La carrière de Leonard Cohen s’est déployée par vagues successives. Admiré et célébré d’abord comme poète, il a donné l’essentiel de son message dans ses trois premiers albums. Si les suivants, plus singuliers, ont surtout été appréciés...
Singers
- Author:Julien, Jacques, Ringuet, ChantalSummary:
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- Author:Cassa, AlessandroSummary:
« Rose qui ne pouvait voir la colorature sur la scène, en déduit à ce moment précis, que ce chant était magique. Et elle compris que les fées existaient vraiment. Car pour son premier soir d’opéra, elle en entendait une, chanter pour...
- Author:Schneider, JasonSummary:
Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide...
- Author:Pete, EricSummary:
On the day he is supposed to propose to Amelia, things go tragically wrong, and Bodie ends up in the slammer with a conviction for manslaughter. Amelia can't believe Bodie is guilty, but she knows she's got to move on and find...
- Author:Marom, MalkaSummary:
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More...
- Author:Whiting, MargaretSummary:
In this intimate "musical autobiography," one of our most prominent and enduring singers writes about almost every performer and composer in contemporary popular music. The daughter of acclaimed songwriter Richard Whiting,...
- Author:Groves, AnnieSummary:
A breathtaking tale set in 1920s Liverpool and London of one girl's determination to trace her roots, find true love and succeed in a world where obstacles lurk around every corner.
- Author:Myers, Beverle GravesSummary:
Venice, 1742: Tito Amato has regained his zest for performing and is once again singing lead roles at the Teatro San Marco. On opening night, the famous castrato has the entire audience entranced-except for one box with its scarlet...
- Author:Thompson, DaveSummary:
By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial...
- Author:Davis, StephenSummary:
Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (the Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate...
- Author:Stimpson, MichelleSummary:
Former singer Camille Robertson reinvents herself as a gospel singer to restart her career, and she finds herself conflicted by her growing attraction to a handsome worship leader even as she uses him to make her dream a reality.
- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies, and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Lewis, Mitchell ScottSummary:
Someone is bumping off rock’s wrinkled royalty. After the death of the third aging rock star, 58-year-old Freddie Finger, lead singer for multi-platinum Rocket Fire, astrologer detective David Lowell is brought into the case. Freddie...
- Author:Myers, Beverle GravesSummary:
Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice. The senator who controls...
- Author:Dylan, BobSummary:
Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career.
- Author:Bret, DavidSummary:
1940s, Paris. The German occupation is in full swing. Marcel, a famous singer at Levalle’s, grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and now leads a complicated life. Juggling his common-law wife and his mistress keeps him as busy as his...
- Author:Prévost-Linton, CharlesSummary:
Voici un livre qui s’adresse à tous ceux qui voudraient connaître et améliorer leur voix – autant les chanteurs professionnels que les néophytes – et ce, dans les genres musicaux les plus disparates. Élaboré ici dans un style simple et...
- Author:Stonechild, BlairSummary:
- Author:Gradischnig, Hertwig, Maitner, HansSummary:
Brook Benton was a magnificent singer who could handle handle anything from blues, jazz and soul to country, pop and standards. His version of Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’ - an international smash in 1970 - remains a...