Hall & Oateses un dúoestadounidensedesoulformado enFiladelfiaen 1970, porDaryl Hall(cantante) yJohn Oates(guitarra eléctricay coros). Se estima que el dúo vendió 80 millones de grabaciones a lo largo de su carrera, convirtiéndose en el dúo musical con más ventas de todos los tiempos. Llegaron al número 1 en elBillboard Hot 100un total de seis veces junto con muchas otras canciones que entraron en el Top 40 de dicha lista. Tienen siete álbumes certificados platino y seis álbumes certificados oro por laRIAA. Este éxito no se reflejó en el Reino Unido, donde nunca llegaron a tener una canción o álbum en el número uno, solo entraron en el Top 10 de laUK Singles Chartun total de dos veces junto con seis sencillos alcanzando el Top 40 de la misma lista y solo dos de sus álbumes entraron en el Top 10 de laUK Albums Chart.
La revista Billboard los nombró en la posición diecisiete en su lista de los "100 más grandes artistas de todos los tiempos". Fueron incluidos en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en abril de 2014. El 2 de septiembre de 2016 recibieron una estrella en el Paseo de la fama de Hollywood.
Shirma Tamara Rouse(born 13 March 1980) is a Dutch singer. She is known for her participation in the fourth season of The Voice of Holland, and for providing backing vocals for Anouk at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. In 2018, she was invited to the funeral of Aretha Franklin, due to the popularity of her tribute album to the artist.
In 2010, Rouse released her debut studio album, titled Chocolate Coated Dreams. In 2012, a second album was released, titled Shirma Rouse sings Aretha, with which she did a theatre tour.
In 2013, she accompanied Anouk to the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden as a backing singer, where she was named best backing singer by The Eurovision Times. That same year, Rouse participated in the fourth season of The Voice of Holland, where she was eliminated in the semi-finals.
In 2017, Rouse toured with The Soul of Spanish Harlem, and resumed her Aretha Franklin tribute. After the death of Franklin in 2018, Rouse was invited to attend the funeral. In 2021, she published a cookery book in Dutch entitled Shirma's Soul Kitchen. In 2023, she presented an episode of the Omroep Zwart television programme Hoe … is Nederland? about fat shaming.
Kim Hoorweg (born 9 December 1992) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Kim Hoorweg is born in 1992 in Utrecht, but quickly moved to Rotterdam. As a young girl, Kim starts with cello lessons, but when she meets Trijntje Oosterhuis at the age of twelve, thanks to her father pianist Erwin Hoorweg, Kim gets inspired to sing jazz. Since then Kim takes singing classes at the conservatory in Amsterdam.
Beside studio albums, Kim is also doing other projects. She is performing with The Kimcompany, a band which exists of eight Dutch musicians, led by pianist Erwin Hoorweg. With this funk and soul-jazz formation she performed on The Hague Jazz, IJsseljazz, Amersfoort Jazz, Jazz in Duketown and the Enschede International Jazzfestival. Another project is Back to the Roots, in which Kim performs in a special setting, together with Shirma Rouse. With percussion, keyboard and bass they sing several songs of Ella Fitzgerald en Aretha Franklin. Also, Kim is one of the founders of Bongomatik, a formation which make music that is a mix of Latin, pop and jazz. The bandleaders are known from their participation in bands like Drums United, the Houdini's, Nueva Manteca, Orkater and the formation works together with musicians like Marco Borsato, Raul Midón, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Candy Dulfer en Gino Vannelli.
Eric Silveres un cantante, multiinstrumentista, compositor y productor musical estadounidense afincado en Brasil. Ha trabajado como compositor, músico y productor para artistas como las Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, Cindy Lauper y Deborah Blando. Donna Summer, Keith Urban y otros. Las Dixie Chicks, por ejemplo, grabaron su canción "Without You" y alcanzó el número uno en las listas Billboard en 2001. En su colaboración con Shania Twain, Eric tocó la mandolina en el álbum Come On Over, uno de los más vendidos de los años 90. Sus composiciones le han valido 5 premios Grammy. Sus composiciones le han valido 5 premios ASCAP, incluido uno en 1994 por la canción "This Romeo Ain't Got Juliet Yet", grabada por Diamond Rio, y 1 premio SOCAN.
