Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crests the Tibetan wave, building roughly since the Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Richard Gere pioneered the full religiopolitical embrace years ago, but he may have found a successor in Adam Yauch, 33, singer for the punk-rap group the Beastie Boys. Not only has Yauch guided his famously irreverent band into songs like Bodhisattva Oath; he is also primary architect of two Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits that became instant touchstones for a Gen X phenomenon quickly dubbed Tibet Chic. Like the new movies, the concerts' first concern was political but they too opened with that signature chanting...
When approached about her band's popularity, lead singer Kay Hanley of the Boston-based Letters To Cleo provides a mixed response...
...Hanley deems lyricism. Opening with "the anchor is a kickstands/so you are going down with me/to the wrong side of the-quicksand," the band immerses the not-so-lucid message in flawless lollipop rock to create a confusing but lovable tune. "Anchor" is a musical advertisement for the lead singer--refreshing to match Hanley's slicker fashion sense and newly cropped bright red hair, and oblique enough to equal the message straining to come out from her internal vault...
Stansfield's new album, Lisa Stansfield, is the British singer's reintroduction to American audiences (her last U.S. release, Real Love, was in 1991). "We released a [follow-up] album, but it wasn't released in the states," says Stansfield. "Nothing was going on here that it sort of fit in with." But now, with lightly talented, heavily marketed acts like the Spice Girls tearing up U.S. charts, why shouldn't Stansfield have another...
...Dianafied version of Candle in the Wind is creating a windfall for ELTON JOHN. The singer pledged all proceeds from his new Candle single--which has shipped 4 million copies in the U.S. so far--to a charity named for the princess, but his older catalog is skyrocketing as well. In the week before DIANA's death, John's Love Songs sold 4,600 copies in the U.S.; the week after the funeral, it reached 17,000 and re-entered the Billboard Top-100 charts. During the same time, a Greatest Hits collection went from sales...