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Little Victories (Beccy Cole Album)
''Little Victories'' is the third studio album by Australian country music singer Beccy Cole. It was released in the month of January in 2003 and peaked at number 29 on the ARIA Charts. The album was certified gold in 2005. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2003, the album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Country Album, losing out to '' Golden Road'' by Keith Urban. Background and release Cole began work on ''Little Victories'' after winning her second Golden Guitar at the 2002 Country Music Awards of Australia. The success of ''Wild at Heart'' had meant the label had increased Cole's budget, which enabled Cole and McCormack to gather renown musicians. Cole and McCormack wrote songs together across Australia, including far North Queensland, where he met Graeme Connors and his wife. The album was released to co-incide with the 2003 Country Music Awards. Track listing # "Blackwood Hill" (Beccy Cole, Tamara Stewart) – 4:51 # "Little Victories" (Cole, Stewart) – 4:07 # "Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beccy Cole
Beccy Cole (born Rebecca Diane Thompson, 27 October 1972), also known as Beccy Sturtzel, Rebecca Diane Albeck and Bec O'Donovan, is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released ten studio albums, with six reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40, '' Little Victories'' (January 2003), '' Preloved'' (September 2010), '' Songs & Pictures'' (September 2011), ''Great Women of Country'' (with Melinda Schneider, November 2014), '' Sweet Rebecca'' (April 2015) and ''The Great Country Songbook Volume 2'' (with Adam Harvey, April 2017). Her video album, ''Just a Girl Singer'' (August 2004), peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Top 40 DVD Chart. Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia. During December 2005 to January 2006 she performed for Australian Defence Force personnel in Iraq. Her related single, "Poster Girl (Wrong Side of the World)" (May 2016), expresses her support for the troops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is an Australian-American musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, thirteen CMA Awards and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song "For You (Keith Urban song), For You" from the film ''Act of Valor'', which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories. Urban has released 11 studio albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album with The Ranch (band), the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley ("Start a Band") and the 2008 single "You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban also worked with numerous artists from different music ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Albums
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pebe Sebert
Rosemary Patricia "Pebe" Sebert ( ; born March 17, 1956) is an American singer and songwriter from Brentwood, Tennessee, and the mother of singer and songwriter Kesha. Sebert has co-written number-one hits for Dolly Parton, Pitbull, and Kesha, her daughter. Sebert and Kesha have written 11 published songs together. The songs Sebert wrote for other artists have combined sales of over 8 million copies in the United States alone. In 2013, Sebert appeared as a regular on reality show '' Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life'', which starred Kesha and was filmed by her son Lagan. Early life Sebert was born on March 17, 1956, in Michigan City, Indiana, and her early years were spent on her parents' farm. She is of Hungarian descent. Pebe began singing and making up songs at age 4 and singing publicly by age six, and she trained as a singer and played piano and guitar. Sebert sang in groups, bands, and as a solo artist. She entered the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy at age 15, where sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Harvey
Adam Harvey (born 21 December 1974) is an Australian country music singer. Harvey has sold over half a million records, has been nominated five times for an ARIA Music Award and has won nine golden guitars at the Country Music Awards of Australia. Biography Harvey got his start musically learning country classics on the guitar as a small boy. His first gig came at the age of ten, and by his school years he was performing rock covers at a club when he was discovered and went off on tour as support for Tania Kernaghan. In 1998 Harvey won his first Country Music (CMAA) Award for 'Vocal Collaboration of the Year' with Tanya Self for "Drive Away". In 2001 he won another CMAA Award for 'Vocal Collaboration of the Year' this time with Beccy Cole, Darren Coggan and Felicity, for "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind". In 2002, Harvey won two CMAA Awards; 'Album of the Year' and 'Male Vocalist of the Year' for ''Workin' Overtime''. ''Workin' Overtime'' was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Connors
