Wednesday, June 28, 2006

5th. year students: BIOGRAPHIES of pop stars or famous bands

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Michael Jackson:

He was born in Gary, Indiana on 29 August 1959. His father was the guitarist of The Falcons and his mother loved the music. He's considerated The King of the Pop in all over the world. In 1963, when he was a child, he impressed people singing Smiles and Drops and formed a band with his brothers called Jackson Five. By the age of thirteen he'd recorded two albums: Got to be there and Ben. What's more, in 1974 he recorded two more albums: Music and me and Forever. In 1979 he acted in the film Oz Wizard and recorded a new album called Off the Wall which had the hit Don't stop 'till you get enough and won a Grammy.
During 1982, his album Thriller came out. He sold about 50 million of copies, so he won 8 more Grammies. In 1984 he recorded his last album with his brothers and went on a tour. He also sang the song We are the World with Paul Mc Cartney to charity.
In 1987, he recorded Bad, went on a spectacular world tour and visited places such as France, England and Japan. He won a Grammy again and the next year he recorded a new album called Dangerous and went to a fantastic new world tour.
In 1993 he was accused to commit a vilation, but he contradicted the accusations and the problem was solved after a lot of judgements.
In 1995, his album History came out and in 1997 he recorded his last album called Blood on the dance floor.
For some years now, Michael has been showing different atyles of clothes and accesories, what's more, he was operated several times to change his skin colour. He loves the children, so he founded a playgroun called Neverland, which is very big and funny.
Now, Michael wants to record a new album and be back to the music with spectacular songs like Billie Jean and Thriller.

Anonymous said...

Ricardo Arjona:
He's called Ricardo Arjona. He was born on 19 january 1964 in Antigua, Guatemala. His music fondness started since he was young.
By the age of eight, yet he knew how to play the guitar. During his student's stage, he reconciled the subject with the music. In general, he was like a rebel boy.
At the age of Twenty one, her first album: "Dejame decir que no" came out. After, he decided to abandon musci and during five years he taught poor children. Ken on sports he prefered basketball and today he keeps a record as player with more points in one match.
One day, they offered him to record a disc. He didn't like it and he went on with an other one. Yet people evaluated his style and trend music. The second disc: "Jesús: verbo no sustantivo", was a hit as a composer and performer in all Latin America and USA. Then, he travelled to Mexico. There he moved to compose the principal theme for the television soap opera. There, he got important hits like "La mujer que no soñe jamás" and "Solo una mujer".
The album "Animal nocturno" was de first work for sony musci. Arjona achieved another hit with this album, For instance "Mujeres", "Libre", "Primera vez", "Baila conmigo" were some hits.
The following album, "Historia", was a memorable work for Ricardo Arjona and it reached 2 millons copies sold. "Tu reputación" and "Ella y él", contributed to locate Arjona among the most respected and admired artists of the continent. His album "Sin daños a terceros" gives us the sincere, brave Arjona committed with his time, his environment with his music and his public.
In november 2002 he launched the seventh album, "Santo pecado" which includes themes like "El problema", "Santo pecado", "La nena" and "Duele verte".
In 2005, his last album came out. These disc has got the best hits from other previous disc.
His music really talks about love,

Anonymous said...

Shakira:

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on February 2nd, 1997 in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is a Colombian singer-songwriter.
When she was 5 years old, in 1981, she started in the music and arabian dances. By the age of 10, she´d written her first song. One year later, she participated in a tv program, called, "buscando un artista infantil".
At the age of fourteen, she signed a contract whit "Sony Music". Her first album Magia, came out in 1991.
During 1993, her second album Peligro, came out. In 1996, che finished school. In 1996, her third album Pies Descalzos got platinium disc. Her fourth album, Donde estan los ladrones, got platinium disc in USA, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Centro América, Mexico and Spain. She was nominated for Grammy "mejor album de rock latino".
During 2001, her first album in english came out, titled Laundry Service. She has a CD in 2 languajes, english and spanish. It CD called Fijación Oral, it went to the market in 2 parts. The first disc, La Tortura, realaised with Alejandro Sanz.
She dedicates her time in PIES DESCLAZOS a fundation of poor childrens, in Colombia. She is an Unicef Ambasador.
We are going to see her singing in the closing ceremony of the FIFA WORL CUP, in Germany 2006.
Her music speaks about love, problems, stories of her love, and her feelings.

Anonymous said...

congratulations to NICOLAS , JULI and LALU for doing the homework and writing these biographies. GOOD WORK!!!

Anonymous said...

Los Piojos:
This band was formed in 1988 in El Palomar, Bs As. They were a group of friends that had their carrer playing in pubs of the zone.
In a short time they managed to increase their followers.
Los piojos' re Andrés cCiro Martinez(voice, harmonica, guitar, keyboard and chorus), Gustavo Kupinski(guitar, churus and bandoneón), Daniel Fernandez(guitar and chorus), Miguel Rodríguez(bass and chorus), ans Sebastián Cardero(drums and chorus).
In 1990 Los Redonditos de Ricota designated them like the band of revelation of the year.
At the beginig of 1991 they went to Paris though they didn't have a disk.
They first disk "Chactuchac" came in august 1992.
In 1993 they made a lot of presentations, for instance Bahía Blanca, Rosario and Mar del Plata.
Their second plaic called "Ay ay ay" appeared in 1994 and filmed their first video clip "Babilonia".
From there they began to came out to sound on radios.
In 1996 they developed themselves definitively and their third disk "Tercer Arco" came out in June and July. Tercer Arco was a golden disk in a few days and platino.
Ciro wrote a song to Maradona called "Marado" and come to the tops ten.
In 1997 they made a lot of concerts and the band incorporated to the major leagues of the national rock.
They made a video clip of "Farolito" and "Verano del 92".
The videos were very famous and interestig.
The fourth disk "Azul" came out in 1998 and it was presented in live in the Parque Sarmiento.
They touched in Distrito Federal y Guadalajara, Los Angeles and Miami.
The fifth disk "Ritual" was recorted in 1999.
In 2000 they filled Obras's stadium with Divididos, La Renga, Viejas Locas, Alejandro Sokol and Los Decadentes.
Then they began the recordig of "Verde paisaje del infierno".
At the end of 2002 "Huracanes en luna Plateada" came out.
It was a limited edition.
Maquina de Sangre came out in 2003, It was one of the or the best-seller of the year and de last disk.

Anonymous said...

hit, got to a number one in the ranking.
In 1992 they returned and recorded a new hit "Keep the faith" then in 1995 a new album came out that had two new songs "some day I`ll be saturday night" and the hit "always".
In 2000 "Crush" came out with a hit "It`s my life" and in 2001 the first direct album "wild wild night" came out.
The band attracted all youths world wide.