|
Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Ellen Michaelson (born December 8, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Her first album, '' Slow the Rain,'' was released in 2005, and she has since released eight more albums: '' Girls and Boys,'' '' Be OK'', '' Everybody'', '' Human Again'', '' Lights Out'', ''It Doesn't Have to Make Sense'', ''Songs for the Season'', and her most recent, '' Stranger Songs.'' Her two highest-charting singles are " The Way I Am" (2007) and "Girls Chase Boys" (2014), at #37 and #52 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, respectively. Early life Michaelson is half Swedish and was born in 1979 in New York City to artistic parents. Her father, Carl Michaelson, was a manager of copyrights for the publishing company Carl Fischer Music and a composer on the side ("The Praise of Christmas"). Her mother, Elizabeth Egbert, was a sculptor, of Dutch ancestry. As a child, Michaelson performed in a musical theatre group called Staten Island Kids On Stage. She took up piano at age 4, and trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Music, Inc
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 20.6 million musical works. On a quarterly basis, BMI distributes the money to songwriters, composers, and music publishers as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. In FY 2022, BMI collected $1.573 billion in revenues and distributed $1.471 billion in royalties. BMI's repertoire includes over 1.3 million songwriters and 20.6 million compositions. BMI is the biggest performing rights organization in the United States and is one of the largest such organizations in the world. BMI songwriters create music in virtually every genre. BMI represents artists such as Patti LaBelle, Selena, Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne, Lil Nas X, Birdman, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Eminem, Rihanna, Shakira, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, Ed Sheeran, Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be OK (album)
''Be OK'' is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. It was released on October 14, 2008. It entered the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart at 35, with 15,000 copies sold in its first week. The album consists of previously unreleased music, live recordings and cover versions. According to Michaelson's website, a portion of the proceeds from the album's sales was to be donated to Stand Up to Cancer. Track listing # "Be OK (Ingrid Michaelson song), Be OK" – 2:27 # "Giving Up" – 4:09 # "Over the Rainbow" – 2:56 # "The Chain (Live from Webster Hall)" – 3:13 # "Lady in Spain" – 3:11 # "Keep Breathing" – 3:25 # "Oh What a Day" – 2:28 # "The Way I Am (Live on WERS)" – 2:03 # "Can't Help Falling in Love (Live At Daytrotter)" – 3:14 # "You and I" – 2:28 # "Be OK (Acoustic)" – 2:32 References {{Authority control 2008 albums Charity albums Ingrid Michaelson albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch American
Dutch Americans ( nl, Nederlandse Amerikanen) are Americans of Dutch descent whose ancestors came from the Netherlands in the recent or distant past. Dutch settlement in the Americas started in 1613 with New Amsterdam, which was exchanged with the English for Suriname at the Treaty of Breda (1667) and renamed New York City. The English split the Dutch colony of New Netherland into two pieces and named them New York and New Jersey. Further waves of immigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. Prominent (partial) Dutch American political figures include Presidents Martin Van Buren, Warren G. Harding, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Senators Philip Schuyler, Nicholas Van Dyke, Hamilton Fish, John C. Ten Eyck, Daniel W. Voorhees, Arthur Vandenberg, Peter G. Van Winkle, Alan Simpson, Fred Thompson, John Hoeven, and Christopher Van Hollen. Two of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Egbert Benson and John Jay, were also of Dutch descent. Governors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Fischer Music
Carl Fischer Music (founded in 1872) is a sheet music publisher based in New York City's East Village. The company has since moved to the Wall Street area in 2013. After 140 years, the company remains a family-owned business, publishing both performance and educational music for students, teachers, and virtuosos. Carl Fischer's composers and editors give clinics and sessions all over the country, and the company claims to serve more than 1400 retailers around the world. History 1870s into the 20th century In 1872, Carl Fischer opened his musical instrument repair shop in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Noticing that many of his customers were searching for instrumental arrangements of well-known works that didn't exist, Fischer began creating and reproducing arrangements, which led him into the music publishing business. Carl Fischer became the pre-eminent publisher of music for concert band composers such as Percy Grainger, John Philip Sousa and the famous tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, west of Detroit. It has been a division of Cengage since 2007. The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for Public libraries, public, Academic libraries, academic, and school libraries, and businesses. The company is known for its full-text magazine and newspaper databases, Gale OneFile (formerly known as Infotrac), and other online databases subscribed by libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history, and social science. Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr., the company was acquired by the International Thomson Organization (later the Thomson Corporation) in 1985 before its 2007 sale to Cengage. History In 1998, Gale Research merged with Information Access Company and Primary Source Media, two companies a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish American
