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Songland
''Songland'' is an American songwriting competition series that aired on NBC from May 28, 2019, to June 15, 2020. The show, produced in cooperation with the Universal Television Alternative Studio, 222 Productions, Live Animals Productions and Dave Stewart, sets out to give undiscovered songwriters a chance to create a hit. It gives the viewers a look at the creative process in action. Contestants are selected to work with producers and a recording artist to release a song. The show tries to elevate the traditional role of the songwriter in the process of creating music from "unpleasant secret" to being the celebrated "magic ingredient". Stewart, a musician and composer formerly of Eurythmics, conceived ''Songland''. The show premiered in May 2019, with three producer-hosts: producer and songwriter Ester Dean; producer and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder; and songwriter Shane McAnally. In September 2019, the series was renewed, and the second season premiered in April 2020. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane McAnally
Shane Lamar McAnally (born October 12, 1974) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. He debuted as a singer in 1999 with his Shane McAnally (album), self-titled album on Curb Records. This project produced three singles on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, including "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". After a hiatus from music, McAnally returned to songwriting, having his first major success with "Last Call (Lee Ann Womack song), Last Call" by Lee Ann Womack in 2008. From the early 2010s onward, McAnally has worked almost exclusively as a songwriter and producer. Artists with whom he has worked include Old Dominion (band), Old Dominion, Midland (band), Midland, and Kacey Musgraves. He has won four Grammy Awards and multiple awards from the Country Music Association (CMA). In 2023, he collaborated with Brandy Clark in writing the musical ''Shucked''. Musical career Shane Lamar McAnally was born October 12, 1974, in Mineral Wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Benjamin Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, frontman, and lead vocalist for the pop rock band OneRepublic, while also serving as a prolific contributor—by songwriting and production—to material for other artists since the mid-2000s. Tedder's production and songwriting work has proved commercially successful. " Apologize", performed by his band OneRepublic, " Bleeding Love", performed by Leona Lewis, and " Halo", performed by Beyoncé, were each produced by Tedder and remain among the best-selling singles of all time. In early 2014, '' Billboard'' named him "The Undercover King of Pop" and featured him on the magazine's cover. He served as a producer on the 2018 reality series '' Songland''. He is a three-time recipient of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his credits on Adele's '' 21'' and '' 25'', and Taylor Swift's ''1989''. Early life and education Ryan Benjami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be Nice
"Be Nice" is a song by hip-hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hi ... group Black Eyed Peas featuring Snoop Dogg. It marked the first collaboration between the two. Lyrically, the song is about coming together, no matter what our differences might be. The song is derived from '' Songland''. References 2019 singles Black Eyed Peas songs 2019 songs Songs written by Snoop Dogg Songs written by will.i.am Songs written by Ester Dean Songs written by Ryan Tedder Songs written by Shane McAnally {{2010s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OneRepublic
OneRepublic is an American pop rock band from Colorado Springs, Colorado, formed in 2002. The lineup currently consists of Ryan Tedder (lead vocals, piano), Zach Filkins (guitar, viola), Drew Brown (musician), Drew Brown (guitar), Brent Kutzle (bass, cello), Eddie Fisher (drummer), Eddie Fisher (drums), and Brian Willett (keyboards, percussion, violin). The band achieved its first commercial success on Myspace as an unsigned act. In late 2002, after OneRepublic played shows throughout the Los Angeles area, several record labels approached the band with interest, but the band signed with Velvet Hammer, an imprint of Columbia Records. They recorded their first album with producer Greg Wells during the summer and fall of 2005 at his studio, Rocket Carousel, in Culver City, California, Culver City, California. The album was scheduled for release on June 6, 2006, but the group was dropped by Columbia two months before the release date. In 2007, under Mosley Music Group (an imprint of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Levine
Adam Noah Levine ( ; born March 18, 1979) is an American musician who is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and sole continuous member of the pop rock band Maroon 5. Levine began his musical career in 1994 with the band Kara's Flowers, for which he served as lead vocalist and lead guitarist. After the commercial failure of their only album, ''The Fourth World (album), The Fourth World'', the group was reformed in 2001 as Maroon 5 – with James Valentine (musician), James Valentine replacing him as lead guitarist. In 2002, they released their first album, ''Songs About Jane'', which went multi-platinum in the US; since then, they have released six more albums: ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long'' (2007), ''Hands All Over (album), Hands All Over'' (2010), ''Overexposed (album), Overexposed'' (2012), ''V (Maroon 5 album), V'' (pronounced: "five") (2014), ''Red Pill Blues'' (2017), and ''Jordi (album), Jordi'' (2021). As part of Maroon 5, Levine has received List of awards and nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)
