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will.i.am was born as William James Adams Jr. [4] in Los Angeles, California, on March 15, 1975, the son of an African-American mother Debra (née Cain) [5] [6] and Jamaican father William James Adams Sr. [4] He has never met his father, [7] and was raised by his mother in the Estrada Courts housing projects in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, [8] where they were among the few ...
Foster and will.i.am said that they wrote most of the song in a single evening at Foster's home. [4] The recording came together quickly. Foster recorded Hill's vocals on January 15 in Tennessee, will.i.am recorded Bono's portion on January 17, and Blige contributed her vocals on January 18, right after performing at Obama's pre-inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
"Today's the Day" was released as the album's lead single in April 1976 and it peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100, [3] making it the most successful single from the album. The final Top 40 hit for America as a trio, "Today's the Day" was also America's third and final #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart which it topped for two weeks. [ 4 ]
Allegiance: Patriotic Song; Am I the Only One (Aaron Lewis song) America (Chicago song) America (Neil Diamond song) America Is My Home; America the Beautiful; America Will Always Stand; America, an Epic Rhapsody; American Boy (Eddie Rabbitt song) American Patrol; American Soldier (song) An American Trilogy; Anchor and Star; Anchors Aweigh ...
The song was included in the official soundtrack of The Great Gatsby movie. The song was promoted on The Voice UK by will.i.am and his finalist Leah and with a live performance on American Idol. The song reached number 3 on the UK singles chart. "Fall Down" featuring Miley Cyrus was released as a radio-only single in Australia and Italy. It was ...
Dolly Parton released "Color Me America" in 2003 as a soothing balm post-9/11, singing, "I am red and white and blue / These are colors that ring true / To all I am and feel and love and do / I ...
"You Can Do Magic" proved a solid comeback vehicle for America whose last Top 40 hit—"Today's the Day"—had occurred in 1976; the second of two subsequent appearances on the Hot 100 was in 1979. "You Can Do Magic" returned America to the Top 40 in August 1982 with the track reaching No. 8 that October, [ 4 ] and holding that position for ...
The popularity of the song surged following the September 11 attacks and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq; after the former, the song was re-released as a single and peaked at number 16 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts in 2001. [8] A re-recorded version of the song was released in 2003, under the "God Bless the U.S.A ...