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Calendar Girl (Sophie Monk Album)
''Calendar Girl'' is the debut solo studio album by Australian recording artist Sophie Monk, released on 5 May 2003 by Warner Music. It debuted at No. 35 on the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. The album was mixed with contemporary pop as well as the religious classics tracks "Pie Jesu", "Ave Maria" (Interlude) and "Ave Maria". The song "Come My Way" was also recorded by Japanese pop star Namie Amuro (her version was titled "Come") in Japanese and was featured in the anime InuYasha. It was released first as a single on 14 October 2003 and on the album ''Style Style is a manner of doing or presenting things and may refer to: * Architectural style, the features that make a building or structure historically identifiable * Design, the process of creating something * Fashion, a prevailing mode of clothing ...'' on 10 December of the same year. Track listing Charts Release history References {{DEFAULTSORT:Calendar Girl (Sophie Monk Album) 2003 debut albums Sophie Monk album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Monk
Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born 14 December 1979) is an Australian singer, actress, model, and television personality. She was a member of the pop girl group Bardot, winners of the first season of '' Popstars Australia'' in 2000, and later released a solo album titled '' Calendar Girl'' (2003). She has appeared in films, including ''Date Movie'' (2006), '' Click'' (2006), ''Sex and Death 101'' (2007), ''The Hills Run Red'' (2009), and ''Spring Breakdown'' (2009). Monk was the winner of the fourth season of ''The Celebrity Apprentice Australia'' in 2015, and in 2016, she was a judge on ''Australia's Got Talent''. In 2017, she starred on the third season of ''The Bachelorette Australia'', and the following year, she became the host of ''Love Island Australia''. In 2021, Monk began hosting ''Beauty and the Geek Australia''. Early life Sophie Monk was born in London, England to an English father and an Australian mother. In 1982 her parents moved to Australia's Gold Coast i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hedges
Ray "Madman" Hedges is an English songwriter and record producer from Surrey, England who has had over 60 top 20 singles and albums including seven UK number-ones as producer and or writer with many on his own record labels. Career Hedges has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and awarded Producer of the Year. He has worked with a diverse selection of artists including The Struts, Westlife Boyzone, B*Witched, Towers of London, Chicane, Lil' Chris, ''. BBC. Accessed March 16, 2008.'' |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Taylor (producer)
Mark Taylor (born in Windsor, England) is a British record producer and songwriter. He has worked with artists such as Tina Turner, Lady Gaga, Nelly Furtado, Lionel Richie, Hall & Oates, Cher, Rod Stewart, Belinda Carlisle, Daniel Bedingfield, Ronan Keating Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish singer. He debuted in 1993 alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch, and Stephen Gately, as the co-lead singer (with Gately) of Irish pop group Boyzone. His solo career start ..., Enrique Iglesias, Britney Spears, James Morrison, Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Lopez. Taylor worked on Cher's 1998 album '' Believe'', which won a Grammy for its title track. The album went on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide. The song " Believe" featured an early example of the vocal effect Auto tune. Songwriting and production credits References Grammy Award winners English record producers Living people English songwriters Year of birth missing (livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Barry (songwriter)
Paul Michael Barry is a British songwriter and musician. Some of his best-known songs he has co-written include " Believe" by Cher, "Hero" and "Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias and 5 times platinum single in the US "Let It Go" by James Bay. He has won three Ivor Novello Awards and ASCAP PRS writer of the year 2000. He has scored three US number-one singles, as well as other number-ones around the world. His songs have been recorded by James Bay, Lionel Richie, James Morrison, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Lemar, Craig David, Tina Turner, Britney Spears, Rod Stewart, Lara Fabian, Ronan Keating, Esmee Denters, JLS, Rebecca Ferguson, the Vamps, Nelly Furtado, Beverley Knight, Mica Paris, Andrew Roachford, and Tom Walker (singer) among others. Career Barry was born in Edinburgh, Scotland where his band first signed with Bruce Findlay's Zoom Records as lead singer with the Questions while still at high school. Whilst attending University, he went on to pursue his dream with his band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Holden
Mark Ronald Holden (born 27 April 1954) is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (May 1976), "I Wanna Make You My Lady" (September), "Last Romance" (November) and "Reach Out for the One Who Loves You" (October 1977). Holden regularly appeared on national pop music show, ''Countdown''. Holden is remembered for his clean-cut image, his white dinner suit and his penchant for handing out carnations to girls on the set of the popular television show ''Countdown'' – he was nicknamed "The Carnation Kid". In the 1980s he worked as a songwriter in Los Angeles providing material recorded by Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker, Gladys Knight, Bob Welch and Steve Jones. He was one of three original judges on the TV series ''Australian Idol'' (2003–07) and the first season (2005) of ''The X Factor''. Biography Early years Mark Ronald Holden was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Ronald
