Traditional part of the pop music of the romantic ideal for more than half a century, Johnny Mathis currently enjoying the recent passing of a brand new album, let me - in Nashville, which hit stores on September 21, Matisse.
Born September 30, 1935 in Gilmer, Texas, Johnny Mathis grew up learning songs and dances of his father, Clem Mathis, a veteran vaudeville.
Moving with his house to San Francisco, and began training in vocal Johnny 13, and the operation of the turn about the home of the instructor in substitution for lessons, and received his first ring gig singing in a band formed by keyboardist Merl Saunders.
Star high jumper, barriers and basketball player in high school, was Matisse on the course of the tests Olympics when, in September 1955, Colombia recorded & R Executive and jazz producer Avakian George flew to hear to Johnny singing during the gig this weekend in San Francisco 440 Club. Performance Mathis` that night Avakian paid to burn off a wire to the now legendary Columbia Records in New York: "I plant the phenomenon of boy 19 years), which can go all the way to direct a blank contracts."
Chose Johnny Mathis torn between the tests Olympic or go to New York to tighten the records first, and his bed of medicine on the passion of the sport (the enthusiasm that the maintenance over the years, golfers from the world-class and the legion of the golf Mathis Johnny tournaments in the United States and the United Kingdom, as easily as the annual Johnny Mathis Invitational Track and know field in the authorization of the College of San Francisco).
Artist longer on Columbia Records, which was released for the 1st time, Johnny Mathis: a new phone in popular song, in 1956, Johnny Mathis is one of the past, one of the most popular, and ultimately a single citation of the traditional most enduring vocalists to emerge before the rock arrived to rule the charts and pop, Johnny Mathis has recorded more than 110 albums and sold tens of millions around the public since records the loss of his debut. 17000000 RIAA has qualified the album and singles sales in the United States alone.
For his latest album, Battle of the artist to the 1st full-length pop / country, Matisse, which the cognition and beloved of music reflect the genre, he chose songs that touched him personally and came alive under the feeling of Matisse.
Johnny collected and Fred Mollin, producer of the album, a compendium of the finest musicians in Nashville (or anyplace in the world) to read an album release of deliberately modern studio tricks. Register with the wonderful Johnny Khyle Lenning recording engineer on board the level to clean up sessions, these songs exist in the studio throughout the week. Johnny approach is sympathetic with the original arrangements of the country, with all the music performance with unusual sensitivity to keep some of the most intimate Mathis singing ever recorded.
The songs on Let Me: Matisse in Nashville include "What a Fantastic World" (featuring Lane Brody), "Let Me" (featuring Alison Krauss), "make the man go away", "Crazy", "Nights of the South", "You do not love me, "" Finn `arms, "" Shenandoah, "" We should be Lovin` right "," I can not stop Fein `You, "" Love Me Tender "," Please help me I`m hard "and" What a Marvellous World (Birth Holiday Version) "(featuring Lane Brody).
Vocalist Samia was his way of pop music than passing fads and trends, and Johnny Mathis was the operation of the songs in a tremendous array of styles and Categories - from medicine to the stage and film golden standards era of jazz, pop hits of contemporary music both holiday sacred and secular - to see his repute as one traditional pop vocalists of the most enduring in the story of music.
Perhaps the better known of the soul his landmark (three of his recordings - "There are possibilities," "It`s not for me to say," and "Misty" - has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame) Matisse was one of the artists musical first to take the conception of the album and make a perfect book of documentary and sonically coherent set of songs. His 1958 release, Greatest Hits Johnny opened the current "greatest hits" anthology phenomenon become one of the most pop albums in each sentence after having spent weeks an unprecedented 490 continuous (almost ten years) on the Billboard Top Albums chart. Johnny Mathis was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Humanities and Skill in the file in 2003.
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