Word: demos
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...Ketchup, who grew up in a big musical family but never expected to have a hit with Asereje - or any song at all. Just a year ago, the three sisters from Córdoba had never performed as a group in public. They didn't even have a demo tape. Pilar, who insists, "I am an actress above all," was focused on her stage and screen career. Lola was studying industrial relations at a local college. Only Lucia, a flamenco singer and the youngest of the three, had recorded an album and was set on a music career. Then they...
...preparation for future research, Spiegel visited Kosslyn’s Harvard lab last month to demonstrate the phenomenon of hypnosis to several of the researchers. His demo convinced at least one person. “Before the project I was skeptical of hypnosis. I just didn’t believe in it. But after the study I was convinced of its legitimacy,” Thompson says. “You can’t draw sweeping conclusions from one paper, but the body of research that has recently been published certainly suggests that hypnosis is a true physiologic phenomenon...
When Karl Rove hatched the plan, it looked like the sort of deft political move that led George W. Bush to dub him "Boy Genius." Last year the President's political strategist recruited Los Angeles' popular outgoing mayor, Richard Riordan, to run for Governor against the vulnerable Demo-cratic incumbent, Gray Davis--and Rove seemed to be taking the first step toward remaking the moribund California G.O.P. in Bush's image. But Riordan's spectacular defeat in last week's Republican primary suggests that what passes for genius in Washington can look too clever by half anywhere else...
During his 18-year tenure as president of Blue Note records, Bruce Lundvall has had an open-door policy for new talent. Anyone can call up the legendary jazz label, schedule an appointment and play him a demo. Lundvall has heard thousands of tapes, but only twice has a relative unknown walked into his office and walked out with a record deal. The first, in 1994, was Rachelle Ferrell, who possesses a dazzling 6 1/2-octave vocal range. The second was a tiny wisp of a singer named Norah Jones. "Norah doesn't have one of those over-the-top instruments...
...Shell White, a music-industry accountant. White was so moved by Jones' voice that she approached the young singer and, while admitting she had no management experience, asked if she could make it her personal mission to get Jones signed. White e-mailed Lundvall, and after playing him a demo that included covers of the vocally challenging standards Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most and Walking My Baby Back Home, White had accomplished her mission...