Check out David Cavazos‘ album, to be released on May 13th by Warner Music Latin America.
His style is pop, r&b with a hint of jazz and he writes his own stuff too. David Foster and Humberto Gatica teamed again to bring the best.
David Foster has credits on Clay Aiken’s new album “On my way here”, released May 6th by 19 Recordings/RCA. Also his sister Jaymes Foster will once again be back executive producer.
The album includes the long-waited song “Lover all alone”, co-penned and produced by David: it was available only on iTunes.
Update May 8th 2008: David is also listed as playing piano on the track “The Real Me”.
Clay Aiken
“Lover All Alone”
[Clay Aiken / David Foster / Emanuel Kiriakou]
Maybe I’ve convinced myself I’ve really been in love
And I’ve been wrong, all along
For all I know, the feeling and the picture
That I’ve tried so hard to find isn’t mine
Could be, it’s all just a waiting game
Wanna share my everything…
Chorus:
And on my own, it’s hard to tell my heart it’ll be alright
This love it holds will one day find a home
As hard as love can be, it’s harder still, it seems
To be a lover all alone without love
Picking up the pieces makes me wonder if
I only build it all to watch it fall
The faster it can go away it means that less of me
Is gone to stay, and I’m OK
But lonesome tomorrow comes anyway
I’m alone for another day, another day…
Chorus:
And on my own, it’s hard to tell my heart it’ll be alright
That this love it holds will one day find a home
As hard as love can be, it’s harder still, it seems
To be a lover all alone without love
Repeat Chorus
A lover all alone without love
Maybe I’ve convinced myself I’ve really been in love
But I’ve been wrong, all along…
by BWW News Desk
Internationally-renowned vocalist Josh Groban released a brand-new live CD/DVD — titled Awake Live — on Reprise/143 Records on May 6th, 2008. Directed by Hamish Hamilton, Awake Live captures the Grammy Award-winning singer’s exhilarating performance at Salt Lake City’s EnergySolutions Arena before a sold-out crowd of 15,000 thrilled fans on August 28th, 2007. In its review of the tour, the New York Times raved that Groban has “the power to knock the arena senseless.”
While the DVD includes favorites from Groban’s three best-selling albums, including “Canto Alla Vita” and “Alla Luce del Sole” from his double-platinum self-titled 2001 debut, and “You Raise Me Up” and “Remember When It Rained” from the multi-platinum 2003 album Closer, the majority of the songs are from Awake, including the singles “You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up),” “February Song,” and “Lullaby.” Released in September 2006, Awake debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard album chart and has sold more than two million copies in the U.S. The DVD contains the entire 100-minute concert from Salt Lake City, as well as behind-the-scenes “Making of the Tour” footage. Groban launched the Awake tour in Verona, NY, in February 2007 and performed at sold-out arenas across the country before concluding the first U.S. leg in April 2007 in Las Vegas. After a European leg, the tour resumed in the States in July for 27 more North American dates through early September 2007.
Awake Live is Groban’s third live DVD, following 2002’s Josh Groban in Concert and 2004’s Live at the Greek. The Salt Lake City location was selected in honor of his first arena concert, which occurred in the same city. Groban also sang at the closing ceremony for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, a performance that was seen by more than two billion people.
While touring the world in support of Awake, the 27-year-old Los Angeles native also released a Christmas album, Noël, which not only spent five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the album chart, but was also the top-selling album of 2007. In February, Groban performed at the 2008 Grammy Awards with Andrea Bocelli in a tribute to the late Luciano Pavarotti.
For more about Josh Groban, including information about an exclusive fan-club edition of Awake Live, please visit his official website, www.joshgroban.com.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Mai
2. February Song
3. In Her Eyes
4. So She Dances
5. Un Dia Llegara
6. Pearls
7. Weeping
8. Machine
9. Awake
Disc: 2
1. You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up)
2. Mai
3. Un Dia Llegara
4. Un Giorno Per Noir
5. Now Or Never
6. So She Dances
7. February Song
8. Alla Luce Del Sole
9. Aurora (excerpt from The Sibelius Violin
10. Concerto) (Lucia Micarelli)
11. Kashmir (Lucia Micarelli Solo)
12. In Her Eyes
13. Pearls (Duet with Angelique Kidjo)
14. L’ultima Notte
15. Remember When It Rained
16. Lullaby
17. Weeping
18. Machine
19. Canto Alla Vita
20. You Raise Me Up
21. Awake
David Foster - superstar music producer with 14 Grammy Awards and a 2006 Order of Canada recipient - promised himself that if he ever made it big he’d buy himself a Mercedes 450 SL.
