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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Joni Mitchell painted with words. Sitting at her piano or strumming the guitar, she turned the words into songs. The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas, saying things that were not only happy or sad but true. But before composing more than two hundred songs, Joni was a young girl from a town on the Canadian prairie, where she learned to love dancing, painting, birdsong, and piano. As she grew up into an artist, Joni took her strong feelings--feelings...
3) Shakira
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Shakira, the world's most popular Latin American singer. As a child, little Shakira knew she was born to be performer. Even as a little girl, she was full of natural rhythm and she was obsessed with singing, writing songs and dancing whenever she got the opportunity. At 14 years old she recorded her first album, and although it wasn't...
6) Singers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
What is it like to be a singer? In this Career Q&A video interview, M'Balia Singley talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success as a professional singer. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
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English
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A rising young singer-songwriter helps an emotionally unstable country star resurrect her career.
Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour steered by her husband/manager, that includes a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between the concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
10) Raise your voice
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A girl with an extraordinary voice is accepted to a music school in Los Angeles. There is one scholarship offered for the coming year - a seemingly impossible dream. With the help of an inspirational teacher, she finds the will to meet the challenge.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Although her family and friends know her as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting her career in 1950, Celia grew increasingly popular as the new lead singer of the Cuban band Sonora Matancera. Her exceptional vocal range and flashy costumes made fans fall in love with her. Celia's talent took her all around the world, including the United States. After Fidel Castro came to power in...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From 1974 to 1982, ABBA rewrote the rules of European pop music. The domination of American and British acts was ended, as the Fab Four from Sweden sold 370 million records and topped the charts around the world. "The Complete ABBA" tells the whole story--the songs, the hits, the tours, and how they achieved their trademark Wall of Sound harmonies. It also tells the personal story of the band, and how global stardom and constant touring affected their...
14) Me
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt, and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same again. His life has been full of drama, from the early...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rihanna is known world over as a music icon, but she is more than just a pop princess. Over the past ten years, Rihanna has worked hard to break stereotypes, develop a definitive style, and maintain creative control of her music. In the process, she's won dozens of awards, including eight Grammys. Young readers will learn about the musician and businesswoman's life through easy-to-follow text accompanied by dynamic full-color photographs, as well...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
The Music of Silence tells Andrea Bocelli's life story. Born in a small village near Tuscany, with the gift of a beautiful voice, but an illness which leaves him almost blind. Music gives him passion and guides him. Eventually Amos's incredible voice wins adulation locally, and ultimately worldwide. A heart-warming true story about a man who discovers himself and others, against the odds through the pursuit of beauty.
17) A star is born
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
18) The woman in me
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The noted pop star offers a moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
19) Meet the singer!
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
LEGO© City fans will love this new MEET THE LEGO City Step into Reading leveled reader series, featuring exciting careers including an astronaut, a singer, a firefighter, and more! Children ages 4 to 8, will love reading about Madison and Billy as they interview singing sensation Poppy Starr in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader! Step 3 readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. For children who are...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the preeminent cultural critics of her generation, a radiant weave of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of black women in music--from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet, Whitney, and Mariah-- as the foundational story of American pop"--
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