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Usher Raymond IV Usher Raymond IV is a singer that won many awards came out in the movies Texas Rangers and has made record labels for himself (Usher 56). “He was born in Dallas, Texas on October 14 in the year of 1978”(Usher 10). “He supports other people by singing and performing in places where people need help like in Africa he sang to inform others to help African Americans and their diseases of AIDS” (Biography.com). “Usher grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He released his first album in…

Before, this assignment I really only knew what rap music and what it brought to the world. For example, Pete Seeger was an American folk singer and listening to a couple of his songs they brought  laughing,joy, dancing, loving, embracing, and peace. During a concert he mention that “ you can make a combination between the best and the old and new” and starts to play You gotta walk that lonesome valley which brought joy. As I can observe with a couple of concerts that I saw on Youtube,  they…

More Than What Meets The Ear When someone mentions rock music, I immediately think of loud music with guitars, drums, and an energetic vocals. I also think of it as my parent’s music that I rarely listen to. However, as I begin this course, I realize that my views are way too narrow, and that rock music is so much more than that. I thought I knew what rock and roll was, but now I know that I do not. There is so many genres and subgenres that I had not even considered when thinking about rock…

Prince was more than just an artist, he was an influencer, style icon, and an activist. Prince was noted as controversial and racy, due to his personal style and his style of music. In his life, he won 32 awards, which included 7 grammy’s, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame in 2004 (Prince Biography). Prince’s legacy will live on through music and style. Prince influence has changed the music industry, by pushing artist to go out of their boundaries. During his reign, his…

The significance of ACDC leading into the 20th century had a massive impact on the Australian music industry and in fact worldwide rock and roll. In 1973 rock and roll was change by two brothers, they created a phenomenal legacy a legendary Australian rock band. The produced a whopper 200 million worldwide album sales and alone in the USA published 71.5 million, together the Scottish brothers that originated create a history rock and roll book. Prior to the formation of the legendary Australian…

growing up, his family preformed a Las Vegas style show with throwback songs and celebrity impersonations in Waikiki, Hawaii. Bruno was always around instruments; for example: drums, piano, and guitar. By the age of 2 he joined his uncles who did Elvis impersonations at the show; later on impersonated Michael Jackson. Accomplishments: Bruno Mars is a singer- songwriter, choreographer, record…

Some differences took place between 1970's and 1980's music. An alteration has needed to embed some new genre. The rock or merely rock music is a contemporary musical genre aimed to encompass each of the various derivative genres of rock and roll. Usually interpreted, among many other instruments are added occasionally, with guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of the genre also use keyboard instruments, for example, saxophone, piano, Synthesizers. This platform usually has a strong obstacle,…

In the music industry, their happens to be a lot of competition between different young male singers. One of the most famous competition is between the British boy band One Direction, and Justin Bieber. Both of these artists are very famous and popular to teenage girls all around the world. Almost everybody has heard about both of these artists and they are both definitely breaking records. Their fans, the Beliebers, and the Directioners are sometime caught in a battle of who is the better and…

In 2012 grew a international sensation in the Regional Mexican Music Industry from Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mex. Jose Ariel Camacho Barraza, was a humble young boy with a dream of becoming a star with his friend and his guitar. Although many tried to drop his self esteem by telling him that he was not going to surpass his dream. Yet he managed to changed the views of how all latin music was constructed with the love and support from God, family, and the world who followed him. As a young teenage…

Jack Black once stated that Led Zeppelin was the “greatest band of all time.” He claimed that they were better than the Beatles, better than the Stones, and even better than Tenacious D. “If you don’t agree with me it’s because you have never done the zeppelin marathon.” Although Jack Black stated that Led Zeppelin is the greatest band of all time, AC-DC deserves the title of “greatest band of all time”, no other band’s music has been used the most to motivate and inspire like AC-DC’s. The band…