Who knows sarah brightman, the British "Moonlight Goddess"?

Sarah Brightman (1960 August 14-), a British cross-border soprano singer and actress, is known as the "Moon Goddess". After the three tenors in the world, she is another diva who has made her mark in the world music scene. Together with andrea bocelli, she is known as an iconic artist who transcends classicism and pop. Today, when classical pop is popular all over the world, Sarah is undoubtedly at the forefront of this trend. Sarah once set an astonishing record of global single sales exceeding 6.5438+million, so she has numerous listeners and fans all over the world. Sarah's fans not only come from operas, stage plays and classical music, but also a large part of them are young people and fans who like pop music.

Sarah Brightman

Sarah brightman, a historical revolutionary of British Bel Canto and a world-class diva, 1986 won the Grammy Award for Contemporary Classical Music and was nominated as the Grammy for Best Classical Female Artist. In Spain, she is called "opera angel"; In Germany, she is known as the "queen of stage play"; In Japan, she is called "super popular singer"; In Chinese mainland, she is called "Queen of Songs" by classical circles, "Superstar" by pop circles, and "Big Eye Sister" by those who can't remember her name. She tried to sing in a disco for the first time, and was famous for performing Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical (1984- 1990). At the age of 2 1, Sarah's life took a very big turn because she played Jemima (a lovely cat) in Weber's famous musical Cat, which attracted Weber's attention. When writing Phantom of the Opera, the heroine Christine's music was based on her range. As a result, sarah brightman and Michael Patrick, who played Phantom of the Opera, became an instant hit. Later, Sarah also sang a lot of Weber's songs and included them in the album. She also sang "Long Live Friendship" with jose carreras at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. She sang the theme song "You and Me" of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games with China singer Liu Huan, representing famous music works such as Farewell Moment, Scarborough Fair, Phantom of the Opera, Moonlight Goddess, Cat and Battle of Fame. Her voice is like a clear spring waterfall through the jungle and streams. Sometimes it's a wild horse running under the plug, and sometimes it's ethereal to the extreme, as if taking you through the clouds and taking a breath of them. The ethereal expression turns into sound and fills your heart. Pop music, classical music and stage play were originally incompatible or even antagonistic music spaces, but Sarah's singing creatively combined them. She uses extremely rare artistic techniques to express the music she sings without damaging its original flavor. Its bright colors and beautiful shapes make people enter a dream of infatuation. No matter in music or visual arts, sarah brightman has reached the extreme that others can't reach ... What's even more amazing is that Sarah's singing can creatively combine pop music, stage play and classical music, and express her music in an extremely rare artistic way without losing its original flavor. The outstanding performance is the Spanish love hymn "Pasión". Famous tracks include "When Say Goodbye" and "Phantom of the Opera". Sarah has also sung many songs that should be performed by male actors in the original play, including Nathan Domar in the opera Turandot, and pop, classical and rock are still involved in the musicals Phantom of the Opera and Music at Ai Weita Night. Sarah brightman has created achievements that women have never created-she is the first woman to reach the highest position of transnational pop, classical and cross-border music at the same time, and she is worthy of being called "the queen of music".

As a singer, few people can be as talented and unique as sarah brightman. The singing voice with personal temperament is ethereal, ethereal and pure, fresh and sweet at times, and loud and shocking at times, creating an endless illusion of space, so that her high-pitched voice that goes straight into the sky will not be harsh, but will be painted with a layer of natural color, which makes people full of confusion and imagination, just like a lonely sailor sailing at sea hearing a mermaid sing, becoming a change of direction and a goddess of bel canto. Whenever her song rings, people are always hopelessly lost in the soft voice in those bloody evenings. Just like on the way to escape from a restless heart, Sarah's singing is the best imperial garden. As Weber's second wife, sarah brightman's pop single Requiem entered the UK's 65,438+00 charts. Sarah Bleiman ranks 10th among 200 1 British high-income women.

