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Kenny Rogers: always in saddle Governed Tremblay Sun Quebec Everyone thinks Kenny Rogers with decades typical of the singer country. But one could just as easily represent it in complete the flashy of a singer doo-wop of the Fifties, in the cool clothes of a musician of jazz of the Sixties, or with the pink glasses and the long hair of “Hippy Kenny”, as one called it at the time of the flower power. If the enthusiastic readers of the national daily newspaper USA Today and the People magazine saw in Kenny Rogers “the largest singer of all times”, all confused categories, it is that the 70 year old catch touched with all, in a phenomenal career which has lasted for 50 years.
It is true that the country is everywhere and that the mythical West is found under all the latitudes. It can even overflow towards north and go up until in becomes the fact is that Kenny Rogers left its ranch texan, his fifth wife and the two twins whom it had at 66 years, to go gaillardement to Beauceville, to take part in the Jam Rock'n'roll, tomorrow evening.
An event which also puts in the high-speed motorboat Eric Lapointe and Marie-Chantal Toupin. “The 130 spectacles which I give this year bring me in all the corners of the United States, but also in much of other countries, and until the antipodes, in Australia. Recently, I sang in Great Britain and Ireland. The country does not have any more borders”, declares Kenny Rogers, which grants an interview to us on his cellular, between two destinations, two representations. It could as well sing: “I' m has rich handsome cow-boy, far away from home…” With its a little buckled, but decorated net of voice of a smile charmer and an inalterable kindness, Kenny Ray Rogers knew to make its way until glory.
Kenny was born in 1938 in Texas: it is the fourth of seven wire of a carpenter and a nurse. It is still adolescent when Elvis Presley and the rock'n'roll represent early success and new the american dream. After having touched without too much success of the doo-wop and the jazz, it starts to be made known with a pop group, The First Edition, which is worth its first successes to him, between 1967 and 1976. But it is in 1977, with its first album solo, which it climbs at the top.
The album éponyme is number one in the United States and its Lucille song dominates the prize lists in 12 countries. This first mega successes, he sings it always today with same enthusiasm. Just like Lady, made up with Lionel Ritchie, which was an immense success, in 1980.
Specialist in the duets in love (he sang with Dottie West, in the Seventies), Kenny illustrates himself with Dolly Parton, in Islands in the Stream, and with Sheena Easton, in We've Got Tonight, two successes which mark the year 1983. In 1985, it appears in the famous video We Are the World. With Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and the others, it is an icon of the show business. Success and discovered Kenny Rogers reassures its fans: “Yes, I will sing Lucille, Sunday, and also Lady, The Gambler, Islands in the Stream, Coward the Country and all my successes which people want to hear again, still and still. Me either, I do not weary myself any. I am considered lucky to have known to like so many people with these songs and I am not sulky my pleasure. Of course, it is also a good means of making known more recent compositions, as those which appear on my last album, Water and Bridges, published in 2006. I sing there with Shania Twain”, points out this ladies' man, who always has success in duets. “I also will make discover with the Inhabitants of Quebec my song The Greatest, where I look at the world with the eyes of a child and where I compare the play of the life with part of baseball…” Changing Country Kenny Rogers recognizes that the world of the country changed these last years well. And it does not refer only to the high-speed motorboats which replaced it, such Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Shania Twain. “One cannot count any more on the radio to promote the country.
Today, the impact of Internet is major and that requires new ways of selling the music. It is necessary to have audacity and imagination. But there are also new type-setters who give to the country a more contemporary color. Yes, the country changes, and it is all the beauty of the thing. But I am far from to have said my last word and having sung my last note…” Admittedly, there is still place for the old cow-boys. In 2000, at 61 years, Kenny Rogers became the oldest artist to be risen at the top of the prize list country, thanks to Buy has Me Rose. It thus beat the record of Hank Snow which, at 59 years, had propelled Hello Love to the first rank, in 1974. But, in 2003, Willie Nelson charmed in Kenny Rogers the title of the oldest cow-boy to remain in saddle, whereas Beer for my Horses reached the first rank. It had just been 71 years old.
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