For the past couple years, he has been busy writing songs for future releases. Best guess puts that number of songs at around 150. Stay tuned for details on these upcoming recordings. You say you like to hear songs you already know? Click the Cover Songs tab to see what songs (in addition to his own) you might expect to hear at Jerry's live gigs. Spoiler alert: Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Jack Johnson, Bruce Springsteen, etc. Need something a little more than a guy with a guitar, a mic & a harmonica? No problem. Jerry actually plays in a couple bands and can offer anything from "mellow, but fun" to "this might get loud."
jueves, 30 de junio de 2022
Jerry Chapman - Wouldn't It Be Good
For the past couple years, he has been busy writing songs for future releases. Best guess puts that number of songs at around 150. Stay tuned for details on these upcoming recordings. You say you like to hear songs you already know? Click the Cover Songs tab to see what songs (in addition to his own) you might expect to hear at Jerry's live gigs. Spoiler alert: Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Jack Johnson, Bruce Springsteen, etc. Need something a little more than a guy with a guitar, a mic & a harmonica? No problem. Jerry actually plays in a couple bands and can offer anything from "mellow, but fun" to "this might get loud."
miércoles, 29 de junio de 2022
Martika - Love...Thy Will Be Done
Martika was born in Whittier, California, United States, to Cuban parents from Havana. She entered mainstream show business in an uncredited role as one of the girls in the 1982 motion picture Annie. This led to her being cast as Gloria on the long-running children's show Kids Incorporated as one of a group of neighborhood children who rise to local fame by singing staged productions at a corner malt shop. Once the second season began, she formally adopted the stage name of Martika Marrero before shortening it to just "Martika", which she has used ever since. Martika and many other Kids Incorporated cast members were featured in the musical numbers from the Mr. T motivational video Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool! in 1984.
Following her role in Kids Incorporated and Be Somebody, Martika was signed by Columbia Records. Her first solo release was released only in Japan: "We are Music" was recorded to promote Sony cassette tapes in the Japanese market, where the song was released in 12", 7" and CD formats.
In 1987, Martika recorded a version of the Michael Jay/Gregory Smith song "Bounce Back", which included a music video which was aired on Entertainment '80, although it was not officially available.
Her first album, 1988's Martika (No. 15 US), spawned the song "Toy Soldiers", which she co-wrote with her producer Michael Jay and became a top-5 hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Australia. In the US, "Toy Soldiers" spent two weeks at No. 1 in 1989. "Toy Soldiers" also went to No. 1 in New Zealand.
Two additional singles also went top 40 in the US: "More Than You Know" (No. 18) and "I Feel the Earth Move" (No. 25), which was a cover of Carole King's song from her album Tapestry. Both of those tracks also hit the top 20 on the US Dance charts and the UK Singles Chart. "I Feel the Earth Move" also reached the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. A fourth and final single from the album, "Water", entered the lower regions of the UK and Australian charts.
The album was certified platinum in the UK in 1990, and double platinum in Australia.
In 1990, Martika co-wrote the track "Kiss Me Quick" with Michael Jay and Marvin Morrow. The track was recorded by freestyle/pop singer Alisha for her 1990 album Bounce Back, with Martika contributing backing vocals.
Martika was encouraged by her agent to combine her love of film and music by scoring soundtracks and, in 1990, she wrote and recorded the song "Blue Eyes Are Sensitive to the Light" for the soundtrack to the film Arachnophobia. The producers of the album did not like her vocals and so the song was re-recorded by Sara Hickman for the film. The song has also been recorded by Brazilian singers Deborah Blando (on her 1991 debut, A Different Story), Elba Ramalho and Frances Ruffelle.
In 1991, Martika approached Prince to do some new tracks. Among these was her second (and last) US Top-10 single, "Love... Thy Will Be Done", which also became a Top-10 hit in the UK and reached No. 1 in Australia. "Love... Thy Will Be Done" started out as a prayer written by Martika, and Prince then changed it into a song.
Her second album, Martika's Kitchen, peaked at No. 111 on the Billboard Top Albums chart. The title track received only minor airplay in the US, and reached No. 93 on Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, the album was a bigger success abroad, though on a lesser scale than her debut. It peaked at No. 15 in the UK Albums Chart, No. 9 in Australia, and spawned further hits with the songs "Coloured Kisses" and the title track, "Martika's Kitchen". "Temptation", another track from this album, was covered by Patti LaBelle on her album Burnin'.
