Curated playlist
Golden Globe Award–winning musicians
- Bob DylanBob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on the 24th of May, 1941, at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. His Hebrew name was Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham. He grew up in a small, close-knit Jewish community, and by the time he reached…
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone arrived in New York City in 1978 with thirty-five dollars in her pocket. It was the first time she had ever flown on a plane or ridden in a taxi. She would later call leaving college the bravest thing she had ever…
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She would grow up to sell an estimated 124 million records worldwide, become the first woman to hold the record for the…
- Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber walked into Her Majesty's Theatre on the 11th of February 2012 to mark a milestone that no Broadway show had ever reached: the 10,000th performance of The Phantom of the Opera. The run would continue for another decade…
- Elton JohnElton John performed "Candle in the Wind 1997" live exactly once: on the 6th of September 1997, at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in Westminster Abbey. He had written that version of the song only days before, at the request of a…
- Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis on the 7th of June, 1958, and for the next 57 years he operated at a pitch that most musicians never approach. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide. He played…
- AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London, and by the time she turned 23, she had already done something no solo artist had managed in the United Kingdom in the entire 21st century: sell three million…
- Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola illegally hired a grave robber to supply real human corpses as props, and oversaw the ritualistic killing of a water buffalo. This was the production of Apocalypse Now, a film so plagued by delays it earned the mocking…
- John WilliamsJohn Williams played two notes for Steven Spielberg, alternating, low and ominous, and Spielberg laughed because he thought it was a joke. The film was Jaws. Williams stood his ground. The simple idea won, and that two-note pattern became…
- Bert KaempfertBert Kaempfert holds a peculiar place in pop music history. He wrote "Strangers in the Night" for a 1966 film score, only to watch Frank Sinatra record it as a number one hit despite openly hating the song. He produced the first…
- Michael GiacchinoMichael Giacchino was ten years old when he started building worlds out of stop-motion animation in his family's basement in New Jersey, recording his own homemade soundtracks to go with them. Nobody asked him to. Nobody paid him. He just…
- Ludwig GöranssonLudwig Göransson was named after Ludwig van Beethoven. That fact alone, planted by his Swedish father and his Polish mother before he could walk, tells you something about the weight this family placed on music. Göransson grew up in…