O Curso de Geologia de 85/90 da Universidade de Coimbra escolheu o nome de Geopedrados quando participou na Queima das Fitas.
Ficou a designação, ficaram muitas pessoas com e sobre a capa intemporal deste nome, agora com oportunidade de partilhar as suas ideias, informações e materiais sobre Geologia, Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Vulcanologia/Sismologia, Ambiente, Energia, Biologia, Astronomia, Ensino, Fotografia, Humor, Música, Cultura, Coimbra e AAC, para fins de ensino e educação.
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.
Jose Feliciano nasceu cego, numa família pobre, com mais onze irmãos. Aprendeu sozinho a tocar acordeão, e aos nove, já tocava no "The Puerto Rican Theater", no Bronx, Nova Iorque, para onde a sua família havia emigrado quando ele tinha cinco anos. Sempre autodidata, passou a praticar a viola, tendo como professor apenas alguns discos.
Ganhou vários prémios e homenagens. Feliciano é considerado como o
primeiro músico latino a penetrar no mercado de música de língua
inglesa, abrindo caminho para outros após ele.
Sir George Ivan Morrison (Belfast, 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans six decades. He has won two Grammy Awards.
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.
Amanda cresceu em Toronto numa família bi-racial, de pai caucasiano e mãe caribeana-canadiana.
Muitas das suas canções refletem a sua identidade racial “como uma
mulher que aparenta ser branca mas também é metade negra”.
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.
Christine Anne McVie, néePerfect
(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 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.
During the height of Fleetwood Mac's success in the 1970s, McVie
resided in Los Angeles in a house that had previously been owned by Joan Collins and by Elton John. In 1990, she moved to a Grade II-listed Tudor manor house in Wickhambreaux, near Canterbury
in Kent, to which she retired after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1998, and
worked on her solo material. For years McVie found inspiration in the
home's country setting, not only writing songs there, but also restoring
the house. After rejoining Fleetwood Mac in 2014, she began spending
more time in London, and put the house on the market in 2015.
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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.
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.
O álbum vendeu cerca de 5 milhões de cópias e colocou vários singles nos tops de sucesso,
fazendo com que a nova formação, unida até meados de 1987, fosse a mais
importante comercialmente de toda a carreira da banda e lançasse,
posteriormente, álbuns de sucesso ainda maior, como o sucessor Rumours (1977).
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.
Em 2017, foi condecorado nos 40ª Gala dos Prémios Anuais do Centro Kennedy (do inglês: Annual Kennedy Center Honors), um dos prémios mais prestigiados da cultura norte americana, recebida também por Glória Estefan e outros.
Barry Alan Pincus, mais conhecido como Barry Manilow, (Brooklyn, 17 de junho de 1943) é um cantor e compositor americano, muito conhecido pelos seus hits dos anos 70I Write the Songs, Mandy e Copacabana.
A carreira sem igual de Barry Manilow está fundada numa sólida
reputação como cantor, compositor, arranjador e produtor. Ele enche
casas de espetáculos, bate recordes de audiência na televisão, compõe
bandas sonoras de cinema e para a Broadway e já vendeu 60 milhões de
discos no mundo todo. O seu sucesso está devidamente ilustrado por uma
coleção de prémios Grammy, Emmy e Tony Awards, além de uma nomeação
para o Óscar. Portanto, não é à toa que a bíblia da indústria
fonográfica Radio & Records o considera imbatível na categoria de Música Adulta Contemporânea de Todos os Tempos.
As suas canções apareceram em diversos filmes e programas de televisão, e ele foi premiado com dois Grammys;
um por "Melhor Vocal Masculino Contemporâneo" por "Everybody's Talkin'"
e outro por "Melhor Vocal Masculino Pop" por "Without You".
Fredriksson
morreu a 9 de dezembro de 2019, aos 61 anos, após uma
batalha de 17 anos contra o cancro, após o seu diagnóstico de tumor
cerebral em 2002. Um funeral privado, com apenas a sua família imediata
presente, ocorreu num local não revelado.
Entre as homenagens expressas a Fredriksson estava uma declaração do
rei Carlos XVI Gustavo da Suécia, que disse: "Ficamos impressionados com
a triste notícia de que a cantora Marie Fredriksson faleceu. Para
muitos em nosso país, mesmo na minha família, a sua música é intimamente
associada a memórias de momentos particularmente importantes da vida".
Um concerto em memória de Fredriksson aconteceu no Stora Teatern em Gotemburgo em 20 de janeiro, com apresentações de Per Gessle e Eva Dahlgren. O concerto foi transmitido na íntegra, cinco dias depois, pela Sveriges Television.