Lester Chambers (Mississippi, April 13, 1940) is an American recording artist, and member and lead singer of the 1960s soul rock group The Chambers Brothers, who had the hit single, "Time Has Come Today".
As a member of the Chambers Brothers, he sang lead on the Chambers Brothers songs "All Strung Out Over You", "People Get Ready", "Uptown", "I Can't Turn You Loose", and "Funky".
As a solo artist he released singles and albums and teamed up with ex-Electric Flag bassist Harvey Brooks to form the Lester Chambers Harvey Brooks Band. He also added vocals to Bonnie Raitt's 1977 Sweet Forgiveness album.
In March 2011, Lester Chambers was inducted into the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame.
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Aos onze anos, mudou-se com a família para a cidade de Rochdale, na Grande Manchester. A música sempre esteve presente em sua vida, sua mãe sempre colocava para as três filhas discos de Diana Ross, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye e Barry White. Desde pequena, Lisa costumava cantar pela casa.
A primeira experiência com um público não familiar foi aos catorze anos, quando participou de um concurso de talentos numa TV local, que ganhou na categoria cantora. Aos dezassete anos, formou a primeira banda, Blue Zone, com os colegas de escola Andy Morris e Ian Devaney. Eles compuseram algumas canções e gravaram uma demo para levar nas gravadoras da região.
A Rockin’ Horse Records, um selo pequeno de música indie, gostou e gravou o single "On Fire", mas um acidente queimou os discos e eles voltaram ao estúdio para gravar outro single, "Thinking About This Baby", com a canção "Big Think" no lado B. Uma rádio começou a tocar "Big Think" e ela se espalhou pelos clubes, o que fez o single vender dez mil cópias numa semana. Andy e Ian faziam parte também de outra banda, a Coldcut, e decidiram unir as duas para gravar um novo single, "People Hold On", que chegou ao primeiro lugar da parada britânica.
Com a voz sexy e a soul music na alma, Lisa logo começou a chamar atenção e a Artista Records, que tinha comprado o selo Rockin’ Horse, decidiu contratá-la. Andy e Ian tornaram-se os seus instrumentistas, compositores e produtores. O disco de estreia, Affection, vendeu 4,5 milhões de cópias. Um dos motivos foi a canção "All Around the World", que esteve no topo das paradas em 1989 e garantiu, ainda, alguns prémios, como o de melhor canção e de melhor artista revelação, entre eles, o Brit Award.
Em 1990, Lisa participou da gravação do disco Down In The Depths, de Cole Porter, com o objetivo de arrecadar fundos para a pesquisa da cura da SIDA. Em janeiro de 1991, esteve no Rock In Rio, onde se apresentou para cerca de 150 mil pessoas e durante o resto do ano, dedicou-se à produção de um novo disco. "Real Love" foi lançado no final de 1991 e conseguiu colocar quatro canções nas paradas.
Na mesma época, Lisa regravou "All Around the World" de maneira muito especial porque contou com a participação de um seu ídolo, Barry White, que ela ouvia desde pequena. A turnê internacional ocupou o resto do tempo de Lisa. O lançamento seguinte, em 1993, So Natural, também teve boa repercussão, mas só na Inglaterra. Ela ficou um bom tempo longe do estúdio, até voltar com força total em 1997, quando lançou Lisa Stansfield. O disco voltou a fazer sucesso mundialmente, graças às canções "The Real Thing", "Don’t Cry For Me", "People Hold On" e "I’m Leavin’".
Em 1998, ela estreou no cinema, no filme Swing, que conta a história de uma banda de jazz. Ela é uma das protagonistas, mas o filme não teve sucesso. A banda sonora, porém, cantada por Lisa, chamou a atenção. No ano seguinte, estava nas prateleiras o novo disco, Face Up, que é puro soul.
Lisa ganhou também um rótulo de cantora romântica, já que parte de suas composições eram feitas juntamente com o marido e o músico, que sempre esteve presente na vida e carreira de Lisa, Ian Devaney. Lisa acumulou dez milhões de discos vendidos pelo mundo em pouco mais de dez anos de carreira.
