Sarah Brightman

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Sarah Brightman (Hertfordshire, Reino Unido, 14 de agosto de 1960) es una soprano, actriz y bailarina británica que interpreta música del gíénero denominado Classical Crossover. Ha cantado en inglíés, español, francíés, catalán, latí­n, alemán, italiano, japoníés, hindi, mandarí­n y ruso.

Ha recibido 180 discos de Oro y Platino en 38 paí­ses y es la única artista en el mundo que ha ocupado el puesto #1 en el Billboard Dance y el Billboard Classical Chart simultáneamente. Sus otros logros incluyen la clasificación por la Recording Industry Association of America como la artista clásica con mayores ventas del siglo XXI en Estados Unidos, y un Ríécord Mundial Guiness por Time to Say Goodbye, el sencillo musical más exitoso en Alemania hasta la actualidad.

Brightman se ha establecido a sí­ misma como la soprano de mayores ventas de todos los tiempos, con ventas mundiales que exceden los 30 millones de álbumes y más de dos millones de DVD.

Aparte de la música, Brightman ha empezado una carrera en las artes visuales, haciendo su mayor debut en la pelí­cula Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), una pelí­cula de rock opera-musical dirigida por Darren Lynn Bousman, y en el verano de 2009 terminó de grabar "First Night" de Stephen Evans que se estrenó en marzo de 2011 en el Festival Cinematográfico de Glasgow.En adición, recientemente formó su propia compañí­a de producción fí­lmica Instinct Films con la cual está produciendo su primera cinta.

Brightman está dentro de la lista de los músicos millonarios de Gran Bretaña con una fortuna estimada en £30 millones (US$49 millones).

El nuevo álbum de Sarah se llamará Dreamchasery saldrá a la venta el 22 de enero de 2013. El single se llamará Angel

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Portada del disco



Angel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-eQPfeZt64

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Sarah irá al espacio en 2015

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lnrN_VbP2Y&

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Angel (Official Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtkUM1wVVi8&

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Entrevista

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One Day Like This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkR5PLQ_yA

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Sarah Brightman is thrilled to announce that she will film a new PBS TV special entitled "Dreamchaser In Concert" and is offering fans an opportunity to win tickets to attend this exclusive, once in a lifetime experience!

This PBS special will be filmed next month, 6th June, at Elstree Studios, just outside of London, and will air this coming August. The concert performance will be recorded in front of an invited studio audience and the studio itself will be transformed for all to share in this out-of-this-world live experience, purposefully lit and dressed into a bespoke environment for the TV show recording. The evocative lighting, elaborate costumes and powerful video imagery will synchronize into a truly spectacular and highly original program with a breathtaking set, featuring both new songs and classic favourites from Sarah.

Inspired by the wonderment and beauty of space, Dreamchaser, communicates Brightman's life-long dream to travel into space. As announced last year in Moscow, Brightman is anticipated to be the first musician to travel to the International Space Station, turning her dream into reality.

For the chance to win tickets to attend this incredible filming, visit Sarah's website or Sarah's Facebook and simply fill out and submit the entry form. Winners will be selected and notified via email on 31st May 2013.

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Dreamchaser in concert Teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otk8Ct77Yjw

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Sarah cumple hoy 53 años!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:

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LONDON (AP) — British singer Sarah Brightman is working with ex-husband Andrew Lloyd-Webber to create a song she will perform from space when she blasts off to the International Space Station later this year.

The 54-year-old soprano, known to many for her duet with Andrea Bocelli, "Time to Say Goodbye," is set to be the first professional singer to travel to and perform from space.

Brightman has been training in Star City near Moscow for the tourist flight in a Soyuz rocket. The trip is planned on Sept. 1 and will take 10 days.

She told reporters in London Tuesday that she and Lloyd-Webber are working to find "a song that suits the idea of space" while scientists iron out the technical side of how to make the performance work.

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Rarities Volumes 1-3 Now Available
Nemo Studios/Believe Digital is proud to announce the digital download-only release of world-renowned vocalist Sarah Brightman's latest collections, RARITIES, Volumes 1-3, available now. Available for a limited time, each set offers a rare and exciting opportunity to experience the magic of one of the world's most celebrated vocalists. Culled from a rich assortment of sought-after recordings that were originally unreleased, B-Sides, limited edition releases or demo versions, these compilations contain hidden treasures from Sarah's vast and stirring repertoire. Tracks are extracted from the master tapes of long sold out special tour edition CDs for the albums Fly (1995) and Harem (2003), the Voce album (a 2014 release available only in Japan), sessions with Gregorian, Schiller, Sash! and other sources.

