Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is a quite simply, a global superstar. She is a ten-time GRAMMY winner, the youngest recipient in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year and she is the only female in the history of The Grammy's to win Album of the Year, twice. Taylor is the only artist in history to have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure three times (2010’s Speak Now, 2012’s RED and 2014’s 1989). She’s a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres, and a savvy businesswoman who has built a childhood dream into an empire.

But the numbers don’t tell Taylor's story half as well as she could. After all, it’s the intangibles that elevate Swift into the stratosphere of our pop culture planet, allowing the 25-year old singer-songwriter to orbit in a
more rarified air. Her large-scale charitable contributions are one thing, but it’s in the small gestures – the notes of compassion she posts on the Instagram photos of lovelorn fans, the genuine hugs she distributes without discretion – where Swift proves time and time again that platinum-selling, record-setting success has not changed her inherent nature. She is awkwardly honest and powerfully empathetic; a brazen superfan, loyal friend, fierce protector of hearts; and one of the world’s greatest ambassadors for the power of just being yourself


Granted, for Taylor, “being herself” tends towards shimmering, gossamer perfection – but that’s an image regularly blown whenever she dons fake braces and a tri-pony to clown around on late night TV. She’s the first artist since the Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more weeks at No. 1 with three consecutive studio albums. And while she’s been named Billboard Magazine’s Woman of the Year (the only artist to receive this nod twice, and their youngest-ever honoree), one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, and one of only eight candidates for Time's most prestigious honor, Person of the Year, in 2014, she’s probably the only person on those lists who uses social media to post notes to her best friends and videos of her cats.


In the fall of 2014, when Taylor released her critically acclaimed fifth album, 1989, she astounded the world by selling almost 1.3 million albums in its debut week -- a feat that had been called impossible. She calls 1989 her most cohesive collection of confessionals yet. It is a touchstone: Taylor's songwriting and sonic evolution surprise us more than ever before. Heavily keyboard- and beat-driven, on 1989, the pop sensibilities that have always been the hallmark of Taylor’s music now move front and center. And throughout the album’s release and the record-breaking world tour that followed, she found herself, as always, in the glare of a blinding spotlight -- but if you think that scares her, you haven’t been paying attention. She’s blazing into the next phase of her still-young career, where she’ll continue to dance like no one’s watching, write like she stole our collective diary, and inevitably soar to ever-greater heights. All that’s left to wonder is how many more lives she’ll lift in the process

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Daniel Balavoine

Daniel Balavoine was born on 5th February 1952, in Alençon (Orne) at the option of a mutation from his father, charged to rebuild the country after the war.
At the age of 16, he participated in the events of May 68. He dreamed of being a member, who, discovers that the revolutionaries are only spectacle of men, and gives up to school. At the same time, one of his brothers torn between guitar and medicine. This will be medicine, and Daniel then retrieves the guitar. Then, to escape boarding school, he announces that he wants to become a priest.

Then he starts in groups of Pier Canto, such as Shake or Awakening, and has a small reputation in the Southwest.
In 1971 truly begins his career. Through word of mouth, he was contacted by Eric St. Laurent, singer Presence group to report to Paris to integrate the group. In addition Balavoine, Laurent Voulzy is convened. This will ultimately Balavoine that will incorporate the group and record a 45s, sold 241 copies. The Presence band split.While he remains in Paris, Balavoine deepens a singer and passes various hearings. In 1973, he recorded three titles and unpublished until 1986, and landed a small role in the musical "The French Revolution" by his brother. Therefore, it is noticed by Aboulker Florence, wife of Patrick Juvet and became vocalist for it during his visit to Olympia. Soon, Juvet and him became friends and wrote him Balavoine 4 tracks for his album Chrysalis, while Juvet leave the store Autumn colors.
His unusual voice was noticed by Leo Missir, director at Barclay, who had him sign an entirely new contract for a beginner is to say an album a year, with the musicians chosen by Balavoine, in absolute artistic freedom. We are then in 1975, and then came out first Lp Balavoine: From you to her through me
This album will be a commercial failure. Balavoine tells stories of love, and the last song Mona Lisa, is a collection of four songs, one of which, "She was mending my socks" is dedicated to Florence Aboulker. In one of his interviews, Balavoine said: It was a bit light album, I see it myself. It is nice but nothing more. My personality was not very precise, even my voice was different. I had not done my molt, perhaps, and in addition the subjects had little or no interest since it only spoke of me and my girlfriends, which is not really exciting. This sometimes I do listen to those who want to laugh.
Also in 1975 he founded with his brother Guy SA Group ring and pulls out a 45s titled Vienna rain

also found in From you to her through me a song for Catherine Ferry, his then-girlfriend, he will accompany in 1976 at the Eurovision (It will rank second). The title had a little success and a tour of the countries of the East began then, including Germany, then split by the Berlin Wall. This Balavoine inspiration for her second album, entitled The Adventures of Simon and Gunther Stein ...

