Titanium – Sia

Titanium – Sia

Titanium - Sia

Although raised in Australia, Sia Furler rose to fame after moving to the U.K., where she worked as a guest vocalist for several groups — including the electronica duo Zero 7 — and released her own solo albums. Born in 1975, she first performed on the Adelaide jazz circuit during the ’90s as a vocalist for the band Crisp.

An attempt to launch a solo career in 1997 didn’t pan out, though, and the blonde, blue-eyed antipodean eventually hopped on a plane to London. While there, she landed a gig as a backup singer for Jamiroquai and inked a solo contract with DancePool, a sublabel of Sony. Sia released her first single, “Taken for Granted,” in early 2000. Although the song only peaked at number 100 on the Australian charts, it rose to number ten in the U.K. and increased European demand for her debut album, Hearing Is Difficult, which followed in 2001.

At the same time, a string of big names in the British music scene began asking for Sia’s services; offers from Zero 7 and William Orbit ensued. Although some projects only called for Sia to sing on one song, her association with Zero 7 proved to be a recurring thing. She ultimately remained with Zero 7 for three albums, serving as the group’s go-to vocalist while also furthering her own career with solo releases like Colour the Small One and Some People Have Real Problems. Meanwhile, Sia also began building an audience in America. One of the songs from Colour the Small One, “Breathe Me,” gained attention when it was used in the elaborate final scene of the Six Feet Under series, and the resulting buzz allowed her to enjoy a successful stateside tour. That tour was documented on her first live release, Lady Croissant, in 2007.

By the following year, Sia’s American audience had increased to the point that Some People Have Real Problems, her third album, debuted at number 26. Zero 7 began working on another album in 2009, but Sia had already shifted most of her attention to furthering her own career, and the band hired another singer in her place. Working alongside bassist Sam Dixon, she boosted her songwriting cred by writing several songs for Christina Aguilera, who put the songs onto her 2010 release Bionic. Sia also continued writing songs for herself, and We Are Born marked her most upbeat album to date in 2010.
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Chandelier – Sia

Chandelier – Sia

Chandelier - Sia

Although raised in Australia, Sia Furler rose to fame after moving to the U.K., where she worked as a guest vocalist for several groups — including the electronica duo Zero 7 — and released her own solo albums. Born in 1975, she first performed on the Adelaide jazz circuit during the ’90s as a vocalist for the band Crisp.

An attempt to launch a solo career in 1997 didn’t pan out, though, and the blonde, blue-eyed antipodean eventually hopped on a plane to London. While there, she landed a gig as a backup singer for Jamiroquai and inked a solo contract with DancePool, a sublabel of Sony. Sia released her first single, “Taken for Granted,” in early 2000. Although the song only peaked at number 100 on the Australian charts, it rose to number ten in the U.K. and increased European demand for her debut album, Hearing Is Difficult, which followed in 2001.

At the same time, a string of big names in the British music scene began asking for Sia’s services; offers from Zero 7 and William Orbit ensued. Although some projects only called for Sia to sing on one song, her association with Zero 7 proved to be a recurring thing. She ultimately remained with Zero 7 for three albums, serving as the group’s go-to vocalist while also furthering her own career with solo releases like Colour the Small One and Some People Have Real Problems. Meanwhile, Sia also began building an audience in America. One of the songs from Colour the Small One, “Breathe Me,” gained attention when it was used in the elaborate final scene of the Six Feet Under series, and the resulting buzz allowed her to enjoy a successful stateside tour. That tour was documented on her first live release, Lady Croissant, in 2007.

By the following year, Sia’s American audience had increased to the point that Some People Have Real Problems, her third album, debuted at number 26. Zero 7 began working on another album in 2009, but Sia had already shifted most of her attention to furthering her own career, and the band hired another singer in her place. Working alongside bassist Sam Dixon, she boosted her songwriting cred by writing several songs for Christina Aguilera, who put the songs onto her 2010 release Bionic. Sia also continued writing songs for herself, and We Are Born marked her most upbeat album to date in 2010.
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Swing – Savage

Swing – Savage

Swing - Savage

Demetrius Savelio (born 28 June 1981), better known by his stage name Savage, is a New Zealand rapper of Samoan descent, and a former member of hip hop group the Deceptikonz. In 2009, he became the first New Zealand hip hop artist in history to have a commercial single (“Swing”) achieve platinum certification status in the United States for selling over one million copies.