         

Among the selections included in this project is a version of Sarah's disco classic "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper" (originally performed in 1978 with Hot Gossip), the jubilant "Done" and "Sarahbande" from the Japanese Voce collection, the unreleased demo version of "Sky & Sand" and a haunting rendition of "Voyage Voyage" performed with Gregorian. An audio commentary track by Sarah and producer Frank Peterson is included with each compilation. It's a must-have set for fans and completists, who for years have been paying small fortunes to obtain these musical treasures. All three sets that comprise RARITIES have been digitally remastered and are currently available on iTunes, Amazon and through other major online retailers.

Grammy nominee and Echo award winning stage, screen and recording superstar Sarah Brightman is the world's best selling soprano of all time. Over an almost four-decade career, Ms. Brightman has passionately pursued (and achieved) a slew of artistic goals, consistently reinventing herself in order to breach new creative ground: she's sold over thirty million records worldwide, is the first artist to have been invited twice to perform the theme songs at the Olympic Games, and is frequently credited with pioneering the Classical Crossover genre. Ms. Brightman's 1997 duet with Andrea Bocelli, "Time To Say Goodbye", became the fastest and biggest selling single of all time in Germany. In 2013, she released the critically acclaimed set Dreamchaser (her 11th studio album and a Top 20 hit in the US).

Listeners with a passion for great music are sure to relish RARITIES, Volumes 1-3, which offer a unique opportunity to explore hard-to-find recordings by this multi-faceted artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpPTlkws0A&feature=youtu.be

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Sarah is very pleased to announce three new Gala tour dates in Korea. Tickets go on sale on 28th April, you can buy them from Sarah's website here.

24th July - Olympic Hall, Seoul, Korea
26th July - Exco, Daegu, Korea
27th July - Unversiade Gymnasium, Kwangju, Korea

This announcement follows the news of Sarah's Japanese tour dates, running throughout July. Head to Sarah's website for a full list of performances and purchase links.

7th July - Sapporo Hokkai Kitayell, Sapporo, Japan
9th July - Sendai Xebio Arena, Sendai, Japan
11th July - Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
12th July - Tokyo, Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
17th July - Kanazawa Honda No Mori Hall, Kanazawa, Japan
19th July - Osaka Festival Hall , Osaka, Japan
20th July - Osaka Festival Hall , Osaka, Japan
22nd July - Nagoya Century Hall , Nagoya, Japan

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Hi everyone... I have read all your lovely messages and know you all have been patiently waiting to hear news about my new album... I am very excited to share that my new album will be released in the Fall of 2018. I have reunited with my long time producer and collaborator Frank Peterson on this album and although we are still placing the finishing touches on it, we hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!

In celebration, I wanted to launch something very special for all of you, where you would be the first to hear all the latest information.

As a valued member of my newsletter, I wanted to extend a personal invitation to join my brand new Community Forum. Here, fans will be able to chat with like-minded people all around the world and over the coming months gain access to all the latest exclusive information including photos, videos, music, tour dates, and personal messages from me! You will be the first to hear all the exciting news that I will be announcing across 2018 and beyond!

The Forum is your Community, and I want you to truly make it your own! Beginning May 17th, you will have the opportunity to personally name the Community Forum! The top 10 finalists names will be posted on May 24th, then you all can vote on your favorite, and I will announce the winner on May 31st. Join today!

I am very much looking forward to sharing my journey with you! This is just the beginning... many exciting announcements ahead!

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Brightman released her eleventh studio album Dreamchaser at the beginning of 2013. It marked a departure of her previous material by exploring new sounds and collaborating with producers Mike Hedges and Sally Herbert after twenty years of continuous work with Frank Peterson. The album gathered acclaim from critics, some considering it Brightman’s strongest work to date. In order to promote her new material, Sarah embarked on a two-year world tour, under the name of "Dreamchaser World Tour". The concert tour consisted of 106 shows in twenty-three countries, becoming Brightman's second largest of her career. On 2015, Brightman was expected to travel to the International Space Station but cancelled the trip due to personal reasons.

