quinta-feira, março 30, 2023
Tracy Chapman faz hoje 59 anos
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Marcadores: blues, Fast car, folk, guitarra, homossexuais, música, Rock alternativo, soul, Tracy Chapman
Céline Dion - 55 anos...!
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Marcadores: Adult Contemporary, ballad, Canadá, Céline Dion, dance, gospel, jazz, música, My heart will go on, pop, Quebec, Rock, soul
Norah Jones faz hoje 44 anos
Norah Jones (Brooklyn, 30 de março de 1979) é uma pianista, cantora e compositora dos Estados Unidos. Nascida Geetali Norah Jones Shankar, mudou oficialmente o seu nome aos dezasseis anos.
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Marcadores: blues, country, Don't Know Why, jazz, música, Norah Jones, pop, Ravi Shankar
Ronald Reagan foi alvo de um atentado há quarenta e dois anos
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Marcadores: assassinato, Presidente dos EUA, Ronald Reagan, USA, Washington DC
O álbum Sign o' the Times foi lançado há 36 anos...
Sign o' the Times (often stylized as Sign "☮︎" the Times) is the ninth studio album by American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Prince. It was first released on March 30, 1987 as a double album by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album is the follow-up to Parade and is Prince's first solo album following his disbanding of the Revolution. The album's songs were largely recorded during 1986 to 1987 in sessions for releases Prince ultimately aborted: Dream Factory, the pseudonymous Camille, and finally the triple album Crystal Ball. Prince eventually compromised with label executives and shortened the length of the release to a double album.
Many of the drum sounds on Sign o' the Times came from the Linn LM-1 drum machine, and Prince used the Fairlight CMI synthesizer to replace other instruments. Minimal instrumentation is heard on the stripped-down "Sign o’ the Times", the lead single. Four songs contain higher-pitched vocals to represent Prince's alter ego "Camille". The album's music touches on a varied range of styles, including funk, soul, psychedelic pop, electro, and rock.
Sign o' the Times' release was supported by several singles, among them the socially conscious "Sign o' the Times" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend"; in addition to a well-received concert film of the same name. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) four months after its release. It also reached the top 10 in Austria, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the UK and number one in Switzerland. "Sign o' the Times", "U Got the Look" and "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" were all top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 20.
Though not as commercially successful as Purple Rain, Sign o' the Times was Prince's most acclaimed album, being voted 1987's best album in the Pazz & Jop critics poll. Included in many lists of the greatest albums of all time, it has been appraised by many critics as Prince's best album, ahead of Purple Rain. Writing for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Michaelangelo Matos regarded it as "the most complete example of [Prince's] artistry's breadth, and arguably the finest album of the 1980s". In 2017, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Sign O’ the Times - Prince
Oh yeah
In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen-year-old boys and their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples, high on crack, totin' a machine gun
Time
Time
Hurricane Annie ripped the ceiling off a church and killed everyone inside
You turn on the telly and every other story is tellin' you somebody died
Sister killed her baby 'cause she couldn't afford to feed it
And we're sending people to the moon
In September my cousin tried reefer for the very first time
Now he's doing horse; it's June
Time
Time
It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants to fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh, why?
Time
Time
Baby make a speech, star wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn
Time
Time
Is it silly, no?
When a rocket blows up
And everybody still wants to fly
Some say man ain't happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh, why?
Oh, why?
Sign o' the Times
Time
Time
Sign o' the times mess with your mind
Hurry before it's too late
Let's fall in love, get married, have a baby
We'll call him Nate, if it's a boy
Time
Time
Goya nasceu há 277 anos
Tras un lento aprendizaje en su tierra natal, en el ámbito estilístico del Barroco tardío y las estampas devotas, viaja a Italia en 1770, donde traba contacto con el incipiente Neoclasicismo, que adopta cuando marcha a Madrid a mediados de esa década, junto con un pintoresquismo costumbrista rococó derivado de su nuevo trabajo como pintor de cartones para los tapices de la manufactura real de Santa Bárbara. El magisterio en esta actividad y en otras relacionadas con la pintura de corte lo imponía Mengs, mientras que el pintor español más reputado era Francisco Bayeu, que fue cuñado de Goya.
Una grave enfermedad que le aqueja en 1793 le lleva a acercarse a una pintura más creativa y original, que expresa temáticas menos amables que los modelos que había pintado para la decoración de los palacios reales. Una serie de cuadritos en hojalata, a los que él mismo denominaba de capricho e invención, inician la fase madura de la obra del artista y la transición hacia la estética romántica.
