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Albany, Georgia
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Albany is a city in the U. S. state of Georgia, and is the seat of Dougherty County. Located in southwest Georgia, it is the city of the Albany. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U. S. Census, the area where Albany is located was formerly inhabited by the Creek Indians, who called it Thronateeska after their word for flint because of the mineral flint that was found near the river. The Creeks used this flintstone to make tools and weapons such as arrowheads, American settlement began with Nelson Tift, from Groton, Connecticut, who took land along the Flint River in October 1836 after Indian removal. The Creek were forced to relocate to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, Tift named his new town Albany after the capital of New York, both were located at the navigable heads of rivers. Alexander Shotwell laid out the town in 1836 and it was incorporated as a city by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 27,1838. Tift for decades was the citys leading entrepreneur, an ardent booster, he promoted education, business, and railroad construction. During the Civil War he provided naval supplies and helped build two ships and he opposed Radical Reconstruction inside the state and in Congress, and was scornful of the Yankee carpetbaggers who came in. John Fair concludes that Tift became more Southern than many natives and his pro-slavery attitudes before the war and his support for segregation afterward made him compatible with Georgias white elite. The area was developed by planters using slave labor for clearing land, by 1840, Dougherty Countys majority population was black, composed overwhelmingly of slaves. The market center for cotton plantations, Albany was in a location for shipping cotton to markets by steamboats on the river. In 1858, Tift hired Horace King, a slave and bridge builder. Kings bridge toll house still stands, already important as a shipping port, Albany later became an important railroad hub in southwestern Georgia. Seven lines were constructed to the town, an exhibit on trains is located at the Thronateeska Heritage Center in the former railroad station. While integral to the life of the town, the Flint River has flooded regularly. There was extensive property damage in 1841 and 1925, some late twentieth-century floods were extreme. In 1994, a flood was caused by rainfall from Tropical Storm Alberto, it killed 14 people. The state supported a $150 million renovation of the Albany State University campus to repair storm damage, New housing was built on the south side of town to replace what had been destroyed
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Leesburg, Georgia
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Leesburg is a city in Lee County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,896 at the 2010 census, the city is the county seat of Lee County and is part of the Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The area was an important center for the study of malaria in 1924, a graduate student named Lowell T. Coggeshall collected anopheline larvae in a swamp near Leesburg. Later he helped mastermind the U. S. governments Malaria Project, Leesburg, originally known as Wooten Station, was founded in 1870 as the Central of Georgia Railway arrived into the area. In 1872, the town was renamed Wooten and the seat was transferred from Starksville, in 1874, the town was incorporated and renamed again to its present form of Leesburg. Leesburg was the site of a research station established by the International Health Board in 1924. 74 African American children were selected for study with splenic enlargement, according to the United States Census Bureau, Leesburg has a total area of 4.8 square miles 4.7 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square miles of it is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,633 people,796 households, the population density was 557.2 people per square mile. There were 851 housing units at a density of 180.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 61. 56% White,36. 42% African American,0. 30% Native American,0. 91% Asian,0. 08% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 84% of the population. 20. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.24. In the city, the population was out with 30. 1% under the age of 18,10. 2% from 18 to 24,34. 3% from 25 to 44,16. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 30 years, for every 100 females there were 104.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.7 males, the median income for a household in the city was $28,958, and the median income for a family was $33,487. Males had an income of $30,862 versus $18,710 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,690, about 16. 8% of families and 20. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31. 4% of those under age 18 and 21. 7% of those age 65 or over. The Lee County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, the district has 330 full-time teachers and over 5,350 students
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Folk rock
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It has also been influential in those parts of the world with close cultural connections to Britain and gave rise to the genre of folk punk. By the 1980s the genre was in decline in popularity. When English bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s defined themselves as electric folk they were making a distinction with the existing folk rock. Folk rock was what they had already been producing, American or American style singer-songwriter material played on instruments, as undertaken by Bob Dylan. They drew the distinction because they were focusing on indigenous songs, the result of this hybridisation was an exchange of specific features drawn from Traditional music and Rock music. For example, electric folk groups, while using traditional material as their source for lyrics and tunes. In the same year, The Beatles began incorporating overt folk influences into their music, the Beatles and other British Invasion bands, in turn, influenced the Californian band The Byrds, who began playing folk-influenced material and Bob Dylan compositions with rock instrumentation. The Byrds recording of Dylans Mr Tambourine Man was released in April 1965 and reached #1 on the U. S. and UK singles charts, setting off the mid-1960s folk rock movement. The Beatles late 1965 album, Rubber Soul, contained a number of songs clearly influenced by the American folk rock boom, such as Nowhere Man and If I Needed Someone. Folk rock became an important genre among emerging English bands, particularly those in the London club scene towards the end of the 1960s. Like the American revival, it was often overtly left wing in its politics, most important among their responses were the foundation of folk clubs in major towns, starting with London where MacColl began the Ballads and Blues Club in 1953. These clubs were usually urban in location, but the songs sung in them often hearkened back to a rural pre-industrial past, in many ways this was the adoption of abandoned popular music by the middle classes. This meant that there were, by the later 1960s, a group of performers with musical skill and knowledge of a variety of traditional songs. The result was an interpretation of the song A Sailors Life. The rapid expansion of electric folk that followed in the wake of Liege, five Hand Reel a band formed out of the remnants of Spencers Feat proved to be one of the more successful and influential folk rock bands. Releasing 4 albums with Topic/RCA records they were popular in Europe. He then quit that and eventually formed the Albion Country Band, later the Albion Band, a much smaller group of English bands were formed in emulation of existing electric rock bands. Fiddlers Dram were often dismissed as one hit wonders for their single Day Trip to Bangor, most of their career, from that point until they disbanded in 1979, was one of declining profile and sales
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Singer-songwriter
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Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. The genre began with the folk-acoustic tradition, singer-songwriters often provide the sole accompaniment to an entire composition or song, typically using a guitar or piano. Singer-songwriter is used to define popular music artists who write and perform their own material, such an artist performs the roles of composer, lyricist, vocalist, instrumentalist, and often self-manager. Most records by artists have a similarly straightforward and spare sound that placed emphasis on the song itself. The term has also used to describe songwriters in the rock, folk, and pop music genres including Henry Russell, Aristide Bruant, Hank Williams. Song topics include political protest, as in the case of the Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger, the concept of a singer-songwriter can be traced to ancient bardic oral tradition, which has existed in various forms throughout the world. Poems would be performed as chant or song, sometimes accompanied by a harp or other similar instrument, after the invention of printing, songs would be written and performed by ballad sellers. Usually these would be versions of existing tunes and lyrics, which were constantly evolving and this developed into the singer-songwriting traditions of folk culture. The term singer-songwriter in North America can be traced back to singers who developed works in the blues and folk music style. Early to mid-20th century American singer-songwriters include Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Blind Willie McTell, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, the tradition of writing topical songs was established by this group of musicians. This focus on social issues has greatly influenced the singer-songwriter genre, artists who had been primarily songwriters, notably Carole King, Townes Van Zandt, and Neil Diamond, also began releasing work as performers. In contrast to the approach of most prior country and folk music. The adjectives confessional and sensitive were often used singer-songwriter style, in the rock band era, members were not technically singer-songwriters as solo acts. However, many were singer-songwriters who created songs with band members. Many others like Eric Clapton found success as singer-songwriters in their later careers, there were hints of cross-pollination, but rock and folk music had remained largely separate genres, often with different audiences. An early attempt at fusing elements of folk and rock was highlighted in the Animals House of the Rising Sun, dylan plugged an entire generation into the milieu of the singer-songwriter. In the mid- to late 1960s, bands and singer-songwriters began to proliferate the underground New York art/music scene. Lotti Golden, in her Atlantic debut album Motor-Cycle, chronicled her life in NYCs East Village in the late 60s counterculture, visiting subjects such as gender identity, kate Bush remained distinctive throughout with her idiosyncratic style
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Musician
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A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician, Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles. Examples of a musicians possible skills include performing, conducting, singing, composing, arranging, in the Middle Ages, instrumental musicians performed with soft ensembles inside and loud instruments outdoors. Many European musicians of this time catered to the Roman Catholic Church, providing arrangements structured around Gregorian chant structure, vocal pieces were in Latin—the language of church texts of the time—and typically were Church-polyphonic or made up of several simultaneous melodies. Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Gabrieli Thomas Tallis Claudio Monteverdi Leonardo da Vinci The Baroque period introduced heavy use of counterpoint, vocal and instrumental “color” became more important compared to the Renaissance style of music, and emphasized much of the volume, texture and pace of each piece. George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Classical music was created by musicians who lived during a time of a middle class. Many middle-class inhabitants of France at the time lived under long-time absolute monarchies, because of this, much of the music was performed in environments that were more constrained compared to the flourishing times of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. This age included the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolution, a revolutionary energy was also at the core of Romanticism, which quite consciously set out to transform not only the theory and practice of poetry and art, but the common perception of the world. Some major Romantic Period precepts survive, and still affect modern culture, in 20th-century music, composers and musicians rejected the emotion-dominated Romantic period, and strove to represent the world the way they perceived it. Musicians wrote to be. objective, while objects existed on their own terms, while past eras concentrated on spirituality, this new period placed emphasis on physicality and things that were concrete. The advent of recording and mass media in the 20th century caused a boom of all kinds of music—popular music, rock music, electronic music, folk music. Singer Composer Music artist Tour Manager Media related to Musicians at Wikimedia Commons