On 2016 and 2017, Brightman embarked on two more concert tours: Gala: An Evening with Sarah Brightman, and Royal Christmas Gala along Gregorian and special guests. Both concert tours served as a promotion of her greatest hits album Gala - The Collection. Recording of her new album took place during these two years.

Production and recording

Production for the album was officially announced on 9 December 2016. A photo of Sarah at the Nemo Studio in Hamburg, Germany was uploaded on her Facebook page with the caption "The start of something special". Additional photos were uploaded as the month continued. On 3 January 2017, Sarah's official Facebook page uploaded a photo of the singer working alongside longtime producer Frank Peterson. This event marked Brightman and Peterson's ninth studio collaboration and first since 2008's album A Winter Symphony.

Updates of the album's production continued along the year. On 23 February 2017, Peterson uploaded a photo on his Facebook page, revealing that recording sessions were taking place at Village Studios. On 9 March, 2017 a photo of Sarah accompanied by the Spirit of David Choir in a studio at Los Angeles was uploaded to her website and media.[7] Photos of the studio and recording sessions were uploaded to the internet on 5 April, 15 April, and 13 June 2017, along minimal information. On 30 October 2017, it was announced that Brightman's last studio album recording was being continued at Abbey Road Studios along the London Symphony Orchestra. Patrick Hawes, Steve Sidwell and Paul Bateman were also mentioned as contributors to the album's production.

Brightman's studio recording had to be paused due to her participation at the co-headlining concert tour with Gregorian and other guests' Royal Christmas Gala, during the months of November and December 2017. Brightman returned to the production phase on 10 January 2018, as informed on her website. A few days later, it was informed that Tom Lord-Alge was contributing in the recording phase of the studio album, and was being recorded at Spank Studio, in South Beach, Florida. The recording process took place in a total of seven cities: Hamburg, Miami, London, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York and Budapest.

On 20 June it was informed that the album photo shoot had taken place at the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great in London. On 3 July 2018, Sarah announced via Twitter that the recording phase had finished.
Music and Lyrics

During a telephone interview with Brazilian journal Destak, Brightman told the album's sound would have similarities with her first solo material, Timeless (1997) and Eden (1998), thus indicating a classical and operatic approach. On that same interview Brightman told that the concept of the album centered around achieving a sense of security and optimism in middle of a dystopian world. These themes were inspired after Brightman's cancelled journey to the International Space Station and all its preparation.

Singles

“Sogni” was released as the first single from the album as a collaboration between Brightman and french tenor Vincent Niclo. Composer and producer Frank Peterson described the operatic song as “a mash-up” of two arias from two different operas by French composer Georges Bizet. The track was released worldwide on September 17th as a digital download and was made available for streaming as well.

Release

On 17 May 2017, Sarah re-launched a community forum for fans after several years of absence, in which the album's title was announced, along the caption "Fall 2018", stating a possible release date. The forum also works as a source of exclusive content, album news and behind-the-scenes, specially for their members.[21] On August 20, 2018, the Brazilian journal Gazeta do Povo published an interview of Brightman, were it stated that the album would be released in the month of October. Nevertheless, it was later confirmed that the album release would be on November 9th of 2018. On September 17, the album cover and its tracklist was announced along with the re-launch of the web-page.

Promotion

On 6 August 2018, Brightman announced her return to the South American continent after five years, along with her promotional tour Hymn: Sarah Brightman In Concert. The concert tour includes dates in Brazil[25], Chile[26] and Argentina[27] in the months of November and December. A second date had to be added in Buenos Aires due to overwhelming demand. On September 17, along the official announcement of the release-date of the album, the north-american tour dates of the tour were announced as well.
Track Listing

Standard Edition
1.   "Hymn Overture"   1:02
2.   "Hymn"   4:27
3.   "Sogni (feat. Vincent Niclo)"   4:18
4.   "Sky and Sand "   4:12
5.   "Canto Per Noi"   3:21
6.   "Fly To Paradise (feat. Eric Whitacre Singers)"   5:13
7.   "Gia Nel Seno (La Storia Di Lucrezia)"   3:09
8.   "Follow Me"   3:59
9.   "You"   3:30
10.   "Better Is One Day"   3:51
11.   "Tu Che M’Hai Preso Il Cuor"   2:43
12.   "Miracle (feat. YOSHIKI)"   4:52
13.   "Time To Say Goodbye"4:15

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Hymn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZN34Tk-H9g