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Em 1984 começa uma carreira a solo, a par do seu trabalho na banda, lançando em 1986 o álbum My Desire, apenas com covers.
Em 1992 resolve lançar o seu primeiro disco cantado em português, Pedras da Calçada onde se encontra uma primeira versão do tema Jardins Proibidos.
Em novembro de 1993 é publicada a coletânea "My Best" com os seus maiores sucessos em inglês.
O álbum Fora d'Horas, com produção de Frank Darcel, é editado em 1995. O disco inclui letras de Pedro Abrunhosa ("Lugares" e "Acordar"), Rui Reininho e Pedro Malaquias. Outros convidados são Xavier «Tox» Geronimi, Zé Pedro, João Cabeleira, Nani Teixeira, Sapo e Gus Till. Leve Beijo Triste, Duas Manas e Heróis do Bar são outras das canções.
Nos Prémios Blitz 1995 vence o prémio de melhor voz masculina, sendo também nomeado para melhor artista masculino.
Em 1997, Paulo Gonzo lança a compilação Quase Tudo que conseguiu a proeza de ser sêxtupla Platina. Os maiores sucessos deste disco são uma nova versão de Jardins Proibidos com a participação de Olavo Bilac e Dei-te Quase Tudo.
Em 1998 é editado o álbum Suspeito com produção de Frank Darcel e com uma participação especial de James Cotton (ex-trompetista de Miles Davis). É continuada a parceria de Paulo Gonzo com o letrista Pedro Malaquias e com Rui Reininho (em Eco Aqui e na adaptação de These Foolish Things). Outros temas são Pagava P'ra Ver, Ser Suspeito e Fogo Preso. O disco atinge o galardão de Platina.
Ao Vivo Unplugged, gravado ao vivo nos Estúdios Valentim de Carvalho, é editado em 1999. O disco revisita uma grande parte do percurso a solo de Paulo Gonzo. Como convidados aparecem o pianista Bernardo Sassetti, Rui Reininho participa em Coisas Soltas, Tim participa na versão acústica de Chuva Dissolvente e Zé Pedro toca em Curva Fatal.
O álbum Mau Feitio, gravado na Bélgica, é editado em 2001. Tito Paris e African Voices são alguns dos convidados do disco.
Por ocasião do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol da Coreia e Japão, de 2002, lança o single Mundial que também foi incluído na compilação oficial do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol de 2002.
Em julho de 2003 é reeditado o disco Ao Vivo Unplugged com a inclusão de um DVD.
O álbum Paulo Gonzo é lançado em 2005, e o single Falamos Depois marca o início de uma parceria com a letrista Eugénia Ávila Ramos, que se mantém até hoje. Em 2007 é lançado Paulo Gonzo ao Vivo no Coliseu e a compilação Perfil - Paulo Gonzo.
Em 2010 cantou o single "Para Mim Tanto Me Faz" no concerto "A Despedida" numa parceria com os D'ZRT.
Em 2010 volta ao inglês com o disco By Request. Em 2011 lança o álbum Só Gestos.
O disco Duetos é lançado em 2013.
Entre 2016 e 2018 deu voz ao genérico musical da telenovela da SIC, "Amor Maior" em conjunto com a fadista Raquel Tavares. O tema é uma readaptação do tema de Jota Quest, Amor Maior.
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Clyde Jackson Browne (Heidelberg, 9 de outubro de 1948) é um cantor e compositor norte-americano. O seu interesse político e as suas angústias pessoais têm sido o centro de sua carreira, resultando em canções populares como “Somebody’s Baby”, “These Days”, “The Pretender” e “Running On Empty”. Em 2004, Browne foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pelo seu amigo Bruce Springsteen. No mesmo ano, Browne recebeu um doutoramento honoris causa em Música do Occidental College de Los Angeles por “uma notável carreira musical que combina com sucesso uma arte intensamente pessoal com uma visão mais ampla de mudança social e de justiça”.
Kevin Patrick Cronin Jr. (Evanston, Illinois, October 6, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and pianist for the rock band REO Speedwagon. The band had several hits on the Billboard Hot 100 throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including two chart-toppers written by Cronin: "Keep on Loving You" (1980) and "Can't Fight This Feeling" (1984).
