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Hans Breukhoven
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Johannes Arie Hans Breukhoven was a Dutch businessman. He was the founder and president of Free Record Shop and he was the son of Adry Hermans, father of five children and ex-husband of Connie Breukhoven. Business magazine Quote estimated Breukhovens fortune in the Quote 500 at €93 million, after leaving secondary school, he trained to become a steward. After completion, he worked two and a half years as a host on the Holland America Line, on 15 October 1971, Breukhoven opened the first Free Record Shop at Broersveld in Schiedam. In 2008, the chain consisted of 182 shops in the Netherlands and 66 in Belgium and he was also a major shareholder of SnowWorld NV. He died on 20 January 2017 in London after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer
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Dutch language
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It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after English and German. Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English and is said to be roughly in between them, Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but far fewer than English. In both Belgium and the Netherlands, the official name for Dutch is Nederlands, and its dialects have their own names, e. g. Hollands, West-Vlaams. The use of the word Vlaams to describe Standard Dutch for the variations prevalent in Flanders and used there, however, is common in the Netherlands, the Dutch language has been known under a variety of names. It derived from the Old Germanic word theudisk, one of the first names used for the non-Romance languages of Western Europe. It literarily means the language of the people, that is. The term was used as opposed to Latin, the language of writing. In the first text in which it is found, dating from 784, later, theudisca appeared also in the Oaths of Strasbourg to refer to the Germanic portion of the oath. This led inevitably to confusion since similar terms referred to different languages, owing to Dutch commercial and colonial rivalry in the 16th and 17th centuries, the English term came to refer exclusively to the Dutch. A notable exception is Pennsylvania Dutch, which is a West Central German variety called Deitsch by its speakers, Jersey Dutch, on the other hand, as spoken until the 1950s in New Jersey, is a Dutch-based creole. In Dutch itself, Diets went out of common use - although Platdiets is still used for the transitional Limburgish-Ripuarian Low Dietsch dialects in northeast Belgium, Nederlands, the official Dutch word for Dutch, did not become firmly established until the 19th century. This designation had been in use as far back as the end of the 15th century, one of them was it reflected a distinction with Hoogduits, High Dutch, meaning the language spoken in Germany. The Hoog was later dropped, and thus, Duits narrowed down in meaning to refer to the German language. g, in English, too, Netherlandic is regarded as a more accurate term for the Dutch language, but is hardly ever used. Old Dutch branched off more or less around the same time Old English, Old High German, Old Frisian and Old Saxon did. During that period, it forced Old Frisian back from the western coast to the north of the Low Countries, on the other hand, Dutch has been replaced in adjacent lands in nowadays France and Germany. The division in Old, Middle and Modern Dutch is mostly conventional, one of the few moments linguists can detect somewhat of a revolution is when the Dutch standard language emerged and quickly established itself. This is assumed to have taken place in approximately the mid-first millennium BCE in the pre-Roman Northern European Iron Age, the Germanic languages are traditionally divided into three groups, East, West, and North Germanic. They remained mutually intelligible throughout the Migration Period, Dutch is part of the West Germanic group, which also includes English, Scots, Frisian, Low German and High German
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Radio Veronica
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Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and broadcast from offshore for over fourteen years. Broadcasts began on 21 April 1960, the station announced itself as VRON but changed to Radio Veronica, after the poem Het Zwarte Schaap Veronica — The Black Sheep Veronica — by the childrens poet Annie M. G. Schmidt. After the stations closure, some of its staff applied for a broadcasting licence, the original Radio Veronica became the most popular station in the Netherlands. It broadcast from a former lightship Borkum Riff anchored off the Dutch coastline, the ship was fitted with a horizontal antenna between the fore and aft masts, fed by a one-kilowatt transmitter. Most of its programmes were recorded in a studio on the Zeedijk in Hilversum, at the end of the 1960s the studios and offices moved to bigger premises on the Utrechtseweg in Hilversum. Initially advertisers were reluctant to buy airtime, but those that did reported increases in sales, for a short time the station also ran an English language service under the call letters CNBC. Although short-lived, CNBC was presented by broadcasters who were able to give invaluable technical advice to Veronicas Dutch staff. The station faced its first serious competition in 1964 when Radio Noordzee and TV Noordzee began broadcasting from the REM Island, the Dutch government passed a law banning broadcasts from such structures and raided the REM Island, but left Veronica alone because of its popularity. The Norderney took over Veronicas broadcasts in November that year and the Borkum Riff was sold for scrap, during 1965 the station was influenced by English-language pirates like Radio London and adopted a faster format with jingles. The arrival of a powerful rival was to cause repercussions for Veronica. The jamming stopped when the returned to the Netherlands, taking up position just one mile from the Norderney. The German programmes were replaced by all English programmes. The Mebo II was equipped with a 100 kW AM transmitter as well as FM, although power did not guarantee RNI an audience, Radio Veronicas management were sufficiently worried about loss of advertising revenue that they planned to put RNI off the air. On 24 September 1970 RNI closed, claiming it was trying to stop the Dutch government from passing legislation that might force Veronica, so loved by the peoples of the Netherlands. In fact Veronica had paid RNI1 million guilders to go off the air for two months, and to enforce this agreement Veronica replaced the Mebo IIs crew with their own staff. RNIs management became unhappy with this arrangement, and once the two months were up one of RNIs Swiss directors, Erwin Bollier, attempted to refund the money, Veronica refused, claiming the right to renew the contract. On 5 January 1971 Bollier boarded the Mebo II, dismissed the Veronica-appointed captain and it was claimed that Veronicas staff had sabotaged RNIs equipment, but by February 1971 RNI was back on the air, with a Dutch as well as an English service. In March Veronica sued RNI for breach of contract, the court found in favour of RNI and the case tarnished Veronicas reputation
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I Feel Fine
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I Feel Fine is a song written by John Lennon and released in 1964 by the Beatles as the A-side of their eighth British single. The song has one of the first uses of guitar feedback in popular music, Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording Eight Days a Week. I wrote I Feel Fine around that riff going on in the background, I told them Id write a song specially for the riff. You go away and do that, knowing that wed almost finished the album Beatles for Sale, anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, Ive written this song but its lousy. But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A-side, paul McCartney said the drums on I Feel Fine were inspired by Ray Charless Whatd I Say. At the time of the recording, the Beatles, having mastered the studio basics, had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes. I Feel Fine marks one of the earliest examples of the use of feedback as an effect in popular music. Artists such as the Kinks and the Who had already used feedback live, I Feel Fine is written in 4/4 time with drummer Ringo Starrs R&B-influenced beat featured through most of the song except for the bridge, which has a more conventional backbeat. The melody, unusually, uses a third and a minor seventh. Just before the coda, Lennons intro riff is repeated with a sound by George Harrison on electric guitar. The song ends with a fadeout of the G major portion of the opening riff repeated several times, I Feel Fine starts with a single, percussive feedback note produced by plucking the A string on Lennons guitar. This was the first use of feedback on a rock record, according to McCartney, John had a semi-acoustic Gibson guitar. It had a pickup on it so it could be amplified and we were just about to walk away to listen to a take when John leaned his guitar against the amp. I can still see him doing it. it went, Nnnnnnwahhhhh, George Martin was there so we said, Can we have that on the record. Well, I suppose we could, we could edit it on the front and it was a found object, an accident caused by leaning the guitar against the amp. Although it sounded much like an electric guitar, Lennon actually played the riff on an acoustic-electric guitar. Later, Lennon was very proud of this sonic experimentation, in one of his last interviews, he said, I defy anybody to find a record—unless its some old blues record in 1922—that uses feedback that way. Two different music videos directed by Joe McGrath were filmed on 23 November 1965, both feature various bits of gym equipment
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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NPO 3FM
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NPO 3FM is a Dutch pop/rock radio station controlled by public broadcaster NPO. Its format is a combination of contemporary hit radio, alternative and it can be compared with BBC Radio 1. In the early days of the station, this led to a bag of programs barely linked to each other. As an example, Christian broadcaster EO used to broadcast Christian-themed programs, up until the early 1990s, NPO 3FM did not have a horizontal radio format, with each public broadcaster filling one day a week. The dawn of commercial competition and changing ideas about modern radio forced Radio 3 to overhaul its format drastically in 1992. First, three broadcasters decided to join forces and introduced Het Station, with a format for three days, with programs hosted by DJs from these three broadcasters. About a year later, Radio 3 went horizontal completely, with public broadcaster losing its own designated day but getting a fixed. TROS divides its programming between Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, in August 2014, the name of the stations was changed to NPO 3FM, incorporating the public broadcaster, NPO name and logo. Starting in 1971, Hilversum 3 hosted its own hit parade, the name and compiling methods of the Hilversum 3 chart changed several times. In the early 1970s it was known as either Hilversum 3 Top 30, in 1974 the name was changed into Nationale Hitparade, first a Top 30, later a Top 50 and a Top 100. In January 1993, the Nationale Hitparade was scrapped and replaced by an all new chart and it is still broadcast every Saturday. Unusually, Hilversum 3 used to have more than one pop chart between 1974 and 1992. While its official Nationale Hitparade chart - supported by most public broadcasters - was hosted by the NOS, Radio Veronica, once it received its status in 1976. Also, TROS introduced its own chart, TROS Top 50. For many years, you could listen to three separate charts on Hilversum 3, the TROS Top 50 on Thursdays, Top 40 on Fridays and Nationale Hitparade on Sundays. All this changed in early 1993, when the Nationale Hitparade was discontinued, the Top 40 moved to Radio 538 and NPO 3FM started its new chart, the Mega Top 50. In 2004, the station begun a charity project by the name of Serious Request in which three DJs play requested songs for money for six days and nights in a glass house and they collect this money for projects of the Red Cross. The DJs dont eat during these days, Serious Request starts every year the week before Christmas
