A história mitológica da música, no mundo ocidental, começou com a morte dos Titãs.
Conta-se que depois da vitória dos deuses do Olimpo sobre os seis filhos de Urano (Oceano, Ceos, Crio, Hiperião, Jápeto e Crono), mais conhecidos como os Titãs, foi solicitado a Zeus que se criasse divindades capazes de cantar as vitórias dos Olímpicos. Zeus então partilhou o leito com Mnemosina, a deusa da memória, durante nove noites consecutivas e, no devido tempo, nasceram as nove Musas.
Entre as nove Musas estavam Euterpe (a música) e Aede, ou Arche (o canto). As nove deusas gostavam de freqüentar o monte Parnaso, na Fócida, onde faziam parte do cortejo de Apolo, deus da Música.
Há também, na mitologia, outros deuses ligados à história da música como Museo, filho de Eumolpo, que era tão grande musicista que quando tocava chegava a curar doenças; de Orfeu, filho da musa Calíope (musa da poesia lírica e considerada a mais alta dignidade das nove musas), que era cantor, músico e poeta; de Anfião, filho de Zeus, que após ganhar uma lira de Hermes, o mais ocupado de todos os deuses, passou a dedicar-se inteiramente à música.
Se estudarmos com cuidado a mitologia dos povos, perceberemos que todo o povo tem um deus ou algum tipo de representação mitológica ligado à música. Para os egípcios, por exemplo, a música teria sido inventada por Tot ou por Osíris; para os hindus, por Brama; para os judeus, por Jubal e assim por diante, o que prova que a música é algo intrínseco à historia do ser humano sobre a Terra e uma de suas manifestações mais antigas e importantes.
História Não-Mitológica
A origem mecânica e não-mitológica da música divide-se em duas partes: a primeira, na expressão de sentimentos através da voz humana; a segunda, no fenômeno natural de soar em conjunto de duas ou mais vozes; a primeira, seria a raiz da música vocal; a segunda, a raiz da música instrumental.
Na história não-mitológica da música são importantes os nomes de Pitágoras, inventor do monocórdio para determinar matematicamente as relações dos sons, e o de Lassus, o mestre de Píndaro, que, perto do ano 540 antes de Cristo, foi o primeiro pensador a escrever sobre a teoria da música.
Outro nome é o do chinês Lin-Len, que escreveu também um dos primeiros documentos a respeito de música, em 234 antes de Cristo, época do imperador chinês Haung-Ti. No tempo desse soberano, Lin-Len -que era um de seus ministros- estabeleceu a oitava em doze semitons, aos quais chamou de doze lius. Esses doze lius foram divididos em liu Yang e liu Yin, que correspondiam, entre outras coisas, aos doze meses do ano.
Origem Física e Elementos
A música, segundo a teoria musical, é formada de três elementos principais. São eles o ritmo, a harmonia e a melodia. Entre esses três elementos podemos afirmar que o ritmo é a base e o fundamento de toda expressão musical.
Sem ritmo não há música. Acredita-se que os movimentos rítmicos do corpo humano tenham originado a musica. O ritmo é de tal maneira mais importante que é o único elemento que pode existir independente dos outros dois: a harmonia e a melodia.
A harmonia, segundo elemento mais importante, é responsável pelo desenvolvimento da arte musical. Foi da harmonia de vozes humanas que surgiu a música instrumental.
A melodia, por sua vez, é a primeira e imediata expressão de capacidades musicais, pois se desenvolve a partir da língua, da acentuação das palavras, e forma uma sucessão de notas característica que, por vezes, resulta num padrão rítmico e harmônico reconhecível.
O que resulta da junção da melodia, harmonia e ritmo são as consonâncias e as dissonâncias.
Acontece, porém, que as definições de dissonâncias e consonâncias variam de cultura para cultura. Na Idade Média, por exemplo, eram considerados dissonantes certos acordes que parecem perfeitamente consonantes aos ouvidos atuais, principalmente aos ouvidos roqueiros (trash metal e afins) de hoje.
