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Glendale, California
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Glendale /ˈɡlɛndeɪl/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and it is located about 8 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies on the end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city, Glendale has one of the largest communities of Armenian descent in the United States. In 2013, Glendale was named LAs Neighborhood of the Year by the readers and editors of Curbed. com, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery contains the remains of many noted celebrities and local residents. Grand Central Airport was the point for the first commercial west-to-east transcontinental flight flown by Charles Lindbergh. The area was inhabited by the Tongva people, who were later renamed the Gabrieleños by the Spanish missionaries. Rancho San Rafael was a Spanish concession, of which 25 were made in California, unlike the later Mexican land grants, the concessions were similar to grazing permits, with the title remaining with the Spanish crown. In 1860, his grandson Teodoro Verdugo built the Verdugo Adobe, the property is the location of the Oak of Peace, where early Californio leaders including Pio Pico met in 1847 and decided to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Verdugos descendants sold the ranch in various parcels, some of which are included in present-day Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, in 1884, residents gathered to form a townsite and chose the name Glendale. Residents to the southwest formed Tropico in 1887, the Pacific Electric Railway brought streetcar service in 1904. Glendale incorporated in 1906, and annexed Tropico 12 years later, Brand loved to fly, and built a private airstrip in 1919 and hosted fly-in parties, providing a direct link to the soon-to-be-built nearby Grand Central Airport. The grounds of El Miradero are now city-owned Brand Park and the mansion is the Brand Library, Brand partnered with Henry E. Huntington to bring the Pacific Electric Railway, or the Red Cars, to the area. Today, he is memorialized by one of the main thoroughfares. The citys population rose from 13,756 in 1920 to 62,736 in 1930, the Forest Lawn Cemetery opened in 1906 and was renamed Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in 1917. Pioneering endocrinologist and entrepreneur Henry R. Harrower opened his clinic in Glendale in 1920, the American Green Cross, an early conservation and tree preservation society, was formed in 1926. In 1964, Glendale was selected by George Lincoln Rockwell to be the West Coast headquarters of the American Nazi Party and its offices, on Colorado Street in the downtown section of the city, remained open until the early 1980s. In 1977 and 1978,10 murdered women were found in, the murders were the work of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, the latter of whom resided at 703 East Colorado Street, where most of the murders took place
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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19 Entertainment
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19 Entertainment is a producer of entertainment properties for television with a focus on music. 19 Entertainment is also responsible for the production of So You Think You Can Dance, founded in London, England in 1985,19 Entertainment moved their headquarters to Los Angeles, United States, in 2010. In 2009 the company announced the purchase of London based Storm Model Management and this business was sold back to Storms management in 2013, ending the firms activities in fashion. In March 2005,19 Entertainment founder Simon Fuller sold the company to Robert Sillermans CKX, Inc. in a cash, subsequent to the deal Fuller remained in his role as CEO of 19 Entertainment and added the new role of director of CKX. Following this, CKX announced its intention to shift 19 to becoming a US business focusing solely on American Idol, 19s old Headquarters in Battersea, London became the headquarters for Simon Fullers new business, XIX, while the base for 19 Entertainment was transferred to Los Angeles. In September 2010 much of 19s non- American Idol business was sold to Simon Fullers new business XIX Entertainment. This included 19s non-Idol management clients such as David and Victoria Beckham, Andy Murray, Annie Lennox, The Spice Girls, Lewis Hamilton, S Club 7, Carrie Underwood, David Cook, also transferred to XIX Entertainment were Roland Mouret and Victoria Beckhams fashion businesses. So You Think You Can Dance Miami 7 L. A.7 S Club 7 Go Wild, Simon Fuller Core Media Group website
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Jive Records
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Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s, jIVEs best-selling artists worldwide were the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Britney Spears. Today, the Jive brand is being used under the Sony Music France division under the name JIVE Epic France. In 1971, South African musicians Clive Calder and Ralph Simon began a publishing and it was named Zomba Records and relocated to London, England, four years later, their first client was a young Robert Mutt Lange. Zomba originally wanted to record labels, choosing instead to focus on their songwriters and producers while allowing other established labels to release the material. Later that decade, the opened offices in the US. In 1981, Zomba formed JIVE Records, whose operations began with the release of British dance and pop music such as Q-Feel, A Flock of Seagulls and its name was inspired by township JIVE, a type of music that originated in South Africa. Davis had hoped that Zombas connection with Mutt Lange would help alleviate the difficulties Arista was having finding potentially successful rock acts. By 1982, Calder was introduced to Barry Weiss, a college graduate who took Calder out to hip-hop clubs in New York City for his job interview with Zomba. He was immediately impressed, Together, they began grooming musicians for what would eventually become Whodini, after two days, the group created and recorded its hit single Magics Wand. While the group would eventually leave JIVE, the success allowed the label to focus on hip-hop artists throughout the 1980s. In 1987, JIVE cut distribution ties with Arista, effectively separating them from Daviss authority, who eschewed hip-hop. As the 1980s drew to a close, the label entered a deal with RCA Records, by the late 1990s, JIVE began signing pop acts Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Britney Spears. All three achieved massive success as the 2000s dawned, becoming the three best-selling acts in the labels history, in 1991, Barry Weiss became CEO and president of JIVE Records. After two decades, he left JIVE in March 2011 for Universal Music Group, the company was later reorganized with some artists moving to a restructured Epic Records, while others stayed with JIVE as it moved under the RCA Music Group. In April 2011, it was reported that Jay-Z had outbid executives at JIVE to acquire independent record label Block Starz Music. On October 7,2011, it was announced that JIVE, along with Arista and J Records would be shut down to refresh, all artists on those labels were moved to RCA Records. JIVE Records remains active in France as JIVE Epic, serving as the label for international pop
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Adam Lambert
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Adam Mitchel Lambert is an American singer, songwriter and stage actor. Since 2009, he has sold over 3 million albums and 5 million singles worldwide, Lambert rose to fame in 2009 after finishing as runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol. Later that year, he released his album, For Your Entertainment. The album spawned hit singles, including Whataya Want from Me. In 2012, Lambert released his studio album, Trespassing. The album premiered at one on the U. S. Billboard 200. In 2015, Lambert released his album, The Original High. Alongside his solo career, Lambert has collaborated with rock band Queen as lead vocalist for Queen + Adam Lambert since 2011, culminating in a successful world-wide tour from 2014 to 2016. Lambert was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 29,1982, to mother Leila, a dental hygienist, and father Eber Lambert and his father is of partial Norwegian descent and his mother is Jewish. Lambert was raised in his mothers religion and he has a younger brother, Neil. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to San Diego, Lambert began performing with Metropolitan Educational Theatre network from the age of nine. There, he became involved with theater and choir, performed vocals with the schools jazz band. He also appeared in professional productions such as Hello, Dolly. Camelot, The Music Man, Grease, Chess and Peter Pan, at such as The Starlight, The Lyceum. Life is all about taking risks to get what you want, at 19, Lambert landed his first professional job, performing on a cruise ship for ten months with Anita Mann Productions. Afterwards, he performed in opera in Orange County, California. By 21, he was signed with a manager and cast in a European tour of Hair and he finished performances with the musical in 2008. During this same period, Lambert briefly fronted underground rock band The Citizen Vein with Steve Sidelnyk, Tommy Victor and Monte Pittman
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Orianthi
