Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ecoogler - every time you do a search, help save a tree
This is an ecologic searcher that works with Google, the only difference is that with every search you donate a symbolic leaf to plant trees in the Amazon and the rest of the trees in the world. It works just as Google and gives you exactly the same results. Donating a leaf is something symbolic, because each 1.000.000 of leaves represent a donation of trees to the Aquaverde association. These trees will be used to repopulate the Amazons and the forests worldwide. Ecoogler uses Google Custom Search technology.
Ecoogler shows the same results that google.com, so while looking for what you need you will be helping to repopulate the forests.
Ecoogler shows the same results that google.com, so while looking for what you need you will be helping to repopulate the forests.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Declan Galbraith
Declan Galbraith is an English singer of Scottish and Irish origin. He was born in 1991 in Kent and live with his family in Hoo, a village near Rochester, Kent. His grandfather had a band and played several instruments which inspired Declan to become a musician.
His first appearance in public was at the age of 7 which shows that he had this ability since he was a boy. It was soon after this, when he started entering local talent shows and within a year he had won 15 competitions and more than £1000.
Nowadays, Declan Galbraith is known for the control of his voice, as well as his ability to interpret. Moreover, his youth make him more special as there are not many singers of his age able to sing as well as him.
About his personality: he is not shy at all. Many young people (who doesn't know anything about music) says that he sings like a girl but he has never been affected by this type of comments because people who know a minimum of music realised since the first moment they listen to him that he sings like an angel.
Declan loves Elvis Presley and Elton John. All this means one important thing about Declan’s personality which is that he sings many known songs because of his admiration for those singers.
He has done, as I said before, many different versions of famous songs and singers like for example : " Tears in heaven" by Eric Clapton, "Nights in white satin" by The Moody Blues, "An angel" sung by the Kelly Family (one of his favourite songs which was included in his first album "Thank you") and so on.
He has recently started learning to play the piano and guitar, and writing his own songs like "
You and me" which is a bit different from the others because it combines country and gives it a more modern sound and Declan didn't use to sing this kind of music so he was very pleased with this new album.
I think I've written the most important things to know a bit more about Declan Galbraith.
Here you have one of his favourite songs which is wonderful. You will be impressed on the minute 2:43 when he raises his voice with an unbelievable control. If you know a bit about music, you will see it..
Declan Galbraith is not very known in Spain but personally, I think he sings wonderfully and recommend everybody to listen to him.
In this video (and others), Declan shows the way he feels the music which makes us deduce that he is a very sensitive and delicate boy or seems to be.
In my opinion, he is a very good artist who deserves to succeed in his career as a singer but even if doesn’t succeed now, he has a long way ahead because he’s only 16 years so I’m sure he will succeed one day or another.
Here you have the link to go to the lyrics :
http://www.lyricstime.com/declan-galbraith-an-angel-lyrics.html
His first appearance in public was at the age of 7 which shows that he had this ability since he was a boy. It was soon after this, when he started entering local talent shows and within a year he had won 15 competitions and more than £1000.
Nowadays, Declan Galbraith is known for the control of his voice, as well as his ability to interpret. Moreover, his youth make him more special as there are not many singers of his age able to sing as well as him.
About his personality: he is not shy at all. Many young people (who doesn't know anything about music) says that he sings like a girl but he has never been affected by this type of comments because people who know a minimum of music realised since the first moment they listen to him that he sings like an angel.
Declan loves Elvis Presley and Elton John. All this means one important thing about Declan’s personality which is that he sings many known songs because of his admiration for those singers.
He has done, as I said before, many different versions of famous songs and singers like for example : " Tears in heaven" by Eric Clapton, "Nights in white satin" by The Moody Blues, "An angel" sung by the Kelly Family (one of his favourite songs which was included in his first album "Thank you") and so on.
He has recently started learning to play the piano and guitar, and writing his own songs like "
You and me" which is a bit different from the others because it combines country and gives it a more modern sound and Declan didn't use to sing this kind of music so he was very pleased with this new album.I think I've written the most important things to know a bit more about Declan Galbraith.
