quarta-feira, agosto 19, 2026
terça-feira, agosto 18, 2026
Christina Perri faz hoje quarenta anos...!
Após seu single de estreia"Jar of Hearts" ganhar destaque nos Estados Unidos depois que ela foi ao programa de televisão So You Think You Can Dance do canal Fox em 2010, Perri assinou com a Atlantic Records e lançou seu primeiro extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions. Seu primeiro álbum de estúdio, Lovestrong, foi lançado logo depois e desde então foi certificado como platina pela Recording Industry Association of America.
Perri também ganhou reconhecimento por escrever e gravar " A Thousand Years", canção tema do filme The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, que aparece na trilha sonora que o acompanha. A música vendeu mais de 10 milhões de cópias nos Estados Unidos, sendo certificada como Diamante, e o videoclipe oficial atingiu dois mil milhões de visualizações no YouTube em dezembro de 2021.
Mais tarde, ela lançou o seu segundo extended play com tema natalício, A Very Merry Perri Christmas (2012), seguido pelo seu segundo álbum de estúdio, Head or Heart (2014). Depois de gravar os álbuns de canções de ninar Songs for Carmella (2019) e Songs for Rosie (2021), Perri lançou o seu terceiro álbum de estúdio, A Lighter Shade of Blue (2022). Em 2023, ela lançou os álbuns Songs for Pixie e Songs for Christmas .
quarta-feira, agosto 12, 2026
Tanita Tikaram nasceu há 57 anos
sábado, agosto 08, 2026
Sixto Sugar Man Rodríguez morreu há três anos...
Na década de 90, os fãs sul-africanos, determinados, conseguiram contactá-lo, o que levou a um inesperado renascimento da sua carreira musical. A sua história é contada no documentário Searching for Sugar Man, vencedor do Academy Award de 2012, que também ajudou a dar a Rodríguez alguma fama no seu país natal.
quinta-feira, agosto 06, 2026
Donna Lewis faz hoje 53 anos
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sexta-feira, julho 31, 2026
Lobo nasceu há oitenta e três anos
segunda-feira, julho 20, 2026
Kim Carnes comemora hoje oitenta e um anos
terça-feira, julho 14, 2026
Woody Guthrie nasceu há cento e catorze anos...
segunda-feira, julho 13, 2026
Miguel Araújo comemora hoje 48 anos
Miguel Araújo, de nome completo Miguel Costa Pinheiro de Araújo Jorge (Maia, 13 de julho de 1978), é um músico português.
Carreira
Miguel Araújo começou a gostar de música em 1989, influência dos seus tios que tinham uma banda de covers dos anos 60/70 (Bob Dylan, Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc.), e nesse ano recebeu de presente o seu primeiro baixo. Fez parte dos Yellow Lello (onde também estava Marlon com quem tocou n' Os Azeitonas). Depois vieram os Tsé Tsé que lançaram um álbum pela BMG mas que terminaram logo a seguir.
Ficou conhecido como integrante da banda Os Azeitonas, sobre o seu pseudónimo Miguel AJ (ou Miguel Araújo Jorge). Os Azeitonas formaram-se em 2002 aquando de uma viagem de faculdade. Decide trocar o baixo pela guitarra para poder cantar ao mesmo tempo. É neste grupo que começa a compor. O álbum de estreia é editado em 2007, pela Maria Records de Rui Veloso.
Em dezembro de 2007, cria o Blogue do Mendes. Com o seu alter ego Mendes estreia-se ao vivo em 18 de Junho de 2009. A partir de fevereiro de 2010, começa a colaborar com João Só e lançam o EP "Não Entres Nesse Comboio Amor" pela Optimus Discos.
Entretanto, António Zambujo grava o tema "Reader's Digest" escrito por Araújo, no seu disco Guia.
Além do disco com João Só participou nos espetáculos "Como Desenhar Mulheres, Motas e Cavalos" de Nuno Markl.
Em maio de 2012, lançou o seu primeiro álbum a solo, Cinco dias e meio. Este álbum conta com sucessos como "Os Maridos das Outras", "Reader's Digest", "Autopsicodiagnose", "Fizz Limão" e "Capitão Fantástico". A música Os Maridos das Outras ganhou bastante notoriedade pela melodia simples e original e pela letra divertida, brincando com preconceitos sobre o casamento e as diferenças dos sexos. O single chegou à quarta posição do top português, enquanto o álbum entrou no Top 3 das vendas em Portugal. Como segundo single do álbum foi divulgado a música Fizz Limão. Na letra, o músico fala de maneira irónica das saudades e nostalgias portuguesas e especialmente da sua geração.
António Zambujo ("O Que é Feito Dela") e Ana Moura ("E Tu Gostavas de Mim") gravam músicas da sua autoria nos discos que lançam em 2012.
Continua entretanto a dar prioridade ao seu trabalho nos Azeitonas, enquanto desenvolve atividades musicais paralelas. Nessa altura estava a trabalhar num disco de canções para crianças com António Zambujo, Pedro Silva Martins (Deolinda) e Luísa Sobral e mantinha um outro projeto paralelo, Os da Cidade, com António Zambujo, João Salcedo (teclista de Os Azeitonas) e Ricardo Cruz.
