1999 At the beginning of this year, the Grammy Awards Ceremony is just around the corner. One of the performances was arranged for Canadian pop diva Celine Dion to sing "Prayer" with Italian singer Andrea Bocelli. However, due to Andre's sudden physical condition, he could not reach the rehearsal site. So, as the on-site conductor, David immediately thought of Qiao Shi, hoping that he could rehearse instead of Bocelli and Celine. This performance once again brought Qiao Shi and David closer together. Soon, they became the closest friends. David took Qiao Shi to various large-scale occasions and had the idea of making an album for Qiao Shi. Although it is not known whether Qiao Shi's slightly classical voice has market value, after repeated consultations between David and Warner executives, and even threatened to break with Warner, Warner finally decided to recruit Qiao Shi into its 143 brand, which belongs to David Records Branch. After repeated weighing, Qiao Shi also decided to drop out of Mellon University, where he had just studied for four months, and formally entered the music scene.
From 2000 to 20001year, the company arranged for him to tour in sarah brightman and sing "Being there for me" as a special guest. In 2000, she performed with barbra streisand at the Democratic nomination fund-raising party.
200 1 The first song was officially recorded, which was a chorus for Forever with French Queen lara fabian and included in the soundtrack of Spielberg's blockbuster "Artificial Intelligence". But what really started to bring Qiao Shi into public view was a program. In a charity performance arranged by David, his singing attracted the attention of two people, that is, David E. Kelley, a famous European and American TV screenwriter at that time, and calista flockhart, an actor. They were the writers and starring roles of ally mcbeal, a famous hit American TV series at that time. When Qiao Shi was singing, the noisy scene suddenly became very quiet. According to this scene and Qiao Shi's life experience, David E. Kelley rewrote the script of the last episode of the fourth season of ally mcbeal, invited Qiao Shi to make a guest performance and sang "You or You". As a result, after the episode of Qiao Shi was broadcast, the crew received more than 8,000 emails from all over the country asking about Qiao Shi. Qiao Shi was also invited to play the role of the same name in the next season of the play and sang "To Where You Are". Qiao Shi began to have his own fans. A few months later, Qiao Shi's debut album was released, which first caused a sensation on the Internet. Some people even call Qiao Shi "the first Internet star".
2001165438+1On October 20th, 20-year-old Qiao Shi released his first album of the same name. At that time, in the first week of release, because Qiao Shi was a novice, with little fame and little publicity, the album did not attract enough attention at first, and barely ranked in 127 of Billboard200. Since then, although the sales volume has increased, it has not been in the forefront. Later, one thing completely changed the whole situation. After watching Qiao Shi's performance at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and Charlotte Church in 2002, ABC's trump card program 20/20 specially produced an exclusive interview with Qiao Shi, which made countless people understand the charm of this young man's music through TV. In the second week after the broadcast, Qiao Shi's album soared on Billboard200, rising by 466%, and rushed to the top of 10 at one fell swoop, reaching the eighth place at the highest. And showed extraordinary stability, staying in the top 50 for nearly 60 weeks, and gradually withdrawing from the top 50 until April 2003. This album made Qiao Shi win the title of annual billboard Cross-border Champion Album and Cross-border Champion Artist. By the end of 2003, the album was sealed with three platinum in the United States and four platinum in Canada. So far, it has been rated as a five-star record on Amazon, laying a solid foundation for Qiao Shi's future success. So far, the album "josh groban" has sold more than 5 million copies in the United States alone, won four platinum records, and has a number one single.
In 2002, he recorded his first PBS special program "josh groban at the Concert" and released it on CD and DVD. In February of the same year, he attended the Nobel Peace Prize concert and sang "Where Are You", and joined hands with Norwegian cross-border singer SisselKyrkjeb? Singing "prayer" Invited to attend the Holy See musical performance "Oh, Holy Night".
