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The Princess Diaries Soundtracks
''The Princess Diaries'' soundtracks are soundtracks of the films ''The Princess Diaries (film), The Princess Diaries'' (2001) and ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' (2004) starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway. The albums contain songs sung by well-known charting artists as well as performers signed to The Walt Disney Company, Disney that the company wanted to promote. They were released by Walt Disney Records. ''The Princess Diaries'' soundtrack Track listing Charts ''The Princess Diaries'' score The movie's score, composed and conducted by John Debney and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony, was also released by Walt Disney Records. This was the first film he scored for director Garry Marshall; Debney wrote the scores for all of Marshall's subsequent films. Track listing ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' soundtrack Track listing Charts References Disney film soundtracks 2000s film soundtrack albums 2001 soundtrack album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Princess Diaries (film)
''The Princess Diaries'' is a 2001 American Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Garry Marshall, and written by Gina Wendkos. Based on Meg Cabot's 2000 Young adult fiction, young adult The Princess Diaries (novel), novel, it stars Anne Hathaway (in her film debut) and Julie Andrews, with a supporting cast consisting of Héctor Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore, Caroline Goodall, and Robert Schwartzman. The plot follows Mia Thermopolis (Hathaway), a shy American teenager who learns she is Heir apparent, heir to the throne of a European kingdom. Under the tutelage of her estranged grandmother (Andrews), the kingdom's Queen regnant, reigning queen, Mia must choose whether to claim or Abdication, renounce her title. Feeling confident about the novel's film potential, Cabot's agent pursued producer Debra Martin Chase about adapting ''The Princess Diaries'' into a feature-length film, which she Pitch (filmmaking), pitched t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson (musician), Kevin Richardson. The band formed in 1993 in Orlando, Florida. The group rose to fame with their debut album, ''Backstreet Boys (1996 album), Backstreet Boys'' (1996). In the following year, they released their second album ''Backstreet's Back'' (1997), along with their Backstreet Boys (1997 album), self-titled U.S. album, ''Backstreet Boys'' (1997), which continued the group's success worldwide. They rose to superstardom with their third studio album ''Millennium (Backstreet Boys album), Millennium'' (1999), anchored by the worldwide hit "I Want It That Way," and its follow-up album, ''Black & Blue (Backstreet Boys album), Black & Blue'' (2000). They also released a greatest hits album, ''The Hits – Chapter One (Backstreet Boys album), The Hits – Chapter One'' (2001). After a two-year hiatus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt (rapper)
Cheryl Renee James (born March 28, 1966), also known as Salt, is an American rapper. She is best known as a member of the female rap trio Salt-N-Pepa, which also includes Pepa ( Sandra Denton) and Spinderella ( Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper). James starred in '' The Salt-N-Pepa Show'', a reality TV series focusing on reforming the group; which aired on the VH1 network in 2008. Early life The daughter of a transit worker and Barbara James, a bank manager, James was born in Brooklyn, New York City. The middle of three children, James grew up in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. James attended Grover Cleveland High School, graduating in 1983. After high school, James enrolled at Queensborough Community College to study nursing. James met Queens-native Sandra Denton in 1985 while attending college. Career After forming a friendship with Denton, James' then-boyfriend and co-worker Hurby Azor approached the pair and asked them to record a rap for a class project. With Azor as their ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Lefton
Melissa Janis Lefton (born August 13, 1975) is a singer and songwriter. Lefton began playing keyboards at the age of 10. After finishing high-school she moved to New York to study communications at New York University, though decided to also focus on a career in music while studying. Melissa joined the punk rock band "Product" answering an ad in ''The Village Voice'' seeking a "theatrical female frontperson" who "wanted to be a star." Product played at venues including CBGB. They were signed and recorded an album though its release was cancelled. Her debut solo album, '' Melicious'', signed to Jive Records, was slated for release on August 21, 2001, but was also never released. ''Melicious'' took on topics like pollution, date-rape, occultism and murder, with tongue in cheek. Stylus Magazine gave Melicious a positive review and referred to Lefton as the "queen of shelved teenpop". AllMusic also spoke highly of the album, saying it "matches the pop sassiness of the Go-Go's and Cyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steps (pop Group)
Steps are a British dance-pop group consisting of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian "H" Watkins. They were formed in May 1997 and achieved two number-one albums in the UK, 14 consecutive UK top-5 singles including two number ones (one a double A-side). The group has sold over 22 million records worldwide, 15 million albums worldwide. In-addition to earning a BRIT Award nomination in 1999, for Best Newcomer, the group would be an opening support act for Britney Spears on her debut American tour the same year. When Richards and Watkins departed to form a recording duo, the group disbanded, on 26 December 2001 (officially). Their penultimate single reached No. 5 on the UK charts, while their final album of greatest hits, ''Gold'' (2001), was the group's second No. 1 album in the UK. Steps re-formed in May 2011 for a four-part Sky Living documentary series titled ''Steps: Reunion''. The series started airing on 28 September, following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanson (band)
