sexta-feira, maio 15, 2026
Saudades de June Carter Cash...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 02:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Jackson, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
Orlando Zapata, ativista cubano pró-democracia, nasceu há 59 anos...

Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:59 0 comentários
Marcadores: Cuba, direitos humanos, ditaduras, greve de fome, Orlando Zapata
Elio de Angelis morreu há quarenta anos...

Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: acidente, automobilismo, Bernie Ecclestone, Brabham, Elio de Angelis, Fórmula 1, morte
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e três anos...
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:23 0 comentários
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, Ring of Fire, rockabilly
O general Humberto Delgado nasceu há 120 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:12 0 comentários
Marcadores: assassinato, eleições, fraude eleitoral, General sem Medo, Humberto Delgado, II República, PIDE
Cauby Peixoto morreu há dez anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:10 0 comentários
Marcadores: Brasil, Cauby Peixoto, Conceição, homossexuais, MPB, música, Rock, samba-canção, swing
Hoje é dia de ouvir cantar Paulo de Carvalho...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: E depois do adeus, Fado, Festival da Canção, música, Paulo de Carvalho, pop, Portugal, Rock, rock psicadélico
quinta-feira, maio 14, 2026
Hoje é uma boa noite para ouvir Wim Mertens...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 22:22 0 comentários
Marcadores: 4 Mains, Bélgica, contratenor, música, Often a bird, Wim Mertens
Musica adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 11:11 0 comentários
Marcadores: David Byrne, música, música experimental, new wave, pop, Psycho Killer, Rock alternativo, Talking Heads, worldbeat
Música para matar saudades...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 11:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: B. B. King, blues, blues rock, guitarra, Lucille, Rhythm and Blues, Rui Veloso
Saudades de Bobby Darin...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 09:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: Beyond the Sea, Big Band, Bobby Darin, folk, música, pop, Rock and Roll
Jack Bruce nasceu há 83 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: acid rock, baixo, blues-rock, Cream, hard rock, Jack Bruce, jazz fusion, Mothers of Invention, música, rock psicadélico, Sunshine Of Your Love
A mais jovem mãe humana conhecida teve um filho há 87 anos...

Lina Vanessa Medina (Pauranga, 27 de setembro de 1933) é uma peruana e a mãe mais jovem já confirmada na história da medicina. Teve um filho aos cinco anos de idade, sete meses e 21 dias. Além do feito, a menina ficou conhecida por também nunca revelar o nome do pai da criança e também por passar a sua vida em pobreza, sem qualquer assistência do governo peruano. Casou-se em 1972 e chegou a ter outro filho aos 38 anos de idade. Hoje vive em um bairro pobre em Lima. Era uma de entre nove filhos.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: gravidez, Lina Vanessa Medina, Maternidades, Medicina, Peru
David Byrne celebra hoje 74 anos

Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: David Byrne, música, música experimental, new wave, pop, Road to Nowhere, Rock alternativo, Talking Heads, worldbeat
Wim Mertens - 73 anos
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Wim Mertens (Neerpelt, Bélgica, 14 de maio de 1953) é um compositor, contratenor, vocalista, pianista, guitarrista e musicólogo belga.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: Bélgica, contratenor, música, Struggle for pleasure, Wim Mertens
Norodom Sihamoni, o atual Rei do Camboja, comemora hoje setenta e três anos

Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: Camboja, dança, Monarquia Constitucional, Norodom Sihamoni, Rei
O Pacto de Varsóvia foi formado há 71 anos...
O organismo militar foi instituído em contraponto à OTAN (Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte - NATO em português), organização internacional que uniu as nações democráticas da Europa Ocidental e os Estados Unidos para a prevenção e defesa dos países membros contra eventuais ataques vindos do Leste Europeu.

Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:10 0 comentários
Marcadores: comunismo, cortina de ferro, direitos humanos, ditaduras, estalinismo, Guerra Fria, Muro de Berlim, Pacto de Varsóvia, Primavera de Praga, repressão, URSS
O moderno estado de Israel faz hoje 78 anos...

Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 comentários
Marcadores: Holocausto, Israel, judeus, Nações Unidas, Palestina
Ian Astbury, o vocalista dos The Cult, faz hoje sessenta e quatro anos
Filho de um oficial da marinha mercante britânica, Robert Leighton Astbury, de origem irlandesa, e de Judith Lindsay Astbury, professora de origem escocesa, o seu primeiro instrumento foi o saxofone nas aulas da escola. Começou a seguir a banda punk Crass como roadie, onde aprendeu a tocar bateria e outros instrumentos musicais. O seu primeiro ensaio musical foi cantando covers dos Sex Pistols para tentar ser vocalista da banda Send No Flowers, mas tornou-se vocalista da banda The Cult, que ele próprio formou. Entre 1983–1995 e 1999 até o presente, também faz parte da banda de tributo aos The Doors, Riders On The Storm, que conta com a presença dos membros originais dos The Doors, Ray Manzarek e Robbie Krieger. O vocalista iniciou sua carreira musical aos 20 anos nos anos 80 com a banda The Southern Death Cult. Mais tarde a banda desapareceu e o cantor recrutou Jamie Stewart e Billy Duffy e formaram os Death Cult. Mais tarde a banda passa chamar-se The Cult.
Ian e sua família mudaram-se para Hamilton, em Ontário, no Canadá, em 1973, quando ele tinha 11 anos de idade. Ele viveu lá por cinco anos antes de se mudar novamente para o Reino Unido. O seu pai trabalhou na International Harvester e sua mãe era contadora. Neste curto período de tempo no país, ele desenvolveu um amor pelo Canadá e afirmou em entrevistas que iria seguir os playoffs da Stanley Cup, especialmente se a equipe canadiana estivesse jogando.
Fase Pré Cult
Em 1979, enquanto ainda vivia em Glasgow, enquanto assistia o filme Apocalypse Now, ficou profundamente impressionado com a canção "The End" do The Doors, e que mais tarde ele descreveu como "uma experiência religiosa". Em 1980, ele estava em Liverpool, onde era ativo na cena punk em torno do 'Eric's Club'. Mudou-se para Bradford no final de 1980, onde se tornou membro fundador da banda punk Southern Death Cult, em 1981. Os Southern Death Cult duraram até março de 1983. Juntamente com o guitarrista Billy Duffy, o baixista Jamie Stewart e o baterista Raymond Taylor Smith, Astbury formou uma nova banda, Death Cult, lançado The Death Cult (EP) e posteriormente abandona a palavra Death do nome para se tornarem os The Cult.
Anos 90
Em 1994, os The Cult voltaram com um álbum sem título e uma mudança de ritmo musical. Seu som hard rock desapareceu, substituído por um interesse crescente de Astbury em música alternativa, moda e letras introspetivas. O álbum auto-intitulado, não foi um sucesso comercial, devido principalmente à falta de apoio de rádio para os álbuns de dois singles ("Coming Down" e "Star"). Para apoiar o álbum eles partiram numa turnê, no Brasil, no entanto, diferenças criativas de Astbury com o guitarrista Duffy atingiram o seu pico.
Inspirado por sua súbita mudança de direção, Astbury logo depois montou um outro grupo e começou a escrever novas músicas. Ele chamou o grupo The Holy Barbarians, e em 1996 a banda lançou o álbum Cream. Embora não tenha sido um sucesso comercial, The Holy Barbarians foi bem recebido por muitos que tinham recuperado o respeito por Astbury como artista. Um aspecto notável da banda foi na pequena Forum Tunbridge Wells, que os viu sendo acompanhado no palco por Vic Reeves para uma versão de clássico "Wildflower" do Cult.
Dificuldades pessoais e uma unidade para mais introspeção levou Astbury para longe de seu novo grupo, como ele começou a trabalhar num álbum solo (eventualmente lançada como Spirit\Light\Speed|Spirit\Light\Speed).