The “International Breakthrough” accolade of the Pacific Music Awards was created in his honour. He is not to be confused with Savage of the underground Atlanta- and Bronx-based hip hop group Hard Knocks, which released one album in 1992. Savage joined with friends to form a hip-hop group, the Deceptikonz, in 1997. Success was not instant, however, as the group struggled through several talent shows and small concerts.

Their big break came in 1999 when they were signed to South Auckland (Papatoetoe) hip hop label Dawn Raid Entertainment. In 2002, the Deceptikonz released Elimination; a studio album that peaked at number four on the New Zealand albums chart. In late 2003, Savage featured as a member of the Deceptikonz on the hit single Stop, Drop and Roll; a number six hit on the New Zealand singles chart.

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Nelly – Hey Porsche

Nelly – Hey Porsche

Nelly - Ride Wit Me ft. St. Lunatics

Cornell Haynes, Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper and singer.

A member of hip hop group St. Lunatics, Nelly was signed to Universal Records in 2000. Nelly’s debut album, “Country Grammar” was released that year, and explores the genres of Southern rap and Pop rap. “Country Grammar” was certified nine times platinum in the United States, and was a mainstream success, debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200 and went on to peak at #1. He released the single “Country Grammar (Hot Shit)” and it peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and #1 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart. Nelly also released the single “Ride wit Me,” featuring fellow St. Lunatic City Spud. The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became his highest charting single at that time.

The following year, St. Lunatics released their first album as a group, “Free City,” which received a platinum certification in the United States. Nelly released his second studio work, “Nellyville” in 2002. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It was also nominated for “Album of the Year” at the 2003 Grammys. The album was certified 6× platinum by the RIAA. Its lead single “Hot in Herre” was a #1 hit. Other singles included “Dilemma” featuring Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child, “Work It” featuring Justin Timberlake, “Air Force Ones” featuring Murphy Lee and the St. Lunatics, “Pimp Juice”, and “#1.” The album was certified 6x multi-platinum. “Hot in Herre” won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in 2003.

Nelly released a remix album in 2003, titled “Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention.”

In 2004, Nelly released two albums, “Sweat” and “Suit.” “Suit,” an R&B-oriented album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart, and “Sweat,” a rap-oriented album, debuted at #2. From “Suit,” the slow ballad “Over and Over,” an unlikely duet with country music star Tim McGraw, became a crossover hit. 

In the winter of 2005 “Sweatsuit,” a compilation of tracks from “Sweat” and “Suit” with three new tracks was released. “Grillz,” produced by Jermaine Dupri, was a #1 hit. To date, both albums have sold over 5 million copies in the U.S.

“Brass Knuckles,” Nelly’s fifth studio album, was issued in 2008 and reached #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. “Party People,” which features Fergie, was released as the first single from the album and peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Stepped on My J’z” which features Ciara and Jermaine Dupri, was released as the second single peaking at #90 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Body on Me” which features Akon and Ashanti, was released as the third single and peaked at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 

In 2010, Nelly released the album “5.0.” The lead single, “Just a Dream,” went to #3 on the Hot 100 chart and was certified platinum in the U.S. The second single, “Move That Body” featuring T-Pain and Akon. The third single “Gone” is the sequel to Nelly’s 2002 worldwide #1 hit “Dilemma,” and also featured Rowland.

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Heavy Duty Water Bootee

Heavy Duty Water Bootee

Heavy Duty Water Bootee

Introducing Darkfin webbed Power Gloves and Bootees

Black Lagoon Products is a privately owned company based in Knoxville Tennessee.
Our company’s ‘confidential’ rubber dipping process, combined with over 20 years of studying a variety of water sports and marine life propulsion, makes us uniquely qualified to design and produce the worlds first and only practical webbed glove suitable for use in all category’s of water sports that make use of the hands in some way to create resistance for the purpose of propulsion.

Darkfin power gloves are becoming evermore popular with Rescue divers, Parapalegic divers, swimmers, Life guards, Navy Seals and other government rescue and recovery groups and agencies.

This amazing product has been tested again and again by Professionals and novice and has proven to be the most effective, comfortable, durable webbed glove ever designed.