Desde 2007, Silver es el compositor estadounidense más grabado en Brasil, con más de 60 canciones grabadas por artistas brasileños. En 2015 grabó el álbum Bridges, Friends and Brothers, en el que registró canciones clásicas del cancionero sertanejo brasileño en inglés. Este álbum contó con la participación especial de Paula Fernandes, Renato Teixeira, Sérgio Reis, Almir Sater y Sérgio Britto.
In December 2020, Warren narrated the audiobook of Tina Turner's memoir Happiness Becomes You, which was released by the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books.
In September 2021, Warren was cast in the epic film The Woman King starring Viola Davis. Inspired by true events from the 18th and 19th centuries Kingdom of Dahomey in Africa, Warren plays a warrior.
Ely Bruna was born in Mexico, grew up in the US and then moved to Italy. She speaks fluently Spanish, English and Italian. Due to her great voice, she has compared to famous singers like Whitney Houston. She was a session vocalist for various Dance productions in the '90 and has been performing a lot around the world. She also has taken part in many tv shows in Italy. She wrote and co-wrote many songs. Her first album under her own name was dedicated to remakes in a soul-jazz style of tunes from the 80's and 90's.
Principal photography began on October 13, 2014, in Rye, New York. TriStar Pictures financed, and released the film on August 7, 2015. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances of the cast but criticised its screenplay and execution, and grossed $41 million against its $18–30 million production budget.
Ricki chased her dreams of becoming a famous rock star by abandoning her family. She gets a chance to put things right when her ex-husband Pete asks her to visit Indianapolis and help their estranged daughter Julie through a difficult time.
Ricki has a rock band that plays a regular gig at a small bar, when she is not working as a cashier to make ends meet. Julie recently attempted suicide because her husband cheated on her and is divorcing her. Despite being broke, Ricki comes to Indianapolis to help her daughter, but Julie is hostile. Likewise, her two sons are hostile and unwelcoming. One has come out as gay and the other recently became engaged, though no one told their mother. Still, Ricki gets through to Julie.
Pete's second wife, Maureen, returns unexpectedly, confronting Ricki with some hard truths. She wasn't there for her children when they needed her and Maureen was. Ashamed, Ricki returns to her band in California angry and bitter, insulting her guitarist who is in love with her. He makes her realize he cares and they make love. Maureen sends Ricki an invitation to the son's wedding as an olive branch, but Ricki can't afford to go. Her boyfriend sells his best guitar to pay for the tickets.
Despite her attempts at reconciliation, she's clearly still an outsider. The wedding guests look askance at Ricki when she gets up to toast the bride and groom. As her gift, having no money, she has her band take over and play for the guests. Her son and his bride start the wedding dance and slowly the guests join in.
Broken Peach es una banda independiente mejor conocida por su interpretación de 'This Is Halloween' de la famosa película de Tim Burton The Nightmare Before Christmas. formada a principios de 2009, crean una nueva forma de fusionar la música con el entretenimiento. BP se diferencia de las típicas bandas de covers, dando un sonido personal a cada una de las canciones que interpretan, incluyendo también algunos mashups. Uno de los mejores activos de BP es usar una estética extravagante, dando una frescura visual a sus shows en vivo.
La forma más fácil de seguir el trabajo de BP es a través de nuestras redes sociales activas (Instagram, Facebook y YouTube). Principalmente YouTube, donde BP a menudo carga nuevos videos, shows en vivo o en estudio realizados con su nueva estética de diseño exclusivo.
Más de 180k YouTube, 100k seguidores en Facebook y más de 26 millones de reproducciones de video acumuladas confirman el camino exitoso de BP, no solo en sus shows en vivo sino también en las Redes Sociales.
Hay dos "marcas registradas" diferentes para BP, que se publican anualmente en Halloween y Christmas Special. Solo esos videos cuentan con más de 12 millones de reproducciones en las diferentes plataformas como YouTube y también referidos en medios masivos (TV y prensa).