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About The Gift
Sonia Tavares, Miguel Ribeiro, and brothers Nuno and John Goncalves comprise the eclectic sounds of the Gift. The Gift were merely teenagers when they formed in 1994 in a small village outside of Lisbon, Portugal. Together, the four-piece spent the next five years composing a stylish mix of classical, jazz, electronica, and rock. Labels in their native land were hesistant to sign them because they sang in English, however their debut album, Vinyl, was issued on BMG across Europe and quickly went platinum. Interest waned overseas, but the Gift trudged on; they founded their own label, La Folie, in late 1999. Moby picked up on the Gift's undeniable artistry and asked for their assistance during the Play sessions. Shared festival dates with Coldplay, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, and James followed into the new millennium, giving the Gift a chance to perform in front of crowds of 40,000 people. The Gift were coming into their own by this time and their sophomore effort, Film (2001), highlighted their new sultry rawness. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide
The Gift's Discography (3)
Compilations Featuring The Gift (8)
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| KanYe West keeps on challenging the limits of hip-hop: if "Graduation" was his pop album, the first single from "808s and Heartaches" sees the star going all soulful and expanding the most spiritual side of former highlights such as "Jesus Walk" or "Can't Tell me Nothing". Arguably the first interactive recording ever made, thanks to the KanYe's official blog; when the original mix was posted, many fans reacted sending an avalanche of negative feedback; maybe it was the use of popular pitch-altering software autotune, abused in recent times by everyone from Cher to T-Pain, that led the audience to revolt and ended up with the notorious perfectionist re-recording the vocals and adding some taiko drums to highlight its minimal beat, imitating a heart pounding; posting it again afterwards for general approval. Not happy with that, he later went the Radiohead way, making six different stems (vocals, drums, piano, etc.) available for fans to remix the song themselves. "Love Lockdown" can be seen as West upgrading himself from rapper to proper soul singer and is one of his more inspired and powerful moments to date. A mind-blowing closing performance at this year's VMAs ignited a chart frenzy all over the world and it looks set to last for a few months. | |
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