David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. Sometimes credited as David A. Stewart, he won Best British Producer at the 1986 Brit Awards, 1986, 1987 Brit Awards, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. Stewart (along with Lennox) was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020 and the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. Outside of Eurythmics, Stewart has written and produced songs for artists such as Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger and Tom Petty. Early life Stewart was born in 1952 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, England, son of John ("Jack") and Sadie Stewart. Distantly related both to the Dukes of Northumberland and to pirates, Stewart was from a middle-class, "well-off family", with accountant parents; he "always wanted to play with the working-class kids, but they'd always call [him] 'richie' and whac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Nicole Ballerini (born September 12, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. A five-time Grammy Award nominee, she began having success in the 2010s, being honored with the Academy of Country Music Awards#Special awards, Gene Weed Milestone Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Rising Star Award at the Billboard Women in Music, ''Billboard'' Women in Music. She began songwriting as a child and signed a contract with Black River Entertainment in 2014, releasing her debut studio album, ''The First Time (Kelsea Ballerini album), The First Time,'' and her second one ''Unapologetically'', followed in 2017. The two albums account for seven songs on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. She has five No. 1 singles on the latter, starting with her debut single "Love Me Like You Mean It", which made her the first female artist to send a debut single to the top of that chart since Carrie Underwood in 2006. It was followed by "Dibs (song) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Legend
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He began his musical career working behind the scenes for other artists, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's " Everything Is Everything", and performing as an uncredited backing vocalist on Jay-Z's " Encore" and Alicia Keys' " You Don't Know My Name". He was the first artist to sign with rapper Kanye West's GOOD Music, through which he released his debut studio album, '' Get Lifted'' (2004). The album reached the top ten of the ''Billboard'' 200, received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spawned his first hit song, " Ordinary People". Legend won three Grammy Awards from eight nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards—"Ordinary People" won Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, ''Get Lifted'' won Best R&B Album, and Legend won Best New Artist; the album's final single, " So High" (remixed wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ester Dean
Esther Renay Dean (born April 15, 1982), known professionally as Ester Dean, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. She rose to prominence as a pop songwriter in the late 2000s and wrote numerous hit songs for singers including Rihanna, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé through the 2010s. She has acted in numerous films, including the 2012 musical comedy '' Pitch Perfect'' and its sequels. Life and career Esther Renay Dean was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to single mother Hester Dean and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the younger of five children. She is of Black Indian descent. She began singing at a young age. When Esther was 15, her mother moved her and her sister Deandria to Omaha, Nebraska, where she began working as a session singer and writing for local musicians. At the age of 20, Dean moved to Atlanta with $500 to pursue a career as a songwriter and record producer. She was discovered by music producer Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Gutstadt
Jared Gutstadt (born September 19, 1977), also known as Jingle Jared, is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, inventor, and musician best known for founding the creative music agency Jingle Punks (2008), and the scripted-podcast network Audio Up Media (2020). Through Jingle Punks, Gutstadt acquired and created a catalog of 500,000 songs and a roster of over 1,000 television shows. His latest venture, Audio Up Media, specializes in scripted podcasts that feature original music from known and emerging artists. Audio Up's present and future collaborators include Dennis Quaid, Anthony Anderson, Scarlett Burke, Michael Cohen, James Ellroy, Maejor, and Stephen King. His musical collaborators include Bob Dylan, Steven Tyler, Timbaland, Nas, Lil Wayne, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Machine Gun Kelly, Jelly Roll, and others. Early life and education Born and raised in Toronto, Jared studied media and culture at the University of Western Ontario. In 2000, he moved to New York City to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enough to record a single singer-guitarist, to a large building with space for a full orchestra of 100 or more musicians. Ideally, both the recording and monitoring (listening and mixing) spaces are specially designed by an acoustician or audio engineer to achieve optimum acoustic properties (acoustic isolation or diffusion or absorption of reflected sound reverberation that could otherwise interfere with the sound heard by the listener). Recording studios may be used to record singers, instrumental musicians (e.g., electric guitar, piano, saxophone, or ensembles such as orchestras), voice-over artists for advertisements or dialogue replacement in film, television, or animation, Foley, or to record their accompanying musical soundtracks. The typical recording studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translation (album)
''Translation'' is the eighth studio album by American group Black Eyed Peas. It was released on June 19, 2020, by Epic Records. The album features guest appearances from Shakira, J Balvin, Ozuna, Maluma, Nicky Jam, Tyga, El Alfa, Piso 21, Becky G, and French Montana. The track listing was revealed on June 11, 2020, alongside the album announcement. "No Mañana" was released as a promotional single on June 12, 2020, along with the album's cover art. The album was also promoted with two Hot Latin Songs chart toppers, " Ritmo (Bad Boys for Life)" and " Mamacita". Commercial performance The album sold 15,000 album-equivalent units, measured largely from streaming revenue – 14 million streams of album tracks through on-demand services, measured as 10,000 streaming equivalent albums – while 4,000 units were traditional album sales. The performance earned the album a chart debut at number 52 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and at number three on the Top Latin Albums, which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
