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Kay (singer)
Kristin Kathleen Boutilier (born July 31, 1985) is a singer, songwriter, model and DJ who uses the stage name Goldie Boutilier; as such, she has released three EPs. Born and raised in Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia, Boutilier moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20 to pursue a music career. After being discovered by OneRepublic member Ryan Tedder, Boutilier signed a recording contract with Interscope under the alias My Name Is Kay and released her selftitled debut EP in 2011. Her name was shortened to just Kay and, following a string of successful features with Tiësto and Steve Aoki, she released her debut album ''My Name Is Kay'' in 2013. After dealing with tensions with her label, Boutilier parted ways with Universal sometime in 2015. Boutilier then moved to Paris, France, and began DJing under the name Goldilox. She released her second album, ''Very Best'', independently in 2018 using her new name. Then, in 2020, she changed her stage name again, to Goldie Boutilier. Boutilier is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality. Sydney served as the Cape Breton Island's colonial capital, until 1820, when the colony merged with Nova Scotia and the capital moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax. A rapid population expansion occurred just after the turn of the 20th century, when Sydney became home to one of North America's main steel mills. During both the First and Second World Wars, it was a major staging area for England-bound Order of battle for Convoy SC 7, convoys. The post-war period witnessed a major decline in the number of people employed at the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation steel mill, and the Nova Scotia and Canadian governments had to nationalization, nationalize it in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disc Jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music festivals), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or festivals), and turntablism, turntablists (who use record players, usually turntables, to manipulate sounds on phonograph records). Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who DJ mix, mix music from other recording media such as compact cassette, cassettes, Compact disc, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names. DJs commonly use audio equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists in history, having sold over 143 million records worldwide. Perry is known for her influence on pop music and her Camp (style), camp style, being dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Camp" by Vogue (magazine), ''Vogue'' and ''Rolling Stone''. The Forbes list of the world's highest-paid musicians#Female, world's highest-paid female musician in 2015 and 2018, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' named her among the Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars#21st century, greatest pop stars of the 21st century. At 16, Perry released a gospel music, gospel record titled ''Katy Hudson (album), Katy Hudson'' (2001) under Pamplin Music, Red Hill Records, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 to venture into Secular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Kierszenbaum
Martin Kierszenbaum, also known by his pseudonym Cherry Cherry Boom Boom, is an American record executive and record producer. He founded Cherrytree Records (or The Cherrytree Music Company) in 2005, a record label and management company through which he has signed artists including Lady Gaga, Sting, Keane, LMFAO, Disclosure, Ellie Goulding, Far East Movement, Feist, La Roux, the Knux, Robyn, t.A.T.u., and Natalia Kills. He has been credited on releases by Madonna, Mylène Farmer, Tokio Hotel, Feist, Ai, Samantha Fish, and Alexandra Burke. Kierszenbaum releases music under his own name and his stage name Cherry Cherry Boom Boom. Biography Kierszenbaum grew up studying piano. He lived in Argentina, UK and Continental Europe before eventually moving to New Haven, Connecticut. He then moved to Michigan. He graduated from University of Michigan with a B.A. in music theory, Spanish Literature, and Communication. He then went on to the Annenberg School of University of Southe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Bogart
Evan Kidd Bogart (born January 23, 1978) is an American songwriter, music publisher, record executive and television producer. He is the son of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart and former KISS manager Joyce Bogart Trabulus. Bogart has won a Grammy Award for his songwriting work on Beyoncé's 2008 single "Halo", from three total nominations. He has served as National Trustee for The Recording Academy and Chair of their Songwriters & Composers Wing since 2022. Discography (alphabetical) Songs written by Evan "Kidd" Bogart Published by Evan "Kidd" Bogart Seeker Music * Kito *Christopher Cross * Sofia Valdes * Katie Pearlman * Sweetsound * Charlie Brand * fanclubwallet * Kendall Brower * Bones Owens The Boardwalk Music Group * Ricky Reed *ZZ Ward * Blended Babies * Tom Peyton * Nova Rockafeller Camelot Music Group * Kat Dahlia * Christian Leave *Mads Langer * Gina Kushka * Cleo Tighe Crooked Paintings *MKTO * Jessica "Harlœ" Karpov * Andrew "FRND" Goldstein *Alex Chapman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with 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. The 67th Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strangers (Goldie Boutilier Song)