So this is the story of two brothers, Simon and Gunther, who planned to be August 13, 1961. In the night the Berlin Wall was built. Simon then plans to escape in the company of Axel, a childhood friend, but did not survive. The last song "My music is my dialect" no longer relates the story of two brothers, but is a "pique" of Balavoine to the Anglo-Saxon music, considered superior.
This disc is what is politely called a critical success. However, during a TV pass, Michel Berger noted Balavoine performing "Lady Marlène". Therefore, he was chosen to play the role of Johnny Rockfort in the rock opera Starmania I am A second 45 turns out,
However, Balavoine has not experienced real success. Eddie Barclay does not believe in him. The next album is the last chance. He says if I do not sell 30,000 I Quit!
The rest we know. The third album Balavoine, Singer is a success.

The title tells the dream of glory and obsolescence of a singer initially idolized and considered a nobody.
The disc the singer released the same day as Starmania. A radio is Balavoine everywhere. A second extract of Singer is drawn 45s, this is Lucia, where we find in the now legendary B Face Sos of a land in distress, written especially for Balavoine.

1979 arrives and the fourth album Balavoine, entitled Face love bitter face

The cover plays on the contrast, since you can see back that Balavoine is not a top of a mountain, but on a mound of snow. Compared to the success of the singer, this album may appear disappointing. Do not leave me to go away does not work as much.

However, on 19 March 1980 Balavoine will be known for something other than music. This is that day, when invited on the set of the 13 hours of Antenne 2, he will speak and express their feeling about the policy before François Mitterrand, not President of the Republic. Immediately the news stands as Spokesperson for Youth.

Another experiment, Balavoine Bo made the film of Jolivet brothers So happy? and holds his first film role, namely homosexual stretcher bearer.

At the end of the year released the album Another World

Will be extracted from this album dedicated, among other Coluche (The first supports the candidacy of the second) securities My son my battle, life teaches me nothing, Lipstick Polychrome and a title originally written for a small beginning, namely Johnny Hallyday, titled I'm not a hero.
Passage while at the Olympia (He had done the previous year's expense) which will extract a live.

Second cinema excursion in the film What makes crack girls? and in April 1982 released his sixth studio album Sellers tears.

Finally ... An album Lp plus a maxi 45 tours consist of tears Sellers. First single, Live or survive. The second is the one that gives its title to the album, while the third Raises me is a declaration of love to a prostitute.
This album will receive the Diamond Award for French Song (Les Victoires de la Musique did not exist yet) and Balavoine occurs at the Sports Palace, with competitors, Simon and Garfunkel and the Rolling Stones.

At the end of 1982, Daniel prepares the Paris-Dakar. Bad pick, his car breaks down in the first Algerian stage, and also for the assistance truck. However, it continues as an independent candidate and explores Africa.
He also participated in the musical for children Abbacadabra where he plays the role of Prince Charming. Finally, between 10 and 28 October, he volunteers with the station 95.2 FM, where he signed daily tickets, ended each time with "Just be against all that shit in it!"

On October 23, he was invited in September to September, where we retain only the sentence "Fuck veterans." Balavoine nevertheless argues that we must fight against the current wars during the commemorations. The standard of the show explodes, only Gainsbourg will do better with the famous case of the 500-franc note. Two weeks later, on the Champs Elysees tray, he apologizes to the reactions of veterans.

Amid this turmoil released her album Far from the eyes of the West.

This album is marked by his African adventure, the topics are more serious: The Women in For the widow who wakes up the dictatorship in Argentina in Revolucion, in the middle of football Supporter, torture with Strike with your head his own death in Leaving before mine or drugs with fish in the cage.

Balavoine toured the following year, where some of his performances are canceled following the events of veterans. He returns to the Sports and released a second live album.

During the summer, it becomes Papa. On this occasion, a fate 45s, God it's beautiful.