In 2003, Qiao Shi attended David's special concert for World Children's Day, sang "Prayer" with celine dion, and participated in the final chorus of the concert "Aren't they all our children? At the end of the year, before the album craze of the same name passed, Qiao Shi released his second album, Closer, which sold more than 370,000 copies in the first week, ranking fourth on the Billboard200 list, and naturally won the title of Billboard Cross-border List. After the whole Christmas season, Closer has been at the top of 15, selling nearly 2 million copies and winning two platinum before the end of the year. After Christmas, in the off-season of record sales, when the sales of other records declined one after another, Closer remained extremely stable. June 5438+1 The second week of October, from 1 1 to1,became Qiao Shi's first Zhang Guanjun album. "Closer" not only has amazing sales, but also has a good reputation. With this album, Qiao Shi, who is only 22 years old, has been nominated for more than 10 awards such as Grammy, World Music Award, American Music Award and People's Choice Award. In the year-end list of Billboard in 2004, he rarely ranked third as a mainstream star who sang "non-mainstream" songs. Today, Closer has sold more than 5.7 million copies in the United States, making it Josh's first five-platinum record. What's more worth mentioning is that Qiao Shi also joined the creative team in the process of making Closer, and participated in the creation of three songs, among which the original song "When it rained last time" also successfully entered the adult lyrics list. In addition to releasing an album, Qiao Shi also appeared in the musical Chess at the Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.
At the beginning of 2004, Qiao Shi sang the soundtrack Remember in the movie Troy and Believe in the movie Polar Express. The songwriter of Believe won the Oscar Award in 2005 and the Grammy nomination for best songwriter. At the end of the year, the second live album "Live at Greek" was released and featured on PBS. In the 2004 Super Bowl final, she sang "You Cheer me up" to commemorate all the astronauts, and sang "Believe" with Beyonce at the 77th Academy Awards in 2004. In the same year, she was appointed as the official ambassador of 46664 charity by former South African President nelson mandela.
In 2005, Qiao Shi was nominated for the first Grammy Award for "You Cheer Me Up": Best Pop Male Singer. She sang "Where Are You" at the concert of Hurricane Katrina, "The Stars and Stripes" at the 2005 World Series, attended charity activities such as "Saving Music" and "Fighting Cancer", and participated in the Live8 benefit performance and sang "Angel".
From June 5438 to1October 65438+March 2006, Qiao Shi released his third album "Awake" after three years. In the first week, the airborne Billboard200 runner-up and the Canadian Billboard list champion exceeded 270,000. In this album, Qiao Shi's style is more diversified than the previous two. He cooperated with different producers to integrate jazz, rock, African music and other genres into his album, which was more popular, but he also covered several Italian classic songs to make it more classical. Awakening can be said to be a sign of the transformation of Joe's poetry, and it can also be seen that Joe's poetry tends to be more mature and his thinking about music is more profound. The first single "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)" advocates people's awareness of caring for each other, while "Crying" with African flavor contains thoughts on political issues in South Africa. Qiao Shi himself devoted a lot of effort to this album. He personally composed only five songs, including February, a popular single on the adult lyrics list. At present, the album has sold more than 2 million copies in the United States, won 2 platinum copies and sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Sober ranked 17 in the year-end ranking of Billboard in 2007. In 2006, he sang the February song at the American Music Awards. In 2006, he attended the Kennedy Art Award ceremony held at the Kennedy Center Opera House and sang "Music of Light" for the winner andrew lloyd webber.