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Radio 538
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Radio 538 is a Dutch commercial radio station that has evolved since 1992. 538, refers to the wavelength that Radio Veronica was broadcast on in the seventies and this station was intended for the younger generation and is owned by Talpa Holding and Telegraaf Media Groep. It has a variety of genres including the Top 40, dance, R&B, pop, rock. Traditionally, the station was obtained through cable, however in 1998 the station upgraded to a different frequency package. Radio 538 started the hip-hop and contemporary R&B program Juize, which developed into the radio station Juize. FM on 18 July 2004, later, in 2011, Radio 538 created a sister station called TV538. Transmissions began on 11 December 1992 from a villa in Bussum, the name Radio 538 is a reference to the wavelength on which Radio Veronica was broadcast in the seventies. Presenters of the first hour were Rick van Velthuysen, Wessel van Diepen, Erik de Zwart, Michael Pilarczyk, Will Luikinga, late nineties Radio 538 moved from Bussum to Hilversum, where it moved into a studio complex close to the town hall. Since December 1,2012 houses the entire 538 Group in the 4400 m2 large former NCRV building at Bergweg 70 in Hilversum, initially, from its start in 1992 until 1995, Radio 538 was available only via cable. A request to be allowed to broadcast over the air was rejected at that time, following a media campaign during which 320,000 signatures were collected, Radio 538 got its over-the-air frequency in 1995 – or more precisely, a collection of several regional frequencies. In 2003, Radio 538 was granted a new frequency,102 MHz.538 had to pay €57 million for the new frequencies. In 1995 Lex Harding started TMF, a TV station, at the end of 2002 Erik de Zwart left to go to competitor Noordzee FM. Jan-Willem Brüggenwirth became the new chairman, in December 2003 Radio 538 was sold to Advent International, Lex Harding retaining 10% of the shares. In May 2005 Radio 538 was sold in its entirety to Talpa Holding, in June 2007 De Mol sold the TV and radio assets of Talpa to RTL Nederland and became shareholder of RTL Nederland. Radio 538 managed in 10 years to win a substantial market share, in April/May 2004 the station nudged years of market leader Sky Radio to the throne. Nowadays 538 still alternating with NPO Radio 2 and NPO 3FM the most listened radio station in the Netherlands, the marketing share is between 10 and 12 percent. In 2002,2004 and 2009 Radio 538 won the Marconi Award for best radio station, when in 2000 was no clear procedure for a given frequency, Radio 538 withdrew from Flanders. In 2011 Talpa worked together with Finnish media conglomerate Sanoma to buy the Dutch activities of SBS Broadcasting from German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media. As part of that deal De Mol sold his shares in RTL Nederland to the RTL Group, retaining the ownership of Radio 538, in 2014 Radio 538 started with some new programs
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Missy Elliott
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Melissa Arnette Missy Elliott, often known professionally as Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, is an American rapper, dancer, and record producer. Following several collaborations and guest appearances, she launched her career in 1997 with her debut album Supa Dupa Fly. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200, the highest-charting debut for a female rapper at the time. Elliotts following album Da Real World, produced the singles Shes a Bitch, All n My Grill, with the release of Miss E. So Addictive, Under Construction, and This Is Not a Test, Elliott established an international career that yielded hits including Get Ur Freak On, One Minute Man,4 My People, Gossip Folks, and Work It. The latter won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance, Elliott went on to win five Grammy Awards, melissa Arnette Elliott was born on July 1,1971, in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is the child of mother Patricia Elliott, a power-company dispatcher, and father Ronnie. Elliott grew up in a church choir family, and singing was a normal part of her youth. At the age of four in 1975, she wanted to be a performer, in later years, she feared no one would take her seriously, because she was always the class clown. While her father was an active Marine, the family lived in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Elliott blossomed during this part of her life. She enjoyed school for the friendships she formed though she had little interest in school work and she would later get well above average marks on intelligence tests, and she was advanced two years ahead of her former class. Her move in grades caused isolation, and she purposely failed, when her father returned from the Marines, they moved back to Virginia, where they lived in extreme poverty. Life in Virginia saw many hardships, Elliott tells of domestic abuse by her father. She refused to stay over at friends homes out of fear that, on her return home, when Elliott was eight, she was molested by a cousin. In one violent incident, Ronnie Elliott dislocated his wifes shoulders and, during another, at fourteen, Elliotts mother decided to end the situation, she fled with her daughter under the guise of taking a joyride on a local bus. In reality, the pair had found refuge at a members home where their possessions were stored in a loaded U-Haul truck. Elliott tells that she feared her father would kill them both for leaving and she later stated, When we left, my mother realized how strong she was on her own, and it made me strong. It took her leaving to realize, Elliott graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1990
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Lose Control (Missy Elliott song)
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Lose Control is a hit song by American rapper/songwriter Missy Elliott featuring singer Ciara and rapper Fatman Scoop. It was released as the single from Elliotts sixth studio album. It contains samples from Hot Streaks Body Work and Cybotrons Clear, the song peaked at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, number-two in New Zealand, and in the top thirty in various countries. Lose Control received generally favorable reviews and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song was written by Melissa Elliott, Ciara Harris, Isaac Freeman, Richard Davis and Curtis Hudson and produced by Elliott. The song is an electronic dance track and contains samples of Clear by Cybotron and Body Work by Hot Streak. In March 2005, Ciara confirmed she would appear on The Cookbook and she explained the songs meaning, saying, Its about music, how music makes you feel and makes you lose control. While recording the song, Elliott stated, The only person who can pull something off with me is Ciara and she went on to say that the toughest part of making the song was convincing Ciara to rap. In the process, Ciara asked Elliott, Is this gonna sound messed up and my fans are gonna be mad. Along with On & On, Lose Control was released in advance of The Cookbook to determine which song would serve as the lead single, Lose Control received generally favorable reviews from critics. Virgin Media gave the four out of five stars, calling the song irresistibly danceable. In the album review, John Bush of Allmusic said the song was a nod to the type of old-school party jam that Elliott does better than ever, brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone called the song one of the best tracks on the album. The song was certified Gold by the RIAA, the video for Lose Control was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards, including Breakthrough Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Choreography in a Video and Best Special Effects in a Video. It went on to win two, Best Hip-Hop Video and Best Dance Video and it also won a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, while the song itself received a nomination for Best Rap Song. It was also nominated for Video of the Year at the 2006 BET Awards. com, directed by Dave Meyers, the music video starts off in a solid black room with dancers. Later, Elliott is seen buried in sand and slowly emerges in front of three other dancers, Elliotts head is added digitally to a different body. The next scene is in an old house and in rows of dancers as they continue to dance. They then end up on a road near a truck. The video then switches over to the song On & On, Lee described the act as cool wire work to fly around
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Pet Shop Boys
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Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, Other hit songs include a cover of Go West, Opportunities and What Have I Done to Deserve This. in a duet with Dusty Springfield. At the 2009 Brit Awards in London, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, in 2016, Billboard magazine named Pet Shop Boys the No.1 Billboard Dance duo/group over the 40 years since the charts inception in 1976. In 2017 the duo received NMEs Godlike Genius Award, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe met in an electronics shop on Kings Road in Chelsea, London, in August 1981. Recognising a mutual interest in music, they began to work together on material, first in Tennants flat in Chelsea and from 1982. It was during early years that several future hit songs were created, including Its a Sin, West End Girls, Rent. Their big break came in August 1983, when Tennant was assigned by Smash Hits to interview The Police in New York, the duo were obsessed with a stream of Hi-NRG records made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, simply known as Bobby O. According to Tennant, I thought, well, if Ive got to go and see The Police play, in April 1984, the Orlando-produced West End Girls was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On 2 November, it was voted Screamer of the Week by listeners of Long Island and it was a minor dance hit in Belgium and France, but was only available in the United Kingdom as a 12 import. In March 1985, after negotiations, Pet Shop Boys cut their contractual ties with Bobby O. Hiring manager Tom Watkins, they signed with the London-based Parlophone label, in April, Tennant left Smash Hits and in July, a new single, Opportunities, was released, reaching number 116 in the UK. The B-side to this single, In the Night, later resurfaced, in a remixed version, as the opening track to the duos first remix album, Disco. This version was used as the theme for the UK television series The Clothes Show. Unperturbed by the low position, the band returned to the studio in August to re-record West End Girls with producer Stephen Hague. Released in October 1985, this new version entered the charts at a similarly low position. It was subsequently number one in the United States, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Israel, New Zealand and Norway and it remains the most-heard Pet Shop Boys song to date. After the success of West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys released a single, Love Comes Quickly. The single reached number 19 in the UK Singles Chart and was followed by their album, Please
