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Djesse Vol. 2
''Djesse Vol. 2'' ( ) is the third studio album by Jacob Collier and the second album in the ''Djesse'' series, released on 19 July 2019. ''Djesse'' is a collection of four volumes which was announced 29 October 2018, each describing a different part of the day. It has been suggested that the title ''Djesse'' is a reference to Collier's own initials. The first single from ''Djesse Vol. 2'', "Make Me Cry", was released on 12 April 2019. A 360° music video was released for the single on 16 April 2019. On 26 April 2019, the second single from the volume was released, a cover of the Beatles' " Here Comes the Sun", and was produced in collaboration with Dodie Clark. Collier and Clark directed and also recorded the music video themselves. The cover of "Moon River" opens with a 144-part choir featuring the voices of famous musicians (including Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Tori Kelly, Chris Martin, Charlie Puth, and Hans Zimmer); Collier's collaborators from ''Djesse Vol. 1'' and V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier (born 2 August 1994) is a British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and educator. His music incorporates a combination of jazz and elements from other musical genres, and often features extensive use of reharmonisations and Close and open harmony, close harmony. He is known for his energetic live performances, in which he often conducts the audience to sing harmony or play percussion parts. Collier demonstrates his harmonic expertise in lectures and master classes. In 2013, his Split screen (video production), split-screen video covers of popular songs, such as Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing", began to go viral on YouTube. In 2014, Collier signed with Quincy Jones's management company and began working on his one-man, audio-visual live performance vehicle, designed and built at the MIT Media Lab by Ben Bloomberg. In 2016, Collier released his debut album, In My Room (album), ''In My Room'', which he recorded, arranged, performed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tori Kelly
Victoria Loren Kelly (born December 14, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter. She first gained recognition on YouTube before making it through to Hollywood week on the ninth season of ''American Idol'' in 2010 and eventually releasing her debut EP, '' Handmade Songs'' (2012). In 2013, Kelly signed with Capitol Records and released her first major-label EP ''Foreword'' (2013) which reached top 20 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. She followed with her debut studio album '' Unbreakable Smile'' (2015), which peaked at number two and garnered the singles " Nobody Love", " Should've Been Us" and " Hollow" which marked her first three appearances on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Kelly released her second studio album, '' Hiding Place'' (2018), to critical acclaim and won two Grammy Awards for Best Gospel Album and Best Gospel Performance/Song. She followed with '' Inspired by True Events'' (2019), '' A Tori Kelly Christmas'' (2020), and later signed to Epic Records and released '' Tori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maro (Portuguese Singer)
Mariana Brito da Cruz Forjaz Secca (born 30 October 1994), known professionally as MARO (stylised in all caps), is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She won Festival da Canção 2022 and in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy with the song "". Early life and education Mariana is the second of the three children of João Pedro Basto Forjaz Secca and Cristina Isabel Capello Brito da Cruz. She initially planned to become a veterinarian, but instead chose to pursue a musical career, studying at Berklee College of Music and moving to Los Angeles. Career She has collaborated with Jacob Collier in his '' Djesse Vol. 2'' album and has a presence on YouTube, where she posted videos of herself singing with artists such as António Zambujo, Rosa Passos, Eric Clapton, Mayra Andrade, Salvador Sobral and a plethora of other artists. She features on the track "Better Now" by American electronic music duo Odesza Odesza (; stylized as ODESZA) is an American electron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JoJo (singer)
Joanna Noëlle "JoJo" Levesque (; born December 20, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She began performing in singing competitions and local talent shows as a child. In 2003, record producer Vincent Herbert noticed her after she competed on the television show ''America's Most Talented Kids'' and asked her to audition for his record label Blackground Records. After signing with the label, JoJo released her debut album JoJo (album), ''JoJo'' in 2004. It peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and was later Music recording sales certifications, certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), selling over four million copies worldwide to date. With her debut single "Leave (Get Out)" peaking atop the U.S. ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Mainstream Top 40 chart, JoJo became the youngest solo artist in history to top the chart at age 13. The song peaked at 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lianne La Havas
Lianne Charlotte Vlahavas (born 23 August 1989), known professionally as Lianne La Havas ( ), is a British singer-songwriter. Her career began after being introduced to various musicians, including singer Paloma Faith, for whom she sang backing vocals. In 2010, La Havas signed to Warner Bros. Records, spending two years developing her songwriting, before releasing any music. La Havas' debut studio album, ''Is Your Love Big Enough?'' (2012), was released to positive reviews from critics and earned her a nomination for the BBC's Sound of..., Sound of 2012 poll and awards for the iTunes Album of The Year 2012. She has released two other studio albums since, ''Blood (Lianne La Havas album), Blood'' in 2015 and ''Lianne La Havas (album), Lianne La Havas'' in 2020. She was nominated once for a Grammy Awards, Grammy award in 2016 and twice for the Brit Awards, in 2017 and 2021. She currently lives in London. Early life La Havas was born and raised in London, England, to a Afro-Greeks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Amidon
