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Ray Conniff
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Chi ĆØ Ray Conniff
Vocal pop and easy listening icon Ray Conniff was an international star with a career spanning eight decades.
ā 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.
ā 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.
ā Buoyed by his success behind the scenes, he persuaded Columbia to let him record a solo album, and he debuted in 1956 with āS Wonderful!, which spent nearly a year on the charts.
ā He scored his first Gold album with 1957ās āS Marvelous, and 1966ās Somewhere My Love was his first Platinum-certified LP.
ā Conniffās biggest hit was āSomewhere, My Love (Laraās Theme from āDr. Zhivagoā),ā which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy for Best Performance by a Chorus.
ā 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.
ā 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.
Influenze MusicaliLe influenze musicali di Ray Conniff includono Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington e altro.
Influenzato da Ray ConniffRay Conniff ha influenzato la musica di Burt Bacharach, The Beach Boys, Carpenters e altro ancora.
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