Showing posts with label Kerry Ellis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kerry Ellis. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2017

Kerry Ellis - K E

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:05
Size: 89.5 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:57] 1. Let It Go
[3:33] 2. I Could Have Danced All Night
[4:03] 3. Take That Look Off Your Face
[2:56] 4. As Long As He Needs Me
[3:07] 5. Who Will Buy
[4:53] 6. On The Street Where You Live
[3:23] 7. I Dreamed A Dream
[2:57] 8. The Way We Were
[2:57] 9. Gimme Love
[2:40] 10. Alfie
[4:33] 11. (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

Kerry Ellis has fast become recognized as the First Lady of West End musicals from her starring roles in London and on Broadway, she has also achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist signed to Universal Decca with her debut album Anthems.

Kerry originated the role of Meat, in Queen's We Will Rock You and was the first British Elphaba in the West End smash, Wicked, for which Kerry won the 2008 Whatsonstage.com Award for 'Best Takeover in a Role'. She then immediately transferred to Broadway and played Elphaba at the Gershwin Theater for 6 months, where she won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favourite Female Breakthrough Performance, before returning to London for 6 months in 2009. Her many other leading role credits include Nancy in Oliver! at the London Palladium, Eliza Doolittle My Fair Lady, Ellen in Miss Saigon and Fantine in Les Miserables.

Kerry's first major CD release was the amazing Wicked in Rock, which is still flying high in the Dress Circle's bestseller list. Wicked in Rock was collaboration with long time friend and Queen guitarist, Brian May. This led to her being signed to Universal as a solo recording artist and her debut album Anthems was released in 2010 on Decca Records. The success of the album, which reached No.15 in the UK album chart, and No.10 in the UK pop club charts (for Defying Gravity), led to a major tour Anthems: The Concert throughout 2011, which kicked off at the Royal Albert Hall. She has performed internationally promoting the album, including performances at the Royal Variety Performance, at the Laurence Olivier Awards, duetting with Barry Manilow on BBC Television and Radio, at G.A.Y., on Loose Women, Alan Titchmarsh Show, BBC Breakfast, at the Henley Festival alongside John Barrowman, the Queen's Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace and most recently a run of An Audience With Kerry Ellis at the Shaw Theatre.

K E

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Kerry Ellis, Brian May - Acoustic By Candlelight

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:30
Size: 147.7 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:17] 1. Born Free
[4:49] 2. I Loved A Butterfly
[3:45] 3. I Who Have Nothing
[4:21] 4. Dust In The Wind
[4:25] 5. The Kissing Me Song
[4:56] 6. Nothing Really Has Changed
[4:30] 7. Life Is Real
[3:43] 8. The Way We Were
[4:32] 9. Something
[4:37] 10. Love Of My Life
[3:25] 11. I'm Not That Girl
[4:31] 12. I Can't Be Your Friend
[3:44] 13. In The Bleak Midwinter
[3:46] 14. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
[6:04] 15. No One But You [only The Good Die Young]

Vocal and acoustic instruments - you've got to be good to get away with that! And you've got to be very good to produce a five-star album. Fortunately Kerry Ellis and Brian May are very good.

The CD takes a while to get going - after the first few songs I was convinced this was going to be a four-star review - but picks up quickly with highlights including The Kissing Me Song, Something, Love Of My Life, I'm Not That Girl, I Can't Be Your Friend, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and No One But You. Special mention has to go to Something, which has long been my favourite Beatles song. Kerry's voice sounds wonderful on this and Brian has done an excellent job of reproducing George Harrison's guitar sound. ~Mark Syder

Acoustic By Candlelight