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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19 Recordings
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19 Recordings Inc. is a New York-based record label owned by 19 Entertainment. Founded in London by British entrepreneur Simon Fuller in 1999 as the division of 19 Entertainment,19 Recordings is one of the top record imprints as compiled by Billboard in 2012. Today,19 Recordings has the rights to sign contestants of the television series Idols. Since 2005, it shifted its operations to the United States following CKX. From 1999-2000, EMI has distributed its recordings, from 2001–2004, releases by most of the artists signed to 19 Recordings were distributed by Bertelsmann Music Group. Following BMGs merger with Sony Music Entertainment to form Sony BMG, since 2011,19 Recordings partnered with Universal Music Group for distribution through Interscope Geffen A&M. Though previously signed acts with RCA Music Group will remain in place, Fuller, who had previously managed the careers of musicians Annie Lennox, Cathy Dennis, and Spice Girls in the 1990s, founded 19 Recordings as the music division of 19 Entertainment. The English pop group S Club 7, the act to be signed to 19 Recordings and Polydor Records. S Club 7 went on to sell over 14 million albums worldwide until their disbandment in 2003, after disbanding in 1990, the British duo Eurythmics reunited in 1999 and was signed to RCA Records and 19 Recordings, and released their final studio album Peace to commercial success. In 2001, Fuller created the competition series Pop Idol. Pop Idols first winner, Will Young was signed to 19 Recordings and RCA Records in 2002, youngs debut single, Anything Is Possible/Evergreen, became the best-selling single of the 2000s, won a BRIT Award and an Ivor Novello Award. Other Pop Idol contestants signed with 19 Recordings include Gareth Gates, Sam & Mark, Michelle McManus,19 Recordings has since retained the exclusive rights to sign contestants of all versions of Idols around the world and has released compilation albums related to Idols ever since. In 2003, two members of the Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton, were signed to 19 Recordings, Beckham released her final single This Groove/Let Your Head Go and Bunton released her second album, Free Me, to commercial success. In 2002, American Idol, whose format was based on Pop Idol, other contestants from American Idol, such as Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, and Jordin Sparks, also followed suit with commercial success. Underwoods debut album Some Hearts, became 19 Recordingss best-selling release in the United States with sales of 7 million copies. Beginning in 2006,19 Recordings also began to sign artists who were unrelated to Idols, such as Annie Lennox, Amy Studt, Orianthi,19 Recordings co-released The Annie Lennox Collection with RCA Records to commercial success. Albums by Studt, Orianthi, and Sons of Sylvia were released to minimal success, as of February 20,2014,19 Recordings is suing Sony Music Entertainment claiming that Sony is robbing them in royalties. They are seeking $10 million in damages
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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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American Idol (season 11)
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The eleventh season of American Idol premiered on Fox on January 18,2012. The show aired on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8/7c, ryan Seacrest returned as host, while Randy Jackson, Steven Tyler, and Jennifer Lopez all returned as judges. Interscope Records Chairman Jimmy Iovine, a songwriter and producer, also returned as an mentor to work with the contestants on a weekly basis. This season followed the format as season 10, although a new title screen and logo were created. Tyler and Lopez announced that they would be leaving the two months after the finale. Though Lopez later returned as a judge for the thirteenth season. The season set a record when 132 million votes were gathered for the finale, on May 23,2012, Phillip Phillips became the winner of the eleventh season of American Idol, beating Jessica Sanchez, the first female recipient of the judges save. Six contestants from this season were signed to record labels, the signed artists are Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez, Elise Testone, Colton Dixon, DeAndre Brackensick and Heejun Han. Several contestants that were not signed by a record label have released music, such as Hollie Cavanagh, Joshua Ledet, Erika Van Pelt, Jeremy Rosado. Additionally, Skylar Laine signed to 19 Entertainments management and was in the process of finding a label, auditions took place in the following cities, ^Note a The New Jersey audition episode was not aired due to scheduling changes. The New Jersey audition was an addition to the schedule. However, the episode was not shown, the first time that a scheduled audition that had taken place was not shown. The Hollywood rounds of auditions were held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium starting December 12,2011, There were 309 contestants at the start of Hollywood Week. The contestants performed solo for the first round, and 185 made the cut, amongst those sent home included actor/comedian Jim Carreys daughter, Jane Carrey. Another contestant, Symone Black, collapsed and fell on stage, the second round involved group performances, and a number of contestants became ill and collapsed in the auditorium. 98 contestants moved on to the third and final round, which were solo performances accompanied by a band or instrument. The contestants were separated into four rooms, where one room of 28 contestants were all eliminated. After Hollywood, the contestants went to Las Vegas for a round where they performed traditional late 1950s song in groups with Elvis Presley Viva
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American Idol
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It began airing on Fox on June 11,2002, and ended on April 7,2016. It started off as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol, the concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by the viewers in America through telephones, Internet, and SMS text voting. American Idol employed a panel of judges who critiqued the contestants performances, the original judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell. The judging panel for the final consisted of country singer Keith Urban, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. The first season was hosted by radio personality Ryan Seacrest and comedian Brian Dunkleman, the success of American Idol has been described as unparalleled in broadcasting history. The series was said by a rival TV executive to be the most impactful show in the history of television. It became a springboard for launching the career of many artists as bona fide stars. The series concluded after 15 seasons, American Idol was based on the British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller, which was in turn inspired by the New Zealand television singing competition Popstars. Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw a version in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain, Fuller was inspired by the idea from Popstars of employing a panel of judges to select singers in audition. He then added elements, such as telephone voting by the viewing public. The show debuted in Britain in 2001 with Lythgoe as showrunner—the executive producer and production leader—and Simon Cowell as one of the judges, it was quite successful with the viewing public. In 2001, Fuller, Cowell, and TV producer Simon Jones attempted to sell the Pop Idol format to the United States, but the idea was initially met with poor responses from the Fox television network. However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Foxs parent company, was persuaded to buy the series by his daughter, Elisabeth. The show was renamed American Idol, The Search for a Superstar, Cowell was initially offered the job as showrunner but later turned down the offer, Lythgoe then took over that position. Much to Cowells surprise, it one of the biggest shows of the summer. The show grew into a phenomenon largely due to its personal engagement of the contestants, thereby prompting viewers to vote, by 2004, it had become the most-watched show on U. S. television, a position it then held for seven consecutive seasons. However, after a few years of declining ratings, the network announced that the fifteenth season would be its last. A fourth judge, radio DJ Stryker, was originally chosen, the show decided to continue with the three judges format until season eight
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Home (Phillip Phillips song)
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Home is the debut single and coronation song from American Idol season 11 winner Phillip Phillips. The song was co-written by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden, Phillips first performed the song on the seasons final performance night on May 22,2012, and then again on the finale after he was declared the winner. The song was included on his debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon. The single debuted at No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a first week sales figure of 278,000 downloads and it has sold over 5 million copies in the United States. The song was written by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden, and chosen by Jimmy Iovine as a song for the eventual winner of Season 11 of American Idol. According to Drew Pearson, it was intended for Greg Holden. Pearson and Holden had previously not met before but were together to write the song. The song was written in three hours in Pearsons studio in Burbank, California in November 2011, originally it had only two verses, but an arrangement change was made about a month after it was written, and the second verse was repeated. Pearson cited Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire, and a few Irish bands as influences for the song, a demo was recorded, and Holden had performed the song in his tour, but he expressed no intention of releasing his recording of the song. According to Holden, the song is about a friend who was going through a difficult time. After the release of the song, Phillips said that while the song and its writers are really good and he also revealed that he had wanted to use a song he co-wrote with his brother-in-law, Drive Me, as the coronation song. In interviews after the finale, he said, The song that I did tonight that supposedly is my single, its not really my single, I told them its not my single. He also said, I have my own stories to tell, philip stated that he writes songs in the jazz and rock alternative sound, not really rock-rock. Phillips said that I didnt have time to let it grow and become my own before we recorded it. Later he said he was starting to grow a connection with the song, and that I kind of sing it like me, the song Home was well-received when it was first performed on American Idol. Phillips received a standing ovation—the only one of the night—from the judges, randy Jackson said, Dude, I loved the song, I love you, I loved the production, I loved the marching band--everything about that was perfect. Jennifer Lopez said, That was a Phillip song and there is nothing on the radio that sounds like that, and Steven Tyler offered the opinion that, By virtue of your vulnerability and style, you made the world your home. Professional reviewers have praised the song unanimously, calling it one of the best American Idol coronation songs of all time, EW Music Mix gave the song an A-, and likened it to Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes
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The World from the Side of the Moon
