Upon its release, the album achieved good results, ranking No. Heatseekers Albums and No. It was recently announced that LP would be participating in the tribute album to Chester Bennington lead singer Linkin Park , performed by his previous band Gray Daze. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta March 28, Pop singer. Known worldwide as Lady Gaga. Her mother, Cynthia Louise Bissett, vice president of the mobile operator Verizon.
Her father was businessman Joseph Anthony Germanotta, Jr. Director of an internet network company. For this reason, her parents enrolled her in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a religious and elitist school. She was very fond of music since she was a child, she learned to play the piano and, at thirteen, she wrote her first song. She was a participant in open mic nights. But she did not finish her studies, she abandoned them to start her musical career.
She began by performing melodic songs on the piano in clubs and small bars in New York. Her first production was made by her with producer and composer RedOne, they called it : Boys, Boys Boys. This production was not successful. At that time, her life knew drugs and uncontrolled parties. In she began working with Lady Starlight, they began to perform in venues in downtown New York.
They participated in the American music festival «Lollapalooza». Using her writing skills, she wrote songs for Britney Spears. While she persisted, unsuccessfully, in contacting and seeking support in some record companies, the situation would change when meeting the music producer Rob Fusari.
He promoted her musical career, thanks to his support they built a strong working relationship, and this led to a sentimental relationship. At a recognized event, Akon, who already knew Lady Gaga as her songwriter, heard her sing and decided to offer her a contract for his record label, Kon Live Distribution.
Gaga certainly accepted it. Thus began Lady Gaga to be known as a singer. At this stage, she had the collaboration of Fusari and other producers such as RedOne and Martin Kierszenbaum. The young singer debuted with her album, The Fame. A mix of electropop; the synthpop of the 80s and dance sounds. The success was imminent, it was one of the best-selling albums in worldwide, with more than 12 million copies, and it reached the Top 1 in countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland.
Her vision was great, she not only wanted to release a single, but an album. It was number one in countries like the United States; more than , digital downloads are estimated, including Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. For this work, the brand new artist was nominated for a Grammy for the first time. In October , she was awarded the Rising Star of award from Billboard magazine.
Bad Romance was number one in countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Peru, Germany, France, Sweden, Austria, and Denmark, and its promotional video, admired for the innovative elements and excellent paraphernalia, exceeded million visits on YouTube, becoming the most viewed in history.
On the album The Fame Monster. There was the song Paparazzi. The video was a boom. Thanks to her fame, she embarked on her first tour: The Fame Ball Tour; this tour had an admirable reception, it sold out stadiums and large venues.
Later, she was nominated for the Grammy Awards. The videos of her were irreverent and gave a lot to talk about, they swept on television and especially on the Internet. Platinum blonde appears in Just Dance ; with a lightning bolt on her cheek, inspired by David Bowie from Aladdin Sane, another of her references.
On the other hand, on Poker Face she incorporates her sexiest and most futuristic style. His videos can be summarized as extravagant hairstyles, excessive makeup, sidereal or cosmic style wardrobes, or simply exuberant, increasingly sophisticated scenography, choreographies close to pornography.
Her way of being was linked to her music, she was an eccentric girl and eventually gave explosive statements to the press, she declared herself a hermaphrodite. All these scandals made her more and more popular, and she was the focus of all eyes on her. She also premiered Alejandro and Dancer in the Dark.
Gaga embarked on her second world tour, The Monster Ball Tour, she officially announced it on October 15, It would end in Spain in two only concerts, in Barcelona and Madrid. The tickets were sold in just three days. Billboard announced that the song Telephone , from the album The Fame Monster, peaked at number one on the Pop Songs chart, being the only singer in history to get the sixth consecutive number one from it. In , the news spread that her ex-boyfriend and producer Rob Fusari sued for the company Rob Fusari Productions, demanding the payment of a total debt of 30 million dollars, for being the co-author and co-producer of Paparazzi, Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, Disco Heaven and Retro, Dance, Freak.
Gaga began production on the album: Born This Way. It sold more than a million copies in its first week after its release in the United States, topping the Billboard This music star declared in a documentary about her life, Five Foot Two , that she suffers from fibromyalgia, a disease that attacks muscles and bones, and it has cost her time off stage.
Although, she is still extremely optimistic. Elton John March 25, is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He was born in Pinner, Middlesex, UK. His birth name is Reginald Dwight.
The people who encouraged Elton to start in the world of music were his grandmother and his mother , who one day surprised him by performing a song on the house piano. They immediately knew that the boy had a great musical talent. At the age of four, he was already performing simple melodies, and at seven he was singing at family parties. Elton studied at the Royal Academy of Music thanks to a scholarship after graduating from high school. He also was part of the choir. Although after a few years he got bored with classical music and began to try rock music.
At age 15, he got his first job as a pianist in a downtown pub, where he received the nickname Reggie. He used to perform songs by Ray Charles and Jim Reeves. In Elton decided to form the band Bluesology. In the musical circle, he met singer Long John Baldry.
