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The flipSide 10/31/2022

10/31/2022

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed The Killer, he was described as "Rock and roll's first great wild man and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century."[8] A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. "Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, and his 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with the major hits "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential". His rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin once removed.

Lewis had a dozen gold records in rock and country. He won four Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and two Grammy Hall of Fame Awards.[10] Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre was recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.[11] He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022.[12]

In 1989, his life was chronicled in the movie Great Balls of Fire, starring Dennis Quaid. In 2003, Rolling Stone listed his box set All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology at number 242 on their list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[13] In 2004, they ranked him No. 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[14] Lewis was the last surviving member of Sun Records' Million Dollar Quartet and the album Class of '55, which also included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley.

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The flipSide 10/24/2022

10/24/2022

Noah Kahan

Noah Kahan (born January 1, 1997[1]) is an American singer-songwriter[2] of folk-infused pop who signed to Republic Records in 2017. Kahan released his first single, "Young Blood" on January 27, 2017 and released four other singles over the course of 2017. His fans are known as "busyheads". Kahan made his television debut in 2018 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert performing the single "Hurt Somebody".[3] Kahan released his debut Extended Play (EP) carrying the same name in January 2018, including an updated version of titular song with fellow Republic Records artist Julia Michaels.[4]

Noah Kahan was born in Strafford, Vermont to a Jewish family.[5] He attended Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire.[6] Kahan began writing songs at age 8 and uploaded them to SoundCloud where his music began to gain exposure. At age 17, Kahan began working with school friend music producers (Cwenga Matanzima). This attracted the attention of his current manager Drew Simmons of Foundations Artist Management. His music also caught the attention of songwriters such as Dan Wilson known for his work with Adele, Scott Harris, Carrie Underwood, among others.[7] Kahan deferred his admission to Tulane University to pursue his developing music career.[8] Kahan has said that two career goals he wished for were to be verified on Instagram and to have a Wikipedia page.[9]

Kahan cites some of his inspirations as Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, Counting Crows, Hozier, and Mumford and Sons.[10]

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The flipSide 10/17/2022

10/17/2022

Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams OC OBC FRPS (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, composer, and photographer. Adams has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million[2] and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide.[3][4][5] Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s[6] and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in each of the US, UK, and Australia.

In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists on the Billboard Hot 100.[13] Adams has won 20 Juno Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television amongst 15 Grammy nominations, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and three Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.[14] Adams has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Canada's Walk of Fame, the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame,[15][16] the Canadian Music Hall of Fame [17] and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.[4] On May 1, 2010, Adams received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.[18]

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The flipSide 10/10/2022

10/10/2022

Kenny Chesney

Kenneth Arnold Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has recorded more than 20 albums and has produced more than 40 Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 32 of which have reached number one. Many of these have also charted within the Top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100, making him one of the most successful crossover country artists. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.[2]

Chesney has received twelve Country Music Association Awards (including winning their top Entertainer of the Year honor four times) and eleven Academy of Country Music Awards (including four consecutive Entertainer of the Year awards from 2005 to 2008),[3] as well as six Grammy Award nominations. He is one of the most popular touring acts in country music, regularly selling out the venues in which he performs.[4] His 2007 Flip-Flop Summer Tour was the highest-grossing country road trip of the year.[5]

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The flipSide 10/03/2022

10/3/2022

Carol King

Carole King Klein[2] (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at 1650 Broadway[3][4] and later as a solo artist. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of all time, King is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.[5] King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK,[6] making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.[7]

King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide.[9][10] She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.[11] She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored.[12] She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.

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