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Yesterday, When I Was Mad
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Yesterday, When I Was Mad is a single by English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys released as the fifth and last single from their 1993 album Very. The single peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart, the song was remixed by Jam & Spoon for its single release, among other things removing a compression effect applied to Tennants voice during the verses. The B-sides included a cover of the Noël Coward song If Love Were All, Tennant has said that many of the lines in the song, such as And someone said, Its fabulous youre still around today—youve both made such a little go a very long way. Euroboy, a track written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe in the Eurodance mould of such bands as Cappella and Livin Joy, was released as one of the B-sides on Yesterday. It later appeared on the US release of the album Disco 2, the B-side collection Alternative, the track includes Chris Lowe in one of his rare lead-vocals performances, singing through a vocoder. The Boys claimed to have been unaware at the time of release that Euroboy was also the name of a gay pornographic magazine. It was occasionally performed live on the Asian leg of the bands 1994 Discovery tour, Yesterday, When I Was Mad If Love Were All Can You Forgive Her
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Guus Meeuwis
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Gustaaf Stephanus Modestus Guus Meeuwis is a Dutch singer and songwriter. As part of the band Vagant, he scored hits in the Netherlands and Flanders during the 90s. On 24 May 2015 Meeuwis was the first Dutch language performing artist ever to play a concert at Londons Royal Albert Hall, Guus Meeuwis was born at a monastery in Mariahout, a small village in the municipality of Laarbeek where his parents were living temporarily. He attended Stella Maris College, and went on to study jurisprudence in Tilburg and it quickly became apparent that Meeuwis was musically talented while at school. Following a romantic weekend in Bruges with his girlfriend Valérie he wrote the song Het is een Nacht, with which, in 1994 and he and his backing band were awarded a record contract, under the name Guus Meeuwis & Vagant, after a café they frequented. Marc Meeuwis, Jan Willem Rozenboom, Hugo van Bilsen, Robin van Beek en Dirk Oerlemans, at the end of 2001 the group decided to split and Meeuwis continued on as a solo artist. Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau Guus Meeuwis official website
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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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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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Robbie Williams
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Robert Peter Robbie Williams is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995 and he has also had commercial success as a solo artist. Williams rose to fame in Take Thats first run in the early-to-mid-1990s, Williams also released seven number-one singles. On 15 July 2010, he rejoined Take That, the groups subsequent album Progress became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century at the time. Gary Barlow has since confirmed that Williams had left for a time, although the departure was amicable. He is the best-selling British solo artist in the United Kingdom, in 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted the Greatest Artist of the 1990s. According to the British Phonographic Industry, Williams has been certified for 19.5 million albums and 6.8 million singles in the UK as a solo artist. Williams also topped the 2000–2010 UK airplay chart, racking up almost 50% more plays than the Sugababes at number 2, in 2014 he was awarded the freedom of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, as well as having a tourist trail created and streets named in his honour. Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and his maternal grandfather was Irish and hailed from Kilkenny. Williams attended St Margaret Ward Catholic School in Tunstall, before attending dance school UKDDF in Tunstall and he participated in several school plays, and his biggest role was that of the Artful Dodger in a production of Oliver. In 1990, the sixteen-year-old Williams was the youngest member to join Take That, according to the documentary Take That, For the Record, his mother read an advertisement seeking members for a new boy band and suggested that he try out for the group. He met fellow member Mark Owen on the day of his audition/interview with Nigel Martin-Smith, during the heights of the bands popularity, Williams was known as the extrovert and cheeky practical joker of the band. However, he had conflicts with Martin-Smith over the rules for Take That members. In November 1994, Williamss drug abuse had escalated to the point of his having a drug overdose the night before the group was scheduled to perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Barlow explained in interviews that Williams had given up trying to offer creative input, during one of the last rehearsals before the tour commenced, the group confronted Williams about his attitude and stated they wanted to do the tour without him. He agreed to quit and left the group in July 1995, despite the departure of Williams, Take That completed their Nobody Else Tour as a four-piece band. They later disbanded on 13 February 1996, Williamss 22nd birthday, shortly afterwards, Williams was photographed by the press partying with the members of Oasis at Glastonbury Festival. Following his departure, he became the subject of shows and newspapers as he acknowledged his plans to become a solo singer
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Intensive Care (album)
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Intensive Care is the sixth studio album by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, released on 24 October 2005 in the United Kingdom. After touring Latin America in late 2004 for the promotion of his Greatest Hits album, recorded in his bedroom in the Hollywood Hills, the album was co-written by Stephen Duffy over the course of 24 months. The album was launched in Berlin, Germany on 9 October 2005 and it was not shown on television, but broadcast to various locations around the world in cinemas and theatres, in a high-definition cine-cast. It was shown on Saturday 22 October 2005 on Channel 4, the albums artwork was designed by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, in response to Williams request that they turn into a superhero for the tour. The talismanic images and witchy hieroglyphs include a sigil that, in Morrisons words, can be activated by finding the CD in the shops or pulling the cover up on-screen and pressing Robs finger. If enough of us do this the world will most certainly enter a new Golden Age of peace, creativity, the album became the best selling album in Europe by the end of 2005, with sales of over four million copies. However, it managed to become the third best selling album in the United Kingdom that year. Williams kicked off his Close Encounters World Tour in South Africa in April 2006 in promotion of the album, more than 2.5 million attended the early stages of the tour, with nearly three million having been reported to have seen one or more shows. In January 2007, it was revealed Intensive Care had sold over 5 million copies in Europe and it was also certified 5× Platinum in the United Kingdom around the same time. By shipping 1,100,000 copies and reaching 11× gold, according to EMI, the album has sold 6.2 million copies worldwide. Tripping was released as the lead single on 3 October 2005, becoming an international success, topping the charts in Germany, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Argentina. In the United Kingdom, it was released as a double A-side with Make Me Pure, however, Make Me Pure was also released separately in Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. Advertising Space was released as the second single in December 2005, becoming another international hit, reaching the top ten in Europe, Australasia. Sin Sin Sin was released as the third and final single in the summer of 2006. It was the first song Williams and Stephen Duffy co-wrote together, the video was shot in Cape Town, South Africa just days before the start of Williams tour there. It became Williams first single to miss the UK Top 20, charting at number twenty-two, however, it performed much better internationally, hitting the top ten in Europe and Latin America
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Tripping (song)
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Tripping is a song by British pop singer Robbie Williams, it was the first single from his 2005 album Intensive Care. The single was backed with the track Make Me Pure, also from the same album, Williams himself calls the song something like a mini gangster opera and kind of cabaret act reggae. The rolling rhythm of the song much to the early work of The Clash. During the chorus Williams reaches an extremely high disco-like head voice, lyrically the song is a bit darker than previous songs. It tells the tale of gangsters and how they dont kill their own and they all love their mothers, the opening lyrics First they ignore you, then laugh at you and hate you. Then they fight you, then you win is a paraphrase from a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. The song was the 19th best selling of 2005 in the UK, the video, which was directed by Johan Renck, features Williams running in place as if he cant seem to get anywhere. It appears that Williams is having a nightmare, in which he is living sometime in 1950s and it also includes a baby singing to him some of the chorus, and a pair of lesbian twins in his cars backseat. The single reached number-one in the Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, Portugal, Italy, in Switzerland, the single was certified Gold. In Mexico, the song reached number-nine and became the eleventh most played track of the year, in Australia, the single peaked at number-seven and went on to sell over 35,000 copies, being certified Gold by the ARIA. Virgin Single Review - last accessed on 6 November 2005, Robbie Williams Info - Singles - last accessed on 7 November 2005