Sarah brightman had an unusual musical career. She was born in England. She has a clear goal since she was a child, that is to become an artist. She began to learn ballet at the age of 3 and performed at local festivals. At the age of 1 1, Bleiman entered an art school to study jazz and perform. During this period, she played truant because she was laughed at by other students, but she finally returned to school.

Asian Concert (1 1) However, by that time, everyone, including herself, firmly believed that she would become a professional dancer. Paula's mother still remembers that when 12 years old, Sarah sang a song "Alice in Wonderland" at the school's final performance. I never knew that she could sing so well. When she sang the high notes, everyone fell for it. I believe that from that moment on, she was inseparable from singing. "Just one year later, the school sent little Sarah to participate in the casting of the famous director john schlesinger's new musical" Albert and I "and won two roles. This small success not only enabled Sarah to enter the stage of Piccadilly Theatre for the first time at the age of 13, but also inspired her lifelong desire for stage art. Later, she was interviewed by the Royal Ballet Academy in London, but she was eliminated. 1976, when Bleiman 16 years old, he joined the famous BBC program Pan People as one of the dancers. A year later, she left and joined another organization, Hot Gossip. /kloc-When she was 0/8 years old, she had her first best-selling single "I gave my heart to a starboard cavalry", which sold more than 500,000, ranking sixth in the UK singles list. Later, Bleiman, as the lead singer of Hot Gossip, published several singles, but none of them made the British singles list.

1981-1989: the stage play period.

198 1, Bleiman was interviewed for the musical "Cat" at that time, but he was interrupted just after singing two sentences. She was told that Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of the play, invited her home for an interview the next day. Bleiman, 2 1 year-old, naturally knows the importance of this meeting to herself. for

Sarah brightman's poster (16) shows that she meets the requirement of "being different" in the recruitment requirements of the cast. She dressed herself up carefully, dressed in green from top to bottom, and got a blue Mohist dry head, so she appeared in front of Weber and sang Weber's work "Argentina Don't cry for me" at 1976. A few months later, she won the role of Jemima. Jemima is a very naive and lovely kitten in the play, and Sarah shows it completely. It is not easy for a 2 1 year-old to show innocence, so Sarah became popular. After spending a year in Cats, Bleiman turned to play the leading role in the children's play The Nightingale by Charles Strauss. One night, Weber decided to watch her well-received performance in the play, and the result was a big surprise: such a good voice of nature made her stay in her own crew for a year in vain! This night changed the career and life of Weber and Bleiman in the future. Since then, their working relationship has changed. However, although they are lovers, the first thing they have to solve is their own marriage-Weber has a wife; However, Bleiman's husband is a rock band manager, and she met him in hot gossip. For a time, their relationship almost became the news that British newspapers talked about, and the attention was second only to the marriage of Prince Charles and Miss Diana. Amid the national uproar, the couple finally got married on 1984, which made Bleiman's singing career step by step to the top. Since then, Bleiman has appeared in many of Weber's musicals, including Song and Dance and Requiem, which Weber wrote specially for his voice. Bleiman won the Grammy nomination for the first time for this work. Bleiman then played Christine in Weber's Phantom of the Opera, a role that Weber tailored for her and insisted on Bleiman. Later, the play landed on Broadway in the United States, and the United States demanded the replacement of Bleiman on the grounds of popularity. Weber even threatened to stop performing the play so that Bleiman could continue. In the end, the two sides reached a compromise. After leaving Phantom of the Opera, Bleiman took part in the tour of Weber's works in Britain, Canada and the United States, and performed Requiem in the Soviet Union. At the same time, she also published studio albums, including the single Except Loneliness of Weber's music All Aspects of Love, and two solo albums: Trees They Grow So Tall (1988) and Songs (1989). 1990, Bleiman divorced Weber. However, after the divorce, Bleiman still plays the leading role in the London Cass in Weber's musical Love View.

1990s: the period of personal music style.