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Her debut single According to You peaked at No.3 in Japan, No.8 in Australia and No.17 in the US, her second album, Believe, received a worldwide release in late 2009. In 2009, Orianthi was named one of the 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists by Elle magazine and she also won the award as Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year 2010 by Guitar International magazine. Orianthi Panagaris was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and is of Greek descent and she began playing piano at the age of three and, at the encouragement of her father, moved to acoustic guitar at the age of six. When she was eleven, she took up guitar and left her school, Mercedes College. She also attended St Peters Collegiate Girls School for a short period, at the age of 15, she turned her focus to writing songs and so began her professional career. She has been playing in bands since the age of 14, Orianthi met and jammed with Carlos Santana when she was 18. He invited Orianthi to get up and jam with him at soundcheck then later asked if she would join him on stage that night to jam at his Adelaide concert, Memorial Drive on 30 March 2003. Orianthi independently released her studio album, Violet Journey in 2005, composing all the material, contributing guitar, vocals. She produced and mixed the final product at her home studio, Carlos Santana brought Orianthi to Paul Reed Smiths attention which led to her endorsement. Orianthi relocated to Los Angeles, signed with Geffen Records in late 2006, Orianthi appeared at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in February 2009 as Carrie Underwoods lead guitarist, with Underwood inviting Orianthi to become a member of her band. Following that performance in addition to recommendations from industry professionals Michael Jacksons management reached out to Orianthi for an audition for This Is It concerts, Orianthi was hence Michael Jacksons lead guitarist and was present on all rehearsals for his This Is It concerts before his death. In regard to being handpicked by Jackson, she stated, I don’t know exactly why he picked me and he had his choice of guitar players, but I came in and played the ‘Beat It’ solo for him. Afterward he was so happy he got up and grabbed my arm and started walking up and he said, ‘Can you play once for me. ’ and hired me that night. I wish he was still around and he made me believe in myself more, and I learned so much. Going into it, I thought it would be all about playing guitar solos, but the majority of it was playing chords and funky rhythms. She played and sang at Jacksons memorial, globally televised live on 7 July 2009 and she appears in the film Michael Jacksons This Is It, which chronicles the rehearsals for the tour and shows her and Michael on stage. She presented an award at the 2009 American Music Awards, which Jackson won posthumously, Orianthi also appears on We Are the World 25 for Haiti – with the original co-written and partly performed by Jackson. She plays guitar on the song Monster by Michael Jackson featuring 50 Cent which was released on Michael on 14 December 2010, Orianthi started working on her major label debut Believe in 2007 which was released in October 2009
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Nine Inch Nails
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Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. Despite this, the band has had feuds with the corporate side of the recording industry. Reznor returned to self-releasing material with the second Nine Inch Nails EP, as the bands main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only constant member of the group, and remains solely responsible for its direction. This changed however in 2016 when Atticus Ross was introduced as a permanent member of Nine Inch Nails alongside the announcement of Not the Actual Events, after recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform onstage with him. The touring band features a lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. On stage, Nine Inch Nails often employs visual elements to accompany performances, Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards, and won twice for the songs Wish and Happiness in Slavery in 1992 and 1996, respectively. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazines list of the years most influential people, in 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. In 2014, Nine Inch Nails was named as nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2015, they were nominated a second time. Koster agreed and allowed Reznor to use it whenever it was empty, while completing the early recordings, Reznor was unable to find a band that could articulate the material as he desired. Instead, inspired by Prince, Reznor played all the instruments except drums himself and this role remains Reznors on most of the bands studio recordings, though he has occasionally involved other musicians and assistants. Nine Inch Nails debut was at the Phantasy Theater in Lakewood, in 1988, after playing its first shows supporting Skinny Puppy, Reznors ambition for Nine Inch Nails was to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. Several labels responded favorably to the material and Reznor signed with TVT Records. The overall sound on Purest Feeling is lighter than that of Pretty Hate Machine, several songs feature live drumming and guitar work throughout. Reznor coined the name Nine Inch Nails because it abbreviated easily, other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus crucifixion with nine-inch spikes, or Freddy Kruegers nine-inch fingernails. The English letters NIN are also noted for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton, the Nine Inch Nails logo, which consists of the letters set inside a border, was designed by Reznor and Gary Talpas. The logo first appeared on the video for Nine Inch Nails debut single, Down in It. Talpas, a native of Cleveland, would continue to design Nine Inch Nails packaging art until 1997, written, arranged, and performed by Reznor, Nine Inch Nails first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. It marked his first collaboration with Adrian Sherwood and Mark Flood Ellis, Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of Pretty Hate Machine, which had received multiple offers for record deals
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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American Idol (season 8)
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The eighth season of American Idol premiered on January 13,2009, and concluded on May 20,2009. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson continued to judge the shows contestants, the season introduced Kara DioGuardi as the fourth judge on the Idol panel. It was also Abduls final season as a judge, Kris Allen, a native of Conway, Arkansas, was announced the winner of the competition on May 20,2009, defeating runner-up Adam Lambert after nearly 100 million votes. Kris Allen is the only married winner of the competition at the time of his victory and this was the second season where both of the final two contestants had been in the bottom three or two at least once before the finale, with the first being season three. The eighth season saw changes to the format of the show. There were 36 semi-finalists instead of 24, and thirteen finalists instead of twelve, nine contestants chosen by the public, another addition was the save, which was used on the top seven results show to veto Matt Girauds elimination. Seven contestants from this season were signed to record deals, the signed artists are Kris Allen, who was then signed to 19 Entertainment/Jive Records. In addition to Allen, Adam Lambert, Danny Gokey, Allison Iraheta, Lil Rounds, Anoop Desai, several changes were planned for season eight. Songwriter and record producer Kara DioGuardi was added as a judge on the panel. She had previously collaborated with Celine Dion, Hilary Duff, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias, Leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera, as a songwriter, she had already worked with several American Idol alumni and winners, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, David Archuleta and David Cook. Meanwhile, Ken Warwick became the new producer, as Nigel Lythgoe had left the show to focus on So You Think You Can Dance and his new show with Simon Fuller. Idol Gives Back was canceled for season 8, as the economic crisis and recession. The semifinals saw the biggest change as the wild card round returned for the first time since the third season and they were judged by the panel, instead of a vote by the viewers, with four advancing to the finals. The eighth season also marked the first time that auditions were conducted outside the United States, several people from Puerto Rico were eventually selected for the semi-final rounds of the show. Another change in the Idol format is judges save, an element previously used in Frances Nouvelle Star, the judges were given the power to exercise a veto on one eliminated contestant in the finals and spare them from elimination for that particular week. This can only be invoked up until the Final 5, the following week two contestants will be eliminated if the save is used because nobody is eliminated on the week that the save is used, except in season 11 where one only contestant was eliminated. The save can only be used once per season and it must be unanimous, the new format change was revealed on March 11,2009. The first recipient of the Judges Save is Matt Giraud, the twelfth season is the first season the judges save was not used
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American Idol
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It began airing on Fox on June 11,2002, and ended on April 7,2016. It started off as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol, the concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by the viewers in America through telephones, Internet, and SMS text voting. American Idol employed a panel of judges who critiqued the contestants performances, the original judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell. The judging panel for the final consisted of country singer Keith Urban, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. The first season was hosted by radio personality Ryan Seacrest and comedian Brian Dunkleman, the success of American Idol has been described as unparalleled in broadcasting history. The series was said by a rival TV executive to be the most impactful show in the history of television. It became a springboard for launching the career of many artists as bona fide stars. The series concluded after 15 seasons, American Idol was based on the British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller, which was in turn inspired by the New Zealand television singing competition Popstars. Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw a version in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain, Fuller was inspired by the idea from Popstars of employing a panel of judges to select singers in audition. He then added elements, such as telephone voting by the viewing public. The show debuted in Britain in 2001 with Lythgoe as showrunner—the executive producer and production leader—and Simon Cowell as one of the judges, it was quite successful with the viewing public. In 2001, Fuller, Cowell, and TV producer Simon Jones attempted to sell the Pop Idol format to the United States, but the idea was initially met with poor responses from the Fox television network. However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Foxs parent company, was persuaded to buy the series by his daughter, Elisabeth. The show was renamed American Idol, The Search for a Superstar, Cowell was initially offered the job as showrunner but later turned down the offer, Lythgoe then took over that position. Much to Cowells surprise, it one of the biggest shows of the summer. The show grew into a phenomenon largely due to its personal engagement of the contestants, thereby prompting viewers to vote, by 2004, it had become the most-watched show on U. S. television, a position it then held for seven consecutive seasons. However, after a few years of declining ratings, the network announced that the fifteenth season would be its last. A fourth judge, radio DJ Stryker, was originally chosen, the show decided to continue with the three judges format until season eight
