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Getting to Know ‘The Boys’: The Lives and Music of The Sherman Brothers
Their songs are ingrained in our collective musical memory: “It’s a Small World,” "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," and more. Brothers Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, better known as The Sherman Brothers, composed the scores for classic Hollywood musicals including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and this summer, a film entitled The Boys will tell their unique story. Songwriting runs in…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.16.09
Alejandra Alberti
This talented 22-year-old was born in Nashville, Tenn., to a Cuban father and a Mexican mother, drawing all of her experiences of growing up in the United States while keeping strong ties to her heritage. A fusion of pop, rock and r&b-influenced vocals, Alberti’s musical journey should prove to be an inspiration to what the new generation of Spanish-speaking music fans have been waiting for. “When developing this project I…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.23.06
Anthony Fedorov
From a young boy who was never supposed to be able to speak, to a man with a golden voice, Anthony Fedorov has truly beaten all the odds. As a Top 4 finalist in season four of American Idol, to being voted the No. 2 most popular performer in the 2005 Idol summer tour, Anthony has begun the ascent he has dreamed about all his life. His presence commanded…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.19.06
Fulano
Latin Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Elsten “Fulano” Torres is a contemporary bilingual artist recognized for his uniquely original musical style. This successful performer stands out as an individual, with his eclectic pop-rock Latin songs and their sundry worldly grooves, Cuban-meets-British melodies, and starry-eyed, heart-felt lyrics. Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in New York City, this travelling troubadour represents a new generation of bilingual singer/songwriters. He has left…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.19.06
Taxi Amarillo
It is a well known fact that New York’s musical landscape is as diverse as the people living in it, and perhaps only truly experienced by those that spend their days picking up and dropping off passengers in the city’s yellow cabs. Traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood, the music that infiltrates through their windows constantly changes beat, changes rhythm, creating a unique blend of r&b, soul, salsa, rock, pop and…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.19.06
Cool & Dre
The spotlight that has shined on urban centers ranging from New York to Los Angeles to Atlanta, where some of today’s hottest r&b and rap songs have been produced, is now focused on Miami, where two of today’s hottest producers — Marcello Valenzano and Andre Lyon, better known as Cool & Dre — are creating hits. Cool & Dre met and became friends in high school…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
AFI
With the release of their seventh album, decemberunderground, AFI stakes its claim as standard-bearer on the resurgent goth-punk scene. A full two years in the making, the new album teams the Ukiah, CA band with producer Jerry Finn (Green Day, Blink 182). Together, they have produced a recording that combines the band’s retro-punk and new wave proclivities with Finn’s heavy-rock sensibilities. Tracks like “Love Like Winter,” “Miss…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Charlie Clouser
Composer Charlie Clouser recalls first hearing the temp score for Saw. “Ministry was playing out of one speaker and Einsturzende Neubauten out of the other. You rarely hear a temp score that out of control: one drum beat in the left speaker, one in the right, at different tempos.” Clouser tapped Chas Smith, a musician/welder, to inject musical metal. “He plays pedal steel and steel, but he prepares the guitars…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Daniel Powter
The song “Bad Day” has been very good to contemporary pop crooner Daniel Powter. It first became a hit in Europe, where it was the No. 1 most-played song of 2005; then it zoomed up the charts in 2006 in America, taking the top slot and becoming the best-selling digital single for the first half of the year. And thanks to multiple plays over the end credits on American Idol…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Little Big Town
Like the “Little Engine That Could,” Little Big Town refused to believe they couldn’t do it — and kept on trying until they became big stars on the country scene. That “I think I can” attitude, combined with undeniable vocal talent, perseverance and a family cohesiveness, has led them from the dusty back roads of Alabama and Arkansas to the bright lights of Hollywood…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Mr. Collipark