Martika played the role of the lounge singer Dahlia Mendez in the cop show Wiseguy in 1990, opposite Steven Bauer who took over from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season.
She eventually faded from the public eye in 1991/1992 after walking away from the music industry, due to burnout and feeling overwhelmed with the burden of fame.
In 1997, a greatest hits compilation album entitled The Best of Martika: More Than You Know was released.
During the 2000 explosion of Latin pop, Martika sang backing vocals on various projects and contributed lyrics to releases by other artists, although she failed to receive any major-label attention for herself. Instead she built martika.net in 2001, a website for her fans, and released a remix of a newly self-recorded song called "The Journey". She also recorded a track entitled "Monday" for a new solo album which the website stated was on its way. Eventually, however, her website was shut down, the album never materializing.
In 2003, Martika and her husband, musician Michael Mozart, formed the band Oppera. Adopting a Latin pop sound, she and Mozart released Oppera's debut album Violince, in 2004. Rapper Eminem used a sample of her biggest U.S. hit, "Toy Soldiers", for "Like Toy Soldiers", a track on his 2004 album Encore and featured Martika on the chorus of the track. In response, Martika's British greatest hits album was repackaged with its title altered to Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika. A biography was added to the album insert reflecting the new Eminem sample, though it asserted that she had not released any albums since Martika's Kitchen.
Oppera released a self-titled second album in 2005. Martika promoted Oppera's release with a Borders bookstore tour.
In 2010, Martika, now going under the stage name Vida Edit, starred as Lolly Pop and co-produced a web-based television action program J8ded.
In October 2011, Martika stopped using the stage name Vida Edit and launched a new personal website. A year later, she announced an Australian tour, but it was cancelled. She performed in 2014 alongside Debbie Gibson, Samantha Fox, and Rick Astley at a HitParade Festival in Chile.
In July 2016, she was part of the "Totally 80s Tour" of Australia. The concerts included seven international 1980s acts, including Martika, Berlin, Limahl of Kajagoogoo, Paul Lekakis, Katrina from Katrina and the Waves, Men Without Hats and Stacey Q. For her performance at the tour she received strongly positive reviews from the Australian press.
martes, 28 de junio de 2022
Bryant Olender - I Don't Like Mondays
Bryant Olender is a producer -Composer-Piano and Vocal coach. He was Music Director and pianist for Michel Buble, has performed for Neil Diamond, Carol Burnett and Laurence Fishburne just to name a few. Recently toured Great Britain in the Barry Manilow Hits Tour , " He Writes the Songs". A residency at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, A recording done in Holland, The Fairmont Hotels International Resorts, Hy's Canada, Gotham Steakhouse Vancouver, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundantion, President Nelson Mandela, Cunard Line, Holland America line and Princess Cruises, Genie award nominee, Leo Award Nominee, and Co -wrote a Platinum Selling Hit single in Asia. Bryant is now full swing into production of a new EVENT CENTRE, MUSIC ACADEMY and STUDIO in the heart of the EAST Kootenays of Beautiful British Columbia.
lunes, 27 de junio de 2022
Dinah Eastwood - Your Love (Bellestar Remix)
domingo, 26 de junio de 2022
Himesh Patel - I Saw Her Standing There
When he was 16, Patel received a call on the day of his GCSEs saying he had landed an audition for the British soap opera EastEnders through an agency in The Young Actors' Company. He finished his last exam and had his parents rush him to his audition. After his first audition a casting assistant saw him waiting outside the audition room and asked him to read for the casting director. Patel won the part of Tamwar Masood, and 1 October 2007 marked his first appearance on EastEnders. In 2011 Patel and Meryl Fernandes won the Inside Soap Award for Best Wedding.
Patel has also appeared in EastEnders: E20 as Tamwar. In 2011 he co-wrote episode one of series three with co-star Charlie G. Hawkins.[9] In 2013 he filmed an internet spin-off of EastEnders called Tamwar Tales - The Life of an Assistant Market Inspector. Four episodes were aired weekly, starting on 25 July 2013. All four episodes and one behind-the-scenes clip are available on the EastEnders official website.
