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An Adoption Story
''An Adoption Story'' is a Grammy-winning classical compendium album by Kitt Wakeley (featuring Starr Parodi). The album reached No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Classical Crossover Albums chart and features the London Symphony, Joe Satriani, and Wouter Kellerman, among others. Background ''An Adoption Story'' is an orchestral classical compendium album, inspired by Wakeley's time in the foster care system and as an adoptive parent of three siblings. The album features Starr Parodi, London Symphony, Joe Satriani, and Wouter Kellerman, among others. ''An Adoption Story'' peaked at No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Classical Crossover Albums chart and was featured on the Tamron Hall Show where he shared in depth about his adoption story. Track listing Personnel Musicians * Artist, composer, arranger - Kitt Wakeley * Piano - Starr Parodi * Orchestra - London Symphony * Violin - Isolde Faire * Violin - Patrick Conlon – Violin * Violin - Lili Haydn * Percussion - MB Gordy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitt Wakeley
Kitt Wakeley is an American Grammy Award-winning composer, songwriter, musician, and music producer. His album, '' Symphony of Sinners & Saints'' (featuring Joe Satriani) peaked at #1 on Billboard's ''Classical Crossover'' and ''Classical'' charts and at #18 on ''Hot Hard Rock Songs''. Singles, ''Conflicted'', ''Forgive Me'', and ''Sinners and Saints'', all peaked at #1 on Billboard's ''Hard Rock Digital Song Sales'' as well as charting in the ''Top-10 Hot Hard Rock Songs'' chart. He has released four studio albums that feature Nuno Bettencourt, Nita Strauss, Kenny Aronoff, Andy Timmons, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Voices, among others. In 2023, Wakeley's ''An Adoption Story'', won a Grammy Award for ''Best Classical Compendium''. Early life and education Wakeley was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He completed his bachelor's degree in Pre-Law and Sociology and a Masters in Public Admi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Satriani
Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg"Joe Satriani – Music Biography, Credits and Discography". ''AllMusic''. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved May 28, 2014. is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and guitar teacher. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, including Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick; he then went on to have a successful solo music career. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, making him the bestselling instrumental rock guitarist of all time. In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour. Satriani briefly toured with Deep Purple, joining shortly after another departure of Ritchie Blackmore from the band in November 1993. He has worked with a range of guitarists during the G3 tour, which he founded in 1995. Satri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concept Albums
A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. Sometimes the term is applied to albums considered to be of "uniform excellence" rather than an LP with an explicit musical or lyrical motif. There is no consensus among music critics as to the specific criteria for what a "concept album" is. The format originates with folk singer Woody Guthrie's ''Dust Bowl Ballads'' (1940) and was subsequently popularized by traditional pop/ jazz singer Frank Sinatra's 1940s–50s string of albums, although the term is more often associated with rock music. In the 1960s several well-regarded concept albums were released by various rock bands, which eventually led to the invention of progressive rock and rock opera. Since then, many concept albums have been released across numerous musical genres. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award-winning Albums
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the music industry worldwide. It was originally called the Gramophone Awards, as the trophy depicts a gilded gramophone. The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and is considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards, alongside the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. History The Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Albums
For lists of 2022 albums, see: * List of 2022 albums (January–June) * List of 2022 albums (July–December) The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in the second half of 2022. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as hav ... {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vahagn Stepanyan (musician)
Vahagn Stepanyan is an Armenian music producer, music arranger, songwriter, film/TV composer, and musician whose genres have been classified as jazz, R&B, funk, fusion, pop, gospel, and film score music. His album ''A New Chapter'' charted at #5 on ''Billboard'''s Contemporary Jazz Charts and at #19 on ''Billboard''s Jazz Charts. He has shared the stage with artists including Sheila E., and has collaborated with Ricky Kej, Kitt Wakeley, Nathan East, Eric Marienthal, Henrik Linder, Mark Lettieri, Greg Howe, Dave Koz, Mark Lettieri, Arun Shenoy, and Adam Hawley. Career Stepanyan is a classically trained keyboard player, songwriter, composer, arranger, and producer. He began playing piano when he was 10 years old. He later performed in jazz clubs and wrote songs for Armenian artists. He relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. His single "Motion" was nominated for a Hollywood Independent Music Award in the Jazz (Fusion/Bebop) category, and he was nominated for Musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Agresta
