Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three animated Just So stories shown on Showtime and narrated by Jack Nicholson, recorded the theme for The Cosby Show and vocalized for the eye-catching, ear- gracing commercials for Levi's 501 jeans. His four-octave voice has topped Down Beat magazine's readers' poll for best male singer four years running -- that's one award per octave. For the past three years, he has also taken away Grammys for Best Male Jazz Vocalist. Now, after spending two of the past three years on the road (performing as many as 116 concerts annually), Bobby McFerrin is setting his sights...
...says it, but in fact the game has some serious resonance for him. "You find a word, but you don't stop," he explains. "You're constantly looking for alternatives, never settling for the obvious." McFerrin, 38, has been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...
...there is some method in this benign musical madness, that should come as no surprise from a singer who had written five plays by the age of 15. Born in New York City, where his father Robert helped break the color bar at the Metropolitan Opera by singing a major role in Aida in 1955, McFerrin grew up mainly in Los Angeles "in what they now call a 'dysfunctional family,' " he says. "I didn't get what I needed from my parents. They were busy dealing with their own pain." McFerrin started studying music theory at six and learned from...
THOSE CORPORATE RAIDERS CAN ALWAYS SMELL A BARGAIN. Takeover artists, restrained by high stock prices before the crash, have gone on a shopping spree once again. Florida-based financier Paul Bilzerian, 38, acquired the Singer Co. for $1.06 billion last February partly because the crash had depressed its stock price. Since then, Bilzerian has sold off eight of Singer's twelve divisions for a total of $1.94 billion, more than enough to cover all his costs. In the end, he is expected to reap a $300 million profit. The Government is investigating his earlier raids for possible securities-law violations...
...current reluctance to record with other Stones--is a litany of lines like "It's no longer funny/It's bigger than money." The album's best track, the country ballad "Locked Away," begins with the wonderfully terse summation, "She swears that I'm the only one/What about yesterday?" The singer goes on to suggest that she, he and his friends "ought to be locked away"--she for her faithlessness, he for his insane jealousy, and his friends for their insensitivity...