Showing posts with label American singer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American singer. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Michael Jay Feinstein

Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, a pianist, music revivalist, and a predictor of, and anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs. Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Florence Mazie (née Cohen), an amateur tap dancer, and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for the Sara Lee Corporation and a former part-time singer.


At the age of five, he studied piano for a couple of months until his teacher became incensed that he wasn't reading the sheet music she gave him, since he was more comfortable playing by ear. In 1986, he recorded his first CD, Pure Gershwin, a collection of music by George and Ira Gershwin. He followed this in quick series with Live at the Algonquin (1986); Remember, featuring the music of Irving Berlin; Isn't It Romantic, a collection of standards which featured the first time Feinstein was backed by an orchestra; and Over There, featuring the music of America and Europe during the First World War.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Jessica Ann Simpson

Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress, television personality and fashion designer who rose to reputation in 1999. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and five studio albums of which four have been positioned in the top 10 on Billboard 200 and besides that have been certified by the RIAA, three gold and two Multi- Platinum. 


Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. She ventured into the country music market in 2008 and released Do You Know. She has sold 20 million records worldwide. Simpson has a total of records sales in Australia of more than 385,000 copies and was ranked in the # 113 on the 1000 artists chart of ARIA Music Decade Charts (1980–2010).
In 2009, Billboard named Simpson as the 95th overall best Artists of the Decade. Also was ranked at number 86 on Billboard 200 Artists, solely based on album sales