She began her recording career in 1960, and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, and Joan Baez in Concert all achieved gold record status, and stayed on the charts of hit albums for two years. [2] Baez has had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome".
At the age of 18 and after gaining more experience than most adult musicians can claim, Holiday was spotted by John Hammond and cut her first record as part of a studio group led by Benny Goodman, who was then just on the verge of public notoriety. In 1935 Holiday's career got a big push when she recorded four sides that went on to become hits, including "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Miss Brown to You." This landed her a recording contract of her own, and then, until 1942, she
Whitney Elizabeth Houston, born on 9th August 1963, in Newark, New jersey. The daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, and the goddaughter of soul legend diva Aretha Franklin. She started her first singing experience in the choir at her church, The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. After graduating, she continued to model and sing, backing up Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan. When she was 19, Whitney Houston was discovered in a nightclub by the renowned Clive Davis of Arista Records, who signed her immediately and took the helm of her career as she navigated from gospel to pop stardom.
Music Analysis Mus-120 December 4, 2013 For my presentation I choose the song “Love Into the Light” by Ke$ha. When people think of Ke$ha, they usually think of someone who just wants to party, dance, and have sex, but there is more to her and her songs than just that. Kesha Sebret was “born in Los Angeles on March 1, 1987” (Kesha). She moved to Nashville shortly after, with her mother, Pebe Sebret, and her older brother Lagan. Ke$ha’s mother was also a singer/songwriter, which influenced Ke$ha at a young age and got her familiar with writing and recording songs (Kesha).
Following her split from Cale, she relocated to San Francisco, California and New York City. In 1975, Johnson gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Lulu. Lulu was born immediately after Johnson did a children's wear collection show. In 2006, Johnson's granddaughter, Layla, was born to Lulu. Johnson took many dance classes, which inspired her love of costumes.
Media Representation on Lily Allen & Sam Cooper ------------------------------------------------- Lily Allen is a 24 year old ‘Londoner’ with an eye for fashion and a talent at music. She has been signed to ‘Regal’ and ‘Capitol’ in her music career and in total has released two albums which both contain singles that have reached number one. Lily also has talent as a talk show host (Lily Allen and friends). Lily is well known for her wild approach to life and this is often publicized and somewhat promoted in magazines using personal storylines and interviews. Her style and body language portrays her attitude to life and people which reflect back to her genre of music that is Pop and pop rock.
Then she studied shortly at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before she stopped to pursue her music career. She wrote songs for various artists until being discovered by R&B singer Akon. In 2008 she released her debut album, The Fame, which was a big success and the hit song "Poker Face" reached the top of the charts in almost every category, in almost every country. Her parents are Cynthia and Joseph Germanotta. Lady Gaga was skilled , she was accepted to The Juilliard School, but instead went to a catholic private school.
Biography.com.) Maya Angelou's five-volume autobiography commenced with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970. The memoirs chronicle different eras of her life and were met with critical and popular success. Later books include All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986)
Xplore Inc, 2010. 2 June. 2010. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/angelina_jolie_3.html). According to The Internet Movie Database, Angelina Jolie was born on June 4th, 1975 in Los Angeles to Academy Award –winning actor Jon Voight. Jolie, at age 11 enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre, and later on took classes in NYU in film studies, potentially starting her career in modeling and acting.
Inocencia Mr. Williams Theatre arts, Hour 4 11, June 2013 Ariana Grande-Butera It feels amazing having a role model like Ariana Grande-Butera, mostly known as just Ariana Grande, which some people pronounce her name as “Airiana Granade”. Grande This girl was born on June 26 1993, in Boca Ratón Florida currently living on L.A California This young girl is just 19 years old but has already done many things that impress many people. For example, she has recorded songs, is on Tv shows, has performed three times on stage, and has won awards, also was in the Dream Magazine as the cover girl for August 2011. Their is many things people dont know about her, some think she is dumb and annoying like her character on Vicorious. 2013 is Ariana Grande's year, her single when platinum, she is on a new show, will be in a movie, and her album will be released.