Kenny Chesney - Albums. Kenny Chesney - Chart singles. ...

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Jones has won multiple awards, most noticeably her Grammy awards (winning 8 awards, plus an additional three received by Come Away with Me, in only 2 years of eligibility) These are Jones' Grammy Awards: 2002 Best Pop Vocal Album - Come Away with Me 2002 Album of the Year - Come Away with Me 2002 Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - Come Away with Me 2002 Record of the Year - "Don't Know Why" 2002 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - "Don't Know Why" See also:

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In addition, Andy Lau has demonstrated a proficient command of Chinese calligraphy during onstage performances. At present, Lau is still single. His sexual orientation was the hottest topic in entertainment news. He swore openly: "If I were gay, take AIDS to me!" His prospective mate is the topic of great debate among fans. In 2003, he started his own media company called Focus Group Holdings Limited. ...

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He has since appeared in more than 100 films, and has a huge fan base throughout Asia with the success of both his onscreen performance and his musical career. Andy Lau is best known for his (often) recurring roles in the King of Gamblers. Lau is known to some more for his good looks than for his strengths of acting, though he has answered his critics since the turn of the century in a series of critically acclaimed movies, especially those directed by Johnnie To. His first major acting prizes came with A Fighter's Blue ...

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Alongside her friend (and fellow Australian expatriate) Olivia Newton-John, Reddy became one of the most successful female recording artists of the Seventies, with fourteen U.S. Top 40 singles between 1971 and 1978. Reddy was also instrumental in furthering Newton-John's career—she encouraged her friend to move from Britain to the United States in the early 1970s, and Newton-John won the starring role of "Sandy" in the hit film version of the musical Grease after a chance meeting with the film's pro ...

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As his career took off, Garth Brooks seemed frustrated by the conflicts between career and family. He talked of retiring from performing in 1992 [4] and 1995, but went back out on tour each time instead. In 1999, he talked again of retirement again on The Nashville Network's Crook & Chase program; this time, falling records sales may have been an additional trigger. [5] In 1999, Garth and Sandy Brooks separated [6]; they made public their plans to divorce on October 9 ...

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During a 'live' performance recorded by MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Connecticut, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, resulting in one of the most embarrassing moments in popular music history. When Morvan and Pilatus pressured him to let them sing on the next album, Farian revealed the truth to reporters on November 15, 1990 that Morvan and Pilatus did not actually sing on the records and their voices were dubbed. Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four days later, and Arista Rec ...

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Norah Jones - Albums/EPs. First Sessions (EP) (2001) Come Away with Me (2002) US #1 (for 4 weeks), UK #1, AUS #1 [Sales: 10 million US, 20 million Worldwide] Feels Like Home (2004) US #1 (for 6 weeks), UK #1, AUS #1 - [4 million US, 12 million Worldwide] Norah Jones - Singles. "Don't Know Why" #30 US, #3 AUS "Feelin' the Same Way" "Come Away With Me" #2 Canada "Don't Know Why" #30 US, #3 AUSSee also:

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His first major hit was "Fall in Love," which reached the Country Top 10 in 1995. The follow-up, "All I Need to Know," also reached the Top 10, but follow-ups were not so successful. However, in 1996, he scored the top 5 hit, "Me and You," and returned again with "When I Close My Eyes" in early 1997. He hit number one for the first time with "She's Got It All" in August 1997; the song spent three we ...

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During a 'live' performance recorded by MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Connecticut, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, resulting in one of the most embarassing moments in popular music history. When Morvan and Pilatus pressured him to let them sing on the next album, Farian revealed the truth to reporters on November 15, 1990 that Morvan and Pilatus did not actually sing on the records and their voices were dubbed. Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four days later, and Arista Reco ...

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Reddy has also worked extensively both on stage and the screen, with roles in movies such as Airport 1975 and Walt Disney's Pete's Dragon, and numerous television series. She has also hosted two television series, including her own show and the late-night music series The Midnight Special. She has also appeared in a number of musical stage productions including Anything Goes, Call Me Madam, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She is also known for her appearances in works by British playwright Wil ...

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In 2006, Shania Twain plans to release a new album entitled, High!, in which she writes about love, success, and family. Twain says that this next album will have "more of a pop feel to it," but will still stay true to her country roots. After its release, Twain is said to be officially retiring from the entertainment buisness (à la Garth Brooks) to focus more on other projects. She will also release ano ...