Here you have one of his favourite songs which is wonderful. You will be impressed on the minute 2:43 when he raises his voice with an unbelievable control. If you know a bit about music, you will see it..
Declan Galbraith is not very known in Spain but personally, I think he sings wonderfully and recommend everybody to listen to him.
In this video (and others), Declan shows the way he feels the music which makes us deduce that he is a very sensitive and delicate boy or seems to be.
In my opinion, he is a very good artist who deserves to succeed in his career as a singer but even if doesn’t succeed now, he has a long way ahead because he’s only 16 years so I’m sure he will succeed one day or another.
Here you have the link to go to the lyrics :
http://www.lyricstime.com/declan-galbraith-an-angel-lyrics.html
The life and music of
Extreme is an american rock band that achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Their influences are easily apparent from their music's multi-part vocal harmonies and electric guitar tone and instrumental techniques. The band lends the listener a sound that blends the genre of glam metal with the shredding guitar work from thrash metal. Being asked about their style, Extreme categorized their music as 'Funky Metal'.
One of his vocalist is Gary Cherone and the guitarist is Nuno Bettencourt. They two began writing songs together and played numerous shows in the Boston area. The begining was pretty difficult for them, but soon they began to be a famous rock group.
Cherone grew up in Malden. He raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Cherone was quiet, creative, and athletic. As a youth he dreamed of a career as a basketball player until he suffered a serious knee injury.In his teenage years Cherone turned to singing in local bands and was heavily influenced by the reigning rock frontmen of the day.
A few years later, Cherone and The Dream appeared on the early MTV program Basement Tapes, a show in which the viewing audience "voted" for one of two competing amateur music videos submitted by unsigned artists.
After several broadcast the group was no longer anonymous.
In 1985 began writing their own material.Although well received by the rock press,the acoustic ballad "More Than Words" inrose up in the early spring of 1991.That ballad is his famous song, and in my opinion is so moving
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The life and music of Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jeane Mortenson was born on the 1st June 1926. Her mother was Gladys Monroe Baker and as she didn't know who was her father she took her mother's surname.
When she was just 6 weeks old she had been adopted by a lot of different families. Bu finally, when she was 7 years old, her mother bought a house and recovered her custody. Unfortunately, one year later Gladys was taken into a psychiatric because of a hereditary mental disease. That's the reason why Norma was again brought up by a different family and soon she was finally taken to an orphanage or children's home.
At the age of 16, she married James E. Dougherty so that she could have a stable family. During her life, she got married and split up several times: the photographer André de Dienes, the director Elia Kazan, the baseball player Joe Di Maggio, the writter Arthur Miller who wrote the script of "The Misfits"...
In 1945 a photographer made a documentary about the work of women during the war. Then, the magazine "yank" asked her to pose and not much later she joined "Blue Book" model Agency. The she dyed her hair to a brighter colour.
In 1953 she appeared on the first cover of the first magazine of Playboy. In 1960 she was awarded with the Globe Award and one year later she was taken to a mental asylum because she had a nervous break down.
Finally, on the 5th August 1962 an ambulance stopped in front of her house at 9 o'clock in the evening and they took out her dead body at 3 o'clock in the morning. Some people say she died of an overdose and other because she was poisoned, but her death is still a mystery.
Here you have a really old video of her most famous song:
As you have already seen the video and that you have found that the lyrics of the song are comprehensible, I'm not going to explain anything about them.
But in the same video we can see how Marilyn wasn't only an actress; she was also a beloved singer. At the same time, this video shows that Marilyn always wore very attractive and really expensive clothes. Therefore, we can understand that she was very worried about her appearance and that she tried to look perfect.
Moreover, that dress she is wearing in the video was sold at an auction in 1999 for 1.26 million dollars, a world record. Because of that special day, we can also deduce that she loved standing in front of people and making them applauds. Possibly, that would have given her the satisfaction she was looking for. That was pretty difficult because of her controversial behaviour, and that's why I'm not going to get deep into this business.
