terça-feira, 19 de maio de 2009

Sunrise Avenue


Sunrise Avenue play pure rock'n'roll with an unstoppable passion, and a dash of sunshine in their melodies. The vocalist Samu Haber started the band together with guitarist Janne Kärkkäinen in 2002. Bass player Raul Ruutu joined the gang soon after, and Sami Osala came on as the drummer in the fall of 2005. Producer Jukka Backlund got interested when he saw the band perform live, and with him Sunrise Avenue decided to make a record, even before they had a record deal. The first tracks Backlund and Sunrise Avenue did together also clinched the deal. Fantastic songs. That's the key element of Sunrise Avenue's music. Songs that sound good whether they're being played only with an acoustic guitar, or produced to sound massive. All four guys sing during gigs, so it's no surprise that singing in harmony and melodies that stick to your mind are important in the band's music. Sunrise Avenue want to connect with other people. The band members emphasizes the audiences Whenever possible. The fact that people came to the live shows even when things were not going that great gave the band faith. Sunrise Avenue prove again that rock can be played with a positive attitude, and without taking it too seriously. The band also shows that a rock band can look the audience into the eyes during their performance, and not just glance mysteriously from under tons of make-up. Sunrise Avenue will melt many hearts in the months to come with their open attitude.

Reamon


Reamonn é um alemão rock e pop banda que é bem conhecido por toda a Europa. They recorded six albums. São seis álbuns gravados.Em 1997, Rea Garvey deixou a banda A Irreflectida Peões e cidade natal de Tralee, Irlanda para ir para a Alemanha com muito dinheiro e não uma demo CD em seu bolso. Ele colocou um anúncio no jornal local afirmando Stockacher Anzeiger “, Singer requer banda para a gravação e shows ao vivo.” Mike Gommeringer (Gomezz) viu este anúncio e precisa assumiu ter sido Garvey, cuja banda original, uma vez que ele tinha visto tocar ao vivo. O casal reuniu-se e posteriormente recrutados Uwe, Sebi e Phil. O seu primeiro show foi reproduzido no Réveillon 1998 em Stockach. A fim de garantir uma gravação contrato, em que criaram uma montra em Logo, um pequeno clube, em Hamburgo, na frente de 16 representantes de várias gravadoras, em 1999. A banda foi rapidamente oferecidos vários contratos, com a resolução sobre a assinatura Virgin Records Alemanha. A partir de 2006 estão agora liberando suas músicas através da Universal Music.

domingo, 17 de maio de 2009

Iron Maiden


Iron Maiden is one of English heavy metal band, formed in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris, formerly of the bands of Gypsy's Kiss and Smile. Originally from London, was one of the main bands of the musical movement that became known as NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The name "Iron Maiden" was inspired by a medieval instrument of torture. This was also the nickname of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who appears on covers of compact "Women in Uniform" and "Sanctuary." With over three decades of existence, of fourteen studio albums, six live albums, fourteen videos and several compact, Iron Maiden is one of the most important and successful bands throughout the history of heavy metal, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide. His work influenced many bands, power metal, thrash metal, speed metal and death metal. They are cited as influence by bands such as Hazy Hamlet, Slayer, Metallica, Slipknot, Anthrax, Angra, Helloween, Death, Megadeth, Dream Theater and Umphrey's McGee. In March 2001 the band was awarded Ivor Novello Award in recognition of achievements in an international as a parameter of the most successful partnerships of the composition of England. During the American tour of 2005, was added to Calçada of Fame in Hollywood. The band is also present in the main lists of the greatest rock bands of all time. The Maiden has headed several major events, including Rock in Rio, in Donington Monsters of Rock, Ozzfest alongside Black Sabbath's, Wacken Open Air, Gods of Metal, Lollapalooza, Download Festival and the Festival of Reading and Leeds. The band has several songs based on legends, books, stories and films, including The Wicker Man, The Prisoner, Stranger in a Strange Land - a science fiction novel of 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Murders In The Rue morgue, Flight of Icarus, Where Eagles Dare, rime of the Ancient Mariner - based on a poem by Samuel Coleridge -, To Tame a Land - in the series of science fiction Duna, from Frank Herbert - and The Trooper -- The song based on the novel Charge of The Light Brigade. Other recurring themes in much of banda songs are occultism, murder and the dark, for example in music Murders in the Rue morgue and Innocent Exile and the covers of albums Sanctuary, Women in Uniform, and Iron Maiden Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter. Iron Maiden is one of the most important and successful bands throughout the history of heavy metal.


