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Franz Liszt (1811-1886), considered the greatest piano virtuoso of his day, also wielded great influence in shaping the western musical canon.

He promoted some fledgling composers, such as Wagner and Berlioz, which added to their reputations; he also helped resurrect the reputations of some musicians of the past, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Handel, Schubert and Beethoven.

In his musical works, he invented techniques and developed piano skills that nobody could even recognize, did unconventional experimentation in musical harmony and created the musical form “symphonic poem”. He was born in Hungary but he went to Vienna when he was young. There he was able to study with a few of the most popular composers of the time, such as Czerny and Salieri, and he met Beethoven and Schubert.

He was not yet twenty when he moved to Paris where he gained prominence in the social circles in no time, as much for his mastery of the piano as the gossips generated within the society circling around his numerous love affairs. Read the rest of this entry »

Jordan FeRoss is one of the few true singer/songwriter/producers left in this world. An American Citizen born in Cairo Egypt and raised in Plano, Texas. Jordan FeRoss has played keys since the age of 5 and composed his first publication at the young age of 7. With the release of his latest single “I Feel Like I’m Flying” which can be bought on all major digital online stores such as iTunes, Amazon, and with a music video that can be viewed on YouTube, Jordan has defiantly put his name out there without the help of any big record labels. Read the rest of this entry »

As one of the strongest female voices in the entertainment industry, Celine Dion has touched the hearts of many people all over the world for an extremely lengthy amount of time. Born in Charlemagne, Quebec in March of 1968, Celine Dion became a teen sensation that acquired the attention of many listeners. She has created quite a revolutionary history that follows her everywhere she goes considering that her voice has been acclaimed as “One of the greatest voices in the world” by many of her loyal fans and followers.

As a teenager, Celine Dion’s manager Rene Angelil had his house mortgaged in order to produce the money to create her debut record. With the release of her English album Unison in 1990, she became an extremely viable pop artist in North America. Celine Dion has also won an abundance of awards, her first being the winner of the 1988 Eurovision Song and 1982 Yamaha World Contest. In the early 80’s she had created a large amount of French centric albums and was signed with CBS Records. In 1990 Epic Records signed her after the creation of her first English album and that is when her career began to take off.

With the abundance of talent and expertise backing her, Celine Dion had become one of the top leading pop artists in the world within the music industry. Rather than being a generic pop artist who revolves around one specific genre of music, Celine Dion’s music is inspired by a variety of genres that include R&B, rock, classical, and gospel. As the best selling Canadian musician of all time and the second best-selling female singer in the United States, it is no wonder that she has revolutionized the music industry with her strong vocals.

Tragedy struck in 1999 when she was at the peak of her career when her husband and manager Rene Angelil was diagnosed with cancer. She immediately refrained from making any more music and went on a hiatus from the music industry so she could provide the love and comfort that her husband needed at the time. In 2002 after her husband had recovered she signed with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to have a 5 year contract to limited to night shows only. Many people from all over the world travel to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace to see her perform her 5 star theatrical show.

With all of the personal trauma in her past and an in depth history, Celine Dion has worked exponentially hard in order to rise to fame and success. With her natural voice and intense and moving vocal capabilities, she has undoubtably become one of the world’s most influential singers. After all of the hard work and dedication, Celine Dion has gone on to sell over 200 million records world wide which is an extraordinarily large accomplishment for any artist to achieve. Although many artists lose their flame after a variety of years, Celine Dion still performs to this day within the realm of Las Vegas, providing her fans with all of the entertainment that they could ever ask for.

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Music has always been a large part of society and so when influential and unique individuals emerge within the music industry they inevitably become exponentially popular. One of these individuals is Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone). Born on August 16th, 1958, Madonna was one of the most influential characters in the music industry throughout the 80’s and early 90’s. As an American songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur she has undoubtably made a strong name for herself throughout the world.