You will also be impressed, but some people have done a lot of pages of her in myspace as you can see in this link below:
http://la.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=240255185
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=451816
As you can read in those two WebPages, Marylyn would have been 81 years if she was alive, but as we all perfectly know, she isn't. So, those 21st century WebPages aren't really hers, that's why there are so many but none of them are authentic.
When she was just 6 weeks old she had been adopted by a lot of different families. Bu finally, when she was 7 years old, her mother bought a house and recovered her custody. Unfortunately, one year later Gladys was taken into a psychiatric because of a hereditary mental disease. That's the reason why Norma was again brought up by a different family and soon she was finally taken to an orphanage or children's home.
At the age of 16, she married James E. Dougherty so that she could have a stable family. During her life, she got married and split up several times: the photographer André de Dienes, the director Elia Kazan, the baseball player Joe Di Maggio, the writter Arthur Miller who wrote the script of "The Misfits"...
In 1945 a photographer made a documentary about the work of women during the war. Then, the magazine "yank" asked her to pose and not much later she joined "Blue Book" model Agency. The she dyed her hair to a brighter colour.
In 1953 she appeared on the first cover of the first magazine of Playboy. In 1960 she was awarded with the Globe Award and one year later she was taken to a mental asylum because she had a nervous break down.
Finally, on the 5th August 1962 an ambulance stopped in front of her house at 9 o'clock in the evening and they took out her dead body at 3 o'clock in the morning. Some people say she died of an overdose and other because she was poisoned, but her death is still a mystery.
Here you have a really old video of her most famous song:
As you have already seen the video and that you have found that the lyrics of the song are comprehensible, I'm not going to explain anything about them.
But in the same video we can see how Marilyn wasn't only an actress; she was also a beloved singer. At the same time, this video shows that Marilyn always wore very attractive and really expensive clothes. Therefore, we can understand that she was very worried about her appearance and that she tried to look perfect.
Moreover, that dress she is wearing in the video was sold at an auction in 1999 for 1.26 million dollars, a world record. Because of that special day, we can also deduce that she loved standing in front of people and making them applauds. Possibly, that would have given her the satisfaction she was looking for. That was pretty difficult because of her controversial behaviour, and that's why I'm not going to get deep into this business.
You will also be impressed, but some people have done a lot of pages of her in myspace as you can see in this link below:
http://la.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=240255185
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=451816
As you can read in those two WebPages, Marylyn would have been 81 years if she was alive, but as we all perfectly know, she isn't. So, those 21st century WebPages aren't really hers, that's why there are so many but none of them are authentic.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
·Pierre Bouvier·
Pierre Bouvier was born in Qebec (9 may 1979). he is very known because he is the lead-singer of a Canadian music group called "Simple Plan".
this band was formed in 1999, by Piere Bouvier, Chuck Comeau, David Desrosiers, Sebastian Lefevre and Jeff Stinco.
Before this band, Pierre played for anothe one, called Reset. that one was only formed by him and Chuck Comeau, who was also a schoolmate.
But they had some problems, and Chuck left the band, so Pierre was alone. Some years after, they meet each other casually, at a rock show, and they decided to form another band, but in this case, with more school friends, such as Sebastian and Jeff. But needed another singer, so they offered David to add to the band, and he accepted.
Nowadays Pierre lives in Qebec, and his wife is Lachelle Farrar and he's now going to be father for first time.
He has four dogs (I don't know their names), and a fish.
He's fauvorite sport is the footbal, but he also like practising basketball, surf or skateboarding.
and he's fauvorite music groups are: good charlotte, blink-182, new found glory, beach boys and BSB.
This is everything I know about this guy. I also would like to say that he's my fauvorite singer, and that his band (simple plan) is my fauvorite band, and twoo weeks ago they gave a concert here in Bilbao, and I was there. It was just unbelievable.
