"The Queen song ""Radio Ga Ga"" is said to be the main inspiration behind the name of what current day hit singer?"
"tour, yet the song is not available on the CD or DVD versions released 15 June 2009. This performance of ""Radio Ga Ga"" is only available as a digital download from iTunes. It was again played on the Queen + Adam Lambert Tour with Lambert on lead vocals. American pop singer Lady Gaga credits her stage name to this song. She stated that she ""adored"" Queen, and that they had a hit called 'Radio Gaga'. ""That's why I love the name"", she said. Radio Ga Ga ""Radio Ga Ga"" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock"
"Radio Ga Ga ""Radio Ga Ga"" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. It was released as a single with ""I Go Crazy"" by Brian May as the B-side (3:42). It was included on the album ""The Works"". The song also features on the band's compilation albums, ""Greatest Hits II"", and ""Classic Queen"". The single was a worldwide success for the band, reaching number one in 19 countries, number two on the UK Singles Chart and the Australian Kent Music Report, and number 16 on the US ""Billboard"""
"Queen live performances The English rock band Queen was well known for its live musical acts. Diverse musical catalogues, large sound systems, lighting rigs, innovative pyrotechnics and extravagant costumes often gave shows a theatrical nature. Artists such as Bob Geldof, David Bowie, George Michael, Kurt Cobain (in his suicide note), and Robbie Williams have expressed admiration for lead singer Freddie Mercury's stage presence. Queen wrote certain songs, such as ""We Will Rock You"" and ""We Are the Champions"", with the goal of audience participation. ""Radio Ga Ga"" came to inspire synchronized hand-clapping (this routine, originating from the song's video, was"
"but sadly she never got to enjoy it,"" she said. According to Allmusic, she takes influences from Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Gloria Estefan, Madonna and Salt-N-Pepa. Queen cites American rapper Missy Elliot as an influence as well. Reggaetón duo Jowell & Randy cite Queen as one of their musical influences. Queen is also a musical influence for Colombian singer Farina Dominican singer Natti Natasha, and American rappers Bia and Cardi B. According to Jon Pareles of the ""New York Times"", Queen is the ""only significant female reggaeton rapper"". She is known as the ""Queen of Reggaeton"" in the traditionally male-dominated"
"rock. Queen also wrote songs that were inspired by diverse musical styles which are not typically associated with rock groups, such as opera, music hall, folk music, gospel, ragtime, and dance/disco. Their 1980 single ""Another One Bites the Dust"" became a major hit single in the funk rock genre. Several Queen songs were written with audience participation in mind, such as ""We Will Rock You"" and ""We Are the Champions"". Similarly, ""Radio Ga Ga"" became a live favourite because it would have ""crowds clapping like they were at a Nuremberg rally"". In 1963, the teenage Brian May and his father"
"came out on Metropolis Records. The first single from the album put the band at the center of controversy, especially with Queen fans, following a cover of the Queen hit song ""Radio Ga Ga."" The controversial music video shows lead singer Dick Valentine as the ghost of Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury and a backing band of poodles. Queen drummer Roger Taylor, who wrote the song, said that he was ""unimpressed"" with the video; Queen guitarist Brian May reportedly liked it. According to Dick Valentine In November 2004, drummer M. called it quits, leaving Dick Valentine as the sole original"
"and fist went up, and the guitar was free, for it had done its work. Ozzy Osbourne recently said in the same interview that this was the greatest moment of his career and pronounced the Queen to be ""a beautiful woman."" Phil Collins played drums for many of the artists, as well as singing his 1983 UK number one single ""You Can't Hurry Love"", with Queen's Roger Taylor playing drums. Taylor took late singer Freddie Mercury's place by singing lead vocals for the band's 1984 number two hit ""Radio Ga Ga"" (which Taylor had also written), with Collins playing drums"
"both Madonna and Prince were given those names at birth; Lady Gaga named herself after the song ""Radio Ga Ga"" by the band Queen. Actor Marion Morrison adopted the stage name John Wayne because ""Marion"" had come to be more common as a female name and he felt it was at odds with the masculine cowboy characters he portrayed. Similarly, Norma Jeane Baker changed her name to the far more glamorous-sounding Marilyn Monroe. Hip-hop artists are known to use stage names, such as Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter), 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson), Diddy (born Sean Combs), Ludacris (born Chris Bridges),"
"teased that ""someone legendary"" would be producing the track before production credits were announced in April 2011. Gaga, a Queen fan (even taking her stage name from the Queen song ""Radio Ga Ga""), admitted to ""[falling] to the floor crying and laughing"" when she found out that May agreed to the collaboration. Lange asked Gaga to record a ""rough lead vocal"" for the track while she was touring. Gaga later recalled: ""I had about 30 cigarettes and a couple of glasses of Jameson and just put on a click track and sang my face off, thinking we'd redo the vocals."""