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Telemundo
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Telemundo is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal division NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. It is the second largest provider of Spanish content nationwide behind American competitor Univision, Telemundo is headquartered in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida, and has 1,900 employees worldwide. The majority of Telemundos programs are filmed at a studio facility in Miami. The average hourly primetime drama costs $70K to produce. S, Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding for his media properties based around the mundo theme, and chose to brand his new television property as Telemundo. Rivero produced the first comedy/variety series for WKAQ-TV, La Taberna India, and La Farándula Corona on YouTube, during the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV, then branded as Telemundo Canal 2, had become a major producer of telenovelas. The station was known for its fingers logo – a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number – and referred to itself as El canal de los dedos. On April 14,1983, Ramos sold WKAQ-TV to John Blair & Co, in 1984, the owners of WNJU in Linden, New Jersey and KSTS in San Jose, California formed NetSpan, the second Spanish-language television network in the continental United States. These stations joined KVEA in Los Angeles, run by its manager and part-owner Joe Wallach. In late 1986, Reliance also purchased WNJU, in 1987, Reliance Capital Group executives Saul Steinberg and Henry Silverman merged all these stations into the Telemundo Group. The new corporation quickly went public, and in 1987, Reliance decided to rebrand NetSpan as Telemundo, later that year, it purchased additional stations in San Francisco, Houston and San Antonio. Between 1988 and 1993, Telemundo acquired or affiliated with stations in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Washington. In May 1992, Telemundo underwent another management change, appointing former Univision president Joaquin Blaya – who resigned from that network after discovering in an FCC filing for A. The following year in 1993, Telemundo underwent a rebranding, introducing the signature framed T letter logo. The network also began to produce its own telenovelas, the first of which to premiere were Angélica, mi vida, Marielena, Guadalupe, Señora Tentación. International distributors soon approached the network for the rights to air these programs on television networks in other countries. In 1995, under the direction of executive president of programming Harry Abraham Castillo. Eastern time slot on certain weeknights to help bolster its late newscasts, after the sale received FCC approval on July 31,1998, Sony and Liberty formed a holding company that was operated as a 50/50 joint venture between both companies, Telemundo Communications Group. Among them were Angeles, a remake of Charlies Angels, Un Angel en la Casa, solo en America, a remake of One Day at a Time
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Just Like You (Allison Iraheta album)
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Just Like You is the debut album from American Idols eighth season contestant Allison Iraheta. It was released on December 1,2009 through Jive Records and 19 Recordings. The lead single, Friday Ill Be Over U, produced by Max Martin, debuted on AOLs Popeater on October 5,2009, while on the American Idols LIVE. Tour 2009, Iraheta began writing and recording pop and rock hit makers such as Kevin Rudolf, Howard Benson, Max Martin. Fellow Idol alumnus Chris Daughtry also contributed a track for the version of the album. Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, who co-wrote No One Else with Pink and producer/songwriter Greg Wells, played for Allison as well as the producer and that she wrote another song for, called Spring Cleaning, which did not make the album. Following the tour, Iraheta began promoting Just Like You, conducting interviews with Walmart. com soundcheck, KIIS-FM and Entertainment Weekly. MySpace Music and AOL Listening Party both featured streams of Just Like You in the leading up to the albums release, December 1,2009. In addition she was a special guest at Z100s Jingle Ball, Iraheta also toured with Adam Lambert and Orianthi on the Glam Nation Tour in the summer of 2010. She was scheduled to tour for only half of the tour, Just Like You received generally favorable reviews. In a mixed review, New York Times described Just Like You as a pop album with shrewdly punky touches. Just Like You sold approximately 32,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number 35 on the Billboard 200 album chart and number 14 on the Billboard Digital Album Chart
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El Salvador
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El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. El Salvadors capital and largest city is San Salvador, as of 2015, the country had a population of approximately 6.38 million, consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent. El Salvador was for centuries inhabited by several Mesoamerican nations, especially the Cuzcatlecs, as well as the Lenca, in the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. In 1821, the country achieved independence from Spain as part of the First Mexican Empire, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, El Salvador endured chronic political and economic instability characterized by coups, revolts, and a succession of authoritarian rulers. The conflict ended with a settlement that established a multiparty constitutional republic. El Salvador has since reduced its dependence on coffee and embarked on diversifying the economy by opening up trade and financial links, the colón, the official currency of El Salvador since 1892, was replaced by the U. S. dollar in 2001. As of 2010, El Salvador ranks 12th among Latin American countries in terms of the Human Development Index, however, the country continues to struggle with high rates of poverty, inequality, and crime. Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado named the new province for Jesus Christ – El Salvador, the full name was Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, El Salvador Del Mundo, which was subsequently abbreviated to El Salvador. Tomayate is a site located on the banks of the river of the same name in the municipality of Apopa. The site has produced abundant Salvadoran megafauna fossils belonging to the Pleistocene epoch, at the same time, it is considered the richest vertebrate paleontological site in Central America and one of the largest accumulations of proboscideans in the Americas. Sophisticated civilization in El Salvador dates to its settlement by the indigenous Lenca people, theirs was the first, the Lenca were succeeded by the Olmecs, who eventually also disappeared, leaving their monumental architecture in the form of the pyramids still extant in western El Salvador. The Maya arrived and settled in place of the Olmecs, the Pipil were the last indigenous people to arrive in El Salvador. They called their territory Kuskatan, a Pipil word meaning The Place of Precious Jewels, backformed into Classical Nahuatl Cōzcatlān, the people of El Salvador today are referred to as Salvadoran, while the term Cuzcatleco is commonly used to identify someone of Salvadoran heritage. In pre-Columbian times, the country was inhabited by various other indigenous peoples, including the Lenca. Cuzcatlan was the domain until the Spanish conquest. Since El Salvador resided on the edge of the Maya Civilization. However, it is agreed that Mayas likely occupied the areas around Lago de Guija. Other ruins such as Tazumal, Joya de Cerén and San Andrés may have built by the Pipil or the Maya or possibly both
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Pepper Jay
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Pepper Jay began her performance career in the television sitcom, The Real McCoys starring Walter Brennan, which premiered on ABC in 1957, and in local theater. She earned her degree from San Diego State University then obtained a lifetime teaching credential from the State of California. Fluent in Spanish, Jay in the 1970s taught drama, dance, Spanish, law and she was assigned to the campuses of Hollywood High School, John Muir Junior High School, and at Crenshaw High School, where she produced shows by the 100+ member drill team. Pepper Jay transitioned from her teaching career in 1983 and earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. During this time, Pepper Jay was a member of the Wilshire Bar Association, in 1990, Pepper Jay established the entertainment company, Pepper Jay Productions, LLC. She created the Working Actors Group, where, from 1993 through 2010, she and partner John Michael Ferrari offered on-camera and they continue to coach performance skills for singers, actors, and speakers. Pepper Jays performance students include Allison Iraheta, Stevie Wright, Nikki Nova, Liquid Blue, Gisell, teen opera singer Golda Berkman, Pepper Jay was honored by the Multicultural Motion Picture Association with the Diamond Rose Award in Entertainment. Pepper is also an American Ambassador for Arts 4 Peace Awards, Pepper Jays acting and producing career continues. Pepper Jay at the Internet Movie Database About Us at ActorsReporter. com PepperJay. com Dynamic Song Performance
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John Michael Ferrari
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John Michael Ferrari, is an American entertainment journalist, film director, cinematographer, still photographer, film producer, composer, writer, and author. Ferrari was sent to the Nevada State Childrens Home at age 15, as photographer and director of photography, Ferrari works with top models and up-and-coming filmmakers. His credits include the Minor Matters CD for the musical group Peoples Republic, as a director, his credits include the film Hercules in Hollywood, the TV pilot The Road Studio, and TV episodes for the W Network in Canada. Currently, John Michael Ferrari is Creative Producer, director, and editor, Ferrari is the author of Acting with your Eyes. John Michael Ferrari at the Internet Movie Database Images by Ferrari
