Word: yannis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SPLITTING UP. LINDA EVANS, 55, Dynasty's glamorous goody-two-shoes, and YANNI, 43, one-man musical cliche; after nine years together...
...musical voice of Danny Partridge on The Partridge Family TV show). And there's more: this coming February, Bronfman-penned lyrics to a song called To Love You More will turn up on pop-schmaltz goddess Celine Dion's new disc. But don't start combing your Yanni albums looking for the junior Bronfman's name in the liner notes. He writes under a very showbizzy-sounding alias: "Junior Miles." THE LITTLEST MAKEOVER...
...many, our love for music as a generation was catalyzed by our music lessons as impressionable youngsters. We either fell in love with tuba music and ran into the sores to buy Yanni CD's or we were dying to run the heck away from music like that, rebelling by listening to rock and roll bands, especially groups with very different ideas of how to use musical instruments...
...gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz-pop fusion of, say, Yanni to put you in mind of performers like that...
Fortunately, or unfortunately, Yanni's tenth album reveals him to be a musical simpleton. This album is full or romantic music, but it really lacks passion. Yanni writes music that is just like his personality--striving for beauty and deepness, and producing schmaltz. His own words best describe this philosophy: "My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music--music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener." The incredible thing is that Yanni appears to be totally sincere...