Tammy Wynette, nome artístico de Virgínia Wynette Pugh, (Tremont, 5 de maio de 1942 — Nashville, 6 de abril de 1998) foi UMA CANTORA e compositora norte-AMERICANA de música country, uma das cantoras mais conhecidas e mais vendidas da música country.
Wynette é conhecida como "A Primera-Dama da Música Country", e sua canção mais conhecida, "Stand by Your Man", é um dos singles mais vendidos por uma artista feminina na história da música country. Muitos de seus sucessos retratam temas clássicos do gênero, como solidão, divórcio e as dificuldades da vida e de relacionamentos. Durante as décadas de 1960 e 1970, Wynette teve 20 músicas #1 na Billboard de Música Country. Junto com Loretta Lynn, Lynn Anderson e Dolly Parton, ela é creditada como tendo definido o papel da mulher na música country dos anos 1970.
O casamento de Wynette com o músico country George Jones em 1969 criou a "dupla" country, seguindo o sucesso de Johnny Cash e June Carter Cash.
Wynette nasceu próximo à Tremont, Mississippi, filha única de Mildred Faye (1921 — 1991) e Wllian Pugh (1916 — 1943). Seu pai era um fazendeiro e músico local que morreu vítima de um tumor cerebral quando Wynette tinha apenas nove meses de idade. Sua mãe trabalhava como professora substituta e na fazenda da família. Com a morte de Pugh Mildred deixou sua filha aos cuidados de seus pais, Thomas e Flora Russell, e se mudou para Memphis, Tennessee, para trabalhar em uma fábrica durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1946, Mildred se casou com Foy Lee, um fazendeiro.
A casa dos Russell não tinha banheiro interno nem água encanada. Wynette foI criada com a tia Carolyn Russell, apenas cinco anos mais velha, mais uma irmã do que uma tia. Enquanto criança, Wynette aprendeu sozinha a tocar uma variedade de instrumentos deixados por seu pai, que, já cego devido ao tumor, incentivava a filha a tocar o piano.
Wynette estudou na Bellflower High School. Um mês antes de se formar, e meses antes de seu aniversário de 18 anos, se casou com seu primeiro marido, Euple Byrd. Ele era um pedreiro, mas tinha problemas em se manter em um emprego, e eles se mudavam diversas vezes. Wynette trabalhou como garçonete e recepcionista, além de trabalhar em uma fábrica de sapatos. Em 1963, ela frequentou uma escola de beleza em Tupelo, Mississippi, onde se tornou cabeleireira. Ela continuou a renovar sua licença de cosmetologia por vários anos, mesmo depois do sucesso - caso alguma coisa acontecesse.
Ela deixou Euple antes do nascimento de sua terceira filha, que desenvolveu meningite. Wynette tentou ganhar um dinheiro extra se apresentando a noite. Segundo Wynette, Euple não apoiava suas ambições de se tornar uma cantora country, e quando foi embora, Euple lhe disse, "Vai sonhando", Anos mais tarde, ele apareceu em um dos shows de Wynette e pediu um autógrafo. Ela assinou "Vai sonhando".
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times, and he'll have
good times
Doin' things that you don't
understand
But if you love him, you'll forgive
him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him, oh be proud of
him
'Cause after all he's just a man.
Stand by your man, give him two arms
to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely.
Stand by your man, and show the world
you love him
Keep giving all the love you can.
Stand by your man.
Stand by your man, and show the world
you love him
Keep giving all the love you can.
Stand by your man.
you'll
think of me
keith
urban
SONGWRITERS: DARRELL
BROWN / DENNIS MATKOSKY / TY LACY
PAIS: AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN
ALBUM: GOLDEN ROAD
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 2002
Keith Lionel Urban AO (born Urbahn;
26 October 1967) is an Australian and American singer, guitarist, and
songwriter known for his work in country music.
Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received
fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards,
including the Jim Reeves International Award, thirteen CMA Awards,
and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed
the song "For You" from the film Act of Valor,
which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at
the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the
respective Best Original Song categories.
Urban has released 11 studio
albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album
with the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the
US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went
to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley ("Start a Band")
and the 2008 single "You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban
also worked with numerous artists from different music genres, such as Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia
Michaels, and country artists like Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, Carrie
Underwood, Martina
McBride, Eric Church, and Reba McEntire.
