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Interscope Records released the film's soundtrack Rio (Music from the Motion Picture) on April 5, 2011 in digital formats, and a physical release on April 12. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album produced by the film's composer John Powell , and Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes , featured collaborations from Brazilian and American artists, along with songs ...
Pretty Bird is a 2008 American comedy film. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival [ 1 ] and was released on DVD in the United States on June 29, 2010. Plot
Rio is a 2011 American animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation.It was directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay written by Don Rhymer, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, and Sam Harper, based on a story conceived by Saldanha and the writing team of Earl Richey Jones and Todd Jones.
Alan Lomax recorded Hobart Smith from Saltville, Virginia performing Cuckoo Bird in 1942, and he claimed to have learned it from a man named John Greer in the early 1910s. [17] He also recorded Jean Ritchie from Viper, Kentucky singing The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird in New York in 1949. [18]
He penned the Hindi version of all the songs of the Tamil tunes. He wrote "Dil Hai Chhota Sa" and "Bharat Humko Jaan Se Pyaara Hai", both earned immense popularity. He went on to write lyrics for Tamil and Telugu dubbed Hindi movies and hindi versions of popular tunes composed by A. R. Rehman, Ilaiyaraaja, Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani etc.
The award has only been given to songs in languages other than English four times: in 1960 for "Never on Sunday" (Greek title "Ta Pediá tou Pireá") from Never on Sunday, in 2004 for the Spanish song "Al otro lado del río" from The Motorcycle Diaries, in 2008 for the Hindi song "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, and in 2022 for the Telugu ...
Writing and singing songs in English made his success more rare and distinctive in the context of the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, occasionally even disco music scene that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. His compositions in English, reflecting life and socio-political happenings in India with which every Indian could identify.
The Tamil and Hindi versions of the album sold over 3 million units in India, with the Tamil version selling over 200,000 units [2] and the Hindi version selling 2.8 million units. [3] The Hindi version of the album earned ₹ 7.5 crore (equivalent to ₹ 58 crore or US$6.7 million in 2023) in sales. [4]