Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Michael Buble, From the Son of a Fisherman and Became Famous

Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Michael Buble has a real name Michael Steven Buble. He was born in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on September 9, 1975. Michael was born of the couple, Lewis Buble, a salmon fisherman, and Amber Santaga. Since the age of 14, he sailed as a fisherman with his father and other crew members. It does every summer for six years.

Michael Bublé sang in public for the first time at the age of 16 years at a nightclub and facilitated his grandfather, Demetrio Santara, blooded Italian, a plumber from a small town in the district of Treviso Preganziol. One Michael vocal instructors were Joseph Shore, the opera baritone.

Michael has a wife who works as a model and actress from Argentina, his wife named Luciana Lopilato. Michael married on March 2011 in Buenos Aires., Michael got her first child named Noah, his first son was born on August 27, 2013, in Vancouver, Canada. He became active in the music since 1996 until now and has the feel of the music genre musical direction of the big band, traditional pop, easy listening, soft rock and jazz. In his role in the music, Michael Buble than as a singer, she also works as a songwriter and actor.

Michael Buble and his wife luciana lopilato
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Since releasing their self-titled debut album of his, Michael Bublé, in early 2003, the name Michael immediately like a boom, and attracted the attention of many observers of the genre of jazz). How not, he was able to penetrate the market share of American music known beyond difficult for the singer. The album immediately topped world music charts, into the ranks of the Top 50 in the Billboard 200 Album Charts and reached multiplatinum. Bublé offers the kind of music that are less mainstream at the time but was able to steal the hearts of his audience. In fact, he only brought the old songs belonging to Frank Sinatra or the Bee Gees!

Michael's success did not escape the cold hands of renowned musicians, David Foster. Foster 'find diamonds' named Michael Bublé when he attended a wedding the daughter of Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada, in 2000. At that time, Foster came as a guest and Michael as a wedding singer in the party. Foster heard Michael sing Mack The Knife and was immediately captivated by the young man's golden voice. He was immediately attractive Bublé to get into the record company Reprise Records 143 and produces and mentor Bublé directly under his supervision.


His album, It's Time (2005) and Call Me Irresponsible (2007), reached the top spot on the album charts Canada, England, Australia, as well as the Billboard 200 in the United States, and some countries in Europe. Album Crazy Love (2009) successfully perched in first place in the US Billboard 200, three days after its release in the market, and stay there for two weeks. Christmas Album (2011) perched in first place Billboard 200 and lasts for four weeks in late 2011 and the first week of 2012, or a total of five weeks at the top. 


The album was also in the top five in the United Kingdom. Thus, the Christmas album became his third album which is in the album charts. Bublé released To Be Loved on 15 April 2013. To Be Loved debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200, becoming the crooner's fourth consecutive number-one album on the chart.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Career Alicia Keys, As Best R & B Female Singer

Friday, July 29, 2016
Alicia Keys is an American female singer who has a real name Alicia Augello Cook. Besides singer, Alicia also has talent as a songwriter, producer and actress. A R’n’B singer was born on 25 January 1981 from the couple Terri Augello and Craig Cook in New York. At the age of 7 years, Alicia has been able to master music piano and playing Composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin, and enrolled in the Professional Performing Arts School at the age of 12, where she majored in choir and Began writing songs at the age of 14. She graduated in four years as valedictorian at the age of 16.


Alicia Keys
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After graduating from the Professional Performance Arts School, Alicia Keys signed with Clive Davis, head of Arista Records in 1998. Davis then left Arista and founded the record company "J Records" and follow Alicia followed.

The first album "Songs in a Minor" was released in 2001 with the hits "fallin 'were able to occupy the charts in the US number 1 and number 3 in the UK. The album "Song in a Minor" has won five times platinum and won five times gramy Award in the category of Song of the Year, Best R & B song, Best R & B Album, Best Female R & B Vocal Performance and Best New Artist.

The second single from the same album, "A Woman's Worth" was released in February 2002 and became number 3 on Billboard's Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs. And the song "A Woman's Worth" equally successful with that first hit, "Fallin '.

Alicia released her second album "The Diary of Alicia Keys" in December 2003. The album was able to get to the top chart Billboard R & B, with sales of more than 618,000 copies in the first week after the release of this album. The album has sold 8 billion worldwide. And became the top-selling album and the biggest by a female artist and the second largest in sales by category R & B female artist.
The second single from the album, entitled "If I is not Got You", topped the charts in America and the second single "Diary", topped the charts for two. Alicia won Best R & B Video for "If I Is not Got You" at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards.

After the success of her album, Alicia re-released the album "Mtv Unplugged" in 2005 with the new arrangements. And becoming first Unplugged by a female artist to debut at number one. Hit "unbreakable" able to occupy the first position on the Billboard Hot Adult R & B Airplay for 11 weeks. But the second hit entitled "Every Little Bit Hurts", was released in January 2006, it failed to enter the U.S. charts.

The album "As I Am", was released in November 2007 with "No One" as the lead single. The album Peaked in the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, and has sold 742 000 copies in its first week. The album also increased sharply with the success of second single "Like You'll Never See Me Again" Peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs for seven consecutive weeks. From October 27, 2007, when "No One" Reached No. 1, through February 16, 2008, the last week "Like You'll Never See Me Again" was at No. 1, the Keys was on the top of the charts for 17 weeks, more consecutive weeks than any other artist in the Hot R & B / Hip / Hop Songs chart. And the song "No One" earned Keys the awards for Best Female R & B Vocal Performance and Best R & B Song at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

In December 2009, Alicia re-released the album "The Element of Freedom" with "Does not Mean Anything" as its first single. Although the album sold 417,000 copies during its first week of release, however, only able to be in the second position in the Billboard Hot 200 and is no longer able to reach the position of number one in its debut release. And the single "Does not Mean Anything" only reached position 60 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart and then In 2010, Alicia collaborated with rapper Jay-Z in the tittle song "Empire State of Mind" is a commercial success. Through this song Alicia has won Grammy Awards for Best Rap / Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song in 2010.

"Girl on Fire" is the fifth album which was released on November 27, 2012. The album was again put Alicia on the pinnacle of success after being able to occupy position 1 and won a Grammy Award for Best R & B album in 2014. The song is uptempo was followed by the second single with the ballad genre titled "Brand New Me". Alicia was Collaborated with singer Kendrick Lamar's in a song "It's On Again" which became the soundtrack of the movie "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".

On September 8, 2014, Alicia uploaded a music video of his new song "We Are Here" on his Facebook page, along with the long status update that describes the motivation and inspiration for writing the song.

Alicia was also working with Pharrell Williams to work on the sixth studio album which is scheduled for release in 2015. In an interview with Vibe, Alicia illustrate the theme of this album as 'aggressive'. One of the album's title track is titled "Killing Your Mother". But in September 2015, Swizz Beatz confirmed that Alicia sixth studio album will be delayed and released in 2016.