In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, charting four
singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He
started a band known as The Ranch,
which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two
singles on the US Billboard Hot Country
Songs chart.
Still signed to Capitol, Urban
made his solo American debut in 1999 with a second eponymous album. Certified platinum
in the US by the RIAA, it produced his
first number one on the Hot Country
Songs chart with "But for the Grace of God".
"Somebody Like You", the first single from
his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002), was named by Billboard as
the biggest country hit of the 2000s decade. The album's fourth single, "You'll Think of Me" featuring his nephew
and fellow country artist Rory Gilliatte, earned him his first Grammy Award.
2004's Be Here,
his third American album became his highest-selling album, being certified 4×
Platinum. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy
Thing was released in 2006, containing "Once in a Lifetime"
as well as his second Grammy Award-winning song, "Stupid Boy".
A greatest hits package titled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in
late 2007. Defying Gravity and Get Closer were
released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010, respectively. In September
2013, he released the album Fuse, which produced four more number ones
on the Country Airplay chart. "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"
was released in June 2015 as
the lead single of his eighth American studio album, Ripcord.
The album later produced the Country Airplay chart number-one hits "Break on Me",
"Wasted Time", and
"Blue Ain't Your Color", with the
latter also becoming Urban's longest-reigning number one on the Hot Country
Songs chart, spending 12 weeks atop the chart. His tenth album, Graffiti U,
was released in 2018 and includes the Top 10 hit "Coming Home". His
eleventh album The Speed of Now Part 1 was released
in 2020 and includes the global hit "One Too Many" with Pink,
in addition to Country Airplay top ten hits "We Were"
and "God Whispered Your Name".
Urban was a coach on the
Australian version of the singing competition The Voice and a judge on American Idol.
In October 2013, Urban introduced his own signature line of guitars and
accessories.
Golden Road is the third studio album
by Australian country music singer Keith Urban.
It was released on 8 October 2002 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album
includes the singles "Somebody Like
You", "Raining on
Sunday", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me". This was Urban's
first album to be produced by Dann Huff,
who has produced all of his albums since.
I woke up early this morning 'round 4 a.m.
With the moon shining bright
As headlights on the interstate
I pulled the covers over my head
And tried to catch some sleep
But thoughts of us kept keeping me awake
Ever since you found yourself in someone else's arms
I've been tryin' my best to get along
But that's okay
There's nothing left to say, but
Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me
I went out driving trying to clear my head
I tried to sweep out all the ruins that my emotions left
(I guess I'm)
I guess I'm feeling just a little tired of this
And all the baggage that seems to still exist
It seems the only blessing I have left to my name
Is not knowing what we could have been
What we should have been
So
Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me
Someday I'm gonna run across your mind
But don't worry, I'll be fine
I'm gonna be alright
While you're sleeping with your pride
Wishing I could hold you tight
I'll be over you
And on with my life
So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me
So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and all your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we got nothing left to weather
In fact, I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me, yeah
Oh, oh
And you're gonna think of me, mmm yeah
Ooh, stop me baby
Someday
Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Darlin, think of me
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Baby, darlin', no, oh, oh
Doo, doo, doo, oh, oh!
Greatest Hits is the first compilation
album by American country music singer Martina
McBride, issued by RCA Nashville in 2001. In addition to
chronicling the greatest hits of her career at the time, it includes four new
songs, all of which were released as singles. The compilation reached number 1
on Top Country Albums and received a
Quadruple-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) on December 12, 2018.
Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff,
born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter
and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing
range and her country pop material.
McBride was born
in Sharon, Kansas, and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989. She signed
to RCA Recors in
1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country
singer with the single, "The Time Has Come". Over
time, she developed a pop-styled crossover sound,
similar to Shania Twain and Faith Hill,
and had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country
chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart. Five of these singles
went to No. 1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No.
1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003.
McBride has fourteen studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one "live" album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her studio albums and two of her compilations have an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U.S., she has sold over 14 million albums. In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year award four times (tied with Reba McEntire for the third-most wins) and the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee.
She walks to school with the lunch
She packed
Nobody knows what she's
Holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress
She wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen
And lace
The teacher wonders but she
Doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain
Behind the mask
Bearing the burden
Of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was
Never born
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel
Somebody cries in the middle
Of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn
Out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands
Of fate
When morning comes
It'll be too late
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel.