WINTER LIGHT

LINDA RONSTADT

SONGWRITERS: ERIC KAZ; LINDA RONSTADT & ZBIGNIEW PREISNER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LINDA RONSTADT

LABEL: ELEKTRA RECOPRDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1993

 

          Linda Maria Ronstadt(born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 10 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.

              Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Her success however did not translate across the Atlantic to the UK. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou" was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart.

        Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in diverse genres, including Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation."

           Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when she felt her singing voice deteriorating, releasing her last full-length album in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. She announced her retirement in 2011 and revealed shortly afterwards that she is no longer able to sing as a result of a degenerative condition later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy. Since then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, in September 2013. A documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was released in 2019.

         Winter Light is an album by American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in late 1993 to critical acclaim and commercial disappointment.

           Winter Light was Ronstadt's first solo album since Don't Cry Now not to be produced by Peter Asher; she elected to produce it herself, along with George Massenburg. The album marked Ronstadt's increased responsibilities and confidence behind the boards, this time achieving a multi-layered Enya-styled New Age-oriented sound, as in Anna McGarrigle's "Heartbeats Accelerating" — the album's first hit single —and Brian Wilson's "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder)". "Heartbeats Accelerating" featured a popular music video while another track, a remake of the classic 1960s R&B hit, "Oh No Not My Baby", was a Top 30 Adult Contemporary hit for Linda in the spring of 1994.

Hearts call

Hearts fall

Swallowed in the rain

 

Who knows

Life grows

Hollow and so vain

 

Wandering in the winter light

The wicked and the sane

Bear witness to salvation

And life starts over again

 

Now the clear sky is all around you

Aah aah

Love's shadow will surround you

All through the night

 

Star glowing in the twilight

Tell me true

Hope whispers and I will follow

Till you love me too

 

Ah ah ah

 

Now the clear sky is all around you

Aah aah

Love's shadow will surround you

All through the night

 

Star glowing in the twilight

Tell me true

Hope whispers and I will follow

Till you love me too

 

Ah! Ah, ah!

SPACE ODDITY

DAVID BOWIE

SONGWRITER: DAVID BOWIE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SPACE ODDITY

LABEL: PHILIPS RECORDS

GENRE: PSYCHODELIC FOLK

YEAR: 1969

 

            David Robert Jones (8 January 1947–10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie(/ˈboʊi/BOH-ee), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, Bowie is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, with his music and stagecraft having a significant impact on popular music.

             During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at over 100 million records worldwide, made him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In the UK, he was awarded tem platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, and released eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Rolling Stone placed him among its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and named him the "Greatest Rock Star Ever" following his death in 2016.

Born in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child. He studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity", released in 1969, was his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart.           After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of Bowie's single "Starman" and álbum The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted towards a sound he characterised as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK fans but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the álbum Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and released Station to Station. In 1977, he further confounded expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low, the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that came to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy"."Heroes"(1977) and Lodger(1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.

          "Space Oddity" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released as a 7-inch single on 11 July 1969 before appearing as the opening track of his second studio album, David Bowie. It became one of Bowie's signature songs and one of four of his songs to be included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

             Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), with a title that plays on the film's title, the song is about the launch into space of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut, and was released during a period of great interest in space flight. The United States' Apollo 11 mission would launch five days later and would become the first manned Moon landing another five days after that. The lyrics have also been seen to lampoon the British space programme, which was, and still is, an unmanned project. Bowie revisited his Major Tom character in the 1980 lead-single "Ashes to Ashes" from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and the 1995 single "Hallo Spaceboy" from Outside, the third and final single released from that album. In addition, Major Tom possibly influenced the music video for "Blackstar", released in 2015 off of Bowie's final album of the same name.

          Written in the key of C major, "Space Oddity" was Bowie's first single to chart in the UK. It reached the top five on its initial release and received the 1970 Ivor Novello Special Award for Originality. His self-titled second album was renamed after the track for its 1972 rerelease by RCA Records and became known by this name. In 1975, upon rerelease as part of a maxi-single, the song became Bowie's first UK Nº. 1 single.

          In 2013, the song gained renewed popularity following its recording 44 years after Bowie by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who performed the song (with slightly revised lyrics) while aboard the International Space Station, and therefore became the first music video shot in space. In January 2016, the song reentered singles charts around the world following Bowie's death, which included becoming Bowie's first single to top the French Singles Chart. 

Ground control to Major Tom

Ground control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

 

Ground control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven)

Commencing countdown, engines on (six, five, four, three)

Check ignition, and may God's love be with you (two, one, lift off)

 

This is ground control to Major Tom

You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

 

This is Major Tom to ground control

I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

 

For here am I sitting in a tin can

Far above the world

Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do

 

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

 

Ground control to Major Tom

Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you?

 

Here am I floating 'round my tin can

Far above the Moon

Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do.

ESPERANDO NA JANELA

TARGINO GONDIM

COMPOSITORES: TARGINO GONDIM; RAIMUNDINHO DO ACORDEON & MANUCA ALMEIDA

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: FORRÓ PARA TODO LADO

GRAVADORA: ATRAÇÃO FONOGRÁFICA LTDA.

GÊNERO: FORRÓ

ANO: 1999

 

        Targino Alves Gondim Filho (Salgueiro, 7 de outubro de 1972), é um político, músico, cantor e premiado compositor brasileiro, famoso no Norte e Nordeste do país por canções juninas, forró, baião e outras canções do gênero.

          Melhor cantor regional em 2010, sua canção "Esperando na Janela" lhe rendeu um Grammy em 2001 e foi a mais executada no Brasil em 2004. Embora pernambucano de nascimento, radicou-se desde criança na Bahia, onde tentou a carreira política. Quando completou vinte anos de carreira, em 2015, realizou um show comemorativo em Salvador onde, além do forró tradicional, tocou reggae e Axé.

      "Esperando na Janela" é uma canção do sanfoneiro, cantor e compositor Targino Gondim, em parceria com Manuca Almeida e Raimundinho do Acordeon, lançada em 1999 em álbum independente homônimo quando, descoberta por Regina Casé, foi incorporada à trilha sonora do filme Eu, Tu, Eles de 2000, na voz de Gilberto Gil. No mesmo ano, a canção foi regravada pela dupla sertaneja Rionegro & Solimões e ficou como faixa bônus do álbum Bate o Pé - Ao Vivo, se tornando um dos grandes sucessos da dupla.

           Em 2001 Targino venceu o Grammy Latino como "Melhor Música Brasileira" pela canção, e em 2004 foi a música mais executada no Brasil naquele ano.

Ainda me lembro do seu caminhar

Seu jeito de olhar, eu me lembro bem

Fico querendo sentir o seu cheiro

É daquele jeito que ela tem

 

O tempo todo eu fico feito tonto

Sempre procurando, mas ela não vem

E esse aperto no fundo do peito

Desses que o sujeito não pode aguentar, ah

E esse aperto aumenta meu desejo

Eu não vejo a hora de poder lhe falar

 

Por isso eu vou na casa dela, ai, ai

Falar do meu amor pra ela, vai

Tá me esperando na janela, ai, ai

Não sei se vou me segurar

 

Por isso eu vou na casa dela, ai, ai

Falar do meu amor pra ela, vai

Tá me esperando na janela, ai, ai

Não sei se vou me segurar

 

Ainda me lembro do seu caminhar

Seu jeito de olhar, eu me lembro bem

Fico querendo sentir o seu cheiro

É daquele jeito que ela tem

 

O tempo todo eu fico feito tonto

Sempre procurando, mas ela não vem

E esse aperto no fundo do peito

Desses que o sujeito não pode aguentar, ah

E esse aperto aumenta meu desejo

Eu não vejo a hora de poder lhe falar

 

Por isso eu vou na casa dela, ai, ai

Falar do meu amor pra ela, vai

Tá me esperando na janela, ai, ai

Não sei se vou me segurar

 

Por isso eu vou na casa dela, ai, ai

Falar do meu amor pra ela, vai

Tá me esperando na janela, ai, ai

Não sei se vou me segurar.

SWING DA COR

DANIELA MERCURY

COMPOSITOR: LUCIANO GOMES

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: DANIELA MERCURY

GRAVADORA: ELDORADO RECORDS

GÊNERO: SAMBA-REGGAE

ANO: 1991

 

           Daniela Mercuri de Almeida Verçosa (Salvador, 28 de julho de 1965), mais conhecida como Daniela Mercury, é uma cantora, compositora e produtora musical brasileira.

             Por seu pioneirismo no gênero axé, é conhecida como a Rainha do Axé. Em sua carreira solo, Mercury vendeu mais de vinte milhões de discos em todo o mundo. Vencedora de um Grammy Latino com seu álbum Balé Mulato - Ao Vivo, recebeu também seis Prêmio da Música Brasileira, um prêmio pela APCA, três prêmios Multishow e dois prêmios pelo VMB, de melhor videoclipe e fotografia. Na televisão foi jurada e mentora dos talento shows Popstars, Superstar e The Voice Kids Portugal. Daniela é licenciada em dança pela Universidade Federal da Bahia, tendo iniciado seus estudos nessa arte desde os quatro anos de idade, tornando-se posteriormente professora de jazz, dança moderna e ballet clássico, além de ter se especializado e atuado em outros gêneros, como dança afro e dança contemporânea. Começou a cantar profissionalmente aos quinze anos, mesma idade em que subiu em um trio elétrico pela primeira vez, integrando a carreira de cantora e bailarina.

       "Swing da Cor" é uma canção gravada pela cantora brasileira Daniela Mercury, para seu primeiro álbum de estúdio autointitulado. A canção foi escrita por Luciano Gomes, conta com a participação especial do Olodum, foi lançada como o primeiro single do álbum em 1991, e fez enorme sucesso em todo o Brasil.

Não

Não me abandone

Não me desespere

 

Porque eu não posso

Ficar sem você

 

Não, não, não

Não me abandone

Não me desespere

Porque eu não posso

Ficar sem você

 

Eu não posso ficar

Ficar sem você

Eu não posso ficar

Ficar sem te ver

 

Vem

Pro swing da cor

Relaxar o calor

E quem sabe

Me amarrar

 

Vem

Que o teu sorriso

É pequeno

No teu beijo

Tem veneno

E está querendo

Me apaixonar

 

Ticurupaco, kioiô

Eu sou Muzenza, larauê

Ticurupaco, kioiô

Eu sou Muzenza, larauê

 

Ticurupaco, kioiô

Eu sou Muzenza, larauê

Ticurupaco, kioiô

Eu sou Muzenza, larauê

 

Aia, ulêlêlê lêlê aia

ulêlêlê lêlê aia

Com Muzenza eu vou

Ah, ah, ah, ah.