Diggy Simmons

This person is a young guy who was born in March the 21^st, in 1995. His real name is Daniel Dwayne Simmons III but, he is called Diggy Simmons. He is the son of Joseph Simmons who is one of the founding member of Run-DMC(it’s a old group of rap music composed of Rev Run, his father, DMC and Jam Master Jay)and the son of Justine Simmons an African American singer. He begin to produce rap music in 2005. He became famous because of the tv show: Run's House (is an MTV reality series. It shows the family life of rapper and hip-hop music of the Simmons family). He is one of the youger people who succeed in the rap. Nowaday he has produced two mixtapes:”the first flight” and “airborn”.

Dorian

Queen

Well today i want to talk about one about a monument of rock music, a band with a very extended musical patrimony , we can say they are polyvalent. They contributed to the inspiration of artists or bands like MUSE , GUNS N ROSES or MIKA. They are a band , they are QUEEN!
QUEEN are from right to left :

Freddie MERCURY, whose real name was Farrokh BULSARA, was born in the protectorate of Zanzibar in 1946 and died in 1991 in London. It’s maybe the most famous guy of this band.

He was the singer , the pianist and sometimes the guitarist for a little number of songs

Brian MAY , the guitarist of the band. . he raised his guitar (the “red special”) as a classical rock instrument by its utilisation of saturation sounds and its abilities to play every kind of musical styles. He is a great pianist and singer too.

Roger TAYLOR , the drummer and one of the founders with the guys above in 1970. He did the back vocals with Brian MAY

John DEACON , the bass player who join the band in 1971

At first, they turned towards heavy metal and other hard rock styles. We had to wait until 1975 and the creation of their biggest hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" to recognise the style we know them for. Moreover , you need to know that there were no leaders in this band. Stop thinking that Freddie MERCURY was the head of this for guys. He might be the autor of their greatest hit.
He might written their discography. But whitout the other musician, we would probably never have known famous songs like "We will rock you" , "I want to break free" and "Another one bites the dust". Besides, we surely would have heard songs like "Under presure", "I want it all" and "The show must go on" a different way.

Léo 1ère S1

The harp

The harp is a musical instrument with pinched ropes, as the guitar, with a colone and a sound box. It one of the most old instruments, because it dates 4.000 years before J.-C. The harp is universal, it has been played all aroud the world, for exemple by egyptians or african tribes.
In the Middle Ages the harp was handicaped by its diatonic scale, that means it could only play the seven notes : C, D, E, F, G, A, B (do ré mi fa sol la si); while others instruments had chromatic scale : they could play sharps # and flats b, so twelve notes. To resolve this problem, the arpa doppia or the double harp was created in Italia, with two rows of ropes. After, in 1697, the harp with seven pedals comes into the world, one for each note, that means 1.500 mechanical rooms into the colone.

Nowadays there is two played types of harp, the celtic harp and the concert harp. The first has not pedals but palettes, and it is little : between 1 and 1,50 metre high and only 32 - 38 ropes, that is why it is adapted for children. The concert harp has pedals and is more big : between 1,60 and 1,90 metre high and 40 - 48 ropes. Since lately there are also the electric harp and the electro-acoustic harp, which can sound like a classical harp or an electric harp.

The most part of the ropes are made in bowels or nylon, but the most grave are in metal. The ropes for the note C (do) are painted in red, those for the note F (fa) in blue, and the others are uncolored. The harp has the biggest tessiture (the number of notes) with the piano, until six octaves. A concert harp costs between 10.000 and 100.000 euros, but there are celtic harps for 1.000 euros.

Let's talk about ROMEO !

Percy Romeo Miller Junior, better known by his nickname Romeo is an American singer mainly, actor and basketball player. He comes from New Orleans in Louisiana and was born in August, the 19 in 1989 so, he’s 21 today. First, he’s the son of a famous rapper & entrepreneur called Master P so Romeo is in front of the scene since he’s a child.

• The Romeo’s career seriously started with a film as Benny in “Honey” (2003) where he is the main character with Jessica Alba. At the same time, he began to play in the American series called “Romeo!” in 4 seasons, on Nickelodeon and Canal J channel since 2003 to 2006.

• As a singer, Romeo Miller career takes form in 2001 when he released his first single “My baby” which is a recovery of “I want you back” of Jackson five. After, he released other single and some album like: “Romeoland” as Lil’ Romeo or “Intelligent Hoodlum”, his upcoming album, as Romeo.

• But, even if he’s various, Romeo Miller wants to be one day a NBA basketball player. And this dream can become true thanks to a scholarship he gets at USC, one of the most prestigious athletic High Schools. Before, he played in the Beverly Hills high school team.

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I chose to speak about him because I think he’s a really talented artist even if he’s not internationally known. “Practice” is one of my favorite songs of him it’s a new Romeo, a Romeo who matured and who can have so much success with his fan, girls mainly because of his physic ;)

Well, I hope you enjoy him with his song..

Ps: I'll get married with him ♥♥♥, so DON'T TOUCH HIM !