The most unique line of natural latex rubber Gloves and Bootee’s in the world.
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Everyone’s a winner – Hot Chocolate

Everyone’s a winner – Hot Chocolate

Everyone's a winner - Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate formed in Brixton, London, England in 1968. Members of the group included Errol Brown, Tony Connor, Larry Ferguson, Harvey Hinsley, Patrick Olive and Tony Wilson.
In 1969 the band started working on a reggae version of the John Lennon song “Give Peace A Chance”. Errol Brown had changed the lyrics for their version but was informed that he could not do this without John Lennon’s permission, so a copy of the demo was sent to the Beatles Apple record label to see what they thought of it. Fortunately, John loved the version and it was released on the Apple label.
The group was given the named ‘The Hot Chocolate Band’ by a secretary at the company, Mavis Smith, the band later changed it to just ‘Hot Chocolate’.
Towards the end of 1969 Mickie Most signed Errol and the cofounder of the group Tony Wilson as writers and recorded their songs with Mary Hopkins, Julie Felix and Herman’s Hermits before encouraging them to come up with a song for themselves. In 1970 Hot Chocolate, with Errol Brown as lead singer, released their first record entitled “Love Is Life” which reached number 6 in the charts. This was the start of a fifteen year career for the group who amassed a total of over 30 hits and also became the only group in the UK to have a hit for fifteen consecutive years.
In 1981 Hot Chocolate had the honour of being invited by Prince Charles and Lady Diana at their pre-wedding reception at Buckingham Palace which was attended by heads of Government and many members of European Royalty.
In 1986 Errol left the band and took time out to spend more time with his wife and then young children. The rest of the members of Hot Chocolate also took some time off to consider their future and in 1992 Patrick Olive, Harvey Hinsley and Tony Connor joined up with agent Richard Martin and decided to start touring again.
The band found a new singer Greg Bannis and keyboard players Andy Smith & Steve Ansell. Since 1992, the band has enjoyed years of continued success touring all around the world performing to many thousands of fans who love the music of Hot Chocolate. In 1997 the classic single “You Sexy Thing” reached number one in the charts after it was featured in the movie ‘The Full Monty’ and a new Hot Chocolate ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation released in October 1997 reached number 10 in the album charts.
In 2010 singer Kennie Simon replaced Greg Bannis on vocals creating what many are saying is the best sound ever.

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Budget Snow Packages

Budget Snow Packages

Click 4 Snow

Click4snow is an online snow accommodation booking agent to help you book your next winter holiday.
Click4snow went live in 2009.
The frustration not being able to book accommodation live, trying to use antiquated online reservation and website with poor information became too much.
Our main goal is to provide an easy way to find and choose the perfect winter accommodation, then book accommodation, quick, easily over the internet.
We also compile weekly snow report showing photographical what the conditions are like in the resort.

If you don’t know where you want to go use our resort finder to get all the facilities you need for your party and then book the accommodation at that ski resort.

How safe is your booking?

Click4snow is the snow specialist subsidiary of The Travel Bureau, we are a NSW licenced travel Agent, a member of the Travel Compesation Fund and IATA that has been operating for 25 years.
Our business model is stable, safe and the only risk is if the accommodation goes out of business and in this case we will transfer the balance to another accommodation booking. So we can assure you we are here to stay and your holiday is safe with us.

This year looks set to be a great season at Click4snow and we hope to enjoy it with you.
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Our budget package is based around getting your students and you to the snow at the cheapest price.
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Bob Marley and The Wailers – Stir it up

Bob Marley and The Wailers – Stir it up

Bob Marley and The Wailers - Stir it up

As a poet, prophet and purveyor of Jamaican culture, he shattered musical boundaries around the world.

Bob Marley was born in a small village called Nine Miles in Jamaica. The son of British Naval Officer and Jamaican woman called Cedella, Marley rarely saw his father due to his mother’s family and their disapproval of his parents relationship.

By the time he had turned 16, Marley had recorded his first single ‘Judge Not’, and in 1963, he formed The Wailers with Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingstone, Junior Braithwaite, and Beverly Kelso. The band then scored their first number one in Jamaica with ‘Simmer Down’ on the Coxsone label.

When Braithwaite and Kelso left the group around 1965, the Wailers continued as a trio, Marley, Tosh, and Livingstone trading leads. In spite of the popularity of singles like ‘Rude Boy’, the artists received few or no royalties, and in 1966 they disbanded.