I love them.
this band was formed in 1999, by Piere Bouvier, Chuck Comeau, David Desrosiers, Sebastian Lefevre and Jeff Stinco.
Before this band, Pierre played for anothe one, called Reset. that one was only formed by him and Chuck Comeau, who was also a schoolmate.
But they had some problems, and Chuck left the band, so Pierre was alone. Some years after, they meet each other casually, at a rock show, and they decided to form another band, but in this case, with more school friends, such as Sebastian and Jeff. But needed another singer, so they offered David to add to the band, and he accepted.
Nowadays Pierre lives in Qebec, and his wife is Lachelle Farrar and he's now going to be father for first time.
He has four dogs (I don't know their names), and a fish.
He's fauvorite sport is the footbal, but he also like practising basketball, surf or skateboarding.
and he's fauvorite music groups are: good charlotte, blink-182, new found glory, beach boys and BSB.
This is everything I know about this guy. I also would like to say that he's my fauvorite singer, and that his band (simple plan) is my fauvorite band, and twoo weeks ago they gave a concert here in Bilbao, and I was there. It was just unbelievable.
I love them.
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal was born in Manacor (Mallorca) in 1986. His father is Sebastian Nadal and his mother is Ana Maria Parera. He also has a young sister named Maria Isabel Nadal. When he was only four years old he practised every kind of sport but tennis was the best one he did. When he was only eight years old he won a official championship in Mallorca. This wasn’t possible without the help of his uncle and his personal work. After a lot of successfully victories he began to rise in his career.
First of all, he won against Albert Costa (one of the top ten) and he won also against his best friend: Carlos Moya, of course another one from the top ten. In 2003 he failed in the third round in Wimbledon. In 2004 Nadal was one of the best players in the championships. He won the Davis coup against Andy Roddick from EE.UU. in a difficult game. The same year had won also his first title in Polonia. At the end of the year he won another tile in Master’s championship in Leon city against Fernando Verdasco without losing any set.
In 2005, Rafael Nadal was the revolution in professional competitions. He won against the number one, the best player in the world, Roger Federer. He won also Roland Garros championship and more competitions such as: Master Series, Grand Slam...
In 2006 he couldn't do a good work due to a stress fracture in his left ankle. However, from 2007 to now we have seen one of the youngest and best players in the world. Nowadays, Rafael Nadal is the number two in the ranking of the ATP (Association of professional players).
Rafael Nadal had a wonderful career in the world of tennis but without his personal work and the help of his uncle his dream couldn’t be possible. All people, we can see how he behaved in the court when he is playing a match. He never surrounded and he always fought until the end of the match.
The last competition that has won Rafa Nadal this year is Monte Carlo´s tournament.
Rafael Nadal had a wonderful career in the world of tennis but without his personal work and the help of his uncle his dream couldn’t be possible. All people, we can see how he behaved in the court when he is playing a match. He never surrounded and he always fought until the end of the match.
The last competition that has won Rafa Nadal this year is Monte Carlo´s tournament.
Will.I.Am
William James Adams (better known as Will.I.Am), was born in Los Angeles, California (EE.UU) on the 15th of march in 1975. He is an Jamaican-American hip hop musician, songwriter and founding member and frontman of Black Eyed Peas. The genres that define his style are Hip Hop, Dance, R&B, Pop, Urban and Rap. He plays the trumpet, keyboard and clarinet.
Indeed. will.i.am has helped steer The Black Eyed Peas into one of the most popular groups in music. They have sold 18 million albums worldwide, have won three Grammy awards and have been nominated for 10 total. The group, though, is a partnership amongst four people. “A will.i.am solo album is a different entity. It’s not a Peas record.”
On his own, will.i.am has established himself as one of music’s top producers. He has a recording company called "A.M. Records". He has collaborated on tracks with Justin Timberlake, John Legend, Kelis, Nas, The Game, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Sergio Mendes, Carlos Santana, The Pussycat Dolls, Busta Rhymes and fellow Black Eyed Pea, Fergie.