In early 2007, he launched a "sober live" world tour and released a live album. Noel is the fourth studio album released at the end of the year and Qiao Shi's first Christmas album, which was released on June 9th, 2007. Qiao Shi has released several Christmas singles before, which have been a great success in various capitals, and the storm brought by this Christmas album has far exceeded people's expectations. Noel 10 was released at the beginning of 10, and it was only last week that it ranked 10 on the Billboard200 list because it was still far from the Christmas holiday. However, as Christmas approached, Noel's unusual stability began to play a role and remained within the previous 10. Especially after Oprah Winfrey Show, in the seventh week of release, Noel topped the Billboard200 with more than 400,000 sales, becoming Qiao Shi's second Zhang Guanjun album. But the miracle doesn't stop there. The following month, the cold month of 65438+February, no album could stop Noel's progress before Christmas. Noel sold more than 530,000 copies in the eighth week, 580,000 copies in the ninth week, 660,000 copies in the tenth week and 750,000 copies in the eleventh week. Noel became the champion of Billboard200 for five consecutive weeks with amazing sales. Moreover, Noel broke the record of 5 1 year that Elvis Presley's Christmas album won the championship for three weeks in a row. This is the first Christmas album in Soundscan's history to become the champion of the natural year, and it is also the first Christmas album whose sales volume has been on the rise for five consecutive weeks. Became the second in the Billboard200 year-end list in 2008, and undoubtedly topped the cross-border list, holiday album list, Canadian list and online sales list. In the year when the record market was extremely depressed, it sold more than 3 million copies in more than a month, becoming an album that undoubtedly saved the market in 2007. In the Christmas schedule of 2008, this album occupied the first place in the catalogue album list for eight consecutive weeks, and sold nearly 200,000 copies a week after its release. Since its release more than a year ago, Noel has sold more than 4.6 million copies and sealed with 5 platinum. To be sure, when another Christmas schedule comes, it is time for this Christmas album to create miracles again.
In 2007, she attended a concert to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death. sarah brightman, the heroine of the musical Phantom of the Opera, sang the famous song All I Ask of You. At the end of the year, she attended the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center to sing "Little Drummer Boy" and sang "Silent Night" at the Disney Christmas Celebration on February 25th, 65438.
In 2008, he attended the 90th birthday celebration of former South African President nelson mandela, sang "Crying and Machines" and starred in the musical "Playing Chess Again" in Albert Hall, England. Awake Live was officially released worldwide in May, and it broke into the top 10 of the Billboard200 list in the first week, ranking eighth, becoming the best DVD in Qiao Shi. Many authoritative magazines and websites spoke highly of Wake Up Live, and The New York Times praised Joe's performance as "showing the power to shock the audience's emotions". I sang Imagination and andrea bocelli's Prayer at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008, paid tribute to the late tenor Pavarotti in 2007, sang God Bless America at the All-Star Professional Baseball Competition in 2008, and performed the theme song of this classic American drama at the 60th Emmy Awards.
In 2009, he attended President Obama's inaugural concert and sang "My motherland is yours". On March 3 1, he attended the hearing of "Art Advocacy" as a representative of the music industry, made a report on "Art = Work" to the Committee, and applied for 200 million US dollars as a special fund to support the development of young people's art career. /kloc-was elected to the Hall of Fame of Hollywood Open-air Theatre in June, 2009. In the same year, Mandela Day sang "Change Color", "Cry" and "You Lift Me Up".
During the period of 20/2009-20 10/0, Josh was invited to perform as a special guest on the hit album Glee twice, and participated in the benefit activity of re-recording the hit song "One World" for Haiti relief on 20/20/0.
At the end of 20 10, Qiao Shi's fifth studio album "Illuminations" was released, ranking fourth on the Billboard200 list. In 2007, Qiao Shi invited Grammy Award producer Rick Rubin (* johnny cash Linkin Park) to cooperate, and both of them jumped out of their familiar music fields. At the beginning of the cooperation, Rubin opened a bunch of popular classic songs to Qiao Shi, demanding that Qiao Shi must write songs other than the classic songs, and then write some works that can really express his feelings. Rubin hoped that Qiao Shi would stop just endorsing the songs of the master songwriters. Rubin, who took over the task of making albums by cross-border singers for the first time, began to think about making an album with Zhang Huali atmosphere, pop and artistic flavor, which gradually turned into an album with the momentum and enthusiasm of classical music, and then put in an album with charming sound quality belonging to American traditional pop music or traditional folk songs. Qiao Shi has been trying to write songs, and this time, with the encouragement of Rick Rubin, his talent for songwriting broke out. In this album, there is 1 1 a song composed by him and Dan Wilson (* won the Grammy Song of the Year Award in 2007 for writing Dixie Chicks), and both parties are improvising. The first single of the album "Hidden Away" runs through American traditional pop music, folk songs, classical music, modern music, movie music and other different types of music. Qiao Shi also conveyed the importance of bravely expressing his true self and true feelings in his songs. The song "Love Only Know" has the same opening music as playing Bach's music with folk guitar, and then it is transformed into gorgeous string accompaniment; Bells Of New York City, a love song sketch written for new york, is like a painting of urban customs outlined by a staff, with dramatic strings and percussion instruments, as well as tunes showing the characteristics of new york, a cultural melting pot city. At the same time, the album also reflects the charm of Qiao Shi's cross-border music. For example, Lester Mendez, a Brazilian songwriter who wrote Shakira's best-selling song "Your Next Clothes", VocêExiste Em Mim, who collaborated with five Latin Grammy-winning arranger carlinhos Brown, and Qiao Shi tried to sing in Portuguese for the first time. In this song Oladel Adio, which is permeated with Rachmaninov's classical romantic melody, Joe's poems reveal unforgettable Italian customs. In the album Illuminations, Qiao Shi has changed from a unique cross-border bel canto singer to an all-around artist with excellent singing skills. Even his signature singing style with a sense of popular vocal music has moderately reduced the scenes and replaced them with clearer and more intimate feelings, which will make Qiao Shi's songs closer to the hearts of fans.
In 20 13, the sixth album "All Those Echoes" was released and won the title of Billboard200 again. The album All Echoes was produced by Rob Cavallo, president of Warner Records. He produced the best-selling albums of bands and singers, such as Green Day, My Chemical Romance and adam lambert. Other members of the song production line-up include Walter Afanasev (* Mariah Carey, celine dion) and Lester Mendes (* Shakira, nelly furtado). Qiao Shi said: "From the beginning to the end, this album has been full of joy and inspiring atmosphere. With the cooperation of Rob Cavallo and many amazing music partners, we have created a bridge connecting the old and the new, connecting the light and darkness of life and love, and all the songs that make us sing in the depths of our souls. This album makes me feel good, and I hope everyone can feel the same way. 》
Good Will Hunting: Every studio album of Qiao Shi in the past-josh groban (# 8/200 1), Closer (# 1/2003), Awake (# 2/2006) and Noel (# 65438+). 20 10) are all pre-American 10 albums. Among them, the album Closer in 2003 and the Christmas album Noel in 2007 both topped the national pop album list, and both were certified by the National Recording Association for 5 platinum albums. Moreover, Noel was the best-selling album in the national record market in 2007. At the same time, Qiao Shi won the national classical cross-border album list five times with her live singing special "Sober Live" and studio albums "josh groban", "Near", "Sober" and "Noel". Qiao Shi ranked 14 in the list of best-selling artists in the United States from 2000 to 2009, and he was also the only artist who had two albums in the list of the top 20 albums in the United States from 2000 to 2009.
Qiao Shi's singing style swept the American song list. He created the theme song of the animated Arctic Express, Believe, and was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for original film songs, accompanied by such famous Christmas songs as Ellie's Fantasy World, Silent Night and I'll Go Home for Christmas, and reinterpreted The Secret Garden's iconic work You Lift Me Up. Qiao Shi also participated in the performances of the film "Mature Man" and the comedy album "Crazy Cloud in the Office", and founded the ——Find Your Light Foundation, a public welfare foundation for American youth art education. Qiao Shi participated in the creation of seven songs in the album "All Echoes", including: Brave, the first single with Canadian talented singer Chantel Kreviazuk, who covered the popular hit "Leave by Jet" in the soundtrack of the doomsday movie, which combined the traditional vocal timbre, the rhythm and pace of pop rock music, the momentum of string arrangement and grand harmony; A false alarm, describing the love relationship that leaves the hasty chapter and waits for true love with a calm mind; Join hands with Italian shining superstar laura pausini to sing the gripping love song "e ti Prometterò"; Arturo Sandoval, a legendary Cuban trumpet player who won the Grammy Award, was invited to perform the exotic and charming sketch Almaty. At the same time, Qiao Shi reinterpreted five popular songs, including 1972 song "When I Love It Will Be Forever" by Stevie Wonder, the most respected soul music superstar, and Oscar-winning Irish singer glen hansard and Czech female singer Markéta Irglová. Once, love was the only movie theme song that slowly fell.