Essas diferenças são ainda maiores quando se compara a música ocidental com a indiana ou a chinesa, podendo se chegar até à incompreensão mútua.
Para melhor entender essas diferenças entre consonância e dissonância é sempre bom recorrer ao latim:
Consonância, em latim consonantia, significa acordo, concordância, ou seja, consonante é todo o som que nos parece agradável, que concorda com nosso gosto musical e com os outros sons que o seguem.
Dissonância, em latim dissonantia, significa desarmonia, discordância, ou seja, é todo som que nos parece desagradável, ou, no sentido mais de teoria musical, todo intervalo que não satisfaz a idéia de repouso e pede resolução em uma consonância.
Trocando em miúdos, a dissonância seria todo som que parece exigir um outro som logo em seguida.
Já a incompreensão se dá porque as concordâncias e discordâncias mudam de cultura para cultura, pois quando nós, ocidentais, ouvimos uma música oriental típica, chegamos, às vezes, a ter impressão de que ela está em total desacordo com o que os nossos ouvidos ocidentais estão acostumados.
Portanto o que se pode dizer é que os povos, na realidade, têm consonâncias e dissonâncias próprias, pois elas representam as suas subjetividades, as suas idiossincrasias, o gosto e o costume de cada povo e de cada cultura.
A música seria, nesse caso, a capacidade que consiste em saber expressar sentimentos através de sons artisticamente combinados ou a ciência que pertence aos domínios da acústica, modificando-se esteticamente de cultura para cultura
Fonte: Renato Roschel do Banco de Dados Folha OnLine
segunda-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2008
História da Música
domingo, 17 de fevereiro de 2008
radio para ouvir Elvis
segunda-feira, 11 de fevereiro de 2008
link para baixar gratis 50 cds alternativos de paul mccartney
domingo, 10 de fevereiro de 2008
Grammy - É Hoje!
Hoje é o dia da premiação mais importante da música, o "Oscar da música". Um palco onde todos querem se apresentar. Prêmios que todos querem receber. Vencedores que todos querem anunciar. Uma festa onde todos querem participar. E um programa na qual todos que amam música adoram assistir. Estou falando do Grammy, é claro.Muita expectativa. "And the Grammy goes to..." Em breve saberemos.
Grammy 2008 - Número 50 (histórica)
Canal que transmitirá o Grammy nos EUA: CBS
Canal que transmitirá o Grammy ao vivo para o Brasil: Sony
Quando? Hoje, 10 de fevereiro de 2008, 23hs (horário de Brasília)S
erá legendado? A festa ao vivo não mas a Sony reprisará dia 17 de fevereiro às 20hs, com legenda.
Comercial: www.youtube. com/watch? v=FdYIcbi2- C4 (21 segundos)S
hows confirmados:
* elenco de "Across the Universe"
* Beyonce
* Mary J. Blige
* Andrea Bocelli
* elenco de Cirque du Soleil "Love"
* Feist
* Fergie, Will.i.am e Akon (tributo a Michael Jackson)
* Clark Sisters
* Eldar
* John Fogerty
* Foo Fighters
* Aretha Franklin
* Josh Groban
* Herbie Hancock
* Israel and New Breed
* Alicia Keys
* Kid Rock
* Dave Koz
* Lang Lang
* John Legend
* Jerry Lee Lewis
* John Mayer
* Little Richard
* Brad Paisley
* Rihanna
* Keely Smith
* Tina Turner
* Carrie Underwood
* Kanye West
* BeBe Winans
* Amy Winehouse (via satélite ao vivo de Londres)
Apresentadores confirmados:
* Akon
* Jason Bateman
* Tony Bennett
* Dierks Bentley
* Chris Brown
* Cher
* Natalie Cole
* Miley Cyrus
* Nelly Furtado
* Cuba Gooding Jr.
