Giorgia Todrani, best known as Giorgia (born April 26, 1971)[1] is an Italian female singer, known for her soulful voice, which is aided by a wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities. She is one of the most iconic and famous Italian singers. She has released ten studio albums, which all enjoyed good commercial success in Italy. She has sung duets with artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Mina, Ronan Keating, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock and Elton John. Billboard magazine called her "one of the most popular Italian singers" and stated that "she could have made it in the USA too"[2].
Shigeru Umebayashi (born February 19, 1951 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka) is a Japanese composer.
Once the leader of Japan's new-wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for his score for director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2001). Umebayashi also scored House of Flying Daggers, and Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited 2046 (2004). He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, Charleston & Vendetta.
Isabel Vargas Lizano (born April 17, 1919) is a Mexican (Costa Rican born) singer. She is especially known for her rendition of rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres. She has been an influential interpreter in the Americas and Europe, muse to figures such as Pedro Almodóvar, hailed for her haunting performances, and called "la voz áspera de la ternura", the rough voice of tenderness.[1]
Isabel Vargas Lizano was born in San Joaquín de Flores, Costa Rica. She goes by Chavela, which is a nickname for Isabel. At only 14,[2] she fled her native country due to lack of musical career opportunities, seeking refuge in Mexico, where an entertainment industry was burgeoning. For many years she sang on the streets but in her thirties she became a professional singer. In her youth, she dressed as a man, smoked cigars, drank heavily, carried a gun and was known for her characteristic red poncho, which she still dons in performances.
Her first album, Noche de Bohemia (Bohemian Night), was released in 1961 with the professional support of José Alfredo Jiménez, one of the foremost singer/songwriters of the Mexican cancion ranchera.[3] Vargas has recorded over eighty albums thereafter.[4] She was hugely successful during the 1950s, 1960s and the first half of the 70s, touring in Mexico, the United States, France and Spain[5] and was close to many prominent artists and intellectuals of the time, including Juan Rulfo, Agustín Lara, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Dolores Olmedo and José Alfredo Jiménez.[1] She partly retired in the late 1970s due to a 15 year-long battle with alcoholism, which she has described in her autobiography (Y si quieres saber de mi pasado [And if you want to know about my past], published in 2002) as "my 15 years in hell"[6] At 81 years old, she publicly declared that she was a lesbian.[7]
Vargas returned to the stage in 1991, performing at the venue "El Habito" in Coyoacan, Mexico City,[1]. She debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2003 at the age of 83[8] at the behest and promotion of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, a long-time admirer and personal friend of Vargas.
She is featured in many Almodóvar's films, including La Flor de mi Secreto in both song and video. She has said, however, that acting is not her ambition, although she had previously participated in films such as 1967s La Soldadera[1]. Vargas recently appeared in the 2002 Julie Taymor film Frida, singing "La Llorona" (The Cryer).[9] Her classic "Paloma Negra" (Black Dove) was also included in the soundtrack of the film. Vargas herself, as a young woman, was alleged to have had an affair with Frida Kahlo, during Kahlo's marriage to muralist Diego Rivera.[9] She also appeared in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, singing "Tú me acostumbraste" (You Made Me Comfortable),[10] a bolero of Frank Dominguez.
Joaquín Sabina's song "Por el Boulevar de los Sueños Rotos" ("Through the Boulevard of Broken Dreams") is dedicated to Vargas.[1]
Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures.
Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American[1] professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of California as a teen, and Minnesota as an adult where she graduated from the University of Minnesota in voice and anthropology.
She later returned to Mexico where she learned to weave. Later, she began singing in the club scenes of Oaxaca and Philadelphia along with Paul Cohen, an American-born saxophonist. They began collaborating together on songs that would slowly evolve into Downs's subsequent recordings. Cohen went on to become both Downs' husband and her artistic director. [2]
In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europe. She was also heard in the soundtrack to the movie Frida in a song, Burn it Blue, that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song and that she performed at the 75th Academy Awards. Other songs that she performed on the soundtrack are "Benediction and Dream," "Estrella Oscura," and "La Llorona." Other movies with a Lila Downs song are Tortilla Soup, Real Women Have Curves and Fados by Carlos Saura. She was also invited to the Twelve Girls Band's concert in Shanghai, where she sings in French and English. Downs is currently based in Coyoacán, a borough of Mexico City.
Lila Downs released an album of new material as well as a few cover songs, including "I Envy The Wind" by Lucinda Williams and "I Would Never" by the Blue Nile. The album was released on September 2, 2008 and is called Shake Away. Downs also collaborates with artists like La Mari (singer) from Chambao (band) and Enrique Bunbury from Héroes del Silencio.
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Yasmin Levy (d. 23 Aralık 1975), Sefarad müziği yapan Kudüs doğumlu İsrailli şarkıcı ve söz yazarı. 14 Temmuz 2008'de İstanbul Caz Festivali kapsamında İstanbul'da sahne aldı.
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Babasını henüz iki yaşında kaybetmiş ve annesi tarafından büyütülmüştür. Üvey babası, Latin ve Sefarad kültürü ve müziği konusunda bir araştırmacı olan Yasmin, Latin ve Sefarad müziğinden Endülüs flamenkosuna; Türk ezgilerinden Arap etkilerine pek çok unsuru müziğinde kullanmaktadır. Çello, viyolonsel ve piano gibi Batı müziği enstrümanları yanında ud gibi Doğu müziği enstrümanlarını da şarkılarında kullanmıştır.