O sucessor de "Cinco Dias e Meio" saiu no dia 21 de abril de 2014, e tem como nome "Crónicas da Cidade Grande". É composto, segundo Miguel Araújo, por "cantigas simples, que contam pequenas histórias, nada de muito chique". Neste disco colabora com João Martins, que fez os arranjos para algumas músicas. Músicas como "Contamina-me", "Balada Astral" (com a então desconhecida Inês Viterbo), "Cartório", "José", "Romaria das Festas de Santa Eufémia" (com António Zambujo), "Recantiga" e "Valsa Redonda" (com Marcelo Camelo) estão incluídas neste novo trabalho. O álbum entrou diretamente para o número 1 do top de discos do Itunes e para o top 3 oficial.
A 11 de outubro de 2016, Os Azeitonas anunciam nas redes sociais de que Miguel Araújo tinha abandonado a banda portuense para se dedicar à sua carreira a solo.
Giesta, o terceiro álbum de originais de Miguel Araújo, foi editado a 19 de maio de 2017. Dele fazem parte os singles "1987" - em dueto com Catarina Salinas (Best Youth) - "Axl Rose" e "Meio Conto".
Em 2018, editou o livro de crónicas Penas de Pato, pela editora Companhia das Letras. Em 2020, foi editado o seu sucessor, Seja o que for. Luísa Mellid-Franco, do Expresso, atribuiu ao livro 4 estrelas em 5: "Um livro belíssimo, a não perder. (...) um livro de exceção".
Em 2021, foi editado o álbum Peixe Azul, gravado durante o confinamento de 2020. Nele, Miguel Araújo assina a autoria da totalidade das músicas, a produção, o grafismo e a execução da totalidade dos instrumentos. "Um tesouro nacional", de acordo com Luís Guerra, do Expresso, que também destaca a "escrita cada vez mais apurada e transparente". Manuel Falcão (Blitz, Se7e, O Independente, Expresso, etc), a propósito de Peixe Azul, escreveu na sua coluna semanal do Jornal de Negócios que "Miguel Araújo é quem melhores canções escreve e interpreta hoje em dia em Portugal".
terça-feira, junho 30, 2026
He Was A Friend Of Mine...
He was a friend of mine - Dave Van Ronk
He was a friend of mine
He was a friend of mine
Every time I think about him now
Lord I just can't keep from crying
'Cause he was friend a friend of mine
He died on the road
He died on the road
He never had no money
To pay his room or board
He was a friend of mine
I stole away and cried
I stole away and cried
'Cause I never had too much money
And I can't be satisfied
He was a friend of mine
He never done no wrong
He never done no wrong
He was just a poor boy
Long way from home
He was a friend of mine
He was a friend of mine
He was a friend of mine
Every time I hear his name
I just can't keep from crying
'Cause he was a friend of mine
Dave Van Ronk nasceu há noventa anos...
David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (Brooklyn, New York City, June 30, 1936 – New York City,February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".
Van Ronk's work ranged from old English ballads to blues, gospel, rock, New Orleans jazz, and swing. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music, especially his transcription of "St. Louis Tickle" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in "the Village", presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up-and-coming artists by inspiring, assisting, and promoting them. Folk performers he befriended include Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Joni Mitchell. Dylan recorded Van Ronk's arrangement of the traditional song "House of the Rising Sun" on his first album, which the Animals turned into a chart-topping rock single in 1964, helping inaugurate the folk-rock movement.
Hang me, Oh Hang Me - Dave Van Ronk
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the laying in the grave so long
Poor boy
I've been all around this world
I've been all around Cape Girardeau
Parts of Arkansas
All around Cape Girardeau
Parts of Arkansas
Got so goddamn hungry
I could hide behind a straw
I've been all around this world
Went up on a mountain
There I made my stand
Went up on a mountain
There I made my stand
Rifle on my shoulder
And a dagger in my hand
Poor boy
I've been all around this world
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the laying in the grave so long
Poor boy
I've been all around this world
Put the rope around my neck
Hung me up so high
Put the rope around my neck
Hung me up so high
Last words I heard him say:
Won't be long now 'fore you die
Poor boy
I've been all around this world
Hang me oh hang me
And I'll be dead and gone
Hang me oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the laying in the grave so long
Poor boy
I've been all around this world
segunda-feira, junho 29, 2026
Tim Buckley morreu há 51 anos...
Timothy Charles Buckley III (Washington, D.C., February 14, 1947 – Los Angeles, California, June 29, 1975) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He began his career based in folk rock, but subsequently experimented with genres such as psychedelia, jazz, the avant-garde, and funk as well as unconventional vocal stylings. His commercial peak came with the 1969 album Happy Sad, reaching No. 81 on the charts, while his experimental 1970 album Starsailor went on to became a cult favorite. The latter contained his best known song, "Song to the Siren." Buckley died at the age of 28 from a heroin and morphine overdose, leaving behind sons Taylor and Jeff.
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terça-feira, junho 23, 2026
June Carter Cash nasceu há 97 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.
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.
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