"commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2017. Talkin' 'bout a Revolution ""Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"" is the second single from singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman's self-titled debut album. The politically aware song failed to replicate the success of its predecessor, ""Fast Car"", and peaked at #75 in the United States. However, it also managed to chart on four other charts maintained by ""Billboard"" (which brings out the weekly US chart) and reached the top forty in two of them. Internationally, this single was a big hit, reaching the Top 40 in several countries, including France and New Zealand, becoming a classic in"
"Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single ""Fast Car"", and Best New Artist. Chapman released her second album ""Crossroads"" the following year, which garnered her an additional Grammy nomination. Since then, Chapman has experienced further success with six more studio albums, which include her multi-platinum fourth album ""New Beginning"", for which she won a fourth Grammy Award, for Best Rock Song, for its lead single ""Give Me One Reason"". Chapman's most recent release is ""Our Bright Future"", in 2008. Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was raised by her mother who bought her music-loving three-year-old daughter a ukulele despite"
"over 200 songs. His catalog includes the Grammy winners ""Turn Your Love Around"" (George Benson) and ""After the Love Has Gone"" (Earth, Wind & Fire), as well as ""Who's Holding Donna Now"" (DeBarge), ""Friends in Love"" (Dionne Warwick and Johnny Mathis), many songs written with and for Al Jarreau (including ""Mornin'"", ""Breakin' Away"", ""High Crime"", ""After All"", and ""Roof Garden""), and several hits with Manhattan Transfer including ""Twilight Zone"", ""On The Boulevard"", ""Smile Again"" and ""Spies in the Night"". Many of his songs were co-written with David Foster. Graydon has written numerous articles in music magazines, and has conducted seminars"
"multiple number one singles on the pop and R&B charts, including “Lady Marmalade” (Christina, Pink, Mýa, Lil' Kim), “Be Without You” (Mary J. Blige), “One” (Mary J. Blige & U2), “Big Yellow Taxi” (Counting Crows), “A Thousand Miles” (Vanessa Carlton), and “Where Is the Love?” (Black Eyed Peas). He was also the executive producer of “Beautiful” (Christina Aguilera), “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (Fergie), “Let’s Get It Started” (Black Eyed Peas), and many other hits. He was nominated for 6 Grammy awards and his recordings have won several Grammy awards, including those of Christina Aguilera, The Black Eyed Peas, Mary J."
"found ""Fast Car"" and ""Mountains o' Things"" very perceptive and Chapman an innately gifted singer but was disappointed by the presence of ""begged questions"" and ""naive left-folkie truisms"" such as ""Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"" and ""Why"": ""She's too good for such condescension ... Get real, girl."" Just two weeks after its release, the album sold one million copies worldwide, becoming a big commercial success. In total, it sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is one of the first albums by a female artist to have more than 10 million copies sold worldwide. All songs written by Tracy Chapman. Adapted"
"album ""New Beginning"" (1995) proved successful, selling over three million copies in the U.S. The album included the hit single ""Give Me One Reason"", which won the 1997 Grammy for Best Rock Song and became Chapman's most successful single to date, peaking at Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Following a four-year hiatus, her fifth album, ""Telling Stories"", was released in 2000. Its hit single, ""Telling Stories"", received heavy airplay on European radio stations and on Adult Alternative and Hot AC stations in the United States. Chapman toured Europe and the US in 2003 in support of her sixth"
"won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Performance by a Male Vocalist. It featured three hit singles, ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"", ""Spinning Wheel"", and ""And When I Die"" (on the Hot 100, each peaked at No. 2 and lasted 13 weeks) as well as a memorable rendition of Billie Holiday's ""God Bless The Child"". With Clayton-Thomas fronting the band, BS&T continued with a string of hit albums, including ""Blood, Sweat & Tears 3"" which featured Carole King's ""Hi-De-Ho"" and Clayton-Thomas's ""Lucretia MacEvil"", and ""Blood, Sweat & Tears 4"", which yielded another Clayton-Thomas-penned hit single,"
"US for sales exceeding four million copies. She followed it with ""Stones in the Road"" (1994) and ""A Place in the World"" (1996), which both featured hit singles. In the 2000s, Carpenter's albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming less radio-friendly and more focused on societal and political issues. In 2007, she released ""The Calling"". She followed that with ""The Age of Miracles"" (2010), ""Ashes and Roses"" (2012) and the orchestral album, ""Songs From the Movie"" (2014). Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for"
"collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys on ""Results"", an electronic dance-style album. The release hit the top 10 in the UK and also charted in the US, spawning four singles: ""Losing My Mind""; ""Don't Drop Bombs""; ""So Sorry, I Said'""; and ""Love Pains"". Later that year she performed ""Losing My Mind"" live at the Grammys ceremony before receiving a Grammy Legend Award (the first Grammy Legend Awards were issued in 1990 to Minnelli, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Smokey Robinson, and Willie Nelson). With this award, she became one of only 16 people – in a list that includes composer Richard Rodgers,"
"She Says Baby"", ""Burnin' It Down"", ""Just Gettin' Started"", ""Tonight Looks Good on You"", ""Lights Come On"", ""A Little More Summertime"", ""Any Ol' Barstool"", ""You Make It Easy"", and ""Drowns the Whiskey"". His first, second, third, fifth, and sixth albums are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and his fourth album, ""My Kinda Party"", is certified triple-platinum. and his seventh album ""They Don't Know"" is certified Gold in Canada MC. ""My Kinda Party"" produced his highest-charting single on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song ""Dirt Road Anthem"" reached number 7 on the chart, and featured"
"Amerie Cynthia Lissette Gwen Stefani Janet Jackson Mary J. Blige Natasha Ramos RichGirl Se7en Usher Young Steff Rich Harrison Rich Harrison (born 1979) is an American record producer and songwriter from Washington, D.C., specializing in R&B and hip hop music. The winner of a Grammy Award, Harrison is well known for producing songs such as ""Get Right"" (performed by Jennifer Lopez), ""1 Thing"" (performed by Amerie) and ""Crazy in Love"" (performed by Beyonce and Jay Z). A classically trained pianist and trumpet player, from an early age Harrison demonstrated the ability to play music he heard on the radio, later"
"contemporary chart. The song went on to earn Josh two of his four Grammy Awards, winning for both Country Song of the Year and Overall Song of the Year in 2011. Josh also won Grammy Awards for Country Song Of The Year for ""Before He Cheats” and “Blown Away”. Josh remains the only country songwriter to win the Country Song Of The Year Grammy three times. Other number one songs include ""God, Your Mama and Me"" by Florida Georgia Line (featuring Backstreet Boys), “Highway Don't Care” by Tim McGraw (featuring Taylor Swift and Keith Urban), ""Drunk on a Plane” by"
"as the Grammy winning ""It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"" (Alan Jackson), ""The Power"" (Cher and Amy Grant); ""I'm Movin' On"" (Rascal Flatts), ""Leave the Pieces"" (The Wreckers), ""What Kinda Gone"" (Chris Cagle), ""Anything Goes"" (Randy Houser), Montgomery Gentry singles ""One in Every Crowd"" ""Long Line of Losers"" and ""Oughta Be a Song About That"", ""Let There Be Cowgirls"" (Chris Cagle), ""I Ain't Your Mama"" (Maggie Rose), ""Better"" (Maggie Rose), ""Wake Up Loving You"" (Craig Morgan), ""Say You Do"" (Dierks Bentley) and has songs featured on four number 1 country albums in 2014 from the Band Perry (""Chainsaw"") Luke Bryan (""Goodbye Girl"","
"was only scheduled to last for 3 months, but the tour was so successful they ended up touring for a further three years and collected five Grammy Awards. Zalon went on to feature on the deluxe version of the platinum selling album, and ""I Told You I Was Trouble"" DVD, with the songs ""Hey Little Rich Girl"", ""Monkey Man"" and ""You're Wondering Now"". He also sang backing vocals on Winehouse's track ""He Can Only Hold Her"" which appeared on ""Back to Black"" and the BBC Radio One session, ""Cupid"". Zalon performs Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's hit ""Ain't No Mountain"
"""You've Got a Friend"", which was a number 1 hit for Taylor; King said in a 1972 interview that she ""didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it"". ""Tapestry"" was an instant success. With numerous hit singles – including a ""Billboard"" No.1 with ""It's Too Late"" – ""Tapestry"" held the No.1 spot for 15 consecutive weeks, remained on the charts for nearly six years, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. The album garnered four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year;"
"organization Promoting Enduring Peace. He is the first Artist to receive the award. Solo Acoustic (2004) acoustic tour with Sara Watkins Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as ""These Days"", ""The Pretender"", ""Running on Empty"", ""Lawyers in Love"", ""Doctor My Eyes"", ""Take It Easy"", ""For a Rocker"", and ""Somebody's Baby"". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and"
"Never Change"" peaked at number 7 on the charts. McGraw also contributed a song for the Grammy-winning tribute album to Bob Wills entitled ""Ride With Bob"". A cover of ""Milk Cow Blues"", this song was recorded as a duet with Asleep at the Wheel, whom he had met while performing together at the George Strait Country Music Festival. McGraw recorded two more duets with his wife in the late-1990s, both of which appeared on her albums. ""Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me"", from her multi-platinum-certified 1998 album ""Faith"", reached the Top 5 of the US country charts."
