Joaquín Sabina comemora hoje 77 anos

 

Joaquín Sabina (Úbeda, 12 de fevereiro de 1949) é um cantor e compositor espanhol, tendo seu trabalho reconhecido e apreciado em todo o mundo de língua espanhola, especialmente na Argentina.

   

 

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Roberta Flack comemorava hoje oitenta e nove anos...

       

Roberta Cleopatra Flack (Black Mountain, 10 de fevereiro de 1937 – Manhattan, 24 de fevereiro de 2025) foi uma cantora, compositora e pianista norte-americana que alcançou o topo das paradas da Billboard com os singles número 1 "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" e "Feel Like Makin' Love".

Roberta Flack teve grande influência no subgénero do R&B contemporâneo conhecido como quiet storm e interpretou músicas de compositores como Leonard Cohen e de membros dos The Beatles.

Ela também foi a primeira artista a vencer o Grammy de Gravação do Ano em dois anos consecutivos: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" ganhou em 1973 e "Killing Me Softly with His Song" venceu em 1974.

     

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Música adequada à data...

 

 

Green, Green Rocky Road - Dave Van Ronk

 

When I go by Baltimore
Needin' no carpet on my floor
Come along and follow me
We'll go down to Galilee

Green green rocky road
Promenade in green
Tell me who ya'll love
Tell me who ya'll love

Little miss jane run to wall
Don't you stumble, don't you fall
Don't you sing, no don't you shout
When I sing come runnin' out

Green green rocky road
Promenade in green
Tell me who ya'll love
Tell me who ya'll love

See that crow up in the sky
He don't walk no he just fly
He don't walk no he don't run
Keep on flapping til' the sun

Green green rocky road
Promenade in green
Tell me who ya'll love
Tell me who ya'll love

When I go by Baltimore
Needin' no carpet on my floor
Come along and follow me
There's a man in Galilee

Dave Van Ronk morreu há vinte e quatro anos...

Dave Van Ronk performs at the 1968 Philadelphia Folk Festival

  

Dave Van Ronk (Brooklyn, New York City, New York, June 30, 1936 – New York City, New York, February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" .

He was an important figure in the acoustic folk revival of the 1960s. His work ranged from old English ballads to Bertolt Brecht, 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.

Dave Van Ronk was regarded as the friendly uncle of Greenwich Village, presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up and coming artists, inspiring, aiding and promoting them. Folk performers whom he befriended included Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell.

Van Ronk received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), in December 1997.

Van Ronk died of cardio-pulmonary failure while undergoing post-operative treatment for colon cancer in a New York hospital.

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Hang Me Oh Hang Me - Dave Van Rock

Hang me oh hang me
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

Hang me oh hang me
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

O álbum Feels Like Home foi lançado há vinte e dois anos

   

Feels Like Home, o segundo álbum de estúdio de Norah Jones, foi lançado, nos Estados Unidos, a 10 de fevereiro de 2004.

Vendeu um milhão e novecentas mil cópias, apenas na primeira semana de vendas, no mundo, e foi o segundo álbum mais vendido do ano, com quase 8 milhões de cópias vendidas. Nos Países Baixos foi o álbum mais vendido do ano. "Sunrise", o primeiro single do álbum, ganhou o Grammy Award na categoria Melhor Performance Feminina. O álbum vendeu, até ao momento, mais de 12 milhões de cópias.
A faixa Those Sweet Words foi tema da novela Senhora do Destino, exibida pela Rede Globo entre 2004 e o ano seguinte.
  

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Hoje é dia de ouvir Natalie Imbruglia...

Natalie Imbruglia faz hoje 51 anos

     

Natalie Jane Imbruglia (Central Coast, 4 de fevereiro de 1975) é uma cantora, compositora, modelo e atriz australiana.

Natalie tornou-se conhecida internacionalmente com o seu primeiro álbum, "Left of the Middle", lançado em 1997. O seu primeiro single "Torn" atingiu o #2 da parada britânica e o topo em diversos países. Posteriormente, a cantora lançou os álbuns "White Lilies Island" (2001) e "Counting Down the Days" (2005), que chegou ao #1 no Reino Unido. Em 2009, o álbum "Come to Life" foi lançado de forma independente. O seu mais recente trabalho, intitulado "Male", saiu em julho de 2015. O trabalho seguinte, intitulado Male, saiu em julho de 2015. Firebird, o seu álbum mais recente, foi lançado mundialmente em setembro de 2021.

  

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Graham Nash celebra faz oitenta e quatro anos

    

Graham William Nash (Blackpool, 2 de fevereiro de 1942) é um cantor e compositor do Reino Unido conhecido por suas contribuições em bandas como The Hollies e Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Graham também é fotógrafo.

 

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Eva Cassidy nasceu há 63 anos...

Eva Marie Cassidy (Washington, D.C., February 2, 1963 – Bowie, Maryland, November 2, 1996) was an American singer and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music, born with a powerful, emotive soprano voice. In 1992, she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by the 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley. Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. She died of melanoma in 1996 at the age of 33.

Two years after her death, Cassidy's music was brought to the attention of British audiences, when her versions of "Fields of Gold" and "Over the Rainbow" were played by Mike Harding and Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2. Following the overwhelming response, a camcorder recording of "Over the Rainbow", taken at Blues Alley in Washington by her friend Bryan McCulley, was shown on BBC Two's Top of the Pops 2. Shortly afterwards, the compilation album Songbird climbed to the top of the UK Albums Chart, almost three years after its initial release. The chart success in the United Kingdom and Ireland led to increased recognition worldwide. Her posthumously released recordings, including three number-one albums and one number-one single in the UK, have sold more than ten million copies. Her music has also charted within the top 10 in Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

 

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Hoje é dia de ouvir Graham Nash...!