Avril Lavigne


Born September 27, 1984 in the town of Napanee, Canada, from small Avril Ramona Lavigne was connected with the music, singing in choirs (mainly churches) and small festivals. At age 12 she composed the first chords on the guitar, at the age of 14 wrote his first song which was called Can not Stop Thinking About You. Although adolescence Avril won a competition to sing with the pop star Shania Twain. At 16 years he moved to New York at the request of the entrepreneur Cliff Fabri who has a hearing with one of the directors of the Artist. After a hearing of only 15 minutes Avril has a contract for the launch of his CD. It then began to work with some composers, but nothing was done because Avril wanted something more rock, country ballads and not expect the executives of the artist. She began to take influences from artists such as Alanis Morissette, Goo Goo Dolls and Blink 182. It is then moved to Los Angeles to work with a group of composers known as The Matrix and clif Magness. Let Go, her debut album was released in the June 2002 and days after the single was released that soon Complicated made success on MTV. In August Avril artist wins prize for disclosure on the Video Music Awards in 2002. In September Let Go won triple platinum disc and bassist leaves London for the entry of Charles Moniz. Sk8er Boy's second single is released. In early 2003 Lavigne alerts to receive 5 Grammy. In February the disc Let Go won five times platinum and is launched to name one single I'm With You Losing Grip in March and is also released as singles (the last of the album Let Go). In 2003 Lavigne releases her first DVD titled My World with many songs including some covers and Knockin 'On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan and Metallica's Fuel, and begin recording his new CD entitled Under My Skin that was launched in 2004 and proved that Lavigne was not only a "summer hit" as many thought. Compositions worked better, more mature lyrics and a velvety voice of his show that Lavigne would pique very strong candidate and would be a pop icon for the beginning of the millennium. Songs like Take Me Away, Do not Tell Me (the first single cd) and together show that. Today we can say that Lavigne ensure more than its 15 minutes of fame of artists and creations generated by major record labels to sell cds pop can make sure from time to time.

domingo, 10 de maio de 2009

Paramore


"All We Know Is Falling" was the debut album from Paramore for the "Fueled By Ramen, which marked the arrival of a new and charming banda de rock. Suitable for flexible melodies that captured the attention, has become the premiere inapagável.Cantando and writing songs for talent contests and the local commercial, the singer at the time of 13 years, embarked on the tape when it moved from Mississippi to Tennessee, Farr then knowing the brothers - the guitarist Josh and drummer Zac - who opened their musical horizons. The band, now introduces the neighboring Hayley, Jason BYNUM, based on guitar and former colleague of banda, Jeremy Davis, on bass, took the name Paramore and started to play and record almost imediatamente.Tocaram in local meetings, concerts of talent in college and soon began playing in the rock points in Franklin and around from there. John Janick, founder of record label "Fueled By Ramen," said that you wanted to produce the CD of Paramore before they know the members. Depois desse encontro, em Março de 2005, a banda se mudou para Orlando, Florida, e se dedicou totalmente à música por alguns meses, trabalhando com os produtores James Wisner (“Dashboard Confessional”, “Further Seems Forever”, “Underoath”) and Mike Green (Yellowcard, The Black Maria "). The band also listed the bassist John Hembree to fill an empty position that Jeremy Davis had left. A little after the launch of the CD, John Hembree left the band and Jeremy Davis returned to his place of origin. Unfortunately, just after the clip of the song Pressure at the end of 2005, Jason left the band BYNUM. Thus, Lumb Hunter, an old friend came into his lugar.Por around the 13th of March 2007, at the time of recording the second CD, "RIOT!" Was posted in "Livejournal" banda of the loss of another member , Hunter Lumb, who left the band for family reasons. Until then, had not been officially replaced. Taylor York, guitarist and old friend of the band that help in the recording of "All We Know Is Falling", comes in its place only in the shows banda.Josh Farr started writing a song by chance and Hayley Williams thought the letter means that dark and helped with the development of music, combined their ideas and wrote a new song called "Decode" especially for the soundtrack of the movie "Twilight" ( "Twilight", in Portuguese) based on the first book in the series from Stephenie Meyer. With the understanding that all have about what is' dark ', found that music combine with the film, which is totally obscure, ui, vampires. Here in Brazil, the film is to debut on December 19 and also has a second song of the band, "I Caught Myself" which is scheduled for official release on November 4 and contains even less of substance than a day outside Paramore : a band of qualidade.No 1 October 2008, debuted the video for the song "Decode", based on the movie "Twilight" (as cited above) and by a forest, where the band is active with several scenes of the film.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles


Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas) is an African-American R&B singer, actress, and chief songwriter and producer in the group Destiny's Child. In a Universal Music poll conducted earlier this year, Beyonce beat out Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera to be crowned the Princess of Pop.
She is usually referred to by only her first name, Beyoncé, which is her stage name, but has come to be called "Beyoncé Knowles" by many in the media. Her debut solo album, 2003's Dangerously In Love, topped both the R&B and pop charts in America, as well as the main album charts in Canada and the UK. The album has spawned four top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 including "Crazy In Love" featuring boyfriend [[Jay-Z], "Baby Boy" featuring Sean Paul, "Me Myself & I", and "Naughty Girl" all of which were back-to-back multi-week number ones on said chart during last summer and fall. Beyoncé has won five Grammy Awards for her solo work and three as a member of Destiny's Child. As a teen, she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she honed her musical talents.


Destiny's Child


Beyoncé and Destiny's Child toured as an opening act for both Christina Aguilera and TLC before their first album, also called Destiny's Child. The band is managed by her father, Matthew Knowles, who is acknowledged as a strong force in Beyoncé's life. Beyoncé is the main songwriter for the group and is generally regarded as its leader. The group has currently returned from a hiatus since 2001, when its three current members, Beyoncé, Rowland, and Michelle Williams, each decided to temporarily pursue solo careers.The group's self-titled album, released in 1998, was produced by Wyclef Jean and Jermaine Dupri and featured the platinum-selling, number one Hot 100 single "No, No, No". The album itself also went platinum. Destiny Child's second album The Writing's On The Wall released in 1999 featured two number one hits in "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name". ("Bug-A-Boo" and "Jumpin' Jumpin'" were also popular singles off the album.) "Say My Name" won two awards at the 2001 Grammys for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best R&B Song, the latter of which was awarded to the songwriters, which included Beyoncé herself.The next album, Survivor, proved to be another smash, going to number one on both the American Billboard 200 and R&B Albums charts, and on the Canadian album chart, as well as being generally successful around the world. Two singles from the album went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100: "Independent Women" (Part 1) and "Bootylicious", with the album's title track reaching number 2. "Independent Women" (Part 1) had been the theme song for Charlie's Angels in late 2000, prior to the album's 2001 release. The title track "Survivor" would win the band their second Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The album's fourth and final single, "Emotions", was a cover of the Bee Gees hit of the same name; it continued the group's impressive string of top ten hits.In 2004 they have announced that they will release two more albums. The first, Destiny Fulfilled has been released, along with the first singles: "Lose My Breath", "Soldier" and "Girl". All of these reached the top 10 Billboard album and singles charts respectively.


Solo career


In 2001, Beyoncé won the Songwriter of the Year award, from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. She is the first African American woman and the second woman of any race to win the award.Beyonce then turned to acting, starring in MTV's "Carmen" without any previous training. In the summer of 2002, Beyoncé co-starred in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember opposite Mike Myers' role of Austin Powers, as Foxxy Cleopatra. She also recorded a song and produced a music video, called "Work It Out", for the movie soundtrack. "Work It Out" was a top 10 hit in the UK and a top 40 hit in the Netherlands, Australia, and Ireland, despite being Beyoncé's biggest flop to date in her home country; in America, radio barely played the song and the video received very minor exposure, only on digital video channels, MTV Jams and VH1 Soul.During the fall of 2002, Beyoncé was the featured vocalist on Jay-Z's smash single, "'03 Bonnie And Clyde". The couple are engaged, and current rumours say that they will marry soon.In the spring of 2003, Beyoncé remade a duet with Luther Vandross, called "The Closer I Get To You", originally performed by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. In this version, the vocal parts are flipped around, with Luther taking Roberta's part and Beyoncé taking Donny's. The song was included both on her debut solo album and on Luther's Dance With My Father set, and they shared the Grammy for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.In 2003, Beyoncé released her debut solo album Dangerously In Love. Its first single, "Crazy In Love", featured a guest rap from Jay-Z and rapidly became one of the biggest hits of that summer, staying at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for ten weeks. Dangerously In Love went to the top of the album charts in the UK and Canada, as well as on both the American pop (Billboard 200) and R&B charts. This album has sold in excess of 6 million copies worldwide. When single and album simultaneously topped the pop charts in both the US and the UK, she became the first act to achieve this feat since Men At Work in 1983 - in the '60s and '70s, it was performed by the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart.On the televised celebration of July 4 in 2003, Beyoncé came under controversy from the Grant Memorial Association for her performance of "Crazy In Love", in which she danced in a "patently inappropriate" way on the steps of the tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant. President Grant's great-grandsons Ulysses Grant Dietz and Chapman Foster Grant, spoke up on Knowles' behalf. "The way the world is now, who cares?" said Chapman Grant, "who knows? If the old guy were alive, he might have enjoyed it."Towards the end of the summer, "Baby Boy", Dangerously In Love's second single, which featured reggae star Sean Paul, began to climb the charts. It, too, went on to become one of the biggest hits of 2003, dominating radio airplay for the fall of 2003.Around the same time, Beyoncé starred in the movie The Fighting Temptations opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. and recorded a song for it called "Fighting Temptation", with rappers Missy Elliott, Free, and MC Lyte. Unlike Beyoncé's own singles, the song did not become popular, although the movie was a moderate success.Fresh off the success of "Baby Boy", Beyoncé released her third solo single, "Me Myself And I" towards the end of 2003; Dangerously In Love's fourth single, "Naughty Girl", came out in mid-2004. Both have also made the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.Beyonce currently is in pre-production for The Pink Panther in the role of Xania, appearing opposite Steve Martin who plays Inspector Clouseau. The film is scheduled for release in 2005.


