"Sinead loved living in Bray and the people in it," her family said a statement inviting the public to gather before her private burial. Irish President Michael D. Higgins and prime minister Leo Varadkar joined
This beautiful father/son duet speaks about the difficulty of feeling like you need to be made whole after experiencing the loss of someone dear to you. 11. “Chiara” fromCieli di Toscana This sweet song is a tribute to finding love in the most unexpected place. If you need a song to...
Bennett’s careerlullended once he re-signed with Columbia in 1986 and releasedThe Art of Excellence, his most-heralded album in many years. From that point, Bennett’s son and personal manager, Danny Bennett, began an aggressive campaign to market his father to a wider audience, and the ...
Field hollers and funeral processions: forming the matrix Ragtime into jazz: the birth of jazz in New Orleans Variations on a theme: jazz elsewhere in the United States The cornetist breaks away: Louis Armstrong and the invention of swing ...
Shakira, the daughter of a Lebanese father and a Colombian mother, started belly dancing at an early age. By age 10 she had begun writing songs and participating in talent competitions. A local theater producer helped her land an audition with aSony Corp.executive in 1990, and Shakira was ...
Winehouse was born in northLondonto aJewishfamily. She and her elder brother, Alex, were raised primarily by their mother, a pharmacist, who divorced their father, a taxicabdriver, when Winehouse was 9 years old. Early on she demonstrated an interest in the arts, but she was reportedly exp...
Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced byragtimemusic and by the music he heard from Black families...
Teng’s parents were born in China. Her father was an officer in the Nationalist army, and the family moved to Taiwan in 1949. While an elementary school student, Teng won a singing contest, and in her teens she began performing in public. She appeared frequently on television in the late...
Mathis grew up in a large working-class family in San Francisco. He developed an appreciation of music from his father, a former vaudeville performer, and, as a child, he sang regularly in church and at school events. From age 13 he also took vocal lessons, which provided him with a cl...