Start 85, he began his second Paris-Dakar with Jean-Luc Roy. The team will rank thirtieth overall. This then implies School in Action, the collective of singers without borders and established together with Thierry Sabine an operation to provide water pumps in Africa. October 16 comes Saving Love, recorded using the most advanced techniques, including Fairlight, he is the first to be used in France.

The first single is the greatest success of Balavoine. This is L'Aziza, dedicated to Corinne, his wife of Moroccan origin. In this song, he received the SOS Racisme. Mid December, he participated in the launch of Eating Heart of Europe 1.
For his third Paris-Dakar, it is not participating in the race but monitors the flow of water pumps in the framework of the Paris-Dakar operation Bet of the Heart he leads with Thierry Sabine.
January 14, Thierry Sabine offers his first flight in a helicopter. The squirrel is caught in a sandstorm. He pauses, then for some unexplained reason, goes off again and hit a dune. There are no survivors.


The Association


Balavoine died, but her continued action. In March 1986
Daniel Balavoine Association was created. The important thing is not to give, but to make it known, that he did not die for nothing.

And if we were wrong, if it was not just a matter of heart and ideals, but also a matter of intelligence and realism.
So we would be talking about more than the fight against hunger in the world but the end of the insane world.
Do charity randomly, it is useless. If it is to feel good. That's why today I commit myself in Action School. Because it is a profoundly different action. Political and economic act. And because it's good to feel involved in speaking true. If I do, it is also able to ask others to engage with me.
And it is a philosophical act. Moral. Avoid foods that arrive in Africa in the form of soup. We must preserve the dignity of people. It is not there a singer of heroic crusade, but a personal motivation. No charity, but of necessity. And maybe just realism. It is to fight against this inhuman world. Not necessarily by kindness or by heart, but, perhaps stupidly for himself. Because in man in 1986 still die of hunger is an insult to himself and to all humanity.
What I want to say to children is "It's acting!" And regardless of the reasons why to do it. At least, their motives will be true and honest. We must sweep habits. It is useless to appall, to protest in vain, whining. "The school in war against hunger" is much more than that. Much harder. At least that is how I feel. No bluff or tears. You have to see things as they are. Even if they disturb. Adults do not see, do not always understand this. So I appeal to children to help them understand. There is no question of seeking or solicitation but action. A handover between them, us and the world. Everybody. The important step in a long struggle.
For such an action would not consider failure a second. But if, unfortunately, it was a failure, then it would be shame. A shame so violent that we should burn as the sun burns the desert.

Daniel Balavoine

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Édith Piaf

 Édith Piaf was a France's greatest popular singer, songwriter and actress who born on 19th December 1915, in Belleville, Paris, France. Edith Piaf is the singer of love, sorrow and music. Piaf spent her youth entertaining passers-by, receiving little formal education in the process. She often accompanied her father's acrobat street act with her singing and at various times was forced to live with various relatives, in alleys or in cheap hotels.

Her fortunes finally changed when an impresario, Louis Leplee, mesmerized by what he heard, offered the starving but talented urchin a contract. He alone was responsible for taking her off the streets at age 20 and changing her name from Edith Gassion to "La Mome Piaf" (or "Kid Sparrow").







Piaf grew in status entertaining in elegant cafés and cabarets and became a singing sensation amid the chic French society with her throbbing vocals and raw, emotional power. From 1936 Piaf recorded many albums and eventually became one of the highest paid stars in the world. She was first embroiled in scandal when her mentor, Leplee, was murdered and she was held for questioning. She managed to survive the messy affair and carry on while her ever-growing society circle now began to include such elite members as writer/director Jean Cocteau. Piaf also took to writing and composing around this time; one of the over 80 songs she wrote included her signature standard, "La vie en rose." Although she appeared sporadically in films, it was live audiences that sustained her.

Édith Piaf and Sarapo sang together at the Bobino in early 1963, and Piaf also made her final recording, "L'Homme de Berlin." Not long afterward, Piaf slipped into a coma, brought on by cancer. Sarapo and Simone Berteaut took Piaf to her villa in Plascassier, on the French Riviera, to nurse her. She drifted in and out of consciousness for months before passing away on October 11, 1963 -- the same day as legendary writer/filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Her body was taken back to Paris in secret, so that fans could believe she died in her hometown. The news of her death caused a nationwide outpouring of grief, and tens of thousands of fans jammed the streets of Paris, stopping traffic to watch her funeral procession. Her towering stature in French popular music has hardly diminished in the years since; her grave at Père-Lachaise remains one of the famed cemetery's most visited, and her songs continue to be covered by countless classic-style pop artists, both French and otherwise.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams is a  famous candian rock singer and songwriter. Adams was born to Capt. Conrad J. Adams and Elizabeth Jane , on 5 November 1959, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He gets popularity from  his third album,  Cuts Like a Knife, released in 1983  . The album made him popular throughout the United States. However, it was his fourth album "Reckless", which is referred to as one of the best albums of the 1980s that made him an international superstar and gave him his first Grammy nomination. It also sold four million copies at the time. In 1987, he released "Into the Fire", a more social conscious album. The album yielded a top ten hit "Heat of the Night", another Grammy nomination and another platinum album to his name. However, in 1991, he released the album "Waking Up the Neighbours" which included the single "(Everything I Do) I Do
It For You". The song sold more than three million copies in the United States, becoming the second best selling single, second only to "We Are The World".

