NEW: Madonna

Posted por paco el Mayo 20th, 2006 — Categoria Caricatura Semanal

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Acrílico sobre tela / Acrylic on canvas

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Nace cerca de Detroit en 1958 pero es la cantante norteamericana con más carácter “del sur de Italia”. Su madre muere cuando ella tiene seis años y el padre debe hacerse cargo de una familia de ocho hijos. Aunque por su imagen pueda parecer extraño, Madonna saca muy buenas notas en el colegio. En la Universidad de Michigan le dan una beca de danza, pero después de un año lo deja porque no le gusta el ambiente.
En 1977 se va a Nueva York con 35$ en el bolsillo y una maleta. Durante un tiempo baila en una compañía de danza, la “Alvin Ailey Dance Trouppe”. Se patea todos los night clubs para conocer disc jockeys y buscar su primer contacto con las discográficas, que será Seymour Stein, jefe de Sire Records. Debuta como cantante en 1982, a los 24 años, con la canción Everybody. A partir de entonces el chorro de grandes éxitos es imparable: Like a virgin, Papa don’t preach, Material Girl…
A parte de su incesante creatividad como cantante, es una productora de éxito. Un peso pesado del negocio musical que ha calculado con frialdad empresarial su trayectoria, renovando imagen y sacando bombazos en el momento adecuado. Habiendo pasado de los cuarenta, Madonna es una artista de larga duración. No tiene nada que ver con las estrellas fugaces de hoy en día. She is “like a dream, no end and no beginning…”
http://www.letras.com/m/madonna/ 
 
Madonna moved from her native Michigan to New York in 1977, with dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. She studied with choreographer Alvin Ailey and modeled. In 1979, she became part of the Patrick Hernandez Revue, a disco outfit who had the hit “Born to Be Alive.” She traveled to Paris with Hernandez; it was there that she met Dan Gilroy, who would soon become her boyfriend. Upon returning to New York, the pair formed the Breakfast Club, a pop/dance group. Madonna originally played drums for the band, but she soon became the lead singer. In 1980, she left the band and formed Emmy with her former boyfriend, drummer Stephen Bray. Soon, Bray and Madonna broke off from the group and began working on some dance/disco-oriented tracks. A demo tape of these tracks worked its way to Mark Kamins, a New York-based DJ/producer. Kamins directed the tape to Sire Records, who signed the singer during 1982.
During 1997, she worked with producer William Orbit on her first album of new material since 1994’s Bedtime Stories. The resulting record, Ray of Light, was heavily influenced by electronica, techno, and trip-hop, thereby updating her classic dance-pop sound for the late ’90s. Ray of Light received uniformly excellent reviews upon its March 1998 release and debuted at number two on the charts. Within a month, the record was shaping up to be her biggest album since Like a Prayer. Two years later she returned with Music, which reunited her with Orbit and also featured production work from Mark “Spike” Stent and Mirwais, a French electro-pop producer/musician in the vein of Daft Punk and Air. The year 2000 also saw the birth of Madonna’s second child, Rocco, who she had with filmmaker Guy Richie; the two married at the very end of the year. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/madonna/bio.jhtml  

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Lou Reed

Posted por paco el Mayo 7th, 2006 — Categoria Caricatura Semanal

Técnica / Technique

Acrílico sobre tela / Acrylic on canvas

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 Nacido el 2 de Marzo de 1942 en Brooklyn ,Nueva York,  Cantante y compositor estadounidense. Fundador con John Cale del grupo Velvet Underground en 1965, se inició como solista en 1972 con el disco Lou Reed; ese mismo año grabó Transformer, con su canción más conocida, Walk on the wild side. Su inquieta creatividad se manifiesta en discos como Berlín (1973), Rock’n roll animal (1975), Street Hassle (1978), Growing up in public (1980), Blue mask (1982), Legendary hearts (1983) o New sensation (1984). En su producción más reciente destaca Magic and loss (1991). En 1995 volvió a unir a la Velvet Underground para realizar una gira y grabar un nuevo álbum. En 1999 apareció una recopilación de sus grandes éxitos titulada Live, In Concert; Definitive Collection.
 
Name at birth: Lewis Allen Reed
Guitarist Lou Reed co-founded and wrote most of the songs for the New York rock group The Velvet Underground (1965-70), the influential band which recorded such cult favorites as “Heroin,”, “Sweet Jane” and “Sister Ray.” The Velvet Underground, at first associated with Andy Warhol  and the singer Nico, was never a huge popular success, but it has been credited with influencing a generation of punk and post-punk rockers in the 1970s and ’80s. During the ’70s Reed and David Bowie were among the top acts in “glam rock,” a theatrical style of gender-bending rock and roll. Reed’s solo hits from the ’70s include “Walk On The Wild Side” and “Street Hassle,” as well as re-vamped versions of several of his Velvet Underground songs. By the end of the 1990s, Reed was an elder statesman of rock and roll, a mature songwriter with a reputation for thoughtful urban ballads. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

 

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