Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, also known as “The Weeknd”, was born on February 16, 1990 and is a Canadian singer, record producer, and songwriter that grew up having a rough start and is known as With this in mind, Abel grew up in Toronto, Canada, but unfortunately growing up, he had a rough childhood, in which he dropped out from high school at the age of 17, he started roaming the streets of Toronto, by doing drugs, and making bad decisions that eventually got him to where he is today. To begin with, The Weeknd’s career in music began around February 24, 2011 when he created the Youtube channel under the username “The Weeknd” and started to work with the producer Jeremy Rose, who both soon worked together to create R&B music (The Weeknd Bibliography, …show more content…
By September 10, 2013, The Weeknd released a new album called, “Kiss Land”, which contained 11 songs and included Drake in the song, “Live For”. Around that same year he contributed with the movie: “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” to create the theme song, “Devil May Cry”. Abel has created a bunch of famous songs, “Can’t Feel My Face”, “The Hills”, “Often”, etc that have made it to the U.S Billboards. In fact, he has also won multiple Junos Awards, Grammy Awards and a variety of others nominations. The Weeknd's musical career has nothing but success, he was fortune to work and collaborate with many popular artist for example, Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey, Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, etc (The Weeknd Bibliography, 2017). According to “Who Is The Weeknd? Everything You Need to Know”states, that “ Beauty Behind the Madness was one of the most successful albums that he has produced he earned him nominations and awards it sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. From the start of the Trilogy album to Kissland, Beauty Behind the Madness, Starboy and My Dear Melancholy has engaged many people all over the world to continue following him throughout his journey of …show more content…
As a result, as I continued to explore Youtube I stumbled upon a Youtube channel called “xoxxxoooxo”, which had a bunch of beautiful mysterious style of music that I never heard of and it was known a underground music that no one really listened too. As a matter of fact, I decided to explore what was on the channel and started to search for music that seemed interesting. For this reason, I came along this song known as “Twenty-Eight” and it had this vibe that made me want to hear his music more, as well as I wanted to explore what this music meant to him. As minutes passed by, I came along his three albums that he had dropped on Youtube; House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, also known as “Trilogy”. During this time, being a young women, I was going through some hard times, in which I suffered from depression and the only way to escape from reality was listening to The Weeknd. Given that, his music as many tend to say is different, sad, and hard to understand. With this intention, The Weeknd sings about his past suffer, through pain, and drug use, which is why I can relate to his deep melancholy style music. Furthermore, his style of music makes you want to save yourself from your deepest sorrows and bad thoughts. To point out, I have been a hardcore fan ever, since I heard
Ana-Mauríne Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt positions the female body as the scene where lives are interconnected across history and as a dissertation of the human condition. Her protagonists, Micaela and Miriam, tell a story of love, struggle, and survival that echoes the historical significance of slavery and the Caribbean middle passage across time and space. Divided into several sections based on time and location, one particular period in Lara’s novel connects Micaela and Miriam’s experiences most closely with slavery as a whole. After a voyage across the Mona Strait as an attempt to escape from the conditions in the Dominican Republic, they find themselves captured, trapped in a brothel, and forced into prostitution. Many parallels can be drawn to interpret Lara’s use of the brothel as a metaphor for the slave ships used to travel across the original Middle Passage, including the comparable use of people as commodities, the specific imagery and language Lara uses, the historical narrative presented at the beginning of each section, and the larger themes in which identities were simultaneously stripped by oppression and also preserved within the context of community and spirituality.
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Well, he shows you do not have to be the smartest person to be successful and that never to give up on what you’re after. For example, he puts parts of his personal life into his music to show that just because he has fame and fortune that doesn’t mean he’s like any other human being. He sings and raps about love, passion, and loss. For one in his song “Hotline Bling” from his album “Views,” shows a loss of a friend, or maybe a lover and how things change and one you stop trying to make the relationship work, but turns out into just being “you used to.”
With the success of his two most recent albums Joel was named the biggest selling solo artist of the 20th century with Columbia Records. In 1980, Joel followed up with another huge album which dominated the charts for six weeks named Glass Houses. Joel earned several more Grammy awards to compliment many of his prior awards. He then quickly released his first collection of live performances which enhanced his legend and fan base even more. The only thing that seemed to slow Joel was a serious motorcycle accident in 1982, which he miraculously recovered from.
Danny Clark was an American soldier that fought in a war some time ago. It all began when he need money to live a good life. So he enlisted to the military and he was sent to battle right away.
One person in history I would like to have a conversation with is Jamie Lloyd Whitten. This summer I had my mind set on finding more information on my family history. While asking family members and researching on Ancestry, I came across Mr. Whitten. With a simple name search all kinds of articles came up about him. He served in the House for fifty-three years for the state of Mississippi. This is the fifth longest term served in the House in United States history. Whitten has also experienced many different time periods during his life. Between the ages of four and eight he lived through World War One. I would love to ask him questions of what it was like to live through everything. Did his father serve in the army? Did his family have to ration? When he was nineteen
One of his most controversial songs came later in his career, it was titled “Jesus Walks,” many people didn’t want this song to be played but radios did it any way and so did MTV. There is one verse of the song that makes you appreciate his work:
Early Life in Georgia. The "Godfather of Soul," James Brown, was born James Joe Brown Jr. on May 3, 1933, in a one-room shack in the woods of Barnwell, South Carolina, a few miles east of the Georgia border. When James was a little kid he was a hard working little kid that do anything to help this family. When he was at the age of six year old he was send to live with is Aunt Honey. James find Music when he was little kid. This mother left him when he was four year old, she left with another man, and while Aunt Honey would play something of a maternal role for James, the fact that she ran a brothel and sold moonshine for a living made for anything but a traditional upbringing. It was a lot of people who wanted to play music and learn at the same time they when to
Throughout the Progressive Era (1890-1928) poverty, industrialization and high immigration levels induced child labor and over-populated tenements in New York.
I was so interested in the truth that I suspended my assumptions about West as I pursued more information through research, giving me an objective lens. It truly rattled me to have been so wrong in my assumptions, it felt weird to know that because of something I didn’t know, I had believed something. It genuinely shook my self-confidence. I really prided myself on my knowledge of Hip-Hop, I thought I knew all the classic albums, how could I have overlooked this one for so long? So, jolted by this sting of self embarrassment, I searched further, I wanted to know what else I had been oblivious to. It became increasingly clearer to me that there were two completely opposite views about Kanye, the more popular view: he’s a worthless egotistical pop star, who’s created nothing of value, and, as I was shocked to learn over time, the informed view, and the truth, that he was and is one the most influential artists of the 21’st
In 1997 he went to the Rap Olympics in Los Angeles where a few producers were very impressed and took a demo to Dr. Dre. After the two met, they recorded four songs within the first six hours of working together, creating his first album Marshall Mathers LP. That album was the first rap album to ever be nominated for “Album of the Year” and won 3 Grammy awards. In the first week the album was released, it sold 1.76 million copies in the U.S. which is a record for a solo artist. Eminem has released 10 albums, all rap music. He would spend hours...
His last 2 have been nominated for an ARIA award with the 3rd “Bring It Back” won. His single “Papercuts” currently sits at 2nd on the ARIA urban single charts.
time. Even though his father was abusive, he made them a successful band that made
...orgettable. Research shows that “There’s this unifying force that comes from the music and we don’t get that from other things.”(Landau) Bruce Springsteen is a great storyteller and has captured some of the experiences of the American working class. Even when the lyrics are dark or the subject matter is depressing, he manages to provide hope, too. For as long as I can remember, my mother has been playing Springsteen’s music. When I hear a song of his now, it reminds me of driving down the road with the windows down belting out a song with my mom. As Dave Marsh from Creem Magazine prophetically wrote in 1975, “Springsteen’s music is often strange because is has an almost traditional sense of beauty, an inkling of the awe you can feel when, say, first falling in love or finally discovering that the magic in the music is also in you.” (Bruce Springsteen Biography 2)
In famous rapper Eminem’s popular hit song “Lose Yourself”, the rapper combines poetry with his skill of rapping while implementing an urban twist on the art form. Eminem includes common poetic techniques such as plot, internal rhyme, assonance and couplets and manipulates them in order to emphasize the message of his song. Through these techniques, Eminem relays a message of persevering through the struggles of life in order to transcend from poverty to success. The use of poetic techniques enables Eminem to reach his audience in a way that encourages them to pursue their dreams and goals in the face of adversity that they may experience on a regular basis.