Showing posts with label Pop Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop Music. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2014

David Archuleta - Working On New Music


                                                 
 

Pop music began in the 1950 but as early as the l920’s.  Pop music has been the most listened music of this generation.  However creating pop music isn’t easy and one first needs to choose a moment in one’s life that is easily relatable to many others, plus finding the right lyrics and notes become difficult to accomplish.

Songs publisher’s years ago were in charge of the music industry along with records labels.  Music publishers and records labels serve very different functions.  Publishers work with songwriters and song demos, the raw material of the music business.  They deal primarily with the acquisition and promotion of songs.  Record labels work with recording artists and their finished products and are responsible for their promotion and marketing of master recordings.

With inexpensive and professional sounding production equipment artists can get their music to listeners without a label.  Has pop culture forgotten David Archuleta? I think not, his songs have a wonderful purity of emotion comforting in their tenderness. But is David reinventing himself?

It raises the eyebrows of some fans; is Spanish/Latin music in his future? Let’s hope so as he has already announced a Spanish song that has been completed.  Could his next album be a combination of Spanish/English with some gospel or will pop still be his mainstream choice?

Will he focus on making his next album more personal, create music that communicates to other people and also fulfills him artistically.  He has matured as a person and artist and hopefully his songs will still be about feelings and issues he really cares about; those emotions and situations that are meaningful that he has experienced.

David has immense potential and talent with one of the best voices in the world a true touch of magic.  He is a consummate musician that takes his craft seriously.  He touches so many people on so many levels.

Having lots of collaboration with different artists such as Brogan Kelby, Stephanie Mabey and Dustin Christensen keeps an artist fresh and its good for artists to step out of their comfort zone.

His voice during many of the Chile performances seems to have had a great inflection and expressiveness. His is the voice that spoke to me from the beginning and speaks to me even more powerfully today.

It’s time for him to lay claim to his remarkable musical gift………………God certainly blessed our world when he gave us David Archuleta.

His music has been many fans best friend through good times and bad, and whenever a song of his comes on the troubles of everyday life never seems that bad.  His music is poetry that speaks on an individual basis.

David has enjoyed a pretty phenomenal success so far and his career is an object lesson in breaking through in the competitive music business.  His songwriting is one thing, but I believe David is clearly combining this with a keen business sense and a highly focused approach to recording.  He may fully be involved in the management of his finances and marketing his own career.

David may choose to wear a number of different hats.  David did say he’s back but different!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Can David Archuleta Expect Success in 2014?



David Archuleta is stepping away from the spotlight and taking a hiatus from the music industry to embark on a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  And that has caused some discussion among fans, disappointing news for some, and exciting support from others.

The questions that surface are many.  Can David make a successful comeback after two years?  Will his fans be there when he returns?

In 1996 Michael Jackson had a weak records sales, and end to a marriage and a career threatening scandal.  Frank Sinatra went from prince to pauper in the 50’s and a scandalous love affair helped close more doors in Hollywood.

Elvis Presley the 50’s rock and roll legend starred in some cheesy Hollywood musicals from 1964 to 1966 until he wowed a national TV audience in 1968.

In 1966 Elvis went to RCA studios in Nashville to make a gospel album, “How Great Thou Art’, which proved to be a milestone in Elvis’s career.  It won him a Grammy.  This was during a time of personal and professional struggle.  The broadcast of his television special, Elvis, put him back on top.

Gloria Estefan is paving her way for a comeback in the American music market, with “Miss Little Havana”.  She has been out of the spotlight for almost a decade. And Shania Twain is making a comeback in Vegas which will last until December 2012. A few years back her marriage fell apart and now has reinvented herself at Caesar’s Palace.

We know how these careers flourished and now all have a place in pop-history.  Can David do the same?  My personal opinion is yes, but I wanted to put the question to a couple of experienced people in the music industry who are huge fans of David Archuleta.

Michael Orland, Arranger and Associate Musical Director from American Idol, and Dorian Holley his former coaching partner from Idol who is now the lead singer for the Tonight Show Band took time out of their busy schedules and had the following to say:
                                                      Dorion Holley
                                  Michael Orland

 “David Archuleta has one of the most beautiful voices of any contestants on the show.”  They remember watching Hollywood week on TV, a couple weeks before they were to go in to get to work on the Top 24 David was onstage singing.  One of the background singers was just behind him, weeping uncontrollably at the beauty of his voice.  Dorian said, “I kept rewinding to watch my friend Lynn Fiddmont cry, and to enjoy the pure sound he made.  The best part about David, though, is he has a smile and a spirit to match his great voice. Coaching him was a pleasure.”

As to David’s decision to break away from music for a bit, both Michael and Dorian felt that it is a big one.  They said, “There will always be the question as to whether or not he will be greeted with open arms; will his music be embraced again?  “We say yes. People who love him will still love him when he returns; provided he is making music they want to hear.  In some ways a break will help him. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.  Most importantly, David must do what his heart tells him, and what is more important than traveling and helping others?  We believe music fans will be eager to hear a David Archuleta CD in two or three years, when he is ready, and when he has something deeper and more interesting to say, more power to him.”

To find out more about Michael Orland please go to http://michaelorland.com and Dorian Holley www.dorianholley.com

Passion is the one thing that makes most artists successful and when they come back they give us great music.  Their love and desire to create music is what gives them their success. Most artists already have a good fan base that would support them, and their music is so great they end up with many more new fans.

David Archuleta is an artist that has a great following and can come back again, and his fans will be waiting.