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Make Me Pure
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Make Me Pure is a song by British pop singer Robbie Williams, released as the second single from his album Intensive Care in late 2005. It was written by Robbie Williams, Stephen Duffy, and Chris Heath and it was first released in New Zealand and Australia as a promotional single intended to advertise the album. A video was shot with Williams performing in a garage, however and it was featured on physical copies of the single Tripping. A physical CD single was released exclusively in Mexico, the song deals with Williams asking God to make him pure—later in his life. The chorus is a translation of a line of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, Make Me Pure reached number-fifteen in the Netherlands, although it had never been released as a single. Due to airplay of the B-side song of the single Tripping, in Mexico, the song was released between Advertising Space and Sin Sin Sin to fill the gap left between these singles. The song was popular on radio, reaching number twenty-seven, although video airplay was not very strong. Make Me Pure –4,34 Make Me Pure –3,53 Tripping Video clips and photo gallery
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Ed Sheeran
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Edward Christopher Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham and he attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in autumn 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the play, No.5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his album, +, was released on 9 September 2011 and has since been certified seven-times platinum in the UK. The album contains the single The A Team, which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, in 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Sheerans popularity abroad began in 2012, in the US, he made a guest appearance on Taylor Swifts fourth studio album, Red. The A Team was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards and he spent much of 2013 opening for Swifts The Red Tour in North America dates. In late 2013, he performed three shows at New Yorks Madison Square Garden as a headline act. His second studio album, x, was released on 23 June 2014 and it peaked at number one in the UK and the US. In 2015, x won the Brit Award for Album of the Year and his single from x, Thinking Out Loud, earned him two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. As part of his tour, Sheeran played three sold-out concerts at Londons Wembley Stadium in July 2015, his biggest solo shows to date. Sheerans third album, ÷, was released in March 2017, the album debuted at number one in the UK, the US and other major markets. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week, Sheeran appeared on Debretts 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK. Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and moved with his family to Framlingham in Suffolk when he was a child and he has an older brother named Matthew, who works as a composer. Their parents, John and Imogen, are London-born and his paternal grandparents were Irish, and Sheeran has stated his father hailed from a very large Catholic family. John is an art curator and lecturer, and Imogen is a culture publicist turned jewellery designer and his parents ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010. Their work usually took them to London, and they spent their weekends travelling with their children, Sheerans early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. According to Sheeran, the album that first introduced him to music was Van Morrisons Irish Heartbeat, during his childhood, John took him to a number of live concerts that would later inspire his musical creations
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Luis Fonsi
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Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and actor. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 15,1978 to parents Alfonso Rodriguez, in 1995, Fonsi enrolled at Florida State University to study music. He also joined the choir and sang with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Luis Fonsi is the oldest child of Alfonso Rodriguez and Delia Lopez-Cepero and he has two younger siblings, Jean Rodriguez, who also is a singer, and Tatiana Rodriguez. As a child, Luis Fonsi showed signs that music was going to direct his life, as a child he imitated the stars of the popular group, Menudo, and while still young, he joined the San Juan Childrens Choir. In 1989, when Fonsi was 10 years old, he with his family from Puerto Rico to Orlando, although his English at the time was very poor, Fonsi did not argue moving. According to Fonsi, his father told him that he was going to live in the city as Mickey Mouse. This would be exciting for a ten year old boy. After living in the United States for one month, Fonsi spoke English without a hint of an accent and he entered Dr. Phillips High School, and participated in a group called Big Guys. They sang at parties and local festivals. One of the members of the group, Joey Fatone, later joined NSYNC and he also joined the universitys choir, which let him travel and perform throughout the United States and London. He did well in schooling while specializing in the field of music, after graduating from Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Fonsi decided to better prepare himself for a future, stable career inside show business. He was offered a scholarship to attend Florida State University School of Music. While he was finishing his degree in Vocal Performance, he began to demo tapes in Miami. Soon after that he was offered a contract by Universal Music Latino. In 1998, Fonsi recorded his album, Comenzaré. The record peaked at number 11 on Billboards Top Latin Albums chart and contained the singles Si Tu Quisieras, Perdóname, Dime Como, and Me Iré. Comenzaré became an instant hit in Puerto Rico and across Latin America, with Fonsi conquering such markets as Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and his 2000 follow-up, Eterno, was even more successful
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Daddy Yankee
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Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, known by his stage name Daddy Yankee, is a Puerto Rican singer, rapper, songwriter, actor and record producer. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico and he is known as the King of Reggeatón. Ayala aspired to be a baseball player, and tried out for the Seattle Mariners of the Major League Baseball. Before he could be signed, he was hit by a stray round from an AK-47 rifle while taking a break from a studio recording session with reggaeton mix tape icon DJ Playero. Since then, he has sold over 18 million albums, Daddy Yankee first appeared on the 1992 DJ Playeros Mixtape, Playero 34, with the song So Persigueme, No Te Detengas. Ayala was originally going to become a baseball player but he was shot in his leg while taking a break from a studio recording session. The bullet was never removed and he credits this incident with allowing him to pursue a musical career and he made a few songs talking about the shooting incident, but his most complete song about it was 6 De Enero, released in 2012. His first official project as a solo artist was No Mercy. Early in his career he attempted to imitate the style of Vico C and he went on to emulate other artists in the genre, including DJ Playero, DJ Nelson, and DJ Drako, taking elements from their styles in order to develop an original style. In doing so, he abandoned the traditional model of rap. In 1997, Daddy Yankee collaborated with the rapper Nas, who was an inspiration for Ayala, in the song The Profecy and he released two compilation albums, El Cartel and El Cartel II, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Both albums were very famous around Puerto Rico, but were not very successful around Latin America, between those years, Ayala released a total of nine music videos, including Posición featuring Alberto Stylee, Tu Cuerpo En La Cama featuring Nicky Jam and Muévete Y Perrea. In 2003, Ayala collaborated for the first time with the prestigious reggaeton producers Luny Tunes in the album Mas Flow, with his commercial success song Cógela Que Va Sin Jockey. In 2003, Daddy Yankee released an album named Los Homerun-es. That was later charted, Seguroski, being his first charted single after six of them. Barrio Fino performed well in the charts of the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Japan. Ayalas next album, Barrio Fino, was produced by Luny Tunes and DJ Nelson among others and released in July 2004 by El Cartel Records and it was the most highly anticipated album in the reggaeton community. Ayala had enjoyed Salsa music since he was young, and this led him to music of genres besides reggaeton in the album
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Justin Bieber
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Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After a talent manager discovered him through his YouTube videos covering songs in 2008 and signed to RBMG, Bieber released his debut EP, My World and it was certified Platinum in the U. S. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a record chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Bieber released his first full-length studio album, My World 2.0 and it debuted at or near number one in several countries, was certified triple Platinum in the U. S. and contained his most successful single at the time, Baby. He released his studio album, Under the Mistletoe, in November 2011. Bieber released his studio album, Believe, in 2012. His fourth studio album Purpose was released in November 2015 to commercial success and his U. S. album and singles sales total 44.7 million. He has sold an estimated 100 million records, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Bieber has won numerous awards, including the American Music Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he has won one Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the song Where Are Ü Now at the 2016 ceremony. He has been listed four times by Forbes magazine among the top ten most powerful celebrities in the world in 2011,2012, Bieber also became the first artist to surpass 10 billion total video views on Vevo. Bieber was born on March 1,1994, in London, Ontario, at St Josephs Hospital and he is the only child of Jeremy Jack Bieber and Patricia Pattie Mallette. Pattie raised her son with the help of her mother, Diane and his mother is of French-Canadian descent, his paternal great-grandfather was of German ancestry, and his other roots are English, Scottish and Irish. He has also claimed that he has some undetermined Aboriginal Canadian ancestry, through Jeremy, Bieber has two younger half-siblings, Jazmyn and Jaxon. Pattie worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father, Bieber attended a French-language immersion elementary school in Stratford, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School. Growing up, he learned to play the piano, drums, guitar and he graduated from high school in Stratford, Ontario, the St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yos So Sick for a singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and she continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Biebers popularity on the site grew
