Video: Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind

Quante volte avete visto un film e assistevate ad alcune scene musicali con gli attori stessi protagonisti? In quel caso è facile capire il connubio recitazione/canto. Ma ci sono altri casi in cui, l'attore o l'attrice contribuiscono cantando un brano della colonna sonora per sottolineare certe scene del film. Velleità artistiche canterine che si uniscono a quelle recitative. Alcuni li conosciamo già ( Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Swift), altri sono chicche passate inosservate. Qualche nome? Adam Sandler, Ethan Hawke o Kevin Spacey. Dopo il salto, potete trovare (e ascoltare) venti esempi di questo mix [...]

His fame stretched way beyond the pop-star realm, but let's not forget that the late Patrick Swayze's star turn in the 1987 Catskills romance Dirty Dancing also spawned the No. 3 hit "She's Like The Wind," a velvety, saxophone-enhanced ballad that, thanks to its superglossy '80s sound, was something of an outlier on the movie's oldies-heavy soundtrack. (It later inspired covers by the likes of Lumidee and Girls Aloud .) Swayze's filmic links to pop music both on and off the charts didn't end with Dirty Dancing -the use of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained [...]

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