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Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is an English singer and songwriter who goes by the single name Adele in her work. Adele got a record deal with XL Recordings after she got her arts degree from the BRIT School in 2006. Her first album, 19, came out in 2008, and “Chasing Pavements” and “Make You Feel My Love” both reached the top five in the UK. In the UK, the album got 8 platinum, and in the US, it got triple platinum. Adele was given both the Rising Star Brit Award and the Best New Artist Grammy Award.

Adele put out her second studio album in 2011. It was called 21. It sold more than 31 million copies, making it the best-selling album of the 21st century. It was given an 18 platinum rating in the UK, which was the highest ever for a solo artist, and a Diamond rating in the US. Billboard says that 21 is the best-selling album in US chart history. It was at the top of the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks (the longest for a female artist ever). She was the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three top-ten singles as a lead artist at the same time. These singles were “Rolling in the Deep,” “Someone Like You,” and “Set Fire to the Rain.” Six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and the Brit Award for British Album of the Year were given to the album. Adele got a lot of mentions in the Guinness Book of Records because of how well 21 did. Rolling Stone put her album “21” on their list of the 500 best albums of all time (2020).

Adele put out “Skyfall,” a soundtrack single for the same-named James Bond movie, in 2012. The song won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Her third studio album, 25, came out in 2015 and was the best-selling album of the year. It also broke first-week sales records in the UK and US, where it is the only album to sell more than three million copies in a week. 25 was her second album to be certified Diamond in the US. It won her five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year. The lead single, “Hello,” was the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies in less than a week after it came out. Her fourth studio album, 30, came out in 2021. It included the top-charting single “Easy on Me” and was the best-selling album of the year everywhere, including the US and UK. The British Album of the Year award for 2022 went to 30.

Adele is one of the best-selling music artists in the world. As of 2022, she had sold more than 170 million records. She was named the best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK and the best-selling album artist of the 2010s worldwide. [5] She has won fifteen Grammy Awards, twelve Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Billboard named her Artist of the Year in 2011, 2012, and 2016. The Ivors Academy named Adele Songwriter of the Year at the 2012 and 2016 Ivor Novello Awards. In 2012, 2016, and 2022, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world. She was given an MBE for her work in music at the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours. She is number 22 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 best singers of all time (2023). [6] Insider magazine said that she was the best artist of the 2010s. [7]

KISS

Kiss is an American rock band from New York City that was started in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm guitar), Gene Simmons (vocals, bass), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, vocals), and Peter Criss (vocals, rhythm guitar) (drums, vocals). The group became well-known in the mid-1970s for their face paint and stage outfits. Their live performances in the style of shock rock included fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits, and pyrotechnics. The band has had a few different lineups, with Stanley and Simmons being the only ones who have stayed the same. Stanley, Simmons, Frehley, and Criss were in the band’s first and best-known lineup.

With their make-up and costumes, the band members looked like comic book characters: Stanley was the Starchild, Simmons was the Demon, Frehley was the Spaceman or Space Ace, and the Catman was Frehley (Criss). Criss left the band in 1980, and Frehley left in 1982, because they had different ideas about how to make music. Both would come back, though.

Kiss stopped wearing costumes and make-up on stage in 1983. This was the start of their “unmasked” era, which would last for more than a decade. During this time, the band’s popularity went up again. Their 1983 platinum-certified album Lick It Up introduced them to a new generation of fans, and its music videos were often played on MTV. Eric Carr took over for Criss in 1980. He died of heart cancer in 1991, and Eric Singer took his place. In 1996, the original members of Kiss got back together after a wave of Kiss nostalgia in the mid-1990s. They also brought back their makeup and stage clothes. The result was a very successful reunion tour, which made $143.7 million and was the band’s most successful tour to date. Criss and Frehley have since left the band again, and Singer and Tommy Thayer have taken their places. The band has kept using its original stage makeup. Singer and Thayer, for example, are still dressed as Catman and Spaceman. Kiss announced in September 2018 that the End of the Road World Tour, which began in January 2019 and is set to end in 2023, would be its last tour after 45 years of recording and performing. [1][2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Kiss is thought to be one of the most influential rock bands of all time[7, 8]. They also claim to have sold more than 100 million records around the world, including 21 million RIAA-certified albums[9, 10].

[11] Kiss also has 30 Gold albums, which is more than any other American band. Kiss has 14 Platinum albums, and three of them have won multiple Platinum awards. [8] The original four members of Kiss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 10, 2014. Kiss came in at number nine on MTV’s list of the “Greatest Metal Bands of All Time” and number ten on VH1’s list of the “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.” Loudwire magazine ranked Kiss as the third “Best Metal and Hard Rock Live Band of All Time.” [14]

Rock Nation

With a high emphasis on ‘party rock’, ROCK NATION brings everyone to the dance floor and singing along with crowd favorites that span the decades. And not just a jukebox band, ROCK NATION puts their own original spin on songs that give them an edge above the rest.

ROCK NATION is:


~Matt Whitaker on lead vocals

~Mike Provenzano on lead/rhythm guitar & backing      vocals
~Tom Bosco on lead/rhythm guitar & backing vocals

~Bill Stoddard on bass guitar & backing vocals

~Joe Graves on drums and the meanest cow bell


Threshold-NYC

Threshold-NYC came with chops and stage experience. CB-GBs, L’Amour (Brooklyn), Woody’s, Bond Street, Nobody’s, The Wave (Staten Island), and numerous other establishments. Having opened for Leslie West and Mountain, Gorky Park, Lillian Axe, and many others, Threshold_NYC was a well-versed band in their day.

INFLUENCES

Threshold-NYC moves to everything that grooves, rocks, and drives, influenced by the greats like Bad Company, Aerosmith, Queen, Zep, Sabbath, Coldplay, and many others.

MEMBERS OF BAND

Ue Lynch – vocals, guitars
Tom Bosco – guitars
Ron Lockwood – bass
Roger Coletti – drums

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