The seventh album Stages was released on 20 15 and won the second place in Billboard200.
Josh groban, known as a "good hunter" because of his warm singing voice, released his seventh solo album "Bel Canto: A Ode to a Famous Broadway Song" in April of 20 13, following "Infinite * * *". This is not only the realization of his long-term wish after joining Warner Records, but also a tribute to the love of all fans by reinterpreting the most wonderful classic songs in Broadway history. The musical has a profound and far-reaching influence on Qiao Shi. In the past, whether it was an album or a concert, he often performed these familiar Broadway songs. After all, these melodies are the key to his growth. Qiao Shi's earliest interest was performing, but when he was 12 years old, his parents sent him to a music summer camp, which changed his life. His first musical was Crazy Barber by American musical master Sang Han, so Qiao Shi sang the most attractive one in the album, Don't be around me.
/kloc-at the age of 0/7, Qiao Shi recorded a demo for super producer david fuster under the recommendation of the vocal music teacher. This song is "all I want from you" in Weber's famous play Phantom of the Opera. Upon hearing this, david fuster immediately invited him to sing at the inauguration ceremony of California Governor and the Grammy Awards Ceremony, which started Qiao Shi's brilliant singing career. In this album, Qiao Shi invited Kelly Claessen from the American Idol singing contest to perform this touching duet. The title song "Pure Imagination" of "Bel Canto Stage: A Praise for Broadway Famous Songs" comes from the episode of the famous film "Chocolate Adventure Factory". When Qiao Shi was a child, he often watched movies starring the old actor gene wilder repeatedly, which became his unforgettable childhood memory. Therefore, in this series, Hard Requirements recorded the Song of Wonka Power, keeping a childlike innocence. At the same time, the songs selected in the album are all fond memories of everyone, including the most classic "Carousel" by Richard Rogers and Hammerstein II in the golden age of Broadway, especially "If I Love You" sung by audra mcdonald, the musical diva who won the most Tony Awards in history.
After Qiao Shi became famous, he settled in new york and made many drama friends on Broadway. The closest distance between Qiao Shi and musical is to attend tim rice's big concert Chess King in new york in 2003 and London in 2008. Qiao Shi played the Russian chess king so perfectly that tim rice thought it was the final version of the play. In this series, Qiao Shi sang the most popular hymn in the play. Not limited to Broadway in new york, Qiao Shi reinterpreted Les Miserables and the hunchback of Notre Dame, which originated from France, and Christina created by Swedish ABBA Chorus, which showed Qiao Shi's superb grasp of various musical styles.
Looking back on Qiao Shi's albums in recent years, all of them have won unanimous praise from music critics and fans' love with their extraordinary production quality. In this album, two gold medal producers-record producers such as Humberto Gatica, Michael Jackson and Celine Dion-and Bernie Hemmes (Jackie Junior) were specially invited to co-create, and flew to the top Abbey Road recording studio in London to compete with the 75-member orchestra. Qiao Shi said: "These are great stories, great emotions, great voices ... I love this, and the key is' quality'. 》
Qiao Shi is now the most outstanding bel canto singer in pop music. Like many songs in this series, Qiao Shi has gone beyond the musical itself and become a distinctive imprint that will never be forgotten, such as the lyric song Try To Remember, the jazz standard song Old Devil Moon (presented by chris botti, the trumpet king), and the first American songbook Over The Rainbow. The affectionate interpretation of Joe's poems has crossed the time and space handed down from generation to generation and given him a brand-new artistic conception. No matter whether you have seen or heard the golden songs of these famous plays, you will be deeply impressed by Shen Zui's majestic singing in Qiao's poems.
20 16 In early February, PBS special live album Stages: Live Recorded in the end 2065438+05 was released.