* Juanes*
Tom Hanks
* Quincy Jones
* Carole King
* Solange Knowles
* Cyndi Lauper
* George Lopez
* Lyle Lovett
* Ludacris
* Joe Mantegna
* Bette Midler
* Prince
* Bonnie Raitt
* Roselyn Sanchez
* Ringo Starr
* Dave Stewart
* Taylor Swift
* Usher
* Stevie Wonder
Taylor Swift se excita ao ser indicada ao Grammy 2008
Videoclipes dos concorrentes a Melhor Video
Dixie Chicks arrasam no Grammy 2007
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sábado, 9 de fevereiro de 2008
Elvis Presley, 30 anos depois de sua morte, vota em ilha do Pacífico Sul
http://www.jornaldeitupeva.com.br/noticia.php?id=070306035902
Elvis Presley, um guerreiro frio de Nixon e cagüete do FBI
Elvis Presley era um garoto caipira do Mississippi que conseguiu incorporar o espírito da música negra e faturou alto em cima do rock de uma maneira que seus criadores nunca puderam porque não tinham a cor certa da pele numa América racista. Ele foi relevante musicalmente apenas no período 1954-1958, quando gravou praticamente todas as músicas pelas quais é lembrado. Depois que entrou para o Exército, como todo bom moço americano, sua relevância acabou, dedicando-se depois da baixa militar a filmes irrelevantes e a shows ao estilo Las Vegas. Este período diluiu totalmente o rapaz rebeldinho do começo e sua volta às paradas hoje, 25 anos após sua morte, vem no bojo de grandes corporações, Walt Disney Pictures (''Lilo & Stitch'') e Nike, num fim coerente com sua postura de artista do establishment. O pior lado de Elvis ficava longe do olhar das multidões e da máquina publicitária comandada por seu implacável empresário, o coronel Tom Parker. Elvis era um típico americano reacionário do Sul, apesar do escândalo que sua beleza e postura sensual no palco causava junto aos mais velhos na época em que começou (na sua primeira aparição no programa de Ed Sullivan ele só foi focalizado da cintura para cima). Era um amante das armas e adorava um uniforme policial. Ao longo de sua carreira colecionou distintivos de delegado e de xerife que lhe eram concedidos por associações policiais as quais cortejava com quase o mesmo fervor que se dedicava a conquistar meninas bonitas. No casamento de um dos integrantes de sua turminha de Memphis, formada por 12 caras que tinham do bom e do melhor às suas custas, Elvis apareceu com quatro armas, distintivo de xerife, algemas e uma lanterna usada para controlar o trânsito. Ele colecionava armas e costumava treinar com sua gangue nos estandes da academia de polícia onde quer que estivesse, graças às suas boas relações com o aparato policial. O episódio mais emblemático está relatado com detalhes na biografia ''Careless love'', de Peter Guralnick, considerada a mais completa sobre o rei (são 1500 páginas em dois volumes). Elvis queria ser uma espécie de agente federal da luta contra o comunismo e as drogas e foi a Washington em dezembro de 1970 para pedir audiências ao presidente Richard Nixon e ao diretor do FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. Graças a seu prestígio foi recebido quase que imediatamente por Nixon, que levou um susto, segundo seu assessor Egil Bud Krogh, ao ouvir de Elvis que os Beatles eram um ponto central do antiamericanismo, que ganharam muito dinheiro na América e depois foram para a Inglaterra fomentar os sentimentos contra a América. Nixon lhe disse que ele precisava tomar cuidado para manter a credibilidade. Elvis saiu da Casa Branca todo feliz com um distintivo do Bureau de Narcóticos e Drogas Perigosas, como agente honorário. Hoover não estava em Washington, Elvis voltou para passar o Natal em Memphis e retornou a Washington para ver Hoover, que continuava ausente, mas ele visitou a sede do FBI e, nas palavras do agente que o ciceronou, fez a seguinte oferta: 'ele disse que de tempos em tempos é abordado por individuos ou grupos de dentro e de fora do negócio de entretenimento cujos motivos e objetivos não servem aos melhores interesses do país. Ele se voluntariou para tornar estas informações disponíveis para o FBI em bases confidenciais. ' E voltou a bombardear o Fab Four: 'Presley atribuiu aos Beatles, com sua aparência suja e desleixada e música sugestiva, a raiz de muitos problemas que estamos tendo com os jovens'. Na época, os jovens americanos estavam rebelados contra a