Además, su obra refleja el convulso periodo histórico en que vive, particularmente la Guerra de la Independencia, de la que la serie de estampas de Los desastres de la guerra es casi un reportaje moderno de las atrocidades cometidas y componen una visión exenta de heroísmo donde las víctimas son siempre los individuos de cualquier clase y condición.
Gran popularidad tiene su Maja desnuda, en parte favorecida por la polémica generada en torno a la identidad de la bella retratada. De comienzos del siglo XIX datan también otros retratos que emprenden el camino hacia el nuevo arte burgués. Al final del conflicto hispano-francés pinta dos grandes cuadros a propósito de los sucesos del levantamiento del Dos de Mayo de 1808, que sientan un precedente tanto estético como temático para el cuadro de historia, que no solo comenta sucesos próximos a la realidad que vive el artista, sino que alcanza un mensaje universal.
Pero su obra culminante es la serie de pinturas al óleo sobre el muro seco con que decoró su casa de campo (la Quinta del Sordo), las Pinturas negras. En ellas Goya anticipa la pintura contemporánea y los variados movimientos de vanguardia que marcarían el siglo XX.
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Marcadores: Espanha, Goya, neoclassicismo, pintura, romantismo
Poesia e pintura para celebrar um grande artista...
A CABEÇA LIGADA
Van Gogh, queria algo
tão consolador como a música.
Os campos de trigo e centeio
com ciprestes, os seus obeliscos,
e lírios e grandes nuvens,
a sesta dos camponeses,
a natureza morta
de girassóis e anémonas,
o sereno bivaque de ciganos,
as árvores com o azul tisnado do céu,
loendros, paveias,roçadores
de pastagens limão ouro pálido,
o semeador ferruginoso de ocre,
enxofre e do tamanho de uma catedral,
o voo de corvos sobre ramos
luminosos e ternos
de amendoeiras em flor.
Depois de cortar a orelha
retratou-se com os lábios
pintados de sangue.
Se o sofrimento fosse mensurável,
naquela cara de símio
louco de ser homem
haveria dores
de um inteiro campo de concentração.
in A Ignorância da Morte (1978) - António Osório
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Vincent van Gogh nasceu há 170 anos
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Marcadores: Países Baixos, pintura, pós-impressionismo, suicídio, Vincent van Gogh
Eric Clapton celebra hoje 78 anos
Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, 30 de março de 1945) é um guitarrista, cantor e compositor britânico. Apelidado de Slowhand, foi considerado o segundo melhor guitarrista da história pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
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Marcadores: blues-rock, Eric Clapton, guitarra, hard rock, Layla, Reino Unido, Rock, rock 'n roll, rock psicadélico
Bill Withers morreu há três anos...
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you need a friend (call me) call me uh huh(call me) if you need a friend (call me)
If you ever need a friend (call me)
Call me (call me) call me (call me) call me
(Call me) call me (call me) if you need a friend
(Call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me)
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Marcadores: Bill Withers, blues, funk, Lean On Me, música, rythm and blues contemporâneo, smooth soul, soul
quarta-feira, março 29, 2023
Lima Duarte faz hoje 93 anos
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Marcadores: actor, Brasil, Lima Duarte
Astrud Gilberto nasceu há 83 anos
Astrud Gilberto, nascida Astrud Evangelina Weinert (Salvador, 29 de março de 1940), é uma cantora brasileira de bossa nova e jazz de fama internacional.
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Marcadores: Astrud Gilberto, Bossa nova, Brasil, Garota de Ipanema, jazz, jazz latino, música, The Girl From Ipanema
Música adequada à data...
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Pedro Luna
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08:00
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Marcadores: Chariots of Fire, música, música clássica, Música electrónica, new age, Rock Progressivo, Vangelis
Eduardo Prado Coelho nasceu há 79 anos...
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Eduardo de Almeida do Prado Coelho (Lisboa, 29 de março de 1944 - Lisboa, 25 de agosto de 2007) foi um professor, escritor e ensaísta português.
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Marcadores: Eduardo Prado Coelho, literatura
Alan Merrill morreu há três anos...
Alan Merrill (born Allan Preston Sachs; New York City, February 19, 1951 – New York City, March 29, 2020) was an American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. In the early 1970s, he was one of the few resident foreigners to achieve pop star status in Japan. He was the writer of, and lead singer on, the first released version of the song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was recorded by his band the Arrows in 1975. The song became a breakthrough hit for Joan Jett in 1982.
Merrill was primarily a vocalist and songwriter, but also played the guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, and keyboards. He died during the COVID-19 pandemic due to complications brought on by the virus.
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Marcadores: Alan Merrill, Arrows, Covid-19, Glam Rock, I Love Rock 'n' Roll, música, pop