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Spanish language
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Spanish —also called Castilian —is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain, with hundreds of millions of native speakers around the world. It is usually considered the worlds second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese and it is one of the few languages to use inverted question and exclamation marks. Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Beginning in the early 16th century, Spanish was taken to the colonies of the Spanish Empire, most notably to the Americas, as well as territories in Africa, Oceania, around 75% of modern Spanish is derived from Latin. Greek has also contributed substantially to Spanish vocabulary, especially through Latin, Spanish vocabulary has been in contact from an early date with Arabic, having developed during the Al-Andalus era in the Iberian Peninsula. With around 8% of its vocabulary being Arabic in origin, this language is the second most important influence after Latin and it has also been influenced by Basque as well as by neighboring Ibero-Romance languages. It also adopted words from languages such as Gothic language from the Visigoths in which many Spanish names and surnames have a Visigothic origin. Spanish is one of the six languages of the United Nations. It is the language in the world by the number of people who speak it as a mother tongue, after Mandarin Chinese. It is estimated more than 437 million people speak Spanish as a native language. Spanish is the official or national language in Spain, Equatorial Guinea, speakers in the Americas total some 418 million. In the European Union, Spanish is the tongue of 8% of the population. Spanish is the most popular second language learned in the United States, in 2011 it was estimated by the American Community Survey that of the 55 million Hispanic United States residents who are five years of age and over,38 million speak Spanish at home. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 uses the term castellano to define the language of the whole Spanish State in contrast to las demás lenguas españolas. Article III reads as follows, El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado, las demás lenguas españolas serán también oficiales en las respectivas Comunidades Autónomas. Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State, the other Spanish languages as well shall be official in their respective Autonomous Communities. The Spanish Royal Academy, on the hand, currently uses the term español in its publications. Two etymologies for español have been suggested, the Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary derives the term from the Provençal word espaignol, and that in turn from the Medieval Latin word Hispaniolus, from—or pertaining to—Hispania
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
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Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans, are Americans who are descendants of the peoples of Spain, Portugal, or the Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America. More generally, it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, other U. S. government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term, including Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking groups. The Census Bureau uses the terms Hispanic and Latino interchangeably, origin can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the persons parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify as Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino may be of any race, as the only specifically designated category of ethnicity in the United States, Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Hispanic Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan, the predominant origin of regional Hispanic populations varies widely in different locations across the country. Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States after Asian Americans, hispanic/Latinos overall are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, after non-Hispanic Whites. Hispanics have lived within what is now the United States continuously since the founding of St. Augustine by the Spanish in 1565, after Native Americans, Hispanics are the oldest ethnic group to inhabit much of what is today the United States. Spain colonized large areas of what is today the American Southwest and West Coast, the terms Hispanic and Latino refer to an ethnicity, people of this group may be of any race. Hispanic people may share some commonalities in their language, culture, history, according to the Smithsonian Institution, the term Latino includes peoples with Portuguese roots, such as Brazilians, as well as those of Spanish-language origin. In the United States, many Hispanics and Latinos are of both European and Native American ancestry, others are wholly or predominately of European ancestry, or wholly or predominantly of Amerindian ancestry. Many Hispanics and Latinos from the Caribbean, as well as regions of Latin America where African slavery was widespread. The difference between the terms Hispanic and Latino is confusing to some, the U. S. Census Bureau equates the two terms and defines them as referring to anyone from Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. The term Latino has developed a number of definitions, one definition of Latino is a Latin male in the United States. This is the oldest and the definition used in the United States. This definition encompasses Spanish speakers from both Europe and the Americas, under this definition, immigrants from Spain and immigrants from Latin America are both Latino. This definition is consistent with the 21st-century usage by the U. S. Census Bureau and OMB, a later definition of Latino is as a condensed form of the term Latino-Americano, the Spanish word for Latin-American, or someone who comes from Latin America. Under this definition a Mexican American or Puerto Rican, for example, is both a Hispanic and a Latino, a Brazilian American is also a Latino by this definition, which includes those of Portuguese-speaking origin from Latin America. An immigrant from Spain, however, would be classified as Hispanic, while the U. S. Census Bureaus definition of Hispanic is limited to Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America, other government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term
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Shakira
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, and record producer. Born and raised in Barranquilla, she began performing in school, demonstrating Latin American, Arabic, Shakira entered the English-language market with her fifth album, Laundry Service. Its lead single, Whenever, Wherever, became the single of 2002. Shakiras eighth and ninth albums, She Wolf and Sale el Sol and her official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Waka Waka, became the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time. With over 1.3 billion views, it is one of the music videos on YouTube. Shakira served as a coach on the fourth and sixth seasons of the American version of The Voice in 2013 and 2014 and her tenth album, Shakira, is preceded by its lead single, Cant Remember to Forget You. She carries out well-known philanthropic activities through charity work most notably through her Pies Descalzos Foundation, in 2014, she was listed as the 58th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla and she is the only child of Nidia Ripoll Torrado and William Mebarak Chadid. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Lebanon to New York City, where her father was born and her father then emigrated to Colombia at age 5. The name Shakira is Arabic, from which language it translates as grateful and it is the feminine form of the name Shakir. From her mother, she has Spanish and Italian ancestry, although both of her mothers surnames are Spanish and she was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools. She has eight older half-siblings from her fathers previous marriage, as she was growing up, she was fascinated watching her father writing stories on a typewriter, and asked for one as a Christmas gift. She got that typewriter at the age of seven, and has continued writing poetry since then and these poems eventually evolved into songs. She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer and she enjoyed singing for schoolmates and teachers at her Catholic school, but in second grade, she was rejected for the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded like a goat, at school, she was often sent out of the class because of her hyperactivity. She says she had also known as the belly dancer girl. Thats how I discovered my passion for live performance, she says, to instill gratitude in Shakira for her upbringing, her father took her to a local park to see orphans who lived there. The images stayed with her, and she said to herself, as noted below, she eventually did exactly that
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Juan Gabriel
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Alberto Aguilera Valadez, better known by his stage name Juan Gabriel, was a Mexican singer and songwriter. Colloquially nicknamed as Juanga and El Divo de Juárez, Gabriel was known for his flamboyant style, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide, Juan Gabriel was among Latin Americas best-selling singer-songwriters. His nineteenth studio album, Recuerdos, Vol. II, holds the distinction of being the album of all time in Mexico. During his career, Juan Gabriel wrote around 1,800 songs, on August 28,2016, Juan Gabriel died of a heart attack at his home in Santa Monica, California, while still on a tour in the United States. Gabriel was posthumously awarded two Latin Grammy Awards for his album, Los Dúo, Vol.2, Alberto Aguilera Valadez was born on January 7,1950, in Parácuaro, Michoacán. The son of farmers Gabriel Aguilera Rodríguez and Victoria Valadez Rojas, during his childhood, his father was interned into a psychiatric hospital. Due to this, his mother moved to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, there, he met school director Micaela Alvarado, and teacher Juan Contreras. Aguilera became very close with Contreras, then escaped El Tribunal, in the same year, Aguilera composed his first song. At 14 Aguilera returned to live with his mother in the center of the town and he became interested in a local Methodist Church and met the sisters Leonor and Beatriz Berúmen, who took him in. There he sang in the choir and helped by cleaning the church, in 1965, Aguilera debuted on the Notivisa television show Noches Rancheras. Host Raúl Loya gave him the pseudonym Adán Luna, in the program, he sang the song María la Bandida by José Alfredo Jiménez. From 1966 to 1968, he started to work as a singer at the Noa-Noa bar, during this period, he wrote the song El Noa Noa. He also worked as a singer in other bars in the town, later, he traveled to Mexico City looking for opportunities at record companies, but he was rejected. He returned to Juárez, where he continued working as a singer, the next year, he tried again to be signed by a record label. At RCA Víctor, he was hired by Eduardo Magallanes to work as a backing vocalist, working for Roberto Jordan, Angélica María, in 1970, he resigned because he received insufficient payment and returned to work the bars in Juárez. As people told him he would have if he tried again. Not having enough money, Aguilera slept in bus and train stations, at a certain point, he was wrongly accused of robbery, and was imprisoned in the Palacio de Lecumberri prison for a year and a half. During this time, he wrote songs, which helped him to meet Andrés Puentes Vargas, Lecumberris prison warden and she helped him, and due to the lack of evidence he was released from prison
