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Carlton Earl "Carl" Anderson (February 27, 1945 – February 23, 2004) was an American singer, film and theater actor best known for his portrayal of Judas Iscariot in the Broadway and film versions of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. [1]
This list does not include persons who frequently share lead vocal duties with other members of a given music group (e.g. John Lennon of the Beatles) or who are principally the public face or spokesperson of the music group (e.g. Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy). The musician's name appears behind a bullet, and the corresponding musical group ...
The song is sung by the spirit of Judas Iscariot, who had died by suicide earlier in the show.The song consists of a series of questions addressed to Jesus, such as why Jesus chose to come to Israel in 4 BC when it had no "mass communication" as opposed to modern times, whether Jesus had planned his own death, whether Jesus knew beforehand that his death would become famous, and whether ...
Jesus Christ Superstar is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.Loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion, the work interprets the psychology of Jesus and other characters, with much of the plot centered on Judas, who is dissatisfied with the direction in which Jesus is steering his disciples.
Robert James Smith [3] was born in Blackpool on 21 April 1959, the third of four children of Rita Mary (née Emmott) and James Alexander Smith. [4] [5] He came from a musical family, as his father sang and his mother played the piano. [6]
The album's “Holy Forever” is the one that Tomlin considers the anchor of this anthology. “It’s a song that sounds like Heaven to me. It has this transcendence about it.” For him, worship music usually has two distinct lanes—song of transcendence, and songs of deliverance and rescue. “This one takes you into the spiritual realm.
His arrangement of the song was eventually covered by The Four Seasons on their 1970 album Half & Half. The choir's second LP Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts was the 1970 Melanie single " Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) ," on which the label listed the performers as "Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers".
In 1989, his sixth studio album, Revival in the Land was released and became his first number-one album on the US Christian Albums chart, spent 33 weeks at the summit and became his third Gold record; [15] it included the songs "A Witch's Invitation", "Resurrection Rap" and the title track; its long-form video release was certified Platinum.