He is a democrat, actually he has made a song for the elections of the United States with the dialogue of Obama on one of his meetings. Here is the song:
We can see that Will.I.Am is a democrat, with their ideas. They say they want people to choose every single thing, by voting, democracy. We also can see that he wants Obama to be president, so he made this song for that. Actually, we can talk too much about his personality with this song, because all that's said is say by Obama, and even though he supports him, I don't think it's a good idea to talk about his ideologies with this song. Actually, he may have ideas similar to Obama's ones.
Will normally makes songs about girls, so we can suppose that he is a romantic man, or maybe that he likes a lot girls. As well as from his songs, we can suppose other things by reading some sentences said by him, such as, “I didn’t want to come out and say, ‘Hey, I’m a producer and here are all my friends,’” he explains. “I wanted to be my own man and do my own thing and really try out some ideas that have been bubbling in my head.” We can suppose that he is not a show off person, nevertheless he is very bull-headed, when he wants to do something he tries to do it without help.
Here are the lyrics of a famous song of him: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/william/igotitfrommymama.html
Indeed. will.i.am has helped steer The Black Eyed Peas into one of the most popular groups in music. They have sold 18 million albums worldwide, have won three Grammy awards and have been nominated for 10 total. The group, though, is a partnership amongst four people. “A will.i.am solo album is a different entity. It’s not a Peas record.”
On his own, will.i.am has established himself as one of music’s top producers. He has a recording company called "A.M. Records". He has collaborated on tracks with Justin Timberlake, John Legend, Kelis, Nas, The Game, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Sergio Mendes, Carlos Santana, The Pussycat Dolls, Busta Rhymes and fellow Black Eyed Pea, Fergie.
He is a democrat, actually he has made a song for the elections of the United States with the dialogue of Obama on one of his meetings. Here is the song:
We can see that Will.I.Am is a democrat, with their ideas. They say they want people to choose every single thing, by voting, democracy. We also can see that he wants Obama to be president, so he made this song for that. Actually, we can talk too much about his personality with this song, because all that's said is say by Obama, and even though he supports him, I don't think it's a good idea to talk about his ideologies with this song. Actually, he may have ideas similar to Obama's ones.
Will normally makes songs about girls, so we can suppose that he is a romantic man, or maybe that he likes a lot girls. As well as from his songs, we can suppose other things by reading some sentences said by him, such as, “I didn’t want to come out and say, ‘Hey, I’m a producer and here are all my friends,’” he explains. “I wanted to be my own man and do my own thing and really try out some ideas that have been bubbling in my head.” We can suppose that he is not a show off person, nevertheless he is very bull-headed, when he wants to do something he tries to do it without help.
Here are the lyrics of a famous song of him: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/william/igotitfrommymama.html
*RiHaNNa*
Rihanna was born in Barbados. Until she went to Combermere school she didn't start to study music lessons.
At the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producers.
Rihanna's debut album, Music of the Sun, was released August 30, 2005. And then she has continued working very hard on other albums like "A girl like me" or the last one calls,"Good girl gone bad".
She has won some awards like "MTV music awards", "world music awards" or "teen choice awards"
She has also some future projects which aren't related with music.
She is considered by many artists, one of the best pop singer of the moment.
Rihanna has temped up with H&M and other celebrities like Justin Timberlake, and Good Charlotte for "Fashion against AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)" . This collection will be available at H&M in early February in 2008.
She has also participated in some other tours with another singers like Pussycat Dolls, Black eyed Peas, and Neyo.
These are some of her new songs:
Umbrella
Unfaithful
I hate i love you
Rehab
We ride
At her beginnings she wasn't too popular but as she started to do some concerts everybody saw that she was a very nice and beautiful girl, who likes to be honest with everybody. She has always tried to satisfy all her fans giving them all her love and singing as well as she can. Her songs talk about when your boyfriend cheats you by going with another girl who is nicer than you, the first love, or about when you break up with your boy or girl friend because she or he is a bad tempered and cold person , all of them talk about those kind of things.