"the song samples parts of ""Ogre Battle"" from Queen's second album ""Queen II"", ""Flash"" and Larry Lurex's ""Goin' Back"" (in fact Queen (without Deacon) under a pseudonym). This song, along with ""Radio Ga Ga"" are some of the heaviest uses of electronics on the album. The sixth song, ""I Want to Break Free"" was written by John Deacon. This pop song is best known because of its video, featuring all four Queen members crossdressed as women, in a parody of the British soap opera ""Coronation Street"". The idea for the clip was Taylor's. Mercury commented that 'Everybody ran into their"
"and """" 1985. As heard on bootleg recordings, Deacon can be heard providing backing vocals to the song; it is one of the very few occasions he sang in concert. Queen played a shorter, up-tempo version of ""Radio Ga Ga"" during the Live Aid concert on 13 July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, where Queen's ""show-stealing performance"" had 72,000 people clapping in unison. It was the second song the band performed at Live Aid after opening with ""Bohemian Rhapsody"". ""Radio Ga Ga"" became a live favourite thanks largely to the audience participation potential of the clapping sequence prompted by the rhythm"
"to the British rock band Queen, which is one of Espósito's biggest influences. ""The song reminds us to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as it has a guitar solo similar to Brian May's style."" ""Ego"", ""Boomerang"" and ""Ring Na Na"", the fifth, sixth and eleventh tracks respectively, are the only tracks that counted with co-writers on its composition, Gavin Jones, Tobias Lundgren, Johan Fransson and Tim Larsson in the first one, Will Simm and Ayak Thiik in ""Boomerang"", and Michael Angelo, Eric McCarthy and David Kaneswaran in the eleventh track, aside from Espósito and her producers, Gustavo Novello, Pablo Akselrad and Luis"
"Greg Puciato Gregory John Puciato (born March 27, 1980) is best known as the lead singer of the disbanded The Dillinger Escape Plan and is currently the lead singer of The Black Queen and Killer Be Killed. He is noted for reckless live performances, wide vocal range, outspoken views, and controversy stemming from his bands' performances and interviews. In the December 2007 issue of ""Revolver"" Puciato was voted one of the ""37 greatest metal frontmen"" of all time. In 2013 he was named number one by MetalSucks in their listing of ""top 25 modern metal frontmen"". Greg Puciato grew up"
"Meli'sa Morgan Joyce Melissa ""Meli'sa"" Morgan (born December 6, 1964) is an American R&B/Soul singer–songwriter. Morgan had a string of urban contemporary hits starting the mid–1980s through the mid–1990s. Morgan most notable songs includes her cover version of Prince's ""Do Me, Baby"" (1985), ""Do You Still Love Me"" (1986) and ""Still in Love With You"" (1992). Born in Queens, New York, Morgan got her start in the music industry while singing with a church gospel choir called the Starlets of Corona. Morgan cites Chaka Khan as a major influence. Her initial chart entry was as the lead singer of the"
"released on 6 November 2006. May always stated that The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who and Jimi Hendrix were the greatest influences on him. On 2 June 2010, on BBC Radio 2, Brian May said, ""I would put Rory Gallagher way up there; he is one of the people who inspired me most."" On ""Queen for an Hour"" 1989 Interview on BBC Radio 1, May listed Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as his guitar heroes. In a 1991 interview for ""Guitar World"" magazine, May referred to The Who as ""my inspiration"", and on seeing Led Zeppelin stated, ""We"
"the street narrative, a style that would come to define later Queens MCs like Nas (who was hugely influenced by G Rap on his early records) and Mobb Deep"". Other artists who have named Kool G Rap as a major influence include The Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, Jay-Z, Tajai of Souls of Mischief, Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks, Steele of Smif-N-Wessun, Havoc of Mobb Deep, Rock of Heltah Skeltah, MC Serch, Termanology, Black Thought of The Roots, M.O.P., R.A. the Rugged Man, Bun B of UGK, Rah Digga; RZA, Ghostface Killah, and Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan; The Lady of Rage,"
"took her stage name in honor of Brian May, guitarist of the successful British band Queen, of which she is a fan. In 1985, while attending the Rock in Rio music festival, she managed to get in touch with the members of the band and gave Brian May a charango. It was from that moment that she took his last name as her own, to which she would later add the Queen, so that there would be no doubt about the name. Daisy May Queen Marcela María Delorenzi (born 15 September 1965), better known by her stage name Daisy May"
