viernes, 18 de agosto de 2023

James TW - Torn

 James Taylor-Watts (born 27 October 1997), better known as James TW, is an English singer-songwriter. His single "When You Love Someone" peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart.

Taylor-Watts was born in England, the son of Sarah and Richard Taylor-Watts. He was named after James Taylor, one of his parents' favourite musicians.

Taylor-Watts' father, who played guitar in a wedding band as a hobby, once found a young James playing on the drum kit at home. Shortly thereafter, the band's drummer wasn't able to make it to a gig. So the band had a decision to make: either let 10 year-old Taylor-Watts play or cancel the gig. Taylor-Watts played that evening and has been performing on a regular basis ever since. He picked up guitar at 12 years old and started playing piano the following year. In 2010, Taylor-Watts started his YouTube channel at 12 years old.

In 2014, Taylor-Watts self-released the EP Just a Number, which rose to number 6 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. In early 2015, Shawn Mendes, an artist discovered on social media, found Taylor-Watts on YouTube and praised him on Twitter. Mendes' label, Island Records, then noticed Taylor-Watts and he signed with them shortly thereafter. On 30 October 2015, Taylor-Watts released his debut single "Black & Blue". On 19 February 2016, he released a music video for his single, "When You Love Someone", through Universal Music. The song reached over 60 million Spotify streams and peaked at No. 28 on Billboard's Adult Pop Songs chart.

On 15 April 2016, Taylor-Watts released his debut EP titled First Impressions, featuring five original songs as well as a cover of "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia, which earned 17 million Spotify streams[9] and peaked at 15 on the Spotify Viral 50 chart.[12] Taylor-Watts was the sole opening act on the sold out Shawn Mendes World Tour. On 9 September 2016, he released a cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".

On 23 January 2017, Taylor-Watts performed "When You Love Someone" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He released the single "Ex" on 17 February 2017 while premiering the video via Billboard on the same day.[14] In February, he was named the opening act on the European leg of Shawn Mendes' Illuminate World Tour with dates from April to June 2017.

Taylor-Watts released a new single called "You & Me" on 18 January 2019. The song, alongside "When You Love Someone", "Say Love" and "Soldier", was included on his debut album Chapters, which was released the following April.

Taylor-Watts announced in March 2021 that he would be releasing the single "Butterflies" on 19 March 2021. In September, he released the EP Heartbeat Changes (Part 1),[19] followed by his second full-length album Heartbeat Changes on 10 June 2022. The album comprises the songs from the EP plus seven new tracks.


jueves, 17 de agosto de 2023

Chris Commisso - Karma Chameleon

 Chris Commisso es un cantante de pop, compositor, productor musical, actor y cineasta. Apodado "one man band" por sus contemporáneos, sus armonías retro, sus letras extravagantes y sus temas de piano y sintetizador le dan un aire propio. Es un prolífico compositor, con más de 500 canciones en su haber, y un youtuber muy activo, con más de 400 vídeos musicales publicados y añadidos semanalmente.  Mucha gente se sorprende al saber que Chris no sabe leer música y toca completamente de oído. Actualmente se le puede encontrar en youtube publicando nuevas canciones originales y versiones. Como productor musical, además de producir sus propias grabaciones, Chris ha trabajado con artistas en línea como We Rabbitz, Tigirlily, Klassic, BriansThing y Ahmir.

Anna Book - La isla bonita

 Anna Maria Therés Book Toledano (born 10 September 1970) is a Swedish pop singer. She participated in Let's Dance in 2006 and finished in second place with dancer David Watson.

She has participated in Melodifestivalen, the contest to select Sweden's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, a total of 3 times. At the first Melodifestivalen 2007 semi-final on 3 February in Jönköping, Book's song "Samba Sambero" was the second song announced as a finalist. The song then went on and finished ninth and second last in the final, where it received one point. Her fourth participation would have been in 2016 with the song "Himmel för två" (Heaven for Two). However, her song was disqualified on 4 February 2016, two days before the semi-final because the song had already participated in the Moldovan national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.



miércoles, 16 de agosto de 2023

Bronze Avery - Never Gonna Give You Up

 Gabriel Brown, known professionally as Bronze Avery, is an American pop singer-songwriter. He released his debut EP American Dream in 2015 under his birth name. Avery subsequently released several singles and EPs under his stage name, before releasing his debut full-length album, Softmetal in 2022.

Avery is a pop singer-songwriter. He released an EP, American Dream (2015) under his birth name Gabriel Brown. He started going by Bronze Avery to disambiguate himself from several others with the same name. In his earlier music, Avery avoided discussing his sexuality, but has now come to embrace LGBT+ themes. The single "Pressure" is the first song released under his name Bronze Avery. In a 2018 interview with Local Wolves, Avery expressed interest in collaborating with singers Raye and Mabel.

The Orlando nightclub shooting influenced him as a queer musician. He regularly patronized the Pulse nightclub but was in Nashville, Tennessee at the time of the shooting. Avery performed at Los Angeles Pride in 2019.

