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Cerys Matthews (pronounced [ˈkɛˌrɪs]) (born 11 April 1969, in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the Welsh rock band Catatonia, from 1992 to 2001. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ...
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A ballad is a story in song, usually a narrative song or poem. ...
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A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
Not to be confused with Katatonia, a Swedish metal band. ...
is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...
This article is about the capital city of Wales. ...
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The Welsh are, according to Hastings (1997), an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language, which is a Celtic language. ...
For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
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Biography
The daughter of a surgeon, Matthews was brought up in Swansea and Pembrokeshire and is a fluent Welsh speaker. She has cited her childhood heroes as being Pippi Longstocking and The Wombles due to their love of recycling. She attended St Michael's School in Llanelli, and learned to play the guitar at the age of 9 - teaching herself blues and rude Irish folk songs. After a stint in Spain as a nanny, where she learned to speak Spanish and Catalan, Matthews worked for Pembrokeshire County Council. She later moved back to Cardiff and became involved with the local music scene, meeting boyfriend Mark Roberts. An expecting couple with their daughter A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. ...
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Pembrokeshire (Welsh: ) is a county in the southwest of Wales in the United Kingdom. ...
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Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi LÃ¥ngstrump) is a fictional character in a series of childrens books created by author Astrid Lindgren. ...
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For the parliamentary constituency of Llanelli, see Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency) For the Llanelli Rural area, see Llanelli Rural Llanelli (English: ), the largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire and West Wales, sits on the Burry estuary on the west Wales coast, approximately 13 miles west of the city of...
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Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...
Pembrokeshire County Council (Welsh: ) is the governing body for Pembrokeshire, one of the Principal Areas of Wales. ...
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Mark Roberts was born on November 3, 1969 in Llanrwst, Wales, UK. During his teenage years, he sing and played the guitar in the Welsh band, Y Cyrff. ...
Catatonia The band Catatonia was formed in 1992, reputedly after Roberts heard Matthews busking in a street in Cardiff city centre (this later turned out to be a story fabricated by the band, as Matthews had known Roberts for some time, although they did often go busking). She subsequently sang lead vocals on the band's hits, including "You've Got a Lot to Answer For", "Mulder and Scully", "Dead From the Waist Down", and "Road Rage", and played guitar on the earlier material before second guitarist Owen Powell joined the band. She also performed a single with the band Space named "The Ballad of Tom Jones", which tells the story of two lovers who want to kill each other, but then hear a Tom Jones song that defuses their homicidal feelings. In addition, she collaborated with Tom Jones himself to record a version of Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on Jones' album Reload. Matthews was once voted the "Sexiest Female in Rock" by the now defunct magazine, Melody Maker. Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ...
In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ...
In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ...
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A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...
Space were an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, who came to prominence in the mid-1990s with hit singles such as Female of the Species, Neighbourhood and Avenging Angels. The basis of their sound has inspirations from late 1960s-early 1970s rock groups mixed with black humoured lyrics and...
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Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...
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Baby, Its Cold Outside is a pop standard, with words and music by Frank Loesser and published in 1948. ...
An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ...
Reload is the title of an album, released in 1999 by Welsh singer Tom Jones. ...
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Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ...
Nashville Having met and fallen in love with country music producer Seth Riddle, Matthews moved to Nashville, United States in early summer 2002. She had already collected seventy-six traditional folk songs with the idea of making an album of folk covers, but meeting Bucky Baxter changed all that. On her arrival in the United States in June, Matthews handpicked Baxter, who had played lap steel guitar for Bob Dylan and Ryan Adams. Her debut album, Cockahoop, was recorded in seven months and appeared on Blanco y Negro in the UK in May 2003. She married Riddle in West Wales in February 2003,[1] and toured the album around Britain but with minimal promotion as she was heavily pregnant at the time. Its Stateside release followed in October 2004. country music, see Country music (disambiguation) Country music, the first half of Billboards country and western music category, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. ...
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// In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ...
William Bucky Baxter (born Melbourne, Florida, 1955) is an American multi-instrumentalist from New Jersey. ...
Chandler electric lap steel guitar, a modern solid body with the classic Weissenborn profile. ...
Commonly confused with Bryan Adams David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is a prolific American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. ...
Diffrent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on the NBC television network from 1978 to 1985, and on ABC from 1985 to 1986. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
West Wales is the west area of Wales bordered by South Wales to the east. ...
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In December 2005, Matthews recorded a new version of Len Barry's 1960s UK top 10 hit "1-2-3" in Nashville, Tennessee. She released it as a download-single with all profits going to a children's charity.[2][3] Len Barry (born Leonard Borisoff, 12 June 1942, in West Philadelphia) was an American musician. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969. ...