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Crazy in Love
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Crazy in Love is the lead single from American singer Beyoncés 2003 debut solo album, Dangerously in Love. It features a guest verse from rapper Jay Z, the artists wrote and composed the song in collaboration with Rich Harrison and Eugene Record, the former also produced it with Beyoncé. Using samples from The Chi-Lites 1970 song Are You My Woman, Crazy in Love is an R&B and pop song that incorporates elements of hip hop, soul. Its lyrics describe a romantic obsession that causes the protagonist to act out of character, columbia Records released Crazy in Love on May 18,2003, as the lead single from Dangerously in Love. It was a hit in the United States and United Kingdom. With global sales of 2.9 million, Music critics praised Crazy in Loves hook, Jay Zs contribution, and Beyoncés assertive delivery of the lyrics. VH1 declared it the greatest song of the 2000s decade, while Rolling Stone ranked it as the 118th best song of all time in 2010, at the 46th Grammy Awards, Crazy in Love won Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The songs accompanying video features Beyoncé in various dance sequences. It won three awards at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, and its director, Jake Nava, since 2003, Crazy in Love has been a staple in Beyoncé’s live performances and concert tours. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recognized Crazy in Love as one of the most performed songs of 2004, artists including David Byrne have covered the song, and it has been used in various television shows and other media. In July 2002, Beyoncé had already recorded songs which would appear on Dangerously in Love. These delays allowed Beyoncé to record songs for the album. Before meeting Beyoncé, Rich Harrison had conceptualized the beat of the song and he sampled the hooks instrumentation from the 1970 song Are You My Woman. Originally written and composed by Eugene Record, frontman of the Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites, people do not really get it and you will leave them with a foul taste in their mouth. Harrison was pleasantly surprised when he got a call from Beyoncé, however, things did not turn up according to his plans the following day as he was late and was still suffering the effects of a hangover. Nevertheless, Beyoncé became friendlier to the sample, much to Harrisons delight, Harrison confessed that it was not easy for him to come up with the lyrics to Crazy in Love in that length of time. But two hours later, he had written the verses, and the hook, in spite of being hung over, Harrison had also made provision for a backing track, he played all the instruments on the track. Harrison sang back to her and said, Thats the hook and it also inspired the title of the song
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Kiss and Say Goodbye
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Kiss and Say Goodbye is a song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Manhattans. It was one of the biggest hits of 1976, the song was written by Manhattans member Winfred Blue Lovett. The lyrics and melody came to him one night. As he later recalled, Everything was there, I got up about three oclock in the morning and jotted down the things I wanted to say. I just put the words together on my tape recorder and little piano, ive always thought that when you write slow songs, they have to have meaning. In this case, its the love triangle situation weve all been through, I figured anyone whos been in love could relate to it. And it seemed to touch home for a lot of folks, Lovett originally considered the song a country tune more appropriate to be sung by Glen Campbell or Charley Pride. He decided to do it with his group and sing background on it, the original demo of the song was recorded with The Manhattans backing band, Little Harlem. After hearing a tape of the recording, producer/arranger Bobby Martin decided to re-record the song with MFSB at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, recorded in early 1975, Columbia Records officials withheld releasing the song until 14 months later. Lovett had his concerns over when the record out as well as the record itself. I was critical, a perfectionist in the studio, and there are parts of it that make my skin crawl. For example, in one place, the background vocals go off pitch, somehow, though, that didnt seem to bother anyone else. Released as a single, the became a worldwide hit for the group. And reaching number four on the UK Singles Chart in the middle of 1976, in the U. S. the song was the 400th #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. It also became just the single to earn platinum certification status. Billboard ranked it as the No.6 song for 1976, besides being the first and only No.1 pop hit for the Manhattans, Kiss and Say Goodbye marked more than 11 years since the group first made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965 with I Wanna Be. Hong Kong Pop Diva Anita Muis rendition of song, Cherish When We Meet Again, was the final song she performed before her death from Cervical Cancer in December 2003. Billy Joe Royal released a version of the song on his 1989 album, british reggae/pop band UB40 covered the song for their 2005 album Who You Fighting For
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The Manhattans
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The Manhattans are an American popular R&B vocal group. Their work includes million-selling songs Kiss and Say Goodbye recorded in 1976, the Manhattans have recorded twelve top 10 R&B hits in the United States charting on the Billboard chart for the first time in 1965. Their 1983 song Forever By Your Side remains especially popular in Brazil thirty years after its release, the Manhattans, originally from Jersey City, formed in 1962 with members George Smitty Smith, Edward Sonny Bivins, Winfred Blue Lovett, Kenny Wally Kelley, and Richard Ricky Taylor. Bivins, Lovett, and Kelley were graduating from Lincoln High School, while Taylor, all five enlisted in the armed forces and came together as a group following their discharges from their respective branches. The groups first single was For the Very First Time, released in 1964 by Carnival Records and they continued recording successfully with songs written by various members of the group. In 1968, the received the Most Promising Group award by NATRA. In 1969, the moved to the De Luxe record label. While playing at Kittrell College in North Carolina, the group met another group and they were so impressed with Alston that they asked him to join the group, but he declined. Misfortune hit the group late in 1970 when George Smith fell down a flight of stairs, with him unable to perform, the group began to search for a new lead. First they attempted to woo The Cymbals lead, Lee Williams, the group then renewed their request to Gerald Alston, who accepted and took over the lead spot. Original lead singer George Smith died of a tumor on December 16,1970,2 days before his 31st birthday. The Manhattans continued recording throughout the 1970s with Alston singing lead vocals and they struck chart gold in 1973 with the Bivins-written song Theres No me Without You. The song quickly became a #1 chart topper on both the US Billboard Pop and R&B charts and it also became only the second single to go platinum, after the RIAA introduced the award in 1976. Taylor left in 1976 to concentrate on his conversion to Islam and he died in 1987 after a long illness. The group continued as a quartet, and found success in March 1980 with the release of Shining Star. Produced and co-written by the Chicago-based record producer, Leo Graham, in 1983, The Manhattans released the album Forever By Your Side, by Columbia Records, which brought the two singles the group that year. The first was the song Crazy, the success of this album. The success made Forever By Your Side gain a Portuguese version the following year, called Pra Sempre Vou Te Amar, the group celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1985 with the release of Too Hot To Stop It
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Volverte a Amar
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Volverte a Amar is the first single from Alejandra Guzmáns twelfth studio album Indeleble. The song was produced by Loris Ceroni and written by Mario Domm, the song was very successful in Mexico and United States. In Mexico, the ringtone of this single was certified double-gold, the single also hit #1 there and #6 on the Billboards Hot Latin Tracks chart. The song received a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Total Eclipse of the Heart
