“Hello, it’s me…”. These three words put Adele’s four year hiatus to an end as she exploded back into the music industry. This paper will investigate the life of Adele Adkins from her birth and education at the BRIT performing arts school, to her rise to stardom, earning herself Grammy’s, sold out tours, and even an Oscar. Adele rose to the top of the music industry after a performance on Saturday Night Live in October 2008 which gave her the publicity in the American market that she needed. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on May 5, 1988 in Tottenham, an area of North London, England. Her mother, Penny Adkins, was eighteen years old when she gave birth. Adele left public schools after her mom enrolled her at the London School for Performing …show more content…
She embarked on a North American tour, but had to cancel the last nine shows after contracting Laryngitis. Adele took some time off after to deal with health issues. In 2012, she wrote the theme for the new installment of James Bond, Skyfall, and performed it at the Oscars. She continued to live in the shadows, until October 2015 when Adele reemerged to promote her next album, 25. She performed a number a times to promote this album including on Saturday Night Light Live, the NRJ Awards in France, and the Jimmy Fallon Show. In mid-November, a week before the album’s release date, Adele had an exclusive one-night-only performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, which was recorded by CBS and aired on TV on December 14. In December 2015, Adele announced a European and North American tour, both of which completely sold out all the shows in an hour. Adele said in an interview, quoted on biography.com, how here four year hiatus affected her music. biography.com quoted, “‘My last record was a break up record, and if I had to label this one, I would call it a make up record. Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did. 25 is about getting to know who I’ve become without realizing. And I’m sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened” (biography.com
Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma and raised in Checotah, Carrie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983 (Carrie Underwood Biography). Underwood was a normal country girl, who loved living on a farm in a one stop light town caring for animals, and being in nature. Little did she know she would steal America’s Heart (Silverman). In 2001, Carrie Marie Underwood Graduated from Checotah High School, straight out of high
Her first debut album released for major record label was title ?Souled Out? and was released on the 9th September 2014. The album also had great critical success; it debuted on the third place on the Billboard 200 chart. Needless is to say that the album greatly increased Aiko`s net worth, as it has been sold over 70,000 copies in its first week.
Ella was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917. When alled “The First Lady of Song” by some fans. She was known for having beautiful tone, extended range, and great intonation, and famous for her improvisational scat singing. Ella sang during the her most famous song was “A-tiscket A-tasket”. Fitzgerald sang in the period of swing, ballads, and bebop; she made some great albums with other great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. She influenced countless American popular singers of the post-swing period and also international performers such as the singer Miriam Makeba. She didn’t really write any of her own songs. Instead she sang songs by other people in a new and great way. The main exception
She made her feature acting debut in the film "Romeo Must Die." She also had signed on to appear in two sequels to the high-tech thriller "The Matrix." "She was like one of my daughters, she was one of the sweetest girls in the world," said Quincy Jones, 68, the Grammy-winning producer, arranger and composer. "She vacationed with me and my family together in Fiji. I loved her and respected her and I am absolutely
Thanks to Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, the world has come to know a talented artist by the name of Nelly Furtado. You'd never gone to have any difficulties reminding her, as her goddess-like face is all that you need to remember. But when that mouth opens to sing songs, then it's a whole new level to like her even more than you expect. Her musical inclination is not just about singing by playing an impressive set of instruments on the likes of keyboard and piano, guitar, ukulele and even trombone.
Her first movie was “Carmen: A Hip Hopera” which aired in 2001. After the production,“Dream Girls” in 2006 she was nominated with the Golden Globe Award. Although she was with “Destiny’s Child” she wanted to start acting to become known, and to make a name for herself. When Beyonce went solo in 2003 she released an album called, “Dangerously In Love”. She earned five Grammy Awards and she also featured in the Billboard Hot 100 with the singles, “Crazy in Love” and “Baby Boy”. In 2005, Beyonce released her second album “B’Day” which contained the hits, “Deja Vu”, “Irreplaceable”, and “Beautiful Liar” So far in Beyonce’s career she has won twenty Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, eight Billboard Awards, sixteen MTV Video Music Awards, and three World Music
Ariana Grande is one talented singer. The girl has impressed everyone with her spot-on celebrity singing impersonations and has sung with some of the most talented singers still alive today. However, there's still a lot you don't know about this sassy celeb. Here are the top eight most common misconceptions believed about Ariana Grande.
Mariah's ever-important sophomore album (which seems to make or break a number of artist - see Hootie & The Blowfish) failed to disappoint. "Emotions" had three big hits and sold quite well. "Music Box" would follow, along with "Daydream", "Butterfly", and "Heartbreaker." Apparently, the record companies are just as pleased as the American public.
Adele released 21, her second studio album on January 24, 2011 in the United Kingdom and February 22, 2011 in the United States. 21 was released on a joint contract with Columbia Records and XL Recordings. Adele first wanted to name the album Rolling in the Deep that was meant to summarize the way she felt about her relationship, referring to having someone that is always there to support you. However, she decided against that title and the album was eventually named 21 because it coincided with her age when it was written. Adele considered 21 as an autobiographical time piece that represented her progressing maturity personally and her artistic growth.
Lena Horne was an African American entertainer and civil rights activist, born in Brooklyn, New York. She, like many other African Americans in general, and African American women in particular, born in 1910’s, saw many evolutions of race and racialized gender relations in America. She was able to transition to glory at the ripe age of 92 years old, passing away from congestive heart failure in 2010. Lena Horne’s height of her career, while predating Womanism being named but not actualized, embodies the four tenets that are, radical subjectivity, critical engagement, redemptive self-love and traditional communalism, by way of her commitments to hope in perilous times. She is quoted saying many things that will be highlighted in this paper,
Ella Fitzgerald To some, Ella Fitzgerald had a hard life from the moment she was born. To others, Ella had it made. Ella Fitzgerald was born April 25th 1917. in Virginia. Soon afterwards, her parents separated and Ella followed.
As stated previously, her voice in Star Search, The Mickey Mouse Club, “All I wanna do”, as well as “Reflection”; was the start to her peak of fame. Thus, she began her pop genre in the late 1990’s, moreover, teen pop. In 1999, Christian Aguilera album was released, which sold more than 8 million copies, reaching top charts like the Billboard 200. Her hit songs in the album were, “What a Girl Wants” and “Gennie in a Bottle”. In fact, Christian Aguilera alum, won a Grammy Award for “Best New Artist”, in the year 2000. Also, in 2000, Christina released her second as well as her first Spanish album called, Mi Reflejo, which showed her Latin side to her. Later, the album won a Latin Grammy for ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Album’. She also released an album, My Kind of Christmas, selling 3.2 million worldwide copies. (Contactmusic, 2017). Two years later, Aguilera’s album, Stripped, was released after working with PINK, Mya, and Lil’ Kim on “Lady Marmalade” for the film Moulin Rouge. Her album, Stripped, followed up with a darker side to Aguilera, including her songs: “Dirrty”, “Beautiful”, and “Make Over”. Nevertheless, her album sold 4 million copies. (Biography, 2017). Most of the album was written from Christian; Linda Perry as well as Alicia Keys took part in the album too. She signed for global publishing with BMG. Aguilera told The New York Times, “I knew it was a bold move, and I knew a lot of people
Definition Of...” and start back touring the world! Later on in the month of July, she released “The Definition Of...”. To better promote this album, she once again went on tour but this time with Anthony Hamilton. Together they traveled across North America to perform at various venues for
You know the backlash that would have occurred if she and Janet Jackson had switched places during the Super Bowl. It would have been great for her media whorie-ness she could have grabbed everyone’s attention for at least 5 minuets which is longer than anyone in there right mind would listen to one of her albums.