sábado, setembro 09, 2023
Lucio Battisti morreu há vinte e cinco anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:25 0 bocas
Marcadores: disco, Itália, La Canzone del Sole, Lucio Battisti, música, música latina, musica leggera, pop rock, Rhythm and Blues, Rock Progressivo, soft rock, techno
quinta-feira, agosto 31, 2023
Van Morrison - 78 anos
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.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: blue-eyed soul, blues, celta, country, Days Like This, folk, gospel, Irlanda do Norte, jazz, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Rock and Roll, skiffle, soft rock, Van Morrison
terça-feira, agosto 29, 2023
Amanda Marshall nasceu há cinquenta e um anos
Amanda Marshall (Toronto, 29 de agosto de 1972) é uma cantora canadiana, mais conhecida pelo seu êxito de 1996, "Let it Rain".
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:51 0 bocas
Marcadores: Amanda Marshall, anos 90, Canadá, Let it rain, música, rythm and blues contemporâneo, soft rock
terça-feira, agosto 22, 2023
Tori Amos nasceu há sessenta anos...!
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.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: Crucify, música, Música electrónica, Pop barroco, Rock alternativo, soft rock, Tori Amos
segunda-feira, julho 31, 2023
Lobo nasceu há oitenta anos...!
quarta-feira, julho 12, 2023
Christine McVie, uma das vocalistas dos Fleetwood Mac, nasceu há oitenta anos...
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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Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, blues rock, Christine McVie, Everywhere, Fleetwood Mac, música, pop rock, Rock, soft rock, teclas
terça-feira, julho 11, 2023
Os Fleetwood Mac lançaram um álbum homónimo (o álbum branco) há 48 anos
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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Postado por Fernando Martins às 04:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: álbum branco, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, pop, Say You Love Me, soft rock, Stevie Nicks
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:48 0 bocas
Marcadores: álbum branco, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, pop, Rhiannon, soft rock, Stevie Nicks
terça-feira, junho 27, 2023
Leigh Nash, vocalista da banda Sixpence None the Richer, nasceu há 47 anos
Leigh Bingham Nash (New Braunfels, Texas, 27 de junho de 1976) é cantora e compositora norte-americana, mais conhecida por ter sido vocalista da banda Sixpence None the Richer.
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 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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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:47 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, Kiss Me, Leigh Nash, música, pop rock, Sixpence None the Richer, soft rock
terça-feira, junho 20, 2023
Lionel Richie nasceu há 74 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: Dancing On The Ceiling, Lionel Richie, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues, soft rock, soul, The Commodores
sábado, junho 17, 2023
Barry Manilow nasceu há oitenta anos
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 70 I Write the Songs, Mandy e Copacabana.
quinta-feira, junho 15, 2023
Harry Nilsson nasceu há 82 anos
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".
Morreu em 1994, vítima de insuficiência cardíaca. Foi sepultado no Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, Califórnia no Estados Unidos.
Harry Nilsson foi eleito um dos maiores compositores de todos os tempos pela revista Rolling Stone, estando na 62º posição dos maiores compositores.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: Everybody's Talking, Harry Nilsson, Nilsson, Pop barroco, pop psicadélico, soft rock
Saudades de Harry Nilsson...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Coconut, Harry Nilsson, Nilsson, Pop barroco, pop psicadélico, soft rock
quinta-feira, junho 08, 2023
Bonnie Tyler nasceu há setenta e dois anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: Bonnie Tyler, country rock, música, País de Gales, pop, power ballad, soft rock, Total Eclipse of the Heart
terça-feira, maio 30, 2023
Listen To Your Heart...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 06:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues-rock, dance, Listen To Your Heart, Marie Fredriksson, música, pop, Roxette, soft rock, Suécia
Marie Fredriksson, a precocemente desaparecida vocalista dos Roxette, nasceu há 65 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues-rock, dance, It Must Have Been Love, Marie Fredriksson, música, pop, Roxette, soft rock, Suécia
sexta-feira, maio 26, 2023
Música adequada à data...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 11:11 0 bocas
Marcadores: Fleetwood Mac, música, pop rock, Rock, Sara, soft rock, Stevie Nicks
Música da aniversariante de hoje...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 07:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Dreams, Fleetwood Mac, música, pop rock, Rock, soft rock, Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks - 75 anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Fleetwood Mac, música, pop rock, Rhiannon, Rock, soft rock, Stevie Nicks
quarta-feira, maio 24, 2023
Patti LaBelle - 79 anos