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Total Eclipse of the Heart is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and released on Tylers fifth studio album, the song was released as a single by Columbia Records on 11 February 1983 in the United Kingdom and on 31 May 1983 in the United States. It was Billboards number-six song of the year for 1983, Tyler visited Steinman in his apartment in New York in April 1982 with her manager, where she was presented with two tracks, Have You Ever Seen the Rain. and Goin Through the Motions. She stated that had she not liked the songs Steinman played for her and she returned to his studio apartment weeks later, where Steinman and Rory Dodd presented Total Eclipse of the Heart to her. He also hand-picked the recording band for the song, Total Eclipse of the Heart had to be shortened for radio play. Tyler did not believe that the song was radio-friendly at its full length, the power ballad remains Tylers most successful song, peaking at No.1 in the United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. At its peak, it sold 60,000 copies per day and it won the Variety Club award in the UK for best single of 1983. The song also made number 82 of VH1s top 100 love songs, Steinman said in an interview with Playbill, with Total Eclipse of the Heart, I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was Vampires in Love because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, if anyone listens to the lyrics, theyre really like vampire lines. Its all about the darkness, the power of darkness and loves place in dark and he also told People magazine that he thought Tyler sounded like John Fogerty, and wrote the song to be a showpiece for her voice. Tyler described the song as a challenge, stating that she like songs that anybody can sing, I like songs that need a lot of energy. After Steinman presented her with the song she told The Times, I couldnt wait to actually get in and record it. Total Eclipse of the Heart was then given to Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf was apparently very annoyed that Jim gave that to me, Tyler stated. But Jim said he didnt write it for Meat Loaf, that he finished it after meeting me. Mike DeGagne from AllMusic described Total Eclipse of the Heart as one of the finest ballads ever to hit radio and he noted the lush instrumentation and said that Tylers voice produced the perfect type of desperate lovelorn effect to suit the romantic lyrics. He described Roy Bittans piano playing as dreamy and described Tylers voice as wonderfully gritty. Donald A. Guarisco, also from AllMusic, reviewed Faster Than the Speed of Night, the video features Bonnie Tyler clad in white, dreaming or fantasizing about her students in a boys boarding school. Young men are dancing and participating in various school activities
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Bonnie Tyler
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Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles Lost in France and her 1978 single Its a Heartache reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tylers biggest hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, the single from her 1983 UK chart topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman also wrote Tylers other major 1980s hit Holding Out for a Hero and she had success in mainland Europe during the 1990s with Dieter Bohlen, who wrote and produced her hit Bitterblue. In 2003, Tyler re-recorded Total Eclipse of the Heart with singer Kareen Antonn and their bilingual duet topped the French charts. Her latest album Rocks and Honey was released in 2013 and features the single Believe in Me which she performed representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Both Its a Heartache and Total Eclipse of the Heart are among the singles of all time. Her work has earned her three Grammy Award nominations and three Brit Award nominations, among other accolades, Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins in Skewen, Wales, to coal miner Glyndwr and housewife Elsie Hopkins. She grew up in a council house with three sisters and two brothers. Her siblings had varied music tastes, exposing her to such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra. Hopkins and her family were deeply religious Protestants and her first public performance took place in a chapel as a child, singing the Anglican hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful. Leaving school with no qualifications, Hopkins began working in a grocery shop. In 1969, she entered a talent contest, and after coming in second place, was inspired to pursue a career in singing. Responding to an advertisement, she found work as a backing singer for Bobby Wayne & the Dixies before forming her own soul band called Imagination. It was around this time that she changed her name to Sherene Davis in order to avoid being confused with Welsh folk singer Mary Hopkin. In 1975, Davis was spotted singing with her band in the Townsman Club, Swansea, by talent scout Roger Bell, after many months had passed, she received a phone call from RCA Records, offering her a recording contract. They also recommended that she change her name again, after compiling a list of surnames and Christian names from a newspaper, Davis found a new name in Bonnie Tyler
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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A Natural Woman is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The song was co-written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, with input from Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler, the record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her. Franklin also included a recording on the album Aretha in Paris in 1968. Versions have also performed and recorded by King herself, Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion. At the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, Aretha Franklin performed the song to honor award-recipient Carole King, written by the celebrated partnership of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song was inspired by Atlantic Records co-owner and producer Jerry Wexler. As recounted in his autobiography, Wexler, a student of African-American musical culture, had been mulling over the concept of the natural man and he shouted out to her that he wanted a natural woman song for Aretha Franklins next album. In thanks, Goffin and King granted Wexler a co-writing credit, peggy Lee released a version on her 1969 album A Natural Woman. It was recorded by Carole King on her landmark 1971 album Tapestry, Celine Dion recorded the song in 1995 for the Tapestry Revisited, A Tribute to Carole King album, and released it as a single. Mary J. Blige also recorded the song that year for New York Undercover, beccy Cole covered the song live on her 2007 Live @ Lizottes album. Carole King and Gloria Estefan performed the song in May 2009 in the Shes Got a Friend concerts at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, the audio from one of the performances was included on some editions of Estefans 2013 album, The Standards. In 2012, Christine Anu covered the song on her album, Rewind, in December 2015, Aretha Franklin gave a universally acclaimed performance at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for honoree Carole King. A Natural Woman was released as a single by Celine Dion in November 1995 in North America. It was featured on an album to Carole King, called Tapestry Revisited. Later, Dion included this track on most editions of her 1996 album Falling into You, the track was produced by David Foster. Dions version enjoyed a success on the adult contemporary charts, reaching number 4 in Canada. In 2008, the song was featured on the US version of My Love, when Falling in Love won the Grammy for Album of the year in 1998, the song became the first to appear on two Album of the Year winners - following Tapestrys success in 1971. On April 14,1998, Dion, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan and Carole King performed the song during a VH1 Divas concert at the Beacon Theatre, New York. The five vocalists were recruited by the music network VH1 to raise money for Save the Music
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Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklins church as a child, in 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with such as Respect, A Natural Woman. These hits and more helped her to gain the title The Queen of Soul by the end of the 1960s decade, in 1998, Franklin won international acclaim for singing the opera aria Nessun dorma, at the Grammys of that year replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that same year, she scored her final Top 40 recording with A Rose Is Still a Rose, Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Franklin has been honored throughout her career including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and she was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In August 2012, Franklin was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Barbara and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Her father, who went by the nickname, C. L. was an itinerant preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was a piano player. Alongside Franklin, her parents had three children while both C. L. and Barbara had children from outside their marriage. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York when Franklin was two, before her fifth birthday, C. L. Franklin permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastorship of New Bethel Baptist Church. Franklins mother died on March 7,1952, before Franklins tenth birthday, several women, including Franklins grandmother Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Franklin learned how to play piano by ear, Franklins fathers emotionally driven sermons resulted in him being known as the man with the million-dollar voice and earning thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. Just after her mothers death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel, debuting with the hymn, Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me. Four years later, when Franklin was 14, her father began managing her and he helped his daughter get signed to her first recording deal with J. V. B. Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was issued in 1956, two singles were released to gospel radio stations including Never Grow Old and Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Franklin sometimes traveled with The Caravans and The Soul Stirrers during this time and developed a crush on Sam Cooke, after turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke to record pop music. Serving as her manager, C. L. agreed to the move and helped to produce a demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records. Franklin was signed as a five-percent artist, during this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances
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Simon Cowell
