[7] She provided vocals for the group which primarily performed dance-pop music about religion, independence and empowerment, themes that would later be found in her own solo compositions. The DNA Algorithm performed at several Christian music festivals before disbanding.[8] Bedingfield attended a year at the University of Greenwich, where she studied psychology to “make [her] a better songwriter.”[4][5] After a year of studying psychology, she left university to concentrate on singing and songwriting. She began to record demos in the garages of friends who had recording studios. Bedingfield eventually took these demos to record companies.[9] Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Bedingfield composed and recorded songs for the Hillsong London Church. In 2004, her recordings appeared on the church’s live album Shout God’s Fame and the children’s album Jesus Is My Superhero by Hillsong Music Australia.[10]
Music career
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2004–2006: Unwritten
Bedingfield signed a recording contract with Sony BMG in 2003.[11] Her first album Unwritten was released in September 2004 and features collaborations with Steve Kipner, Guy Chambers, Patrick Leonard and rapper Bizarre. The album contained uptempo pop rock songs and influences from R&B music.[1] Bedingfield’s lyrics focused on independence, opportunism and female empowerment.[5] Reviews of the album were generally positive and it was described as a “well-made pop album for the new millennium” by All Music Guide.[1] The album debuted on the UK albums chart at number one and reached the top thirty in the United States.[12] It sold well, reaching multi-platinum status in the United Kingdom[13] and the U.S.[14] At the 2005 Brit Awards, Bedingfield was nominated for four awards, she was also nominated for an award at the 2006 Brit Awards and in she was nominated for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance” at the Grammy Awards.[15][3]
The first single released from the album was “Single”, which reached number three on the UK singles chart.[16] The song’s lyrics and its accompanying music video, depict Bedingfield’s single lifestyle.[17] “These Words” was released as the album’s second single. The song became Bedingfield’s first UK number-one and U.S. top twenty single.[18] “Unwritten” was released as the album’s third single in 2004, the song reached number six on the UK singles chart and it also became the second most played song on U.S. radio in 2006.[19] The songs lyrics discuss “living your own life without other people telling you how to live it”.[20] “I Bruise Easily” was released as the album’s fourth single, it did not perform as well as its predecessors but was still a moderate success, reaching number 12 on the UK singles chart.
In November 2006, Bedingfield released the DVD Live in New York City, which contained a live concert performance as well as music videos and a documentary. That month she recorded the Diane Warren-penned song “Still Here” for the film Rocky Balboa.[21] The song, however, did not appear on the soundtrack; although it was included on her second album.
In July , she appeared on an online YouTube music video of Esmée Denters singing “Unwritten”. Bedingfield sang backing vocals off-screen for most of the video, but joined Denters in front of the camera at the end of the song.[22]
The Mars Volta is:
[Cedric Bixler Zavala] - Vocals
[Omar Alfredo Rodriguez-Lopez] - Guitar
[Jon Philip Theodore] - Drums
[Juan Alderete] - Bass
[Isaiah Ikey Owens] - Keyboards
It started in the summer of 2001. [Cedric Bixler’s] and [Omar Rodriguez’s] (both from At the Drive-In) fame had been playing in their dub band De Facto with [Ikey Owens] and [Jeremy Ward]. them had been playing for years, but after ATDI split up, De Facto teamed up with drummer [Jon Theodore] (Golden) and bassist [Eva Gardner] to start The Mars Volta.
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They went on tour with The Anniversary in the fall of 2001. them got very mixed responses to the material. Some people expected another ATDI, some just wanted to see what the buzz was about, and a whole lot of people wondered who the freaks with the afros were and why The Anniversary weren’t playing yet. With a less than apparent “sound”, more often improvised than not and without clear cut beginnings and ends of songs, The Mars Volta was a disappointment to some, but won the hearts of many more.
Original lineup - April 2002
After the band toured Europe in spring of 2002, them teamed up with producer Alex Newport (who had produced ATDI’s Vaya) and recorded what was to become the Tremulant EP. By early 2002, the buzz was going around that The Mars Volta was like a bomb ready to explode. After the successful European tour and a quick trip to Japan, Tremulant was released on Omar’s label GSL, and most skeptics were quickly silenced. With the three song, 19 minute EP, The Mars Volta made a clear statement of what them were all about, and what was to come.
This Aint No Picnic - Oct 2002
Not much was heard from The Mars Volta for a while, but the fans were adding up. The band played at Goldenvoice’s Coachella Valley Festival in May, which was to be the last show with the band for [Eva] and [Ikey]. There was never an official statement as to why the lineup changes were made. Before the summer was over, [Linda Good] had joined on keyboards and [Ralph Jasso], formerly of Universal Recovered, joined on bass.
