O Curso de Geologia de 85/90 da Universidade de Coimbra escolheu o nome de Geopedrados quando participou na Queima das Fitas.
Ficou a designação, ficaram muitas pessoas com e sobre a capa intemporal deste nome, agora com oportunidade de partilhar as suas ideias, informações e materiais sobre Geologia, Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Vulcanologia/Sismologia, Ambiente, Energia, Biologia, Astronomia, Ensino, Fotografia, Humor, Música, Cultura, Coimbra e AAC, para fins de ensino e educação.
Passado o período de amamentação, ela lançou o seu próprio selo, One Son Records, e começou a compor as suas próprias músicas pela primeira vez. Em 2006, Leigh Nash lançou o seu primeiro álbum: Blue on Blue. Nas vésperas de Natal do mesmo ano lançou um EP Wishing For This com músicas com temas natalícios.
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter
and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well
as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter.
Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the
Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the
Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia,
on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and
cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late
1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the
commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5]
A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With
her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil
during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce.
Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born
clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly
for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee,
because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group
onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and
studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a
'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry
management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the
Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining
in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their
act during the 1960s and '70s.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with
first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became
somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as
"Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No
Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the
1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter,
who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded
the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi
horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the
most recognizable songs in the world of country music.
In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian
Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of
Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he
wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he
was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I
like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter.
All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she
changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to
work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life,
recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a
regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the
billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only
recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt",
filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public
appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death,
when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower,
won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements
showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took
place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia,
on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow
Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark
staple "Wildwood Flower".
Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her
husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014,
when Out Among the Stars
was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously
unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June
Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Her autobiography was published in 1979, and she wrote a memoir, From the Heart, almost 10 years later.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband.
All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country
music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith
from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote
"Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith,
professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician.
June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player
and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams,
on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock
singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental
carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell
were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several
propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny
Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a
live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter,
became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their
friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy
Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages.
In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their
home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing
the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
Carter died in
Nashville, Tennessee, on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73, from
complications following heart-valve replacement surgery, surrounded by
her family, including her husband of 35 years, Johnny Cash. At Carter's funeral, her stepdaughter Rosanne Cash
stated, "If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a
CEO. It was her most treasured role." Johnny Cash died four months after
Carter's death, and Carter's daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, a month after that. All three are buried at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens near their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Profissionalizando-se
como compositor, mudou para Nahsville, onde enfrentou dificuldades
financeiras em função do problema de saúde do seu filho e acabou por
se divorciar da sua esposa. Na Columbia Studios encontrou Johnny Cash, que não quis gravar as suas canções. Também trabalhava nessa época na gravadora Bob Dylan,
mas os dois não se encontraram. Para ganhar um dinheiro extra, fez
um comercial no qual pilotava um helicóptero. Em 1966, Kristofferson
obteve sucesso com a canção "Viet Nam Blues". Assinou com a Epic Records
e gravou a canção "Golden Idol"/"Killing Time", que não teve êxito.
Depois de compor várias canções, ele obteve sucesso como cantor
realizando um dueto com Johnny Cash no Newport Folk Festival.
Depois de mudar para a Monument Records, Kris ganhou o prémio de canção do ano de 1970 da Academy of Country Music por "For the Good Times" (Ray Price) e o prémio da Country Music Association
com "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Johnny Cash). Foi a única vez que
um artista ganhou os dois prémios no mesmo ano, com canções
diferentes.
Em 1970, Kris namorou com Janis Joplin, que gravou o hit "Me and Bobby McGee", composta por Kristofferson e Foster. Ainda neste ano Kris gravou o álbum The Silver Tongued Devil and I, que foi um sucesso e estabilizou a sua carreira musical. Em 1972, Kris estreou-se no cinema no filme The Last Movie (dirigido por Dennis Hopper). Kris continuou ganhando prémios como diversos Grammies e obteria sucesso com a canção "Why Me", de seu terceiro álbum Jesus Was a Capricorn. Casou com Rita Coolidge em 1973 e com ela gravou Full Moon,
outro sucesso. Os dois divorciariam-se em 1980. Depois ele se casaria
com Lisa Meyers. Na década de 1980, ele formaria um grupo com os
astros musicais Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings e Johnny Cash, chamado The Highwaymen. Kris entrou para o Hall of Fame dos compositores musicais, em 1985, e no Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, em 1977.