As a tribute to him and the saxophonist Elton Dean, he adopted the stage name, Elton John. Two songs were recorded in the group: Mr. Besides, he began producing brilliant songs with the help of lyricist Bernie Taupin, who has been considered one of the most prolific duos in the world of pop music. Fifteen of his songs topped the North American charts. Later in , he edited his first LP, Empty Sky , which was followed by Elton John, thanks to his knowledge of classical music he integrated lyricism and his own style.
In the following years, he published a total of eleven albums. In the 70s his career took off, he signed an eight million dollar contract with MCA, wrote the song Whatever gets you through the night with John Lennon , and also sang with the former Beatle at Madison Square Garden. Although not everything was easy, he had certain conflicts with his collaborator Bernie Taupin, this breakup and problems with drugs led him to a serious emotional crisis that almost cost him his life when he tried to commit suicide.
After emotional recovery he continued singing, and selling out venues, he toured continuously. It wasn't until Aguilera was six that her mother managed to end the marriage and move her two daughters Christina and her younger sister, Rachel to a new life in Rochester, Pennsylvania. At an early age, Aguilera developed a deep love of music — a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violinist and pianist.
By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. It became so bad that Aguilera's mother eventually made the decision to home-school her daughter.
Still, Aguilera continued to perform, and in , she earned a spot on the nationally syndicated television program Star Search. There, the nine-year-old prodigy wowed audiences with a mesmerizing rendition of Etta James ' "A Sunday Kind of Love," placing second in the competition.
The ambitious singer lasted just two years on the program before she moved with her mother to Japan, where she recorded the hit single "All I Wanna Do" with Japanese pop icon Keizo Nakanishi. More success soon followed. The singer made her debut at the all-female concert festival Lilith Fair the following year, and signed with RCA Records. Also in , she released her debut album, Christina Aguilera , which went on to sell more than 8 million copies thanks in part to the chart-topping hits "Genie in a Bottle" and "What a Girl Wants.
With fellow Mouseketeers Spears and Timberlake also lighting up the charts with their respective music, Aguilera became one of the leading faces of a group of teen pop stars. But she wasn't comfortable maintaining the squeaky clean image this sort of role foisted upon her.
As its title suggests, the pop superstar had embarked down a new path. Highly sexualized and more commanding than its predecessors, the album featured a number of hit singles, including "Dirrty," "Beautiful" and "Make Over. Coupled with a series of new piercings and tattoos, Aguilera and her new music startled some critics while endearing her to others. Stripped went on to sell more than 4 million copies, and Aguilera, rightly so, was unapologetic about the music or her look.
In Aguilera changed course again with the release of Back to Basics , a two-disc collection of influential standards from the s through the '40s. Like she'd done with her previous album, Aguilera used the music to help define her style.
She also adopted a classic Jean Harlow look for a time. In Aguilera returned to record stores with Bionic. In , she returned to the U. That was all they needed to hear, and she was asked to sing "Reflection" for Disney's hit movie Mulan , which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture. That same week, Aguilera was signed with RCA Records, and on August 24, , she released her self-titled debut album.
The hit single "Genie in a Bottle" from this album dominated the charts for five weeks, and sent the album itself to number one on the pop albums charts.
The album did so well that it sold , in its first week, selling over eight million copies in the U. S alone. With the success of her first album, Aguilera decided to release an album in Spanish, Mi Reflejo [My Reflection] on September 12, , which helped her to get her second Grammy, from the Latin Recording Academy. Since she was not fluent in Spanish, she learned the words to her songs phonetically. Soon after she released her Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas. No one could criticize her vocal abilities, but they were more concerned with the provocative way in which she was dressed; their main concern being that she was a role model for young girls.
Aguilera went on to say in an interview that the movie in which the song was made for was based on a brothel, and she dressed accordingly. In , she entered a legal battle with Warlock Records in protest of them releasing a collection of her older demos, which were recorded when the star was 14 and Despite her objections, the court battle was unsuccessful and the demos were released as the album Just Be Free.
This album was not received as well as Aguilera's previous albums, but record sales were decent. Following the release of this album, Aguilera put the final touches on next album. She wanted to get out of the realm of teen pop star and start making songs that reflected her maturity and age.
In October of , the album, Stripped, was released, and featured Aguilera's new sexier image. In a review, Billboard said that Stripped is "a must-hear recording rich with pleasantly surprising depth. Stripped deserves a fair shot. With this album, Aguilera's image changed completely. She appeared topless on the Stripped album cover, and she even posed nude for an issue of Rolling Stone.
These two kisses sent a wave of media attention towards the pop stars. Aguilera did take a little time in between her albums. When she was asked in an interview about the cause of the delay, she replied, "Between albums I did fall in love. I'd been in a relationship with my new husband, just discovering a new side of myself.
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