The rest of the summer was spent writing new tracks, De Facto was seen jamming with The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Fruiscante, Omar finished up a film project, and a short tour was scheduled for the fall of 2002, including Goldenvoice’s This Ain’t no Picnic Festival in Irvine.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — Readers React
Readers had some fairly strong reactions about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s choices in the past, and for the class of 2008, after our story of last week.
It’s a set of 12 tracks of really high quality guitar drones and loops. This is top-notch stuff. Subtle and sophisticated, which is sometimes what you don’t get when it comes to guitar basedbient music these days. I’ll admit I’m really no longer a fan of having to actually pay for a disc to be produced and shipped to me, but the disc is packaged rather tastefully and was accompanied by a nice postcard promoting label-mate Pjusk’s sart, a record You like as well.
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In the next in our series of great Christmas songs championed by Merseyside musiciansus have Thomas Joseph of acoustic duo Thomas Joseph and Murphy on my favourite Christmas song - Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl…
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WIN tickets to see The Zutons, The Rascals, The Suzukis and the Tigerpicks tomorrow…
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TOMORROW night (Saturday) some of Liverpool’s biggest acts will join together for a party with a difference at the Deltasonic Christmas party.
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Pete Wylie’s Classic inspiration
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For the last year Pete Wylie has been celebrating Liverpool’s music scene with Classic, a monthly night of great songs at Zanzibar. Next week sees the last of the monthly season, so You caught up with Pete to find out more about the music that’s inspiring this last gig in the series…
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December 19,
Great Christmas songs part 6: Darnell on Shakin Steven’s Merry Christmas Everyone
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In the next of our series of great Christmas songs recommended by Merseyside bandsus have Darnell on Shakin Steven’s Merry Christmas Everyone…
The Success
The first album of Garth Brooks was named eponymously; it was called Garth Brooks that came out in 1989. The first album became an instant hit with music lovers, the album bagged second position in the US country album lists and stood on a 13th position in the Billboard 200 pop album list. George Strait’s influence on the album could be seen in most of the songs. The song Much Too Young featured in the top 10 songs of the nation and the next song was the If Tomorrow Never Comes, which was his first country song, the genre she became famous for in the world.
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The No Fences album came in the year 1990 and was number one for as many as 23 weeks on the Billboard country music list. The third album of the artist was released in the year 1991, was named Ropin’ the Wind, and was booked in advance for 4 million copies. At the height of his success, the artist had to often balance his family and career and every time thought of retiring only to come back again. In 2001, Garth Brooks announced official retirement from the career.
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Keith Urban Podcast
December 7th, ·
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In 2001, the Country Music Association honored Keith Urban with its Horizon Award, designating him a talented artist with a bright future. That same year, the Academy of Country Music named him Top New Male Vocalist. Six years and more than 10 million albums later, Urban remains the only Horizon Award winner in history to go on to win the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year, a title he’s captured three times.
people-smugglers are, and how some of them encourage rich Pakistani people to pretend to be poor Afghani asylum seekers. It was literally a set-up, not questioning the troubles people might have in leaving these countries legally, only contrasting the fate of the very poor in huge refugee cps with those who are rich enough to ‘jump the queue.’ At no point in the entire forum did anyone raise the question of whether for some it is impossible to join the queue, if indeed there is one. At the conclusion of the video 15 or so people stood up and began walking out, many people loudly protesting about the inappropriateness and one-sidedness about the segment I had just watched. I were there to talk about Australia’s policies towards refugees, not about people-smugglers. How they get here, as Robert Manne pointed out, is not the important issue here. Several also pointed out that this kind of reporting enforces the idea of asylum-seekers as criminal or illegal. It was a shoddy piece of journalism and was not a good start to the ‘debate.’
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Liz Hayes failed to provide any effective youdiation or facilitation of what was a very heated and chaotic ion. There were several in the audience he targeted for specific quesitons: Philip Ruddock, Robert Manne, David Oldfield, and others. Bizarrely, Philip Ruddock was the only person to speak against more generous treatment of refugees with any intelligence. There were too many people there with enormously important things to say; there was never going to be any hope of getting them all in. and because of the lack of facilitation, those who spoke were those who stood up and shouted. The woman sitting in front of you sat with her hand in the air for the entire 2 hours of the debate. he was not heard. Some very idiosyncratic views were. As a debate it lacked coherence all together, often swinging far from what I’d consider to be the important points. There was a great deal of shouting, boo-ing, clapping - though you don’t doubt that I will see this, more sensational, stuff on the show on Sunday. People were so upset, so angry, so anxious to have their say. It was pretty upsetting, as a few people yelled abuse at others. ‘wog!’ someone yelled, and ’send them all home!’ at another point. The people making these s were few - there would only have been 2 of them (4 if you include the One Nation candidates, one of whom managed to make a complete fool of herself.) The vast majority of this varied audience were in favour of a more compassionate stance towards refugees.