convocação para a guerra do Vietnam, o movimento hippie e pacifista estava a pleno vapor e o governo de Richard Nixon mandava tropas para reprimir os protestos nos campi universitários. A campanha para expulsar John Lennon dos Estados Unidos quando ele se engajou na luta contra a guerra e o racismo (com os Panteras Negras) foi orquestrada pela Casa Branca. Tudo isso com o apoio de Elvis Presley. E sua atitude contra as drogas era no mínimo cínica, porque ele era um pesado consumidor de barbitúricos. O resultado de sua autópsia, divulgado dois meses depois de sua morte, ocorrida em 16 de agosto de 1977, afirmou que havia 14 substâncias tóxicas em seu organismo, 10 delas em quantidades significativas. Elvis tomava três coquetéis diários de barbitúricos. Nada mal para um paladino da guerra contra as drogas. Jamari França do GloboNews.com
http://revistaepoca .globo.com/ Revista/Epoca/ 0,,EDG48859- 6011-217, 00.html
quarta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2008
Fools Banquet 2008 atualizacoes
depois eu irei traduzir todos os textos mas agora eu realmente estou com muita pressa...
Estes textos foram tirados do blog do Chris Sligh, um dos artistas que participaram este ano
Chris Sligh from Season 6 of American Idol was invited to this year’s Fools Banquet hosted by Hanson! If you don’t know what Fools Banquet is, it’s a songwriting retreat Hanson holds every year at 3CG Studios where about a dozen singer/songwriters come out for a week and break into groups and write and record songs either to be used on one of the artists’ involved CD’s or pitched to a TV or movie soundtrack. Anyway, Chris has posted on his official blog about his experience working with Hanson and all the other great singers/songwriters involved! Here’s his first of two blog entries;
Posted January 28th, 2008:
I’ll have more info later, but I just got asked to be a part of a songwriting summit with some of today’s biggest songwriters! They are flying about 10 of us out to write and record for 3 days and they picked me to be a part of it. In the past, this writing conference has had Adam Schlessinger (Fountains of Wayne), Gavin DeGraw, Jason Mraz, Hanson and many others. I am not sure who all is coming this year, but just being included is a huge honor. I leave Wednesday and will be back Sunday, so I’ll give more info later.
Another cool thing is that it is being filmed for a big series on A&E this summer…so being involved really is a huge opportunity.
I’ll try to blog every day to let you guys in on who all is involved and what is happening.
By the way, the final mastered version of Empty Me is up on myspace. It will begin to be heard on radio very soon…the official add date is now February 22, but some stations will be adding it on the 15th.
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Chris Sligh from Season 6 of American Idol was invited to this year’s Fools Banquet hosted by Hanson! If you don’t know what Fools Banquet is, it’s a songwriting retreat Hanson holds every year at 3CG Studios where about a dozen singer/songwriters come out for a week and break into groups and write and record songs either to be used on one of the artists’ involved CD’s or pitched to a TV or movie soundtrack. Anyway, Chris has posted on his official blog about his experience working with Hanson and all the other great singers/songwriters involved! Here’s his the last of two blog entries made by Chris;
February 4th, 2008:
Not sure about the title. Maybe it’s ’cause I’m listening to John Mayer right now.
Well, I didn’t get a chance to blog while I was out in Oklahoma. Sorry about that. Internet was spotty and even if it hadn’t been spotty, I was so tied up I didn’t have time. However, with that said…great times were had for all involved and some great music happened. That’s what this thing is all about. Fool’s Banquet ‘08.
Every year, the Hanson guys bring out several songwriters varying from popular indie artists to established mainstream artists to up and comers. For 5 days, they split the singers up into groups of 2 or 3 and they write songs together. The songs then can go on the artists’ records or can be used to pitch directly to film/tv or can be pitched to other artists. It’s a very cool concept that happens to work extremely well.