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The World from the Side of the Moon is the debut album from American Idol season 11 winner, Phillip Phillips. The album was released on November 19,2012 and includes Phillips coronation song, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in August 2013. Phillip Phillips began writing songs with collaborators and recording tracks for the album before the American Idol Tour began in July 2012. He collaborated with David Ryan Harris on Tell Me a Story, which he described as his song in the album. Other songwriters he collaborated with include Greg Holden and Drew Pearson who wrote his coronation song Home, after the success of this song, Phillips indicated that the album would have a couple of songs similar to Home. He wrote with his brother-in-law Benjamin Neil Drive Me, a song he had wanted to be his coronation song. His girlfriend Hanna Blackwell also contributed lines to the lyrics on the bonus track Take Me Away, all but three of the tracks on the main album were written or co-written by him, with four of the songs he wrote himself. He cowrote Get Up Get Down with the producer Greg Wattenberg, songs selected by 19 were presented to him but some were discarded, amongst those he chose were Gone, Gone, Gone. The album title, The World from the Side of the Moon, came from the lyrics of the first song on the album, it’s interesting to see how it happened and so fast. Thats how I picked the title, I felt like I watched myself grow, the producer of the album was Gregg Wattenberg. The album was recorded in three weeks at the Quad Studios in New York after the Idol tour had finished and he had originally planned to released his album early 2013, but later the date of the album release was rescheduled to November 19,2012. On November 19,2013, a version of his Moon album was released. It included three live recordings, including Gone, Gone, Gone, Where We Came From, and those three tracks was also be on Phillip Phillips Live EP, also out on November 19. The World from the Side of the Moon has received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Most critics noted influences from Dave Matthews Band and Mumford & Sons in the album, kristin Coachman of Blogcritics. org commented that Phillips in the album reflects every bit of the gravelly voiced pop rock artist, with jazz leanings that he portrayed during his Idol run. The album debuted at No.4 in the Billboard 200 with sales of 169,000 copies and it also debuted at No.1 in the Rock Albums and No.2 in the Digital Albums charts. It was certified gold by the RIAA on January 9,2013, the album has sold 1,033,000 copies as of November,2013. In Canada, the album reached No.9 in its album chart on its debut, the album was certified gold in Canada on January 17,2013
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Behind the Light
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Behind the Light is the second studio album by American recording artist Phillip Phillips. It was released on May 16,2014, by Interscope Records, the album was produced by Gregg Wattenberg, Dereck Fuhrmann and Phillip Phillips, and was recorded in New York City. Upon the development of the album, Phillips discussed the concept of the album at the Billboard Music Awards red carpet, It so much more mature and its a little more on the rock side, which is me and how I represent it when I play live. I wanted to keep it the same because they know how I like to write and its very organic and its not getting all these writers to come in, We need a big pop song. Its an album as a whole, not just singles, - Phillip Phillips Both Standard and Deluxe Editions became available on May 19,2014. Universal Music South Africa released a South African Special Tour Edition to celebrate Phillips touring South Africa with The Script in February 2015, Raging Fire, the lead single was released on March 3,2014. The song was solicited to Adult Album Alternative radio on March 17,2014. The song received acclaim by most music critics who praised Phillips vocals. He performed the live on various TV shows, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, American Idol. The music video for Raging Fire premiered on Vevo on April 10, before its release, Phillips stated that he and his writers just wrote the song a week prior to the release. On April 22, Fly was released as a promotional single, the second single from the album is Unpack Your Heart. Behind the Light received mixed to positive reviews music critics. Glenn Gamboa of Newsday graded the album a B, saying that Phillip Phillips takes a giant leap forward on his sophomore album. Chuck Campbell of Knoxville News Sentinel rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, stating that His lyrics may be tortured at times, the album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No.7 with sales of 41,000 units in the U. S. The album has sold 123,000 copies in the U. S. as of December 2014, the track listing was announced April 22,2014
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Lee County High School (Leesburg, Georgia)
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Lee County High School is a public school located in Leesburg, Georgia, United States. The mascot is the Trojan and the colors are red. The vision statement of Lee County High School is Working together to provide learning opportunities that empower all students to be lifelong learners and achievers. Kevin Dowling served as the principal of the school from June 2006 to Fall 2016, karen Hancock took over from Kevin Dowling as principal in the fall of 2016. In 2008 the Lee County High School 9th Grade Campus was opened, the principal of the LCHS 9th Grade Campus is Jamie Horne. The school offers a variety of classes and career pathway opportunities. In addition to its commitment, the school has been recognized for its outstanding leaders. Principal Kevin Dowling was named the 2012 Georgia Principal of the Year, in 2010, LCHS was listed by Newsweek as one of Americas Best High Schools. The school offers several Advanced Placement and Honors classes, the school also offers AP Human Geography at the 9th Grade Campus. Students can spend their out-of-class time in the extracurricular activities. Students have the opportunity to participate in clubs, some chartered with state and national organizations, clubs at LCHS include, Theatre arts, The school competes in the annual One Act Play competition. The drama department produces five plays each year, including musicals, most of the plays are performed in the schools Robert A. Clay Auditorium. Band, The Lee County High School Band Program includes a marching band, the school newspaper is The Panoptic. The Trojan Yearbook is published every year, the Broadcasting Journalism class produces The T-7 News. The school has a successful speech and debate program that competes in competitions across Georgia. The school is chartered with the National Forensic League, the National Catholic Forensic League and the GFCA
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Albany Technical College
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Albany Technical College is a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia and provides education services for a seven-county service area in southwest Georgia. The schools service area includes Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Lee, Randolph, ATC is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate of Applied Science Degrees. The ATC Medical Assisting Program is also accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board. Albany Tech traces its roots back to the establishment of the Monroe Area Vocational-Technical School, in 1972, Monroe Area Vocational-Technical School was merged with Albany Area Vocational-Technical School, keeping the Albany name. The schools campus was moved to its current location during the merger, in 1988, the school was renamed Albany Technical Institute and placed under the direction of the newly formed TCSG. Albany Tech was charged at this time with providing technical education opportunities to the residents, following the passage of Georgia House Bill 1187 governing the names of units in the TCSG, Albany Technical Institute was officially renamed Albany Technical College on July 6,2000. Albany Techs primary campus is located at 1704 South Slappey Blvd. in Albany, there are also adult learning centers in all seven of ATCs service delivery counties. Albany Tech currently sponsors intercollegiate mens and womens basketball teams, the schools teams are nicknamed the Titans, and participate in Division I of the National Junior College Athletic Association and the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association conference. Phillip Phillips – American Idol season 11 winner
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Pawnbroker
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A pawnbroker is an individual or business that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, if an item is pawned for a loan, within a certain contractual period of time the pawner may redeem it for the amount of the loan plus some agreed-upon amount for interest. The amount of time, and rate of interest, is governed by law or by the pawnbrokers policies, if the loan is not paid within the time period, the pawned item will be offered for sale to other customers by the pawnbroker. The pawnbroker also sells items that have been sold outright to them by customers, some pawnshops are willing to trade items in their shop for items brought to them by customers. The pawning process begins when a customer brings an item into a pawn shop, common items pawned by customers include jewelry, electronics, collectibles, musical instruments, tools, and firearms. Gold, silver, and platinum are popular items—which are often purchased, metal can still be sold in bulk to a bullion dealer or smelter for the value by weight of the component metals. Similarly, jewelry that contains genuine gemstones, even if broken or missing pieces, have value, the pawnbroker assumes the risk that an item might have been stolen. However, laws in many jurisdictions protect both the community and broker from unknowingly handling stolen goods and these laws often require that the pawnbroker establish positive identification of the seller through photo identification, as well as a holding period placed on an item purchased by a pawnbroker. In some jurisdictions, pawnshops must give a list of all newly pawned items and any associated serial number to police, many police departments advise burglary or robbery victims to visit local pawnshops to see if they can locate stolen items. Some pawnshops set up their own screening criteria to avoid buying stolen property, the pawnbroker assesses an item for its condition and marketability by testing the item and examining it for flaws, scratches or other damage. Another aspect that affects marketability is the supply and demand for the item in the community or region, in some markets, the used goods market is so flooded with used stereos and car stereos, for example, that pawnshops will only accept the higher-quality brand names. Alternatively, a customer may offer to pawn an item that is difficult to sell, such as a surfboard in an inland region, the pawnshop owner either turns down hard-to-sell items, or offers a low price. While some items never get outdated, such as hammers and hand saws, electronics and computer items quickly become obsolete, Pawnshop owners must learn about different makes and models of computers, software, and other electronic equipment, so they can value objects accurately. To assess value of different items, pawnbrokers use guidebooks, catalogs, Internet search engines, some pawnbrokers have trained in identification of gems, or employ a specialist to assess jewelry. One of the risks of accepting secondhand goods is that the item may be counterfeit, if the item is counterfeit, such as a fake Rolex watch, it may have only a fraction of the value of the genuine item. Once the pawnbroker determines the item is genuine and not likely stolen, and that it is marketable, the customer can either sell the item outright if the pawnbroker is also a licensed secondhand dealer, or offer the item as collateral on a loan. Most pawnshops are willing to negotiate the amount of the loan with the client, to determine the amount of the loan, the pawnshop owner needs to take into account several factors. A key factor is the resale value of the item
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Jonny Lang
