(Vocals, songwriter, b. 1965) Twain’s 1993 self-titled debut album little suggested the success that lay ahead. Record producer Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange was an early supporter, and the two married six months after their first meeting. Massive sales followed, as her music was embraced by pop and she became more a pop diva than a Nashville country ...
(Vocals, b. 1965) Canadian Twain (real name Eilleen Regina Edwards) really was born dirt-poor and thus was ideally placed to become a country star. Her first two albums were typically slick affairs with singles like ‘Any Man Of Mine’ crossing with ease into the US pop charts. With Come On Over (1997) she broke worldwide, scoring monster singles like ...
Country music has been euphemistically called ‘white man’s blues’ or ‘the poetry of the common man’. While both descriptions have elements of truth, neither is quite accurate. It is, in fact, a broad, nebulous, over-reaching category with no exact boundaries or parameters. Over the decades country music has grown to encompass a greatly varied assortment of ...
‘I Hope You Dance’, 2001 Despite having recorded since 1997, and continuing to record as a country artist today, duetting with the likes of Willie Nelson, Womack will for ever be associated with country-pop hit, ‘I Hope You Dance’, and the album of the same name. A dedication to her daughters, both the song and album ...
(Vocals, guitar, b. 1963) James Travis Tritt burst on to the country-music scene in 1989 with a Top 10 single, ‘Country Club’. Utilizing strains of southern rock and expressing emotions of everyday people, he gained an audience with such singles as 1991’s ‘Here’s A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)’, his second chart-topper, ‘Anymore’, and ‘The Whiskey ...
(Rapper, 1971–96) New York-born rapper who has assumed near sainthood since his murder in 1996. Debut 2Pacalypse (1991) revealed talent, with Shakur mixing normal male bravado with more lyrical insight than his peers. Along with a successful acting career, he lived out the bad boy image – being shot, found guilty of assault – and was in ...
1813–83, German If – to quote Mark Twain – Wagner’s music ‘is not as bad as it sounds’, then the composer’s life was by no means as turpitudinous as it is generally claimed to be. Idolized by his friends and supporters as a family man who was kind to animals and plagued by self-doubts, he was demonized by his ...
(Vocals, songwriter, 1936–92) Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Roger Dean Miller wrote and recorded a string of brilliant novelty hits that earned him 11 Grammy Awards, as well as country and pop stardom during the 1960s. Chief among his self-penned songs are ‘Dang Me’, ‘Chug-A-Lug’ – both hits in 1964 – ‘King Of The Road’ and ...
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