Crystal Gayle

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风格: #都市牛仔　#成人时代　#轻摇滚　#乡村流行
地区: United States of America 美国

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1970 年代是流行乐擅百花齐放，百家爭呜的美好时光，Linda Ronstadt、Crystal Gayle 等美国著名乡谣女歌手也于当时冒起来，前者偏向流行曲式风格，後者保存著更多的乡谣风味。

Crystal Gayle 自 1970-90 年代曾推出过多張专辑，她早期以甜美、清爽及感性十足的嗓子迄立乐坛，到了1990 年代，她的嗓音难兔深沉了一点，毕竟岁月不饶人！但她练就更深厚的唱功，同样使乐迷慑服她唱出的每一首歌。现今一般歌手，既要兼顾电影、电视，又要接拍箩箩的广告，还要靠一掷百万金的大量宣传取得知名度，唱功跟 Crystal Gayle 或那个年代任何歌手一比，高下立判，中外皆然。

by Steve Huey

One of the most popular and widely recognized female country singers of her era, Crystal Gayle supported her trademark, nearly floor-length hair with a supple voice, a flair for ballads, and a crossover-friendly country-pop style that netted her the occasional mainstream hit. Gayle was born Brenda Gail Webb in Paintsville, KY, in 1951; her older sister was future superstar Loretta Lynn, though Lynn had already left home by the time Brenda was born. The family moved to Wabash, IN, when Brenda was four, and she started singing along with country and pop songs on the radio at a young age. Inspired in part by Lynns success, Brenda learned guitar and started performing folk songs in high school, also singing backing vocals in her brothers band. Lynn encouraged her younger sister and started bringing her out on tour for a few weeks each summer. Lynns label, Decca, signed the young singer as soon as she was done with high school, but suggested a name change so as to avoid confusion with labelmate Brenda Lee. Lynn suggested the name Crystal, inspired by the Krystal hamburger chain, and Brenda adopted her middle name to come up with Crystal Gayle.Gayles debut single was 1970s Ive Cried (The Blues Right Out of My Eyes); done in a style very similar to Lynns, it reached the country Top 40. Far from encouraging Gayle to develop her own style, Decca pushed for more little Loretta records, and Lynn actually wrote some of her early singles. Unfortunately, this approach failed to establish Gayle in her own right, even with regular appearances on Jim Ed Browns television show The Country Place. Frustrated, she parted ways with Decca and signed with United Artists in 1974, where she was teamed with producer Allen Reynolds. Reynolds offered Gayle the creative freedom she wanted, and she began to experiment with her style and phrasing en route to her own distinctive approach. Her first-ever album, titled simply Crystal Gayle, was released in 1974, and the following year she landed her first Top Ten country hit, Wrong Road Again. In 1976, Ill Get Over You became the first of her 17 number one country singles. Reynolds, feeling that Gayle was poised for a larger breakthrough, encouraged her to record the jazz-flavored pop ballad Dont It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, which he felt sure had crossover potential. He was right — not only did the song hit number one on the country charts in 1977, it also climbed to number two on the pop side, garnered substantial international airplay, and won Gayle a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal. Plus, the accompanying album, We Must Believe in Magic, became the first by a female country artist ever to go platinum.Now a bona fide star, Gayle followed her breakthrough success with a string of hits that lasted for approximately the next decade. Before the 70s closed, she scored several more number one country hits: You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye) (1977), Ready for the Times to Get Better (1978), Talking in Your Sleep (1978; also a pop Top 20 hit), and Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For (1979); plus, 1979s Half the Way, her first single for new label Columbia, was a number two country hit and also reached the pop Top 20. She kept on scoring as the 80s dawned; 1980 brought two chart-toppers in If You Ever Change Your Mind and Its Like We Never Said Goodbye, 1981 another in Too Many Lovers, and 1982 her first number one duet, You and I, which was recorded with Eddie Rabbitt and became her second Top Ten pop hit (it also inaugurated her tenure with Elektra/Warner). Gayle hit number one three times in 1983 (Baby, What About You, Rodney Crowells Till I Gain Control Again, Our Love Is on the Faultline) and twice more in 1984 (The Sound of Goodbye, Turning Away), and began to cross over to the adult contemporary charts with regularity as well.Gayles last country number ones came in 1986 with Cry and the smooth Gary Morris duet Makin Up for Lost Time, after which she — rather abruptly — all but disappeared from the charts. She did continue to record, reuniting with Allen Reynolds for the 1990 Capitol set Aint Gonna Worry and cutting specialty projects for smaller labels thereafter. She recorded two gospel albums during the 90s, Someday and He Is Beautiful, and in 1999 completed a tribute project, Crystal Gayle Sings the Heart & Soul of Hoagy Carmichael. In the meantime, she ran a shop in Nashville devoted to fine jewelry and (naturally) crystal. Gayle opened the new millennium with 2000s In My Arms, an album of childrens songs.

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