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"Pretty Wings" is a single by American singer-songwriter Maxwell, taken from his fourth studio album BLACKsummers'night. It was written and produced by Maxwell and Hod David. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song.
The deluxe version includes video, entitled "5DAYSofBLACK", which discusses the development of songs and also includes the music video for "Pretty Wings". The album produced four singles. Its lead single "Pretty Wings" debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, [8] ultimately spending 47 weeks on the chart. [9]
The song is the B-side to his number-one R&B hit single "Pretty Wings", and released from his album BLACKsummers'night. Cold was released as a single on June 23, 2009, peaking to number-one on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales and number-two on Hot 100 Singles Sales. [2]
It is his first number-one R&B hit, eventually followed by "Pretty Wings" in 2009. According to R. Kelly, Maxwell didn't want to sing "Fortunate". Instead, he wanted to sing the song "Life" - which Kelly gave to K-Ci & JoJo. Kelly rejected Maxwell's idea because he felt that the neo-soul singer wouldn't have been believable singing a song from ...
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. [11] [12] [13] Maxwell's father died in a plane crash around 1976 or 1977 when Maxwell was three years old. [14]
"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl's loss of her sweetheart who has died in ...
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Winds of Change is the debut album by British-American band Eric Burdon & the Animals, released in October 1967 by MGM Records.The album was recorded following the 1966 dissolution of the original group the Animals and singer Eric Burdon's move to Los Angeles, where he and drummer Barry Jenkins formed the new Animals lineup with musicians Vic Briggs, Danny McCulloch and John Weider.