Madonna originally started her career by singing within music groups such as Breakfast Club and Emmy but then decided to branch out on her own and create her own brand. With the release of her debut album, people all over the world started to catch onto the revolutionary music and style that Madonna brought forth. She has had an abundance of different number one hits that have topped record charts all over the world including ‘Like a Prayer’, ‘Papa Don’t Preach’, ‘Vogue’, ’4 Minutes’, and ‘Like a Virgin’.

Her music career isn’t the only aspect of her life that has forced her into the limelight. Madonna is also a practicing actress who has had an abundance of film appearances since 1985. She has won a variety of different awards including a Golden Globe Award for her role in Evita during the year of 1996. Although Evita was a long time hit, many critics found that Madonna had fallen short of her acting career as her other film roles were titled as failures.

Although the majority of Madonna’s fame was found within the 80’s ad 90’s, she has continued to produce catchy and lyrical music in order to continue her role as an influential person within the music industry. The most important part of Madonna was her fashion sense and her risque approach to society. Within the 80’s and 90’s it was very rare that people would see provocative imagery during music videos as it was classified as “inappropriate” or “controversial” but Madonna rarely cared about critical thinking like that. Creating her music videos was seen as an art project as she thrusted herself into the minds of people all over the world with fashion decision and her portrayal of sexual imagery in her music and music videos.

With the Super Bowl XLVI, Madonna inevitably showed the world that she still has the ability to create new and pop centric music enjoyable by all generations. During her performance she shared the stage with new artists such as LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, and M.I.A meanwhile performing with revolutionary artists such as Cee Lo Green. With over 114 million viewers, Madonna’s half time performance was catalogued as the most watched halftime show in the history of the Super Bowl. The 53 year old looked absolutely amazing while she proved once more in the 12 minute session that she is the world’s greatest performer.

With the release of her new album MDNA on March 26th, 2012, Madonna intends on touring the entire world during 2012 and many dates have already sold out. With an abundance of different tour dates, both old and young Madonna fans will be presented with the ability to sing and dance to her new and old songs.

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The alt emo punk pop band Paramore shot to fame recently when its song ‘Decode’ featured on the wildly successful ‘Twilight’ motion picture. The film’s soundtrack also features another song from the same band ‘I Caught Myself’. The movie has won a lot of new fans for this outfit that has been around since 2004. If you have never heard of Paramore before, you certainly would have after the astonishing success of “Twilight’ and anything or anyone that has a connection with it.

This band, hailing from Tennessee, has always been in the limelight Its second album ‘Riot!’ was released in 2007 to rave reviews and it went platinum not just in the United States but in many more countries as well. It is no surprise that this band has developed its fan following steadily over the years. It certainly is very unusual in that it has a female lead vocal, Hayley Williams who is also the group’s song writer. She is joined on stage by brothers lead guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro. The band is completed by bassist Jeremy Davis and rhythm guitarist Taylor York.

The band has responded to its amazing success by going on a series of tours all over the United States and then to some places abroad as well such as Japan, Australia and Europe.

Do you need more information about Paramore? The best place to get all the information you need about this outfit and its stars is the internet. The meteoric rise of this band to superstardom means that there are many fan sites to choose from. You can get almost anything on these sites, from details of their tours to the latest photographs of the band members. There is also a lot of merchandise available, from T shirts to ring tones to bags. The band is also available on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Purevolume. Read the rest of this entry »

It was Australia’s loss when Leonard Williams brought his family to Britain in 1952 to open a guitar school in London.

Leonard Williams emigrated to Australia in the late 1930s where he met Marlaan, a Chinese/Australian, daughter of a well known Melbourne barrister through their mutual love of jazz, and later married her. Len was a respected jazz guitarist who gradually turned towards the classical style. John Christopher Williams was born on the 24th of April, 1941 in Melbourne and when he was four got his first guitar, but real lessons did not begin for another two or three years. Because of his fathers obsession with classical guitar he refused to allow any other form of playing which is something John sometimes regrets to this day.