Carreira como ator
Depois de 1972, Kris se dedicou mais à sua carreira de ator. Apareceu em Blume in Love (dirigido por Paul Mazursky) e estrelou Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (de Sam Peckinpah). Ficando amigo de Peckinpah, que passava por dificuldades, ele aceitou aparecer em seus filme Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, e estrelar Convoy. Também teve destaque no filme de Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Outros filmes foram Vigilante Force, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace (baseado em obra de Yukio Mishima) e uma nova versão de A Star Is Born (com Barbra Streisand). Na década de 1980 atuou na série Amerika. Depois de um intervalo na carreira após o fracasso de Heaven's Gate, voltou a chamar a atenção com Lone Star (1996). Kris participou em três filmes de vampiros da série Blade e também no remake de Planet of the Apes, entre outros.
Morte
Kristofferson morreu a 28 de setembro de 2024, aos 88 anos, em Maui.
O seu nome de batismo, Ray Charles Robinson, foi encurtado para Ray
Charles quando entrou na indústria do entretenimento, para evitar
confusão com o famoso boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
Considerado um dos maiores génios da música negra americana, Ray
Charles também foi um dos responsáveis pela introdução de ritmo gospel nas músicas de R&B.
Foi eleito pela Rolling Stone o 2º maior cantor de todos os tempos e 10º maior artista da música de todos os tempos.
Biografia
Era filho de Aretha Williams, que trabalhava numa serração, e Bailey
Robinson, um reparador de ferrovias, mecânico e biscateiro. Os dois
nunca casaram. A família mudou-se para Greenville, Flórida, quando Ray era um bebé. Bailey teve mais três famílias e Aretha cuidava da família sozinha.
Ray Charles não nasceu cego mas ficou assim (totalmente cego) aos sete
anos de idade. Charles nunca soube exatamente por que perdeu a visão,
apesar de existirem fontes que sugerem que sua cegueira era devido a glaucoma,
enquanto outras fontes sugerem que Ray começou a perder a sua visão
devido a uma infecção provocada por água com sabão nos seus olhos, que
foi deixado sem tratamento. Frequentou a Escola para Cegos e Surdos
de Santo Agostinho, em St. Augustine, Flórida. Aprendeu também a
escrever música e tocar vários instrumentos musicais, mas o melhor e
mais conhecido era o piano. Enquanto estava lá, a mãe morreu, seguido
pelo seu pai, dois anos depois.
Órfão na adolescência, Ray Charles iniciou a sua carreira tocando piano e cantando em grupos de gospel, no final dos anos 40. A princípio influenciado por Nat King Cole, trocou o gospel por baladas profanas e, após assinar com a Atlantic Records em 1952, enveredou pelo R&B. Quando o rock & roll estourou com Elvis Presley em 1955, e cantores negros como Chuck Berry e Little Richard foram promovidos, Ray Charles aproveitou o espaço aberto nos media e
lançou sucessos como "I Got a Woman" (gravada depois por Elvis),
"Talkin about You", "What I'd Say", "Litle girl of Mine", "Hit the Road
Jack", entre outros, reunindo elementos de R&B e gospel nas suas
músicas de uma forma que abriram caminho para a soul music dos anos 60, e tornando-o um astro reverenciado do pop negro.
A partir de então, embora sempre ligado ao soul, não se ateve a nenhum género musical negro específico: conviveu com o jazz, gravou baladas românticas chorosas e standards da canção americana. Entre seus sucessos históricos desta fase estão canções como "Unchain My Heart", "Ruby", "Cry Me a River", "Georgia On My Mind" e baladas country tais como "Sweet Memories", e seu maior sucesso comercial, "I Can't Stop Loving You", de 1962.
Apesar de ter problemas com drogas que lhe prejudicaram a carreira,
as interpretações de Ray Charles sempre foram apreciadas, não
importando as músicas que cantasse. Uma "aura" de genialidade
reconhecida acompanhou-o até o fim da vida e mais do que nos últimos
álbuns que gravou, era nas suas apresentações ao vivo que o seu
talento único podia ser apreciado.
Um notório mulherengo, Ray Charles casou-se duas vezes e foi pai
de doze filhos de sete diferentes mulheres. A sua primeira esposa foi
Eileen Williams (casado em 1951, divorciado
em 1952) deu-lhe um filho. Outros três filhos foram do seu segundo
casamento, em 1955, com Della Beatrice Howard (divorciaram-se em 1977).
