Actually he is one of the “origin” musicians of Rock n’ Roll whose music style is a mixture of Blues, country music and Rock n’ Roll. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry pursue his interest in music from an early age and he gave his first public performance in 1941 while still at high school. By early 1953 Berry was performing with Johnnie Johnson's trio, starting a long-time collaboration with the pianist. Although the band played mostly blues and ballads, the most popular music among whites in the area was country. Berry wrote, "Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?'
His older brothers played musical instruments, and sister sang in duets. His family was religious and attended a Baptist church where Buddy Holly sang. When Buddy was five, he won a singing contest and won five dollars. At age eleven Buddy began taking piano lessons, but switched to the steel guitar, after twenty lessons, he switched to acoustic guitar. In 1951 Buddy met Bob Montgomery, a seventh-grader at Hutchinson Jr. High, who also played guitar and sang.
Everyone in his family played piano, some played other instruments too so his up bringing was full of music. He began classical piano at the age of 6, but preferred other endeavors so stopped after a few years. He was taught blues and boogie woogie by a friend at the age of 15 and carried on to play by ear. During high school and university he played keyboard in rock and roll bands. His first band was called “Oz & Ends” in Ithaca NY.
In 1989 is when Boys II Men got there big break, they were fortunate enough to go back stage at a Bell Biv DeVoe concert. Boys II Men would sing an acapella song known as “Can You Stand the Rain” by New Edition for Michael Bivins. Bivins offered them a contract right then and there with Motown Records. At some point before the group’s debut album was released, member Marc Nelson decided to leave the group to pursue his own personal solo career. As a group of four now, they wasted no time and entered the studio to record their debut
There robin meets a soldier from Georgia called Jonsey, a guitar playing blues man who grew up in the ghetto thinking that joining the army would give him discipline and keep him out of trouble. He plans to open a blues club someday and compares everything to music, but for now they have each other’s back. Jonsey soon becomes Robin’s best friend in the military The Civilian Affairs soldiers are supposed to help the people living in a war zone by providing them with medicine, water, or assistance in developing a new independent political system after Saddam Hussein is gone. But the Rules of Engagement change frequently, and Robin and his fellow soldiers learn that some civilians are from different warring tribes or simply want Americans dead. Soldiers who Robin talks to one day are kidnapped and When some people in an ambulance try to kill Robin and his comrades, Robin realizes he can no longer relax anywhere.
James Osborne also known as “Jimmie Osborne” was born in 1923 in Winchester, Kentucky. This famous "Kentucky Folk Singer," was a popular country singer who was readily organized for his work after war world two. Coming from a farm background, Osborne worked in defense plants, but also played music during weekends.According to Lambert (1996) , Osborne began to rise as he started to sing and play the guitar .In 1940, after graduating from school; he got married to Margaret Lacy, and shortly after worked in WLAP in Kentucky. In I946, Jimmie was known as a folk singer as he worked with the Bailes Brothers in Louisiana, and signed with King Records. He released his first hit “My Heart Echoes” with great success.
The Influences of Forrest Gump Forrest Gump has influenced history in many ways; celebrities, schools, wars, running,and his son. Forrest had many guests in his house growing up, but he had a huge impact on one in particular, Elvis Presley. Elvis was Forrest's favorite guest because he had a guitar. Everybody knows Elvis' signature "hound dog" dance, but what most people don't know is that little Forrest Gump influenced that dance. How this dance came about is; Elvis was playing his guitar for Forrest and he started dancing and Elvis tried to pick up on it to preform at his concerts while he was singing.
In “Sonny’s Blues” James Baldwin uses imagery and the theme of music to help strengthen the relationship between the narrator and his younger brother, Sonny. Throughout the story there is a continual struggle for the two brothers to understand each other. The narrator, who is the older brother, is an algebra teacher. He thinks that musicians and bar workers are the bottom of the barrel. The younger brother is Sonny, who at the beginning of the story is arrested for heroin and is also a jazz pianist.
Music was an escape for Bruce, and he was inspired to pursue a career in music after seeing Elvis and the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. He taught himself to play the guitar, and when he was 16; his mother took out a loan to buy him a guitar for Christmas. During Bruce Springsteen concerts, he would express feelings about his family and the problems he endure during childhood. Basically he used memories from childhood and current issues to write his music. One of the best songs he ever wrote was “Born to Run”.
Following a self-imposed stay at St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood, California, Charles received five years' probation. Charles responded to the saga of his drug use and reform with the songs "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Let's Go Get Stoned", and the release of his first album since having kicked his heroin addiction in 1966 Crying Times. It is easy to see the effects of Rays biological and social living in his music . The mere fact that Ray could combine gospel and jazz music together and do country made him able to cross cultures. His mothers religious influence stayed with him thru-out his