In 1983, he won the ‘Juno Awards’ as the ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ and the following year, he won several ‘Juno Awards’ for the ‘Album of the Year’, ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’, ‘Composer of the Year’ and ‘Producer of the Year’.  ‘Juno Award’ for ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ for 1985 was won by Bryan Adams. The same year, he co-shared the ‘Juno Award’ for ‘Composer of the Year’ with Jim Vallance.
In 1986, he was awarded with the ‘MTV Video Music Awards’ in the ‘Best Stage Performance Video’ for ‘It’s Only Love’. He also won the ‘Juno Awards’ for the ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’. And in 1987, he was a recipient of the ‘Juno Award’ for the ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ and ‘Canadian Entertainer of the Year’.

In 1992, he received a ‘Grammy Award’ in the ‘Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television’ category. The same year, he also won the ‘Billboard Music Award’ for ‘No. 1 World Single’. The following year, he won the ‘Juno Award for International Achievement’. On the same year, he also won the ‘Juno Award’ in categories such as ‘Canadian Entertainer of the Year’, ‘Producer of the Year’ and ‘International Achievement Award’. He was included in the ‘Canada's Walk of Fame’ in the year 1998, and around six years later, he was included in the ‘Canadian Music Hall of Fame’ also.

In 1993, he also won the ‘Juno Award’ for the ‘Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic)’ for his album ‘Waking Up the Neighbours’. He received the ‘Juno Award’ as the ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ in the year 1997. And in 1999, he was awarded with the ‘Juno Award’ in the ‘Best Songwriter’ category. The following year, he won this award in the ‘Best Male Artist’ category.
In 2010, he was awarded with the ‘Allan Waters Humanitarian Award’ for his contributions to charitable causes. The same year, he was honoured with the ‘Governor General's Performing Arts Award’ owing to his years long involvement in the world of arts. The following year, he was included in the ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’.

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Alanis Morissette

With sales of over 60 million albums worldwide, Alanis Morissette is one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise, 14 Canadian Juno Awards, 7 Grammy® Awards (with an additional 14 nominations), a Golden Globe nomination, and in 2015, was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Alanis has acted on the big and small screen with roles in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Dogma,” “Sex and the City,” “Weeds,” “Up All Night,” and has appeared as a celebrity guest mentor on “The Voice.”

Outside of entertainment, Alanis is a dedicated advocate of female empowerment, spiritual, psychological, and physical wellness, and the advancement of children’s education. She contributes her writing to a variety of forums (most recently her weekly column in one of the world’s leading news outlets The Guardian), leads workshops, and participates in keynote speaking engagements worldwide, including at learning institutions such as UCLA, Omega Institute, Miraval, and Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Alanis has shared the stage with some of today’s great thinkers and change agents, including Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington, Eckhart Tolle, Ken Wilber, Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, among others.

Her podcast, Conversation with Alanis Morissette, features conversations with different highly reputable teachers, authors and leaders from different philosophies and of varied psychological, spiritual, neurobiological, and developmental models and backgrounds, all with an eye toward healing and wholeness and recovery. Some of her guests have included Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr’s Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Dr. Stan Tatkin, Dr. Margaret Paul and Katherine Woodward Thomas. Through her editorial website at Alanis.com, Alanis explores relationships, health and wellness, art, spirituality and the feminine movement as well as offering a variety of resources and recommendations. Her website features personally written pieces by Alanis, as well as those by expert guest bloggers, including Cheryl Richardson., Dr. Joel Furman, Dr. Wendy Maltz, and Susan Stiffelman, among others.