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Simon Phillip Cowell is an English reality television judge and producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Cowell is the founder and chief executive of the British entertainment company Syco. As a judge, Cowell often makes blunt and controversial comments, including insults and wisecracks about contestants and he combines activities in both the television and music industries. Cowell has produced and promoted singles and albums for various singers that he has taken under his wing and he was most recently featured on the tenth series of Britains Got Talent and the thirteenth series of UKs The X Factor. In 2004 and 2010, Time named Cowell one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked him sixth in their list of the 100 most powerful people in British culture. Simon Phillip Cowell was born on 7 October 1959 in Lambeth, London and his mother, Julie Brett, was a ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell, Sr. was an estate agent developer and music industry executive. Cowells father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his background with his children, Cowells mother was from a Christian background, and was of English descent. He has a brother, Nicholas Cowell, three half-brothers, John, Tony, and Michael Cowell, and a half-sister, June Cowell. Cowell attended Radlett Preparatory School and the independent Dover College as did his brother and he passed English Language and Literature, and then attended Windsor Technical College where he gained another GCE in Sociology. However, after failing to get a promotion, he left to try out other jobs before returning to EMI, in the early 1980s, he left EMI to form E&S Music with his former boss at EMI, but quit in 1983. He then formed Fanfare Records with Iain Burton, initially selling exercise videos and he had his first hit song in 1986 with So Macho by Sinitta, success also came through Stock Aitken Waterman who produced a number of hits in the 1980s. However, in 1989, the company went under and Simon Cowell nearly became bankrupt, Simon Cowell then found a job with BMG as an A&R consultant, and set up S Records under BMG. He restarted his career in the business by creating novelty records with acts such as the puppets Zig and Zag, Power Rangers. The recording by the duo, now named Robson & Jerome, quickly reached number 1 in the UK and it became the best selling single of 1995, and their self-titled album released later in the year also became the best-selling album of 1995. They would release an album and 2 more singles before quitting, selling 7 million albums and 5 million singles in total. According to Cowell, they made him his first million, later acts he signed included Five, Westlife and Teletubbies. He also became a judge on the first season of American Idol in 2002, with his notoriously critical reputation, Cowell is likened to TV personalities such as Judith Sheindlin, and Anne Robinson of her show. Cowells prominence grew, fed by his phrase, I dont mean to be rude
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Paula Abdul
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Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, voice actress, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 before rising to prominence in the 1980s as a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the video era. Abdul later scored a string of pop hits in the late 1980s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her with Diana Ross for seventh among the female performers who have topped the chart. She won a Grammy for Best Music Video – Short Form for Opposites Attract, after her initial period of success, Abdul suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life. She saw renewed fame and success as a judge on American Idol in the 2000s. Abdul was born in San Fernando, California, to Jewish parents, Abduls father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian-Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria, was raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States. Her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M. Rykiss, grew up in one of the two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba, and has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from Ukraine, Abdul holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. She has a sister named Wendy, in 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School. An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin in the Rain. Abdul began taking lessons at an early age in ballet, jazz. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader, at 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School. Abdul studied broadcasting at the California State University, Northridge, during her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team—the famed Laker Girls. Within a year, she became head choreographer, Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game. She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their single Torture and my only problem was how to tell the Jacksons how to dance, Abdul later recalled. Imagine me telling them what routines to do, I was young, I was scared. Im not quite sure how I got through that, the success of the choreography in the video led to Abduls career of choreographer in music videos. It was also due to the success of the video that Abdul was chosen to be the choreographer for the Jacksons Victory tour, Abdul choreographed videos for several singers throughout the 1980s, including many videos for Janet Jackson during her Control era
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Randy Jackson
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Randall Darius Randy Jackson is an American bassist, singer, record producer, entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known from his work as a judge on American Idol. Jackson has won a Grammy Award as a producer, Jackson was born on June 23,1956, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Julia, a homemaker, and Herman Jackson, a plant foreman. His first marriage, to Elizabeth Jackson, was dissolved in 1990, in 1995, Jackson married Erika Riker, with whom he has two children, a 14-year-old daughter named Zoe and a 12-year-old son named Jordan. In 2003, Jackson lost 114 pounds following gastric bypass surgery and he stated in a February 2008 television commercial that he has type 2 diabetes. In the early 1980s he played on three albums for Jean-Luc Ponty and with the rock band Taxxi, from 1986 to 1987 he was a session musician for the rock group Journey. Jackson played on Journeys 1986 album Raised on Radio and he moved to Italy in the late 1980s and played on a record by Italian pop star Zucchero. The record, Zucchero and the Randy Jackson Band, was produced by Corrado Rustici who played guitar with Jackson on many albums in the early 1980s and he also played with Billy Cobham. In 1985, Keith Richards was asked to provide music for the Whoopi Goldberg comedy vehicle Jumpin Jack Flash, Richards assembled an all-star band which included Aretha Franklin on piano and lead vocals and Jackson on bass guitar. This song was the track on Arethas 1986 album titled Aretha. Jackson can be seen in the songs video, in the late 1980s, Jackson was still doing sessions. He was notably on the first solo album by famed session guitarist Steve Lukather, Jackson was a featured bass guitarist on five songs on Mazes 1989 Silky Soul album. He also performed on several of Kenny Gs albums, Jackson was the bass guitarist on the 1991 self-titled Divinyls album as well as featured bassist on several tracks of Tracy Chapmans 1992 release, Matters of the Heart. He performed on the singles Bang Bang Bang, Open Arms and that same year, Jackson also played bass on Bruce Springsteens song Human Touch. Jackson has recorded, produced, or toured with many artists and bands, ranging from Mariah Carey to N Sync, Whitney Houston, Dionne Farris, Céline Dion, Fergie, Stryper. Jackson played numerous times in Jean-Luc Pontys backing band and his production/songwriting work in the San Francisco Bay Area with Narada Michael Walden and Walter Afanasieff led Jackson to be in demand as a producer as well. On March 11,2008, Jackson released an album produced entirely by himself, titled Randy Jacksons Music Club, the albums release was preceded by the single Dance Like Theres No Tomorrow sung by Paula Abdul. In 2009, Randy began working with former Idol finalist Kimberley Locke, the lead single, Strobe Light, was released March 16,2010
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Alone (Heart song)
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Alone is a song composed by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. It first appeared via Steinberg and Kellys 1983 pet project, I-Ten and it was later recorded by Valerie Stevenson and John Stamos in their roles as Lisa Copley and Gino Minelli, on the original soundtrack of the CBS sitcom Dreams in 1984. American rock band Heart made it a number-one US and Canadian hit in 1987, twenty years later, Celine Dion recorded it for her album Taking Chances. Heart released the song as the first single from their studio album, Bad Animals. Their version is a ballad that begins with a piano line. The song has been covered numerous times on American Idol, according to a Songfacts interview with Steinberg, Kelly provided the high harmony parts on the record. Alone is Hearts biggest hit, spending three weeks at No.1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 that July and it ranked No.2 on the Billboard Year-End Top Pop Singles of 1987, behind Walk Like An Egyptian by The Bangles. The songs popular video featured the band in a live performance. An unplugged version of the later appeared on Hearts 1995 album The Road Home. An extended version of Alone clocking in at 5,30 was released in Japan as the B-side to Hearts third single from Bad Animals and this Long Version is exclusive to this 3 mini-CD single, and not found on any other release. Celine Dion covered Alone for her ninth English-language studio album Taking Chances and it was released as the second single in Europe and North America, and third in the United Kingdom, while Eyes on Me was released as the second single in the United Kingdom instead. Alone was produced by Ben Moody, ex-member of Evanescence, the version received mixed reviews from music critics, who thought that the cover was too similar with the original, considering it a dull and carbon-copy version. Dion covered Alone for her tenth English studio album Taking Chances, the version was produced by Ben Moody, former member of rock band Evanescence. Dions version features tinkling pianos and enveloping strings and it was released as the second single in Europe and North America, and third in the United Kingdom. The digital single release in the UK on May 5,2008 was coincided with the British leg of the Taking Chances World Tour, in October 2008, Alone was included on the European version of My Love, Essential Collection. A live version was included in the Taking Chances World Tour, music critics were divided on Alone. Great vocal, terrific melody, a rendition, but Alone is already indelibly stamped by Hearts Ann Wilson. Toronto Star editor Ashante Infantry called this song sentimental, cringe-worthy diva track, chuck Taylor of Billboard called it a rowdy cover
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Kris Allen
