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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Black Eyed Peas
The best year for The Black Eyed Peas was 2009, with their singles "Boom Boom Pow", "I Gotta Feeling" and "Meet Me Halfway" from the album "The E.N.D."
The group has been awarded and nominated with a lot of different prizes: Favorite Rap/Hip Hop group, favorite Pop/Rock group, favorite soul/R&B group, song of the year, gruop of the year, best pop performance
The Beginning is the last album of the group, it has got singles like "The time" or "Just Can't Get Enough".
The Beatles
The group was awarded a lot of Grammys for many years: Best new artist, best performance by a vocal group , song of the year, album of the year, best music video, all of fame, best rock vocal, duo or group with vocal, best engineered recording, best contemporary pop vocal performance, best instrumental recording...
In 1970 they released "Let it be", probably it was one of their best singles, later, they started a solitary carrer.
In 1980, John Lennon was killed, this was a terrible notice because all of them never could be together again.
MUSE
Muse is a English band from teignmouth, Devon formed in 1994.The band consists of Matt Bellamy, (lead vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, keytar) Chis wolstenholme (bass, backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, harmonica) and Dom Howard (drums, percussion, synthesisers, backing vocals, sampling).All song are written by Matt Bellamy he has composed many songs and threesymphonies .The first albun is Showbiz but before they did a LP called Muse. The album when the band become popular is the second albun and my faborite Origin of Symmetry, this album are more of the better songs of muse, Plugin baby which has the longest riff 20 century, new born, bliss and hypper music. They play alternative rock, new prog, space rock and symphonic rock,. They won a lot of awards for the awards American Music Awards in 2010 Favorite Alternative Artist, Best Art Vinyl Award in 2005 and 2009, in the awards BRIT Awards Best Live Act in 2005, Best Live Act in 2007, European Festival Awards Best Rock Album in 2011, in the awards Kerrang! Awards Best British Band in 2001 Best British Live Act in 2002 Best Album 2004 Best Live Act in 2006,in the awrads Meteor Music Awards Best International Live Performance in 2008,in the awards MTV Awards Best Alternative Act 2004 Best UK & Irish Act 2004 and 2007 Best Alternative Act in 2006 Headliner in 2007, in the MTV Video Music Awards Best Special Effects 2010,in the NME Awards Best New Band in 2000 Best Live Band 2005 Best British Band in 2007 in 2008 Best Album Artwork 2009 Best Live Band 2009 Best British Band 2010 Best Website 2010, in the Q Awards Innovation in Sound in 2003 Best Live Act in 2004 Best Live Act in 2006 Best Live Act 2006 Best Act in the World Today 2009,in the UK Festival Awards Best Headline Act in 2008 Anthem of the Year in 2010.
El canto del loco
This group was started in Madrid in 2000. The original members were Dani Martín, David Otero, Chema Ruiz y Carlos Gamón. His first concert was in 2004. This first disc they sold 80000 copyes. This disc it calls Zapatillas. Their second album, it calls A contracorriente. It has sold more than ten million copies, their albums have all been hits.
El canto del loco, they touch music pop. This group is the best. The band in 2003 they started having success for all ages.
After a year of rest, they started a new album. This album it`s call personas. This one also had enough success.
This group it´s fantastic.,
Adventure
Adventure did his official début in 1999, with the hope to break schemes in the Dominican traditional bachata. They departed from his base and fused it with modern paces as the hip hop and the R&B.
The musical style of Adventure is composed basically of musical mergers by base in the Dominican bachata.
His first disc, " Trap of love " was thrown in 1995, the second disc Generation Next, was edited in 1999, this one was the first official disc and under the name It Ventures.
In February, 2010 the leader of the group Anthony Romeo Santos gave a few declarations in a press conference in the Dominican Republic, where it affirmed that the group yes might separate, but in a temporary way.
On February 22, 2011 they appeared in the Festival of Vineyard of the Mar taking to him the torch of silver, torch of gold, gull of silver and the Golden gull.
A profile of a band
Violators of the verse is a rap group, the group was established in Zaragoza in 1998. The Members of the group are kase'o, Lirico, Hate, RdeRumba.All songs written and less RdeRumba all sing.The first album was`` violadores del verso´´Their second LP was `` Genios´´and back then followed ´´Atras, Vicios y Virtudes and Vivir para Contarlo``.In his most important contributions are (SFDK, Hazhe, Nach, Xhelazz ...)Violadores del verso has created his own clothing line (common 20)The writer Miguel Angel Sutil wrote a book called the secrets of funk sons, which has Combers of the three days living with the group.At a concert hate rap with a base of Billie Jean Michael Jackson in memory.Some of his awards are `` MTV Europe Music Awards´´, Music Award Aragon, won the eleventh edition of the music awards, were named favorite sons of Zaragoza.In the future everyone will take out a solo album
CAMELA
CAMELA:
U2
The writter of the lyrics was Bono.
Their first album of them was released in 1980 and his name was "Boy", others U2`s albums were October, War, The Josua Tree, No line on the horizont..
They play rock , alternative rock , dance rock, post punk..
They have won twenty two Grammys , seven Brit Awards , two Gold `s Globes , five MTV Video Musis Awards , three MTV Europe Music Award , fourteen Meteor Ireland Awards.....
At present they are going to organise concerts around of world and thougt the members of this groups are olders , they are going to play like in their firsts concerts.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
A profile of a band
Estopa was formed in1999 by the brothers Muñoz. They are from Cornellá de Llobregat (Barcelona).
Estopa play both rumba and pop rock music.
The first album of Estopa was released in 1999. The album was called Estopa. “La raja de tu falda” was the first single. They sold more than 1.400.000 CDs. They won the Prize Ondas artist newcomer.
In 2002 the second album (Destrangis) was released.”Partiendo la pana” was the single.
The third album (La calle es tuya) was released in 2004. They gave 60 concerts in Spain and a small tour was given of South America.
The fourth album (Voces de ultratumba) was released in 2005. This album was ranked in the number one in sales in Spain.
In 2005 their fifth album (Allenrok) was released. The album received a platinum disc.
The latest album was released in 2009 for the occasion of the tenth anniversary. The album contains their best songs performed a duet with artist like Rosario, El Canto del Loco, Los Chichos, Macaco…