Graeme Connors (born 29 April 1956) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter, and performer. Connors has released seventeen studio albums and has received fourteen Golden Guitar awards among other prestige Australian country music awards. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Graeme Connors was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artists". In 2016, Connors was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown. Career 1965-1987: Early career Graeme attended school St. Patricks in Mackay. Graeme commenced his music career in the mid-1970s doing support vocals for many well-known acts of the day. In 1974, at the age of 18, Connors opened for American singer/songwriter, Kris Kristofferson during his Australian tour. Kristofferson was so impressed with young Connors, that he took him into the recording studio to produce his 1976 debut album ''And When Morning Comes''. From the late 1970s through to the late 1980s, Connors wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music Awards Of Australia
The Country Music Awards of Australia also known as the Golden Guitar Awards (originally named Australasian Country Music Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. The awards are hosted at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre (TRECC) on the final Saturday night of the Tamworth Festival. They have been held annually since 1973. The first award ceremony had just six awards. The awards show is presented in fornt of live audience made up from the media, the music industry and the public. Awards The award winners are given a Golden Guitar trophy. These are cast in solid bronze on a base of polished Tasmanian Blackwood. They are 235 mm tall and weigh 1.5 kilos. Australian Roll of Renown Since 1976, the Australian Roll of Renown is an award to honour Australian and New Zealander country music artists who have shaped th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Guitar
The Big Golden Guitar is one of the many "big" attractions that can be found around Australia. Located in Tamworth, New South Wales, the monument is one of the best-known points of interest in New England. It is also a major attraction during the Tamworth Country Music Festival. History The Golden Guitar was erected in front of the Longyard Hotel on Sydney Road in 1988. It was unveiled by the country music artist, Slim Dusty. Its location in Tamworth is symbolic of the city's recognition and celebration of Australian country music, and its artists. An annual award ceremony takes place where miniature Golden Guitars are given as awards to artists and musicians in recognition of their achievements and contributions in the genre of country music. An estimated 3.6 million photographs have been taken of the site since its opening. In 2018, the Tamworth Visitor Information Centre at the Big Golden Guitar Tourist Centre had 117,000 visitors, and the Council intends to increase v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Road (album)
''Golden Road'' is the third studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 8 October 2002 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", " Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me". This was Urban's first album to be produced by Dann Huff, who has produced all of his albums since. Content This album produced four singles: "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", " Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me", which all made it to the Top 10 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. "Somebody Like You", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me" all reached number one, while "Raining on Sunday" peaked at number three. "Raining on Sunday" was originally recorded by Radney Foster on the 1998 album ''See What You Want to See'', with a backing vocal from Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish. "Jeans On" is a cover of a Lord David Dundas song. The song "Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Award For Best Country Album
The ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing ... (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry." Winners and nominees In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface. Kasey Chambers has most wins with 9 awards from 9 nominations, more than any other artist or band in this category.ARIA Award previous winners. Full nominees for 1988 are not available in published sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Music Awards Of 2003
The 17th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards) were held on 21 October 2003 at the Sydney Superdome. The ceremony aired on Network Ten. Awards ''Winners highlighted in bold, with nominees, in plain, below them.'' ARIA Awards *Album of the Year **Powderfinger – '' Vulture Street'' *** Delta Goodrem – '' Innocent Eyes'' ***The Sleepy Jackson – '' Lovers'' ***Something for Kate – '' The Official Fiction'' ***The Waifs – '' Up All Night'' *Single of the Year ** Delta Goodrem – "Born to Try" *** Amiel – " Lovesong" ***Powderfinger – " (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" ***Silverchair – "Luv Your Life" ***The Waifs – "Lighthouse" *Best Male Artist **Alex Lloyd – " Coming Home" ***Ben Lee – ''Hey You. Yes You.'' ***John Butler – ''Living'' *** Nick Cave – '' Nocturama'' ***Tex Perkins – ''Sweet Nothing'' *Best Female Artist ** Delta Goodrem – '' Innocent Eyes'' *** Amiel – ''Audio Out'' ***Ky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
