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| Born | Flushing, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
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| Website | suehadjopoulos |
Sue Hadjopoulos is an American percussionist.
Sue Hadjopoulos | |
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| Born | Flushing, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
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| Website | suehadjopoulos |
Sue Hadjopoulos is an American percussionist.
Hadjopoulos was born in Flushing, New York to a musical family. [1] Her brother Chris Hadjopoulos is a drummer, and her brother Steve played flute, keyboards, and saxophone with the group Firefall from 1983 to 1988.[ citation needed ]
Hadjopoulos studied classical flute for six years before switching to drums and percussion. She graduated magna cum laude in anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University and did her graduate studies at Mannes School of Music in Manhattan. [2]
In 1977, Hadjopoulos began a two-year run as a founding member and timbalera of Latin Fever, a 14-piece female salsa band produced by Latin jazz pianist Larry Harlow.
In 1982, Hadjopoulos collaborated with British musician Joe Jackson to create his 1982 album Night and Day . [3] Hadjopoulos continued her collaboration with him on-and-off through 2012; during that time she also toured with Cyndi Lauper, Simple Minds, Enrique Iglesias, The B-52's, and Ricky Martin, among others. [4] [5]
Hadjopoulos co-wrote, co-produced and performed the song "Breakin' Up" in the 1994 film Bar Girls . In the later 1990s and early 2000s, she also performed in theatre and off-Broadway shows such as Vicki: Behind The Beat with Vicki Sue Robinson in 1999. She also appeared in The Temptation of Saint Anthony world premiere at Ruhrtriennale festival in Duisburg, German and an off-Broadway production of Songs for a New World at Chernuchin Theater. [6]
In 1984, she was voted one of the top five percussionists in the Latin/Brazilian category of Modern Drummer's Readers’ Poll. [7]
With Hazel Scott
With Joe Jackson
With Simple Minds
With Laurie Anderson
With David Byrne
With They Might Be Giants
With Ricky Martin
With Michael Monroe
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies (1985) and her second record True Colors (1986). This album included the number-one single "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", which peaked at number three. Her cover of the Marvin Gaye song "What's Going On" was a moderate hit in 1987. In 1989, Lauper saw success with "I Drove All Night" and in 1993, had her first dance club hit with "That's What I Think".
She's So Unusual is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released on October 14, 1983, by Portrait Records. It stands out for its commercial success, achieving four top-five singles—a pioneering achievement for a debut album by a female artist. The album was re-released in 2014 to commemorate its 30th anniversary, and was called She's So Unusual: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. The re-release contains demos and remixes of previously released material, as well as new artwork.
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a single by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, written by Robert Hazard. It was released by Portrait Records as Lauper's first major single as a solo artist and the lead single from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983). Lauper's version gained recognition as a feminist anthem and was promoted by a Grammy-winning music video. It has been covered by more than 30 other artists.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.
The 27th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1985, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live in the United States by CBS. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1984.
A Night to Remember is the third studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released on May 9, 1989, by Epic Records. The album was originally set to be released in 1988, under the name Kindred Spirit, but was delayed until 1989 and the songs from the initial project were reworked. Although the album managed to score a top-10 single, it did not enjoy the commercial success of her previous two albums, and was met with mixed-to-poor reviews and in interviews, Lauper refers to it as A Night to Forget. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 1.5 million copies.
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Power Station at BerkleeNYC is a recording studio on 441 West 53rd Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It was originally founded in 1977 as Power Station and known as Avatar Studios from 1996 to 2017. Renowned for its exceptional acoustics, the studio has been the site of hundreds of gold, platinum, and Grammy Award-winning recordings.
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Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he came to prominence in the United States as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied (1975).
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Anton Fig is a South African session drummer, perhaps best known as the drummer and second-in-command for Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band. David Letterman, for whom the band served as house band on his late-night talk shows, often referred to Fig as "Anton Zip" or "Buddy Rich Jr." Fig is also well known for his work with Kiss, Ace Frehley and Joe Bonamassa.
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But the energy they and their four backing players - especially percussionist Sue Hadjopoulos - bring to their often cheesy material makes it still work after all these years...
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