"2010. Karen Zoid Karen Zoid (born Karen Louise Greeff on 10 August 1978) is a South African rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Her work in both English and Afrikaans has gathered critical acclaim, and she has been dubbed South Africa's ""Queen of Rock"" by several major local publications. Her followers and, more generally, the South African youth have also been referred to as the ""Zoid Generation"" by the press. Zoid's current band members are Henry Steel Jnr (guitar), Schalk van der Merwe (bass guitar) and Tim Rankin (drums). The singer is also known for hosting the kykNet television series ""Republiek"
"Kendrick and Vera Farmiga. Young MC Marvin Young (born May 10, 1967), better known by his stage name Young M.C., is a British-born American singer, rapper and actor. He is best known for his 1989 hit ""Bust a Move"". His debut album ""Stone Cold Rhymin'"" found international acclaim; however, subsequent albums have not reached the same level of success. Young has also appeared in film in acting roles and cameo appearances and has appeared in several television programs. Young was born in London, to Jamaican immigrants. He left England at the age of three and moved to Queens, New York,"
"Billy Vera Billy Vera (born William Patrick McCord; May 28, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author and music historian. He has been a singer and songwriter since the 1960s, his most successful record being ""At This Moment"", a US number 1 hit in 1987. He continues to perform with his group Billy Vera & The Beaters, and won a Grammy Award in 2013. Vera was born in Riverside, California, and is the son of the radio and television announcer Bill McCord. His mother, singer Ann Ryan, was a member of the Ray Charles Singers backing Perry Como on"
"saw the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury from AIDS-related pneumonia. Contemporary R&B and quiet storm continued in popularity among adult audiences, which began during the 1980s. Popular American contemporary R&B artists included Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, D'Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston, Brandy, Sade, En Vogue, TLC, Destiny's Child, Toni Braxton, Boyz II Men, Dru Hill, and Vanessa L. Williams. The Tibetan Freedom Concert brought 120,000 people together in the interest of increased human rights and autonomy for Tibet from China. Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, Selena, Tupac Shakur, and The Notorious B.I.G. are the most publicized music-related deaths of the"
"Rule, 50 Cent, Run–D.M.C., Nicki Minaj, Rich The Kid; Jason Griffiths Music Executive (Capitol Records) singers Nadia Ali, and Tony Bennett;, jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Norman Mapp both resided in Corona, rock duo Simon & Garfunkel; and guitarists Scott Ian and Johnny Ramone. K-pop rapper Mark Lee from the boy group NCT grew up in Queens before moving to Canada. Actors such as Adrien Brody, and Lucy Liu and Idina Menzel have been born and/or raised in Queens. Actress Mae West also lived in Queens. Writers from Queens include John Guare (""The House of Blue Leaves"") and Laura Z."
"Contemporary chart on December 12, 2015. On March 13, 2016, Bonagura performed with bandmate Ruby Stewart at the CMC Rocks festival in Queensland, Australia. Billing themselves as The Sisterhood, the two have been working together for a year after Rod Stewart told them, ""you two should start a band, your voices are good together."" The Sisterhood will perform a one-hour set with backing by the Morgan Evans band. Alyssa Bonagura Alyssa Bonagura (born April 1, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter. Alyssa Bonagura is from Franklin, Tennessee. She is the daughter of singers Michael Bonagura and Kathie Baillie of Baillie &"
"lead singer, and a songwriter and instrumentalist, of the rock music group Queen. He died on 24 November 1991. Efforts to honour his life and work on the 60th anniversary of his birth were abandoned in September 2006 following the protests of a radical Islamic group on the archipelago, Uamsho, who said he had violated Islam with his openly gay lifestyle. The mushrooming of FM music stations and reasonable production studios has been a major boost to the music industry in the country. Contemporary artists like Diamond Platnumz, Juma Nature, Lady Jaydee, Mr. Nice, Mr. II, Cool James, Dully Sykes,"
"inspiration from “bits and pieces of everything, even visuals”. Journalist Brianne Nemiroff, of Viva Glam Magazine, has compared her sound to Billie Holiday and Banks. Brika states her “greatest inspiration is being in the middle of action”. Brika Briana Alexa (born November 22), commonly known by her stage name Brika, is an American singer and songwriter. She currently releases music under independent record label Art House Records. On February 23, 2015, Brika was included as one of New Music Seminar's 'Artist on the Verge' by ""a hand-selected A&R committee NMS partners, talent scouts, buyers, booking agents, taste-makers and other industry"
