domingo, 20 de agosto de 2023

Peter Hollens featuring Bryan Lanning - You'll Be in My Heart

 Peter James Hollens (born March 4, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he and Leo da Silva founded the University of Oregon's a cappella group, On The Rocks, known as the first official collegiate a cappella group in Oregon. He regularly releases new music videos to his YouTube channel. With over 5 million followers and over 3  million subscribers, his content has received over a billion total views since 2011.

Hollens was born in Ashland, Oregon to James and Deborah (Melone) Hollens. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal performance. Since his graduation from the University of Oregon, Hollens has become involved with collegiate a cappella, including recording, producing, and judging a cappella competitions throughout the United States. In 2010, he participated in NBC's The Sing Off, working with music director Deke Sharon and receiving acclaim from The Sing-Off judges Shawn StockmanNicole Scherzinger and Ben Folds for solo performances leading his group, On The Rocks – the first official collegiate a cappella group in Oregon. They were eliminated 6th out of the 10 groups performing.

Hollens records and produces from his home studio in Eugene, Oregon, and also has recorded for Sony and Epic Records. Hollens's recordings include tracks for "The Sing-Off Season 2-Greatest Hits" as well as many collegiate a cappella albums for such groups as On the Rocks, Divisi, Cornell's Chordials, the Duke's Men of Yale and the Whiffenpoofs. He has also recorded Sing-Off Season 2 winners, Committed, the Backbeats, and the Grammy Award-winning group The Swingle Singers.

In 2011, he started his own YouTube channel, mostly posting music videos with multi-tracked a cappella covers. Repeatedly teaming up with other artists, he frequently collaborates with Lindsey Stirling and Taylor Davis. As of April 13, 2023, his channel has over 2.95 million subscribers. To support his musical endeavors, Hollens joined the newly founded crowdfunding platform Patreon in 2013. In an interview in March 2017 he mentions he's become an adviser for Patreon. In 2012 he released his first album.

In 2014 he signed a deal with Sony Masterworks; later he considered this a mistake and cut ties with the label in 2015. Hollens released a self-titled album on October 27 of that year.

In 2015, he performed guest lead vocals for Brian Wilson's album No Pier Pressure on the song "Our Special Love".

In 2016, Hollens teamed up with Home Free, the winners of The Sing-Off Season 4, to record an all-vocal arrangement of the hymn "Amazing Grace". "I had the absolute honor of working with Home Free on this one," Hollens states in a video message at the close of the song's YouTube release. "I love these guys, they are so talented and fun. We have worked together once before on a video called "19 You + Me".

Hollens debuted on Broadway in the show "Home For the Holidays, Live on Broadway" which was presented November 17 to December 30, 2017, at the August Wilson Theatre. On December 12, 2017, he was a guest on The Piano Guys live stream called 'Light The World Christmas Concert with The Piano Guys and Friends', in which he made a comment that he is in "Home For the Holidays, Live on Broadway" and would be getting a cab to the theatre.


sábado, 19 de agosto de 2023

Sagi Rei - Billie Jean

 Sagi Rei (nacido el 24 de noviembre de 1972) es un músico italiano nacido en Israel. Interesado por la música desde pequeño, aprendió a cantar y tocar la guitarra, centrándose principalmente en escuchar música negra y soul de Motown Records, con artistas como Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder y Michael Jackson. A principios de los años noventa se instaló en Bérgamo donde estudió medicina en la Universidad de Brescia. Se unió a un coro de gospel en Milán, con el que recorrió Italia, y comenzó a actuar con pequeñas formaciones en los clubes como intérprete de canciones ya conocidas. Fue notado por el productor Cristian Piccinelli, quien quería que en algunos de sus proyectos lo introdujera también en el mundo de la música dance presentándolo a DJs / productores como Mario Fargetta, para quien interpretó la parte vocal de la canción People on the Beat, y a las compañías discográficas Mauro Marcolin y Diego Abaribi. En 2005 comenzó un proyecto de reinterpretación acústica de algunos de los éxitos de baile más famosos de los noventa, titulado Emotional Songs, un disco publicado a lo largo de los años en quince países diferentes, incluidos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Alemania y España. El álbum fue apoyado por la popularidad del remake de la canción L'amour toujours (I'll Fly with You) de Gigi D'Agostino, que fue lanzado como sencillo y fue elegido en 2009 como acompañamiento musical de un comercial. La canción gana el Disco de Oro por el número de copias vendidas. Al mismo tiempo continuó su actividad como cantante de canciones de baile, como Shining Star (de Mario Fargetta acreditado como Get Far).


En 2007 lanzó Emotional Songs Part 2, la segunda parte del trabajo comenzó con el primer álbum implementado con sonidos más variados que también incluyen el piano, mientras que en 2008 se lanzó Trilogy, que consta de tres canciones inéditas.En 2010 lanzó con Universal Music el álbum Sagi Sings Michael Jackson; el álbum, un homenaje a Michael Jackson, fue una colección de las canciones más conocidas del artista reinterpretadas por el cantante israelí. Al año siguiente colaboró con Mario Biondi participando en la grabación de la canción Won't You Come Back contenida en el álbum Duets, lanzado el 15 de noviembre de 2011. En marzo de 2012 también realizó la banda sonora de Area Paradiso, una película de Diego Abatantuono.  El 4 de febrero de 2014 Self Distribuzione lanzó el álbum Diamonds, Jade & Pearls, producido por Umberto Iervolino y dedicado a la música de los años ochenta. El 4 de octubre del año siguiente renovó la colaboración con Mario Fargetta con el single Sing It Loud, emitido en rotación por las principales radios italianas. El 25 de noviembre de 2016 actuó en una doble velada en Blue Note en Milán, donde grabó su primer álbum en vivo Emotional Songs Live From Blue Note Milano lanzado el 30 de marzo de 2017 para DIY / Sony.





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.