Terry Maxwell Ronald is an English author, singer, songwriter, and music producer. Biography Born in South London, Ronald was a founder member and lead singer with the pop band '' Gun Shy'', who released one single "Just To Be Your Secret", which was Peter Powell's record of the week on Radio One. In the early 1990s, Ronald released solo album "Roma" on MCA Records, from which four singles were released. Ronald developed his career as a melody writer and lyricist, usually working with another writer. His musical work includes songwriting, production and vocal arranging for Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud, Dannii Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Wanted, Westlife, The Saturdays, Lulu, Sheena Easton, Kim Wilde, Atomic Kitten, Geri Halliwell, Elouise and French pop starlet Lorie. In 2007, he appeared as a guest judge on the Judges' Homes section of The X Factor, alongside Dannii Minogue. He has worked as a vocal coach on music TV shows including ''The Voice'', ''The Voice Kids'', ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Mac
Steve McCutcheon (born 15 January 1972), known professionally as Steve Mac, is a British record producer, songwriter and musician. A multi-award-winning producer, he is one of the most prolific songwriters and record producers in modern British music, with contributions to 30 number one singles in the UK Singles Chart. Career Early career Mac got his break in the music industry in the early 1990s when he wrote and produced the Nomad hit "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion", that reached no.2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1992, he became part of dance group Undercover, who had several European hit singles, including "Baker Street" and "Never Let Her Slip Away". He then met songwriter Wayne Hector, with the pair striking up a partnership that has seen them co-write and produce a range of chart songs. Mac has gone on to work with some of the most recognised names in the music industry. He has written, co-written and produced hits for musicians including Ed Sheeran, Melanie C, Pink, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Gerrard
Matthew Gerrard is a Canadian record producer and songwriter. Biography Gerrard grew up in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto's north-east end. He attended George S. Henry Secondary School where he played trombone in band, later playing bass in a school-based 5-piece jazz fusion combo called Nemesis Fusion. Nemesis Fusion competed in two Canadian stage band festivals earning silver in 1982 and won the competition the following year when Gerrard wrote the group's original material. After high school Gerrard was a member of a band called Regatta, which released one self-titled album. He also played bass and toured with Kim Mitchell (former Max Webster lead man) and Von Groove (until the late 1990s/early 2000s). Career Gerrard has written hit singles by artists such as Nick Carter (" Help Me"), Kelly Clarkson (" Breakaway"), Hilary Duff (" I Can't Wait", " Why Not?"), Eden's Crush ("Get Over Yourself") and Jesse McCartney (" She's No You"). He contributed songs to the soundtracks of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockmelons
Rockmelons, often referred to as the Rockies, were an Australian pop/dance/ R&B group formed in 1983 in Sydney. Primary members are Bryon Jones, his brother Jonathon Jones and Raymond Medhurst. They had two Australian top five hit singles in the early 1990s with "Ain't No Sunshine" and " That Word (L.O.V.E.)", both sung by Deni Hines. The associated album, ''Form 1 Planet'', peaked at number 3 on the ARIA albums chart in 1992, and was certified platinum in Australia. Career 1983–1986: Formation and early singles The group concept was formed in 1983 at a warehouse party in Sydney when Raymond Medhurst (keyboards) wanted a band to perform for a private party. He contacted the Jones brothers Bryon (keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals) and Jonathon (keyboards, guitar, drums) and Medhurst's schoolmate, Vincent Dale (keyboards) to join. Sandi Chick (lead vocals) and Peter Kennard (guitar, percussion) entered in late 1983 and were followed closely by Geoffrey Stapleton (keyboard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joacim Persson
Joacim Bo Persson (born April 17, 1971) is a Swedish songwriter, producer, music publisher, entrepreneur and one of the founders of Auddly, a venture between Niclas Molinder, Max Martin and Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA). With Molinder, he is also part of the writing-producing team Twin. Joacim Persson has been writing and producing songs for platinum-selling artists such as Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Jonas Brothers, Tokio Hotel, Mary J. Blige, Willow Smith, Iyaz, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Armin van Buuren, Charice, Ashley Tisdale, Robyn and Jamiroquai. Persson had been working with Sebastian Arman since 2017. Their collaboration, called Decco, has produced such songs as ''Sun Comes Out'' (with Leo Stannard) and ''Crazy to Love You'' (with Alex Clare). Career Persson was born and raised in Örebro, Sweden. He started out as a guitarist in a local rock band called Fallen Angel. The band signed a deal to German record label Massacre records when Persson was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
