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Alannah Myles (née Byles; born December 25, 1958) [1] [2] is a Canadian singer-songwriter who has won both a Grammy and a Juno Award for the song "Black Velvet".The song was a top-ten hit in Canada and a number one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1990.
The song is a paean to Elvis Presley.His voice was distinctive for the time and could be described as "black velvet". Co-writer Christopher Ward, who was Myles' then-boyfriend, was inspired on a bus full of Elvis fans riding to Memphis attending the 10th anniversary vigil at Graceland, in 1987.
Edgar William Leeteg (April 13, 1904 East St. Louis, Illinois [1] – February 7, 1953 Papeete, Tahiti) [2] was an American painter often considered the father of American velvet painting. He immigrated to French Polynesia in 1933, where he spent the rest of his life painting the local life on black velvet. [1]
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"Love Is" is the debut single by Canadian singer/songwriter Alannah Myles, released in Canada in 1989. In the rest of the world (except Australia), it was released as the follow-up to her worldwide hit "Black Velvet" in 1990. In 1990, the song was nominated for the Juno Award for Single of the Year, losing to Myles' own "Black Velvet".
David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker renowned for works like Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, has died. He was 78. In 2024, Lynch disclosed that he had been diagnosed with ...
Robin Lee (née Robin Lee Irwin, born November 7, 1963 [2]) is an American country music artist. She recorded in the 1980s and 1990s as Robin Lee for Evergreen and Atlantic Records, charting at number 12 on Hot Country Songs in 1990 with "Black Velvet". After charting her last single in 1994, she began working as a songwriter for other artists.
But the truth is, Lynch has always seemed to operate in a realm beyond articulation – from his very first feature-length film, Eraserhead (1977), through to later masterpieces Blue Velvet (1986 ...