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Jonny Lang is an American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. He has five albums that charted on the top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart and has won a Grammy Award for Turn Around, Jonny Lang is of Norwegian descent and was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He started playing the guitar at the age of 12 and he got his start playing guitar for his friends on the Vallagers porch at their lake place. He would play everything from modern hits to the classics, even performing a rendition of Jimi Hendrixs take on the National Anthem. Soon after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few bands in Fargo, Lang started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen. Several months after Lang began, he joined the band, which was then renamed Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang. Growing up on his fathers farm near Casselton, N. D. Lang absorbed his parents collection, stocked with Motown, Otis Redding. He was 12 when his dad brought him to a gig by the Bad Medicine Blues Band, eventually, the bands guitarist gave Lang lessons, and he joined as frontman. At 15, Jonny Lang made an album, 1997s Lie to Me. At 17 he made another, Wander This World, which earned a Grammy nomination, Today, at age 32, he cant listen to them. Its like going back and looking at high school yearbook or something. But no, I wouldnt change anything and its all a part of where you are presently as a person. The band moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and independently released the album Smokin when Lang was 14 and he was signed to A&M Records in 1996. He released the critically acclaimed multi-platinum Lie to Me on January 28,1997, the next album, Wander this World, was released on October 20,1998, and earned a Grammy nomination. This was followed by the more soulful Long Time Coming on October 14,2003, Lang also made a cover of Edgar Winters Dying to Live. Langs 2006 album, the gospel-influenced Turn Around, won him his first Grammy Award, in his earliest performing years, Lang always performed barefoot on stage, because it feels good and once in tribute to Luther Allison, a friend who had recently died. He has since given up that practice, after several near-accidents, in more than ten years on the road, Lang has toured with the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, B. B. King, Blues Traveler, Jeff Beck and Sting. In 1999, he was invited to play for a White House audience that included President, earlier that year he was selected by the newly elected Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to perform at his Inaugural Ball
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John Butler (musician)
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John Charles Wiltshire-Butler, known professionally as John Butler, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and music producer. He is the front man for the John Butler Trio, a roots and jam band, the John Butler Trio has recorded five studio albums including three that have reached number one on the Australian charts, Sunrise Over Sea, Grand National and April Uprising. His recordings and live performances have met with praise and have garnered awards from the Australian Performing Right Association. Butler was born in the United States and moved to Australia at an early age and he began playing the guitar at the age of sixteen. In 2002 Butler, along with partners, formed their own record label. He is also the co-founder of a grant program that seeks to improve artistic diversity in his country of Australia where he resides with his wife. John Charles Wiltshire-Butler was born on 1 April 1975 in Torrance, California, to an Australian father, Darryl Wiltshire-Butler, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, John Wiltshire-Butler, a forestry worker who died fighting a bushfire in Nannup. Butler has British, Bulgarian, and Greek ancestry through his father and his genealogy was investigated on an episode of the SBS Television series Who Do You Think You Are. which aired on 1 November 2009. The show traced his family history from his grandfathers war diaries through to ancestors in Bulgaria. In January 1986, after his parents divorced, Butlers father moved the family to Western Australia and they eventually settled in Pinjarra, a small country town, and Butler attended the local primary and secondary schools. He began playing guitar at the age of sixteen after his grandmother gave him a 1930s dobro belonging to his deceased grandfather, in 1996, he attended Curtin University in Perth and enrolled in an art teaching course, but eventually abandoned his studies to pursue a career in music. Butler was also participant in the Western Australian skateboarding scene, and is recognised for his involvement with the internationally renowned Woolstores street spot in Fremantle. John traveled to Encintas, California after high school, where he spent two years with his brother Jim and began his career in a band called Vitamin. John Butlers first gig was 9 September 1994 at the Metaphor Cafe in Escondido, California. There Vitamin was written up and reviewed in Go magazine they performed all around the San Diego area and played one show in Houston, Texas opening for Dive, Vitamin recorded two tracks, Deadhorse and Mary Jane in the Belly Up Studios in Solana Beach, California in 1994. Vitamin bandmate Ozzie Rea fronted Perth funk band, Proton, the two can be found on The Live at Mojos CD and performed together on New Years Ever Y2K. John Butler was a busker on the streets of Fremantle playing his own compositions, in mid-1996, he released a self-recorded cassette of his instrumentals, Searching for Heritage, which sold 3,000 copies. He played different styles of music including Indian, Celtic, bluegrass, Butler had his first paid performance in 1997 at the Seaview Hotel in Fremantle
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Dave Matthews
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David John Dave Matthews is an South African-born American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. Matthews was born in Johannesburg, and lived in both South Africa and the United States while growing up, Matthews mainly plays acoustic guitar, which he started playing at the age of nine. From 1991 to 2003, Matthews predominantly focused on songwriting and performing with the Dave Matthews Band, since then, he has also done various solo performances and produced other records. During the period from 2000 to 2010, his band sold more tickets, the bands most recent album, Away from the World, released in 2012, made them the only group to have six consecutive studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard charts. In addition to music, Matthews has had acting roles. He has also won 2 Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group – So Much to Say, david John Matthews was born on January 9,1967 in Johannesburg, the third of four children of parents John and Valerie Matthews. At the age of two years, Matthews moved with his family to Yorktown Heights in Westchester County, New York, where his father, a physicist, started working for IBM. In 1974, the Matthews family moved to Cambridge, England for a year before returning to New York, biographer Nevin Martell argues that Daves fathers death may be an impetus for his carpe diem lyrics. At some point while residing in New York, Matthews attended his first concert, the family returned to Johannesburg in 1977. A Quaker, Matthews left South Africa to avoid service, in Charlottesville, he became part of the local music community. Pursuing various interests, Matthews acted in local productions. Although Matthews had started playing the guitar at age nine, it was only in Charlottesville that he started performing publicly. From time to time, local star Tim Reynolds had Dave join him on stage, in 1991, he hatched the idea to form his own band. Prior to recording his first demo, Matthews bartended at Millers in Charlottesville, the bands first show was on March 14,1991, as part of a benefit for the Middle East Childrens Alliance at Trax Nightclub in Charlottesville. In early 1994, Matthews older sister, Anne, who lived in South Africa, was murdered by her husband, the event had a profound effect on Matthews outlook on life and was referenced in a few of his songs. On January 29,1994, he performed with Tim Reynolds at The Wetlands in New York, Dave Matthews Bands Under the Table and Dreaming, released later that year, was dedicated to her. Anne Matthews was survived by her two children who, upon her death, traveled to America, where Dave and his sister, Jane. Matthews focused primarily on songwriting and performances with the Dave Matthews Band from 1990 to 2003, DMB is an artistic blend of acoustic guitar, bass, sax, drums and fiddle music
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Damien Rice
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Damien Rice is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Rice began his career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper. The band enjoyed success with a couple of single releases. In 2002 his debut album O reached No.8 on the UK albums chart, won the Shortlist Music Prize, Rice released his second album 9 in 2006 and his songs have appeared in numerous films and television episodes. After eight years of collaborations, Rice released his third studio album My Favourite Faded Fantasy on 31 October 2014. Rices personal activities include musical contributions to projects such as the Songs for Tibet, Freedom Campaign. Rice was born to George and Maureen Rice, and raised in Celbridge, County Kildare, Rice formed the rock band Juniper along with Paul Noonan, Dominic Philips, David Geraghty and Brian Crosby in 1991. The band met whilst they were attending Salesian College secondary school in Celbridge, after touring throughout Ireland, the band released their debut EP Manna in 1995. Based in Straffan, Kildare, the band continued touring and signed a six record deal with Polygram. Their recording projects generated the singles Weatherman and The World Is Dead which received favourable reviews and they also recorded but never released Tongue. After achieving his goals with Juniper, Rice became frustrated with the artistic compromises required by the record label. Rice moved to Tuscany in Italy and took up farming for some time, after returning to Ireland a second time, Rice gave a demo recording to his second cousin, music producer David Arnold who then gave Rice a mobile studio. In 2001, Rices song The Blowers Daughter made a top 40 chart, Rice then embarked on a tour of Ireland with Hannigan, Tomo, Vyvienne, Mark, and Dublin bassist Shane Fitzsimons. In 2002, Rices debut album O was released in Ireland, the UK, the album peaked at No.8 on the UK albums chart and remained on the chart for 97 weeks, selling 650,000 copies in the US. The album won the Shortlist Music Prize and the songs Cannonball, in 2006 Rice released his second album 9 which was recorded during the two years prior. 2007 was a year of touring with Rice appearing at Englands Glastonbury Festival, in 2008 he contributed the song Making Noise for the album Songs for Tibet, The Art of Peace in support of the 14th Dalai Lama and Tibet. In 2010, he contributed the song Lonely Soldier to the Enough Project, Rice recorded a cover of the Juniper track, Crosseyed Bear for the compilation, Help, A Day in the Life. Rices albums are published under his record label Heffa in Ireland, Records released in the UK, Europe and other countries are published by 14th Floor Records via Warner Music
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Mumford & Sons
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Mumford & Sons are an English rock band from London, formed in 2007. The band consists of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, Mumford & Sons have released three studio albums, Sigh No More, Babel and Wilder Mind. The band has issued two live albums, Live at Shepherds Bush Empire and The Road to Red Rocks. The band have won a number of awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan, the band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013, Mumford & Sons were formed in December 2007 by multi-instrumentalists Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane. Band members play acoustic guitar, drums, keyboard instruments, bass guitar, the band name originates from the fact that Marcus Mumford was the most visible member, organizing the band and their performances. Lovett indicated that the name was meant to invoke the sense of a family business name. A handful of bands were increasing their visibility in West London around the same time. Mumford downplays that characterisation as an exaggeration—Mumford & Sons and a few other folk acts just happened to be operating in the general area at the time. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Marcus Mumford said, well, some of it is, and its certainly not a scene. Someone got over-excited about a few bands who live in a hundred-mile radius and its a community, not a scene. In early 2008 the band working with manager Adam Tudhope. It was through Tudhopes connection that Mumford & Sons were exposed to their future A&R at Island, Louis Bloom, who began monitoring the band. Bloom told HitQuarters that they were still at a state and not yet ready for a label deal, There was no one there for it, just a few friends. Over the next six months I kept going to see them, in February 2008, the band completed an extensive UK tour with support from Alessis Ark, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Peggy Sue and others. June 2008 marked the bands first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival and they also toured Australia with Laura Marling, whose disinclination to interact with audiences encouraged Mumford into the spotlight. The experience helped inform his attitude towards Mumford & Sons audiences, Mumford & Sons first project was an EP entitled Love Your Ground which took a year to complete and was released in November 2008 on Chess Club Records
