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David Tyson
David Michael Tyson is a Canadian rock music producer and songwriter. He is best known for co-writing Alannah Myles' 1990 #1 hit " Black Velvet" (with Christopher Ward) and producing her debut album. He also co-wrote three hit songs (with Dean McTaggart) from Amanda Marshall's self-titled 1995 debut album. Tyson has won three Juno Awards for his work, mainly in the 1990s. Most notably he was awarded the "Producer of the Year" in 1991 for his work on Jude Cole's ''A View from 3rd Street'' album, and " Songwriter of the Year" for his work with Hall & Oates. Partial Production discography * 1981: Eddie Schwartz - ''No Refuge'' - co-producer with Schwartz, as well as co-writer, keyboards * 1984: Eddie Schwartz - ''Public Life'' - co-producer with Schwartz, as well as co-writer, keyboards, bass, glockenspiel, backing vocals * 1984: The Arrows - '' Stand Back'' - also co-writer, keyboards * 1986: The Arrows - ''The Lines Are Open'' * 1989: Alannah Myles - ''Alannah Myles'' * 1990: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Schwartz
Edward Sydney Schwartz C.M. (born December 22, 1949) is a Canadian musician who had moderate success as a recording artist in the early 1980s before becoming a successful songwriter and record producer in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Songs he has written or co-written include the top-10 ''Billboard'' hits "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (Pat Benatar, 1980), " Don't Shed a Tear" (Paul Carrack, 1987) and " The Doctor" (The Doobie Brothers, 1989). Career Schwartz was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and graduated from Toronto's York University in 1976 as a music and English major. He began his musical career soon after playing guitar for Charity Brown's backing band and signed with Infinity Records for a solo contract in 1979. His self-titled debut album, ''Schwartz'', followed in 1980, with A&M Records, as Infinity had gone bankrupt by then, and spawned his first Canadian hit, "Does a Fool Ever Learn". His next album, ''No Refuge'', came out in 1981, and did well in Canada, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free To Fly
''Free to Fly'' is the seventh album and fifth studio album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace. It was released in 2001 by Word Records. Track listing # "By Heart" (Dane DeViller, Sean Hosien, Pam Sheyne) - 3:38 # "You Will Never Walk Alone" (Lowell Alexander) - 4:24 # "He Sends His Love" (Jeremy Bose, Paul Evans) - 4:35 # "Praise Forevermore" (Darlene Zschech) - 4:33 # "Blue Skies" (Grant Cunningham, Matt Huesmann) - 4:20 # "Begin With Me" (Steve Siler, David Tyson) - 3:15 # "Free Indeed" (Grant Cunningham, Matt Huesmann) - 3:55 # "All That I Need" (Glenn Garrett, Wayne Tester) - 4:08 # "Something So Good" (Jack Blades, Brent Bourgeois, Jane Vaughan) - 3:41 # "Yes, I Believe" (Joel Lindsay, Tony Wood) - 4:35 # "La La La" (Brent Wilson) - 4:49 Singles * "Blue Skies" - #1 * "Praise Forevermore" - #1 * "He Sends His Love" - #1 * "You Will Never Walk Alone - #1 * "Yes, I Believe" - #5 Music videos * "Begin With Me" Personnel Point of Grace * Shelley Breen – vocal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Of Grace
Point of Grace is an all-female contemporary Christian music vocal group. The current trio consists of Shelley Breen, Denise Jones, and Leigh Cappillino. The group started out as a quartet in 1991, with original members Breen and Jones, as well as Terry Jones and Heather Payne. Terry Jones left in November 2003 to spend more time with her family after the birth of her third child, with Cappillino joining in March 2004 for their 2004 release ''I Choose You''. In June 2008, Payne announced her retirement from the group to spend more time with her family. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 1993. In 2003, they released their ninth album, '' 24'' – a compilation of 24 previous hits. Biography 1991–1992: Early years Point of Grace was formed at Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, by Denise Masters, Terry Lang and Heather Floyd, who knew each other from Norman, Oklahoma, and sang together in a 14-member female vocal group called The O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Myers
Billie Myers (born 14 June 1971) is a British rock singer and songwriter from Coventry, England. She is known principally for her 1997 transatlantic hit "Kiss the Rain". Biography Myers was born in Coventry to a Jamaican father and English mother. Before commencing her career in music, Myers was a nurse and insurance agent. She was discovered in a club by record producer Peter Harris. Soon after their first meeting, Myers began writing material for her debut album, ''Growing, Pains'' (1997). The album was produced by Desmond Child. The first single from the album, "Kiss the Rain", became a Top 20 hit. Myers was signed to a recording contract with Universal Records in 1997. Singles from ''Growing, Pains'' have appeared on television commercials and in the TV series, ''Dawson's Creek''. ''Growing, Pains'' achieved gold record status in 1997, and Myers' follow-up album, ''Vertigo'', was issued in 2000. Her vocal style is a combination of pop, jazz and world music. She was given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Deep (Tina Arena Album)
''In Deep'' is the fourth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena released by Columbia Records in Australia on 18 August 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album entered the Australian ARIA Albums Chart at Number 1, on 25 August 1997, knocking '' Middle of Nowhere'' by Hanson off the top spot, making it Arena's second Number 1 album, to ''Don't Ask''. The singles released from ''In Deep'' were successful in most music markets, including Australia, France and New Zealand. In France, ''In Deep'' peaked at Number 3 on the French Albums Chart, stayed in the Top 10 for 29 weeks, and spent a total of 79 weeks in the Top 75. In New Zealand, the album entered the RIANZ Albums Chart at Number 22, then moved up to its peak position of Number 16 the week after, then spent a total of 6 weeks in the NZ Top 50. Overview ''In Deep'' was recorded in Los Angeles, with production duties divided between Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones (who produced albums for Van Halen and Billy Joel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Ask