domingo, 3 de maio de 2009

Usher Raymond IV


Usher Raymond IV, known simply as Usher, (Dallas, Texas, 14 October 1978) is a singer, dancer and actor norte-americano. He began his career as a singer very young, has success in Brazil with singles such as Confessions, Burn, Yeah, also in duet with singer Alicia Keys on My Boo. All songs are from his last album Confessions. Usher is winner of five Grammys. The atmosphere of Atlanta in recent years exudes both R & B and hip-hop that artists from there begin to burn discs when they are kids. Usher The phenomenon was more of them. Discovered at a local party by a La Face record executive at the age of 14, he was brought to the company's boss, LA Reid, who hired the boy Usher Raymond, newly emerged from gospel choirs. Simply adopting the name Usher, he was presented to the world in 1994, with Usher on a disc that had a production executive of Sean Combs (aka Puff Daddy or puffy). Once the first single, Think Of You, he came to the radio throughout the U.S. and became national mania, recorded a jingle for Coca-Cola and the design of integrated R & B Black Men United, with several other singers, who released the single You Will know, the soundtrack of the film The Face of Truth (Jason's Lyric). Next to another phenomenon, Monica, he rewrite Let's Straighten It Out of Latimore. The second disc of Usher when he was released, finally, was formed in school, My Way, 1997, brings the boy showing skills of composer in six of the nine songs, and count on as producers Jermaine Dupri, Babyface and old friend Combs again. The disc's first single, You Make Me Want to, once again led him to the top of the stops of R & B, and promote the cross for the world of pop. The song Nice & Slow My Way and follow the same path. Meanwhile, Usher took the stage, appearing in The Faculty (in ca: The Final Test), a horror movie teen and urban drama A Cry for Justice. Do not forget the fans, he released a live disc, called simply Live in 1999. He returned the discs in 8701, 2001, which definitively established as the singer of soul, not as teenage prodigy. In the same year, Usher also made an appearance on the anniversary of 30-year career of his idol Michael Jackson, singing [Want to Be Startin 'Somethin'] next to Mya and Whitney Houston. In early 2004, the single Yeah, produced by Lil Jon, came to radio. The contagious song that the singer was a guest and friend Ludacris, rose like a rocket and I took the disc Confessions, which came shortly after. The disc of more mature Usher won a Grammy for best R & B disc of contemporary. In 2005 he won the Usher VMA 2005 (MTV Video Music Awards) as the best clip of singer of the year, with its success Caught Up With him, the singers 50 Cent, Beck, John Legend, Kanye West, also won the VMA, with the same category of Usher. On May 27, Usher released his new album of studio, Here I Stand. Usher was on U.S. TV show TRL (Total Request Live), when he was interviewed by the presenter, he confirmed that his album Here I Stand will involve the rapper Jay-Z and Beyoncé. On December 3, 2008 Usher had the honor of being the master of ceremonies of the Victoria Secret Fashion Show which had as central theme the "Return to Fashion."