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| Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Allison Crowe live performance |
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"It's, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in
life, not in some formal religious way but with
enthusiasm, with emotion.... It's a rather joyous
song." ~ Leonard Cohen, creator of the song,
Hallelujah
Canadian indie singer-songwriter Allison Crowe's
uniquely potent interpretation is heard on her
album, "Tidings". (The song enjoys increasingly
wide appreciation - most recently featured in a tv
performance by American Idol contestant Jason
Castro, and, by Leonard Cohen himself as the sun
set on Glastonbury 2008.)
"It's not hard to see why Crowe's Hallelujah --
recorded in a single take -- is popular. It's one
of Leonard Cohen's most affecting songs, and the
26-year-old, accompanying herself on piano, makes
it her own with raw honesty and formidable vocal
power. It's simultaneously heart-breaking and
redemptive, and it has captured the imaginations
of people around the world. 'The song itself is
just so emotionally resonant,' Crowe said modestly
this week." ~ Adrian Chamberlain, Times Colonist
(Canada)
"Bet you thought you heard all the versions you
need to hear of this song, right? Think again,
because Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love
with. She is from Vancouver Island in Canada,
descended from Scottish, Irish, and Manx stock.
She's exactly the sort of artist who can make
serious headway on her own label and that's just
what she's doing." ~ Record of the Day (UK)
"Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen. This song has
somehow become Crowe's signature, if a singer who
defies description as stubbornly as she does has a
signature... Cohen's original version is a spoken
poem, all of the meaning contained in the words.
Crowe's version is a living thing, a meditation
and a celebration and a benediction." ~ anacronym
(Canada)
"Crowe's warm, natural, passionate - and need I
add lovely? - voice are perhaps shown to best
effect on another glorious standard, Leonard
Cohen's magnificent and deeply spiritual quest for
faith, Hallelujah." ~ Martin Levin, Women's Post
(Canada)
"j'ai rarement été bouleversée à ce point par
une voix féminine. Pure comme de la glace,
puissante et même violente sur la reprise de
l'Hallelujah de Leonard Cohen." (en Francais -
English translation follows) "I have never been so
moved by a woman's voice. Pure as ice, powerful
and even violent on the cover of Leonard Cohen's
Hallelujah." ~ SplinterMuse (France)
"(Jeff) Buckley especially just blew the song to
pieces and every artist after him has tried and
failed to put it back together. Until now. Allison
Crowe manages to pump 'Hallelujah' full of all the
soaring vocals and raw emotion that it requires.
And the result is a big beautiful lump in the
throat." ~ Muruch (USA) blog praises the Buckley
and Crowe versions as very different, each great
in its own way
Allison's hometown covers the whole of Canada -
from Nanaimo, Vancouver Island to Corner Brook,
Newfoundland. It's a land rich with songs of
glory, joy and rare, natural, beauty.
Tags : Allison Crowe chanson piano voice rock folk singer songwriter acoustic music hometown glory Canada live Hallelujah Cohen |
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Affichage : 2273147
Durée : 274 s |
| Amazing Hand Shadow show by Raymond Crowe |
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Raymond Crowe is Australia's only UNUSUALIST.
Raymond has performed at:
CAESARS PALACE
Las Vegas
NBC's "WORLDS GREATEST MAGIC" and
The QE2
He was outstanding in Las Vegas. He was
outstanding on the High Seas. And now he's
outstanding -- out the back -- waiting to come
on!!
Please welcome the Secret World of...
RAYMOND CROWE
unusualist
http://www.raymondcrowe.com
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I don't claim this video to be mine, All credits
and appreciations go to the actual performer
Raymond Crowe.
Tags : Raymond Crowe Wonderful World unusualist Australia Louis Armstrong Entertainment Shadow videos Amazing hand puppetry adventure events |
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Affichage : 1027856
Durée : 141 s |
| River (Joni Mitchell) ~ Allison Crowe live |
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Canuck indie singer-songwriter Allison Crowe pays
tribute to one of her great inspirations, Joni
Mitchell, in this live performance of River ~ a
song from Mitchell's timeless album, "Blue". The
song appears on Allison Crowe's "Tidings" album.