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Gusttavo Lima
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Nivaldo Batista Lima, better known by his stage name Gusttavo Lima, is a Brazilian singer of sertanejo. Known in his country with many hits, like Rosas, Versos e Vinhos, Inventor dos Amores, Cor de Ouro and gained international fame and he is often compared to the sertanejo singers Luan Santana and Michel Teló. Son of Alcino and Sebastiana Lima, Gusttavo was born in Presidente Olegário, in 1999, when he was just 9 years old, he went to Patos de Minas for sing with your brothers, who had a band called Trio Remelexo. When he was 13 years old, he left the band and went to Brasília, in 2009, he released his first album Gusttavo Lima, containing 24 tracks. The song that most stood out was Rosas, Versos e Vinhos, which reached the first position in a local radio, in 2010, he signed with Som Livre label and released Inventor dos Amores, as a CD and DVD, with sales of 15,000 copies. The title track was a collaboration with Jorge & Mateus, reaching #17 in the Brazilian Billboard Brasil charts, based on this initial success, he released the single Cor de Ouro that reached #18 in Brazil. He also released Refém, which reached #22 in charts, the highly popular album reached #7 and was certified platinum. The album produced his definitive hit Balada, which reached #3 in Brazil, the Brazilian football player Neymar played a similar role to that he played in Michel Telós smash success Ai se eu te pego. and appeared in many shows with Gusttavo Lima. In January 2012, he embarked on a first international tour with shows in US Latin markets in Florida, Gusttavo released his hit single Balada in European markets following the steps of fellow Brazilian singer Michel Teló
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Balada (Gusttavo Lima song)
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Balada is a song by Brazilian Sertanejo artist Gusttavo Lima from his album Gusttavo Lima e Você. Written by Gusttavo Lima and Cássio Sampaio, it was released on January 21,2011, the song became a success in Brazil, it reached the 3rd position in the Brazilian Billboard Hot 100. International fame came when the song was released worldwide on April 13,2012. The song became a success in most of Europe, just as Michel Telós song Ai se eu te pego, becoming a number-one hit in Belgium, France, Honduras, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The SNEP charts started crediting this bilingual version Gusttavo Lima featuring Dyland & Lenny on chart dated week-ending 30 July 2012, the duo also has released earlier a version named Balada Boa crediting Dyland & Lenny featuring Gusttavo Lima. Karaoke Hits Band released its own version entitled Balada Boa and it reached #114 on SNEP French Singles chart in May 2012
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Marco Borsato
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Marco Roberto Borsato is a Dutch singer. He started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994 and he has consistently been one of the most successful and biggest grossing artists in the Netherlands for the past twenty years. Marco Roberto Borsato was born in the Wilhelmina Hospital in Alkmaar as the son of Roberto Borsato and he has a brother, Armando, and a sister, Sylvana. The family moved to Italy, where the father started up a restaurant in Garda, Borsato spent a significant amount of time in Italy and speaks fluent Italian. When Borsato was 12 years old he decided he wanted to be a sushi chef, Borsato, though brought up with Italian cuisine, felt a great love for this cuisine. When he was older he went to school during the week, during his conscription he was bound to the cavalery, where he was conscripted as a NCO. Success did not come over night after winning the Dutch Soundmixshow on 6 April 1990 with his rendition of Billy Veras At This Moment, during that time he was indeed working as a chef. Borsato released 3 albums with Italian songs, before gaining popularity in 1994 with his first Dutch single Dromen Zijn Bedrog which reached number one and his second single Waarom Nou Jij also reached the first place in the Dutch Top 40. Many of his songs are Dutch covers or adaptations of Italian songs, in particular, Borsato gained a lot of success in 1996 with an adaptation of Riccardo Cocciantes Margherita. After deciding to keep singing in Dutch, Borsatos career really took off, in 2009, Borsato was dealt a financial blow when his company The Entertainment Group, a major events organiser and Dutch artists representer, was declared bankrupt by a Dutch court. In 2011 he became a judge on the Dutch talent show The Voice of Holland and The Voice Kids. He is currently holding a record as the highest-times winning coach in any The Voice version throughout the world. Borsato married Dutch TV personality Leontine Ruiters and they have 3 children together, Luca, Senna, marco Borsato is an ambassador of the Dutch NGO War Child, which helps children in conflict areas to cope with their war experiences
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Bryan Adams
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Bryan Guy Adams, OC OBC is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist. Adams also had the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Heaven, Adams has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of All-Time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. Bryan Guy Adams was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to British parents, Elizabeth Jane and Captain Conrad J. Adams, Adams travelled with his parents to diplomatic postings in Portugal and Vienna, Austria, during the 1960s, and to Israel during the early 1970s. Adams has a brother, Bruce. Before that at age 15–16 he fronted various pub bands like Sweeney Todd that released If Wishes Were Horses and was seen sitting in with other cover bands. He and his guitarist Keith Scott met during those club years, in 1978, at 18, Adams met Jim Vallance through a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store. Vallance was the drummer and principal songwriter for Vancouver-based rock band Prism and had recently quit that band to focus on a career as a studio musician. They agreed to meet at Vallances home studio a few days later, later in 1978, Adams signed to A&M records for one dollar. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably Im Ready and Remember, both songs were covered by other artists even before his first album was released. Also recorded during time was the disco song Let Me Take You Dancing featuring Adamss vocal sped up to meet the 122BPM dance tempo. The song made the Canadian RPM chart in March 1979 along with its B-Side Dont Turn Me Away, straight From The Heart was also written during this period. The song was recorded for Adamss third album Cuts Like A Knife in 1983 and released as a single. Adamss self-titled debut album was released in February 1980, and marked the beginning of what was to become a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance. With the exception of Remember and Wastin Time, most of the album was recorded from 29 October up until 29 November 1979 at Manta Studios and co-produced by Adams, the album was certified gold in Canada in 1986. Adamss second album, You Want It You Got It, was recorded in two weeks and it marked Adamss first album co-produced by Bob Clearmountain. It was released in 1981 and contained the FM radio hit Lonely Nights, Adams also co-wrote songs for other artists during this time including Billboard charted songs like No Way to Treat a Lady for Bonnie Raitt and Dont Let Him Know for Prism. Cuts Like a Knife, which was released in January 1983, was Adamss breakout album due mainly to the lead singles, straight from the Heart was the most successful song, reaching number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100
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(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
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I Do It for You is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. The song was a chart success internationally, particularly in the United Kingdom. It went on to more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams most successful song. Subsequently, the song has been covered by hundreds of singers, the musicians on the original recording are Adams on lead vocals and guitar, Bill Payne, Mickey Curry, Larry Klein, Keith Scott and Mutt Lange. The song was written in London, England at the studio Adams was working at in 1990, the song is performed in the key of D ♭ major. The official music video for the song was directed by Julien Temple, a video was also commissioned for a live version of the song, directed by Andy Morahan. I Do It for You has the longest unbroken run at one the UK Singles Chart. It also spent seven weeks at one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Billboard ranked it as the No.1 song for 1991 and it was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song but lost to Beauty and the Beast. The Irish band Fatima Mansions released an altered cover of the song as part of an NME tribute album in aid of the charity. The single was a double A-side with the Manic Street Preachers version of Suicide Is Painless, the single entered the UK top ten in 1992, and reached number 12 in the Republic of Ireland However, The Manic Street Preachers song received most of the UK radio airplay. American singer Brandy rerecorded I Do It for You for the version of second studio album Never Say Never. Producer David Foster reworked the arrangement of the song, with Dean Parks playing the acoustic guitar. In 1999, her version was released as the albums final single on a double A-side with U Dont Know Me on the Oceanic music market. Australian CD single I Do It for You –4,10 U Dont Know Me –4,29 Have You Ever, –5,40 Credits are taken from Never Say Never liner notes. Composer – Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, R. J
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Gerard Joling
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Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. He also achieved success in Asia and received more than 20 gold, in 1988 he was the Dutch participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, with the song Shangri-La. Joling & Gordon Over de Vloer is a television program Gerard Joling made with singer Gordon in 2005, there are 3 seasons of the series which contained the twosome during work and having a laugh. In 2007 he was the host of Sterren dansen op het ijs,2007 was also the year that sparked Jolings renewed success, with two number 1 songs, a number 1 album, and 11 gold and platinum awards. In 2008 Joling became team captain on the Dutch TV show Wie ben ik. in which the team captains, the other team captain is Patty Brard. Joling was scheduled to represent The Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow as a member of De Toppers, Gerard was replaced in The Toppers with Jeroen van der Boom. In December 2009, De Toppers manager Benno de Leeuw announced in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf that Gerard Joling and Gordon are to rejoin the group, ALBUMS,1985 Love is in your eyes Awarded with Gold & Platinum. 1986 Sea of love 1987 Heart To Heart 1988 The best of Steven Gerard Joling 1989 No more boleros Awarded with Gold &2 x Platinum
