He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mids through the mids, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time.
He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He is now one of Sweden's most popular artists. Mike Faye. Being the right hand collaborator and closest confident of rock legend, Dick Dale, it has been said by many that the two sound and play identical. Michael however, took the guitar style and sound to new heights unequaled and integrated it with the hits of the biggest names in Rock such as Elvis Presley, James Brown, Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry and Rod Stewart as well as fabulous guitar selections such as Miserlou, the theme from the movie Pulp Fiction.
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He became a naturalised French citizen in and a naturalized US citizen in In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. The Rite, whose premiere provoked a riot, transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure, and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary, pushing the boundaries of musical design.
After this first Russian phase Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism in the s. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms concerto grosso, fugue, symphony , frequently concealed a vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or austerity, and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for example J.
Bach and Tchaikovsky. In the s he adopted serial procedures, using the new techniques over his last twenty years. Stravinsky's compositions of this period share traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells, and clarity of form, of instrumentation, and of utterance. He also published a number of books throughout his career, almost always with the aid of a collaborator, sometimes uncredited.
In his autobiography, Chronicles of My Life, written with the help of Walter Nouvel, Stravinsky included his well-known statement that "music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Several interviews in which the composer spoke to Robert Craft were published as Conversations with Igor Stravinsky. They collaborated on five further volumes over the following decade. Foreigner has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide including over 36 million in the United States alone.
Ne-Yo's debut album, In My Own Words, was released in early through Def Jam Recordings, and debuted at number one on Billboard , selling over , copies in the first week and certified platinum, selling nearly 2 million copies in the US and 4 million worldwide. His second album, Because of You, was released on May 1, The first single from the platinum-selling album was "Because of You".
Smith also has stated that he will write songs for Craig David, Usher, Chris Brown, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis, and he recently confirmed that he has been contacted by producer will. Kenny Garrett. Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post-bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. Since then, he has pursued a solo career.
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Sheet Music. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway.
He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in , followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, seven Tony Awards and 40 nominations , three Grammy Awards with an additional 60 nominations , an Academy Award two other nominations , seven Olivier Awards with nominations , a Golden Globe, and the Kennedy Center Honors in His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.
Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of Lloyd Webber's musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. According to britishhitsongwriters. Memory Sheet Music. The offspring.
Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Bryan "Dexter" Holland, bassist Todd Morse, guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman and drummer Pete Parada.
Over the course of their year career, they have released nine studio albums and experienced lineup changes, most noticeably with their drummers. Their longest-serving drummer was Ron Welty, who replaced original drummer James Lilja in , and stayed with the band for 16 years; he was replaced by Atom Willard in , and then four years later by Parada. Americana Sheet Music. Guillaume Morlaye. Guillaume de Morlaye c. He was a pupil of Albert de Rippe and lived and worked in Paris.
In he received a ten-year license to publish music from Henry II, and between and published four lute collections in cooperation with Michel Fezandat and six lute collections compiled by Albert de Rippe.
He also published three books of his own four-course Renaissance guitar compositions during —53, including fantasies and dances, and also lute arrangements of Pierre Certon and Claudin de Sermisy. Branle Sheet Music. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in Their best-known lineup, consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, became the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, introducing more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century.
Rooted in skiffle and s rock and roll, the Beatles later utilized several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication, they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions. The band built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential.
They gained popularity in the United Kingdom after their first modest hit, "Love Me Do", in late They acquired the nickname the "Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early they had become international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market.
From on, the Beatles produced what many critics consider their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Rubber Soul , Revolver , Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , The Beatles , and Abbey Road After their break-up in , they each enjoyed successful musical careers. Lennon was shot and killed in December , and Harrison died of lung cancer in November McCartney and Starr remain musically active.
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She is the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and keyboardist of the rock band Paramore. Born and raised in Mississippi, Williams moved to Tennessee at the age of 15 when her parents divorced. Bee Gees. They were born on the Isle of Man to English parents, lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers.
Their worldwide success came when they returned to England and signed with producer Robert Stigwood. The multiple award-winning group was successful for most of its forty years of recording music, but it had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a harmonic "soft rock" act in the late s and early s, and as the foremost stars of the disco music era in the late s.
No matter the style, the Bee Gees sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognizable; as brothers, their voices blended perfectly, in the same way that The Everly Brothers and Beach Boys did. The three brothers co-wrote most of their hits, and they said that they felt like they became 'one person' when they were writing.
The group's name was retired after Maurice died in January It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' record sales total more than million, easily making them one of the best-selling music artists of all-time.
The above figure in record sales does not include record sales for artists for whom they have written and with whom they have collaborated. Stayin Alive Sheet Music. Vinicius de Moraes. He served as a diplomat, composed bossa nova music, and recorded several albums.
Miss Saigon. As of August , Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.
Miss Saigon is a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.
The photo showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at a departure gate at Tan Son Nhut Air Base to board a plane headed for the United States where her father, an ex-GI, would be in a position to provide a much better life for the child. Highlights of the show include the evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon from the Embassy roof by helicopter while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese scream their despair, the victory parade of the new communist regime and the frenzied night club scene on the edge of defeat.
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Carter has contributed to about albums, making him one of the most productive jazz musicians of all-time. He has the privilege of sharing the stage and covering a wide range of genres with the likes of Tommy Flanagan, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, B.
King, and the Kronos Quartet. Carter has also produced widely esteemed works in the field of authorship and education. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental.
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