Samuel Tear Amidon (born June 3, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Early life Amidon's parents are folk artists Peter Amidon and Mary Alice Amidon. They were members of Bread and Puppet Theater in the 1970s, touring with the group in Europe and living on the Bread and Puppet Farm in Glover, Vermont. They appeared on the 1977 Nonesuch recording ''Rivers of Delight with the Word of Mouth Chorus'', a classic recording of shape-note/Sacred Harp folk hymns by early United States, American composers. His younger brother, Stefan Amidon, is a professional drummer who performs with The Sweetback Sisters among other groups. Amidon grew up in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he sang in the family band with his parents and played fiddle from the age of 3. By 13 he was playing professionally with pianist Doveman, Thomas Bartlett, a childhood friend, and with his brother Stefan, in the contradance band Popcorn Behavior. Inspired by groups such as Wild Asparag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
62nd Annual Grammy Awards
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 26, 2020, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, running from October 1, 2018, to August 31, 2019. Alicia Keys hosted the ceremony, having hosted the previous year's ceremony as well. Lizzo received the most nominations of any artist with eight, followed by Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X with six each. Finneas, Eilish's brother, received the most awards with six, followed by Eilish herself with five. Eilish became the second artist to win the four major categories of Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in the same year after Christopher Cross in 1981. Ten days prior to the ceremony, Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan was relieved of her duties as president and CEO and placed on administrative leave from the organization. She sparked controversy by claiming that the organization engaged in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award For Best Arrangement, Instrumental Or A Cappella
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement (and its subsequent name changes) has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger(s) of the music. Only songs or tracks are eligible, no longer works (e.g. albums). The performing artist does not receive a Grammy, except if they are also the arranger. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award: *From 1963 to 1981 the award was known as Best Instrumental Arrangement *From 1982 to 1983 it was awarded as Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording *From 1984 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Arrangement on an Instrumental *From 1995 to 2014 it was again awarded as Best Instrumental Arrangement *Since 2015 it has been awarded as Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella, which also includes vocal arrangements for a cappella performances. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. Recipients Multiple wins References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Intonation
In music, just intonation or pure intonation is a musical tuning, tuning system in which the space between notes' frequency, frequencies (called interval (music), intervals) is a natural number, whole number ratio, ratio. Intervals spaced in this way are said to be pure, and are called just intervals. Just intervals (and chords created by combining them) consist of tones from a single harmonic series (music), harmonic series of an implied fundamental frequency, fundamental. For example, in the diagram, if the notes G3 and C4 (labelled 3 and 4) are tuned as members of the harmonic series of the lowest C, their frequencies will be 3 and 4 times the fundamental frequency. The interval ratio between C4 and G3 is therefore 4:3, a just fourth (music), fourth. In Western musical practice, bowed instruments such as violins, violas, cellos, and double basses are tuned using pure fifths or fourths. In contrast, keyboard instruments are rarely tuned using only pure intervals—the desire fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTuber
A YouTuber is a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006, and subsequently appeared in the You (Time Person of the Year), 2006 ''Time'' Person of the Year issue. Influence Influential YouTubers are sometimes described as Celebrity, microcelebrities. Since YouTube is widely conceived as a bottom-up social media video platform, microcelebrities do not appear to be involved with the established and commercial system of celebrity culture; rather, they appear self-governed and independent. This appearance, in turn, leads to YouTubers being seen as more relatable and authentic, also fostered by the direct connection between artist and viewer using the medium of YouTube. In 2014, the University of Southern California surveyed 1318-year-olds in the United States on whether ten YouTube celebrities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakwood University
Oakwood University is a private, historically black Seventh-day Adventist university in Huntsville, Alabama. It is the only HBCU owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Oakwood University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Department of Education of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (through the Adventist Accrediting Association) to award associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees. Oakwood University owns and operates the Christian radio station WJOU 90.1 FM, formerly WOCG. Oakwood University is the only ISO 9001 certified HBCU in the United States. In 2014, it became the first HBCU to offer a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). In 2018, the U.S. Senate recognized Oakwood University for being the fifth leading producer of African-American applicants to U.S. medical schools. That same year, the university became the first academic institution to receive the 2018 Crystal Apple Award from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
