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Julia Nunes (born January 3, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter from Fairport, New York. [3] Her career has progressed online through her videos of pop songs on YouTube, in which she sings harmony with herself and plays acoustic instruments, primarily the ukulele, guitar, melodica, and piano.
"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong on August 16, 1967. In April 1968, it topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom, [3] but performed poorly in the United States because Larry Newton, the president of ABC Records, disliked the song and refused to promote it.
[4] In 1993, five years after the original recording, Bertosa played the acoustic version for producer Jon de Mello while the two were completing work on Facing Future, and de Mello decided to include it on the album as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World".
Grace Avery VanderWaal [2] (born January 15, 2004) [1] is an American singer-songwriter and actress. [3] She is known for her distinctive voice and has often accompanied herself on the ukulele.
"Unwell" is a song by American alternative rock group Matchbox Twenty. Released on November 17, 2002, as the second single from their third album, More Than You Think You Are (2002), it was written by Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas .
The song is the longest-leading number-one hit on any of the Billboard song charts, having spent 358 weeks on top of the World Digital Songs chart. [ 33 ] On July 8, 2007, Kamakawiwoʻole debuted at No. 44 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart with "Wonderful World", selling 17,000 units.
Gonzalez won the USA Songwriting Competition Grand Prize in 1999 for "Say 'em Strong"; [4] the Boston Music Award for Best New Singer-Songwriter in 2000; [5] and a SESAC Television and Film Composers Award in 2009 for her contribution to Guiding Light. [6] She has also been a finalist in the Coca-Cola New Music Awards and the Lilith Fair Talent ...
The Tin Pan Alley publishers hired her to arrange the chords and her name is on hundreds of examples of music from the 1920s on. [6] Her name appears as a music arranger on more pieces than any other individual. [7] Her earliest known credit for a ukulele arrangement was in 1917, [8] but her arrangements began to appear in large numbers in 1923.