Agni (sharmishtha basu) Talks about Movie and Music 29.1.18 Kenny Rogers

Born: 21 August 1938 (age 78), Houston, Texas.

GRAMMY Award-winning country superstar and music icon Kenny Rogers aka Kenneth Ray Rogers has enjoyed great success during his storied career of nearly six decades.

Rogers has played to millions of fans around the world, performing chart-topping songs from a rich catalog of hits, including “The Gambler,” “Lady,” “Islands In The Stream,” “Lucille,” “Coward of the County,” “She Believes In Me,” “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town,” “We’ve Got Tonight,” “Daytime Friends,” “Through The Years,” “Love Will Turn You Around,” “You Decorated My Life,” “Crazy,” “Every Time Two Fools Collide,” and “Buy Me A Rose.”

Houston-born Rogers formed his first band while in high school in 1956—and never stopped again.

kennyrogers.com

facebook.com/KennyRogersOfficial

twitter.com/_KennyRogers

Now my part of the story, he is the singer that opened the door of western music to me, a door to enchanted heaven I will say.

When he popped up in my auditory life in 1989 methinks all I was hearing was Rabindrasangit, day in and day out, I was absolutely in love with it and always will be! Believe me, if you know Bengali and love Rabindrasangit it can become a very serious love affair! Mine was. To add up just like 99% Indians I had an idiotic firmest belief that Western singers sing only hard rock and they have no meaning. Some crazy folks just grow their hair, grab a guitar and shake their body, mumble gibberish!

So one fine morning I heard him singing, “Lucielle” it brought tears to my eyes, every word was clearly pronounced and the lyrics was better than most contemporary hindi or Bengali songs. So I started paying attention. Next was gambler, it is still one of my favorite songs. I have heard it so many times that I will blush to admit! So pick a number if that is logical can be the truth!

This singer has “one voice”! It is super awesome! To add up his songs has depth, meaning, passion… whatever is required, and so does his voice! If you have not heard him and are as big a music lover as me (forget greater) you are missing a big thing! Try him out!

He is pure magic!

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Few talks about some favorite stars, irrespective of their field of music, art.

They are collected from various sites or are just my view of them. You will know

the difference when you read the post, most are from wikipedia.

These are from the fun section of the Ezines.

I dont know, being me I may have missed mentioning it, do remember one thing,

as you read these works, some of these are my personal views and whatever data,

you see in these are collected from various sites of internet, mostly

wikipedia, famouspeople.net and quite often from the sites of the artists

themselves.

You know I dont know everything right? I am just a student who is sharing her

notes with you!

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