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Tool (band)
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Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the groups line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, justin Chancellor has been the bands bassist since 1995, replacing their original bassist Paul DAmour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries. Due to Tools incorporation of visual arts and very long and complex releases, the band is described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock, psychedelic rock. The relationship between the band and todays industry is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship. During the 1980s, each of the members of Tool moved to Los Angeles. Both Paul DAmour and Adam Jones wanted to enter the film industry, Danny Carey and Keenan performed for Green Jellÿ, and Carey played with Carole King and Pigmy Love Circus. Keenan and Jones met through a friend in 1989. After Keenan played a recording for Jones of his previous band project. They started jamming together and were on the lookout for a drummer, Carey happened to live above Keenan and was introduced to Jones by Tom Morello, an old high school friend of Jones and former member of Electric Sheep. Carey began playing in their sessions because he felt sorry for them. Tools lineup was completed when a friend of Jones introduced them to bassist DAmour, early on, the band fabricated the story that they formed because of the pseudophilosophy lachrymology. Although lachrymology was also cited as an inspiration for the name, Keenan later explained their intentions differently, Tool is exactly what it sounds like. Your tool, use us as a catalyst in your process of finding out whatever it is you need to find out, or whatever it is youre trying to achieve. After almost two years of practicing and performing locally in the Los Angeles area, the band was approached by record companies, in March 1992, Zoo published the bands first effort, Opiate. Described by the band as slam and bang heavy music and the hardest sounding six songs they had written to that point, the bands first music video, Hush, promoted their dissenting views about the then-prominent Parents Music Resource Center and its advocacy of the censorship of music. The video featured the band members naked with their genitalia covered by parental advisory stickers and their mouths covered by duct tape. The band began touring with Rollins Band, Fishbone, and Rage Against the Machine to positive responses, which Janiss Garza of RIP Magazine summarized in September 1992 as a buzz and a strong start
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an American-English rock band that formed in Westminster, London, in September 1966. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding, and drummer Mitch Mitchell comprised the group, during this time, they released three studio albums and became one of the most popular acts in rock. In April 1970, Hendrix, Mitchell, and bassist Billy Cox performed and recorded until Hendrixs death on September 18,1970 and this later trio was sometimes billed as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but the title was never formalized. Highly influential in the popularization of hard rock and psychedelic rock, the Experience was best known for the skill, style, in 1992, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jimi Hendrix arrived in England on September 24,1966, and with his new manager and former Animals bassist, Chas Chandler, formed a band with bassist Noel Redding. Mitchell was a seasoned London drummer formerly with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Hendrix chose Redding because of his attitude towards music and his hairstyle. Redding had been a player until that time, but played bass in the band. The name The Jimi Hendrix Experience was coined by their business manager Michael Jeffery, the first official appearance of The Jimi Hendrix Experience was at the Novelty in Évreux, France, on October 13,1966. Six days later the band played their first UK gig at a showcase at the Scotch of St James. Though conceived as back-up band for Hendrix, the Experience, as a unit, gained fame and critical acclaim. Following the lead of Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was one of the first groups to popularize the power trio format, which limited a rock bands line-up to guitar, bass and drums. Hendrix combined lead and rhythm guitar styles and used special effects to modify his guitar such as feedback. Mitchell sometimes utilized jazz-influenced grooves, while Redding played simple bass lines that helped to anchor the bands sound, visually, they set the trend in psychedelic clothes and hairstyles. The Whos Pete Townshend admitted, changed the sound of electric guitar. Clapton agreed, after Pete Townshend and I went to see him play, I thought that was it, the group came to prominence in the US after the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals. The bands performance ended with Hendrix famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire, after the festival they toured with the Monkees, but left the tour two weeks later, reportedly due to lack of audience response. By April 1969, however, Hendrixs deteriorating relations with Redding were coming to a head, the original group held together long enough to fulfill their existing engagements, culminating in the Denver Pop Festival on June 29,1969. After hearing that Hendrix was planning to expand the Experience lineup without first consulting him, Redding quit the group, Hendrix and Mitchell experimented with a larger ensemble that included bassist Billy Cox
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, after changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Their fourth album, which features the track Stairway to Heaven, is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, Page wrote most of Led Zeppelins music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones keyboard-based compositions later became central to the catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess, in the decades that followed, the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the music artists in the history of audio recording. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and they achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. Rolling Stone magazine described them as the heaviest band of all time, the biggest band of the Seventies, and unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, in 1966, London-based session guitarist Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band the Yardbirds to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Page soon switched from bass to guitar, creating a dual lead guitar line-up with Jeff Beck. Following Becks departure in October 1966, the Yardbirds, tired from constant touring and recording, Page wanted to form a supergroup with him and Beck on guitars, and the Whos Keith Moon and John Entwistle on drums and bass, respectively. Vocalists Steve Winwood and Steve Marriott were also considered for the project, the group never formed, although Page, Beck, and Moon did record a song together in 1966, Becks Bolero, in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones. The Yardbirds played their final gig in July 1968 at Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire, Page and Dreja began putting a new line-up together. Pages first choice for the singer was Terry Reid, but Reid declined the offer and suggested Robert Plant. Plant eventually accepted the position, recommending former Band of Joy drummer John Bonham, Jones inquired about the vacant position at the suggestion of his wife after Dreja dropped out of the project to become a photographer. Page had known Jones since they were both musicians and agreed to let him join as the final member
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Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah is the oldest city in the U. S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia, a strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgias fifth-largest city and third-largest metropolitan area, Downtown Savannah largely retains the original town plan prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe. Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta. On February 12,1733, General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomochichi, the Yamacraws, Mary Musgrove often served as an interpreter. The city of Savannah was founded on that date, along with the colony of Georgia, in 1751, Savannah and the rest of Georgia became a Royal Colony and Savannah was made the colonial capital of Georgia. By the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Savannah had become the southernmost commercial port of the Thirteen Colonies, British troops took the city in 1778, and the following year a combined force of American and French soldiers failed to rout the British at the Siege of Savannah. The British did not leave the city until July 1782, Savannah, a prosperous seaport throughout the nineteenth century, was the Confederacys sixth most populous city and the prime objective of General William T. Shermans March to the Sea. Early on December 21,1864, local authorities negotiated a surrender to save Savannah from destruction. Savannah was named for the Savannah River, which derives from variant names for the Shawnee. The Shawnee destroyed another Native people, the Westo, and occupied their lands at the head of the Savannah Rivers navigation on the fall line and these Shawnee, whose Native name was Ša·wano·ki, were known by several local variants, including Shawano, Savano, Savana and Savannah. Still other theories suggest that the name Savannah originates from Algonquian terms meaning not only southerners, Savannah lies on the Savannah River, approximately 20 mi upriver from the Atlantic Ocean. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 108.7 square miles. Savannah is the port on the Savannah River and the largest port in the state of Georgia. It is also located near the U. S. Intracoastal Waterway, Georgias Ogeechee River flows toward the Atlantic Ocean some 16 miles south of downtown Savannah. Savannahs climate is classified as humid subtropical, in the Deep South, this is characterized by long and almost tropical summers and short, mild winters. Savannah records few days of freezing temperatures each year, due to its proximity to the Atlantic coast, Savannah rarely experiences temperatures as extreme as those in Georgias interior. Nevertheless, the temperatures have officially ranged from 105 °F, on July 20,1986, down to 3 °F
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Superstition (song)
