sábado, junho 22, 2024
Kris Kristofferson, brilhante músico e ator, celebra hoje 88 anos
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Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee, música
segunda-feira, junho 10, 2024
Saudades de Ray Charles...
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Marcadores: blues, country, Geórgia, Georgia on my mind, jazz, música, pop, Ray Charles, Rhythm and Blues, soul, USA
Ray Charles morreu há vinte anos...
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.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, country, Hit the road Jack, jazz, música, pop, Ray Charles, Rhythm and Blues, soul, USA
sábado, junho 01, 2024
Brandi Carlile celebra hoje quarenta e três anos
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Marcadores: Brandi Carlile, country, country alternativo, folk, folk rock, homossexuais, indie, música, pop, pop rock, Rock, The Story
quinta-feira, maio 30, 2024
Wynonna Judd faz hoje sessenta 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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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, Mama He's Crazy, música, The Judds, Wynonna Judd
quarta-feira, maio 29, 2024
Doc Watson morreu há doze anos...
segunda-feira, maio 27, 2024
Gregg Allman morreu há sete 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 introduzido juntamente com sua banda no Salão 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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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, country, gospel, Gregg Allman, Midnight Rider, música, Rock, Southern Rock, The Allman Brothers Band
sexta-feira, maio 24, 2024
Bob Dylan nasceu há oitenta e três anos
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sábado, maio 18, 2024
George Strait celebra hoje 72 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, George Strait, I Cross My Heart, música
Perry Como nasceu há 112 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:12 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, Big Band, Catch a Falling Star, cinema, country, jazz, música, música latina, Perry Como, pop, Rock and Roll, swing
quarta-feira, maio 15, 2024
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e um 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.[6] 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.
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.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:21 0 bocas
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
domingo, maio 12, 2024
Killing me softly with her song...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 23:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, Big Band, cinema, country, jazz, Killing me softly with her song, música, música latina, Perry Como, pop, Rock and Roll, swing
Perry Como morreu há vinte e três anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:23 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, And I Love You So, Big Band, cinema, country, jazz, música, música latina, Perry Como, pop, Rock and Roll, swing
quarta-feira, maio 08, 2024
Ricky Nelson nasceu há 84 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, folk, I Will Follow You, música, pop, Ricky Nelson, Rock, rockabilly
sábado, maio 04, 2024
Randy Travis celebra hoje 65 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, Deeper Than the Holler, gospel, Josh Turner, música, Randy Travis
quarta-feira, maio 01, 2024
Gordon Lightfoot morreu há um ano...
segunda-feira, abril 29, 2024
Hoje é dia de ouvir country ...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 09:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: Always On My Mind, country, country alternativo, country rock, música, Outlaw country, Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson comemora hoje noventa e um anos...!
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Marcadores: country, country alternativo, country rock, música, On The Road Again, Outlaw country, Willie Nelson
sexta-feira, abril 19, 2024
Levon Helm morreu há doze anos...
Levon Helm, nome artístico de Mark Lavon Helm (Elaine, Arkansas, 26 de maio de 1940 – Nova Iorque, 19 de abril de 2012) foi um multi-instrumentista e ator dos Estados Unidos da América, mais conhecido como vocalista e baterista do grupo de rock The Band. Helm tornou-se célebre pela sua voz, profundamente sentimental, e o seu estilo criativo na bateria, características bem representadas em gravações dos The Band como "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek" ou "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Após o fim do grupo, em 1978, fez alguns papéis no cinema e deu início a uma carreira a solo, trabalhos que passou a manter paralelamente a quando do regresso dos The Band ao ativo, em 1983.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:12 0 bocas
Marcadores: baterista, blues, country, folk, Levon Helm, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Rock and Roll, The Weight
quinta-feira, abril 18, 2024
Clarence Gatemouth Brown nasceu há um século...!
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:01 0 bocas
Marcadores: Cajun, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, country, Electric blues, folk, guitarra, jazz, Leftover Blues, rabeca, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Texas blues, violino