"Monkeys, Deborah Gibson, Tiffany, Swing Out Sister, Kiss, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Boyz II Men, Lenny Kravitz, Meja, Charlotte Church, Alanis Morissette, Enya, David Guetta, David Bisbal, Destiny's Child, t.A.T.u., Michelle Branch, Shakira, Soy Luna, Soy Luna Live, SKE48, Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, BTS, Beyoncé, Holly Valance, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Morning Musume, Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff, The Offspring, Ana Johnsson, Backstreet Boys, Stevie Wonder, James Blunt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jennifer Lopez, Daniel Powter, Fergie, Sarah Brightman, Delta Goodrem, U2, John Legend, Kanye West, Keyakizaka46, My Chemical Romance, Maroon 5, Leona Lewis, Flo Rida, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas,"
"She's often stated that some of her main inspirations being Nicki Minaj, Kehlani, and Missy Elliot, whom she has also been recognized. McBride has released 2 EPs to date. Her first EP being """"The Come Up"""", which was released after her quick social growth in 2015. Her most recent EP, """"The Journey"""", was released in 2017, which features her single """"Mood"""", produced by Big Bruno. The EP also features production from The Cratez, Donato, and Big Bruno. Daisha McBride Daisha McBride, also known as ""The Rap Girl"", is an American rapper and songwriter."" Born January 2nd, 1996, McBride is from"
"Green Day, Guns N' Roses, Janet Jackson, Keane, Alicia Keys, Mark Knopfler, Lenny Kravitz, Lady Gaga, Avril Lavigne, Les Enfoirés, Limp Bizkit, Lorie, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Brian May, Paul McCartney, Metallica, George Michael, Kylie Minogue, Motörhead, Muse, Nightwish, Noisettes, Oberkampf, The Offspring, Page & Plant, Sean Paul, Laura Pausini, Katy Perry, P!nk, Placebo, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lionel Richie, Rihanna, Michel Sardou, Scorpions, Semi Precious Weapons, Shakira, Soulsavers, Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Sting, Superbus, System of a Down, Justin Timberlake, Tokio Hotel, Tool, Tina Turner, U2, Usher, Vitaa, Robbie Williams, James Blunt, Zazie and ZZ Top, Laura Pausini, Within"
"Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Meek Mill. He's also inspired by Wiz Khalifa, Nicki Minaj, Big Sean, D'banj, Ice Prince and Lil Wayne. Shrekeezy cited Jay-Z and Kanye West as his major influences, on an interview, he once said; On his media career (i.e. radio and TV),Shrekeezy has cited Tim Westwood of BBC Radio 1, Ellen DeGeneres of The Ellen Show as his major influences Shrekeezy had played a major role in bringing together different corporates, organisations and companies to support JIKINGE campaign,a HIV Aids youth awareness program he founded in 2012. http://www.bongo5.com/rapper-shrekeezy-aliyewahi-kufanya-kazi-na-navy-kenzo-afariki-kwa-kuzama-baharini-mbudya-09-2015/ Shrekeezy Simon Njoroge, popularly known as Shrekeezy,"
"Raja Kumari Svetha Rao (born January 11, 1986), professionally known as Raja Kumari is an Indian American songwriter, rapper and recording artist from Claremont, California. Kumari is best known for her collaboration with notable artists including Gwen Stefani, Iggy Azalea, Fifth Harmony, Knife Party, and Fall Out Boy. She is also notable for receiving as a songwriter, the BMI Pop Awards in 2016, being nominated to a Grammy award in February 2015, and featuring on BBC Asian Network programme ""Bobby Friction"" on July 5, 2016. Kumari holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies, with an emphasis on South"
"In the early 1970s, Queen helped spur the heavy metal genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. Queen's 1974 song ""Stone Cold Crazy"" has been cited as a precursor of speed metal. Metallica recorded a cover version of ""Stone Cold Crazy"", which first appeared on the """" album in 1990, and won their second Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1991. Thom Yorke of Radiohead received his first guitar at 7 years old, encouraged after seeing Brian May in a broadcast of a Queen concert. At 10 years old, Yorke made his own homemade guitar, trying to"
"is influenced by Joni Mitchell, Big Pun, WHY?, Qwel, Black Thought, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Jewel, and Cat Stevens. Sirah (rapper) Sara Elizabeth Mitchell (born July 28, 1988), better known by her stage name Sirah is an American hip hop recording artist based in Los Angeles. She is well known for her collaborations with Skrillex, including ""WEEKENDS!!!"", ""Kyoto"" and the hit single ""Bangarang"". Mitchell was born on Long Island, to a bluesman and an artist. Her youth included poverty, homelessness and alcoholism. She was repeatedly caught creating graffiti; she stopped after being arrested for it. She moved to Washington with"
"today. I hope you realise I'm giving you a chance to stay out of prison and it is up to you to comply with the conditions [to not contact his victim and to live at his manager's home in Waltham Cross, Essex"". Sneakbo Agassi Babatunde Odusina (born 25 June 1992), better known by his stage name Sneakbo, is an English rapper. His first song, ""The Wave"", peaked at number 48 on the UK Singles Chart and he has since released a number of top 40 hits, such as ""Zim Zimma"" and ""Ring a Ling"" between 2012 and 2013. After releasing"