I got to Tulsa on Wednesday night. Because of my schedule I could only work out going for 2 full days of the 6 (they started on Monday). I got picked up by Hanson’s assistant Rebecca. We had a nice trip out into “the boonies” as Rebecca referred to it, talking about how she got a ticket driving out there the night before. We finally got to the house/studio and the guys were working on recording the songs they wrote that day. Hanson has a 2 studio recording complex that is part of a ranch-style house. They have room A and room B. Room A is an actual studio, Room B is really part of the house, but they have converted in nicely into a very nice live room.
When I walked in, the studios were in a frenzy because both of their engineers had falled down with the flu. So, no pros recording, and some of the audio setups within Pro Tools are pretty complex, so everyone was doing acoustic demos. The songs that I heard seem to lend themselves to acoustic demos anyway. I walked into studio B where Jason Mraz and Pat McGee were working on recording 2 songs they wrote that day. Jason sat down and played and sang the song in one take. It was amazing. The song was great and Jason sang every freaking note in tune. Amazing. Then Pat sang some bgv’s and threw down another guitar part.
Several other songs were recorded, but the first night was a blur. I was just meeting everyone and trying to process everyone’s name. Kate Voegel who is an artist on myspace records was there on Wednesday but left Thursday morning bright and early, so my time meeting her was short-lived. People kept on working until about 1am when I finally headed up to my bedroom and got some sleep.
I woke up the next morning about 10am and went down, got some breakfast and started working on a couple of ideas I had on my own (everyone else was either not up yet or eating breakfast. Then they broke us up into groups and I was put with Pat McGee and a guy named Kai Kennedy from a band called Locksley. I’ll give more info on everybody later. We got to working and worked through 3-4 different ideas before settling on a Counting Crows-like alt-country song. It took us a long time to perfect it, but it turned out very good. It’s called “Wait for Me”…the basic premise is a guy who’s going out on the road and he and his woman are struggling in their relationship, so as he leaves to hit the road, he says, “I wouldn’t wait for me…I’m done making promises I know I can’t keep…I wouldn’t wait for me…but for once I’m hoping that you don’t agree.” It was a nice little lyrical turnaround.
When we finished the song, we headed over to the studio,but someone was already working on their song, so I went over to Studio A where Isaac Hanson, Jason Mraz and a guy named Zac Malloy were recording the song they wrote. It was a song called “The Story of Your Life”…cheesy title (but I don’t know that another title would work) but seriously one of the most genius songs I’ve heard in a long time.
This is a little side note…I’ve never really bought into the whole idea that certain great songwriters are on higher level than other great songwriters. I think once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, it’s tough to be consistently better…you know, you might throw out the occasional “incredible” song - we all do at some point - but it’s touch to be consistently better. Well, with Jason Mraz I saw my first instance of a writer being incredibly greater than me on a consistent basis. It’s so fluid for him. Not to take away from the guys writing with him because Isaac and Zac are incredible in their own right, but I heard 5 songs that he wrote and all of them were “next level” songs, especially from a lyrical standpoint. Incredible.
Another side note is this: people are stupid who diss the Hansons. Seriously these guys are some of the smartest, savviest, most incredible musicians I’ve met. They are serious about their craft and they have serious skills. Don’t diss Hanson.
Anyway, we laid down our song. Pat played some acoustic guitar and tambourine, Kai played electric and bass and Zac Hanson played drums. And then I sang the song. It ended up really cool.
We all hung out talking and listening to each other’s songs…it was this great communal atmosphere of just everyone cheering each other on.
Finally, about 1:30am I went to bed. I again woke up about 10 and ate some breakfast. Apparently several people were up till 4:30 so we didn’t get started until about noon. This day, I got to write with Isaac Hanson and Jesse Laz-Hirsch, the lead singer of the band Locksley (Kai was the guitar player for the band). Isaac had taken Jason to the airport and crashed back at his house, so he was a bit late, so Jesse and I started working on a song. It started off with me just playing a wurly and it slowly morphed into a Justin Timberlake-type song. We wrote the song really quickly. By the time Isaac got there, the song was basically complete, as far as form and basic lyric content. So, we headed down to record.
