viernes, 19 de diciembre de 2014

Suzi Quatro - Hard Headed Woman

 Suzi Quatroes una cantautorabajista y actriz estadounidense-británica, la primera mujer bajista que se convirtió en una estrella de rock importante, lo que rompió una barrera para que las mujeres participaran en el rock. En la década de 1970, Quatro tuvo una cadena de éxitos que tuvieron más éxito en Europa y Australia que en su tierra natal. Sin embargo, tras un papel recurrente como la bajista "Leather Tuscadero" en la popular serie norteamericana Happy Days en 1977 y su dúo «Stumblin' In» con Chris Norman, que alcanzó el número 4 en Estados Unidos en 1979, se hizo famosa para el gran público norteamericano. Entre 1973 y 1980, Quatro recibió seis Bravo Otto. En 2010, ella fue votada en el Salón de la Fama del Rock de Míchigan. Ha vendido más de 50 millones de discos,8 y continúa tocando en vivo en todo el mundo. Su más reciente álbum se lanzó en el 2011, y sigue presentando nuevos programas de radio.
       

jueves, 18 de diciembre de 2014

Andrée Watters - You Shook Me All Night Long

Andrée Watters-Michaud  is a musician and a two-time Félix Award winner from QuebecWatters was born in Charlesbourg, Quebec, grew up in the Quebec City region and first showed her talent in a Christmas-related musical comedy when she was 15 years old. She later participated in a youth singing contest in which she finished first provincially and third across Canada. After moving to Montreal two years later, she made her first live public appearance in the Radio-Canada game show La Fureur.m Watters' brother Patrick, who worked as a firefighter in Alberta, Canada, was killed in July 2007 in a helicopter crash while he and several hundred other firefighters combated a major forest fire near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. Four others were injured in the incident. In 2003, after signing with Sony BMG, Watters released her first album AW, co-written and produced by Fred St-Gelais, which sold 75,000 copies in Quebec alone.The hits "Si exceptionnel" and "Ne reste pas" were the two songs that charted the highest in the Quebec Francophone charts including the Radio Énergie Countdown across the province. There were attempts by the label company to release a European version of the disc in France, but the project was cancelled. After the success of the album AW, she was awarded a Félix Award as "Best Rock Album of the Year" and was nominated to four other Félix awards. Her second album À travers was released in 2005 with "Laisse la pluie" being the most notable hit across the charts in Quebec. In 2006, along with Bruno Pelletier, Sylvain Cossette, Daniel Boucher and Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Watters participated in the musical show, Dracula - Entre l'amour et la mort as the female lead, Mina. In 2007, she participated as herself in the movie À vos marques Party and released a song for the movie's soundtrack. In 2008, Watters was one of the headliners of the 2008 CFL Grey Cup Diet Pepsi Halftime Show. Along with fellow Canadian natives, Theory of a Deadman. Her third album titled Minuit was released on April 29, 2008. The title song MINUIT was a #1 hit on the Francophone Chart in Quebec. She herself co-wrote the ten tracks and the album was produced along with singer-songwriter Sylvain Cossette who guided her as producer/co-songwriter of the album. The album consisted of a mix of rock songs and ballads in which Cossette had many top-charted singles during his career. At the same time, she also signed with another label company Vega Musique/Universal and has a new manager, Mark Vinet. During the summer of 2008, she toured along with Dan Bigras and his show titled "Dan et ses blondes", and opened for Cossette's "70s Tour" and a tour of her own in 2010. In 2009, she translated Justin Bieber's hit song, One Less Lonely Girl, and coached him when he recorded the French version. In 2011, Andrée released a new album Country Rock, which has since peaked at #29 on the Canadian Albums Chart. In 2012, Watters' released a second country album titled "Country Rock COVER". She has also been nominated for 2 Felix awards, including Best Country Album.

       

miércoles, 17 de diciembre de 2014

Passion Pit - Dreams

Passion Pit es un grupo estadounidense de indie pop oriundo de CambridgeMassachusetts. Fundada en 2007 por Michael Angelakos en voz y teclados lo acompañan en las presentaciones en vivo; Chris Hartz (batería), Aaron Harrison Folb (bajo/sintetizador), Giuliano Pizzulo (guitarra/sintetizador), Pete Cafarella (sintetizador) y Ray Suen (guitarra/sintetizador).

       

martes, 16 de diciembre de 2014

The Beelzebubs - Magical Mystery Tour

The Beelzebubs, frequently referred to as "The Bubs", is an all-male a cappella group of students from Tufts University that performs a mix of pop, rock, R&B, and other types of music while spreading their motto of "Fun through Song." Founded in 1962,[1] they have toured in Europe, Asia, South America, and North America, and they competed on NBC's The Sing-Off in December 2009, finishing in second place. The group is best known for providing song arrangements and background vocals for the fictional all-male a cappella glee club "The Dalton Academy Warblers" on the American TV series Glee, although the Bubs do not play club members on screen. Singles by the Warblers, with series stars Darren Criss and Chris Colfer performing lead vocals, have collectively sold over 1.3 million copies through March 2011.[2] Due to their popularity, a full soundtrack album of the Warblers songs was released April 19, 2011 as Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers. The Beelzebubs were the inspiration for the Barden University Treblemakers in the movie franchise Pitch Perfect, being one of the groups covered by Mickey Rapkin in Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory, the book the movies are loosely based on.
       

lunes, 15 de diciembre de 2014

The Beautiful South - Blitzkrieg Bop

The Beautiful South fue un grupo de pop rock inglés formado al final de los ochenta por dos antiguos miembros del grupo The HousemartinsPaul Heaton y Dave Hemingway. Otros miembros fueron Sean Welch (bajo), Dave Stead (batería) y Dave Rotheray (guitarra) y una sucesión de vocalistas femeninas  Briana CorriganJacqui Abbott y Alison Wheeler.

       

domingo, 14 de diciembre de 2014

Joey Ramone & Holly Beth Vincent - I Got You Babe

Joey Ramone  fue un músico estadounidense, co-fundador, compositor y vocalista de la banda de punk rock Ramones desde su formación en 1974 hasta su disolución en 1996. Influenciado musicalmente por su madre, escuchó desde su infancia grupos como The Who o The Stooges. Inicialmente fue el baterista de la banda, para posteriormente, y por recomendación de Tommy Ramone, pasar a ser la voz del grupo, siendo considerado como una verdadera figura del punk rock.
       

sábado, 13 de diciembre de 2014

Jamey Johnson - La Grange

Jamey Johnson  is an American country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar", the title track to his 2006 album The Dollar. Johnson was dropped from BNA in 2006 and signed to Mercury Nashville Records in March 2008, releasing his second album, the gold-certified That Lonesome Song. This album produced two singles, the Top 10 hit "In Color" and "High Cost of Living". Johnson has since released two more albums, The Guitar Song in 2010 and Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran in 2012. In 2014, he released a 5-song Christmas EP titled The Christmas Song. In addition to most of his own material, Johnson has co-written singles for Willie Nelson and Merle HaggardTrace AdkinsGeorge StraitJames OttoJoe Nichols and Jessie James Decker.