The family returned to Britain in 1952 for two reasons. Len wanted to start a guitar school, which he did and was very successful, the “Spanish Guitar Centre” continues his work today. Having recognised his sons talent, he wanted him to be taught by the best possible teachers and this was not possible in Australia. Coming back to London was obviously the right thing to do and John was educated at the Frier Barnet Grammar School

Through a friend they met Andres Segovia during a visit to London and the maestro was “very impressed” with the 11 year old and arranged for him to attend his summer school at The Academia Musicale Chigiama di Sienna in Italy which he did until 1959.

The first time John really tasted success was when he was given the honor, on the instigation of his fellow students, of giving the first solo recital by a student of any instrument in 1955.

While he was not in Sienna Williams attended the Royal College of Music from 1956 – 1959 where he, like Julian Bream, studied piano and composition because the college didn’t have a guitar department. However one was formed and upon his graduation John was asked to run it. This he did until 1973 and still maintains a relationship with it to this day.

By the early sixties Williams had performed in the US, Russia, Japan, Paris, Madrid and London. Since then he has toured the world playing solo and with orchestras and has performed on TV and radio many times.

He has often said that he prefers to play with other people, one being his friend Julian Bream; Williams says they know one another’s playing so well that together they create “Magic”.

Although he is mainly known as a classical guitarist, John Williams has explored many other styles. He has collaborated with Julian Bream, Paco Pena and was a founder member of SKY, he is also a composer and arranger and has commissioned guitar concertos from composers such as Andre Previn and Stephen Dodgson. He has also worked with Australian composers to produce guitar music that would help to capture the spirit of his native country.

He had a worldwide hit single with Cavatina by Stanley Myers who originally wrote it for a film called ‘The Walking Stick’ in 1970. John Williams asked Myers to expand it and write it for the guitar. In its new mode Cavatina was used as the beautiful theme music for the Oscar winning film ‘The Deer Hunter’ in 1979. Cleo Laine wrote lyrics to it and ‘He was Beautiful’ was recorded by her accompanied by John on the guitar.

He has played for films, The Deer Hunter and A Fish Called Wanda to name but two. He also plays tennis, badminton, chess, table tennis and enjoys talking about “anything”. He has been married three times and has a daughter Kate who is a jazz pianist from his first marriage and a boy Charlie to his second wife Sue Cook the well known broadcaster. He lives in London and has a house in Australia.

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When it comes to alternative rock bands, Paramore has carved a niche of its own in a remarkably short span of time. This American band formed in 2004 is now famous the world over for its music genre. The band consist of the team of Hayley Williams who is the lead vocalist, bassist Jeremy Davis, rhythm guitarist Taylor York , drummer Zac Farro and Josh Farro who is the lead guitarist. The band’s music has been a hit in several parts of the world. Whenever they have toured, their concerts have been watched and listened to by sellout crowds, who have thronged the venues.

The band released its debut album in 2005. Called ‘All we know is falling’ it catapulted them into instant stardom. They followed it with another Platinum hit ‘Riot’ in 2007. The second album was certified Gold in New Zealand, Canada, UK and Australia. There was literally no looking back for the band afterwards. They followed it up with a string of hits. The band’s third album ‘Brand New Eyes’ was another major hit. It is the band’s most popular album till date. It topped charts in most of the countries where it was released. Read the rest of this entry »

With music becoming the food for life, there are many bands that had created a name for themselves in the music Industry and there are others who are still struggling to make their names. In the recent years the young generation are very much attracted to pop music because of its hip hop lyrics and also the use of new technical instruments which imparts a different tone altogether. Moreover the lyrics are mostly based on love and friendship. There are many Popular Music Artists in the industry who have achieved the name and the fame and this proved to be an inspiration for the upcoming bands that are eager to create a niche for themselves in the industry.

Since college is the place where one tries to hone the skills so in that way there are many bands that are formed with the help of the friends. My Hero is one such group with many talented artists within the group. The members are very much passionate about music and they always try to make something new so that they can gift it to their fans. Their liking for music developed in their High School when they participated in different talent hunt competitions and they secured second position in few of them. In this way the band which had two or three members in the initial years started participated in different competitions in colleges and especially girl’s college so that they can draw a major portion of the youth crowd. Gradually they became a known face among the college circle and in this way they later moved to public events where they had put up their performance. In the beginning they performed at pubs and restaurants. People liked their performance and praised them and in this way they made their foray into the world of entertainment like the radio which made them a much more common name among the masses.

