小简介
博比·拉什(Bobby Rush)1940年11月10日出生在路易斯安那州。他6岁的时候就开始用扫把来模仿吉他,聆听那些可能对他产生巨大的影响的艺术家唱歌。Bobby后来回忆道是“Wolf Muddy Waters 和 Howlin”,“Wolf在舞台上的表演深深地影响了我。我也受到了艺术家B.B. King的影响。Louis Jordan在演唱方式和写作方面确实给了我极大的影响。他在唱抒情歌方面很有天赋,而他也喜欢很多的抒情歌。受到了口琴演奏家小Walter以及演艺人员的Ray Charles的影响”。
1953年,Bobby随父母搬到了芝加哥,在那里他开始在俱乐部里演出。很快,20世纪60年代时便在West Side的布鲁斯音乐俱乐部里演出,那里还有拥有像Luther Allison and Freddie King那样的著名吉他手的先驱乐队在演出。但是,当Bobby开始发展自己个人的演唱风格时,他放弃了当时流行的布鲁斯音乐,转而将目光瞄准了黑人音乐。1971年,他以一首单曲“Chicken Heads"而成名。开始受到很多美国人的认可。在接下来的十年里,他为宝石、费城国际和华纳等录制了多张专辑。他还在拥有十几年历史的黑人夜总会进行巡回演出,这些夜总会分布在德克萨斯州东部、北佛罗里达州和芝加哥,形成了一个三角形,他不停的进行演出,所以在整个70年代以及80年代,他以各式各样的称呼出现在公众面前。20世纪80年代早期,Rush从芝加哥搬到他现在密西西比州杰克逊的家。在那里,他为LeJam, Ichiban, 和 Malaco等公司录制了一系列的唱片。随着"Sue," "Wearin' It Out," "Ain't Studdin' You," 和 "Hoochie Man"等热门歌曲的走红,他也赢得了“黑人夜总会之王”的称号。20世纪90年代中期,Rush搬到了沃尔多,这也预示着他将回归创作更震撼心灵的音乐,这表现在他后来的专辑上,One Monkey Don't Stop No Show这张专辑就是其中的一张。
在过去的40年里,Bobby用他精湛的演艺技巧打动了全世界的观众。他的音乐一直是南部布鲁斯音乐圈的主流。他创作的音乐也上过像Billboard, Cashbox and Jet magazines等美国著名的音乐排行榜以及流行杂志音乐排行榜榜单,这些音乐包括:"Chicken Heads," "Camel Walk," "A Woman Named Trouble," "Niki Hoeky," "What's Good For The Goose is Good For The Gander," "Big Fat Woman" and "Hen Pecked"等许多经典歌曲。从他新近发布的一张名为"Southern Soul"的专辑中,可以看出他并没有放慢追求他自己的音乐的脚步。事实上,他正在将他的音乐市场从整个南方的黑人音乐俱乐部扩大到全国更为主流的布鲁斯音乐俱乐部。Bobby创造了一种融合布鲁斯、朋客、灵乐以及民歌为一体的音乐风格。Bobby解释说:“如果你听我的音乐,你会听到音乐中有一些爵士乐,一些摇滚乐,还有一些福音。我想我在讲诉一个感人的故事。我作为抒情歌博士而被大家所熟知。“Living Blues Magazine”杂志多次给Bobby Rush颁发“年度最佳现场表演者”奖,1999年也给他颁发了此奖。获奖理由很充分,Bobby是你能看到的最为直观的表演者,一旦听了他的音乐,将终身难忘!
2003年,Bobby创立属于自己的品牌“Deep Rush”,实现了他长期以来的梦想。录制了自己品牌的第一张CD "Undercover Lover"(秘密情人),同时把他在密西西比州的Ground Zero俱乐部里的现场演出制作成了DVD。Bobby的演艺精神在理查德.皮尔斯执导的电影纪录片《通往孟菲斯之路》中表现得淋漓尽致。该纪录片作为马丁·斯科西斯的系列影片《布鲁斯》的一部分于2003年9月在美国公共电视台播出。在过去的十年里,Bobby在肯尼迪中心、卡内基中心,以及欧洲和日本的节庆舞台上的表演为他赢得了众多的新观众。
博比·拉什的音乐被称为“民间疯克(Funk)”,这是对他的这种与现代有直接联系而又扎根于传统的音乐形式最好的诠释。多年来,他一直不断地更新他的表演,加入了很多新鲜的元素,比如:将跳跃的布鲁斯,芝加哥风格的布鲁斯,灵乐,疯克,甚至是现代的说唱音乐Hip hop融为一体。同时,他的原创歌曲起源于他对民歌的研究,他的歌曲“What's Good For the Goose is Good for the Gander Too"也证明了这一点。
在2007年美国布鲁斯音乐颁奖典礼上,博比·拉什又获得了布鲁斯音乐最佳男歌手的大奖。
The creator of a singular sound which he dubbed "folk-funk," multi-instrumentalist Bobby Rush was among the most colorful characters on the contemporary chitlin circuit, honing a unique style which brought together a cracked lyrical bent with elements of blues, soul, and funk.
Born Emmit Ellis, Jr. in Homer, LA, on November 10, 1940, he and his family relocated to Chicago in 1953, where he emerged on the West Side blues circuit of the 1960s, fronting bands which included such notable alumni as Luther Allison and Freddie King. However, as Rush began to develop his own individual sound, he opted to forgo the blues market in favor of targeting the chitlin circuit, which offered a more receptive audience for his increasingly bawdy material; he notched his first hit in 1971 with his Galaxy label single "Chicken Heads," and later scored with "Bow-Legged Woman" for Jewel. He appeared on a wide variety of labels as the decade progressed, culminating in the 1979 LP Rush Hour, produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff for their Philadelphia International imprint. During the early '80s, Rush signed with the LaJam label, where he remained for a number of years; there his work became increasingly funky and deranged, with records like 1984's Gotta Have Money and 1985's What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander often featuring material so suggestive he refused to re-create it live. During the mid-'90s, Rush moved to Waldoxy, heralding a return to a soul-blues sound on LPs including 1995's One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, 1997's Lovin' a Big Fat Woman, and 2000's Hoochie Man. In April 2001, his tour bus crashed, injuring several bandmembers and killing one, Latisha Brown. Rush was hospitalized for a short time, then returned home to recuperate. Rush returned to action in 2003 with the release of the Live From Ground Zero CD and DVD on his own label, Deep Rush, followed by Folkfunk, also on Deep Rush, in 2004. Rush released two albums in 2005, Hen Pecked and Night Fishin'.