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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Cher Grammy Award winning recording artist

Cher (pronounced /born Cherilyn Sarkisian, May 20, 1946 is a long-time American #1 Billboard Hot 100 and Grammy Award winning recording artist, Emmy Award winning television personality, multiple Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Cannes Film Festival award winning actress, director, record producer and dedicated philanthropist. With a career spanning over six decades and referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in film, music and television. She is the only person in history to have received all of these awards. Cher began her career as a backup singer and later came to prominence as one half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "I Got You Babe" in 1965. She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, and became a television star in 1971 with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, a variety show for which she won a Golden Globe. A well received performance in the film Silkwood earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1984. In the following years, Cher starred in a string of hit films including Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988.
Cher, throughout her long career, has broken many records. She is the only artist to reach the number one on the Billboard charts in each of the previous six decades, and also holds this record for four and five decades. Her hit dance single "Believe" is her biggest-selling recording and was the best-selling single of 1999, having sold over 10 million copies worldwide. She holds the Hot 100 record for the longest hit-making career span, with 33 years between the release of her first and most recent Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles, in 1965 and 1999 and 45 years between her first and most recent #1 ranking on any Billboard chart Cher ended her 3-year-long "Farewell Tour" in 2005 as the most successful tour by a female solo artist of all time.With a career lasting over 45 years, Cher has sold over 100 million records worldwide. After a three-year hiatus and retirement from touring, Cher returned to the stage in February 2008 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas where she performed her show Cher at the Colosseum until February 2011. Cher has a deep contralto vocal range.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 1962–1964: Early career
o 2.2 1965–1969: Career development
o 2.3 1970–1975: TV and musical stardom
o 2.4 1976–1981: Solo career and misses
o 2.5 1982–1987: Film stardom and musical breakout
o 2.6 1987–1989: Return to musical success
o 2.7 1990–1992: Artistic development and commercial hits
o 2.8 1992–1997: Commercial ups-and-downs, controversy and death of Sonny Bono
o 2.9 1998–2000: Popularity of Believe
o 2.10 2000–2002: Legacy of achievement
o 2.11 2002–2005: The Farewell Tour
o 2.12 2008–present: Las Vegas residency, 'Burlesque', and album comeback
* 3 Personal life
o 3.1 Relationships
o 3.2 Personal wealth
o 3.3 As a gay icon
o 3.4 Political interests
o 3.5 Humanitarian work
o 3.6 Fan base
* 4 Legacy
* 5 Discography
o 5.1 Studio albums
o 5.2 Compilations and other albums
* 6 Filmography
* 7 See also
* 8 References
* 9 External links

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Willa Holland Pictures

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mandy moore songwriter, actress

Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore born April 10, 1984 is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer.
Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen-oriented pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. Moore subsequently branched out into film, starring in 2002's A Walk to Remember and later in other movies, such as Chasing Liberty, also aimed at teenage audiences. Two of Moore's later films, American Dreamz and Saved!, were satires. Most recently Moore provided the voice of Rapunzel in Disney's newest animated film, Tangled. Her most recent album, Amanda Leigh, was released on May 26, 2009. Moore has sold more than 10 million records worldwide.
Her private life, including her relationships with tennis player Andy Roddick and with actors Wilmer Valderrama and Zach Braff,as well as her marriage to singer Ryan Adams, has become the subject of media coverage.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Music career
o 2.1 1999–2002
+ 2.1.1 So Real
+ 2.1.2 I Wanna Be With You
+ 2.1.3 Mandy Moore
o 2.2 2003–2006
o 2.3 2007–2009
o 2.4 2010-present
* 3 Acting career
o 3.1 2000–2002
o 3.2 2003–2005
o 3.3 2006–2007
o 3.4 2009-2010
* 4 Fashion career
* 5 Philanthropy
* 6 Personal life
* 7 Discography
o 7.1 Studio albums
o 7.2 Compilations
o 7.3 DVDs
* 8 Filmography
* 9 References
* 10 External links
Early life
Moore was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. Her mother, Stacy (née Friedman), is a former news reporter who once worked for the Orlando Sentinel, and her father, Donald "Don" Moore, is a pilot for American Airlines. Moore's father is of Irish and Cherokee descent, and her mother is of half English and half Jewish ancestry. Moore, who has two brothers, Scott and Kyle, grew up in Longwood, Florida, outside of Orlando, where the family moved shortly after her birth because of her father's job as an airline pilot.She was raised Catholic (though she is no longer practicing), and attended Bishop Moore High School, a Catholic school in Orlando, as well as Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs.
Moore's interest in singing grew after seeing the musical Oklahoma! She was also encouraged to perform by her English-born maternal grandmother, who was her inspiration. Some of Moore's first public exposure occurred when she sang the national anthem at several Florida sporting events. She subsequently came to the attention of the head of the artists and repertoire department at Epic Records after his friend, a FedEx employee, overheard her as she sang at a recording studio.

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our memories, well they can be inviting

I heard these two songs recently, and they made me feel old.. but somehow, not in a bad way. I remember these songs from a long long time ago (Wikipedia tells me they are from 1996/7). I can never explain what I mean when I say I connect songs with a certain memory. There are some songs that evoke memories for me, and I can 'see' myself in this memory.. I suppose the music acts as a stimulant for the memory, so that I remember it, like an audio part of the memory.

This song was out around the time when there were some relatively big changes in my life, and decisions leading to them. This is one of the songs I remember watching and I see it as a 'bridge' between the life I had and the life I went on to have (not that there was a huge distinction. In my mind, there was anyway).

I will always like this song :)

Not all that unexpected for a preteen girl, I loved all the boy and girl bands of the 90's (most of them anyway). There seemed to be doing lots of crazy dancing and singing... a hallmark of manufactured boybands, with loads of screaming girls. For example, Backstreet Boys... even with these relatively slower songs, they were still swaying and "dancing" :S so I suppose now they've grown up, they can't do that anymore. I find it weird listening to "I want it that way" like this now: I recently found a punk version of it, that seems to have replaced the original for me.