In 2019, Avery released a music video accompanying the single "Want 2". Shawn Binder was the director and Joe DeSantis was the cinematographer. In an interview with Billboard, Avery stated he does not want to be labeled as an rhythm and blues artist. In June 2019, Avery released the single "Spilling Out" with a music video.

Avery is a pop musician. His biggest influence is musician Charli XCX. He is inspired by performers including The Pussycat Dolls and Nelly FurtadoTove LoBanks, and Lana Del Rey. He was influenced by Gwen Stefani's debut album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Early LGBT influences of Avery include George Michael and Simon Curtis.



martes, 15 de agosto de 2023

Gabrielle - Proud Mary

 Louise Gabrielle Bobb (Hackney, Londres, 19 de julio de 1969), más conocida simplemente como Gabrielle, es una cantante y compositora inglesa conocida por su característico uso de un parche ocular o gafas de sol, que utiliza por padecer ptosis, la caída de un párpado.

Su sencillo debut «Dreams» encabezó el UK Singles Chart en junio de 1993. Otros temas notables incluyen «Going Nowhere», «Give Me a Little More Time», «Walk On By» y «If You Ever», un dueto con East 17. Tras un par de años de descanso, reapareció en el mercado musical «Rise», que en 2000 se convirtió en el segundo número uno de Gabrielle en el Reino Unido. El álbum del mismo nombre, también alcanzó el primer lugar en el UK Albums Chart, donde permaneció durante tres semanas. El éxito de «Out of Reach» de la banda sonora de la película El diario de Bridget Jones alcanzó el número cuatro en el UK Singles Chart. Su colección de grandes titulada Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 fue lanzada en 2001.

Gabrielle ha ganado dos premios Brit, el primero en 1994 en la categoría artista revelación británica, y el segundo en 1997 por mejor artista femenina británica.



lunes, 14 de agosto de 2023

Martin Pfeiffer - 99 Luftballons

 Martin Pfeiffer (* 30 de junio de 1961 en Großen-Buseck) es un cantante, letrista, compositor y productor musical alemán. Desde 2015 canta canciones infantiles. Martin Pfeiffer nació como hijo de un electricista y una oficinista. A los 15 años empezó a tocar la guitarra y fundó su primer grupo, Sunrize. A principios de los 80 fundó el grupo Linus, junto con su hermano Tom, entre otros. El guitarrista se convirtió en el cantante y líder Martin Pfeiffer. Linus tuvo éxito con canciones en alemán escritas por él mismo en la zona de Hesse Central. Durante las producciones de vinilos y CD con la banda, Pfeiffer adquirió su primera experiencia en varios estudios de grabación. Al mismo tiempo, completó su diploma de ingeniero de comunicaciones. Tras la disolución de la banda en 1992, inició su carrera en solitario bajo el nombre de Pfeiffer. Publicó dos álbumes con este nombre, realizó giras por todo el país con la banda del mismo nombre y actuó como telonero en la gira al aire libre de Pur en 2001 Tras una gira desenchufada en 2003, puso fin a su carrera en los escenarios y trabajó como productor a partir de entonces. Ya en 1994, Martin Pfeiffer fundó un estudio de grabación, un sello discográfico y una editorial musical bajo el nombre de BÄNG. Además de sus dos álbumes en solitario, BÄNG ha realizado y publicado numerosas producciones con artistas regionales y nacionales. En 2015, se le planteó a Pfeiffer el deseo de producir un catálogo de canciones infantiles con viejos y nuevos clásicos de la canción infantil Desde entonces, ha producido más de 200 canciones infantiles.

Desde 2016, se desplaza en directo con su programa "Kinderlieder-Party" y realiza unas  actuaciones al año por todo el mundo de habla alemana. Desde 2017, Martin Pfeiffer colabora con los derechos de los niños de UNICEF. En colaboración con la Kinderschutzbund, escribió la canción "Die Kinder auf der ganzen Welt" (Los niños de todo el mundo), que introduce a los niños en el tema de los derechos del niño. La canción se utiliza desde entonces en los talleres de la Liga de Protección de la Infancia.




Michael Ball - Heartbreaker

 Michael Ashley Ball  (born 27 June 1962) is an English singer, presenter and actor. He made his West End debut in 1985 playing Marius Pontmercy in the original London production of Les Misérables, and went on to star in 1987 as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera. In 1989, he reached number two in the UK Singles Chart with "Love Changes Everything", a song taken from the musical Aspects of Love, where he played Alex. He played the role in London and on Broadway. His album Coming Home To You reached number one in the UK making it his 4th number one album to date. On 24 April 2020, Ball and Captain Tom Moore entered the UK Singles Chart at number one with a cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone", with combined chart sales of 82,000 making it the fastest-selling single of 2020.

In 1992, Ball represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second with the song "One Step Out of Time". In 1995, he reprised the role of Marius in Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert. His other West End roles include Giorgio in Passion (1997) and Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002). He has twice won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He won in 2008 for his role as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, and then in 2013 for the title role in the revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Ball was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for his services to musical theatre.