noise" (ba ba ba baaaa)
Time, it goes so fast (when you're having fun).

It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my Funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday.

He is not (only) Mr. Spock

Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series 1966–1969, multiple films, television and video game sequels.

Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni. In 1953, he served in the United States Army. In 1965, he made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot, "The Cage", and would go on to play the character of Mr. Spock until 1969, followed by seven further films and a number of guest slots in various sequels. His character of Spock generated a significant cultural impact and three Emmy Award nominations; TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. Nimoy also had a recurring role in Mission: Impossible and a narrating role in Civilization IV, as well as several well-received stage appearances.

Nimoy's fame as Spock is such that both his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1977) and I Am Spock (1995) detail his existence as being shared between the character and himself.

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Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Ukraine. His father, Max Nimoy, owned a barbershop in the Mattapan section of the city. His mother, Dora Nimoy (née Spinner), was a homemaker. Nimoy began acting at the age of eight in children's and neighborhood theater. His parents wanted him to attend college and pursue a stable career, or even learn to play the accordion—which, his father advised, Nimoy could always make a living with—but his grandfather encouraged him to become an actor. His first major role was at 17, as Ralphie in an amateur production of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!. Nimoy took Drama classes at Boston College in 1953 but failed to complete his studies, and in the 1970s studied photography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has an MA in Education and an honorary doctorate from Antioch University in Ohio.

Nimoy served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1953 through 1955, alongside fellow actor Ken Berry and architect Frank Gehry.

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Nimoy's greatest prominence came from his role in the original Star Trek series, as the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock. Nimoy formed a long-standing friendship with Shatner, who portrayed his commanding officer, saying of their relationship, "We were like brothers." The series ran from 1966 to 1969, and Nimoy earned three Emmy acting nominations for his work.

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During and following Star Trek, Nimoy also released five albums of vocal recordings on Dot Records, including Trek-related songs such as "Highly Illogical", and cover versions of popular tunes, such as "Proud Mary". In regards to how his recording career got started, he stated:

Charles Grean of Dot Records had arranged with the studio to do an album of space music based on music from Star Trek, and he has a teenage daughter who's a fan of the show and a fan of Mr. Spock. She said, 'Well, if you're going to do an album of music from Star Trek, then Mr. Spock should be on the album.' So Dot contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in either speaking or singing on the record. I said I was very interested in doing both. ...That was the first album we did, which was called Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space. It was very well-received and successful enough that Dot then approached me and asked me to sign a long-term contract.

—Leonard Nimoy, Madenwine webite

The albums were popular and resulted in numerous live appearances and promotional record signings that attracted crowds of fans in the thousands. The early recordings were produced by Charles Grean, who may be best known for his version of "Quentin's Theme" from the mid-sixties goth soap opera Dark Shadows. These recordings are generally regarded as unintentionally camp, though his tongue-in-cheek performance of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" received a fair amount of airplay when Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were released.

In addition to his own music career he directed a 1985 music video for The Bangles' "Going Down to Liverpool". He makes a brief cameo appearance in the video as their driver. This came about because his son Adam Nimoy (now a frequent television director) was a friend of Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs from college. He released a version of Johnny Cash's song "I Walk the Line".

Nimoy's voice appeared in sampled form on a song by the pop band Information Society in the late Eighties. The song, "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (released in 1988), reached #3 on the US Pop charts, and #1 on Dance charts. The group's self-titled LP contains several other samples from the original Star Trek television series.

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Nimoy has long been active in the Jewish community, and he can speak and read Yiddish. In 1997, he narrated the documentary A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, about the various sects of Hasidic Orthodox Jews. In October 2002, Nimoy published The Shekhina Project, a photographic study exploring the feminine aspect of God's presence, inspired by Kabbalah.

Nimoy has been married twice. In 1954, he married actress Sandra Zober, whom he divorced in 1987. He had two children with her, director Adam Nimoy and Julie Nimoy, who both appeared in an Oldsmobile commercial, with the tagline "This is not your father's Oldsmobile". In 1988, he married actress Susan Bay, who is a cousin of director Michael Bay.

In a 2001 DVD, Nimoy revealed that he became an alcoholic while working on Star Trek and ended up in rehab. Also in William Shatner's 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, Shatner speaks about how later in their lives Nimoy tried to help Shatner's alcoholic wife.

Nimoy still has the last pair of Spock's ears he wore on the series, as a memento. He has said that the character of Spock, which he played twelve to fourteen hours a day, five days a week, influenced his personality in private life. Each weekend during the original run of the series, he would be in character throughout Saturday and into Sunday, behaving more like Spock than himself more logical, more rational, more thoughtful, less emotional and finding a calm in every situation. It was only on Sunday in the early afternoon that Spock's influence on his behavior would fade off and he would feel more himself again – only to start the cycle over Monday morning.

Nimoy also introduced the Vulcan nerve pinch in an early Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within". Initially, Spock was supposed to knock out an evil Kirk in the Engineering room by striking him on the back of the head. Nimoy felt that the action was not in keeping with the nature of Spock's character, so he suggested the "pinch" as a non-violent alternative, suggesting that Vulcans have the ability to emit energy from their fingertips, which, if applied to the correct nerve cluster, could render a human unconscious. Nimoy explained this to the episode's director and according to Nimoy, the director had no idea what he was talking about. However, Nimoy would express relief in later interviews and appearances that when he explained the concept to William Shatner, he got it immediately, and Nimoy credits Shatner's reaction to the nerve pinch in the episode as what really sold the neck pinch. In early scripts for Star Trek, the nerve pinch was referred to as the "F.S.N.P.," which stood for "Famous Spock Neck Pinch."

He has remained good friends with co-star William Shatner (also of Ukrainian-Jewish descent) and was best man at Shatner's third marriage in 1997. Shatner is only four days older than Nimoy. He also remained good friends with DeForest Kelley until the latter's death in 1999.

The Space Foundation named Nimoy as the recipient of the 2010 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award for creating a positive role model that inspired untold numbers of viewers to learn more about the universe. An honor Nimoy did not receive, however, was the naming of asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock after his character, at least not directly. The asteroid was named by discoverer James B. Gibson after his pet cat, "Mr. Spock," said feline indeed being named after the Star Trek character.

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