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Dreams (Diana DeGarmo Song)
"Dreams" is a song by ''American Idol'' season three runner-up Diana DeGarmo, released as her debut single on June 22, 2004. The song peaked at number 14 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number two on the Canadian Singles Chart, giving DeGarmo her only and highest-charting single. The B-sides includes a cover of " Don't Cry Out Loud" and her rendition of the season-three finalist song " I Believe". Credits and personnel Credits are lifted from the US CD single. Studios * Recorded at Woodland Ranch Studios ( Woodland Hills, California), The Location (Stockholm, Sweden), Ocean Way Recording, The Record Plant (Hollywood, California), Royaltone Studios (North Hollywood, California), and Mix This! ( Pacific Palisades, California) * Mixed at Mix This! (Pacific Palisades, California) Writing and production * Desmond Child – writing, choir, production * Andreas Carlsson – writing, choir, choir arrangement, production * Chris Braide – writing, choir * Brian Coleman – producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diana DeGarmo
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987) is an American singer. She rose to fame in 2004 as the runner-up of the third season of ''American Idol'', releasing her debut studio album, '' Blue Skies'', later that year. The following year, DeGarmo ventured into a career in musical theatre. She has starred in two Broadway, one off-Broadway and three national tours. She made her television acting debut in a six-month arc as Angelina Veneziano on ''The Young and the Restless.'' DeGarmo has since released two extended plays, ''Unplugged in Nashville'' (2009) and ''Live to Love'' (2012). She is married to fifth season ''American Idol'' finalist Ace Young. Early life Diana DeGarmo was born on June 16, 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama, but was raised primarily in the Atlanta suburb of Snellville, Georgia. DeGarmo began singing at a young age, including the 1997 Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards, and in Atlanta-based stage productions of '' Annie'' and ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Idol (season 3)
The third season of ''American Idol'' premiered on Monday, January 19, 2004, and continued until May 26, 2004. The third season was won by Fantasia Barrino, who defeated Diana DeGarmo by an approximate margin of 2% (1.3 million votes); the vote total (65 million votes) was then the highest recorded vote total in the show's history. This season also featured future EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson, who finished seventh in the competition. Both Fantasia and Diana DeGarmo released a single after the finale. Fantasia's first single, released in June 2004 on the RCA record label, entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number one, making Fantasia the first artist in the history of ''Billboard'' to debut at number one with their first single. In addition to Fantasia and Diana DeGarmo, Jasmine Trias, LaToya London, George Huff, Jennifer Hudson, and Camile Velasco all released albums since the season ended. The season is also, to date, the only season in the show's history to produce mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dean Parks
Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. In 1980, he was a founding member of the Christian Jazz Fusion band Koinonia. Parks is best known for his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, and Bread. Notably, he played guitar on Steely Dan's '' Royal Scam'' track " Haitian Divorce". Parks is also a long-time collaborator on David Foster albums, such as ''Shadows'' by Gordon Lightfoot. Parks features on Cat Beach's albums ''Letting Go'' and ''Love Me Out Loud''. In 2008, Parks participated in the production of the album ''Psalngs'', the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre. Parks is very prominently featured on Viktor Krauss' album ''II'' (2007), where he plays a plethora of other stringed instruments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oren Waters
Oren Waters is an American vocalist best known for his work with the backup singing group The Waters, his siblings: Luther, Maxine and Julia. As an ensemble, Waters has been a part of 260 gold and over 100 platinum albums with artists including Johnny Rivers, Dan Fogelberg, Neil Diamond, Patti La Belle, Paul Simon, Pet Shop Boys, Helen Reddy, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, John Fogerty, Janet and Michael Jackson. He has also provided the vocals for TV themes such as " Baretta's Theme", and "Movin' on Up" for ''The Jeffersons''. Waters has also contributed to movie soundtracks including ''Happy Feet'', ''The Lion King'', ''The Matrix'', '' Saint Seiya: The Legend of Crimson Youth'', ''Avatar'' and '' American Gangster''. He currently teaches vocal performance at the California College of Music. Waters lost his home in the Eaton Fire in January 2025, and so did his sister Maxine. The home of his sister Julia was not harmed. The Waters In 2013, the group featured in the film ''20 Fee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jim Gilstrap
James Gilstrap is an American singer and session musician. He is best known for his 1975 solo hit single " Swing Your Daddy", as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series ''Good Times''. Career Gilstrap was born November 10, 1946, in Daingerfield, Texas to Jodie and Pearlie Mae (Tolbert) Gilstrap. He joined the U.S. Navy Reserve. He began his career in the music industry when he returned from serving in the Vietnam War. Early groups he worked with include the Doodletown Pipers and The Cultures. In the early 1970s, Gilstrap was one of the backing vocalists in Stevie Wonder's backing outfit, "Wonderlove", appearing on Wonder's albums, ''Talking Book'' and '' Innervisions''. Gilstrap sang the opening two lines of the Wonder song, " You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (with Lani Groves singing the next two lines). He subsequently signed a recording contract with Chelsea Records in 1975. His recording of the Kenny Nolan-penned "Swing Your Daddy" was a number 4 hit in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chris Willis