“I bought a copper-coloured one in 1978,” he said during a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles. “What happened was that my friend Chris Earthy had ordered it and ended up selling it to me.
“I promptly painted it black - crazy, huh?”
For all of his fame - he has performed and written songs for musical greats including Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand and Rod Stewart - you wouldn’t suspect Foster to be so candid, down to earth and accessible. He is also, charming and witty.
Foster, 58, admits an affinity for black Mercedes’. Today, he drives around in a “spectacular black-on-black 2007 Mercedes 550″, one of two cars he presently owns.
“The Germans are amazing, they know how to build and design automobiles,’ he said.
His other “baby” is a black 2006 Aston Martin Vanquish- - an understated elegant, sporty, modern classic.
“I bought it after my divorce (from his second wife Linda Thompson) to treat myself.”
It wasn’t his first Aston Martin.
“I bought my first one in 2003 after I saw the James Bond movie, Die Another Day,” he said. “It is by far the sexiest car on the road. But I have to confess it’s not the comfiest or the smoothest ride. The thing is, it’s a tricky, little race horse that doesn’t hold up well.”
He recently blew out the clutch on his 2006 Aston driving in Beverley Hills. “It’s in the shop again.”
In a city known for its wealthy residents being driven around by their chauffeurs, Foster bucks the trend because “I like driving because I like to be in control … I don’t like having drivers.”
Today, when Foster drives the chic streets of Beverly Hills, his CD player is filled with great classical tunes or The Beatles 1 - a compilation of 27 number one hits. However, the sought-after producer hasn’t had much time to drive lately.
Right now, he’s signed on a new artist, William Joseph - a piano player who is garnering a lot of attention - as well as producing hot young vocalist Josh Groban’s new live album.
“I’ve also recently signed on a new pop rock band from Victoria called Maurice.”
Last month Foster headed to Halifax for his David Foster & Friends star-studded gala fundraiser, which raises money for his David Foster Foundation. Its mandate is to assist families with children requiring life saving organ transplants. (Vancouver’s 2006 gala at the River Rock Casino Resort raised more than $2.9 million).
His favourite car, a 1991 Chevy Suburban, burned during last October’s Malibu fires.
“I used to just drive it exclusively because it was a great car,” he says. “I know a cynic would probably say (of his driving an older car) it was reverse snobbery that made me buy it, but it wasn’t.”
Charice is a 15 y.o. singer from Philippines and she seems to be the next star. After her appearance on Ellen’s show David contacted her and…read the article to learn more:
From AngPeryodiko.ca:
After her landmark guest appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ self-titled US TV show late last year, Charice will soon be seen on yet another popular US TV show, Oprah no less. Charice doesn’t know exactly when the Oprah episode will be aired, although Oprah herself has been plugging it, reminding televiewers “to watch for 10 fantastic kids,” one of whom happens to be Charice. The TV teaser said: They may look like ordinary kids but what they are getting ready to do on our stage will blow you away! This you have to see to believe! Coming this May.
So how did Charice get into Oprah?
“Through Mr. David Foster,” Charice told Funfare. Charice met Foster last year. He saw Charice on Ellen and he took pains to contact her. And then Foster asked Charice to sing. Presto! Before Charice knew it, Foster was asking her to record Ordinary World, one of his compositions (Foster has written songs for almost all the big names in the industry, from Celine Dion to Barbra Streisand to Whitney Houston to Josh Groban).
“My newest baby” is how Foster introduces Charice to people.
So fond Foster has become of Charice that he even brought her on his private jet to Las Vegas to watch the farewell concert of Celine Dion. They were seated on the front-center, no less.
It was Foster who brought Charice to the attention of Oprah. “Watch out for her,” Foster told Oprah.
During the shoot in Chicago, which lasted for two hours (5 to 7 p.m.) early this month, recalled Charice, she saw Oprah watching from the sidelines. The 10 “fantastic kids” were each asked to perform their forte. One played the guitar, one played the drum, another did a dance exhibition. It was only Charice who sang a song, I Have Nothing (also by Whitney Houston), like I Will Always Love You, one of the two songs Charice sang on Ellen
“She hugged me before the interview portion,” Charice said. “Nagulat ako! Natulala ako! Siempre, si Oprah siya, eh!”