''Don't Ask'' is the third studio album by Australian singer Tina Arena released by Columbia Records in Australia on 14 November 1994. Overview Arena co-wrote all of the songs on the original release of the album which was produced by David Tyson. The album spawned six successful singles "Chains", " Sorrento Moon (I Remember)", "Heaven Help My Heart", " Wasn't It Good", "That's the Way a Woman Feels" and the cover version of Maria McKee's song "Show Me Heaven" which was recorded for the international version and was not released as a single in Australia. ''Don't Ask'' and its singles earned Arena ten ARIA Awards nominations throughout 1995 and 1996, winning five, including Album of the Year. It is the first album by a female artist to do so. Track listing Personnel *Tina Arena − vocals, background vocals *Peter Asher − percussion *Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick − cello *Claude Gaudette − piano *Raven Kane − background vocals *Peter Kent − violin *Kirkpatrick − cello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Arena
Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is multilingual, singing and recording in English, Italian, French and Spanish. Arena has earned several international and national awards, including a BRIT Award, seven ARIA Awards and two World Music Awards for Best-selling Australian Artist (1996, 2000). In 2001, she was awarded a BMI Foundation Songwriting Award (Broadcast Music Inc) by the American performance rights organisation for co-writing "Burn" with Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel. In 2011, Arena became the first Australian to be awarded a knighthood of the French National Order of National Merit, presented by the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, for her contributions to French culture, and ceremonially awarded by Frédéric Mitterrand, the Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Falling Down
''World Falling Down'' is the fourth solo album for music artist Peter Cetera, released in July 1992, and his third album since leaving the group Chicago. Background Released four years after his previous album, '' One More Story'', ''World Falling Down'' was recorded sporadically over a lengthy period across nine different recording studios. Cetera's marriage to second wife, Diane Nini had ended, causing the once busy songwriter to step away from the music scene. Between 1988 and 1992, his only musical activities were an appearance as a guest vocalist on Cher's 1989 single, " After All", a song on the soundtrack to the movie '' Chances Are'', "No Explanation" for the soundtrack to the movie '' Pretty Woman'', and a vocal contribution to David Foster's " Voices That Care" production, based on music that he and Cetera had written together years earlier. Deeply depressed, Cetera found himself using the album as an outlet to deal with his marriage ending and learning to be a single p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cetera
Peter Paul Cetera ( ; born September 13, 1944) is an American retired musician best known for being a lead vocalist and the bassist of the rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985, before launching a successful solo career. His career as a recording artist encompasses 17 albums with Chicago and eight solo albums. With " If You Leave Me Now", a song written and sung by Cetera on the group's tenth album, Chicago garnered its first Grammy Award. It was also the group's first number one single. As a solo artist, Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles, including two that reached number one on ''Billboards Hot 100 chart in 1986, " Glory of Love" and "The Next Time I Fall". "Glory of Love", the theme song from the film ''The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986), was co-written by Cetera, David Foster, and Diane Nini, and was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for best original song from a motion picture. In 1987, Cetera received an ASCAP award for "Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockinghorse
''Rockinghorse'' is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alannah Myles, released on October 13, 1992, by Atlantic Records. It spawned five singles, "Song Instead of a Kiss", "Tumbleweed", "Our World, Our Times", "Living on a Memory", and "Sonny Say You Will" (the first one of which Myles co-wrote). The album was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards. Track listing Personnel Musicians * Alannah Myles – vocals * David Tyson – keyboards, bass, backing vocals * Kurt Schefter – guitars * David Wipper – acoustic guitars, mandolin * Buzz Feiten – electric guitars (5) * Will Lee – bass * Denny Fongheiser – drums, percussion * Jørn Andersen – additional cymbals (1) * Larry Williams – saxophones * Greg Smith – baritone saxophone (2, 4) * Gary Grant – trumpets * John Elefante – backing vocals * Mark Free – backing vocals * Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals * Christopher Ward – backing vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alannah Myles (album)
''Alannah Myles'' is the debut album by Canadian singer Alannah Myles, released on March 28, 1989. It includes the worldwide hit single " Black Velvet". The album was a big seller worldwide, and reached number one for two weeks in her native Canada, number 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the US and number 3 in the UK Albums Chart. The album cover comes from a photoshoot by Canadian photographer Deborah Samuel. Track listing Personnel Musicians * Alannah Myles – lead vocals, backing vocals * David Tyson – keyboards, bass (1), backing vocals (1), synthesized fretless bass (3)"Bassist on Black Velvet..cool fretless stuff" (response from Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