"Strangers" (also known as "Stranger") is a song by Canadian singer/songwriter Goldie Boutilier featuring guest vocals from American rapper Pusha T, released as the second single from Kay's self-titled debut EP, although she does not consider the track, or previous single " My Name Is Kay", as singles, but simply refers to them as "songs". Boutilier explained that the meaning of the song is that feeling when "your boyfriend only loves you when you're alone", and lyrically the song talks about Kay's character going to a party, and being treated like a "stranger" by her love interest. Inspiration for the song also came to her from watching re-runs of the late '80s, early '90s sitcom '' Perfect Strangers'', featuring the characters Balki and Larry. She says: " Ryan and I were looking at pictures of them and I was saying how one of them looks like my dad. Then we started writing this hook, this kind of old school 'na na hooo.' It just came to us: 'Let's write it about perfect strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), known professionally by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapping , rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Walker is the first commercially successful rapper and the first to sign with a major record label. "The Breaks (song) , The Breaks", a single from his 1980 Kurtis Blow (album) , self-titled debut album, is the first certified music recording sales certification , gold record rap song. Over his career he released 17 albums. He is an ordained minister. Early life, family and education Walker was raised in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. He attended CCNY and Nyack College, studying communications/film and ministry. Career In 1979, at the age of twenty, Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury Records, Mercury, which released "Christmas Rappin'". It sold over 400,000 copies, becoming one of the first commercially successful hip hop singles. Its follow-up, "The Breaks (song), The Breaks", sold over 84 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pusha T
Terrence LeVarr Thornton (born May 13, 1977), better known by his stage name Pusha T, is an American rapper. He rose to prominence as one half of the Virginia-based hip hop duo Clipse, which he formed with his older brother No Malice, Malice. Mainly active from 1994 to 2010, the duo were discovered by Pharrell Williams and signed with his record label Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Arista Records in 2001. They released three studio albums—''Lord Willin''' (2002), ''Hell Hath No Fury (Clipse album), Hell Hath No Fury'' (2006) and ''Til the Casket Drops (Clipse album), Til the Casket Drops'' (2009)—to mild commercial success; the former spawned the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 40 singles "Grindin'" and "When the Last Time", for which they became best known. After the duo disbanded in 2010, Thornton began pursuing a solo career. He signed with Kanye West's record label GOOD Music, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings following his work on West's fifth album, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Hot 100
The Canadian Hot 100 is a music industry record chart in Canada for songs, published weekly by ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine. It was launched on the issue dated March 31, 2007 as the standard record chart in Canada; a new chart is compiled and released to the public by ''Billboard'' on Tuesdays, but post-dated to the following Saturday. The chart is similar to ''Billboard''s US-based Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100 in that it combines CD single, physical and Music download, digital sales, Airplay, radio airplay, and Music streaming service, streaming activity from digital music sources in Canada, all tracked and compiled by Luminate (company), Luminate. Canada's radio airplay is the result of monitoring more than 100 stations representing Rock music, rock, Country music, country, Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary and Contemporary hit radio, Top 40 genres. The first number-one song of the Canadian Hot 100 was "Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne song), Girlfriend" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Name Is Kay (song)
"My Name Is Kay" is a song by the Canadian singer/songwriter Goldie Boutilier. Even though the song received single status in Canada, Boutilierdoes not consider it her first single. This is because the track was never intended to be released as a single, however due to the popular demand for the song, it was released as a single in Canada by Universal Music. The song originally premiered on February 10, 2011, on Boutilier's official SoundCloud account. Although considered her debut single, Boutilier considers it, along with "Strangers A stranger is a person who is unknown or unfamiliar to another person or group. Because of this unknown status or unfamiliarity, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity (social science), identity and Character structure, chara ...", as just "a song". Charts References {{authority control 2011 songs Songs written by Ryan Tedder Songs written by E. Kidd Bogart Song recordings produced by Ryan Tedder Songs written by No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIVA Model Management
VIVA Model Management is a model agency based in Paris, London and Barcelona. The agency was founded in Paris in 1988 by director Cyril Brulé and focuses on high-fashion editorial and catwalk work. VIVA's board features notable models, including Natalia Vodianova, Doutzen Kroes, Kirsty Hume, Raquel Zimmermann, Stella Tennant and Kaia Gerber. As well as the shared women's division, both offices operate a "VIVA Talent" board. Talents include French icons Ines de la Fressange, Isabelle Huppert and Laetitia Casta, and British actress Charlotte Rampling. Models Current models include: * Kesewa Aboah * Mica Argañaraz * Nora Attal * Vanessa Axente * Małgosia Bela *Julia Bergshoeff * Sara Blomqvist *Edie Campbell * Olympia Campbell *Laetitia Casta * Saskia de Brauw * Demy de Vries * Andreea Diaconu * Dilone * Bette Franke *Kaia Gerber * Imaan Hammam * Kirsty Hume * Constance Jablonski * Adrienne Jüliger *Liya Kebede *Doutzen Kroes * Fernanda Ly * Giulia Maenza * Chaikra Shan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
