Yanni one of the greatest composers and pianist

People might think that a good musician is a one who has a good academical knowledge but I beleive that the most effective pieces of music have been created by people who had never looked at music as a knowledge but they have lived with it and  music runs in their body like blood.and like that when you listen to their music you will defenately underestand the difference.Yanni is one of these people.His music captures  mind and soul and you can hardly forget it when you once listen to it.

Yanni born in Greece in 1954 is a self-taught pianist who could not read musical notes. He was also a competitive swimmer in Greece and set a national record in the 50-meter freestyle competition at the age of 14.After attending the university he joined a local group named chameleon.After graduation he moved to Los Angeles and formed his own band in 1987.

Yanni's breakthrough success came with the release of his album and video,Yanni Live at the Acropolice,filmed on September 23, 1993 . This was Yanni’s first live album and utilized a full orchestra under the supervision of the Iranian conductor,Shahrdad Rohani, in addition to his core band. Subsequently, the concert was broadcast in the US and quickly became one of their most popular programs ever, having been seen in 65 countries by half a billion people. It has almost continuously remained on the charts since its release and is the second best-selling music video of all time, selling more than 7 million copies worldwide.    A composition from this album, was determined to have the"Mozart Effect" by the Journal of the Royal Sociaty of Medicine.

In 2000, after a two-year sabbatical, Yanni released his first studio album in seven years: If I could tell you.One of the most effective sound tracks of all time.
Yanni released the album,Truth of Touch, early in February 2011. Yanni is also working to expand his tour to Eastern Europe, Asia and South American countries including Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.

Ennio Morricone: The sound of cinema

If there is one name linked to the great classics of cinema, it is Ennio Morricone. This Italian composer and conductor has become one of the most acclaimed musicians of the 20th century, even receiving an honorary academy award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music".
He was born in Rome, Italy in 1928. Being son of a jazz trumpeter, he started to show his early talent for music, and joined Rome's Conservatory of Santa Cecilia when he was 12 years old. In his youth, he suppoted himself by playing as a trumpeter in jazz bands and working for Italy's national radio. However, he was really succesful as a composer of film sountracks, as many as 500, and some of them as famous as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables and Once upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone, with whom he formed one of the great director/composer parnerships in cinema history.

Nowadays, he continues to compose soundtracks for films as well as other kinds of work, like the recently launched album Paradiso by Hayley Westenra.

Ráfaga

Music is something that we need in our daily lives. It helps when you are discouraged and makes you feel happy when you're sad. But not everybody has the same taste in music. In this essay, I'm going to write a short review about the group Ráfaga and a concert I once saw.

Often regarded as one of the most important bands in Latin American music, Ráfaga, were formed in 1994 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). They started to gain popularity when they released their first album "Soplando Fuerte". But it was from 1997 to 1999 when they gained their current international popularity performing in places like USA, South America, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Australia. Finally they reached the peak of their career when Ariel Pachetta left the group and the young heart throb Rodrigo Gonzalo Tapari joined Ráfaga.

Last September, I had the opportunity to attend one of their crowded concerts. There were two concerts before theirs and the atmosphere totally changed when they got onto the stage. The opening act was remarkable because they threw some signed footballs to the audience with the aim of celebrating the World Cup that Spain had just won. The group gave the audience 100% so at the end of the performance they had to play three songs for the encore.

Hans Zimmer, The man who makes movies come to life.

Music is an essential and crucial part of every movie. It is what makes us cry or laugh, it makes films scary, touching, funny or sad.

We all know the famous and amazing soundtracks from big Hollywood-blockbusters such as Gladiator, Batman: The Dark knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception or Sherlock Holmes.
In this post, I will introduce you the man behind this music, Hans Zimmer.


Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German composer and producer of film-music. He has composed the music for over 100 films so far and has been in the business for over 30 years.



He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but he moved to London as a teenager. Later, he went to America, where he still lives today.

Zimmer has received various prizes for his works, including 4 Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes and he was nominated as one of the 100 living geniuses, published by "The Daily Telegraph". He has even been given his own star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" alongside legends like Michael Jackson, an honour that is only awarded to the most succesful men in the entertainement business.

Zimmer himself plays a range of instruments, e.g. Piano, Keyboard, Synthesizer, Guitar.

If you are interested in more information about this exceptionally gifted artist, or if you want a complete list of his work, check out his homepage http://www.hanszimmer.com/

Yann Tiersen, musician and storyteller

It is commonly known that we all have songs which we may identify with whilst listening to them, maybe because of their lyrics or just due to the sounds of the instruments. Of all the possible singers and musicians I could choose from, I have chosen Yann Tiersen, a French musician who is best known for his unmistakable work in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie, as well as other great works.

Yann Tiersen was born in Brittany, France, on the 23rd of June 1970. From an early age he showed interest for music, and that ambition took him to study at different music academies in France including those in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne, where he received classical training. In spite of this, in the early 1980s he was influenced by post-punk bands, such as The Stooges and Joy Division. In the 1990s, he composed the background music for many French plays and short films, such as La Vie Revee des Anges, Alice et Martin and Qui Plume la Lune?. The talent of this musician can also be seen in his amazing ability to play different instruments, because apart from playing conventional instruments such as the piano and guitar, he also plays not very common instruments, like the melodica, the xylophone, the toy piano, the harpsichord, the accordion and even the typewriter.

In my opinion, his music is very special and interesting because you can recognise it immediately when you just listen to it even if you do not know which piece is it. Tiersen has a very intimate style, which makes his music very different to any other musician's. As I see it, many people might enjoy listening to his compositions, because they have the ability to give you a hundred different feelings when listening to them, like happiness, sadness, homesickness, etc, depending on the mood of the person. Listening to, for example, the soundtrack J'y Suis Jamais Alle, you might suddenly want to move to Paris and walk down some ancient steps while you hear the sound of an accordion played by some busker at the bottom.

In conclusion, I think this man deserves the most respect in the world of music, not just for doing something different without caring if a huge mass of people will like and buy it, but also for having his own style, and the power of telling stories without saying a word, just with the use of his instruments.