A third placer in the ABS-CBN talent search Little Big Star in 2006, Charice was discovered by Ellen via the YouTube in which a fan who called herself “False Voice” uploaded a film clip of Charice’s performance in the South Korean show Star King. An Ellen staffer saw the YouTube and told DeGeneres about it, prompting her to make a joke on air about giving a reward to anybody who could furnish her the contact number of Charice. Ed Shapiro, Ellen’s lawyer, found Charice’s website. Shapiro got in touch with Michael Gurfinkel who rushed the processing of Charice and her mom’s US visa. Mother and daughter arrived in the US in the nick of time.
On Ellen, Charice sang two songs, I Will Always Love You and And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going (sung by American Idol graduate Jennifer Hudson in the movie version of Dreamgirls).
Between Ellen and Oprah, Charice was booked for a guest appearance early this year on The Paul O’Grady Show in London where she sang the same two songs (as requested by O’Grady himself).
After Oprah, Charice will finish recording her debut album (for Star Records). You guessed it: The album is titled simply Charice.
The GRAMMY Foundation® announced today that it will honor Sir George Martin, a GRAMMY® Trustees Award recipient, six-time GRAMMY Award winner and one of music’s most successful and influential producers, at its annual signature gala Starry Night — an intimate benefit concert and dinner — on July 12, 2008, at the University of Southern California. Martin will be the recipient of the Foundation’s Leadership Award, which salutes noteworthy humanitarians whose charitable work and contributions align with the mission of the Foundation. This prestigious award is being presented to Martin in recognition of a lifetime of commitment and dedication to social, cultural, economic and educational issues spanning the globe. The annual benefit raises funds for the GRAMMY Foundation, which helps preserve our nation’s musical heritage and provides programs that foster future generations of music professionals.
The star-studded event will feature performances by some of the most celebrated artists in the world. Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer and former GRAMMY Foundation Board member David Foster will serve as the evening’s musical director.
Josh Groban’s last studio album Awake, released in 2006, was certified double platinum in the US on shipments of over 2 million copies. It also reached #2 on the album chart. On May 6, 2008, Groban will release a live album of music performed on the tour supporting Awake. As a taster for the album, check out the live recording of the song “Awake,” and let us know your snap judgment!
In what promises to be the live concert event of the year, many of music’s most beloved stars, including Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, and Josh Groban, will come together on May 23rd to celebrate a man who has written and produced some of their biggest hits: David Foster.
“David Foster and Friends,” a one-night-only live concert to take place at the Events Center at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, will feature Foster performing the hits he has written or produced with many of the artists he has worked with over the course of his 35-year career. During that time, Foster has discovered and nurtured the careers of Groban, Buble, and The Corrs, as well as created chart-topping hits for such legends as Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Chaka Khan.
“I am honored to be recognized in this way by so many of the artists I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past three decades,” Foster says. “Not only are they supremely talented, but I also consider them dear friends, so I’m really looking forward to getting up onstage and spending the evening with some of my favorite people in the world.”
Foster entered the music business in 1973, quickly establishing himself as a sought-after session musician and the industry’s premier keyboardist. By the end of the ’70s, he had ventured into writing and producing, working with such artists as Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago, Hall and Oates, and Kenny Rogers, among many others throughout the ’80s. In the ’90s, Foster’s producing credits included Natalie Cole’s “Unforgettable,” Barbra Streisand’s “Somewhere,” Toni Braxton’s “Unbreak My Heart,” Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” and Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me.” Foster is a 14-time Grammy-Award winner with an unprecedented 43 nominations, an Emmy-Award winner, and a three-time Academy-Award nominee.
“David Foster and Friends” will be filmed for broadcast in December on PBS stations nationwide. In addition, a CD/DVD of the show will be released by Warner Bros. Records this fall. Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday, April 5th at noon through Ticketmaster and the Mandalay Bay box office online HERE.
“David Foster and Friends,” a tribute to the celebrated composer/producer featuring Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Andrea Bocelli, Katharine McPhee and others, takes place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on May 23. Tickets are $175 and $275 and go on sale at noon Saturday at the Mandalay Bay box office, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
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