A sua namorada a longo prazo e parceira no momento da sua morte era
Norma Pinella. Charles deu, a cada um dos seus 12 filhos, um milhão de
dólares, sem impostos, em 2004, pouco antes de morrer.
Faleceu aos 73 anos, às 11.35 horas, no dia 10 de junho de 2004, na sua
casa de Beverly Hills, onde estava com os seus familiares, vítima de
uma doença no fígado. Foi enterrado no Cemitério Inglewood Park,
localizado em Los Angeles na Califórnia.
Wynonna Ellen Judd (born Christina Claire Ciminella; Ashland, May 30, 1964) is a multi award-winning American country music
singer. She is one of America's most widely recognized and awarded
female country singers of the 1990s. Her solo albums and singles are all
credited to the single name Wynonna. She first rose to fame in the
1980s alongside her mother Naomi in the country music duo the Judds. They released seven albums on Curb Records in addition to 26 singles, of which 14 were number-one hits.
The Judds disbanded in 1991 and Wynonna began a solo career, also
on Curb. In her solo career, she has released eight studio albums, a
live album, a holiday album, and two compilation albums, in addition to
more than 20 singles. Her first three singles were "She Is His Only Need", "I Saw the Light," and "No One Else on Earth".
All three reached number one on the U.S. country singles charts
consecutively, and "To Be Loved by You" also hit number one in 1996, her
fourth number one and top ten hit. Three of her albums are certified
platinum or higher by the RIAA. Her most recent recording was Wynonna & the Big Noise,
released on February 12, 2016, and she released the single "Cool Ya'"
that same month. Wynonna is most recognized for her musical work,
although she has also pursued other interests starting in the 2000s,
including writing, acting, and philanthropy.
Em 1999, foi-lhe diagnosticada hepatite C e vinha a enfrentar problemas de saúde desde então, tendo passado por um transplante de fígado, em 2010. Morreu a 27 de maio de 2017, aos 69 anos, em sua casa em Savannah, Geórgia, devido a complicações causadas por um cancro no fígado.
Bob Dylan, nome artístico de Robert Allen Zimmerman (Duluth, 24 de maio de 1941)
é um cantor-compositor, escritor, ator, pintor e artista visual
norte-americano e uma importante figura na cultura popular há mais de
cinquenta anos. Grande parte do seu trabalho mais célebre data da década
de 60, quando canções como "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) e "The Times They Are a Changin'" (1964) se tornaram hinos dos movimentos pelos direitos civis e de oposição à Guerra do Vietname.
As suas letras durante esse período incorporaram uma ampla gama de
influências políticas, sociais, filosóficas e literárias, desafiaram as
convenções da música pop e apelaram à crescente contracultura.
Por conta disso, a música folk, na cultura norte-americana, atingiu o
auge de popularidade nas década de 50 e 60 e Bob Dylan incorporou as
tensões dessa época da melhor forma, com foco nos detalhes e humor.
Em 2004 foi eleito pela revista Rolling Stone
o 7º maior cantor de todos os tempos e, pela mesma revista, o 2º
melhor artista da música de todos os tempos, ficando atrás somente dos Beatles, e uma de suas principais canções, "Like a Rolling Stone", foi escolhida como a melhor de todos os tempos.
Influenciou diretamente grandes nomes do rock americano e britânico
dos anos de 60 e 70. Em 2012, Dylan foi condecorado com a Medalha Presidencial da Liberdade pelo presidente dos Estados UnidosBarack Obama.
Foi laureado com o Nobel da Literatura de 2016, por "ter criado novos modos de expressão poética no quadro da tradição da música americana". E, assim, tornou-se o primeiro e único artista na História a ganhar, além do Prémio Nobel, o Pulitzer, o Óscar, o Grammy e o Globo de Ouro.
George Harvey Strait (Poteet, Texas, 18 de maio de 1952) é um compositor, ator e produtor musical americano, conhecido como o "King of Country" ("Rei do Country") e é considerado um dos artistas mais influentes dos Estados Unidos. Ele é conhecido por seu estilo neotradicionalista de country, aparência de cowboy e é dito ter trazido o country de volta para as suas raízes e longe do estilo pop da década de 80.
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