With the spreading of the internet, it has become very easy to download music whenever and where ever you want to and in this way pop music online USA has become popular in today’s world. My Hero group also has upload their songs in the website and so if you wish to then you can obviously listen to their songs. Their songs are very much unique and they always make it a point to present something new to their audience. The artists are all very much talented and passionate about music. They have won at the Wango Tango concert with Lady Gaga and it was one of the most amazing feelings that they had t the prestigious concert. They have a dream of making their band the most popular band and they will obviously succeed creating a niche for themselves in the music artist band USA. After their initial phase of struggling years all the artists of My HERO Music group have united together to make every show a new one and make the people understand what they are trying to achieve in their genre of music.

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Surf’s Up for Country / Pop Music Artist Tiffany Jo Allen

Surf’s up!
Not a newcomer by far.
One country-rock-pop music artist is making big waves in the music scene ocean!

Music sensation Tiffany Jo Allen has been climbing the hurdles of the crowded business for more that 10 years and keeps on running like a star athlete out for the gold.

Performing on stage since age six she has seen it all. From local fairs to opening major shows for legends like Mel Tillis, and getting her Motown groove on with the forever popular Drifters, Tiffany’s right at home on stage giving it her best.
With three CD’s under her belt, over 100,000 YouTube fans, 30 million views world wide and more than 70 live performances each year there is no stopping this girl from reaching your ears and filling you heart with her songs. Watching country / pop music artist perform gives one an instant understanding of how the power of music can change our lives. Her music reaches us all and crosses over barriers that divide our culture. With a fan base from around the globe commenting every day online the world is in agreement. Tiffany Jo Allen is a rocket ready to launch! TiffanyJoAllen.com

Even in today’s supersaturated market, the level of natural abilities that emanates from this young, destined to be famous songbird, is thoroughly evident. Online comments from fans around the world support the theory that, as a society we recognize when we see people who are special and reward them with admiration and support. These up and coming individuals might be considered stand outs, but most often are people just like you and me who have, by some miracle, found a way to be set free from the ties that bind normality. Tiffany Jo is one country / pop music artist who fits into this theory like a glove.

Now with a full team of professionals on board handling everything from promotions to tour arrangements and more Tiffany will have the tools she needs to go where ever the road take her and it is going to be a long ride!

Brand new, all original songs combined with some of her most viewed cover songs will soon be available on an EP for this fall, but that is just the beginning.

The near future holds a brand new full production album and new videos as well. This new project is rumored to be produce by the well known music industry guru Hugh Norton who spent time as a band member of the famous T-bone Walker, has a degree from The Berklee School of Music and is also one of the countries most respected instrument designers. Look for a full album release in the spring with a new band sporting a country, rock edge and always beautiful and edgy vocals from this bright young country / pop music artist superstar. If things go as planned you will see this hard working beauty on a tour next year without a doubt. I can’t wait! I want my tickets now!

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You probably don’t think of Kanye West as a generous person, and with good reason. His newest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, is the sound of a relentless perfectionist realizing something massive, warped, vicious, and all-encompassing, taking only a few seconds to breathe between his bombastic and gaudy orchestral productions. Leading up to the album, he made headlines not so much for the music he’d been making but for all-caps outbursts on his blog and on Twitter and the public equivalent, outbursts like his rant over Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV VMAs.  

Yet Kanye West spent several months before the realization of his Dark Twisted Fantasy releasing free music online through his GOOD Fridays series, offering teaser singles, B-sides, and other material every Friday from August through the end of January (with a few weeks missed following the album’s release). He used the service first to release a remix of the album’s first single, Power, which added new verses from Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz as well as a detour into C&C Music Factory’s “The Power” in its second half, then premiered “Monster,” “So Appalled,” “Devil in a New Dress,” and several other songs that ended up becoming part of the album. 

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