I played a wurly loop and then Isaac went over and recorded a drum loop with live drums. We basically found a couple of measures that worked for the loop and them looped it over and over again. Jesse had a very clear vision of where he wanted the song to go, so he kind of drove the boat on the production side of things. I laid down a guide vocal. After that, we began working on recording the instruments. I wasn’t feeling well - I think everyone out there was fighting off the flu - so I took about an hour nap. When I woke up I felt much better and went back down to the studio where the song was almost done. It sounded great! Isaac did some cool guitar stuff and Jesse had layered acoustic and bass and piano on top of the track, as well as some bgv’s. To end up, I laid down the final vocal as well as some bgv’s. It really turned out cool…just a vibey, jammy track that starts off kind of Timberlake-y but ends up kind of funky pop/rock.
After we finished I again went to check out other guy’s stuff. Zac Mallow, Taylor Hanson and Andrew Finn wrote this great song that was somewhere between Gavin DeGraw (it’s a rhodes-based song) and Marc Broussard. They worked on that for a long while and it sounded great! In the other studio, Pat was working on the song he wrote with Stephen Kellogg and Keaton Simons. Another great song…very Counting Crows-like. Very cool.
While they were working on that, I went down to one of the writer’s room and heard Zac Hanson messing around. I went in and we just jammed for a little bit and then really started writing a song. We took this idea of a train ride being a metaphor for love and wrote this beautiful, hooky song based on the idea. It ended up being my favorite song from the week. We finished the song about 12:45am and waited a while to see if we could record it. Finally at 1:30, I decided that sleep was vital, and Zac said he would get some of the guys to help him record the song the next day.
I woke up at 4:30am to head to the airport. Stephen Kellogg and Pat both had 7am flights. The studio is about 40 minutes from the airport, so it wouldn’t make sense for someone to have to drive me separate for a flight an hour and a half later. So, I just bit the bullet and got to the airport 3 hours before my flight left. Unfortunately Southwest didn’t open up till 7, so I had a good hour and a half to waste, so I went up and got some Starbucks (venti White Chocolate mocha). And I listened to music for an hour and a half…it was nice.
I am in the midst of creating a reality tv show that I’ll be pitching to the networks very soon. So, I spent some time when I got to Kansas City (a 2 hour layover) to really work out some of the finer points of the treatment, how the competition will work, how the shows work, etc. I can’t give more details right now just because it is in development, but I’ve shown the idea to several people in the industry and everyone thinks that it’s a viable idea that could get picked up pretty easily, with the right people attached. So, we’ll see.
Once I finished that (and another venti white mocha) I continued working on the screenplay that I’ve been working on for a few weeks (actually it’s based on a play I wrote and had performed back in 2000). The script is a comedy and it’s turning out pretty funny so far. The plan is that I’ll write the first draft on my own and then have some co-writers help hone it in. I doubt anything will ever come of it, but it’s a fun exercise and could, perhaps, be used as a spec script down the road.
Saturday night, after I got back from the airport, Sarah and I just watched tv and hung out for a while. Then I started to put together my pedal board (I got some new pedals while I was out in Tulsa) and realized I needed to grab some stuff from Brown’s. So I called and asked if I could come over. When I got there, we needed to reprint some mixes to send to Don for strings stuff. Then as we listened to my vocal for “In a Moment” we realized we needed one line to be redone. So, I went in and took 5 takes to give us what we needed.
Then it was to bed.
Sunday came and I slept in. I needed it. After getting 2:30 sleep on Friday night, I didn’t get to bed till midnight Saturday night, so I needed sleep. When I woke up, I went down and watched Super Bowl coverage for the next few hours until the game came on.
I was cheering the Giants on. So, YAY!