After leaving the music stage, Bleiman began his personal career pursuit in LA. 1992, she and carreras sang the theme song Amigos Para Siempre of the Barcelona Olympic Games, which was also composed by Weber. After listening to the album of German group Enigma, Bleiman hopes to cooperate with it. Her request was answered positively in 199 1. She came to Germany and met the producer Frank Peterson Frank Peterson. Their first album was "Diving", a popular album with the theme of "water". Apart from its success in Canada, the response of this album was mediocre. 1995 rock album "Fly",

Fly( 1) is their second album, in which the title song "A Question of Honor" enhanced Bleiman's popularity in Europe. In fact, it's time to say goodbye was originally sung by the famous blind tenor andrea bocelli Bocelli. 1996, the famous German boxing champion henry maske prepared a farewell boxing match, ending his legendary sports experience. He specially found his favorite singer Sarah Brightman and invited her to sing in his farewell boxing match. Bleiman accepted it, and after careful planning and selection, he finally chose this song "It's time to say goodbye", and Bleiman invited Bocelli to perform with him. However, in the boxing match held in June 165438+ 10 that year, henry maske was unexpectedly defeated, which was amazing. At this time, when the moving melody of "It's time to say goodbye" sounded, when Bleiman and Bocelli began to sing, this scene touched all the audience! The names "When Saying Goodbye" and "Sarah Brightman" are deeply imprinted in the hearts of the audience. Later, some media even described it as "the farewell of a boxing legend has created another musical legend"! The following year, as soon as the album featuring this track was released, it swept the field of classical pop cross-border music with great momentum and won wide acclaim around the world. It once topped the European champion song throne and gained a circulation that other classical music could not match. This song was written for the farewell match of boxing star Musk, and was sung by Bleiman and tenor andrea bocelli. This song has sold more than 3 million in Germany alone, becoming the best-selling single in German history, and has also achieved success in many countries. So when 1996 reprinted Fly, it was time to say goodbye as the first track. 1997 published the album Forever (American version is Time to Say Goodbye), and the title song of the album Time to Say Goodbye is far more exciting than this song. The whole album is full of charming temperament and overall artistic sense, and the orchestral instruments are played by the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra, reflecting a kind of nothingness. In addition to working with Bocelli, Sarah Brightman also collaborated with Argentine tenor Jose Cura on two high-level tracks: Love Proverbs "Just tell me how to love you" and "Stay for me". There are other classical styles, such as "Who wants to live forever", "You will come back" and "Tu Quieres Volver". With this album, Bleiman's popularity in the United States has gradually increased. From 65438 to 0997, Bleiman held a solo concert called "At the Concert" at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The guests included Andrew Lloyd Webber and andrea bocelli.

2000-2003: Success in the field of mainstream music

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Later albums, including Return to Eden, Eden and Moon, are obviously different from Time to Say Goodbye and incorporate more and more popular elements. Among them, Eden ranked 65th in the American Billboard 200 list, and Luna ranked 17. In addition, both albums topped the Billboard cross-border list. On 200 1, Bleiman published the classic album "Gold Collection" and "Classic". Her album Arabian Nights and Harem, published in 2003, opened up a new music field: Middle Eastern music with dance style. This album ranked 29th on the Billboard 200 list and first on the cross-border list. While releasing the album, Bleiman also launched a global tour. Her concert amazed the audience with its stunning stage effect. In 2000 and 200 1 year, Bleiman was one of the most influential British musicians in the United States. The album "Goddess of the Moon" and "La Luna" toured in the United States, and the box office reached $654.38+0.22 million. In 2004, the Harem Concert made a global box office of 60 million dollars, including North America150,000 dollars.