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Kristopher Neil Kris Allen is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol, he self-released a 2007 album entitled Brand New Shoes, Allens Idol coronation song, No Boundaries and his version of Heartless both charted within the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. Allens post-Idol self-titled album was released on November 17,2009, the album debuted at number eleven on the U. S. Billboard 200. The albums lead single, Live Like Were Dying, was released on September 21,2009, Allens second major-label album Thank You Camellia was released on May 22,2012, and the lead single The Vision of Love was released March 26,2012. Allen released his studio album, Letting You In, on March 18,2016. Allen was born in Jacksonville, Arkansas, to Kimberly and Neil Allen and he is the elder of two sons, his younger brother, Daniel, is a college cheerleading coach. Allens interest in music very early. Additionally, he himself to play the guitar at age 13. His musical influences, as stated in his Idol confessionals, include the Beatles, Jamie Cullum, Jason Mraz, Pat Monahan, John Mayer, Allen played publicly for several years before trying out for Idol, even opening for earlier Idol contestant Sean Michel on multiple occasions. He has described his decision to audition for American Idol as a last hurrah before giving up his pursuit of a music career. After high school, Allen moved to Conway, Arkansas, to attend the University of Central Arkansas, where he was a business major and a member of Chi Alpha campus ministries. During college, he participated in Christian missionary work around the world, including in Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, South Africa, Spain and Thailand. Allen also served as a leader for New Life Church in Conway and Little Rock, AR. He dropped out of college in the middle of his year to pursue music professionally, performing in local bars. Allen planned to go back to college to finish his degree and get a real job, Kris stated that If I had not made it through in American Idol, I would have gone back to college and gotten my business degree. Allen realized during college that he wanted to play music professionally and he worked as a shoe salesman at a sporting goods store during the day to make ends meet and continued playing gigs in Little Rock and Fayetteville at night. In 2007, Allen wrote and self-produced an album entitled Brand New Shoes with college friends and bandmates Michael Holmes and Chase Erwin. The albums title makes reference to Allens days as a shoe salesman, Allen auditioned for the eighth season of American Idol in Louisville, Kentucky, with his brother Daniel, who did not make it to Hollywood
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel
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Give In to Me
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Give In to Me is the tenth track on Michael Jacksons 1991 studio album Dangerous. The single peaked at one in New Zealand for four consecutive weeks. Stylistically, Give In to Me is a rock ballad which featured Guns N Roses guitarist Slash. Some suggest that the song, also considered a heavy ballad, has an aggressive sexual flavor. The single was released in Europe only, the single releases B-sides include the album versions of Dirty Diana and Beat It. This song is written in the key of E minor, Jacksons vocal spans from G3 to B4. It has a slow tempo of 87 beats per minute. Give In to Me received positive reviews from music critics. Entertainment Weekly editor David Browne praised Jacksons delivery, writing, when his voice isnt competing with drum machines, loud explosions are later heard with visuals of stylized electrical arcs and Jackson dancing as they run down his body. Slashs Les Paul is hit in the frets which increases the speed of the riffs, the last scene shows one electrical arc running down Jacksons body, an unintentional effect that was left in. The video is featured on the albums, Dangerous - The Short Films. It was shot on June 25,1992 in Munich, Germany, the pyrotechnics appearing on the video are computer-generated and were added later on. 2001, Eminems melody line from his track Under the Influence is similar to the song,2003, Dream Theaters song Endless Sacrifice from Train of Thought album contains a guitar melody similar to the song. 2009, Allison Iraheta performed the song on the season of American Idol. 2009, French hip hop artist Kery James sampled Give In to Me on his song Lettre à Mon Public,2010, Tech N9nes song Last Sad Song contains a piano melody similar to Jacksons song. 2012, Three Days Grace included a cover of song on their album Transit of Venus. 2006, Justin Timberlake Sampled The Song on Summer Love on his Album FutureSex/LoveSounds
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Blame It on Your Heart
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Blame It On Your Heart is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas, and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I Feel, a cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love. David Keith played the ex-boyfriend in the video, Blame It On Your Heart was also recorded by Heidi Raye and released on Harlan Howard Records. The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, the music video for Blame It on Your Heart was directed by Sherman Halsey. Allison Iraheta on American Idol Season 8 sang this song during Grand Ole Opry Week, river Phoenix also performed this song in the 1993 movie, The Thing Called Love, one of his final films before his death. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Patty Loveless
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Patty Loveless is an American country music singer. Since her emergence on the music scene in late 1986 with her first album. She has also recorded albums in the pop and bluegrass genres. Loveless was born in Pikeville, Kentucky, and raised in Elkhorn City, Kentucky and she rose to stardom thanks to her blend of honky tonk and country-rock and a plaintive, emotional ballad style. Her late-1980s records were popular, earning her comparisons to Patsy Cline. To date, more than 40 singles by Loveless have made the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and she has recorded 14 studio albums, in the United States, four of these albums have been certified platinum, and two have been certified gold. She has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1988, Loveless was married to Terry Lovelace, from whom she derived her professional name, from 1976 to 1986. She has been married to Emory Gordy Jr. who is also her producer, Patty Loveless was born January 4,1957 in Pikeville, Kentucky. She was the sixth of seven born to Naomie and John Ramey of Elkhorn City. As were many men in the area, Mr. Ramey was a coal miner, Loveless interest in music started when she was a young child. In 1969, when she was twelve, the Ramey family moved to Louisville, the move was necessitated from her fathers struggles with black lung disease from years of working in the coal mines. She graduated from Fairdale High School in 1975 and her older sister, Dottie Ramey, an aspiring country singer, frequently performed at small clubs in eastern Kentucky with her brother Roger, billed as the Swinging Rameys. Traveling with Dottie and Roger to Fort Knox in 1969 and hearing her perform on stage. When Dottie married in 1969 and quit performing, Roger persuaded Patty to perform onstage for the first time at a jamboree in Hodgenville. The forum consisted of foldout chairs in an auditorium and was called the Lincoln Jamboree. Patty Ramey joined her brother Roger and started singing together at several clubs in Louisville Kentucky, Loveless and her brother would perform in various clubs in the Louisville area. A local radio announcer, Danny King with a radio station in Louisville was a supporter of the Ramey kids. Whenever there was an opportunity for them to appear on stage, he would call up the Rameys and it was her brother Roger who initially took Patty Ramey to Nashville, Tennessee in 1971
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Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
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Papa Was a Rollin Stone is a psychedelic soul song, written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong as a single for Motown act The Undisputed Truth in 1971. This version of Papa was released as a single in early 1972 and peaked at #63 on the Pop Charts and #24 on the R&B Charts, and was included on The Undisputed Truths 1973 album Law of the Land. While the original Undisputed Truth version of the song has largely forgotten, The Temptations version of the song has been an enduring. It was ranked number 168 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, in retrospect, The Temptations Otis Williams considers Papa to be the last real classic the group recorded. A very unusual thing about this song is that it only one chord throughout — B-flat minor. Friction arose during the recording of Papa Was a Rollin Stone for a number of reasons, Norman Whitfield forced Dennis Edwards to re-record his parts dozens of times until he finally got the angered, bitter grumble he desired out of the usually fiery-toned Edwards. Whitfields treatment of the group led to his dismissal as their producer. It actually was on the third of October, however, a seven-minute edited version of Papa Was a Rollin Stone was released as a single in September 1972. For this mix, congas were added to bolster the songs sparse percussion, the Temptations box set Emperors of Soul has the edited version in stereo, but without the congas. The B-side was the backing by The Funk Brothers without the Temptations vocals. Papa rose to one on the U. S. pop charts and number five on the U. S. R&B charts. A number of covers of Papa Was a Rollin Stone have been recorded. Issac Hayes and Charlotte Kelly recorded a version of this song, in January 1995, they also performed the song live on Taratata. The record producer and remixer Dr. Heinz Funkenpumpe released a remix of The Pioneers version in 2009, bill Wolf Wolfer created an electronic cover of the number for his 1982 debut album, Wolf. The single peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1983, luis Miguel recorded a Spanish-language version during the recording sessions of Soy como quiero ser in 1987. The group Was covered the song on their 1990 album Are You Okay. george Michael performed the song during the Cover to Cover tour in 1991, where it was blended with the Adamski hit Killer. It was released on the EP Five Live and this arrangement was also performed by Seal. In the Battle of the Groups segment of the TV special Motown Returns to the Apollo in 1985 the Four Tops sang the coda, much to the outrage of the Temptations