Anyway, here’s the people that were involved:
Isaac Hanson - the oldest Hanson (the guitar player/singer)
Taylor Hanson - the middle Hanson (he’s the guy who’s voice you know)
Zac Hanson - the youngest (the drummer and singer)
Pat McGee - Pat’s a solo artist with a band. He was signed for a while, but now does the indie thing. He is an incredible writer/singer. You need to check him out. myspace.com/patmcgeeband
Keaton Simons - this dude is the real deal. He is an incredible musician, an incredible singer and an incredible writer. He has an album coming out in May and has played with Josh Kelley, Gnarls Barkley and several others. You will want to buy the album. Check out his music at myspace.com/keatonsimons or keatonsimons.com
Jesse Laz-Hirsch/Kai Kennedy - lead singer and guitarist of Locksley, a very popular indie band. They’ve been featured in Rolling Stone, Blender, etc. and are one of myspace’s top bands. Their music is kind of like the Beatles meet Nirvana. Very cool stuff. myspace.com/locksley
Stephen Kellogg - a singer songwriter who was signed for a while to Universal but recently went indie to work with a label attached to Red Light Management. Very talented, quirky guy. He was my roomie for the two days. Check out stephenkellogg.com
Zac Malloy - he came a day after I did, so I didn’t get to know him that well. He was in a band called the Nixons and is now a producer. Great writer, though.
Jason Mraz - of course, you must know who he is. Chris Rich sang his song “Geek in the Pink” on the show. He is a remarkable singer/songwriter. Check out his myspace (myspace.com/jasonmraz)
Andrew Finn - Andrew has a cool story. He was working and decided he wanted to be a musician so he wrote some songs that fell into the hands of Joe Simpson (yes, Jessica’s dad) who had Ryan Cabrera record a couple of them. From that, Andrew has moved into music fulltime and has an album coming out late-spring or early summer. I’m not sure of a website for him.
Hanson Music in their blood
By Claudia
I want to (re)introduce you to bands that despite their young ages have been around for ten years already. I
saac Hanson (Clarke Isaac Hanson)
Born: 11-17-1980
Main instrument: guitar
Taylor Hanson (Jordan Taylor Hanson)
Born: 03-14-1983 Main instrument: piano
Zac Hanson (Zachary Walker Hanson)
Born: 10-22-1985 Main instrument: drums
Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson, the eldest three of seven children, formed a band when they were young children. Even though people like to joke about being the “fourth Hanson brother”, there actually is one. They have one younger brother and three younger sisters. They will never join the band, but they are very supportive and involved in their brother’s careers. Their dad was an oil company manager and they had to move often when they were children because of his job. Hanson lived in Washington, Ecuador, Trinidad and Venezuela, but Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA) is and always has been “home” to them. When they were abroad they listened to some compilation tapes with music from the 50’s and 60’s. They’d seen those tapes in a TV commercial and had asked their mother to buy them shortly before they left the country. To this day the bands music is still strongly influenced by artists they listened to as children including: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Elvis Presley. Hanson had their first public performance (a cappella) in 1992 and began to play instruments in 1995. Hanson released two independent albums Boomerang (1994-1995) and MMMBop (1995-1996). Both albums were recorded in a makeshift studio they created in their families Three Car Garage. They won a record deal in 1996 and became world-famous in 1997 at the ages of 11, 14, and 16 years old. Even if their name does not ring a bell, I’m sure you must have heard at least one of their songs. Hanson had a massive hit in 1997 with their song ‘MMMBop’, which reached number one in twenty-seven countries. It stayed at number one for three weeks in The USA and in The UK, but it stayed at number one for nine weeks in Australia! (This same song was used in a Wrigley's chewing gum advertisement in The UK in 2005 throughout the year) Hanson also released two other hit singles in 1997: ‘Where's The Love’ and ‘I Will come to You’. They received three Grammy nominations in that same year and their debut album ‘Middle of Nowhere’ sold more than eight million copies world-wide. It’s safe to say Hanson was huge back in 1997 and they gained fans all over the world. But what has happened to these three blond brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma since? Now 22, 24 and 27 years old, they have their own record company “3 Car Garage” (formed in 2003 and named after the home studio they created as children in their families three car garage.) and just last year they released a new single “Go” and an album “The Walk”. The Walk is the bands fourth studio recording, they also released an album ‘Underneath’ in 2005. It was their first release on their new record label and has become one of the most successful independently released albums ever. Both