The song that i have chosen show as that she is a little promiscuous but at the same time she doesn't want to hurt him although her boy friend knows that she is unfaithful.
The life and music of SimplePlan [*]
Simple Plan began in 1995 with the formation of a band named Reset by friends Pierre Bouvier, Charles-André "Chuck" Comeau, Philippe Jolicoeur, and Adrian White.
Two years later he met with high school friends Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre who were in separate bands of their own, and combined to create the band. At those very moment, Reset was releasing a second CD, No Limits.
The origin of the band's name is obscure. Band members have given various responses on this point, including a liking for the movie A Simple Plan; that the band was their simple plan to avoid getting a "real" job; and that the name was only intended to be temporary, but they never thought of anything better, and with shows coming up for the new band, they needed a name.
In 2002, Simple Plan released their first studio album, No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls which led to the singles, "I'm Just a Kid", "I'd Do Anything", "Addicted", and "Perfect".
In 2004, Simple Plan released their second studio album, Still Not Getting Any... which led to the singles, "Welcome to My Life", "Shut Up!", "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)", "Crazy", and "Perfect World".
In 2006, they published a new album with the best songs of their music career and, right now, they're releasing their last studio album, SIMPLE PLAN and so they gave some concerts around Spain. They were three and one of them was in Bilbao, I went to that concert and it was amazing!!!! I've never enjoyed myself as much as I did!
Definitely, Simple Plan is one of the best groups ever and so, they've won lots of prizes all over the world as the Teen Choice Awards for the best rock group in 2005.
At their beginning, Simple Plan was a chaotic rock group but, nowadays, they're good musicians who make lyrics expressing all their feelings and and so, young people love them and feel identified with everything they say.
Their songs talk about everything you can imagine: love, lies, friends, society... But this one specially talks about how you try to do everything as well as you can and, suddenly, an unplanned moment or accident breaks your world and your life without caring about what you think and brings you down to a place where you can't do anything and where you sometimes think that all those problems that your family or friends have are because of you, like they were your fault.
Personally, when I listen to this song I remember all those bad moments I have had during my life but I also remember that I've grown up thanks to them and that every bad day has its sunny morning the day after. It's a song that makes you think about everything you have done or not and says, in some way, that you don't have to feel culpable of a problem if you couldn't done anything to solve it.
Two years later he met with high school friends Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre who were in separate bands of their own, and combined to create the band. At those very moment, Reset was releasing a second CD, No Limits.
The origin of the band's name is obscure. Band members have given various responses on this point, including a liking for the movie A Simple Plan; that the band was their simple plan to avoid getting a "real" job; and that the name was only intended to be temporary, but they never thought of anything better, and with shows coming up for the new band, they needed a name.
In 2002, Simple Plan released their first studio album, No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls which led to the singles, "I'm Just a Kid", "I'd Do Anything", "Addicted", and "Perfect".
In 2004, Simple Plan released their second studio album, Still Not Getting Any... which led to the singles, "Welcome to My Life", "Shut Up!", "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)", "Crazy", and "Perfect World".
In 2006, they published a new album with the best songs of their music career and, right now, they're releasing their last studio album, SIMPLE PLAN and so they gave some concerts around Spain. They were three and one of them was in Bilbao, I went to that concert and it was amazing!!!! I've never enjoyed myself as much as I did!
Definitely, Simple Plan is one of the best groups ever and so, they've won lots of prizes all over the world as the Teen Choice Awards for the best rock group in 2005.
At their beginning, Simple Plan was a chaotic rock group but, nowadays, they're good musicians who make lyrics expressing all their feelings and and so, young people love them and feel identified with everything they say.
Their songs talk about everything you can imagine: love, lies, friends, society... But this one specially talks about how you try to do everything as well as you can and, suddenly, an unplanned moment or accident breaks your world and your life without caring about what you think and brings you down to a place where you can't do anything and where you sometimes think that all those problems that your family or friends have are because of you, like they were your fault.
