viernes, 1 de septiembre de 2023

Shirma Rouse & Kim Hoorweg - I Say a Little Prayer

 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.

Shirma Rouse was born on 13 March 1980 on the island of CuraçaoNetherlands Antilles. She grew up on Sint Eustatius and returned to Curaçao in 1996 to complete her secondary education. In 1999, she began studying chemistry at Leiden University in the Netherlands, but transferred to the Rotterdam Conservatory in 2005 to study jazz music.

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 JazzIJsseljazzAmersfoort JazzJazz 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 MantecaOrkater and the formation works together with musicians like Marco BorsatoRaul Midón, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Candy Dulfer en Gino Vannelli.


jueves, 31 de agosto de 2023

Eric Silver - Over My Shoulder

 Eric Silver es 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.



miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2023

Adrienne Warren - Private Dancer

 Adrienne Warren (born May 6, 1987) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She made her Broadway debut in the 2012 musical Bring It On, and in 2016 received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination for her performance in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. She was also praised for her role as Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina in 2018, and for the same role in the Broadway production, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2020.

Warren began her career performing in musicals The Wiz and Dreamgirls before making her Broadway debut in the musical Bring It On in 2012. In 2016, she starred in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, for which she received Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination. Warren also appeared in a number of television series, including Blue BloodsOrange Is the New Black, and Black Box.

In 2018, Warren was cast as Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina. She received critical praise for her performance as Turner and a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination. The following year, she performed in the Broadway production, winning the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2021.

In October 2020, it was announced that Warren was cast in her first television leading role in the ABC limited series Women of the Movement playing activist Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till.

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.


martes, 29 de agosto de 2023

Ely Bruna - Holding Back the Years

 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.



lunes, 28 de agosto de 2023

Ricki and The Flash - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Ricki and the Flash is a 2015 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Diablo Cody, about a woman who leaves her family to become a rock star and later gets a chance to make amends. The film stars Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Kevin Kline, Sebastian Stan, Rick Springfield, and Audra McDonald. The film marks Streep and Kline's third collaboration after Sophie's Choice (1982) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006). It was Demme's final narrative film before his death in April 2017.[6]

Principal photography began on October 13, 2014, in RyeNew YorkTriStar 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.


domingo, 27 de agosto de 2023

Broken Peach - What a Feeling

 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).





sábado, 26 de agosto de 2023

Rhydian - The Lady in Red

 Rhydian James Roberts (born 14 February 1983), also known mononymously as Rhydian, is a Welsh baritone singer, television presenter and musical theatre actor. He made his name by finishing second in series 4 of The X Factor, and has since become less widely known.

Born in Sennybridge, Rhydian attended the Pontsenni Cylch Meithrin in Brecon and then Ysgol y Bannau Welsh medium school. He played rugby union for the Gwernyfed rugby football club as a junior and later for his school, as well as cricket for Powys County Junior teams. Following a gap year teaching in a small school in South Africa, Rhydian won a bursary to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at the University of Central England.

2008's highest-selling album by a male newcomer (600,000 copies), was Rhydian's eponymous debut, Rhydian. It incorporated material by Jim Steinman His second, O Fortuna (2009), co-produced by composer Karl Jenkins, included duets with Kiri te Kanawa and Bryn Terfel. Rhydian was a guest on Morriston Orpheus Choir's CD To Where You Are (Sain, 2011). There were two further albums during 2011: Waves, with covers of classic 1980s pop and Caneuon Cymraeg (Welsh Songs), a mix of classic Welsh songs and original songs.

Returning to his core repertoire of classics and pop anthems, Rhydian's fifth album, One Day Like This featured duets with Kerry Ellis and Bonnie Tyler.[15] Within a week of release, it topped the Official Classical Album Chart, occupying the spot for ten weeks. It also reached 19 in the UK Albums Chart,[16] and topped the Classic FM Chart.

In 2015, he released Carry the Fire, an album inspired by the Rugby World Cup 2015. It included his version of "World In Union" - which was the official song of the Rugby World Cup - and songs related to all of the Home Nations.

His seventh album, The Long Road, was released in 2018 and added to Spotify in 2020. It includes covers of "Castle on the Hill" by Ed Sheeran, and "The Sound of Silence" by Paul Simon.

His eighth album was released in February 2023, and became his second album to top the UK Classical Albums Chart (after One Day Like This). He has announced it will be his final studio album, before ending his recording career with a Greatest Hits album later in the year.

Rhydian toured the UK in 2008, 2013 and 2014–15. The title of his third tour "One Day Like This", came from his fifth album. During 2018 he toured the UK in Les Musicals, co-starring with Jonathan Ansell.

Rhydian made his debut in the 2010 European tour of The War of the Worlds – Live on Stage! (Parson Nathaniel), and has toured the UK in musical theatre since then. From 2010 to 2013 he appeared in We Will Rock You (Khashoggi, Chief of Police), Grease (40th anniversary tour, playing "Teen Angel")[24] and Rocky Horror Show (Rocky). He has played pantomime leads in Beauty and the Beast, praised for carrying the show "rather spectacularly" with "remarkable gravitas", and Cinderella. In 2015 he played Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar and in 2016 the Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors. During Christmas 2017, he appeared in Aladdin at the SSE Arena, Belfast.