In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ...
For the song by the Jackson 5, see ABC (song). ...
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In spring 2006, Matthews with a new band introduced material from her upcoming album at SXSW in Austin, Texas, United States. The gig was so well attended that many had to watch from the street outside. South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc. ...
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"Never Said Goodbye" Having broken up with Seth Riddle, Matthews moved back to Pembrokeshire with her children Glenys Pearl Y-Felin and Johnny Tupelo Jones; this was on the pretext of the release of her second solo album and that she wanted to show her children the traditions and ways of her homeland.[4] For other uses, see Tradition (disambiguation). ...
A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ...
In July and August 2006 Matthews conducted a short tour of the UK to promote her new second solo album titled Never Said Goodbye (released in the UK by Rough Trade on 21 August 2006). The new album was preceded by the single "Open Roads" (released 7 August 2006). Band members included K. Teel on guitar, Ben Elkins playing keyboards, Mason Neely on drums, and Jeff Irwin playing bass. She headlined Cardiff's Big Weekend festival on 6 August 2006. Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
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Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ...
A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as a cowbell, wood block, chimes or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ...
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A sunburst-colored Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ...
During September and October 2006, Matthews embarked on an extensive UK and Ireland tour, during which she played tracks from her first two solo albums, as well as three Catatonia hits. She also embarked upon a short acoustic Welsh tour in November 2006, before returning to Nashville for Christmas. To coincide with the re-launch of her solo career, Matthews redesigned her official website, and added a page to the ever-popular MySpace web directory. (/cerysmatthewsofficial) For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ...
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Cerys appeared at the live 'Guilty Pleasures' concert at the Hackney Empire, London on the 20th March 2007, performing the Bonnie Tyler hit 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' and the Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers duet 'Islands in the Stream' along with Terry Hall and the BBC concert orchestra. Hackney Empire The Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, Hackney. ...
Bonnie Tyler (born June 8, 1951 in Skewen in Wales, United Kingdom) is a pop/rock singer. ...
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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American, Grammy Award-winning country music singer/songwriter, composer, author, actress, and philanthropist. ...
Kenneth Donald Kenny Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. ...
Islands in the Stream was a 1989 hit country music single for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, written by the Bee Gees. ...
Terry Hall (born 19 March 1959, in Coventry, England) was the lead singer of The Specials, the Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, Terry, Blair & Anouchka and Vegas. ...
Awyren In an interview on the eve of the launch of her mini-album in Welsh Awyren = Aeroplane, Matthews confirmed she had divorced Seth Riddle and moved permanently back to Pembrokeshire.[5]
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! On 9 November 2007 Matthews was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! hosted by Ant & Dec. is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Anthony McPartlin (born 18 November 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born 25 September 1975), from Newcastle upon Tyne, England are popular presenters of light entertainment television programmes in the United Kingdom, as the duo Ant & Dec. ...
Personal Life Cerys has two children, Glenys Pearl, 4 and Johnny Jones, 2.
Discography
Albums Singles from Cockahoop Cockahoop is Cerys Matthews first solo album, released in 2003. ...
Diffrent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on the NBC television network from 1978 to 1985, and on ABC from 1985 to 1986. ...
Singles from Never Said Goodbye Never Said Goodbye is Cerys Matthews second solo album, released in 2006. ...
Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
My Kung Fu recordings is an independent record label based in Cardiff, United Kingdom. ...
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Compilations - Songs for the Young at Heart (2007) - contributed White Horses
- Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute - contributed "I Believe in You"
- Over the Rainbow ([2007]) - contributed Secret Love
Songs for the Young at Heart is a childrens music album put together by Stuart A. Staples and Dave Boulter, both from the band Tindersticks. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Over the Rainbow - Showtunes in aid of the Association of Childrens Hospices is an album released in 2007. ...
Secret Love is a popular song written in 1953 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. ...
Singles Space were an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, who came to prominence in the mid-1990s with hit singles such as Female of the Species, Neighbourhood and Avenging Angels. The basis of their sound has inspirations from late 1960s-early 1970s rock groups mixed with black humoured lyrics and...
Baby, Its Cold Outside is a pop standard, with words and music by Frank Loesser and published in 1948. ...
For other uses, see Tom Jones (disambiguation). ...
For the song by the Jackson 5, see ABC (song). ...
The 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful stars Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, and Mary Stuart Masterson. ...
Aled Jones (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a boy soprano. ...
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