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Bruno Mars
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Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and choreographer. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age and he graduated from high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. After being dropped by Motown Records, Mars signed a contract with Atlantic Records in 2009. In 2009, he co-founded the production team The Smeezingtons, responsible for the singles Nothin on You by B. o. B and he featured on the hooks for both singles, becoming recognized as a solo artist. His debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans included the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Just the Way You Are and Grenade and his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, peaked at number one in the United States. The album spawned the international singles Locked Out of Heaven, When I Was Your Man, in 2014, Mars lent his vocals to Mark Ronsons Uptown Funk. In 2016, he released his studio album 24K Magic with the lead single of the same title released on October 7,2016. To date, he has sold over 100 million singles and albums combined worldwide, Mars has landed six number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since his career launched in 2010, attaining his first five faster than any male artist since Elvis Presley. Mars has received awards and nominations, including five Grammy Awards. In December 2013, he ranked number one on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, Mars is known for his stage performances and retro showmanship. He is accompanied by his band, The Hooligans, who play a variety of such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums and horns. Mars performs in a range of musical styles. Peter Gene Hernandez was born on October 8,1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot and his father is of half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii as a child, and was of Filipino and his parents met while performing in a show in which his mother was a hula dancer and his father played percussion. At the age of two, he was nicknamed Bruno by his father, because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars is one of six children and came from a family which exposed him to a diverse mix of genres including, reggae, rock, hip hop. His mother was both a singer and a dancer, and his father performed Little Richard rock and roll music, Mars uncle was an Elvis impersonator, and also encouraged three-year-old Mars to perform on stage. Mars performed songs by such as Michael Jackson, The Isley Brothers
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Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars song)
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Just the Way You Are is the debut solo single recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. It is the single from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The song was written by The Smeezingtons, Khalil Walton and Needlz and produced by The Smeezingtons and it was released in the United States to Contemporary hit radio on August 10,2010. The track was added to BBC Radio 1 A Playlist in the United Kingdom, the debut single received positive reviews from critics, who considered it a stand-out track on Doo-Wops & Hooligans and praised The Smeezingtons production. It won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2011 ceremony, the song peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Top 40 charts and charted in the top five in other countries. It was certified 9 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and 6 times by the Australian Recording Industry Association, worldwide, it was the best selling digital single of 2011 with sales of 12.2 million copies. So far, it has sold over 13.7 million copies becoming one of the best selling digital singles of all time. The music video, directed by Ethan Lader, was released on September 8,2010, the official remix features rapper Lupe Fiasco and is included on the deluxe edition of Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Mars performed Just The Way You Are on The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour and The Moonshine Jungle Tour, the song has been covered by various recording artists. Just the Way You Are also inspired Meghan Trainors debut single All About That Bass, the song is featured in the movie Pitch Perfect. The song was written by Mars, along with The Smeezingtons, Khalil Walton, Mars said of the song, It took me months to come up with Just the Way You Are. I wasnt thinking of anything deep or poetic, get ready to fall in love. He added, Im a big fan of songs like Joe Cockers You Are So Beautiful and you know, theres no mind-boggling lyrics or twists in the story - they just come directly from the heart. And to me Just The Way You Are is one of those songs, Im just telling a woman she looks beautiful the way she IS - and, lets be honest, what woman doesnt wanna hear those lyrics. o. B and Travie McCoy songs. It didn’t sound like anything else on the radio and it had everything we could want in a first single for Bruno. Ari Levine explains, “Needlz had a track with an idea by Khalil Walton that was presented to us by one of the A&R guys. Bruno and Phil came up with the chorus, and then Needlz sent us the files and we replaced a bunch of sounds with our sounds and I programmed drums in the MPC, I never met Needlz or Walton. The song was supposed to be for Lupe Fiasco but at this point Bruno decided to keep it, Just the Way You Are was Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in Hollywood by Manny Marroquin, while Christian Plata and Erik Madrid served as the assistant mixing
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Ai Se Eu Te Pego
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It was recorded by Brazilian band Cangaia de Jegue and then covered by many other regional Brazilian bands like Garota Safada, Arreio de Ouro, Estakazero, Forró Sacode, and Saia Rodada. In 2011, it was popularized by Brazilian singer Michel Teló, Teló also released an English-language version, Oh, If I Catch You. The lyrics begin with two cries of Nossa, short for nossa senhora - Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, an equivalent of Wow. in Brazilian Portuguese. Then Assim você me mata, You kill me, a common exclamation, then ai, se eu te pego, ai, ai, se eu te pego. The verse then repeats with Delícia, delícia instead of “Nossa, nossa, the third verse of the song is the only verse with a narrative text, describing a Saturday night, a crowd beginning to dance, and summoning courage to speak to the most beautiful girl. Verses 4 and 5 repeat the simple exclamations of verses 1 and 2, antônio Dyggs, who co-wrote the song, realized it could become a national hit in Brazil and offered it for a release by Brazilian singer Michel Teló. The result was a hit in Brazil, Latin America and Europe, telós version of the song became a hit in Brazil, reaching No.1. Later, the song also reached No.1 in 23 countries in Europe, the single was the sixth best-selling single of 2012, selling 7.2 million copies worldwide and placing it on the list of best-selling singles of all time. The single has become the most downloaded track in Germany since 2006. As of July 2014, it is the 90th best-selling single of the 21st century in France, the official YouTube video has over 740 million views as of April 2017. This version was nominated for Best Brazilian Song at the 2012 Latin Grammy Awards and this version reached the 9th position in the Mega Single Top 100. Dutch singer Tom Haver also recorded a Dutch version of the song and this version reached the 66th position in the Mega Single Top 100. Serbian singer Dragan Kojić released Kosa and this version was very popular in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia, as well in the Federal Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The song is popular among footballers. It was first danced by Brazilian player Neymar who initially appeared on a video dancing to the song Ai Se Eu Te Pego, many other videos of the same player emerged later leading to its huge popularity in Brazil. The song became popular in Spain and all over Europe after Real Madrid players Marcelo. Playing in a Liga match, the dance was performed by the two players after Ronaldo scored the first goal against Málaga on 22 October 2011. The popularity was such that on 12 January 2012, Michel Teló was invited to the Real Madrid training ground and posed for pictures with Marcelo, the goal celebration has been performed by many other footballers across Europe
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Robin Thicke
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Robin Charles Thicke is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Thicke has worked with artists, such as Christina Aguilera, Nicki Minaj, K. Michelle, Pharrell Williams, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Flo Rida, Kid Cudi and Mary J. Blige. Thicke worked on such as Ushers Confessions and Lil Waynes Tha Carter III, while releasing his own R&B singles in the US including Lost Without U, Magic. He rose to fame in 2013 with his single Blurred Lines. He is the son of actor Alan Thicke and actress Gloria Loring, in 2013 and 2014, their separation and divorce was covered extensively by the tabloid press including Thickes efforts to reconcile with Patton. Thicke was born on March 10,1977, in Los Angeles and they divorced when he was seven. Thicke has a brother, Brennan, who worked as a voice actor in the mid-1980s. Thicke also played a role in The Wonder Years, Season 2. As a child, Thickes parents were supportive of his inclinations, his father helped him to write. The demo ultimately was paid for by jazz vocalist Al Jarreau, Thickes demo made its way to R&B artist Brian McKnight, who was impressed enough by Thicke to invite him into the studio to work with him. Thicke was signed to McKnights production company, Anyway, a song co-written with Thicke, was featured on McKnights second album I Remember You, Thickes peers jokingly nicknamed him Brian McWhite. Thicke moved out on his own at age 17, during his year of high school. As Thickes list of credits grew so did his parents confidence in his decision, according to Thicke, Knight also invested in the ability of the young songwriter early on by purchasing studio equipment for him. He also co-wrote the song When You Put Your Hands on Me for Christina Aguileras debut album and co-wrote and produced three songs for Mýas sophomore release, Fear of Flying. In 1999, Thicke co-wrote the song Fall Again with Walter Afanasieff, which was intended to be a track on Michael Jacksons 2001 album Invincible, but it failed to be presented as a completed song. The demo Michael recorded in 1999 was released on November 16,2004 as a track of his limited edition box set The Ultimate Collection. As an artist, he recorded and performed solely under his surname and he would continue to do so until 2005. As Thicke told Billboard, I decided I was going to save money to make my album, in 2002, Thicke released his debut single When I Get You Alone
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T.I.