"than 40 times on the Hot Country Songs charts, including five number ones — ""Help Me Hold On,"" ""Anymore,"" ""Can I Trust You with My Heart,"" ""Foolish Pride"", and ""Best of Intentions"" — and 15 additional top ten singles. Tritt's musical style is defined by mainstream country and Southern rock influences. He has received two Grammy Awards, both for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: in 1992 for ""The Whiskey Ain't Workin',"" a duet with Marty Stuart, and again in 1998 for ""Same Old Train"", a collaboration with Stuart and nine other artists. In addition, he has received four awards from"
"next seven years, co-producing with the band their successful albums ""Caught in the Act"", ""Movin' On"" (both 1975), ""Hot on the Tracks"" (1976), ""Commodores"" (1977), ""Natural High"" (1978), ""Midnight Magic"" (1979), ""Heroes"" (1980), and ""In the Pocket"" (1981). Featuring their lead vocalist Lionel Richie, the band had a long series of hit singles, again co-produced by Carmichael, over the period, including ""Slippery When Wet"", ""Sweet Love"", ""Just to Be Close to You"", ""Easy"", ""Brick House"", ""Too Hot Ta Trot"", and two US #1 pop hits, ""Three Times a Lady"" and ""Still"". The Commodores acknowledged Carmichael's crucial role in their success."
"Have You""), Tanya Tucker (""Strong Enough to Bend""), Lorrie Morgan (""Five Minutes""), Mary Chapin Carpenter (""Almost Home""), Jim Brickman & Rebecca Lynn Howard (""Simple Things""), Alabama (""Here We Are""), Suzy Bogguss (""Save Yourself""), Claudia Church (""What's the Matter With You Baby""), Holly Dunn (""You Say You Will""), Crystal Gayle (""When Love is New""), Highway 101 (""All the Reasons Why"", ""Long Way Down""), Terri Clark (""Sometimes Goodbye""), Mindy McCready (""One in a Million""), Waylon Jennings (""Shine On Me"", ""Old Church Hymns and Nursery Rhymes""), Megan McKenna (""Far Cry from Love"") and Bette Midler (""The Color of Roses""), co-written with Michael W."
"of the Year in 1984 for ""Can't Slow Down"", Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1984 and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Truly in 1982. Richie was the first person to receive an RIAA diamond album award. Richie has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982 he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film ""Endless Love"". In 1986 he was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song ""Say You, Say Me"", featured in the film ""White Nights"". This song also won the Academy Award for Best Original"
"is ""As Long as We Got Each Other"", co-written with long-time collaborator Steve Dorff as the theme song to the hit ABC Network television sitcom ""Growing Pains"", sung by five-time Grammy winner B.J. Thomas for six seasons, solo for season 1; and, as a duet with Jennifer Warnes for seasons 2, 3, 5, and 7; and, with Dusty Springfield for season 4. In 1988, he co-wrote ""One Moment in Time"" with Albert Hammond which was recorded by Whitney Houston as the theme for the Summer Olympics. John Bettis continued developing an eclectic catalog into the 1990s. 1991's ""Can You Stop"
"number one on the ""Billboard"" Country chart, followed by ""My Baby Thinks He's a Train"" and ""Blue Moon with a Heartache,"" which also reached the top spot. The album's follow-up effort, ""Somewhere in the Stars"" (1982) produced three Top 20 hits on the ""Billboard"" chart. After a 3-year hiatus, Cash issued ""Rhythm & Romance"" in 1985, which reached #1 on the ""Billboard"" Top Country Albums list. It spawned four Top 10 singles. This included the number one single, ""I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me,"" which won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1986. Her"
"""Never Be You"", and two other Country Top 10 singles, ""Hold On"" and ""Second to No One"". ""Rhythm & Romance"" drew high critical praise for its fusion of country and pop. ""I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me"" won the 1985 Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; ""Hold On"" won the 1987 Robert J. Burton Award from BMI as the Most Performed Song of the Year. In the '80s, Cash curtailed her touring for childbearing and raising a family (three daughters with Crowell, as well as Crowell's daughter by his first marriage, Hannah). She continued to record"
"Fast Car ""Fast Car"" is a song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released in April 1988 as the lead single from her self-titled debut album. Her appearance on the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was the catalyst for the song's becoming a top 10 hit in the United States, peaking at number 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. ""Fast Car"" received two Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, as well as a Video Music"
"Bob Regan Bob Regan is a Grammy, Dove, and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame nominated American country music songwriter. His chart credits include ""Busy Man"" by Billy Ray Cyrus, ""Your Everything"" by Keith Urban, ""Soon"" by Tanya Tucker, ""Thinkin' About You"" by Trisha Yearwood, ""Running Out of Reasons to Run"" by Rick Trevino, ""'Til Love Comes Again"" by Reba McIntire, ""We've Got It Made"" by Lee Greenwood, ""Something About a Woman"" by Jake Owen and many others. His songs have been recorded by artists ranging from Andy Williams to Hank Williams Jr., from Kenny Rogers to cowboy hero Roy Rogers."