2006-present

In 2006, Bleiman performed at the Beijing New Year Concert: Les Filles De Cadiz, Anytime Anywhere, West Side Story, I Feel Pretty and Tonight. It's time to say goodbye. The musical My Fair Lady, I can dance all night. Published the first MV collection "Diva: Video Collection" since her debut. At the same time, a collection of her best-selling singles, Diva: The Singles Collection, also appeared together, once again topping the US Billboard cross-border list. On June 25th, 2006, Bleiman gave a concert in Nanning: anytime, anywhere, it's time to say goodbye, Ai Weita, don't cry for me. In July 2007, Bleiman participated in the performance of "Concert to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Princess Diana's Death", which was watched by more than 654.38+05 million viewers in Britain. In the same month, she came to China to attend the Live Earth concert. She sang: No one sleeps tonight, Nissen Sodom, the moon, the moon, it's time to say goodbye. In August, Bleiman sang "Benz" and "Running" at the opening ceremony of the World Athletics Championships held in Osaka. June 5438+October 2008 10, Bleiman released her first album in five years-Symphony, with a gothic style, which is a cover of the symphony in the album Verschwende Deine Zeit by the German Silbermond band. Canto Della Terra is another collaboration with the cross-border tenor andrea bocelli; "Sanvean" is a cover of "Sanvean (I am your shadow)"; ) "the dead can dance by the dark tide group; "I will be with you (where the dead go)" is a cover song of the same name from Cisel, a single with chris thompson (recommended by Hirdes's myth), and this album was re-recorded by Paul Stanley, the lead singer of Kiss. Schwarzenegger Tr? Ume is adapted from the works of Austrian composer and conductor Mahler. "Sarai Qui" covers the theme song "There You'll Be" of the movie Pearl Harbor sung by faith hill, and is sung by Italian tenor Alessandro Safina; Storia D'amore seems to come from an Italian movie of the same name; "Let It Rain" is really not a cover track; Attesa is a work inspired by Pietro Mascagni's Country Knight. Pasión originated from the theme song of Mexican TV series Pasión, a Spanish love song, and was performed in cooperation with Fernando lima. The single "Running" is adapted from holst's "Plane". Sarah Brightman sarah brightman's voice is always outstanding, except admiration, only listening! The second album also created the highest ranking of Bleiman's released albums on the Billboard 200 list-No.13, and its tour of the same name was also launched in Mexico in 2008 1 1 month. The total box office of this tour in North America exceeded $ 10 million, making it one of the most successful tours in North America in 2008. From February to April, 2009, the tour was moved to East Asia and the tour city of Chinese mainland. In the same year, she was still in the movie "Buy Back! Gene opera plays the role of blind Mag. On August 8, 2008, at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Bleiman and China singer Liu Huan sang the theme song "You and Me" in both Chinese and English. 165438+1On October 4th, Bleiman released her first Christmas album, A Winter Symphony. On June 5438+ 10, 2009, Bleiman was appointed as the UK promotion center for the 20 10 Shanghai World Expo.

2009 Concert Site (20) Ambassador. In July, Bleiman played his own eponymous role in the film Amafi: Megami No 50-Byou, which was a special production of Fuji TV for its 50th anniversary. At the same time, the Japanese also released an anthology of Bleiman-Love Song of Amafi-Sarah Brightman. In the same year, Bleiman filmed the romantic comedy film Cauchy in Scotland, in which she played a female conductor. 5438+065438+June1October, 2009, Bleiman sang the theme song "Loneliness" of the historical drama "Clouds on Sakamoto" of NHK TV in Japan for the first time, and the original music of the drama was sung by the famous Japanese musician Joe Hisaishi. 20 10 in February, Sarah Bleiman's new single sends her best wishes. This is the song "Should Be Done" that she sang in cooperation with a manufacturer in the Winter Olympics. In the MV, a voice came from the forest, across the mountains, across the fields, and reached the children's ears. A child opens the window and sticks his head out. A child stops and turns around. Everyone is curious about where the ethereal sound is, and they go to the mysterious forest to find the source of the sound. You are welcome to explore the secrets of the forest and participate in Hunan Satellite TV 20 1 1 Spring Festival Evening.