By   Jessy ღ

Mumford and Sons

As you know, every holiday needs a soundtrack.
I hope you're lucky enough to go on holidays, otherwise, enjoy the cold and the rain while listening to this song.  
Mumford & Sons is an English folk band which recently released their first album. They are currently touring around the United States.

 Enjoy your holidays!!

By the way, this week, for the first time in US history, a major politician (Hilary Clinton) made a speech to support gay teenagers! Watch it here
M Espinasse

Train

I'm going to talk about Train, a music group I discovered last summer.

The story of the group began in San-Francisco . Patrick Monahan met Rob Hotchkiss in the world of the music. Patrick, the singer, and Rob, the guitar player decided to create their group. The bass player Charlie Colin and a second guitar player Scott Underwood joined them, and the group became Train in 1994.

The studio Columbia Records refused to produce them, so they had to make live concerts in small places.

They made themselves their first album in 1998 : it was a success and the group attracked the attention.

In 2001 , their second album "Drops of Jupiter" was produced by Aware Records. The song "Drops of Jupiter" got a Grammy Award for the best rock song of the year. So, they became famous outside the USA.

They stopped making concerts for a few years because of their family life. Moreover, Patrick Monahan started a solo career. Their come back will be without Rob Hotchkiss. The new very famous single "Hey soul sister" arrived in 2009 on the top of the charts. Finally, they created "Save me San Francisco" which is the beginning of a new adventure for the group.

If you want to listen to their new album, go to : http://www.deezer.com/fr/#music/train

Enjoy!

Onerepublic

I' am going to talk about the band Onerepublic.

The band was created by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins, two friends from Colorado high school in 1996. But senior year ended, and Tedder and Filkins parted ways, each attending different colleges. The group has been reunited in 2003 in Los Angeles, in this period they signed with Columbia Records.

They worked with them for two years and half then Columbia dropped them, the good thing is that thanks to this they started to get a reputation on Myspace, that's how Timbaland found them and Onerepublic soon get a new contract.

With their single Apologize featured Timbaland was a big hit in the whole world. After their first single Dreaming out loud, all the followers were very well receaved in the world.

Their last album Waking Up was released in november 2009 is, I think, the most amazing with great songs Good life you can find down here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdlTt3E7w4Y&translated=1
Fanny

ANGUS & JULIA STONE

I choose this band because Angus & Julia Stone are some really good singers -songwriters.

They are a brother-sister duo from Newport of the Northern Beaches of Sydney in Australia. The two of them are some musicians, Angus played guitar and Julia the trumpet.

Angus and Julia's parents are some musicians too since they've been inspired by the songs of their father.

After the breake-up between their parents, Angus and Julia are separated and take some opposites sides. Julia gave some lessons of trumpet and Angus was versatile.

It's just in 2005 that the two brother-sister are in the same town , in the South of America and they decided to get together and to be associate. Then, Angus and Julia began to collaborate on their musical endeavours in 2006 , they wrote many songs. They decided to leave USA to put up London. During they were playing in a bar, one singer of the band TRAVIS saw and help them to recording their first album "A BOOK LIKE THIS " which is made up of :

* Just a boy ,

* wasted ,
* the beast ,
* here we go again , ...

The album debuted at the number one in their native country.

Then they made a "trip" all around the world. It's allowed them to make some other songs and discovered some others countries to reinforce their style. It has also help them to find some lyrics of their trip !

Their types of music are folk, blues, acoustic. I like very much this album because it's calme down and relaxing and I feel good when I heard them.

One after the other, in 2010 , they made a new album very famous : " DOWN THE WAY " which regroups :

* and the boys ,

* Big jet plane ,

* For you ,

* Draw your sword , ....

Their voices are just so amasing and it has been a really big sucess in UK, USA, Australia, French, .. I like very much this new album and the songers are so in harmony !

I've discovered Angus & Julia Stone this summer and i've been surprised by her voice which is not common. Angus also play guitar in all their songs , he pass his emotion like no one does, it's just a such a good band. If you want to heard click :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUDc1frz22E

Earth Song

We talk about protest singers and protest songs in my other English class, so I want to talk about it on the blog too because I found this subject very interesting.
I’ll introduce you a very engaged singer, who I like, Michael Jackson, I know that everybody knows him because he is one of the most known artist in the world.

Michael Joseph Jackson is born the 29 of August 1958, in the USA. He was a huge artist, referred as the King of the pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful of all the time by the Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion made him a global figure in popular culture for 40 years, as we all know! He began his career as a member of The Jackson 5 with his brothers in the middle of the 1960’s, and his solo career in 1971.
He composed many songs which the most famous are “Beat it” or “Thriller”, and made video clip to accompany them, so, he acquired a reputation as an art form and the popularity of these videos helped to bring new television channel like MTV to fame, now and thanks to Michael Jackson this TV channel is diffuse in the entire world ! Trough music videos, Jackson popularized a number of dance techniques such as the robot and the moonwalk, and influenced numerous hip hop, pop and R&B artists. The King of the pop is the most awarded artist of the history of music, he was also a notable humanitarian, donating and raising hundreds of millions of dollars for beneficial causes and supporting more than 39 charities …
So, I’m going to talk about the song that I choose, Earth Song.
In this song he protest against the war, the poverty, and the global warming, and this cause is very current and we have to think about it quickly. Michael Jackson wrote this song in 1995 and it’s the earth situation of now, in 2010, we can say that this song was a kind of futurist.