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He signed with Curb Records in 1990 but it wasn't until 1992 that he had his first minor hit "Welcome to the Club" off his self-titled debut album, which failed to make much of a dent on the charts. He achieved a couple of minor hits, "Memory Lane" and "Two Steppin Mind", off the same album in 1993. The second album Not a Moment Too Soon went on to become the best selling country album in 1994. The first single, "Indian Outlaw", written by John D. Loudermilk, caused considerable controversy as critics argued that it presented N ...

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In 1933 Como joined Freddy Carlone's band in Ohio, and three years later moved up to Ted Weems' Orchestra and his first recording dates. Their first recording was a novelty tune called "You Can't Pull the Wool over My Eyes", recorded for the Decca Records label. In 1942 Weems dissolved his band, and Como went on to CBS, where he sang for a couple of years without any conspicuous success. By this time the erstwhile barber had definitely decided to return to Canonsburg, his family, and his barbering. Just as he was about to abandon his ...

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Rob & Fab began the promotional tour for their comeback album, Back and in Attack, on 3 April 1997. Exactly one year later, in 1998, and shortly before the new album's release, Pilatus was found dead from an alcohol and drug overdose in Frankfurt, Germany. He was 32. Today, Fabrice Morvan is pursuing a solo career and released his first solo album, Love Revolution, in 2002. He also performs light alternative music in clubs throughout the U.S. The word milli means "national" in Turkish, and was picked up by the artists w ...

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In January 1994, Como travelled to Dublin, Ireland, for what would be an auspicious moment in his long career of more than sixty years. 1993 would have marked his fiftieth anniversary with the RCA Victor label, now owned and controlled by BMG, as well as his forty-fifth year of television specials celebrating Christmas and its importance throughout the world to people of all faiths. Como's Irish Christmas was produced for the American PBS public television system and has been re-broadcast annually since 1994. Como died on May 12, 2001 at his home i ...

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Reddy was born into a well-known Australian show business family—her parents, well-known performers on the Australian vaudeville circuit, were actress and singer Stella Lamond and writer-actor-comedian Max Reddy; her older sister is actress-singer Toni Lamond; and her nephew is actor-singer Tony Sheldon. Reddy began performing on stage with her parents at four years of age. In her late teens she was briefly married to an older musician, with whom she had a daughter, Traci, but they divorced soon afterwards. After beginning her caree ...

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Born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario to Sharon and Clarence Edwards, she grew up as Eilleen Twain in Timmins, Ontario, after her parents separated when she was two, and her mother remarried to Jerry Twain, a full-blooded member of the Ojibwa First Nation. At the age of 13, Eilleen Twain was invited to perform on CBC television's Tommy Hunter Show. During high school in Timmins, she was the vocalist for a local band "Longshot" which covered Top 40 music. When her mother and adoptive father died in a car ...

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Farian used Pilatus and Morvan to front a studio project featuring the vocal talents of Charles Shaw, Johnny Davis, and Brad Howell. Farian felt that those musicians were talented but unmarketable. The first Milli Vanilli album was All Or Nothing (see 1988 in music). Despite critical pans, Milli Vanilli's fame continued to grow worldwide. All Or Nothing was repackaged and retitled Girl You Know It's True for its US release, and spun four hit singles: the title track, and the group's three#1 hits, "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You ...

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Shania Twain - Albums. The Complete Limelight Sessions (unauthorized), featuring demo songs she recorded during 1989 and 1990, sales below 100,000 Shania Twain (1993), U.S. sales: 1 million (Platinum) (2 million worldwide) The Woman in Me (1995), U.S. sales: 12 million (12x Platinum) (21 million worldwide) Come on Over (1997), U.S. sales: 20 million (20x Platinum) [December 2004 [5] ] (39 million worldwide) Up! (2002), U.S. sales: 5.5 mi ...

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The band signed a record deal with Profile Records in 1983, and Run's older brother Russel "Rush" Simmons signed Run-D.M.C. to his newly formed management company Rush Productions that same year. On their first major U.S. tour, the group set new trends by performing dressed in baggy black clothing, Adidas sneakers (with the shoelaces strictly removed), and Fedoras. Their mainstream success continued as the group performed at the famous Live Aid concert in 1985, and their 1986 album Raising Hell became the highest-selling rap al ...

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