Category: Movies

Dead Can Dance are an Australian neoclassical darkwave band from Melbourne. Currently composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, the group formed in 1981. The group’s debut album, Dead Can Dance, was released in February 1984. The artwork, which depicts a ritual mask from New Guinea, “provide[s] a visual reinterpretation of the meaning of the […]

Cybill Shepherd is an American actress and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich’s coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971) alongside Jeff Bridges. in 1974, Shepherd again teamed up with Peter Bogdanovich for the title role in Daisy Miller, based on the Henry James novella. That […]

“They Can’t Take That Away from Me” is a 1937 popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance and gained huge success. The song is performed by Astaire on the lonely foggy deck of a ferry from New […]

I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan” is a popular song published in 1929, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It originally was a summer camp song titled “I Love to Lie Awake in Bed,” with Schwartz’s music set to lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Both young men worked at Brant […]

Willie King was an American blues guitarist and singer, known for shunning fame and playing at a local bar in Mississippi. King was born in Prairie Point, a community in Noxubee County, Mississippi near the Alabama border. Prior to recording, he worked as a sharecropper, moonshine maker and travelling salesman; just a few of his […]

Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung) is an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger. Kelly has produced and released recordings of her own, scored soundtracks, and tours with her band. She briefly played clarinet and classical piano before finding her voice on the saxophone. Kelly stated, “Saxophone reminds me of the human voice. And I always […]

Sona Jobarteh, who was born in London, is a member of one of the five principal kora-playing (griot) families from West Africa, and the first female member of such a family to rise to prominence on this instrument. The playing of this 21-stringed harp-like instrument was exclusively passed down from father to son. The instrument […]

Oblivion is an instrumental work by Astor Piazzolla. He spent many of his formative years in the Italian neighbourhoods of New York City, where he learned to play the bandoneón (a button accordion of Italian origin, now associated most often with the Argentine tango). After moving to Buenos Aires and receiving a formal music education, […]

Julee Cruise was an American singer and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1985, Badalamenti was composing the score for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, as well as serving as the vocal coach for the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini. When […]

“The Carioca” is a 1933 popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn, as well as being the name of the dance, it was choreographed for the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio. The word “Carioca” refers to inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. The number was sung in […]