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.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 03:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: Jim Henson, marionetes, Marretas, Rua Sésamo, Stand by me
Postado por Fernando Martins às 03:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: Charles Perrault, conto de fadas, França, literatura infantil
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:04 0 bocas
Marcadores: George Gershwin, Gershwin Medley, homossexuais, Liberace, piano, SIDA, televisão
Pet Sounds é o décimo primeiro álbum de estúdio da banda de rock americana The Beach Boys, lançado 16 de maio de 1966 pela Capitol Records.
Considerado um dos discos mais influentes da música pop, classificado como número # 1 em várias listas de maiores álbuns de todos os tempos em revistas especializadas como a New Musical Express, The Times e revista Mojo. Em 2003, foi classificado # 2 na lista 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, da revista Rolling Stone.
Pet Sounds foi criado vários meses após Brian Wilson
ter parado de excursionar com a banda a fim de concentrar sua atenção
nas composições e gravações. Nesse trabalho, ele teceu camadas
elaboradas de harmonias vocais, juntamente com efeitos de som e
instrumentos não-convencionais, como sinos de bicicleta, órgãos, cravos, flautas, teremim, e apitos para cães, junto com instrumentos mais usuais como teclados e guitarras. Este álbum está na lista dos 200 álbuns definitivos no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Um dos primeiros álbum do art rock, ou seja, rock em forma de arte no sentido adjetivo da palavra. Os principais alicerces para este álbum são encontrados nos álbuns anteriores de 1965, The Beach Boys Today! e Summer Days (and Summer Nights!).
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:57 0 bocas
Marcadores: God Only Knows, música, Pet Sounds, Rock, surf rock, The Beach Boys
Blonde on Blonde é o sétimo álbum de estúdio do cantor e compositor americano Bob Dylan, lançado a 16 de maio de 1966 pela Columbia Records. As sessões de gravação começaram em Nova Iorque, em outubro de 1965, com a participação de vários músicos, incluindo membros da sua banda de apoio, The Hawks. Embora as gravações tivessem continuado até janeiro de 1966, foi concluída apenas uma canção até aquele momento — "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)". Por sugestão do produtor Bob Johnston, Dylan, o tecladista Al Kooper e o guitarrista Robbie Robertson mudaram-se para os estúdios da CBS em Nashville, Tennessee. Essas sessões, que receberam alguns dos melhores músicos de sessão da cidade, foram mais proveitosas, com todas as canções restantes do disco sendo gravadas entre fevereiro e março de 1966.
O álbum completou a trilogia de discos de rock que Dylan gravou entre 1965 e 1966, começando com Bringing It All Back Home e Highway 61 Revisited. Críticos geralmente classificam Blonde on Blonde como um dos maiores álbuns de todos os tempos. Combinando a experiência de músicos durante as sessões realizadas em Nashville com uma sensibilidade literária modernista, as canções foram descritas operando musicalmente em grande escala, na qual autores como o britânico Michael Gray referia-se às letras como "uma mistura única do visionário e do coloquial". Foi um dos primeiros álbuns-duplos na história do rock.
