Category: Great Musician

He began calling himself Prince, continued with an unpronounceable symbol and later as The Artist. A controversial sex symbol and mystery, come from Minneapolis, reached the pinnacle of success and good to waste energy on stage.

At 18 Prince had already recorded several demos and at 19 won its first contract with Warner Records. His debut was with the album ‘For You’ in 1978, where he played 23 different instruments, and came to combine the tasks of the artist as producer, which gave him great freedom to do their work. His style was typical of R & B, with the strong revolutionary black music. Wasted mysticism and sexuality. (more…)

Roderick David Stewart, Rod Stewart’s full name, was born on January 10, 1945 in Highgate (London).

Rod Stewart wanted to be a football player, encouraged by his father, and even got to play in the lower sections of Brentford, but was disappointed to not reach out any offer to turn pro. Therefore, left football to pursue another hobby in which he emphasized most: music and, specifically, the guitar, to whom he was touring Europe.

Back in London in 1963, formed into several groups, doing vocals and playing harmonica. But the recognition did not come until 1967 she joined the group The Faces, as a vocalist. With The Faces recorded five albums, they get a great success, mainly due to the contribution of Rod Stewart. (more…)

The vocalist and Grammy-winning songwriter Seal was born February 18, 1963, in London, under the name Henry Olusegun Olumide Seal Adeola Samuel.

Although Seal was born in England, his parents were Nigerian immigrants and had to give it up for adoption, but after four years his biological mother returned to claim it. After graduating in architecture he held various jobs as an electrical engineer and designer. (more…)

Thomas Jones Woodward , was born on 7 June 1940 in Treforest, Pontypridd, in Britain. Jones begins to dominate the singing since childhood, usually did at family gatherings, weddings and also in the school choir.

At the young age of 16 he married Linda Trenchard in 1957 and have a son called Mark. Before becoming a pop superstar, and without finishing school, working on a series of trades such as builder and seller of goods.

In 1963 he began his professional music career, becoming the lead singer of the band “Tommy Scott and the Senators.” That same year, they recorded a demo with 7 songs with producer Joe Meek, who was in charge of submitting them to various record companies, without much success. The group continued to offer a series of concerts in his home country. In one of these presentations, Gordon Mills, a London agent Thomas proposes to become her manager. Jones accepted and shipped to London with the potential to become a young solo success with a new artistic pseudonym, simply: Tom Jones . (more…)

George Ivan Morrison, better known as Van Morrison, born on August 31, 1945 in the Irish city of Belfast. His mother was a singer and his father, also very fond of music, was collecting records passion. So it was that Van Morrison was introduced in styles such as jazz, blues and folk.

As a teenager, Van Morrison, who left school early, decided to try to engage the world of music professionally. To do so, entered into several groups, among which were Sands and The Javelins Dennie and The Monarchs, with whom he entered the R & B.

In 1963 Van Morrison , along with other musicians of the Monarchs and others in the band The Gamblers, formed the group Them. Together they recorded two great albums with producer Bert Berns. However, tensions between Van Morrison and Berns forced the departure of Van Morrison’s Them. Despite them, the singer and producer were reconciled shortly to publish a single “Brown eyed girl”. After Berns’s death a few months later, Van Morrison enters a new stage musical, adopting a more intimate, with exquisite sound, less energetic than it had with Them. (more…)

Born in Roncocesi Zucchero Fornaciari (Italy) on September 25, 1955 but moved to Forte Forte dei Marmi in Tuscany, where he formed his first rhythm and blues groups using the name of Zucchero who had one of his teachers.

In 1981, Zucchero wins Castrocaro festival with the song ‘Canto I’. In 1983, he recorded his first album Un po ‘di Zucchero (A Little Sugar). After a brief stint in San Francisco, Zucchero presented the Festival of Sanremo with the song ‘Donne’, which would then be included on the album “Zucchero & The Randy Jackson Band”.

In 1987 Zucchero released “Blue’s” which was the first major success of the Italian singer, selling over a million copies. After this record, Zucchero began a tour with Joe Cocker and Miles Davis.

In 1988, Zucchero composed the soundtrack for “Snack Bar Budapest”, a film directed by Tinto Brass. We had to wait another year for it to appear “Gold Incense & Birra,” for this work was in collaboration with Eric Clapton , who plays one of the song ‘Wonderful World’. (more…)

The 54th Grammy Awards, awards which reward the best musical works of the last year had two exciting images. On the one hand, the six awards won by the British singer Adele and, secondly, the world’s musical tribute to Whitney Houston , the diva who died in Los Angeles.
Were awarded a total of 78 Grammy awards, 31 less than the usual, perhaps due to the crisis afflicting the sector. They were designed to recognize the work of the last twelve months.

The big winner of the event was, without doubt, Britain’s Adele , who bagged six awards, including best album for ” 21 “, best pop vocal album, best short form music video for” Rolling in the Deep “best song and best record with the song” Rolling in the Deep “and the award for Best Pop Performance for” Someone Like You “. (more…)

Jamesetta Hawkins was born January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, fourteen year old African American mother, Dorothy Hawkins, and unknown father (the artist will be to convince Rudolf Walter Wanderone, Jr., a famous professional snooker player known by the nickname “Minnesota Fats “). Abandoned by Dorothy, who leads a crush and is not able to care for her daughter, spent a difficult childhood with adoptive families find some solace in singing at church. In 1950 he reunited with his mother in San Francisco and form a vocal trio, the Creolettes, thanks to which she was noticed by the famous musician, producer and talent scout Johnny Otis: he is to persuade her to change her name to Etta James and impact in 1955 first 45 laps, “Roll With Me, Henry”, a duet with Richard Berry (the individual encounters a problem of censorship for the title too “licentious”, becoming “Dance with Me, Henry” then “The wallflower” in the interpretation by Georgia Gibbs). (more…)

Les Claypool was born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California. Began his musical career at age fourteen, performing in several local bands, having completed his studies, he joined a cover band called Tommy Cranck Band and their durations during this period also bought his first Carl Thompson bass, which became his trademark factory. Discarded from Metallica to play bass, he plays first with Blind Illusion – that in 1988 they released the album SANE ASYLUM – and then with Primus. The first record of this group is O SUCK THIS, live work that is carried to success, thanks to the college radio circuit, followed by Frizzle Fry (1990), while SAILING THE SEAS OF CHEESE, major label debut for Interscope, it becomes hard d ‘gold bringing the group to open the concerts of various artists like Public Enemy, Anthrax, U2, Fishbone, and Rush. (more…)

The singer and actress Whitney Houston , one of the most powerful voices in pop music, died today at 48 years old at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, sources with the LAPD.

The singer was pronounced dead at 15:55 pm local time at the Beverly Hilton Hotel despite resuscitation efforts, said a police spokesman. Police Lt. Mark Rosen of Beverly Hills to the press said there was “no obvious signs of criminal intent” and that the cause of his death is being investigated.

Houston, who was preparing to return to the big screen in a remake of “Sparkle”, his first film role since “The Preacher’s Wife” in 1996, died on the eve of the 54th annual presentation of the Grammy Awards. The news of his death sparked a wave of reaction in the media, fans and other celebrities. (more…)