"An intensely moving rendition of "River," one of
my favorite holiday tunes. When the artist sings
the crystalline, sorrowful line "I made my baby
cry," you can almost feel the tears welling up
inside." ~ Carol Swanson, ChristmasReviews &
Professor of Law at Hamline University (USA)
"One of my favorites; there is a pinch of Shawn
(Colvin) in Allison's voice, except imo Allison
has more punch and emotional bite in her vocals.
She makes singing this song seem easy, and anyone
who's tried it will tell you it's not." ~ Bob
Muller, Joni Mitchell Discussion List (USA)
"truly transcendent" ~ Joseph Blake, The Times
Colonist (Canada)
Tags : Allison Crowe piano voice folk jazz chanson singer Christmas acoustic music Joni Mitchell live performance Canada River |
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Affichage : 186488
Durée : 262 s |
| 'American Gangster' Denzel Washington, T.I, Russell Crowe, |
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Stay tuned for exclusive interviews with the cast
of American Gangsta on www.BlackTree.TV
AMERICAN GANGSTER
Scheduled for release: November 2, 2007
Genre: Drama
Cast: Denzel
Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, John Hawkes,
Ted Levine, RZA, T.I., Yul Vazquez
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Produced by: Brian Grazer
Executive Producers: Nick Pileggi, Steve
Zaillian, Branko Lustig,
Karen Kehela Sherwood, James Whitaker,
Michael Costigan
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer,
Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the
true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from
the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar® winner
Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner
city's leading black crime bosses. But when his
boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in
the power structure to build his own empire and
create his own version of the American Dream.
Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he
comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding
the streets with a purer product at a better
price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime
syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's
mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of
legit civic superstars.
Richie Roberts (Oscar® winner Crowe) is an
outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a
shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts
believes someone is climbing the rungs above the
known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a
black power player has come from nowhere to
dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share
a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from
their own colleagues, making them lone figures on
opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these
two men will become intertwined as they approach a
confrontation where only one of them can come out
on top.
Washington (Training Day) and Crowe (Gladiator)
lead a spectacular cast of accomplished and rising
stars—including Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Carla Gugino, T.I., RZA and John Ortiz—in this
blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur
directed by Oscar® nominee Ridley Scott
(Gladiator) and produced by Academy Award® winner
Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind) from a screenplay
by Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian
(Schindler's List).
Birth Name
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.
Nickname
D
Height
6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Mini Biography
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and
television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel
Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New
York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of
a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician
mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel
enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career
in journalism. However, he caught the acting bug
while appearing in student drama productions and
upon graduation he moved to San Francisco and
enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater. He
left A.C.T. after only 1 year to seek work as an
actor. With his acting versatility and powerful
sexual presence, he had no difficulty finding work
in numerous television productions. He made his
first big screen appearance in Carbon Copy (1981)
with George Segal. Through the 1980s he worked in
both movies and television and was chosen for the
plum role of Dr. Chandler in NBC's hit medical
series "St. Elsewhere" (1982), a role that he
would play for 6 years. In 1989 he won the Oscar
for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of
Tripp, the runaway slave in Edward Zwick's
powerful historical masterpiece Glory (1989).
Through the 1990s Denzel co-starred in such big
budget productions as The Pelican Brief (1993);
Philadelphia (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); The
Preacher's Wife (1996); and Courage Under Fire
(1996) - a role for which he was paid $10 million.
He lives quietly in Los Angeles with his wife
Pauletta and their 4 children. Cerebral and
meticulous in his film work, he made his debut as
a director in 2002 with Antwone Fisher (2002).
Born in New Zealand, Russell has made his home in
Australia since he was a small child. The son of
movie set caterers, Russell got the acting bug
early in life. Beginning as a child star on a
local Australian TV show, Russell's first big
break came with two films the first, Romper
Stomper (1992), gained him a name throughout the
film community in Australia and the neighboring
countries. The second, The Sum of Us (1994),
helped put him on the American map, so to speak.
Sharon Stone heard of him from Romper Stomper
(1992) and wanted him for her film, The Quick and
the Dead (1995). But filming on The Sum of Us
(1994) had already begun. Sharon is reported to
have held up shooting until she had her
gunslinger-Crowe, for her film.
Tags : BlackTree TV American Gangsta Denzel Washington TIP Common Russell Crowe New Movie Jamaal Finkley Media Academy Award |
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Durée : 124 s |
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