 

Hoje é um bom dia para ouvir milongas...

Atahualpa Yupanqui nasceu há 118 anos...

 

Atahualpa Yupanqui, pseudónimo de Héctor Roberto Chavero (Pergamino, Buenos Aires, 31 de janeiro de 1908 - Paris, 23 de maio de 1992), foi um compositor, cantor, guitarrista e escritor argentino. É considerado um dos mais importantes divulgadores de música folclórica daquele país. As suas composições foram cantadas por reconhecidos intérpretes, como Mercedes Sosa, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Víctor Jara, Dércio Marques, Ángel Parra, Marie Laforêt e Elis Regina entre outros, continuando a fazer parte do reportório de vários artistas na Argentina e em diferentes partes do mundo.

Filho de pai quéchua e mãe basca, mudou-se, ainda criança, com a família para Agustín Roca, em cujo caminho de ferro o seu pai trabalhava.

Na adolescência, começa a ter aulas de viola com o concertista Bautista Almirón, viajando diariamente 15 quilómetros que o separavam da casa do mestre. É dessa época o pseudónimo Atahualpa Yupanqui, homenagem a Atahualpa e Tupac Yupanqui, os últimos imperadores incas.

    

 

          

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Marianne Faithfull morreu há um ano...

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (Hampstead, London, 29 December 1946 – London, 30 January 2025) was an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. Her debut studio album Marianne Faithfull (1965, released simultaneously with her studio album Come My Way), was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records. From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was enhanced by her film roles, such as those in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During this time, she was anorexic, homeless and addicted to heroin.

Faithfull was noted for her distinctive voice; her melodic and high-registered vocals prevailed during her 1960s career, but these were altered by severe laryngitis coupled with persistent drug abuse during the 1970s, which left her voice permanently raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as "whisky soaked" by some critics and seen as having helped to capture the raw emotions expressed in Faithfull's music.

After a long commercial absence, Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed seventh studio album Broken English. The album was a commercial success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is often regarded as her "definitive recording". She followed this with a series of studio albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances (1981), A Child's Adventure (1983) and Strange Weather (1987). Faithfull wrote three books about her life: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007) and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014).

Faithfull received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards, and she was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. 

   

   

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Roddy Frame, dos Aztec Camera, faz hoje 62 anos

 

Roddy Frame (East Kilbride, 29 January 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was the founder of the 1980s new wave band Aztec Camera and has undertaken a solo career since the group's dissolution. In November 2013, journalist Brian Donaldson described Frame as: "Aztec Camera wunderkind-turned-elder statesman of intelligent, melodic, wistful Scotpop."

Since the end of the Aztec Camera project, Frame has released four solo albums, the last of which is 2014's Seven Dials. 

 

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A cantora Sandy celebra hoje 43 anos

 
Sandy Leah Lima (Campinas, 28 de janeiro de 1983) é uma cantora, compositora e atriz brasileira. Cantora desde a infância, Sandy começou a sua carreira em 1990, quando formou com o irmão, o músico Junior Lima, a dupla vocal Sandy & Junior. 

   

 

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Kate Wolf nasceu há 83 anos...

    

Kate Wolf (born Kathryn Louise Allen; San Francisco, California, January 27, 1942 – San Francisco, California, December 10, 1986) was an American folk singer and songwriter.  Though her career was relatively short, she had a significant impact on the folk music scene. Her best-known compositions include "Here in California", "Love Still Remains", "Across the Great Divide", "Unfinished Life", “Green Eyes” and "Give Yourself to Love". She recorded six albums as a solo artist. She was elected to the NAIRD Independent Music Hall of Fame in 1987. Her songs have since been recorded by Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris (whose recording of "Love Still Remains" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999).

 

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Brian Downey, o baterista dos Thin Lizzy, nasceu há 75 anos...!

Brian Michael Downey (Dublin, Ireland, 27 January 1951) is an Irish drummer. He was a founding member of the rock band Thin Lizzy and the only other constant in the band aside from leader Phil Lynott until their break-up in 1983. Downey also co-wrote several Thin Lizzy songs. Allmusic critic Eduardo Rivadavia has argued that Downey is "certainly one of the most underrated [rock drummers] of his generation".

 

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Júpiter Maçã nasceu há 58 anos...

   

Flávio Basso, também conhecido como Júpiter Maçã ou Jupiter Apple (Porto Alegre, 26 de janeiro de 1968 - Porto Alegre, 21 de dezembro de 2015), foi um cantor, compositor e cineasta. Referência fundamental do rock gaúcho, foi fundador das bandas TNT e Os Cascavelletes, que influenciaram toda uma nova geração de bandas gaúchas dos anos 90 em diante. Em carreira solo, foi reconhecido com um dos ícones da psicadelia brasileira, ao trazer um novo grau de experimentalismo ao rock nacional, com o disco "A Sétima Efervescência", eleito pela revista Rolling Stone Brasil um dos "100 maiores discos da música brasileira".

     

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A 21 de dezembro de 2015, Júpiter foi encontrado caído na casa de banho da sua residência. O serviço de emergência foi solicitado, mas o músico veio a falecer em casa. Com uma saúde frágil, ele morreu após sofrer um enfarte agudo do miocárdio durante o banho.

Para Frank Jorge, parceiro da época d'Os Cascavelletes e também uma referência no rock gaúcho, Flávio Basso deixa um grande legado como compositor e como criador: "um criador incansável, um cara que fugia totalmente dos lugares-comuns, da previsibilidade".
   

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We Shall Overcome...

Saudades de Pete Seeger...