Zanes was in his own band, the Del Fuegos, when he first met Petty in Los Angeles and invited him to see his band perform, and Petty and his family agreed to be interviewed at length for the biography. The only thing that stopped the pain was drugs', Petty confesses to the author Warren Zanes in Petty, The Biography, published by Henry Holt and Co. 'I probably spent a month not getting out of bed, just waking up and going, 'Oh, f***'. I lived through being terribly abused as a kid, and then I found myself in an abusive marriage'. On the long road to live his musical dream, he never envisioned years with a mentally ill wife who threatened suicide and his own dissolute escape into heavy heroin addiction that almost took his life at the height of his musical success. Petty, a Southern hillbilly from Gainesville, knew then what he wanted to do in his life after he escaped his dysfunctional home life with a father who was a drunk and 'beat the living s**t' out of him. Just a short time later, the young star, who has two top tens on youtube, signed with Island Records.Rock icon Tom Petty traded his slingshot for a box of 45-rpm records after shaking the hand of Elvis Presley, when the King rolled through the town of Ocala, Florida in the mid-fifties. Justin was discovered singing on by his agent, who quickly arranged for him to fly to Georgia to meet with Usher. When people would call and ask about managing his career, his mom was reluctant because of the horror stories everyone hears about young stars.
Bieber had many videos of himself singing at various venues on youtube - his mom videotaped all his performances along the way. He always had either one of his grandparents or mom with him as he was too young to hang out there alone. Justin used to sit outside a theatre in Stratford Ontario, famous for the Shakespeare Festival, and play the guitar and sing for crowds that would gather. Many of Justin Bieber's friends growing up didn't even know he could sing - he didn't exactly advertise it. His parents were young when they had him, and broke up when he was a young child. Before he was famous, Justin Bieber enjoyed playing sports - especially hockey because he's from Canada. He got another big break when Foster asked him to sing at the California Governor's Gray Davis' 1999 inauguration.īorn in Stratford, Ontario in Canada on March 1, 1994, Justin Drew Bieber quickly became the teenage heart throb for 2009.
Rosie O'Donnell was so impressed that she immediately invited him to appear on her daytime talk show. Foster called him to stand in for an ailing Andrea Bocelli to rehearse a duet, "The Prayer," with Celine Dion at the rehearsal for the Grammy Awards in 1998. The event that changed Groban's life was when his vocal coach, Seth Riggs, submitted a tape of Josh singing, "All I Ask of You", from The Phantom of the Opera, to Riggs' friend, renowned producer, composer and arranger David Foster. Groban originally studied acting but as his voice changed, it developed into a "significant instrument". To date, he has sold over 24 million albums worldwide. His four solo albums have been certified at least multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in this country. Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer.
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