He played Tamwar for nine years until he left the show in 2016 to explore other opportunities. His last appearance was on 22 April 2016.[
He has appeared in a number of short films. In 2014, he was cast as Pavan in the short film Two Dosas. The short won several awards, including Best Short Comedy at the London Short Film Festival. In 2015, it won Best Comedy at the Aspen Film Festival. At the Shuffle festival, it won a third award with Danny Boyle as the judge. Patel would later work on Yesterday (2019) with Boyle as the director.
Patel portrayed The Suit in The Fox (2017), another comedy short by Henry Scriven.
He is working on a short film titled Is This Life? (2019).
In 2021 he acted in the short film Enjoy.
On 27 September 2016 he made his first appearance on TV since leaving EastEnders in the first episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Damned. He played ex-constable and social worker Nitin for 12 episodes in two six-episode series. He appeared in Rapscallions (2016), a short film by Henry Scriven.
In 2017 he was cast in Don Juan in Soho as "Vagabond" with David Tennant playing the titular character. Patel played Amit in an episode of the BBC comedy Climaxed in the same year. He made a short appearance as Mr. Glencuddy in the second episode of the comedy Motherland.
Patel has been credited as a voice actor in two Doctor Who audio stories. He voiced Biotech Dendry in Day of the Vashta Nerada as well as Engineer and Ayrton Valencia in The Lifeboat and the Deathboat.
He is credited as a producer for the 2017 feature film My Pure Land.
In 2019, he made his film debut with his breakthrough role as Jack Malik in Yesterday (2019). He sings live throughout the film, covering various songs by The Beatles. He appeared in The Aeronauts (2019) alongside Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne.
Patel was cast as Emery Staines in The Luminaries, a mini-series based on the 2013 book by Eleanor Catton. The plot of the TV series differs from the book.
Patel appears on the 2019 Children in Need album. He sang the Killers' song, "All These Things That I've Done".
According to an interview, Patel is working on his first original TV script with What Larks Productions.
In 2019, Patel joined the cast of HBO Max limited series Station Eleven. In 2020, Patel appeared as Jordan Hatwal in the comedy series Avenue 5, starring Hugh Laurie.
In 2020, Patel appeared in the film Tenet as Mahir, a fixer who initially helps Neil and the protagonist in their plot to steal the painting from the Oslo airport.
Patel appears in the 2021 Netflix film Don't Look Up, portraying Phillip Kaj, the unscrupulous journalist dating the astronomer, Jennifer Lawrence's Kate Dibiasky, who is responsible for detecting the movie's comet.
sábado, 25 de junio de 2022
Broken Peach - Take On Me
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).
viernes, 24 de junio de 2022
Zac Harmon - Knocking on Heaven's Door
William Zach "Zac" Harmon is an American blues musician from Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Harmon was signed to Toronto's NorthernBlues Music until 2015, when he announced his signing to San Francisco–based Blind Pig Records.
While in high school and college, Harmon played guitar for blues musicians Z. Z. Hill, Dorothy Moore and Sam Myers. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s in the pursuit of a career in the music industry. He worked as a studio musician, and later, built himself to become a writer/producer. Harmon produced tracks for Black Uhuru's album The Mystical Truth, which also received a Grammy nomination in 1994, as well as crafting songs for The O'Jays, The Whispers, Karyn White, and Alexander O'Neal.[3] Compelled by his dream of recording his own blues record, he created his first solo work, Live at Babe and Ricky's Inn, in 2002.
Harmon (and the Mid South Blues Revue) won the 2004 International Blues Challenge for Best Unsigned Blues Band, sponsored by the Southern California Blues Society of Los Angeles. In 2005, XM Satellite Radio listeners voted Harmon the Best New Blues Artist in the XM Nation Awards, and in 2006, he was awarded the Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut for his album, The Blues According to Zacariah.
In 2010, Harmon performed at the "Mississippi Celebrates its GRAMMY Legacy" event, hosted by Haley Barbour, where he was presented with a Peavey Award.
Harmon made his Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival debut on 12 July 2019. He was granted another Blues Music Award in 2022, when his album Long As I Got My Guitar, was deemed to be 'Soul Blues Album of the Year'.