Canada and Australia's Singers
As part of the Languages Week, we have prepared a little bibliographical review on some of the most famous Canada and Australia's singers, so we are sharing it with you.
Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
Born in 1994 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, to a single mother, Bieber took
second place in a local talent competition at a young age. After his mother
posted YouTube clips of her boy performing, Bieber went from an unknown,
untrained singer to a budding superstar with a big-time record deal with Usher
within two years. Bieber went on to become the first solo artist to have four
singles enter the Top 40 before the release of a debut album.
Born on March 30, 1968, in Charlemagne, Quebec,
Canada, singer Celine Dion had recorded nine French albums and won numerous
awards by the time she was 18. She recorded her first English language album,
Unison, in 1990.
Iggy Azalea is a hip hop anomaly, a rank outsider who
gained acceptance in the world of urban music before conquering the pop
mainstream. A sassy blonde white Australian who raps in an incongruous Southern
drawl, she has nevertheless become one of the most successful rappers of recent
times.
AC/DC were formed in 1973 in Australia by guitarist
Malcolm Young after his previous band, the Velvet Underground, collapsed
(Young's band has no relation to the seminal American group). With his younger
brother Angus serving as lead guitarist, the band played some gigs around
Sydney.
A common traditional Indigenous Australian dance was closely
associated with song and was understood and experienced as making present the
reality of the Dreamtime. In some instances, they would imitate the actions of
a particular animal in the process of telling a story.
The French Canadian dance tradition is a good example
of a culture with both survival and revival forms. In Québec, folk dances are
those based on square and long ways formations, on sung-circle dances, and on the
percussive, rhythmic pattering of the feet called step dancing or gigue.
By Majo Vélez, Daniela Oñate,
and Juan Gómez, Step 10.
