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Ray Conniff
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Acerca de Ray Conniff
Ciudad natal
Attleboro, MA, United States
Nacido en
November 6, 1916
Género
Pop
Vocal pop and easy listening icon Ray Conniff was an international star with a career spanning eight decades.
∙ Conniff got his start as a trombonist and arranger in the 1930s, working with such swing-era jazz artists as Bunny Berigan, Bob Crosby, Artie Shaw, and Glen Gray.
∙ After pop producer Mitch Miller hired him as an in-house arranger at Columbia Records in 1954, Conniff contributed to hits by Don Cherry, Johnny Mathis, and Guy Mitchell.
∙ Buoyed by his success behind the scenes, he persuaded Columbia to let him record a solo album, and he debuted in 1956 with ’S Wonderful!, which spent nearly a year on the charts.
∙ He scored his first Gold album with 1957’s ’S Marvelous, and 1966’s Somewhere My Love was his first Platinum-certified LP.
∙ Conniff’s biggest hit was “Somewhere, My Love (Lara’s Theme from ‘Dr. Zhivago’),” which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy for Best Performance by a Chorus.
∙ In 1974, he recorded Ray Conniff in Moscow with members of local vocal ensembles, becoming the first Western pop artist to make an album in the USSR.
∙ Enamored with Latin sounds, he recorded numerous Spanish-language albums and built a large following in South America, where he continued touring regularly through the 1990s.
Influencias musicalesEntre las influencias musicales de Ray Conniff se encuentran artistas como Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington.
Influido por Ray ConniffRay Conniff ha influido en la música de artistas como Burt Bacharach, The Beach Boys, Carpenters.
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