Word: musician
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...they should have. Sinead may have the right to express her political opinions, but most people would probably disagree on the setting and forum in which she chose to speak (or sing) her mind. But Sinead is not the first musician to step out of the role of singer to promote a personal cause. In the past decade, musicians have more and more sought to wield extraordinary influence over their fans in ways that go beyond the record label...
Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...
With the progress in detection and treatment has come a wave of publicity about this very private kind of cancer, which was once rarely talked about. Many prominent men, from ABC News chief Roone Arledge to musician Frank Zappa, have revealed that they have the disease. Others, like Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who underwent an operation for early prostate cancer last December, are actively encouraging men 50 and older or with a family history of the illness to get tested and become familiar with the warning signs: frequent or difficult urination, blood in the urine, painful ejaculation or continuous lower...
...Your Eyes" also foreshadowed another departure from Gabriel's early work. Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour performed background vocals on the track; that's right, an African harmony appeared in the avant-garde British musician's song. In 1989, Gabriel cemented his place in the fraternity of Western world-beat rockers--Paul Simon and David Byrne are the other members--when he released Passion, the Middle East-tinged soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ...
Though Gabriel's music still strays from the mainstream, his sentiments may meet with broader popular acceptance. Cynics and longtime Gabriel aficionados might scoff at the musician's emergent concern for broken hearts, but the emotionalism evident on Us usually works. "You lie there with your eyes half-closed/ Like there's no one there at all/ There's a tension pulling on your face/ Come on, come talk to me," Gabriel laments. Sinead O'Connor adds a fantastic background vocal...