Christopher Kevin Willis (born February 26, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Although initially a gospel music, gospel singer, he later received international attention for his collaborations with French house music disc jockey David Guetta. Willis guest performed on his singles "Just a Little More Love (song), Just a Little More Love", "Love Don't Let Me Go", "Love Is Gone", "Tomorrow Can Wait (song), Tomorrow Can Wait", "Everytime We Touch (David Guetta song), Everytime We Touch" (with Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso), "Would I Lie to You? (Charles & Eddie song)#David Guetta, Cedric Gervais and Chris Willis version, Would I Lie to You" (with Cedric Gervais) and "Gettin' Over You". Biography Originally a gospel music, gospel singer, with the Heritage Singers and others, he was featured on the pop-classical album ''Handel's Messiah – A Soulful Celebration'' in 1993, singing a contemporary version of "Messiah Part I#3, Every Valley Shall Be E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Anthony Kilhoffer
Anthony Kilhoffer is an American hip hop record producer, songwriter, and engineer, best known for his collaborations with Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Keyshia Cole and John Legend. Biography Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Kilhoffer got his start in the music business as an intern at Trax Records, where he worked with Ministry and other hardcore music acts. He soon moved to Los Angeles to take a job at Record Plant studios, where he began his professional relationship with Kanye West, first acting as an engineer on a series of Floetry recordings, produced by West. This commenced a working relationship with West that extended more than a decade, serving as engineer and/or producer on West's albums ''The College Dropout'', ''Late Registration'', ''Graduation'', '' 808s and Heartbreak'', ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'', ''Watch The Throne'' (with Jay-Z), '' Cruel Summer'', ''Yeezus'', and ''The Life of Pablo''. Kilhoffer eventually expanded his musical collaborations to include Igg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steve Churchyard
Steve Churchyard is an English audio engineer and record producer who came to prominence working with the Pretenders. Career Churchyard grew up in Surbiton He attended senior school at Surbiton Grammar school in Thames ditton whilst he and his parents resided at The Old Bull in East Sheen, a popular heavy disco venue and pub - now demolished. In 1974 he began his career as an assistant at the Orange Music recording studio in the basement of a guitar shop near London's Tin Pan Alley, where he worked for three years, moving up from tape-op, to engineer, to chief tech, to studio manager. In 1977 he was offered a position as an assistant at Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios. His first job at the studio was assisting Geoff Emerick on Paul McCartney and Wings' 1978 album '' London Town''. In 1982 Churchyard began working with producer Chris Thomas, which led to his working on the Pretenders' 1984 album '' Learning to Crawl'' and INXS' 1985 album '' Listen Like Thieves''. Churchyard r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob Clearmountain
Bob Clearmountain (born Chiaramonte, January 15, 1953) is an American mixing engineer and record producer, best known for his work with major acts, including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Pretenders, and Bryan Adams. Described by '' Sound on Sound'' magazine as having "his name on more hit records than anyone else in the history of popular music", he is credited with establishing the role of mixing engineer. Clearmountain has mixed some of the most iconic live shows in music history, including Live Aid and The Concert for New York City. Records mixed by Clearmountain have won eight Grammy Awards. He has also won two Emmy Awards from five nominations. Early life and education Born in Connecticut, Clearmountain later moved to New York City, where he graduated from Greenwich High School in 1971. As a teenager, Clearmountain had many friends who were musicians. He loved music, and played bass guitar in various bar bands, but felt he didn't want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carl Falk
Carl Anthony Falk-Gramer (née Falk; born 17 August 1980 in Stockholm), is a Sri-Lankan-born Swedish songwriter, record producer and musician and has worked with artists such as Demi Lovato, One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Nicki Minaj, Ellie Goulding, Madonna, Avicii, Ariana Grande, Charlie Puth, Jason Derulo, Westlife, Hilary Duff, Iggy Azalea and Liam Payne. Biography As a student Falk attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He then joined "The Location" in 2002, a new production and publishing-company formed by former Cheiron-members Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson and Jake Schulz, leasing the former Cheiron Studios. Falk left "The Location" in 2007 and re-located to Los Angeles in April 2010 to team up with Rami Yacoub and Steve Angello (Swedish House Mafia). Back in Sweden Carl and Rami started their production company and studio – Kinglet Studios. Since 2010 he has co-written and co-produced hits like " What Makes You Beautiful", "One Thing", "L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pro Tools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-production and mixing) and, more generally, sound recording, editing, and mastering processes. Pro Tools operates both as standalone software and in conjunction with a range of external analog-to-digital converters and PCIe cards with on-board digital signal processors (DSP). The DSP is used to provide additional processing power to the host computer for processing real-time effects, such as reverb, equalization, and compression and to obtain lower latency audio performance. Like all digital audio workstation software, Pro Tools can perform the functions of a multitrack tape recorder and a mixing console along with additional features that can only be performed in the digital domain, such as non-linear and non-destructive editing (most of aud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