Kirsten Agresta Copely is an American harpist based in New York City. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University Bloomington in Harp Performance. Agresta was Bronze Medal winner in the 1989 USA International Harp Competition. She is the former associate professor of harp at Vanderbilt University and Affiliated Artist on the music faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Her debut album, ''Dream World'' was released in August 2001. "The Covers Album" was released on all streaming platforms in May 2019. The all-original, new age album "Around The Sun" released January, 2020, marking Kirsten's first as composer and winning a silver medal at the Global Music Awards.{{cite web , url=http://www.globalmusicawards.com , Agresta-Copely has performed as a solo artist throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Israel, Japan, and the South Pacific. She made her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut in 1998 in Weill Concert Hall, returning again by popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Haydn
Lili Haydn (born December 25, 1969) is a Canadian-born rock violinist, vocalist, actress, and composer. As a child, she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Haydn was 15, she had played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After graduating from Brown University with a BA in political science, Haydn started composing original songs and became one of the most requested session violinists around Los Angeles. By the time she signed with Atlantic in 1997, she had embraced a variety of genres, having played with Quwaali musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Porno for Pyros, Tracy Chapman, The Jayhawks, Brandy, Tony! Toni! Tone!, No Doubt, Tom Petty and more. In addition, she has played with, sung with, and opened for Sting, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Matchbox 20, Seal, and George Clinton, who calls her "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin". Early life Haydn was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wouter Kellerman
Wouter Kellerman (born 20 September 1961) is a GRAMMY® Award-winning South African flautist, producer and composer who has won eight South African Music Awards. Using his classical training as a foundation, Kellerman has focused his attention on World and Roots music, exploring the versatility of the instrument and fusing classical and contemporary sounds. Kellerman received a Grammy Award at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards for his 2014 album ''Winds of Samsara'', a collaboration with Indian composer and producer Ricky Kej. ''Winds of Samsara'' reached No. 1 on the US New Age Album Billboard Charts and also peaked at No. 1 on the ZMR ( Zone Music Reporter) Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart in the month of July 2014. Kellerman's ''Love Language'' (2015) received Grammy® Nominationref name="bsharpentertainment.co.za"> for ' Best Contemporary Instrumental Album', and won a SAMA for 'Best Instrumental and/or Classical Album'. It debuted at nr. 1 on the World Music Billboard charts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's orchestras, symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services. The LSO itself later introduced a similar rule for its members. From the outset the LSO was organised on co-operative lines, with all players sharing the profits at the end of each season. This practice continued for the orchestra's first four decades. The LSO underwent periods of eclipse in the 1930s and 1950s when it was regarded as inferior in quality to new London orchestras, to which it lost players and bookings: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1930s and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic after the Second World War. The profit-sharing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starr Parodi
Starr Parodi (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer, pianist, conductor, arranger, music director and former president of The Alliance For Women Film Composers. Parodi has won multiple BMI most performed music awards, Key Art and Telly Awards. In May 2017 Parodi's most recent album "The Heart Of Frida" a cinematic collection of solo piano works inspired by the late legendary artist Frida Kahlo, was awarded ZMR's "Piano Album Of The Year - Solo" by International Radio Broadcasters and "Solo Piano Album Of The Year - Improvised" by SoloPiano.com. Parodi's solo piano recording "Common Places" was awarded Solo Piano Recording of the Year by solopianoradio.com in 2007 and in 2005 she received an RIAA Gold Record for her recording and updated arrangement of the "James Bond Theme". Composer, producer, arranger and conductor Parodi, along with her husband/partner Jeff Eden Fair, has composed/produced both themes and underscore for a wide variety of films, film traile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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