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Edward Finbar Wright (born 26 September 1957), known popularly as Finbar Wright, [1] is a popular music singer, songwriter, [2] and poet from County Cork, Ireland.. Wright is a classically trained tenor [3] who emerged during the 1990s in Ireland and has become one of that country's "most popular singers", [4] concentrating on romantic, jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience.
Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz; Ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel
Mariah Carey amassed the most number-one hits (14 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (60 weeks) during the 1990s. Carey is also the only artist to spend at least one week at the summit of the chart in each year of the decade.
French singer [96] Draga Matković: 1907–2013: 105: German classical pianist [97] Sir Robert Mayer: 1879–1985: 105: German-born British music patron and philanthropist [98] Albert J. McNeil: 1920–2022: 102: American choral conductor, ethnomusicologist and author [99] Buddy Moreno: 1912–2015: 103: American singer, bandleader and radio ...
[5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists.
"Like a Prayer" is a song by American singer Madonna from her 1989 fourth studio album of the same name. It was released as the album's lead single on March 3, 1989, by Sire Records . Written and produced by both Madonna and Patrick Leonard , the song heralded an artistic and personal approach to songwriting for Madonna, who believed that she ...
Janet Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1990. Phil Collins (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1990. [1]
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1990s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.