Hanson is an American pop rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, formed by brothers Isaac Hanson (guitar, vocals, bass, piano), Taylor Hanson (keyboards, vocals, percussion), and Zac Hanson (drums, vocals, piano). Supporting members include Dimitrius Collins (guitar, additional keyboard) and Andrew Perusi (bass), who have toured and performed live with the band since 2007. Hanson is best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their debut album released through Mercury Records, Mercury/Polygram Records, entitled ''Middle of Nowhere (Hanson album), Middle of Nowhere'', which earned three Grammy nominations. At the time of the music video, the boys were 16, 14, and 11 years old. The group's label Mercury Records was merged with its sister labels and the band were moved to Island Def Jam Music Group. After releasing one album with them, the band left the label. Hanson has sold over 16 million records worldwide and have had three top 20 albums in the United States. They have had three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Moore
Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame with her 1999 debut single "Candy (Mandy Moore song), Candy", which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Her debut studio album, ''So Real (album), So Real'' (1999), received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The I Wanna Be with You (Mandy Moore song), title track from her reissue of ''So Real'', ''I Wanna Be with You (album), I Wanna Be With You'' (2000), became Moore's first top 40 single, peaking at 24 on the chart. Moore then released the studio albums ''Mandy Moore (album), Mandy Moore'' (2001), ''Coverage (album), Coverage'' (2003), ''Wild Hope'' (2007), ''Amanda Leigh'' (2009), ''Silver Landings'' (2020), and ''In Real Life (album), In Real Life'' (2022). She has sold ten million albums worldwide. Moore made her feature film debut in 2001 with a minor voice role in ''Dr. Dolittle 2'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Greenfield
Howard Greenfield (March 15, 1936 – March 4, 1986) was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building. He is best known for his successful songwriting collaborations, including one with Neil Sedaka from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, and near-simultaneous (and equally successful) songwriting partnerships with Jack Keller and Helen Miller throughout most of the 1960s. Songs Greenfield co-wrote four songs that reached #1 on the US ''Billboard'' charts: " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", as recorded by Sedaka; " Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and " My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own", both as recorded by Connie Francis, and " Love Will Keep Us Together", as recorded by Captain & Tennille. He also co-wrote numerous other top 10 hits for Sedaka (including " Oh! Carol", "Stairway to Heaven", " Calendar Girl", " Little Devil", " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen", and " Next Door to an Angel"); Francis (including the "Theme to '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (; born March 13, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield, Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody. After a short-lived tenure as a founding member of the doo-wop group the Tokens, Sedaka achieved a string of hit singles over the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl (song), Calendar Girl" (1960), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961) and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962). His popularity declined by the mid-1960s, but was revived in the mid-1970s, solidified by the 1975 US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number ones "Laughter in the Rain" and "Bad Blood (Neil Sedaka song), Bad Blood". Sedaka maintained a successful career as a songwriter, penning hits for other artists including "Stupid Cupid" (Connie Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stupid Cupid
"Stupid Cupid" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka that became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958. Recording history After almost three years of failure, Connie Francis finally had a hit in the spring of 1958 with a rock ballad version of the standard "Who's Sorry Now? (song), Who's Sorry Now?". Unfortunately, her next pair of singles were less successful. ''I'm Sorry I Made You Cry'' only reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and ''Heartaches'' failed to chart at all. Francis recalls: "I knew I had to come up with a hit on the third record. It was crucial. I listened to every publisher's song in New York, but nothing was hitting me." Eventually Don Kirshner of Aldon Music had Greenfield and Sedaka, who were staff writers for Aldon, visit Francis at her home to pitch their songs, but she and close friend Bobby Darin argued that the slow, dense ballads they were offering didn't appeal to the teenager market. Francis asked if they had somethi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youngstown (band)
Youngstown was an American boy band from Youngstown, Ohio, formed in 1998 and composed of David "DC" Yeager, Samuel "Sammy" Lopez Jr and James L. Dallas. They are best known for their 1999 single " I'll Be Your Everything", which peaked at number 71 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and was the theme song for the Walt Disney Pictures film ''Inspector Gadget''. History The band's first single, " I'll Be Your Everything", featured on the film soundtrack for ''Inspector Gadget'' and on their debut album ''Let's Roll''. In February 2000, Disney Channel aired ''Steps and Youngstown In Concert'', a concert special featuring Youngstown and another group, Steps. Their second album, ''Down For the Get Down'', was released in 2001, and yielded the No. 21 Hot Singles Sales US hit "Sugar". Both albums were released through Hollywood Records. "Could You Love Me", the second album track was recorded later by Nick Lachey on his first album, '' SoulO''. Another of their songs, "Away With The Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ne-Yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), known professionally as Ne-Yo ( ), is an American singer and songwriter. Regarded as a leading figure of Contemporary R&B#2000s, 2000s R&B music, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards. He gained recognition for his songwriting abilities following the success of his first major credit, Mario (singer), Mario's 2004 single "Let Me Love You (Mario song), Let Me Love You". Its release prompted a meeting between Ne-Yo and Def Jam Recordings, Def Jam's then-president Jay-Z, resulting in a contract in which he released four studio albums, each of which spawned hit songs. Ne-Yo's debut single, "Stay (Ne-Yo song), Stay" (featuring Peedi Peedi) was released the following year to lukewarm commercial reception, although its follow-up, "So Sick" became his breakthrough role, breakthrough hit as it peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Both songs, along with the follow-up singles "When You're ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
