| 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.
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Affichage : 2096921
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
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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.
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Affichage : 971070
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 : 180917
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.
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