Showing posts with label singer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label singer. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2011

Carole King - American singer, songwriter, and pianist

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/Carole King is an one of the American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen plan hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, several of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remain on the charts for further six years. She was most successful as an artist in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a winning songwriter long before and long after. She had her first No. 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961, at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she write down with Gerry Goffin. In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most winning female songwriter of 1955-99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

King has complete 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most current non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, teamwork with James Taylor, which reached #4 on the charts, in its first week, and has sold over 400,000 copies. She has won four Grammy Awards and was introduce into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. In 2009, Carole King was inducted into the "Hit Parade" Hall of Fame. She holds the record for the greatest time for an album by a female to remain on the plan and the longest time for an album by a female to hold the #1 position, both for Tapestry.

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Birth name

Carol Klein

Date Of Birth

February 9, 1942

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York, United States

Genres

Folk rock Pop

Occupations

Singer-songwriter

Instruments

Piano, Vocals, Guitar

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Britney Spears - Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, record producer

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Britney Spears is an American recording performer and entertainer. She began performing as a child, landing acting character in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her presentation album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. During her initial decade within the music industry, she became a famous figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much exposed personal life. Femme Fatale album was debuted at #1 on Billboard 200. This finished Spears the only female artist ever to have six number one debut albums, and have seven albums debut in the top two spots.

Spears have sold over 100 million records worldwide; make her one of the best selling music performer in the history of contemporary music. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 32 million qualified albums. Spears is also known as the best selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall. She was grade the 8th Artist of the 2000s by Billboard. In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful and powerful celebrities in the world; she is also the third most mention musician on the internet, according to Forbes.

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Birth name

Britney Jean Spears

Date of Birth

December 2, 1981

Place Of Birth

McComb, Mississippi, U.S.

Genres

Pop, dance-pop

Occupations

Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, record producer, author, fashion designer, video director

Instruments

Vocals, piano

Friday, February 18, 2011

Esperanza Spalding - jazz bassist and singer, winner of Grammy Award

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Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best recognized as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon several genres in her own compositions. In 2011, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, creation her the initial jazz artist to win the award. Spalding has record 3 albums Junjo (2006), Esperanza (2008) and Chamber Music Society (2010). The first was formed to display the dynamic that she felt among her trio.

On December 10, at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies, Spalding achieve at Oslo City Hall in honor of the 2009 Laureate President Barack Obama and again at the Nobel Peace Prize performance the following day. She was personally chosen by Obama, as per the tradition of one laureate-invited-artist to perform. On February 7, 2010, Spalding became the nearly all searched person and second most searched item on Google as a effect of her look the previous evening on the PBS television program Austin City Limits.

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Year of Born

1984

Place of Birth

Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Genres

Jazz, jazz fusion, bossa nova, neo soul

Occupations

Musician, composer, educator, bandleader

Instruments

Vocals, upright bass, bass guitar, violin, oboe, clarinet

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Elvis Presley - singers, actor

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Elvis Aaron Presleya was one of the most famous American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely recognized by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", out in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the foremost figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearance and chart topping records. His energized interpretation of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited presentation style made him enormously popular and controversial. In November 1956, he completed his film debut in Love Me Tender.

Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his soundtrack career two years later with some of his most commercially winning work. He staged few concerts, however, and, guided by Parker, proceed to devote much of the 1960s to creation Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them seriously derided. He had a versatile voice and uncommonly wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo performer in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and got the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been induct into 4 music halls of fame.

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Birth name

Elvis Aaron Presley

Date Of Birth

January 8, 1935

Place Of Birth

Tupelo, Mississippi,United States

Genres

Rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel, R&B

Occupations

Musician, actor

Instruments

Vocals, guitar, piano

Date Of Death

August 16, 1977

Place Of Death

Memphis, Tennessee,United States