Personally, when I listen to this song I remember all those bad moments I have had during my life but I also remember that I've grown up thanks to them and that every bad day has its sunny morning the day after. It's a song that makes you think about everything you have done or not and says, in some way, that you don't have to feel culpable of a problem if you couldn't done anything to solve it.
The life and the music of Shakira
Shakira's complete name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll. She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia the 2nd of February in 1977. She wrote her first poem "La Rosa Negra" when she only was 4 years old.
Style
Shakira has told many interviewers that she had grown up listening to oriental music, which influenced many of her earlier works. Shakira is known to be a fan of rock music, especially those of The Police, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.
Shakira is known to have adopted many genres, including folk, mainstream pop and rock. Her earlier Spanish albums, including Pies Descalzos and Donde Estan Los Ladrones were a mix of folk music and Latin rock, while her cross-over English album, Laundry Service and her later albums were influenced by pop and rock.
Shakira is recognized for her powerful, melismatic voice. Her 1999 MTV Unplugged performance in New York was critically acclaimed by many American critics and is said to have paved her path towards the English markets.
Shakira is known to write and produce all of her music. She has been recognised as "an incredible and powerful songwriter" and "a remarkable producer" by numerous critics. She is a self professed perfectionist.
Shakira is influenced greatly by her Arabic roots. This urged for the release of Ojos Asi. Shakira is also very influenced by Rock, such as AC/DC, and this resulted in her performance of "Back in Black" in her Tour of the Mongoose.
Shakira has told many interviewers that she had grown up listening to oriental music, which influenced many of her earlier works. Shakira is known to be a fan of rock music, especially those of The Police, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.
Shakira is known to have adopted many genres, including folk, mainstream pop and rock. Her earlier Spanish albums, including Pies Descalzos and Donde Estan Los Ladrones were a mix of folk music and Latin rock, while her cross-over English album, Laundry Service and her later albums were influenced by pop and rock.
Shakira is recognized for her powerful, melismatic voice. Her 1999 MTV Unplugged performance in New York was critically acclaimed by many American critics and is said to have paved her path towards the English markets.
Shakira is known to write and produce all of her music. She has been recognised as "an incredible and powerful songwriter" and "a remarkable producer" by numerous critics. She is a self professed perfectionist.
Shakira is influenced greatly by her Arabic roots. This urged for the release of Ojos Asi. Shakira is also very influenced by Rock, such as AC/DC, and this resulted in her performance of "Back in Black" in her Tour of the Mongoose.
Shakira appeared in the Colombian soap-opera El Oasis in 1994, playing the character of Luisa Maria. She has also done a few voices on TV shows and has been acting on some, too.
Shakira is well known for her dancing in various music videos and in concert. Her moves are based on the art of Arabic belly dancing, a part of her Lebanese heritage (her father is Lebanese). She knows the power of her feet and often performs barefoot. Shakira says she learned this form of dance as a young teen to overcome her shyness. She also mentioned in a MTV interview that she learned how to belly dance by trying to flip a coin with her belly.
Task: The life and music of ...
- Choose a singer or member of a music group
- Check out if s/he is on myspace
- See what information is available on him/her on wikipedia
- Use the information you’ve found to write about what you consider is important in his/her life and help to make up his/her sense of identity
- Look for a video of one of his/her songs on youtube
- Copy the code you will see displayed in the Embed box (to the right of the video on the youtube page) and then create a new post on the class blog
- Give your post a title, click on the Edit HTML tab and paste the code you copied from youtube into your post
- Click on the Compose tab and now write about what you think the song and the video reveal about your chosen singer/musician’s personality
- Do a Google search for the lyrics of the song
- Make a link to the lyrics in your post by clicking on the link symbol in the toolbar of your post and pasting there the URL (address) of the web page you found
- Revise carefully what you’ve written before publishing your post and run a spell-check on it
- Next, write a comment on your classmates’ postings: say what you find interesting about the lives and music of the singers/musicians they chose.
- If you found any of the lyrics difficult to follow, say where you had problems
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