Em 1999, Astbury e Duffy reformam os The Cult. Um novo contrato com a Atlantic Records foi rubricado, e em 2001 veio o lançamento de Beyond Good and Evil. O sucesso de rádio no início foi garantido pelo single "Rise", até que a banda teve uma briga com a Atlantic e terminou todas as promoções comerciais e de reprodução de rádio para o álbum. Astbury descreveu a briga com a gravadora como "destruidora da alma"; então desiludido, ele trouxe os The Cult para outro hiato em 2002.
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Astbury, que se assemelhava com o vocalista do The Doors, Jim Morrison, tornou-se vocalista do The Doors do século XXI, em 2002. O grupo apresentava os membros originais dos The Doors, Robby Krieger e Ray Manzarek. Em 2003, Astbury também atuou com os membros sobreviventes dos MC5 no 100 Club, em Londres, antes de finalmente reformar The Cult com Duffy novamente em 2006, para uma série de datas ao vivo e rumores de reedições e outro maior compilação de sucessos nos trabalhos.
Durante o início de 2007, The Cult entraram em estúdio para começar a produção de Born Into This, o primeiro álbum do grupo em seis anos. Também previsto para lançamento foi um DVD da banda de 13 novembro de 2006, concerto no Irving Plaza, em Nova York.
A formação actual dos The Cult consiste em Astbury e Duffy, junto com o baixista Chris Wyse, o baterista John Tempesta e o guitarrista Mike Dimkitch.
Em 2009, os The Cult anunciaram uma série de shows em todo os EUA, Canadá e Europa, anunciado como "'Love' Live", onde a banda tocou seu clássico álbum, "Love", na sua totalidade.
Em 29 de maio de 2010 Boris realizado "The End", com Ian Astbury no Festival Vivid em Sydney.
Ele mora em Los Angeles e apoia a equipa de futebol Hollywood United com Billy Duffy e Steve Jones dos Sex Pistols e é um adepto do clube inglês Everton FC.
Em 26 de maio de 2012, Astbury casou-se com Aimee Nash, vocalista e guitarrista da banda The Black Ryder, em Las Vegas.
Astbury participa das faixas "Burn My Shadow", "When Things Explode" e "Forever" do UNKLE. Ele também canta "Flame On" no álbum solo de Tony Iommi (guitarrista do Black Sabbath) Iommi, e gravou um dueto com Deborah Harry no seu álbum de 1989, Def, Dumb and Blonde na música "Lovelight".
Em 2010, ele forneceu os vocais para a música "Ghost" no álbum solo homónimo do guitarrista Slash. A faixa também contou com a participação do ex-guitarrista do Guns N 'Roses, Izzy Stradlin, na guitarra base. Astbury também é creditado por tocar bateria numa faixa chamada "Gasp" dos Japanese Cartoon.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: gothic rock, hard rock, heavy metal, Ian Astbury, música, Post-punk, Rain, The Cult
Hoje é preciso ouvir a música de Mike Inez...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 06:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: Alice in Chains, Ann Wilson, baixo, Duff McKagan, grunge, Guns N' Roses', hard rock, Heart, heavy metal, Metal Alternativo, Mike Inez, música, Nancy Wilson, Rock alternativo, Rooster
Saudades de Frank Sinatra...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 02:08 0 comentários
Marcadores: actor, blues, Frank Sinatra, jazz, música, pop, Rat Pack, Strangers In The Night
O primeiro presidente da I república foi derrubado há 111 anos
O 1.º sargento Alexandre de Carvalho, com um grupo de revolucionários, à porta do Arsenal de Marinha
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:11 0 comentários
Marcadores: Afonso Costa, banho de sangue, carbonária, Formiga Branca, I república, João Chagas, maçonaria, Manuel de Arriaga, Pimenta de Castro, Revolta de 14 de Maio de 1915, revolução