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Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. better known by his stage names T. I. and Tip, is an American hip hop recording artist and actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He signed his first major-label record deal in 1999, with Arista Records subsidiary, in 2001, T. I. formed the Southern hip hop group Pimp Squad Click, alongside his longtime friends and fellow Atlanta-based rappers. Upon being released from Arista, T. I. signed to Atlantic Records and subsequently became the executive officer of his own label imprint, Grand Hustle Records. T. I. is also perhaps best known as one of the artists who popularized the hip hop subgenre trap music, along with Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane. T. I. has released nine albums, with seven of them reaching the top five of the US Billboard 200 chart. Throughout his career, T. I. has also released several successful singles, including Bring Em Out, Whatever You Like, Live Your Life, Dead and Gone, Ball. He began to gain recognition in 2003, following his first high-profile feature, on fellow Atlanta-based rapper Bone Crushers hit single. He earned more prominence with the release of Trap Muzik, which includes the Top 40 hits, Rubber Band Man, the next year, T. I. appeared on Destinys Childs international hit, Soldier, alongside Lil Wayne. His subsequent albums, King and T. I. vs. T. I. P. generated high record sales and were supported by singles, such as What You Know and Big Shit Poppin. In 2013, T. I. was featured on Robin Thickes hit single Blurred Lines, alongside Pharrell Williams, in November 2013, T. I. announced that he had signed with Columbia Records, after his 10-year contract with Atlantic came to an end. He released his Columbia Records debut, Paperwork, in October 2014, in February 2016, T. I. announced he signed a distribution deal with Roc Nation, to release his tenth album. T. I. has won three Grammy Awards, namely Best Rap Solo Performance, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. T. I. has served two terms in county jail, twice for probation violations and a federal prison bid for a U. S. federal weapons charge, while serving 11 months in prison, he released his seventh studio album, No Mercy. T. I. has also had an acting career, starring in the films ATL, Takers, Get Hard, Identity Thief. He is also an author, having written two novels Power & Beauty and Trouble & Triumph, both of which were released to moderate success. T. I. has also starred in the American reality television series T. I. s Road to Redemption, in 2009, Billboard ranked him as the 27th Artist of the 2000s decade. Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. was born on September 25,1980, in Atlanta, Georgia and he was raised by his grandparents in Atlantas Center Hill neighborhood just off Bankhead Highway. His father resided in New York City, and he would go there to visit
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Pharrell Williams
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Pharrell Lanscilo Williams is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and film producer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the production duo The Neptunes, producing soul, hip hop. He is the lead vocalist and drummer of the rock-funk-hip hop band N*E*R*D and he released his first single, Frontin, in 2003 and followed up with his debut solo album, In My Mind in 2006. His second album, Girl, was released on March 3,2014 and this album was preceded by the commercially successful single, Happy. As part of the Neptunes, Williams has produced hit singles for various recording artists. Williams has earned ten Grammy Awards including two with the Neptunes and he is also a two-time Academy Award nominee, receiving a 2014 Best Original Song nomination from Happy and a 2017 Best Picture nomination as one of the producers of Hidden Figures. Williams was born on April 5,1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia and his roots extend for generations in Virginia and North Carolina, and one of his ancestors journeyed to West Africa in 1831, prompting other relatives to emigrate from America to Liberia in 1832. He met Chad Hugo in a summer band camp where Williams played the keyboards and drums. They were also members of a marching band, Williams played the snare drum while Hugo was drum major. Williams and Hugo attended Princess Anne High School where he played in the school band, in the MTV show When I Was 17, Pharrell stated that he was a nerd and often did things that made him stand out from most of his peers. In the early 1990s, Hugo and Williams formed a four-piece R&B-type group and they later entered a high school talent show where they were discovered by Teddy Riley, whose studio was next to Princess Anne High School. After graduating from school, the group signed with Riley. Through working with Riley, Williams went on to write a verse and that same year, he also performed a small rap solo on SWVs second hit, Right Here. Williams and Hugo met rap duo Clipse in Virginia Beach in 1993, in 1994, Hugo and Williams had established themselves as a production duo under their old name The Neptunes, and assistant-produced Tonights The Night from Blackstreets self-titled album. Over the next three years continued to produce occasionally, and some of the results had little resemblance to the Neptunes sound later. In 1999, a friend introduced Williams to Kelis. At this point the Neptunes were gaining a fanbase and audience. In 2000, they produced the song I Just Wanna Love U for Jay Zs album The Dynasty, Roc La Familia, the songs sound and success sparked the interest of maturing pop artist Britney Spears
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Blurred Lines
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Blurred Lines is a single written and performed by American recording artists Robin Thicke, T. I. and Pharrell Williams. Produced by Pharrell, it serves as the single from Thickes album of the same name. It was released on March 26,2013 through Pharrells label Star Trak Recordings, recorded in 2012, the song was primarily inspired by the Marvin Gaye song Got to Give It Up, and apart from T. I. s rap was entirely the work of Williams. However, Thicke clearly laid claim to writing credits on the according to a Reuters article. The song became the subject of a legal dispute with the family of Gaye. Thicke and Williams were found liable for copyright infringement by a jury in March 2015. The songs music video was released in two versions, with one featuring models Emily Ratajkowski, Jessi MBengue, and Elle Evans being topless, while the other censored nudity. The uncut version of the video was at one time removed from YouTube for violating the terms of service regarding nudity, it was later restored. The songs lyrics and music video have proven controversial with some groups, with claims that it is misogynistic and this has led to the song being banned at universities and other institutions in the United Kingdom and prompted a rebuttal from Thicke. Blurred Lines peaked at one in at least 25 countries. It became Thickes first, T. I. s fourth, and Pharrells third number-one single in the US, where it was also the longest running number one single of 2013. The song subsequently became one of the singles of all time, with sales of 14.8 million. The single was nominated for two Grammys at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, the song has been parodied and covered numerous times. Blurred Lines was produced by Thicke and Pharrell with an intention of creating a similar to Marvin Gayes Got to Give It Up. The song was completed in less than an hour, Thicke and manager Jordan Feldstein decided the song would not have much impact through radio and would need an innovative approach to become a hit. Feldstein told HitQuarters, We had an artist that had never had a hit on radio and it was a non-traditional song, it didnt sound like a Timbaland or Benny Blanco record. So we had to approach the market in an interesting way, Feldstein came up with the idea of creating a video designed to go viral and brought in experienced music video director Diane Martel to shoot it. Its controversial nature was designed to attract attention with Feldstein saying, getting something banned actually helps you
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Avicii
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Tim Bergling, better known by his stage name Avicii, is a Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer. Bergling was ranked third on DJ Mag in 2012 and 2013 and has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award, once for his work on Sunshine with David Guetta in 2012 and once for his song Levels in 2013. Some of his most famous songs are I Could Be the One with Nicky Romero, Wake Me Up, You Make Me, X You, Hey Brother, Addicted to You, The Days, The Nights, Levels and Waiting for Love. He released his studio album, True, in 2013. It received generally positive reviews music critics, peaked within the top ten in more than fifteen countries and topped the Australian, Swedish, Danish. In 2015, Bergling released his studio album, Stories. Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden, to Klas Bergling, in May 2007, Avicii signed on with the Dejfitts Plays label. Then, in 2010, Bergling released the hit song Seek Bromance, which reached the top 20 in several countries including Belgium, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and he also remixed Nadia Alis classic single Rapture for her album Queen of Clubs Trilogy, Onyx Edition. In October 2010, Bergling signed with the European A&R team with EMI Music Publishing, Bergling explained that the name Avicii means the lowest level of Buddhist hell” and he chose the moniker because his real name was already used upon creating his MySpace page. In 2011, Bergling released Levels, which launched him into the mainstream, the song was produced by Tim Bergling and contains a vocal sample from the 1962 gospel-inspired Somethings Got a Hold on Me by Etta James. The same vocal sample was used first by Pretty Lights in his 2006 song Finally Moving and this sample was also used by Drum and Bass producer Logistics on Call Me Back and by Flo Rida in his single Good Feeling, which was produced by DJ Prak and Cirkut. In 2012, his collaboration track Sunshine with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy award under the category for Best Dance Recording and his track Fade into Darkness was sampled by Leona Lewis on her single Collide. The sampling was not accredited and led to controversy as Bergling attempted to block the singles release, however, the matter was resolved outside of court with representatives stating that Leona Lewis and Avicii will work together on the forthcoming single of Collide. On 23 March 2012, Berglings unsigned single Last Dance was previewed on Pete Tongs show on BBC Radio 1, the song was later released on 27 August 2012. At Ultra Music Festival 2012 in Miami, he premiered two tracks, Girl Gone Wild with Madonna and Superlove with Lenny Kravitz, aviciis UMF Remix of Girl Gone Wild was released on 20 April 2012, and Superlove with Kravitz was released on 29 May 2012. After reaching two million followers on Facebook, Bergling released a new song titled Two Million and it was put out as a free download on his official Soundcloud page. On 27 April 2012, Bergling released Silhouettes, the song featured vocals from Salem Al Fakir and peaked at number 5 on the UK Dance charts and number 4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. Bergling was a performer on 4 August 2012 at Lollapalooza festival in Chicagos Grant Park
