Morris Albert

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地区: 欧美

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Morris Albert (born Maurício Alberto Kaisermann, 7 September 1951, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, famous for his 1975 hit single Feelings.

Albert began his career singing and playing guitar for a number of bands. In 1973, at a time when many Brazilian artists were using anglicised names in attempts to break into the U.S. market, he released his first album, which featured "Feelings", the self-penned song that would eventually bring him worldwide success. The international release of "Feelings" sold over one million copies in the United States alone,and reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1975,and #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. It was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. on 13 November 1975. "Feelings" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1976, losing out to Judy Collins', "Send in the Clowns". In the same year Albert was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, but lost to Natalie Cole.

"Feelings" was also recorded and performed by many other artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Bobby Vinton, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Mathis, Ray Conniff and The Offspring. Albert's song "Falling Tears" was sampled by the rapper Shyne on the track, ""Diamonds and Mac 10's" on Shyne's 2004 album, Godfather Buried Alive.

On 22 December 1988, "Feelings" was officially declared by a California court to be a plagiarism of the work of French songwriter Loulou Gasté, who composed the song "Pour Toi" (For You) in 1956 for his wife Line Renaud, but didn't become successful with it. Gasté won 88% of the royalties.

In 2004 he duets with Mietta in Sanremo Music Festival with '"Cuore".

Albert now lives in Italy with his family, and still performs around the world.

Morris Albert

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