albums have always been received well among critics. But more importantly they have very dedicated fans. Most of them have been around since 1997 but they have also gained new fans when they released their second and third studio album This Time Around (2000) and Underneath (2005). The guys actually had earned enough money to retire in 1999 but the thing is “music is in their blood”. They just love to write, record and perform and it shows. When you go to their concerts you can tell how much they enjoy being musicians and performing live. They always say that music is a big part of their lives and that it always will be. If you think their sky has always been without any clouds, you could not be more wrong. When they were kids and before the got famous with MMMBop, they had trouble finding places to perform because they were too young to play in clubs. Those places were 21-and-over establishments; so instead they played in the parking lots. They sang at parties, corporate functions, festivals, amusement parks and sporting events. They also had trouble finding a record company. They were turned down by thirteen record companies, mostly because of their age. They were eventually signed by a record company who had turned them down three times before. But the real trouble started a few years after they got their record deal. When they signed their record deal in 1996 they signed a contract for the recording of six albums. But when they were recording their second studio album “This Time Around” in 1999 (written by Hanson themselves) their record company had merged with a Rap label (in 1998). The people who had originally signed them and understood their music were gone. After the disappointing sales of “only” one million copies of This Time Around they were told to co-write on their third album. Hanson did a lot of co-writing sessions, but the record company did not like the songs. After two years of frustration on both sides, Hanson asked their record company to let them go. Hanson released their third studio album “Underneath” on their own label. They had taken a big risk by going on their own but they were rewarded for their courage. With Underneath they had a number one independent album and a number two single “Penny & Me” in the USA in 2004. Their single “Penny & Me” reached number 10 in the UK Chart when it was released in 2005. When they were working on their third studio album “Underneath” they wanted to make a documentary about the process of making an album but instead it turned out to be a documentary about the problems artists face in the music industry. Their documentary “Strong Enough to Break” was shown at the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival (October 2006) and at the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival (March 2007). They also screened it on university campuses during their Live and Electric Tour '05 in the USA. They describe their latest album “The Walk” as a blend of all their other records. It was recorded entirely “off-the-floor” (recorded live). Hanson went to Africa in July 2006 while they were in the middle of the recording of “The Walk”. They visited a hospital and recorded three songs with two different children’s choirs. One of those songs “Great Divide”, is available via i-Tunes for $0.99/€0.99/£0.79. 100 % of the revenues from Great Divide will go to The Prenatal HIV Research Unit at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. This HIV Research Unit is primarily focused on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. In September 2007 Hanson’s “The Walk” Tour took off. In each city they had fans joining them for a one mile walk before the concert. The idea of this walk is to raise awareness for TOMS Shoes. For every pair of Toms Shoes bought, a second pair will be set aside and brought to Africa to give to a child, as most children in Africa don’t have the simple luxury of owning something so small as a pair of shoes. In November Hanson went to Africa with TOMS Shoes to deliver 50,000 pair of shoes. Hanson and Blake Mycoskie founder of TOMS Shoes. (Photo by Micheal Bezjian/WireImage.com) If you haven’t seen them live yet, make sure you do when they tour again this year. For more information and tour dates visit: www.Hanson.net fonte: portraitmagazine http://www.portraitmagazine.net/
segunda-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2008
04/02/2008 - PRISCILLA PRESLEY NO PROGRAMA "DANCING WITH STARS" !Desafiando o passar dos anos, Priscilla Presley, ex-esposa de Elvis, aceitou o convite do programa "Dancing with Stars" da cadeia americana ABC , para a temporada de 2008.Priscilla, que fará 63 anos em maio próximo, se apresentará em passos de dança de salão, neste programa que julga, vota e premia os destaques na dança.Maiores detalhes da participação de Priscilla serão divulgados em breve!Fonte : http://www.elvispre sleyfcbrazil. com
sábado, 2 de fevereiro de 2008
Elvis Presley pela McFarlane Toys
O Rei do Rock pela McFarlane
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Elvis Presley influenciou Sgt. Pepper , diz McCartney
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