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Kenny G is one of the best-selling artists of all time, with global sales totaling more than 75 million records. [2] Kenny G was born in Seattle, Washington and started playing the saxophone aged 10, inspired by a performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. He attended several schools in Seattle, including the University of Washington. During high ...
Kenny G’s friendship with record honcho Davis included a fortuitous evening in Harlem in 1982. While the musician was in New York working on his first album for Davis’ Arista Records, ...
After all, the Listening to Kenny G doc goes into the backlash that ensued in 1999 when Kenny paid homage to old-school Louis Armstrong with a posthumous duet (which Pat Metheny decried as “a ...
The album combined Kenny G's hits since the beginning of his career. Shortly after the release of the album, the blockbuster film Titanic was released, and having already produced the hit single of My Heart Will Go On performed by Celine Dion, producer Afanasieff returned to the studio with Kenny G to produce an instrumental version of the Love Theme from Titanic.
Kenny G has eleven solo entries and four collaborative entries on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts. Of these, his highest peak is the instrumental " Songbird ", which reached number four in 1987. In addition to these, Kenny G holds a large number of credits as a collaborator on other artists' works.
Faith: A Holiday Album is the second holiday album and tenth studio album by saxophonist Kenny G.It was released by Arista Records on November 16, 1999, and peaked at number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 4 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, number 5 on the Internet Albums chart, and number 6 on the Billboard 200. [1]
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Matt Collar writing that "Kenny G wryly inserts himself into the pantheon of American Popular Songbook composers performing and writing songs that feel as if they were written during the heyday of traditional pop in the '50s and '60s", featuring "hushed and intimate ballads with just enough R&B keyboard, bass, and guitar ...
Anheuser-Busch is counting on smooth-jazz impresario Kenny G to add a few new notes to an increasingly appealing strategy for beer advertisers around the Super Bowl. When the musician sounds his ...