It’s such a powerful song, like when Michael J. say “what we’ve done to the world, look what we’ve done … ", this sentence make you thinking about it all our actions everyday which are destroying our planet, because, as Michael Jackson say “we”, he uses the first person of the plural, so he includes us in his lyrics, just because it’s our fault, all of us, humans. We have to take care about our Earth. He uses rhetorical questions, in the first verse and in the rest of the song too, and repetitions, those kind of process are made too think, and react.
I like the character of Michael Jackson because he was one who dares to show the reality, and talk about it. And that part of his personality, according to me, that is why he is so famous, still after his death.

Those are the reasons why I choose to talk about this song which I appreciate a lot for the message.


the link to watch the video clip on youtube with the lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lbOgBtE3w
or the official clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7z_w83fSjM

Lola D.

Tumi And The Volume

Tumi and the volume is a band of four south africans men which name of each man is Tumi, Dave Paulo and Tiago. They made three albums in six years which the new one is "pick a dream" the best of the three it was product the 12/04/10. They imagined with this opus a new music between the rap, the hip-hop, the jazz and the south african music. Their new album is a confirmation of their six years of work.

This band relate the new generation of singers thay made a music for all the people for all the family the parents or the childrens. In their album "pick a dream" it has 12 songs:

01-La tête savante

02-Asinamali
03-Number three
04-Limpopo
05-Moving picture frames
06-Through my sunroof
07-Reality check
08-Volume trials
09-Enter the dojo
10-Light in your head
11-Play nice
12-Tine blues

I discovered this band this summer and i listened it all the summer i really love this type of music un easy rythm, a good instrumentation in fact a really good band and a really relly good album.

You can heard it on deezer if you want to discover it. trust me it's good.

http://www.deezer.com/fr/#music/tumi-and-the-volume/pick-a-dream-518326

If you like or if you don't like try M.I.A also her new album is so strange but good!

Glen

EMINEM

Eminem is the stage name of Marshall Bruce Mathers III, born October the 17th 1972 in St Joseph in Missouri. Author, compositor-interpreter and producer of American rap, he's very famous in the world. Why is he very known, and not only in the Rap's environment?

First, He's white, and it's a rarely phenomen in USA, particularly when he started playing music. Secondly, the man known as Slim Shady too, is very good. Indeed, he's designed by some magazines like the best rapper of the moment, and that for 10 years ago. The reason ?

His regularity, and his talented mastery of the language. He has won a lot of trophies, like 4 nominations at grammy awards. He's very known too for 8mile, a film where he is the main character and talks about his life, when he's a young adult. The soundtrack has been composed with a lot of rappers talented and known, like 50cent, Jay-Z, Nas, Obie trice.... but essentially by eminem.

He has been only educated by his mother. His dad leaved the house two months after eminem's birth. His white skin was a very problem when he was child because he was regularly attacked by the others kids. He grows up in a ghetto in Detroit, and chose the rap to became known. In his texts a few hard, with a lot of insults, he tell us his difficulties, his sanity disease, his ghetto, his life, his parents. These texts are globally not engaged, but he published "Mosh" a song where he criticized Bush's politic and Iraq war.

He used to do featuring, with rappers like Lil' Wayne, 50cent, but he collaborate too with R'n'B' stars, like Rihanna. Currently, he's classed 82nd of vest ever musicians of the world by the "Rolling stones' " magazine. Eminem stills produced good songs, like prove us his recently album, Recovery. He's considered like a monument in the Music.

Eminem is a legend, a real legend who we'll not forget rapidly.

Victor

*Lose yourself, symbolic song of 8mile:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2wA0Te0wM

Bobb'e J.Thompson

Everybody remembered Lil Bow Wow, the young rapper who was very talented and drawed the attention of Snoop Dogg in the middle of 90's. But now, Bobb'e J.Thompson (born February 28, 1996, Kansas City, Missouri) is one the best American teen rapper in the United States. He makes one's début at the age of five, in a Tv-show called "Showtime at the Apollo" with Steve Harvey, when he covered Lil Bow Wow "That's My Name" and won the Apollo Theater Talented Tykes (2002).





At the begining of the video, Steve Harvey asked him "What you rolling in?" and Bobb'e answered "I'm rolling in a lame green... Kia." because he's really bigheaded. So Steve said "Your mom rolling in a lame green Kia, you're in a back seat in the car seat."

Maybe you've already seen Bobb'e in "My Wife and Kids" (2002) as Shark or in "Role Models" (2008) as Ronnie Shields, because he's also an actor.


You've noticed that Bobb'e is also a great dancer.
Finally we can hope that he'll suceed on his career. Thanks for watching!
Adey.