As an independent scholar, Alanis has developed her own learning models and practices, integrating and distilling her research, knowledge, and experience into teachings that combine her erudite and passionate insights with profound empathy. With an eye toward functionality and well-being (on social, relational, spiritual and personal levels), Alanis merges academic and psychological studies with the self-work of personal and spiritual development. Her primary areas of study include the Internal Family Systems Model of parts work; addiction and codependence recovery; the Somatic Experiencing model of trauma recovery; shadow work; developmental psychology, attachment theory and attachment parenting; the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) temperament trait as a style of sensory processing; and clinical certification in Imago Therapy, among many other systems. Facilitated through her writing, teaching, keynote speaking, music and art, Alanis’s work to support others in their healing and re-establishing agency in themselves is born of a lifelong desire to support the alleviation of suffering in those around her.

As an activist, Alanis was awarded a UN Global-Tolerance award. She donates her time to causes that help raise awareness and funding on a number of issues, including Equality Now, Music for Relief, the “Every Mother Counts” CD, and P.S. Arts in California. Alanis has been a public advocate for attachment parenting, home or natural childbirth, breastfeeding and its benefits and challenges for mothers across the world.

In addition to music and teaching, Alanis is working on her first book, which will be released in late 2016.

For more information please visit www.alanis.com.

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Baby ( Justin Bieber Famous Song )

Famous video song by Justin Bieber ( performing Baby feat. Ludacris ) 

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Madi Diaz, the Indie Pop Artist Who Loves Prog, Korn and Stoner Metal

Electronic pop musician Madi Diaz brings her latest album, last year's Phantom, to the east coast this week for a set of shows in Boston, New York, Connecticut and Philadelphia. Phantom was unanimously labeled a "break-up album" upon its release, but Diaz explained to us why there's more going on than that, how she's learned to focus better onstage and the two very, very different musical acts she would listen to while biking in Boston.




Q : When the album came out, it was almost universally labeled as a "break-up album." Did that feel narrow to you?

Madi Diaz: I think it’s a bit pigeonholed, but people like to grab onto a story. In writing the record, I had my own story that I was grabbing onto and holding onto, and it made the writing come through more, so I understand why people would call it a break-up record, and it definitely is a break-up record, but I think that the songs speak more than that, and they move beyond that.


Q : And it seems to come more from a place of strength than vulnerability.

Diaz: Definitely, that’s my intention with my writing, trying to push myself and my writing to pull me beyond thinking about just that specific story, thinking about emotions and speaking to the dramatics of it, I try not to. I made myself stronger in that process, so I was lucky.



Q : Getting used to being onstage can be a really difficult thing for some musicians. How has that comfortability grown for you
Diaz: I think that’s the rad thing about performing. Obviously I’ve gotten better at it and more comfortable with it over the years, but it’s always a little bit uncomfortable, always a bit vulnerable, and pushing and pulling with that confidence and that strength, that is what makes performing so interesting, it’s a big psychological obstacle course every time.

I think I know how to ground myself better than I ever have before, I think there are ways that I use to keep myself in the moment onstage as opposed to standing onstage and wondering what that guy’s doing over there, what’s that over there, and if I get caught up in that I don’t get caught up in the energy and I take myself off of the stage while I’m onstage, so there’s definitely differences that I’ve learned to put myself out there more onstage.

Q : You've mentioned an affinity for Tool singer Maynard Keenan, and they're a band you don't have much in common with musically. What are some other artists you admire outside of your style?

Diaz: I’m into a lot of different stuff, I grew up on the Beastie Boys and Madonna and the Talking Heads and Frank Zappa. I don’t have the patience to write prog music, it makes me totally crazy, but I love listening to Close to the Edge and Fragile, Fragile is an amazing record, or Frank Zappa, Joe’s Garage, that’s one of my favorite records in that genre.

Or King Crimson, I’m a big King Crimson fan. I love how Robert Fripp plays in a shroud of darkness, he’s always in the back. I saw him in 2006 or 2007 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, and it was just so rad. He’s always next to a giant rack of gear, a nine-foot tall rack of effects and pedals all around him, like a spaceship but not a put together spaceship, a spaceship that’s falling apart around him, and he’s figuring out how to put it back together, pushing all the pedals, and he never gets the spotlight, he’s never in the light, just behind everybody else.

I love this band Bongzilla, they’re this stoner metal band, they play so deep, like drop C. They’re awesome, I used to ride my bike around Boston listening to Bongzilla and Three 6 Mafia, those were my two bike-riding jams. They just put you in the total zone while cars are flying by you, you’re tranquil.

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