Alcançou o nono lugar na parada Billboard 200 nos Estados Unidos, onde eventualmente foi certificado com dupla platina, alcançando também a terceira posição no Reino Unido. Blonde on Blonde gerou dois hits que ficaram entre as vinte mais tocadas nas rádios americanas: "Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35" e "I Want You", ambas lançadas em 1966. Duas músicas adicionais — "Just like a Woman" e "Visions of Johanna" - foram nomeadas entre as melhores composições de Dylan, incluídas na lista das "500 Melhores Canções de Todos os Tempos da Rolling Stone"; também foi classificado na 9ª posição na lista dos "500 Melhores Álbuns de Todos os Tempos" da mesma publicação.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:57 0 bocas
Marcadores: Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan, Rock, Visions of Johanna
Ralph Tresvant, nascido como Ralph Edward Tresvant Jr. (Boston, Massachusetts, 16 de maio de 1968) é um cantor norte-americano de R&B e New Jack Swing. Uma de suas canções, "Sensitivity", figurou na banda sonora do jogo eletrónico Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, mais precisamente na rádio CSR 103:9. Foi o principal vocalista do grupo juvenil de sucesso nos anos 80, os New Edition.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:55 0 bocas
Marcadores: música, New Edition, new jack swing, Ralph Tresvant, rythm and blues contemporâneo, Sensitivity
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: actriz, televisão, Tori Spelling
Pausini ganhou fama em 1993, vencendo a categoria de artistas iniciantes do 43º Sanremo Music Festival, com seu single de estreia "La solitudine", que se tornou um sucesso internacional. O seu autointitulado álbum de estreia foi lançado na Itália em 23 de abril de 1993 e se tornou um sucesso internacional, vendendo dois milhões de cópias em todo o mundo. Seu álbum seguimento, Laura, foi lançado em 1994 e confirmou seu sucesso internacional, vendendo três milhões de cópias em todo o mundo. No mesmo ano, lançou seu primeiro álbum em espanhol, Laura Pausini, o qual recebeu certificado de diamante pela Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain, e Pausini tornou-se a primeira artista não espanhola a vender mais de um milhão de cópias na Espanha. Em 2006, seu disco Io canto foi o álbum mais vendido do ano na Itália.
Até 2017, Pausini já havia lançado doze álbuns de estúdio, dois álbuns de grandes sucessos internacionais e dois álbuns de compilação apenas para o mercado hispânico e anglófono, respetivamente. Pausini canta principalmente em italiano e espanhol, mas também já gravou músicas em inglês, francês, português e catalão.
Em 2004, Jason Birchmeier, da Allmusic considerou as vendas da cantora "um feito impressionante para alguém que nunca havia realmente entrado no lucrativo mercado da língua inglesa". A FIMI certificou as vendas de mais de 75 milhões de discos da artista com o FIMI Icon Award. Em 2006, Pausini tornou-se a primeira cantora italiana a ganhar um Grammy Award, recebendo o prémio de Best Latin Pop Album pelo álbum Escucha. Ela foi condecorada como comandante da Ordem do Mérito da República Italiana pelo presidente Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, e como embaixadora mundial de Emília-Romanha.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:49 0 bocas
Marcadores: Laura Pausini, música, pop, Pop latino, pop rock, Strani Amori
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:46 0 bocas
Marcadores: Brasil, Gabriela, Gabriela Cravo e Canela, Gal Costa, Jorge Amado, Modinha para Gabriela, música, Rede Globo, telenovelas, televisão
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:33 0 bocas
Marcadores: dança, judeu, Mr. Bojangles, música, Rat Pack, Sammy Davis, zarolho
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:31 0 bocas
Marcadores: a capella, Hallelujah, Kirstie Maldonado, música, Pentatonix
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:13 0 bocas
Marcadores: Brasil, modernismo, Orpheu, poesia, Ronald de Carvalho
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Holocausto, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, judeus, Levantamento do Gueto de Varsóvia, nazis, resistência, Varsóvia
El Día Internacional de la Luz es un día en el que se celebra mundialmente los beneficios de tener luz, y es el reconocimiento anual de la fecha del 16 de mayo, en celebración de los avances y aportaciones que han sido posibles en la cultura, el arte y en la sociedad; la fecha fue determinada por la Organización de Naciones Unidas.
Surge como una idea tras la celebración del Año Internacional de la Luz y las Tecnologías Basadas en la Luz que tuvo lugar en 2015. Durante dicho año surgen colaboraciones y contactos entre líderes del sector tecnológico y científico de la luz. Para mantener, impulsar y estimular dichas relaciones se propone la creación del Día Internacional de la Luz desde el que impulsar la difusión de las ventajas de la investigación y utilización de la luz.
La Conferencia General de la Unesco decidió proclamar el 16 de mayo Día Internacional de la Luz ya que se trata del aniversario de la primera vez que se hizo funcionar un láser. En 1960 el ingeniero y físico Theodore Maiman logró que un láser de rubí construido por él, produjera por primera vez emisión estimulada de radiación.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:00 2 bocas
Marcadores: Día Internacional da Luz, laser, luz
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian.[6] Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 20:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly