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All My Friends Are Here
''All My Friends Are Here'' is a studio album by Turkish-American record producer, arranger, and composer Arif Mardin, released on June 15, 2010. It is the album that Arif Mardin referred to as his life's work, featuring performances by artists whom he produced over the years of his career, including Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, David Sanborn, Norah Jones, Carly Simon, Phil Collins among them. Whereas Arif Mardin's first two albums were instrumental, ''All My Friends Are Here'' is an album of his songs. Arif Mardin was a film buff and wrote collages for each song. In the trailer for '' The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story'', Arif Mardin said the songs were visual, film music in his mind. Recording sessions of ''All My Friends Are Here'' were filmed for the companion documentary ''The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story''. Recording Recording sessions took place in New York from 2005 to 2006, starting with " So Blue". In producing Chaka Khan's vocal, Khan said ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. Mardin worked with artists including the Rascals, Queen, Melissa Manchester, John Prine, the Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, Michael Crawford, Chaka Khan, Howard Jones, Laura Nyro, Ringo Starr, Carly Simon, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, and Norah Jones. Mardin was awarded 12 Grammy Awards and has 18 nominations. Biography Early life Mardin was born in Istanbul into a renowned family that included statesmen, diplomats and leaders in the civic, military and business sectors of the Ottoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Guryan
Margo Guryan (September 20, 1937 – November 8, 2021) was an American singer-songwriter. As a songwriter, her work was first recorded in 1958, although it was for her 1960s song " Sunday Mornin', a hit for both Spanky and Our Gang and Oliver, that she is perhaps best known. Her songs have also been recorded by Cass Elliot, Glen Campbell and Astrud Gilberto, among others. As a performer, she is best known for her 1968 album '' Take a Picture'', the sole album release in the initial phase of her career. The album was re-released in 2000, and followed by a compilation entitled ''25 Demos'' (2001). In 2014 the American record label Burger Records released another compilation, ''27 Demos'', on cassette. Life and career Early life Margo Guryan grew up in New York City in the neighborhood of Far Rockaway, Queens. Her parents met at Cornell University, where her mother majored in piano, and her father, also a keen pianist, in liberal arts. They were both of Russian-Jewish descen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Brecker
Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock music, rock, and R&B. Early life Brecker was born on November 27, 1945, in the Philadelphia suburb of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, Cheltenham to a musical family. His father Bob (Bobby) was a lawyer who played jazz piano, and his mother Sylvia was a portrait artist. Randy described his father as "a semipro jazz pianist and trumpet fanatic. In school when I was eight, they only offered trumpet or clarinet. I chose trumpet from hearing Diz, Miles, Clifford, and Chet Baker at home. My brother (Michael Brecker) didn't want to play the same instrument as I did, so three years later he chose the clarinet!" Randy's father, Bob, was also a songwriter and singer who loved to listen to recordings of the great jazz trumpet players such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. He to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Meets Girl (band)
Boy Meets Girl is an American pop-music duo consisting of keyboardist and vocalist George Merrill and singer Shannon Rubicam. They are best known for their hit song " Waiting for a Star to Fall" from 1988 and for writing two of Whitney Houston's number one hits: " How Will I Know" and " I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". Career The members of Boy Meets Girl, George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, wrote and composed a number of songs for other artists. Most famous are their two number one hits written for Whitney Houston, " How Will I Know" and " I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". They also wrote the songs "Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing" and "Haunting Me" for Deniece Williams and the song "I Know You By Heart", which was recorded by Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson for Parton's 1987 ''Rainbow'' album, and later covered by Bette Midler for the ''Beaches'' soundtrack. The duo also performed backing vocals on Deniece Williams's number one hit, " Let's Hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalah Hathaway
Lalah Hathaway (born December 16, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Credited as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, First Daughter of Soul", she is the first-born daughter of musician and soul singer Donny Hathaway. She rose to fame in the 1990s with the release of her debut self-titled album, ''Lalah Hathaway (album), Lalah Hathaway'' (1990). The album's lead single "Heaven Knows" peaked in the top-five on the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.Lalah Hathaway Billboard Chart History Billboard. Retrieved on November 3, 2024 Her follow-up album ''A Moment'' (1994) failed to make a commercial impact and ultimately released Hathaway from her recording contract with Virgin Records. In April 1999, she briefly re-emerged with her third albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katreese Barnes