After marrying his girlfriend Rita Anderson, Marley spent most of the following year working in a factory in Newark in the United States, where his mother had moved in 1963. Upon his return to Jamaica, the Wailers reunited and recorded for Coxsone with little success. During this period, the Wailers devoted themselves to the religious sect of Rastafari.

In 1969, they began a three-year association with Lee “Scratch” Perry, who directed them to play their own instruments and expanded their line-up to include Aston and Carlton Barrett, formerly the rhythm section of Perry’s studio band, the Upsetters. Some of the records they made with Perry – like ‘Trenchtown Rock’ – were locally very popular, but so precarious was the Jamaican record industry that the group seemed no closer than before to establishing steady careers. It formed an independent record company, Tuff Gong, in 1971, but the venture foundered when Livingstone was jailed and Marley got caught in a contract commitment to American pop singer Johnny Nash, who took him to Sweden to write a film score.

Their breakthrough came in 1972 when Chris Blackwell – who had released ‘Judge Not’ in England in 1963 – signed the Wailers to Island Records and advanced them the money to record themselves in Jamaica. The first result of this new contract was 1973’s ‘Catch A Fire’, the breakthrough album that saw the band reach an international audience for the first time. It was followed a year later by Burnin’, which included the songs “Get Up, Stand Up” and “I Shot The Sheriff”.

The band toured heavily during this period, and Marley expanded the instrumental section of the group and bringing in a female vocal trio, the I-Threes, which included his wife, Rita. Now called Bob Marley and the Wailers, they toured Europe, Africa, and the Americas, building especially strong followings in the U.K., Scandinavia, and Africa. They had U.K. Top 40 hits with ‘No Woman No Cry’ (1975), ‘Exodus’ (1977), ‘Waiting in Vain’ (1977), and ‘Satisfy My Soul’ (1978).

In 1976, Marley was shot by gunmen during the Jamaican election campaign, but survived and continued to soar in popularity until his 1981 death due to brain, lung and stomach cancer. In 1987, both Peter Tosh and longtime Marley drummer Carlton Barrett were murdered in Jamaica during separate incidents. Rita Marley continues to tour, record, and run the Tuff Gong studios and record company.

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Aretha Franklin – Think – The Blues Brothers

Aretha Franklin – Think – The Blues Brothers

Aretha Franklin - Think The Blues Brothers

Aretha Franklin is not only one of the giants of soul music; she is one of the giants of American pop. In a career spanning more than forty years, she continues to find ways to inspire and amaze.

Aretha Louise Franklin was born to parents Reverend C.L. Franklin, a Baptist preacher, and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer. The third of four children, Franklin’s early life was characterised by trouble and loss.

At the age of six, the young Aretha’s parents separated and her mother left the family. Four years later her mother would die of a heart attack. The family moved to Buffalo, New York, and then to Detroit, Michigan, with the Reverend’s preaching assignments. He eventually settled at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church and his renown as a preacher grew to national prominence.

Aretha was recognised as a talented musician at an early age. She was largely self-taught, despite her father offering to arrange piano lessons for her, and by her early teens she was seen as something of a child prodigy. A gifted pianist and with a voice that already contained the power that would become her trademark, Aretha travelled and performed with her father’s gospel show and sang before his congregation in Detroit.

Her major influence early-on was her aunt Clara Ward who was a famous devotional singer. Aretha’s first album, ‘The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin’, was recorded in 1956 when she was just 14.

At 15, Aretha gave birth to her first son Clarence and her second Edward followed two years later. She has never revealed the identity of either child’s father by name and the two were brought up by Franklin’s grandmother Rachel so she could pursue her music career.

When she returned to singing several years later she changed direction and pursued heroes like Dinah Washington into pop territory. She travelled to New York in 1960, found herself a manager, and began recording demo tapes. After approaches from several labels including Motown and RCA, Aretha signed to Columbia records releasing her first album for the company in late 1960.

Franklin did not find success with Columbia, however. In 1961, her single ‘Rock-A-Bye Your Baby’ made it to number 37 on the pop charts and she had a few top tens on the R&B charts but the jazz-influenced style she used failed to showcase the talent so evident in her gospel music.

She and manager Ted White, who she had married in 1961, decided a move was in order and she left Columbia in 1966 and was immediately signed by Atlantic.

