Goosebumps cover my body every time I hear his voice. He is the only singer who has ever made me cry when I hear him sing. Arguably one of the greatest singers the world has ever known, very few fondly remember him today outside of certain music circles. I'm talking about Mario Lanza , one of the most talented tenors to ever live. Arturo Toscanini, one of the most acclaimed conductors of all time and best known as the music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, dubbed Mario Lanza the "Voice of the Century" and that's no understatement. [...]
The Grim Reaper had another busy month. He took from us the soul legend Solomon Burke, who only a few months ago delivered a new album, and the brilliant General Johnson, a wonderful vocalist whose Chairmen of the Board shone in the early '70s, and who wrote such hits as Patches (Clarence Carter), Want Ads (Honey Cone) and Freda Payne's Bring The Boys Home (the video for You Got Me Dangling On A String is rather nice). Reggae fans will mourn the soulful Gregory Isaacs, and post-punk fans the passing of The Slits' German-born punster Ari Up. [...]
Filed under: The Hit List In olden times, the World Cup and pop music kept to their respective sides of the cultural playing field. Not anymore. The Greatest Show on Earth[TM] has long been deemed incomplete without a raft of pan-global, world-uniting themes, a full set of inspirational team anthems and countless less-than-official supporting efforts by professional and nonprofessional musicians alike. We bravely ventured into this [...]
Se una volta a rappresentare l'Italia canora erano brani come "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" adesso dobbiamo accontentarci di essere ricordati in giro per l'Europa come quelli di "Italia Amore Mio". Perchè? Beh: a quanto pare la compagnia EasyJet avrebbe preso la saggia decisione di trasmettere sui propri voli la canzone presentata a Sanremo 2010 da Pupo , Emanuele Filiberto e Luca Canonici . Lo so: incredibile ma vero! E pensare che tempo fa personaggi come Verdi, Puccini e Luciano Pavarotti portavano in alto la bandiera musicale del [...]
Questa volta le nostre sfide di Natale 2009 volano in territorio "classico" facendo un'incursione nella lirica. I due artisti che mettiamo a confronto sono due pilastri della musica italiana: stiamo parlando di Luciano Pavarotti e di Andrea Bocelli i quali si cimentano nella celebre "Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle" (vi mostriamo i contributi audio dopo il salto). Beh, è praticamente impossibile paragonare due personaggi che hanno un modo di cantare praticamente identico: infatti l'impostazione vocale che ambedue utilizzano è la stessa (quella lirica) e lo fanno grazie a quella che viene definita la "tecnica per [...]
Filed under: The Hit List George Harrison seemed like the gentle Beatle , but even he reserved special animosity for the one figure we all love to hate -- the taxman. Here's a list of vocalists, from Nas to Luciano Pavarotti , who have sung the blues over their failure to pay their back taxes. Nas In October 2009, the Queens, N.Y. rapper [...]
The title of this post (and image) is from his autobiography . I mentioned in a previous article that Sir Bobby Robson was on borrowed time. That was August last year. He defied all the odds and continued to fight, but finally as everyone I'm sure now knows... I loved that man, so easily likable, approachable and friendly. Which I supposed is all the same thing but I don't care. When you are eulogizing someone you can get away with it. [...]
Hi everybody, comme vous avez dû le remarquer, l'actualité musicale a été assez chargée cette semaine. Mardi, sortie du Warp des Bloody Beetroots et publication sur Electrocorp de sa vidéo. Ce même Mardi, publication du 88h88 (Stage 3 The Club Remix) de Danger. Le lendemain, publication exclusive de la mixtape "Wow" réalisée pour Electrocorp par Clash the disco kids . Et pour finir, hier, post sur l'Ep à venir des Chewy Chocolate Cookies. Après tout cela, le post du jour ne pouvait être que plus... tempéré (le terme de pot pourri aurait pu [...]
Nuovo ingresso per il tributo a Big-Luciano e diversi ritorni nella classifica dei dvd più venduti della settimana. I classici del rock e i big della nostra canzone la fanno sempre da padrone. Piccola sorpresa alla posizione numero uno: quando la musica incontra il teatro (e/o viceversa) per uno di nostri più grandi pensatori contemporanei. 10. Memorial Concert Pavarotti - Artisti Vari 9. Plug Me In - AC/DC 8. Live in Japan - Queen 7. Yuppi Du - Adriano Celentano [...]