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James Joseph Croce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1943 – Natchitoches, Louisiana, September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he continued to write, record, and perform concerts. After Croce formed a partnership with songwriter and guitarist Maury Muehleisen in the early 1970s, his fortunes turned. Croce's breakthrough came in 1972, his third album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, produced three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle", which reached No. 1 after Croce died. The follow-up album, Life and Times, included the song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", which was the only No. 1 hit he had during his lifetime.
On September 20, 1973, at the height of his popularity and the day before the lead single to his fifth album I Got a Name was released, Croce and five others died in a plane crash. His music continued to chart throughout the 1970s following his death. Croce's wife and early songwriting partner, Ingrid, continued to write and record after his death, and their son, A. J. Croce, became a singer-songwriter in the 1990s.
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Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he wrote and recorded "Gloria", which became a garage band staple. His solo career started under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought Morrison's contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). While initially a poor seller, the album has become regarded as a classic. Moondance (1970) established Morrison as a major artist, and he built on his reputation throughout the 1970s with a series of acclaimed albums and live performances.
Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and early rhythm and blues. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz and stream of consciousness narrative, such as the album Astral Weeks. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as "Celtic soul", and his music has been described as attaining "a kind of violent transcendence".
Morrison's albums have performed well in Ireland and the UK, with more than 40 reaching the UK top 40. He has scored top ten albums in the UK in four consecutive decades, following the success of 2021's Latest Record Project, Volume 1. Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the United States, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017. Since turning 70 in 2015, he has released – on average – more than an album a year. He has received two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland.
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Tori Amos, pseudónimo de Myra Ellen Amos (Newton, 22 de agosto de 1963), é uma cantora, compositora e pianista norte-americana. Amos esteve à frente de um grupo de cantoras e compositoras no começo da década de 90, sendo digna de nota, no começo da sua carreira, como uma das poucas cantoras e intérpretes pop que usam o piano como instrumento principal.
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Christine Anne McVie, née Perfect (Greenodd, 12 July 1943 – London, 30 November 2022) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as keyboardist and one of the vocalists of Fleetwood Mac.
McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She began working with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a session player, before joining the band in 1970. Her first compositions with Fleetwood Mac appeared on their fifth album, Future Games. She remained with the band through many changes of line-up, writing songs and performing lead vocals before partially retiring in 1998. McVie was described as "the prime mover behind some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits" and eight songs she wrote or co-wrote, including "Don't Stop", "Everywhere" and "Little Lies", appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. She appeared as a session musician on the band's last studio album, Say You Will. She also released three solo studio albums.
As a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998 received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In the same year, after almost 30 years with Fleetwood Mac, she left the band and lived in semi-retirement, releasing a solo album in 2004. She appeared on stage with Fleetwood Mac at the O2 Arena in London in September 2013 and rejoined the band in 2014 prior to their On with the Show tour.
McVie received a Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA, now The Ivors Academy, in 2006. She received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2014 and was honoured with the Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2021. She was also the recipient of two Grammy Awards.
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McVie married John McVie in 1968, with Peter Green as best man. Instead of a honeymoon, they celebrated at a hotel in Birmingham with Joe Cocker, who happened to be staying there, before going on the road with their own bands. The couple divorced in 1976, but remained friends and maintained a professional partnership. During the production of Rumours, Christine had an affair with Fleetwood Mac's lighting engineer, Curry Grant, which inspired the song "You Make Loving Fun". From 1979 to 1982, she dated Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eddy Quintela on 18 October 1986. Quintela and McVie collaborated on a number of songs together, including "Little Lies". They divorced in 2003, and Quintela died in 2020.
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McVie died in hospital on 30 November 2022, at the age of 79. Her death was announced by her family through social media. In a statement following her death, Fleetwood Mac said that she was "the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life". Fellow band member Stevie Nicks said McVie had been her "best friend in the whole world". According to her death certificate revealed in April 2023, McVie died of a stroke and suffered from metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin.
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Fleetwood Mac é o décimo álbum da banda anglo/norte-americana Fleetwood Mac e o segundo auto-intitulado, lançado em 1975. É o primeiro álbum da banda após a inclusão de Lindsey Buckingham como guitarrista e Stevie Nicks como vocalista e o primeiro após a saída de Bob Welch.
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Ela afastou-se da banda Sixpence None The Richer por causa da sua gravidez, pouco antes desta anunciar o seu fim, em 2004.
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.
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