Mr. Collipark is one of the most promising young entrepreneurs to have emerged out of the hip-hop industry. He’s not only a multi-platinum producer for artists such as the Ying Yang Twins, Mike Jones and Jamie Foxx, but he’s also a successful solo artist. Michael Crooms, Collipark’s real name, moved to Atlanta at the age of five and grew up to become one of…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Shinedown
Pounding out over 200 concerts a year is probably one of the quickest ways for a group to either make it or break it: You’re either demonstrating some pretty solid chops as a band to be reckoned with, or you’re exposing yourselves as never-will-be’s. For the four members of melodic hard-rock band Shinedown, life on the road has definitely landed them in the former category. Indeed, after…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Teddy Geiger
”Stepladder” indeed! Teddy Geiger took a giant step up the ladder of stardom with Underage Thinking, his major label debut album, which followed his independently released EP Stepladder—and his uncanny casting as a talented young singer/songwriter on the well-received but short-lived music business TV dramedy Love Monkey. But it was his earlier appearance as a finalist on VH1’s In Search of the New Partridge Family that grabbed the attention…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
Wendell Mobley
Hit songwriter Wendell Mobley has always been different. A singer/songwriter’s move to Music City usually necessitates a rent-paying job outside the realm of creativity: Flipping burgers, mowing lawns and delivering refrigerators fill empty stomachs. Wendell simply “played guitar.” Mobley moved to Nashville from Celina, Ohio, after cutting his teeth with his own band locally. “The band I was in was just cutting songs I wrote,” Mobley recalls. “Other local bands…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.15.06
‘Stadium’ Set Keeps Chili Peppers Red Hot
They pioneered funk-rock, wrote the alt-rock playbook, and led one of the most celebrated insurgencies in pop music history. So when the Red Hot Chili Peppers announced in early 2006 that their ninth studio recording would feature a whopping 28 tracks, some fans greeted the news with cautious anticipation. The suspense turned to befuddlement after the band disclosed that the new album would be divided into two discs titled “Jupiter”…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06
T.I. Takes His Place Among Hip-Hop Royalty
For a while, there was actually a debate when T.I. proclaimed himself “King of the South.” Yet, if there was any doubt as to who owned the throne, it should have been eliminated in March of 2006, when in one week T.I. had an album aptly titled King at the No. 1 spot on both the r&b and rap charts, a single, “What You Know,” dominating radio, and a leading…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06
Ron Carter Knows What Makes Jazz Work
Who better to delineate the delicate dance between composition and improvisation than a veteran of approximately 2,000 recording sessions? “They are fundamentally the same. Jazz composition is the floor that the carpet, which is improvisation, lays on top of, basically,” explains bassist Ron Carter. “It’s hard to say this and not have it sound so simple that anyone can do it because it’s pretty complex. “What jazz composers bring…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06
Harry Gregson-Williams: A 21st Century Man
Harry Gregson-Williams was so astonished to be named the winner of this year’s Richard Kirk Award for outstanding career achievement that, he says — only half-joking — “I double-checked to make sure they had the right Williams.” Gregson-Williams, 44, is the composer of the megahit Shrek movies (the first of which won him an Annie Award), the medieval epic Kingdom of Heaven (winner of a Satellite Award) and…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06
For Donald Lawrence, ‘Finale’ Is Just the Beginning
As a songwriter, producer, artist and record executive, Donald Lawrence is one of the gospel music community’s most accomplished talents. Thus far in 2006, he was the most awarded artist at the Stellar Awards, claiming six trophies, and he set chart records with the release of Donald Lawrence Presents Tri-City Singers Finale. Though the release of Finale closes a successful chapter in Lawrence’s career, he’s not content to rest…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.06
Saosin Explode at Retail
Southern California quintet Saosin is one of the fastest-growing headliners in rock, earning mainstage slots on the Vans Warped Tour, selling out clubs in a flash, going out with heavyweights like AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday, and garnering an ocean of fans who’ve downloaded their songs from MySpace over five million times, all before they’ve released…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.04.06
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