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Superstition is a popular song composed, produced, arranged, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records in 1972. It was the single for Wonders album Talking Book. It reached number one in the U. S. and number one on the singles chart. The song was Wonders first number-one single since Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Im Yours, overseas, it peaked at number eleven in the UK during February 1973. In November 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song at No.74 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The songs lyrics are concerned with superstitions, mentioning several popular superstitious fables throughout the song. Jeff Beck was an admirer of Wonders music, and Wonder was informed of prior to the Talking Book album sessions. An agreement was made for Beck to become involved in the sessions that became the Talking Book album. In between sessions, Beck came up with the drum beat, which eventually led to Wonders creation of Superstition. In addition to the drum beat, Beck, together with Wonder. Originally, the plan was for Beck to release his version of this song first, with his newly formed power trio Beck, on Wonders recording, the songs opening drum beat was performed by Wonder on the kit that Scott Mathews provided at the Record Plant in Hollywood. The funky clavinet riff played on a Hohner Clavinet model C, the song also features trumpet and tenor saxophone, played respectively by Steve Madaio and Trevor Laurence. Wonder performed a version of Superstition on Sesame Street in 1973. This version later appeared on the collection Songs from the Street,35 Years in Music, jeff Beck recorded his own version of the song with the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. This was released on their eponymous debut album, Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded a live version in 1986, which was released as a single from his album Live Alive. The accompanying music video features Vaughan and a crew setting up for a concert he planned to do on Friday the 13th. Many superstitious acts are featured, most notably a cat that ultimately gets its revenge on Double Trouble. This version is played on classic rock radio to this day
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Stevie Wonder
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Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he is considered to be one of the most critically and commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th century, Wonder signed with Motowns Tamla label at the age of 11, and he continued performing and recording for Motown into the 2010s. He has been blind since shortly after birth, Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr. s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, in 2013, Billboard magazine released a list of the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles charts 55th anniversary, with Wonder at number six. Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950, the third of six children of Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway, when Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved to Detroit with her children. She changed her back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her sons surname to Morris. Wonder has retained Morris as his legal surname and he began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica and drums. He formed a partnership with a friend, calling themselves Stevie and John, they played on street corners. Before signing, producer Clarence Paul gave him the name Little Stevie Wonder, because of Wonders age, the label drew up a rolling five-year contract in which royalties would be held in trust until Wonder was 21. He and his mother would be paid a stipend to cover their expenses, Wonder received $2.50 a week. Wonder was put in the care of producer and songwriter Clarence Paul, tribute to Uncle Ray was recorded first, when Wonder was still 11 years old. Mainly covers of Ray Charless songs, it included a Wonder and Paul composition, the Jazz Soul of Little Stevie was recorded next, an instrumental album consisting mainly of Pauls compositions, two of which, Wondering and Session Number 112, were co-written with Wonder. At the end of 1962, when Wonder was 12 years old, he joined the Motortown Revue, at the Regal Theater, Chicago, his 20-minute performance was recorded and released in May 1963 as the album Recorded Live, The 12 Year Old Genius. A single, Fingertips, from the album was released in May. The song, featuring a confident and enthusiastic Wonder returning for a spontaneous encore that catches out the replacement bass player, was a No.1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was aged 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. The single was simultaneously No.1 on the R&B chart and his next few recordings, however, were not successful, his voice was changing as he got older, and some Motown executives were considering cancelling his recording contract. During 1964, Wonder appeared in two films as himself, Muscle Beach Party and Bikini Beach, but these were not successful either, sylvia Moy persuaded label owner Berry Gordy to give Wonder another chance. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his mates, including The Tears of a Clown, a No.1 hit for Smokey Robinson
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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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Thriller (song)
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Thriller is a song recorded by American singer Michael Jackson, composed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. It is the seventh and final single released by Epic Records from his 1982 studio album Thriller, a 14-minute video showing Jackson in a horror-themed performance premiered on November 14,1983. It was first shown on MTV on December 2,1983, the song was not released as a single until January 23,1984. The song has a voice-over from actor Vincent Price, in the song, sound effects such as a creaking door, thunder, feet walking on wooden planks, winds and howling dogs can be heard, and the lyrics contain frightening themes and elements. Thriller was adapted by director John Landis into a successful music video. At fourteen minutes the video is longer than the song. In the videos most iconic scene, Jackson leads other actors costumed as zombies in a dance routine. In 2009 it was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, Thriller was written by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. An inspiration was the Jacksons hit This Place Hotel, early titles include Starlight, Starlight Sun and Give Me Some Starlight. The title was changed to Thriller after Michael told Temperton he wanted something that would appeal to kids, while still titled Starlight, the songs hook lyrics were Give me some starlight. But after the song was changed to Thriller the hook was rewritten to Cause this is thriller, Temperton commented, Originally, when I did my Thriller demo, I called it Starlight. Quincy said to me, You managed to come up with a title for the last album, I said, Oh great, so I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles, and came up with the title Midnight Man. The next morning, I woke up, and I just said this word, something in my head just said, this is the title. You could visualize it on the top of the Billboard charts and you could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as Thriller. Jones then-wife, Peggy Lipton, who knew Vincent Price, suggested Price for the vocal part, Thriller is considered a disco-funk song. Set in the key of C♯ Modern Dorian, its instrumentation consists of synthesizer, guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophone, flute, the song has a moderate tempo of 120 beats per minute. The lyrics and sound effects on Thriller pertain to frightful elements, Thriller, along with other songs from Thriller, was recorded by Jackson over the course of eight weeks, in 1982. Jackson recorded the song at Westlake Recording Studios on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, Quincy turned to us and he said, OK guys, were here to save the recording industry
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Jessica Sanchez
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Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez is an American singer and songwriter originally from Chula Vista, California. She was the runner-up on the season of the reality show American Idol. Prior to appearing on American Idol, Sanchez competed in the first season of Americas Got Talent at the age of 11, Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez was born in Chula Vista, California on August 4,1995 to parents, Edita and Gilbert Sanchez. She was raised in Eastlake, Chula Vista along with two younger brothers and her father is a Mexican-American originally from Texas, and is an aviation ordnanceman First Class Petty Officer in the United States Navy Reserves. Her mother is a Filipina whose family is from Samal, Bataan in the Philippines and she attended Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista and was homeschooled all four years of high school. She started singing at the age of 2, and aspires to be a singer who can belt. Eminem and Beyoncé are her favorite male and female artists, while Jennifer Hudson is her favorite American Idol contestant, other musical influences include Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Etta James, Christina Aguilera, and Michael Jackson. At the age of 10, Sanchez received an ovation for performing Aretha Franklins Respect on Showtime at the Apollo. The hostess Whoopi Goldberg called her back on stage to accept a round of applause. Sanchez competed on the first season of Americas Got Talent at the age of 11. Despite a successful audition, she was not seen on the show until the wild card round of the semi-finals when judge Brandy Norwood selected her to return for a chance to compete for the finals. Norwood predicted, You’re gonna be huge, I promise, after seeing her perform I Surrender by Celine Dion, the shows executive producer and former American Idol judge Simon Cowell named her one of the best I have ever heard. On September 22,2008, Sanchez sang The Star-Spangled Banner before a San Diego Chargers versus New York Jets National Football League matchup and she was invited to sing the national anthem again on September 27,2009 before a Chargers versus Miami Dolphins matchup. In October 2009, Sanchez recorded a cover of Dont Stop the Music by Rihanna for iTunes with independent record label Spin Move Records. The following spring, Sanchez recorded another single with Spin Move Records, the videos participants were collectively recognized as Persons of the Week on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer on March 19,2010. On July 8,2011, Sanchez auditioned for the season of American Idol in her hometown of San Diego. With an updated version of Buddy Hollys It Doesnt Matter Anymore, later, she advanced to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Sanchez performed Jennifer Hudsons Love You I Do from the film Dreamgirls and she was one of the top five female vote‑getters who advanced to the top 13
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Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
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Papas Got a Brand New Bag is a song written and recorded by James Brown. Released as a single in 1965, it was Browns first song to reach the Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten, peaking at number eight. It won Brown his first Grammy Award, for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording, both singer and musicians place overwhelming emphasis on the first beat of each measure. The song is Browns first recording to feature Jimmy Nolen on guitar, the taped recording of Papas Got a Brand New Bag was edited and sped up for its single release, increasing the tempo and raising the pitch by a half step. In 1991 the recording was released in unedited form at its speed on the box set Star Time. The track includes lead-in studio chatter, with Brown throatily shouting This is a hit, just before the drum and horn intro. In 2004, Papas Got a Brand New Bag was ranked number 72 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song is ranked as the 80th greatest song of all time, as well as the sixth best song of 1965. An instrumental version of Papas Got a Brand New Bag was released as the B-side of Browns 1965 Smash single Try Me and he also recorded a big band jazz arrangement of the song with the Louie Bellson Orchestra for his 1970 album Soul on Top. Live performances of Papas Got a Brand New Bag appear on the albums Hot on the One, Live in New York, Soul Session Live, Live at the Apollo 1995, and it is also featured in medleys on Love Power Peace and Say It Live and Loud. In 1965, The Fabulous Echoes covered the song on their album Lovin Feeling, in 1965, Buddy Guy played the song participating in the European tour American Folk Blues Festival. The song is not on the record but in the movie that was made of the tour, in 1965, The McCoys released a version of the song on their debut album, Hang on Sloopy. In 1968, Otis Redding released a version of the song, in 1968, The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band released a version of the song on their album, Together. In 1971, Fadoul, a Moroccan musician, covered the song in Arabic, in 1987, Roger Troutman covered the song on his album Unlimited. In 1995, Jimmy Smith recorded a version on his album Damn. In 1999, The Sugarman 3 covered the song on Sugars Boogaloo, in 2006, Bebi Dol covered the song on her album Čovek rado izvan sebe živi. In 1995 Paul Oakenfolds Perfecto Allstarz project recorded Reach Up, which peaked at #6 in the UK Singles Chart, the Capitol Steps recorded the parody Papas Got A Brand New Baghdad for their 2004 album of the same name. Papas Got a Brand New Excuse, an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was named for the song, the songs title was also played on for The Simpsons episode Poppas Got a Brand New Badge