A cantora ficou um tempo parada no final da década de 90, mas em 2003 voltou para conquistar novos fãs e agradar aos fiéis. Ela lançou o disco Biography, com dezassete canções de sucessos da carreira. No ano seguinte, outra surpresa para os fãs: um projeto de relançamento da discografia completa da compositora. Os discos ganharam faixas adicionais e novo visual.
Street Songs is the fifth studio album by American musician Rick James, released in April 1981 on Gordy Records. "Give It to Me Baby", the lead single from the album, became James' second number one single on the R&B chart, spending five weeks at the top spot. The fifth song on the album, "Super Freak", was also one of James' biggest hits. A Deluxe Edition was released in 2001 containing an additional 17 mixes and live versions of the album tracks. Although the song "Fire and Desire" (a duet he performed with singer Teena Marie) was not originally released as a single, the song itself received much airplay on R&B radio stations and has since become a classic hit (James and Marie would reunite to perform the song at the 2004 BET Awards 5 weeks before James' death).
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Born in Nashville and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, he later lived in Detroit while singing for Ric-Tic and Motown Records. He was backed by the band that became known as "Black Merda". Hawkins and Veasey of the group played on most of his early hits on the Ric Tic Label. Starr's songs "Twenty-Five Miles" and "Stop the War Now" were also major successes, in 1969 and 1971 respectively. In the 1970s Starr moved to England, where he continued to produce music and resided until his death.
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Céline Marie Claudette Dion (Charlemagne, Quebec, Canadá, 30 de março de 1968) é uma cantora, compositora e empresária canadiana.
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Sign o' the Times (often stylized as Sign "☮︎" the Times) is the ninth studio album by American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Prince. It was first released on March 30, 1987 as a double album by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album is the follow-up to Parade and is Prince's first solo album following his disbanding of the Revolution. The album's songs were largely recorded during 1986 to 1987 in sessions for releases Prince ultimately aborted: Dream Factory, the pseudonymous Camille, and finally the triple album Crystal Ball. Prince eventually compromised with label executives and shortened the length of the release to a double album.
Many of the drum sounds on Sign o' the Times came from the Linn LM-1 drum machine, and Prince used the Fairlight CMI synthesizer to replace other instruments. Minimal instrumentation is heard on the stripped-down "Sign o’ the Times", the lead single. Four songs contain higher-pitched vocals to represent Prince's alter ego "Camille". The album's music touches on a varied range of styles, including funk, soul, psychedelic pop, electro, and rock.
Sign o' the Times' release was supported by several singles, among them the socially conscious "Sign o' the Times" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend"; in addition to a well-received concert film of the same name. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) four months after its release. It also reached the top 10 in Austria, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the UK and number one in Switzerland. "Sign o' the Times", "U Got the Look" and "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" were all top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 20.
Though not as commercially successful as Purple Rain, Sign o' the Times was Prince's most acclaimed album, being voted 1987's best album in the Pazz & Jop critics poll. Included in many lists of the greatest albums of all time, it has been appraised by many critics as Prince's best album, ahead of Purple Rain. Writing for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Michaelangelo Matos regarded it as "the most complete example of [Prince's] artistry's breadth, and arguably the finest album of the 1980s". In 2017, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Sign O’ the Times - Prince
Oh yeah
In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same
At
home there are seventeen-year-old boys and their idea of fun Is being
in a gang called The Disciples, high on crack, totin' a machine gun
Time
Time
Hurricane Annie ripped the ceiling off a church and killed everyone inside
You turn on the telly and every other story is tellin' you somebody died
Sister killed her baby 'cause she couldn't afford to feed it
And we're sending people to the moon
In September my cousin tried reefer for the very first time
Now he's doing horse; it's June
Time
Time
It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants to fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh, why?
Time
Time
Baby make a speech, star wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn
Time
Time
Is it silly, no?
When a rocket blows up
And everybody still wants to fly
Some say man ain't happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh, why?
Oh, why?
Sign o' the Times
Time
Time
Sign o' the times mess with your mind
Hurry before it's too late
Let's fall in love, get married, have a baby
We'll call him Nate, if it's a boy
Time
Time
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