"Just Hold On"" at #5 from Startin' Fires and ""A Guy with a Girl"" at #1 from ""If I'm Honest"", Tim McGraw's ""Better Than I Used To Be"" off of ""Emotional Traffic"", which peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart. Simpson has won NSAI's Country Awards Top 50 Songs for his work on Brad Martin's ""Before I Knew Better"", Tim McGraw's ""Better Than I Used To Be"", Blake Shelton's ""I'll Just Hold On"", and Joe Nichols' ""Yeah"". In 2002, Simpson co-founded Progressive Bluegrass band Cadillac Sky in Texas with Matt Menefee (Banjo), Ross Holmes (Violin), Mike Jump (guitar, vocals), and"
"solely on football. Bradshaw has also written or co-written five books and recorded six albums of country/western and gospel music. His cover of ""I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"" hit Top 20 on Billboard's country chart (and No. 91 on the Hot 100) in 1976; two other tunes (""The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me"" and ""Until You"") also made the country charts. In 2001, Bradshaw entered the world of NASCAR by joining with HighLine Performance Group racing team to form FitzBradshaw Racing. He also is the spokesman for Jani-King international, Inc. Bradshaw ended his ownership in 2006. Among U.S."
"The Ones..."". Her fourth studio album, ""Fortune Teller"", was released in June 2008. The album includes the singles ""Something To Talk About"", ""Don't Look Down"", ""Idle Motion"", ""Promises"", ""Elvis Can You Hear Me?"", ""Shoulders of Giants"", ""What's The Matter With You?"" and ""Fortune Teller"". Her second Remix album, ""Mixed Beats"", was released in August 2009. The album includes the singles ""What's The Matter With Your Cabrio"", ""Shoulders of Giants"" and ""Love Song"". Her fifth studio album, ""The Fire"", was released in March 2013. The album includes the singles ""What I'd Give"", ""The Person I Am"", ""Me Luv U Long Time"""
"Chris DeStefano Christopher Michael DeStefano is a Grammy Award Winning American singer/songwriter, record producer and multi instrumentalist, raised in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and currently residing in Nashville, Tennessee. As a songwriter, he has multiple #1 songs with artists Carrie Underwood (“Good Girl”, ""Little Toy Guns""), Billy Currington (“Hey Girl”), Brett Eldredge (""Don't Ya""), Luke Bryan (""That's My Kind of Night"", ""Kick the Dust Up"" ), Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood (""Somethin' Bad,"" later reworked as the opening theme for ""NBC Sunday Night Football""), Rascal Flatts (""Rewind"") and Jason Aldean (""Just Gettin' Started""). Underwood's ""Good Girl"", which DeStefano co-wrote, reached"
"has won six Stellar Awards, a GMA Award, and received 2 Grammy nominations: one for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album for his 2004 gold album, ""Out the Box"" and another in 2009 for Best Urban/Soul Alternative Performance for his single, ""Blend"", from his 2009 mainstream (albeit theoretically Gospel) album, ""Unspoken"". Known more for his gospel recordings, his musical efforts have been known to blend a smorgasbord of styles, including pop, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, hip hop, rock, Latin, electro, punk and trance. His primary influences include Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Prince, Michael Jackson, Walter Hawkins, David Bowie, and Janet Jackson."
"won ACM and CMA Song of the Year Awards (1987 and 1988). Overstreet was named the BMI Songwriter of the Year five straight years, from 1987–91, an achievement on music row that has not been achieved before or since. He co-wrote ""A Long Line of Love"", ""Love Can Build a Bridge"", and ""Forever and Ever, Amen"". Other well-known hits of recent years he is known for are ""She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"" by Kenny Chesney and ""Some Beach"" by Blake Shelton, which was a Number One hit in 2004. Paul Overstreet is best known for writing country songs such as"
"As popular music and the society it mirrored changed from the late 1960s onward, the themes carried on in different forms and styles. Songs and spoken-word productions about the dangers of drug abuse joined the parade of pathos on radio airwaves, ranging from three-minute morality plays to lamentations (from the parental perspective) on the generation gap. These include ""Once You Understand"" by Think (U.S. #23, 1971) and radio and TV host Art Linkletter's Grammy-winning single ""We Love You, Call Collect"" (U.S. #42, 1969). Recorded before his daughter Diane's apparent suicide in 1969, the record also included Diane speaking the reply,"