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James Brown
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James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and bandleader. The creator of music and a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance. In a career spanned six decades, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown began his career as a singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He joined an R&B vocal group, the Gospel Starlighters, in which he was the lead singer. His success peaked in the 1960s with the live album Live at the Apollo and hit singles such as Papas Got a Brand New Bag, I Got You and Its a Mans Mans Mans World. During the late 1960s he moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms, by the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of the J. B. s with records such as Get Up Sex Machine and The Payback. He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit Say It Loud – Im Black, Brown continued to perform and record until his death from congestive heart failure in 2006. Brown recorded 16 singles that reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and he also holds the record for the most singles listed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart which did not reach number one. Brown has received honors from many institutions, including inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Joel Whitburns analysis of the Billboard R&B charts from 1942 to 2010, James Brown is ranked as number one in The Top 500 Artists. He is ranked seventh on the music magazine Rolling Stones list of its 100 greatest artists of all time, Rolling Stone has also cited Brown as the most sampled artist of all time. Brown was born on May 3,1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to 16-year-old Susie and 22-year-old Joseph Joe Gardner Brown, in a small wooden shack. Browns name was supposed to have been Joseph James Brown, Jr. however, his first and he later legally changed his name to remove Jr. His parents were black, in his autobiography, Brown stated that he also had Chinese and Native American ancestry. The Brown family lived in poverty in Elko, South Carolina. They later moved to Augusta, Georgia, when James was four or five and his family first settled at one of his aunts brothels. They later moved into a house shared with another aunt, Browns mother later left the family after a contentious marriage and moved to New York. Brown spent long stretches of time on his own, hanging out in the streets and he managed to stay in school until the sixth grade
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James Morrison (singer)
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James Morrison is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Rugby, Warwickshire. In 2006, his debut single You Give Me Something became a hit in Europe, Australia, Japan and Iran peaking in the top five in the UK and his debut album, Undiscovered, debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart. In 2007 Morrison won the Brit Award for Best British Male, Morrison released his second album, Songs for You, Truths for Me, in 2008, which entered the top five in the UK as well as topping the Irish Albums Chart. Songs for You, Truths for Me featured the top ten singles You Make It Real and he has performed with Jason Mraz, Nelly Furtado, and others in concerts and in songs. Morrison wrote a song for Italian singer Marco Carta entitled Quello che dai and he began playing guitar when his uncle Joe showed him how to play a blues riff. As a teenager he started busking when he lived in Porth, Newquay, Cornwall, in a pub called the Phoenix. He used to playing his guitar on the promenade looking over Porth beach. He took GCSE music at Treviglas Community College, after some years of covering other musicians songs, he eventually started to write his own. He attributes his distinctive voice to a bout of whooping cough that nearly killed him when he was a baby. When Morrison was only a few old, he contracted whooping cough and was given a 30% chance of survival from doctors. He states that he went blue and stopped breathing and had to resuscitate me four times. After the experience, his parents divorced when he was four years old and he suffered from low self esteem at school and he finally gained confidence when he moved to Cornwall as a teenager, where people were more accepting of his musical inclinations. According to Morrison, he was influenced by music from a young age, listening to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Van Morrison. Morrison said that the first time he heard Stevie Wonders voice he was close to tears, working in Derby, Morrison found an Irish bar called Ryans which runs an open mic night on Wednesdays and Sundays. Morrison met Kev Andrews who produced Morrisons first demo tape and co wrote One last chance with Tim Kellit from Simply Red and Olive. He achieved worldwide success with debut single You Give Me Something, which reached No.2 in the Netherlands and he released his debut album Undiscovered on 31 July 2006. The album received positive reviews with The Sun, claiming There isnt a bad track on it. An equally positive review by The Times stated that Undiscovered may prove to be the least apposite album title for years and it topped the UK Albums Chart on its first week of its release
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Nelly Furtado
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Nelly Kim Furtado ComIH is a Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter. Furtado first gained fame with her debut album Whoa, Nelly, a critical and commercial success that spawned two top 10 singles, Im Like a Bird and Turn Off the Light. The first single won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, in 2003 she released her second album Folklore and was preceded by the lead single Powerless. Furtados third album Loose became her best selling album with 12 million copies sold worldwide, the album spawned four successful number one singles, Promiscuous, Maneater, Say It Right and All Good Things. She released her first Spanish language album Mi Plan in 2009 which won her a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album, in 2012 Furtado released her fifth album The Spirit Indestructible. Furtado has sold over 40 million records worldwide, making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. Furtado has a star on Canadas Walk of Fame and was awarded Commander of the Order of Prince Henry on February 28,2014 in Toronto by Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Furtado was born on December 2,1978, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her Portuguese parents, António José Furtado and Maria Manuela Furtado, were São Miguel Island in the Azores and had immigrated to Canada in the late 1960s, Nelly was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim. Her siblings are Michael Anthony and Lisa Anne, at age four, she began performing and singing in Portuguese. Furtados first public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at a church on Portugal Day and she began playing musical instruments at the age of nine, learning the trombone, ukulele and – in later years – the guitar and keyboards. At the age of 12, she began writing songs, and as a teenager and she has stated that coming from a working-class background has shaped her identity in a positive way. During a visit with her sister Lisa Anne in Toronto, the summer after grade eleven, Furtado met Tallis Newkirk and she contributed vocals to their 1996 album, Join the Ranks, on the track Waitin 4 The Streets. After graduating from Mount Douglas Secondary School in 1996, she moved to Toronto to reside with her sister Lisa Anne, the following year, she formed Nelstar, a trip hop duo with Newkirk. Ultimately, Furtado felt the style of the duo was too segregated. She left the group and planned to back home. In 1997, she performed at the Honey Jam talent show and her performance attracted the attention of The Philosopher Kings singer Gerald Eaton, who then approached her to write with him. He and fellow Kings member Brian West helped Furtado produce a demo and she left Toronto, but returned again to record more material with Eaton and West. Furtados first single, Partys Just Begun, was released that year on the Brokedown Palace, Furtado continued the collaboration with Eaton and West, who co-produced her debut album, Whoa, Nelly. which was released in October 2000
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Wicked Game
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Wicked Game is a song by American rock musician Chris Isaak, released from his third studio album Heart Shaped World. Despite being released as a single in 1990, it did not become a hit until it was featured in the David Lynch film Wild at Heart. The song is written in the mode of B Dorian and it is a ballad about unrequited love, performed in what AllMusic describes as a brooding, through several years, many different versions and arrangements of the song were made before the final version was released. Both the bassline and drums were sampled from recordings of the song. James Calvin Wilsey played the lead guitar solo on the song. There are two different music videos for this song, Wicked Game, the most well-known music video of the song was directed by Herb Ritts, shot in Hawaii and featured top model Helena Christensen rolling and frolicking on the beach with Isaak. It was filmed in black and white, Christensen and Isaak were shirtless through most of the video, although Christensens nudity was concealed by clever camera angles. The video won the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video, Best Cinematography and Best Video from a Film. It was ranked #13 on VH1s 100 Greatest Videos, #4 on VH1s 50 Sexiest Video Moments, #73 on Rolling Stone magazines The 100 Top Music Videos, a previous version of the video was commissioned for the Wild at Heart soundtrack, and was directed by David Lynch. The song was used in the 1989 film The Preppie Murder directed by John Herzfeld The song was used as a theme for supercouple Jack and Jennifer in the soap opera Days of Our Lives. The song was used in the Brett Ratner film, The Family Man, the Ridley Scott film, Matchstick Men, the song was used in two episodes of Beverly Hills,90210 One Man and a Baby from Season 1 and Wildfire from Season 2. It was also used in its spin-off 90210 in the season 3 episode How Much Is That Liam in the Window, the song was used in two episodes of Friends Season 2, The One with the Prom Video and The One Where Ross and Rachel. You Know. In Flight of the Conchords, the character Dave states that Women like three things, Men in Kilts, Southern Comfort and Chris Isaaks Wicked Game, the song was used in The Mentalist in the season 4 finale, The Crimson Hat. The song was used in the 1991 episode of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson tested the W140 Mercedes-Benz S-Class The song was used in the 1992 film Leaving Normal directed by Edward Zwick. The song has been used in the soap operas The Young, the song was used in the UK commercial advertising the Jaguar X-type in 2001. The master recording song was featured in Konamis rebooted version of their video game called Karaoke Revolution. The song was covered by South African singer Nicholis Louw in 2005, the song was covered by the band HIM In 1997 on their album Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666, and they subsequently released the video in 1998. Singer Rebecca Ferguson covered it on the season of The X Factor
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Chris Isaak
