Brandi Carlile (Ravensdale, 1 de junho de 1981) é uma cantora e compositora norte-americana. A música de Carlile tem sido catalogada de vários géneros musicais, incluindo pop, rock, música country, indie e folk.
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segunda-feira, junho 01, 2026
sábado, maio 30, 2026
Wynonna Judd faz hoje sessenta e dois anos
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.
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sexta-feira, maio 29, 2026
Doc Watson morreu há catorze anos...
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (Deep Gap, North Carolina, March 3, 1923 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina, May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music were highly regarded. He performed with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm.
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quarta-feira, maio 27, 2026
Gregg Allman morreu há nove anos...
Gregory Lenoir Allman (Nashville, 8 de dezembro de 1947 - Savannah, 27 de maio de 2017) foi um cantor, guitarrista, teclista e compositor norte-americano, membro fundador da banda The Allman Brothers Band. Ele foi colocado, juntamente com a sua banda, no Hall da Fama e Museu do Rock and Roll em 1995. Está em 70º lugar na lista dos 100 maiores vocalistas de todos os tempos" pela revista Rolling Stone.
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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.
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domingo, maio 24, 2026
Bob Dylan nasceu há oitenta e cinco anos...!
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.
Nascido no estado de Minnesota, neto de imigrantes judeus russos, aos dez anos de idade Dylan escreveu os seus primeiros poemas e, ainda adolescente, aprendeu piano e guitarra sozinho. Começou cantando em grupos de rock, imitando Little Richard e Buddy Holly, mas quando foi para a Universidade de Minnesota em 1959, voltou-se para a folk music, impressionado com a obra musical do lendário cantor folk Woody Guthrie, a quem foi visitar em Nova Iorque em 1961.
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 Unidos Barack 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.
Bob Dylan com Joan Baez na Marcha pelo Trabalho e Liberdade, em Washington, D.C., em 1963
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segunda-feira, maio 18, 2026
George Strait comemora hoje 74 anos
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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Perry Como nasceu há 114 anos...
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (Canonsburg, 18 de maio de 1912 – Jupiter Inlet Colony, 12 de maio de 2001) foi um cantor e apresentador de televisão norte-americano.
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sexta-feira, maio 15, 2026
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e três anos...
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.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
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.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
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.
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terça-feira, maio 12, 2026
Perry Como morreu há 25 anos...
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (Canonsburg, 18 de maio de 1912 – Jupiter Inlet Colony, 12 de maio de 2001) foi um cantor e apresentador de televisão norte-americano.
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sexta-feira, maio 08, 2026
Ricky Nelson nasceu há 85 anos...
Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator dos Estados Unidos. Ele colocou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezanove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.
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Ricky Nelson nasceu há 86 anos
Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator dos Estados Unidos. Ele colocou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezanove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.
Nelson começou a sua carreira em 1949, tocando sozinho numa radionovela, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (As aventuras de Ozzie e Harriet), e, em 1952, apareceu no seu primeiro filme, Here Come the Nelsons (Aqui estão os Nelsons). Em 1957 gravou o seu primeiro single, começando como cantor na versão televisiva do siticom e gravou o seu primeiro álbum, Ricky.
Em 1958, Nelson gravou a sua primeira música a ficar no top, "Poor
Little Fool", e, em 1959, recebeu um Globo de Ouro como Revelação
Masculina; depois que fez um filme de cow-boys, Rio Bravo.
Alguns filmes vieram a seguir e, quando a série foi cancelada, em
1966, Nelson fez algumas aparições eventuais como astro convidado em
vários programas de televisão. Nelson e Sharon Kristin Harmon casaram a
20 de abril de 1963 e divorciaram-se em dezembro de 1982. Eles
tiveram 4 filhos: Tracy Kristine, os gémeos Gunnar Eric e Matthew
Gray, e Sam Hilliard. Em 14 de fevereiro de 1981, Nelson teve um filho
com Georgeann Crewe (um teste em 1985 confirmou a paternidade).
Nelson estava a namorar com Helen Blair quando morreu, num acidente de
avião, a 31 de dezembro de 1985.
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segunda-feira, maio 04, 2026
Randy Travis - 67 anos
Randy Bruce Traywick (Marshville, 4 de maio de 1959) mais conhecido por Randy Travis, é um cantor e ator norte-americano que já recebeu vários prémios Grammy.Tem registados mais de uma dúzia de álbuns de estúdio até o momento, além de ter colocado mais de trinta singles na Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts, dezasseis dos quais atingiram a posição número 1.
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