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Oh noes, the performance of John Williams' Shaker hymn-biting "Air And Simple Gifts" at the Inaugural on Tuesday was, um, finger-synced because it was just too damn cold out! "Truly, weather just made it impossible," inaurgural flack Carole Florman told The New York Times . "No one's trying to fool anybody. This isn't a matter of Milli Vanilli." The Times helpfully provided a brief list of other playing-to-tape artists who were caught since what they so haughtily termed "the Milli Vanilli affair" that included Ashlee Simpson, Luciano Pavarotti, and that cute-enough-for-the-Chinese-go vernment girl who lip-synced at [...]
Il grande Cheb Mami ospita il nostro Zucchero in un concerto del 2004. La canzone è la natalizia " Così celeste ", pubblicata la prima volta nell'album Spirito Divino del '95. Molto famosa fu soprattutto la versione di quell'anno con Luciano Pavarotti : la trovate in questo nostro post con cui davamo l'addio al mitico tenore .
Come e più di ogni anno i canali tv nei prossimi giorni si rincorreranno in una serie di eventi legati al Natale. Noi di Soundsblog non potevamo non segnalarvi quelli musicali ed eccoci qui pronti. Si parte già domani e ce n'è per tutti i gusti e generi, non solo prettamente natalizi. A voi l'elenco: se ne individuate altri, segnalateceli nei commenti. 21 dicembre ore 10:30 Raidue - Concerto di Natale della coralità di montagna ore 12:20 Raiuno - Concerto di Natale con Giovanni Allevi e I Virtuosi Italiani . 24 [...]
Nuovo appuntamento con le uscite della settimana. Non possiamo non cominciare citando l'attesissimo ritorno degli AC/DC , tra gli unici/ultimi a non distribuire le singole canzoni online ma credendo nel formato cd, di cui siamo certi venderanno moltissime copie, come sempre. Tra gli italiani c'è poi molta attenzione per i duetti di Ornella Vanoni e per il nuovo particolare disco di inediti di Vinicio Capossela . C'è poi l'altra importante raccolta di duetti di Luciano Pavarotti mentre dal nostro indie arriva un cofanetto cd+dvd dello spettacolo teatrale [...]
Davvero non ci si riesce a spiegare il motivo per il quale la Warner Music continui a credere in Rino De Maria tanto da estrarre dal suo primo album un secondo singolo dal titolo "Sangue e Cuore" (di cui potete vedere il video sul suo My space) dopo che il primo " Rilassati un po' " è passato nell'ombra senza che nessuno se ne accorgesse. Addirittura questa nuova canzone fa parte della colonna sonora de " L'Ospite Perfetto ", prima fiction per telefonia e web, in cui compaiono Giulio Berruti, Giorgia Surina e [...]
To mark the start of Euro 2008 on Saturday, here are a few random football-related songs; all unrelated to Euro 2008. A couple are brilliant, some are rather interesting, and a couple are so horrible that any collector of bad music should experience ecstasy at the prospect of adding to their miscellany of horrors. Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma.mp3 It is a cruel irony that football suddenly
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"Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian singer whose ringing, pristine sound set a standard for operatic tenors of the postwar era, died Thursday at his home near Modena, in northern Italy. He was 71." (nytimes.com) Luciano Pavarotti -- Non ti scordar di me Preceded by: Enrico Caruso -- PagliacciVesti La Giubba Also check out: (Two of my favorites) Yma Sumac - Cha Cha Gitano Maria Callas -- Deh! torna mio bene (Proch Variations) (The [...]
Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian singer whose ringing, pristine sound set a standard for operatic tenors of the postwar era, died early this morning at his home in Modena, in northern Italy. He was 71 . Continue reading via The New York Times :: Ave Maria
One of the world's most renowned opera singers, Luciano Pavarotti , has passed. Having a very prolific career throughout almost 5 decades, he touched the hearts of millions through his work. Part of the Three Tenors , he was not only one of the world's top selling music artists , but a noted humanitarian . He died early this morning at his home in Italy, he was 71. Luciano Pavarotti - Ol Sole Mio
I attended a Pavarotti concert in Stellenbosch when I was about 13, truly one of the great musical experiences of my life. Having an opera loving father, Pavarotti very literally provided a musical backdrop for the first 18 years of my life. He will be missed by millions, including me. Listen: Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
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