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Christopher Joseph Chris Isaak is an American rock musician and occasional actor. He is best known for his hit Wicked Game, as well as the hit songs Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing. He is renowned for his signature 1950s rock & roll style and crooner sound, as well as his soaring falsetto and reverb-laden music. He is closely associated with film director David Lynch, who has used his music in films and gave him a large role in the film Twin Peaks. His songs generally focus on the themes of love, loss, with a career spanning four decades, he has amassed a total of twelve studio albums, and has accumulated numerous award nominations and tours. He has been called the Roy Orbison of the 1990s, and is also compared to Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson. Isaak was born in Stockton, California, at St. Josephs Medical Center, the son of Dorothy, a potato chip factory worker, and Joe Isaak and his fathers family is Catholic Black Sea German from North Dakota. Isaaks mother is Italian American, from Genoa, Isaak attended Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in north Stockton, graduating in 1974. He also was in a program which allowed him to study in Japan. After graduating from college, Isaak put together his first band and this rockabilly outfit consisted of James Calvin Wilsey, Rowland Salley and Kenney Dale Johnson, who remained with Isaak as his permanent backing band. Isaak signed a contract to Warner Bros, Records, and released his first album in 1985, Silvertone. to critical acclaim including from John Fogerty. The name was taken from the band he formed after graduating college, the albums sound was raw and diverse, mingling country blues with conventional folk ballads. Although the album was a success, it failed to sell respectably. The track Dancin was the first music video featured on MTV. Two other tracks from the album, Gone Ridin and Livin for Your Lover, Isaaks self-titled follow-up album was released in 1986, and managed to scrape into the Billboard Top 200. The album saw Isaak hone his style to sophisticated R&B, the artwork for Chris Isaak, was photographed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. Isaaks contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Bros. moved him to their Reprise Records label, suspicion of Love appears in the 1988 hit movie Married to the Mob starring Matthew Modine, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dean Stockwell. Isaaks best known song is Wicked Game, though released on the 1989 album Heart Shaped World, an instrumental version of the song was later featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart
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1950s in music
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In the First World, rock and roll, doo-wop, pop, swing, rhythm and blues, blues, country and rockabilly dominated and defined the decades music. Rock and roll dominated popular music in the half of the 1950s. It evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s and its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western and Pop. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, the 1950s saw the growth in popularity of the electric guitar. Artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, Rock and roll forerunners in the popular music field included Johnnie Ray, The Crew-Cuts, The Fontane Sisters, and Les Paul and Mary Ford. The Rock and Roll Era is generally dated from 25 March 1955 premiere of the motion picture and this film’s use of Bill Haley and His Comets Rock Around the Clock over its opening credits, caused a national sensation when teenagers started dancing in the aisles. Pat Boone became one of the most successful artists of the 50s with his heavily Pop-influenced covers of R&B hits like Two Hearts, Two Kisses, Aint That a Shame, and At My Front Door. Boones traditional pop approach to rock and roll, coupled with his All-American and his energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial during that period. Boone and Presleys styles/images represented opposite ends of the musical form. In 1957, a television show featuring rock and roll performers, American Bandstand. Hosted by Dick Clark, the program helped to popularize the more clean-cut, All-American brand of rock and roll. By the end of the decade, teen idols like Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis, another subgenre, Doo Wop, entered the pop charts in the 1950s. Its popularity soon spawns the parody Who Put the Bomp, novelty songs, long a music industry staple, continued their popularity in the Rock and Roll medium with hits such as Beep Beep. Popular music dominated the charts for the first half of the decade, vocal-driven classic pop replaced big band/swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, mitch Miller, A&R man at the eras most successful label, Columbia Records, set the tone for the development of popular music well into the middle of the decade. Miller often employed novel and ear-catching arrangements featuring classical instruments, or sound effects and he approached each record as a miniature story, often casting the vocalist according to type. Miller and the producers who followed his model were creating a new sort of pop record, instead of capturing the sound of live groups, they were making three-minute musicals, matching singers to songs in the same way that movie producers matched stars to film roles. As Miller told Time magazine in 1951, Every singer has certain sounds he makes better than others, Frankie Laine is sweat and hard words—hes a guy beating the pillow, a purveyor of basic emotions
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Dick Powell
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Richard Ewing Dick Powell was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a comedy performer, he showed versatility. He was the first actor to portray the private detective Philip Marlowe on screen, Powell was born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas. The family moved to Little Rock in 1914, where Powell sang in choirs and with local orchestras. Powell attended the former Little Rock College, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Royal Peacock Band which toured throughout the Midwest. During this time, he married Mildred Maund, a model, later, he joined the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in Indianapolis. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater and the Stanley Theater. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion, Warner Bros. was sufficiently impressed by Powells singing and stage presence to offer him a film contract in 1932. He made his debut as a singing bandleader in Blessed Event. Powell desperately wanted to expand his range, but Warner Bros. would not allow him to do so, as a result, he bought his release from Warner Bros. in 1940. They did cast him in A Midsummer Nights Dream, but as Lysander, another youthful romantic character and this was to be Powells only Shakespearean role and one he did not want to play, feeling that he was completely wrong for the part. By 1944, Powell felt he was too old to play romantic leading men anymore and he lost out to Fred MacMurray, another Hollywood nice guy. MacMurrays success, however, fueled Powells resolve to pursue projects with greater range, Powell starred in the musical program Campana Serenade, which was broadcast on NBC radio and CBS radio. In 1944, Powells career changed dramatically when he was cast in the first of a series of films noir, as private detective Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the film was a big hit, and Powell had successfully reinvented himself as a dramatic actor. He was the first actor to play Marlowe – by name – in motion pictures, later, Powell was the first actor to play Marlowe on radio, in 1944 and 1945, and on television, in a 1954 episode of Climax. Powell also played the slightly less hard-boiled detective Richard Rogue in the radio series Rogues Gallery, in 1945, Dmytryk and Powell reteamed to make the film Cornered, a gripping, post-WWII thriller that helped define the film noir style. He became a tough guy lead appearing in movies such as Johnny OClock. But in 1948, he stepped out of the type when he starred in Pitfall
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Ruby Keeler
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From 1928 to 1940, she was married to actor and singer Al Jolson. She retired from business in the 1940s, but made a widely publicized comeback on Broadway in 1971. Keeler was born in Dartmouth, Halifax County, Nova Scotia in 1909 to Ralph Hector and Nellie Keeler, two sisters, Helen and Gertrude, had brief performing careers. Her father was a truck driver, when Ruby was three years old, her family packed up and moved to New York City where her father could get better pay. But it was not enough, there were six children, and although Keeler was interested in taking dance lessons, the family could not afford to send her. Keeler attended St. Catherine of Siena parochial school on New Yorks East Side, the teacher saw potential in Keeler and spoke to her mother about Ruby taking lessons at her studio. During the classes, a girl she danced with told her about auditions for chorus girls, the law required professional chorus girls to be at least 16 years old, although they were only 13, they decided to lie about their ages at the audition. It was a tap audition, and there were a lot of other talented girls there, the stage was covered except for a wooden apron at the front. When it was Rubys turn to dance, she asked the director, Julian Mitchell. He did not answer, so she went ahead, walked up to the front of the stage, the director said, who said you could dance up there. And she got a job in George M. Cohans The Rise of Rosie OReilly and she was noticed by Broadway producer Charles B. Dillingham, who gave her a role in Bye, Bye, Bonnie and she then appeared in Lucky and as Mamie in The Sidewalks of New York, also produced by Dillingham. In the later show, she was seen by Flo Ziegfeld, who sent her bunch of roses and she would appear in Ziegfelds Whoopee. in 1928, the same year she married Al Jolson. The two met in Los Angeles, where Nils Granlund had sent her to assist in the campaign for The Jazz Singer. Jolson was smitten and immediately proposed, the couple married September 21,1928, in Port Chester, New York, in a private ceremony. The two sailed the following morning for a brief honeymoon before she began her tour with Whoopee and she was 19 years old and he was around 42 years old. In 1933, producer Darryl F. Zanuck cast Keeler in the Warner Bros. musical 42nd Street opposite Dick Powell, the film was a huge success due to Busby Berkeleys lavish innovative choreography. Warner gave Keeler a long-term contract and cast her in Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade, Dames, Keeler and Jolson starred together in Go Into Your Dance, which was their only film together
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Nice & Slow
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Nice & Slow is a 1998 single from Ushers second album My Way. It became his first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1998, the song was written by Usher, Brian and Brandon Casey of the R&B group Jagged Edge, Manuel Seal Jr. and Jermaine Dupri. Nice & Slow was written by Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, Jagged Edge provided background vocals in the record. Nice & Slow was recorded by Phil Tan at the Somewhere in College Park studio in College Park, Tan and Dupri mixed the record with assistance from John and Brian Frye at Studio LaCoCo, in Atlanta, Georgia. Dupri recalled telling Usher he needed a ballad to knock out the world, the beat was created first, and the lyrics were fitted to it. The composition and recording of Nice & Slow took four hours, Nice & Slow is a slow R&B, pop and soul ballad with hip hop influences. Musicologist Richard J. Ripani wrote that Nice & Slow is an example of the typical R&B ballad style that widely popular in the late 1990s. According to the music published at Musicnotes. com by Universal Music Publishing Group. Set in the key of A♭ major, it follows the chord progression of Fm11–Cm7–D♭maj13–E♭9sus. Ushers voice spans from the low note of E♭4 to the note of A♭5. Nice & Slow features an introduction, while in the middle of the song Usher performs a melodic rap. Usher said to Time that Nice & Slow is somewhat of a story between a man and a woman. Nice & Slow was released via CD single and cassette single on January 6,1998, a maxi single was released on March 2,1998, and a 12-inch on April 20 A remixes CD was made available on March 9,1998. A writer for the Daily News called it warmly engaging, a writer for Jet praised Ushers tender vocals on the sensuous ballad, stating that he displayed romance on the song. Nice & Slow debuted at nine on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated January 24,1998. The first single from My Way slipped from number seven to number ten, on February 2,1998, the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the song a gold certification, following up with a platinum one on February 12. Nice & Slow continued to ascend the Hot 100, reaching number one on February 14 and it remained atop the chart on February 21, but on February 28 it was replaced by Celine Dions My Heart Will Go On. On the UK Singles Chart, Nice & Slow reached number 24, the music video for the song was directed by Hype Williams and shot in Paris