Katreese Barnes (January 3, 1963 – August 3, 2019) was an American musician, musical director, and songwriter, best known for being half of the pop duo Juicy with her brother Jerry Barnes, and her work on the music of ''Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') is an American Late night television in the United States, late-night live television, live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The ...'', including the Emmy-winning hit " Dick in a Box". She died in 2019 at the age of 56, following a decades-long battle against breast cancer. References 1963 births 2019 deaths 21st-century American women musicians American women songwriters Deaths from breast cancer Primetime Emmy Award winners 21st-century American songwriters {{US-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and activist. He was one of the main figures of the outlaw country subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. The critical success of his album ''Shotgun Willie'' (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of ''Red Headed Stranger'' (1975) and ''Stardust (Willie Nelson album), Stardust'' (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States, legalization of marijuana. Nelson wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Kohn
Amy Kohn (born June 5, 1972) is an American composer, lyricist, singer, pianist, and accordionist. Early life and education Born in Chicago, she studied at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in Ohio and New York University Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. The final thesis for her master's degree was her chamber-opera ''1 Plum Sq'', which was later produced and broadcast in 2005 on WNYC as part of their American Music Festival. Career In New York City Amy Kohn met the legendary producer Arif Mardin who dubbed her a ''"Musical Devil in a Red Dress"'' and chose Amy as a featured singer and accordionist on his last effort: an album of songs written by Mardin himself and produced in the last year of his life. Also featured on this album are artists such as Norah Jones, Phil Collins, Raul Midón and Dianne Reeves. She co-produced her album ''I’m in Crinoline'' (2006) with Arif's son Joe Mardin of NuNoise Records. She lives in New York where she is the lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norah Jones
Norah Jones ( ; born Geethali Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has won several awards for her music and, , has sold more than 53 million records worldwide. '' Billboard'' named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won ten Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on ''Billboard'' magazine's artists of the 2000s decade chart. In 2002, Jones launched her solo music career with the release of ''Come Away with Me'', which was a fusion of jazz with country, blues, folk and pop. It was certified diamond, selling over 27 million copies, making it the highest-selling debut studio album by a solo artist in the 21st century. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist, making her the first person of South Asian descent to win that many Grammy awards. Her subsequent studio albums '' Feels Like Home'' (2004), '' Not Too Late'' (2007), and '' The Fall'' (2009) all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Billboard Hot 100, top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation (song), Anticipation" (No. 13), "The Right Thing to Do" (No. 17), "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (No. 14), "You Belong to Me (Carly Simon song), You Belong to Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again (Carly Simon song), Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four Music recording certification, gold-certified singles "You're So Vain" (No. 1), "Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song)#Carly Simon and James Taylor version, Mockingbird" (No. 5, a duet with James Taylor), "Nobody Does It Better" (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film ''The Spy Who Loved Me (film), The Spy Who Loved Me'', and "Jesse (song), Jesse" (No. 11). She has authored two memoirs and five children's books. In 1963, Simon began performing with her sister Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny O'Keefe
Danny O'Keefe (born May 20, 1943) is an American folk singer and songwriter. Career In 1968, O'Keefe was a member of a four-man heavy psychedelic rock band named the Calliope. The group recorded one album, ''Steamed'', for Buddah Records before disbanding. O'Keefe is best known for the hit single, " Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues", which was released in September 1972, and reached number 9 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and for "The Road", covered by Jackson Browne on '' Running on Empty''. "Good Time Charlie" stayed on the ''Billboard'' chart for 14 weeks and sold a million copies. The RIAA issued a gold disc in June 1973. The song became O'Keefe's only song to reach the Australian top 100, peaking at number 53 in February 1973. In Canada, an earlier single, ''Covered Wagon'', reached number 86 on March 6, 1971. O'Keefe's songs have been covered by numerous musicians, including Jackson Browne ("The Road"), Gary Stewart ("Quits"), Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell (" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
