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Oh Canada (Missy Higgins Song)
"Oh Canada" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins, and inspired by Alan Kurdi—a drowned Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015. The track was released on 19 February 2016 with 100% of net profits from the song to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. It was shortlisted for Song of the Year at the APRA Music Awards of 2017. Background "Oh Canada" tells the story of the three-year-old boy who was found dead in September 2015 after fleeing Syria for Canada, with his brother and their parents. Alan's father Abdullah was the only survivor. "Their ultimate goal was to get to Canada because his sister lived over there," Higgins said, "Their application had been rejected, so they thought getting a boat was their only choice" Higgins explained to ''The Guardian'' her emotional reaction—including anger—to seeing the photo of Kurdi from her living room. She said she wanted to write about it. "I tried not to take the moral high ground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missy Higgins
Melissa Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983), known professionally as Missy Higgins, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her Australian number-one albums are ''The Sound of White'' (2004), ''On a Clear Night'' (2007) and ''The Ol' Razzle Dazzle'' (2012), and her singles include "Scar (song), Scar", "Steer (Missy Higgins song), Steer" and "Where I Stood". Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in ARIA Music Awards of 2004, 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In ARIA Music Awards of 2005, 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. Higgins won her seventh ARIA in ARIA Music Awards of 2007, 2007. Her third album, ''The Ol' Razzle Dazzle'', was released in Australia in June 2012 (July 2012 in the US). As of August 2014, Higgins' first three studio albums had sold over one million units. Higgins' fourth studio album, ''OZ'', was released in September 2014 and consists of cover versions of Australian composers, as well as a book of rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Music Company
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shark Fin Blues
"Shark Fin Blues" is a double A-side single taken from Australian rockers the Drones' second studio album, '' Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By'' (April 2005). The single was released on 25 September 2006. It also appeared as a limited edition, 7" picture disc, together with the band's fourth album, ''Gala Mill'' (September 2006). The band's most popular song, "Shark Fin Blues" - "an anthem of sorts for the disenfranchised and melancholic" written after the passing of lead singer Gareth Liddiard's mother - was voted the greatest Australian song of all time by the band's contemporaries in 2009 and is now widely considered to be a classic. Composition The song starts off "hazy" and "distorted" over "restrained drumming" and gradually builds up, "expanding and filling with screeching guitars and a contagious chorus of "na na na’s"". The instrumentation on this track has been described as "jarring" while Liddiard's vocals have been described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
