Biography of Burt Bacharach

Compositions of the 20th century

sophisticated touch different production genres, including cool jazz, soul, bossa-nova Brazil until traditional pop, and cover a period of four decades. This real genius of melody and harmonisation, according either to the Beatles, was born on May 12, 1928 in Kansas City; talented from an early age as befits all great creators that they respect, he studied the viola, drums and piano. After moving to New York, before being bowled by jazz and its primitive energy, then, beginning to attend those places became of worship, has the opportunity to see up close, and in some cases to meet the heroes of African American music (on all Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker), who at that time had hired to form unleashed of bebop; knowing how much more famous, it would seem Bacarach become away from him. But genius, you know, absorbs whatever meetings and he himself performs in various jazz ensembles during 1940. This is the most profitable period for her musical growth: he studied music theory and composition at Mannes School "in New York, the" Berkshire Music Center ", the" New School for Social Research, "to" Montreal's McGill University "and" Music Academy of the West "in Santa Barbara. Not even the military duties distract him from music: in Germany, where he provides the service of lever, Bacharach arranges, composes and plays the piano for a group dance. Then begins to work in nightclubs with Steve Lawrence, "the Ames Brothers" and Paula Stewart which falls in love with and married in 1953. From here on out Burt Bacharach began to write and collaborate with a large number of artists like Patti Page, Marty Robbins, Hal David, Perry Como and Marlene Dietrich, and above all meet the singer who becomes the expressive medium of his best songs: Dionne Warwick. Composer from the inexhaustible vein, he composes soundtracks that led him in 1969 to win two grammy awards for the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The period from the ' 70 to ' 90 is dotted with huge successes including "Arthur's Theme", "That's what friends are for" (performed by an all-star group "that includes Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder) and the Duet by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald" On my own ". After a brief period of neglect in which Burt Bacarach seemed forgotten or at least passed from fashions (which overlap more and more dramatically), the musician is back in vogue with some collaborations and many return to play his music, source of eternal enjoyment and beauty. Bacharach is a real discovery that proves, once again, like the classic actually never die.
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