Producer Jerry Wexler recognised where Franklin’s power lay and took her to record at the Florence Alabama Musical Emporium with musicians adept in soul, blues and gospel, including a guest spot for a young guitarist by the name of Eric Clapton. Aretha recorded the single ‘I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)’ which became a massive hit. The song spent seven weeks at number one on the R&B charts and reached the top ten on the Hot 100.

The public was ready for an album but the only thing missing was Aretha. After recording ‘I Never Loved A Man’, husband White had had a drunken row with one of the session musicians and he and Aretha had disappeared. Franklin popped up in New York some weeks later and she was soon back to work.

1967 and 1968 were the years that established and cemented Franklin’s greatness with a string of hit singles that would become enduring classics. In 1967, the album ‘I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)’ was released. The first song on the album, ‘Respect’, a remake of an Otis Redding song, reached number one on both the R&B and pop charts and won Aretha her first two Grammy awards.

She had top tens with ‘Baby I love You’, ‘Chain of Fools’, and ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’. Rolling Stone’s Album Guide has said I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You would be remembered as “the greatest single soul album of all time.”

In 1968, Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, who was a good friend of her father’s. Her rendition of ‘Precious Lord’ was later described by her producer at Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, as “a holy blend of truth and unspeakable tragedy”. She also sang at the troubled 1968 Democratic Convention and at the 1972 funeral of gospel great Mahalia Jackson. In 1969 she divorced White. Their son, Ted, born in 1964, is the singer’s musical director and guitarist in her touring band.

Between 1969 and 1976, Franklin had a relationship with her road manager Ken Cunningham. She gave birth to their son Kecalf on 28 March 1970.

Franklin’s 1972 album ‘Amazing Grace’ became the best selling gospel album with over two million sales. Franklin’s success continued into the mid 1970s winning eight consecutive Grammy awards for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance.

Massive-selling classics like ‘Think’, ‘I Say A Little Prayer’, and ‘Spanish Harlem’ earned her the title ‘The Queen of Soul’ and her dominance of the genre was unquestioned.

By 1975, Franklin’s sound was beginning to become eclipsed by disco and an emerging set of young black singers such as Chaka Khan and Donna Summer. Her sales slumped and though there was a brief respite with 1976’s ‘Sparkle’, a string of failures in the late 1970s saw her contract with Atlantic lapse in 1979.

In 1978, Franklin married actor Glynn Turman though they would divorce six years later. At the same time as her decline in the music world, Aretha was saddled with a massive tax bill and then in 1979, her father was shot during a burglary at his home in Detroit. C.L. Franklin went into a coma from which he never emerged, dying in 1984.

Aretha’s career was revived in 1980 with her cameo in the film ‘The Blues Brothers’, acting and singing ‘Think’ alongside comedians James Belushi and Dan Akroyd, and her signing to Arista Records. At Arista, Franklin enjoyed success with the single and album of the same name, ‘Jump To It’. The album enjoyed a long run at number one on the R&B charts and was nominated for a Grammy.

In 1985, Aretha released another smash-hit album with the slick pop-sounding ‘Who’s Zoomin’ Who?’ featuring the single ‘Freeway of Love’ and a collaboration with rock band Eurythmics on ‘Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves’. The album became Aretha’s biggest-selling album ever.

Her 1986 album ‘Aretha’ also charted well with the George Michael duet ‘I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)’ hitting number one on the pop charts. Two years later, Franklin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was awarded an honorary doctorate in musicology by the University of Detroit.

A number of gospel albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s failed to make any real impact, although ‘A Deeper Love’, a track she provided for the 1993 film ‘Sister Act 2’, was a hit. 1998 was something of a renaissance year with Franklin reprising her role in The Blues Brothers sequel ‘Blues Brothers 2000’. The same year she released ‘A Rose Is Still A Rose’, an album which blended Hip Hop and Soul and which was very well received on both the pop and R&B charts.

In 2003, Franklin released her last album on Arista, ‘So Damn Happy’, and left the label to start her own company, Aretha Records. In 2005, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and also became the second woman inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.

The first album to be released since forming her Aretha’s Records label was a duets compilation entitled ‘Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen’, in 2007.

Then, in 2008, the singing legend released her first ever holiday-themed album entitled ‘This Christmas, Aretha’.

At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008, Aretha was awarded her 18th Grammy.

She has continued to be recognised for her contribution to the music industry, and on 23 May 2010, she was given an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Yale University. Read more…..www.thebiographychannel.co.uk

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