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The song is performed by will.i.am, Seal, Bono, Mary J. Blige, and Faith Hill, with David Foster appearing on piano. The song's live debut, at the Kennedy Center, was broadcast live on a special edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on January 19, 2009, in honor of the next day's inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. [1]
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
will.i.am was born as William James Adams Jr. [4] in Los Angeles, California, on March 15, 1975, the son of an African-American mother Debra (née Cain) [5] [6] and Jamaican father William James Adams Sr. [4] He has never met his father, [7] and was raised by his mother in the Estrada Courts housing projects in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, [8] where they were among the few ...
Dolly Parton released "Color Me America" in 2003 as a soothing balm post-9/11, singing, "I am red and white and blue / These are colors that ring true / To all I am and feel and love and do / I ...
American musician will.i.am has released four studio albums, one compilation, 59 singles (including 42 as a featured artist), nine promotional singles, and 58 music videos. will.i.am's debut album, Lost Change , was released in October 2001 on Atlantic Records .
There are few keys in which one may play the progression with open chords on the guitar, so it is often portrayed with barre chords ("Lay Lady Lay"). The use of the flattened seventh may lend this progression a bluesy feel or sound, and the whole tone descent may be reminiscent of the ninth and tenth chords of the twelve bar blues (V–IV).
A FuniChar D-616 guitar with a Drop D tuning. It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock. Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down. This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open ...
A theme from "America" was referenced by John Williams for his celebratory For New York, composed in 1988 for Bernstein's 70th birthday gala. [8] In 1989, a verse of the song was sampled in Big Audio Dynamite's single "James Brown" with a 4/4 beat underneath. In 2003, the song was used in advertisements for Admiral Insurance though with ...