Swedish Americans ( sv, svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedes, Swedish ancestry. They include the 1.2 million Swedish immigrants during 1865–1915, who formed tight-knit communities, as well as their descendants and more recent immigrants. Today, Swedish Americans are found throughout the United States, with Minnesota, California and Illinois being the three states with the highest number of Swedish Americans. Historically, newly arrived Swedish immigrants settled in the Midwestern United States, Midwest, namely Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, and Wisconsin, just as other Scandinavian Americans. Populations also grew in the Pacific Northwest in the states of Oregon and Washington (state), Washington at the turn of the twentieth century. Migration Colonial The first Swedish Americans were the settlers of New Sweden: a colony established by Christina of Sweden, Queen Christina of Sweden in 1638. It centered around the Delaware Valley including parts of the present-day stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming in the United States. The weekly tracking period for sales was initially Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming, is readily available on a real-time basis, is also tracked on a Friday to Thursday cycle effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021 (previously Monday to Sunday and before July 2015, Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by ''Billboard'' on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday. The first number-one song of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Chase Boys
"Girls Chase Boys" is the lead single from Ingrid Michaelson's sixth studio album, '' Lights Out''. The song peaked at number 52 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Background Michaelson spoke about the development of the song and stated, It was written by Ingrid Michaelson, along with Trent Dabbs and Barry Dean. Commercial performance This song became Michaelson's highest-charting single and biggest airplay hit since " The Way I Am" hit number 37 in 2007, peaking at number 52 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, as well as her highest appearance on the Adult Pop Songs chart (number 6). It is also her first appearance on the magazine's Pop Songs chart, debuting at number 40 and reaching number 25. It reached number 38 on the Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) The Radio Songs chart (previously named Hot 100 Airplay until 2014 and Top 40 Radio Monitor until 1991) is released weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and measures the airplay of songs being played on radio stations throughout the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way I Am (Ingrid Michaelson Song)
"The Way I Am" is a song written by Ingrid Michaelson on her album '' Girls and Boys''. On September 21, 2007, Michaelson made her network television debut performing the song on ''Last Call with Carson Daly''. Caroline Pennell sang the song on the fifth season of ''The Voice'' in the knockout rounds, winning widespread fame, and was deemed the front runner of the show with her performance. ''American Idol'' Season 9 finalist Didi Benami performed a cover of the song on the Top 12 female performances on Tuesday, February 23, 2010. The song is frequently used to demonstrate Bose Corporation products due to its deep bass and crisp vocals. Music video The song's music video was directed by Autumn de Wilde. It depicts Michaelson dancing with a man (played by Greg Laswell, whom Michaelson would later marry) in a gymnasium where everyone present, except for Michaelson, is a clown or mime Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranger Songs
''Stranger Songs'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. It was released on June 28, 2019, by Cabin 24 Records. The album contains music that is inspired by Netflix television series '' Stranger Things'', with the album released shortly prior to the premiere of its third season. In addition to the album, Michaelson is composing music for a stage adaptation of the 2004 film ''The Notebook''. In an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly ''Entertainment Weekly'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''EW'') is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular cu ...'', Michaelson described ''Stranger Songs'' as a "natural extension" of her work on ''The Notebook''. The lead single from the album, " Missing You", was released on May 10, 2019. Track listing Charts References 2019 albums Science fiction concept a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs For The Season
''Songs for the Season'', or ''Ingrid Michaelson's Songs for the Season'', is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. It was released by Cabin 24 Records on October 26, 2018. It is her first Christmas album and takes a nostalgic approach to covers of Christmas standards and carols. A deluxe edition reissue, featuring five additional tracks, was released on November 5, 2021. Background Michaelson expressed that she loves the Christmas holiday and has wished to record a holiday album for years. Having recorded various Christmas songs such as the charity single " Winter Song", a duet with Sara Bareilles, she released ''Snowfall'' in 2017, an EP that compiled the winter- and holiday-themed songs she had recorded over the course of her career. Discussions about making her next studio album a full-length Christmas record began the same year. Drawing inspiration from Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and Brenda Lee, Michaelson envisioned an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Doesn't Have To Make Sense
''It Doesn't Have to Make Sense'' is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, released on August 26, 2016, through Cabin 24 Records under exclusive license to Mom + Pop Music. The album's lead single, "Hell No", was released on April 29, 2016. Promotion To promote the album, Michaelson embarked on the "Hell No Tour" on October 6, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Promotional appearances in the media to support the album included a performance of "Hell No" on ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'' on June 7, 2016, and a performance of "Hell No" on ''The Late Late Show with James Corden'' on August 22, 2016. Michaelson then performed "Still the One" on ''Live with Kelly'' on September 28, 2016. On August 15, a playlist featuring 30 seconds of every song was uploaded to Spotify. Singles The lead single, "Hell No", was released on April 29, 2016. Promotional singles On June 24, 2016, "Light Me Up" was released as the first promotional single to digita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Ingrid Michaelson")