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Wake Me Up (Avicii song)
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American soul singer Aloe Blacc provides vocals for the track and Mike Einziger of Incubus provides acoustic guitar. Avicii introduced Wake Me Up. for the first time live on stage at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, the experimental rendering reportedly confused and angered a section of the electronic dance festival community. Subsequently, Avicii achieved critical and commercial success with the release of the single worldwide, Wake Me Up peaked at number one in much of Europe and charted well in various countries. Due to the success of the song, Blacc later released a version of Wake Me Up in his solo EP Wake Me Up. It was also released as a promotional single on Interscope Records. A separate music video was also made, the Blacc single also charted in its right in various charts. In an interview with the Daily Star, Avicii, who had previously labelled Wake Me Up, at the same time I was tipped off about doing another track with Aloe Blacc, and I started working on that track. When I was with Mike Einziger from Incubus, we came up with the chord progression, none of us sing and we really needed to get that demo down and the only person I knew that lived in LA was Aloe, so I called him and he was free. Lyrics come really easy to him so the two of us wrote them in a couple of hours and we finished the track. Aloe Blacc, who is not credited on the track, explained to The Huffington Post, I started writing the lyrics at the top of 2013, travelling back from Switzerland. I was invited to the studio with Avicii and Mike Einziger from Incubus, I came in with the lyrics and I just developed the melody as I heard the chords, and we all thought it was something very strong. We finished the song that night as a version, then Avicii made the dance mix in a couple of days, and thats what we released to the world. Blacc later released a version of the song which was included on his solo EP Wake Me Up. It was also released as a promotional single by Interscope Records. The single also charted in its right in various charts, Wake Me Up is a folktronica song, blending elements of EDM, soul and country music. Musically, it is written in the key of B minor and it follows a chord progression of Bm/G/D/A - Bm/G/D/F#m. Kudos to Avicii then, who has dared to try something a little different for his latest offering. So wake me up when its all over/ When Im wiser and Im older, featured artist Aloe Blacc sings over dialled-up, the jig-along chorus may conjure up images of Brits-on-tour, but to be honest, what summer anthem doesnt
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Clean Bandit
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Clean Bandit are a British electronic music group formed in Cambridge in 2008. The band consists of Grace Chatto, Jack Patterson and Luke Patterson and their 2010 single Mozarts House reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart when re-released in 2013. In January 2014, they scored their first UK chart topping single with Rather Be, the also reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2015, Rather Be won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, the song became an international chart topper for the band, and also charted at number 9 in the US. Clean Bandit have sold over 13 million singles and 1.6 million albums worldwide, band members Grace Chatto, Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson and Neil Amin-Smith met while studying as undergraduates at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. At the time, Amin-Smith, who attended Westminster School was leading a quartet together with Chatto. In December 2012, the released their debut single A+E. It was the single from their debut studio album New Eyes. On 29 February 2012, they released the online for their single UK Shanty. On 29 March 2013, they released the second single Mozarts House. The song peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, the albums third single Dust Clears charted at number 43 on the chart. The albums fourth single Rather Be featuring Jess Glynne was released on 19 January 2014 and it was the fastest-selling song released in January since 1996 and ended 2014 as the years second best-selling song in the UK, selling over 1.13 million copies. Rather Be also reached number 1 in Austria, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and number 2 in Belgium, France, Italy and it also charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 10. On 14 April 2014, the made their TV debut on the BBCs Later. In May 2014, they announced a 14 date headline tour of the UK. In September 2014 they performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at MediaCityUK, the band collaborated again with Jess Glynne, after their hit song Rather Be, on their single Real Love. It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, in February 2015, Rather Be won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. The group recorded a 30-piece orchestral version of Rather Be at Abbey Road Studios for Marks & Spencers Christmas 2015 advertising campaign, at the 2015 Coachella Festival, the group performed the song Disconnect, featuring vocals from Marina and The Diamonds
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Jess Glynne
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Jessica Hannah Jess Glynne is an English singer and songwriter, signed to Atlantic Records. She rose to prominence as a featured artist on Clean Bandits Grammy Award-winning single Rather Be and Route 94s My Love and her debut solo single, Right Here, reached the Top Ten the same year. Glynnes debut album, I Cry When I Laugh, was released in 2015, Jess Glynne was born in Hampstead and raised in Muswell Hill, North London into a Jewish family. Her father is an agent and her mother worked in A&R in the music industry. She applied for the television show The X Factor when she was 15 years old and she attended Rhodes Avenue Primary School, then attended Fortismere School, where she completed her A-levels in 2008, and took various jobs at a boutique, a fitness centre and a hairdressers. Glynne completed a music course at an East London college, Access to Music London. One of Glynne and Jin Jins compositions caught the attention of Black Butter Records, Black Butter co-president Joe Gossa said of Glynne, her voice just flipped me out There was a fierceness to it. She can talk about things in this way thats just epic. She signed a contract with Atlantic Records in August 2013, consequently leaving her job at the time in brand management for a drinks company and my Love, featuring Glynne, was released on DJ Annie Macs compilation album Annie Mac Presents in October 2013. Electronic group Clean Bandit heard My Love and approached Glynne to feature on their song Rather Be, jack Patterson of Clean Bandit spoke of a real subtlety of emotion in her voice You can hear the fragility of her personality, but at the same time theres a raw power. Released as a single in January 2014, Rather Be debuted at one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the third fastest-selling single. The track attained number-one and top-five positions on charts across Europe and Oceania, in February 2014, Route 94s My Love was released as a single, it also debuted at number one in the UK. Both Rather Be and My Love received nominations at the BRIT Awards for Best British Single, for her work on Rather Be, Glynne won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording and was nominated for Song of the Year at the inaugural BBC Music Awards. In February 2014, Glynne uploaded a video onto the internet for her song Home. Her debut solo single, the Gorgon City-produced Right Here, was released in July 2014 and charted in several countries, Glynne appeared at several British music festivals during mid 2014, including Bestival, Glastonbury, Lovebox, Summer Series at Somerset House, V Festival, and Wireless. She toured around the UK from October 2014, beginning in Sheffield, also during 2014, Glynne collaborated on songwriting projects with Iggy Azalea, Little Mix, MO, Rita Ora, Rudimental, and Tinie Tempah. A second collaboration with Clean Bandit, Real Love, was released in November 2014, Glynnes single Hold My Hand, her second as the sole credited lead artist, debuted at number one in the UK in late March 2015, where it spent three weeks. Glynne is featured on Not Letting Go, a 2015 single by rapper Tinie Tempah that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and she underwent surgery on her vocal cords in mid 2015 and consequently cancelled several live performances, including the Glastonbury Festival
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