2.26.19 QAL Documentary - The Show Must Go On - April!
Feb 26, 2019 14:07:35 GMT -5
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The path of thorns of Adam Lambert, the man who has raised the stars of the Oscars singing with Queen
And the gala opened with 'We Will Rock You'. Emma Stone jumping, Christian Slater smiling, Glenn Close dancing, Javier Bardem putting the horns 'heavies' with his hand ... But the singer who engaged the room has not had anything easy
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GUILLERMO ALONSO
25 FEB 2019 - 02:21 CET
Were they the Oscars or a musical gala? Both things, obviously. The opening of the gala number 91 of the awards of the Academy of Hollywood presented to Queen on stage and all Hollywood on foot: from a Javier Bardem in ecstasy to Emma Watson singing and a Jennifer Lopez raising her hand. We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions followed in a brief number in which the singer especially shone, who obviously was not Freddie Mercury (who was always present in the giant projections of the background), but a 36-year-old boy named Adam Lambert.
"There is an incredible guy in 'American Idol' who has sung your songs. I immediately got on YouTube to see what was going on and, sure enough, there was this amazing guy singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody ' "
BRIAN MAY, ABOUT THE TIME HE LEARNED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF ADAM LAMBERT
They were born on opposite ends of the world and almost 40 years apart. And, despite that, a common path can be drawn in the lives of Freddie Mercury (Zanzibar, 1946 - United Kingdom, 1991), the legendary vocalist of Queen , and Adam Lambert (San Diego, California, 1982), the singer who He replaces it in the tours of the band since 2011 (with the name Queen + Adam Lambert ). He has done it again at the Oscars with the original members Brian May and Roger Taylor.
Like Mercury, Adam has a mixture of blood and culture in his DNA: Norwegian part of his father, Romanian part of his mother. Like Mercury, he became interested in music from a very young age and began taking lessons in theater and singing from the age of nine. Like Mercury, Lambert always understood the stage as a place where he would not only sing, but also perform a performance . To make it clear that in music there was as much of voice and feeling as of theatricality and artifice.
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The first test of Adam Lambert on 'American Idol' in 2008. He sang a song by Queen, precisely 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Lambert demonstrated this attitude from the first time the world saw him on television. It was July 17, 2008. In his test to enter American Idol , Adam Lambert, then 26, sang (how is destiny) Bohemian Rhapsody .
Simon Cowell, the implacable jury whose figure was tried to export to the Spanish Operación Triunfo in the form of Risto Mejide, interrupts him to the fifth line to tell him that he sings well, but he is "very theatrical". A comment that does not prevent the test pass with the four positive votes of the jury and between as a contestant of the program in its eighth season. It would finish skimming the victory: it was second behind Kris Allen, a type that vanished after a disc of success. Adam Lambert remained in the breach, precisely, thanks to his theatricality.
Adam, openly gay, supporter of glam style makeup on stage, elegant pen and intense gesticulation, came much higher than the winner after leaving the contest. His album For your entertainment ("To keep you entertained", a statement of intent) and single Whataya Want from Me ("What do you want from me?") Earned him a Grammy nomination and sneaked into the top 10 of the American lists.
But the road was not easy. His first great performance outside the program that gave him fame took place at the American Music Awards 2009. In it he approached a dancer to his crotch, in what seemed like a mock oral sex, and kissed a dancer in the mouth while executing an intricate choreography for his song For your entertainment (called just like his album). In his plans it seemed just another gesture within a large musical number of four minutes, a fact that in 2009 was not going to scandalize anyone. In reality, he paid for it for months.
It was not the first time we saw kisses on the stage of a musical gala, even between artists of the same sex, or sexual simulations. Lambert maintained that if the parent associations had launched a campaign against him (which resulted in 1,500 phone calls to ABC's complaint) it was simply because he was a gay man.
That was not all: many programs canceled Lambert's promotional appearances in response to his performance. The Good Morning America program was one of them, although he had another interview with Chris Brown, condemned for mistreatment then to his girlfriend Rihanna. The message that was sent was clear: a gay man, no, an abuser, yes. "We are in 2009," Lambert told Rolling Stone. "It's time to take a risk, be a little braver, open your eyes to people and, if this offends you, maybe I'm not for them," he added.
"Lambert has a great voice and hits the notes as Freddie did, it's extravagant and addictive, but always respectful to Brian May and Roger Taylor"
CRITICISM PUBLISHED IN THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER 'THE AGE' AFTER A CONCERT IN MELBOURNE
The reverse did not seem to affect his career in the long run. During that year and part of the following, he completed his first tour of the United States, Canada and Japan.
But let's go back to 2009, at the moment when Adam was still in the contest. Brian May began receiving messages from friends and acquaintances who said: "There is an amazing guy on American Idol who has played your songs." May told an article for the music website Louder : "I immediately went on YouTube to see what was going on and, indeed, there was this amazing guy singing Bohemian Rhapsody . People started telling me: 'You have to meet with this guy, he's Freddie's natural successor, he's the guy you should tour with.'
The formation Queen (that is to say, Brian May and Roger Taylor, since John Deacon has retired since 1997) already had made tours with another singer taking the vocal paper of Freddie between 2004 and 2009: Paul Rodgers, of very different profile. Rodgers was more than 50 years old when he turned with Queen, a rock legend as a vocalist of bands like Bad Company and Free, and was, by the way, a married heterosexual man with three children.
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The performance of Queen with Adam Lambert and Kris Allen in the final of 'American Idol'.
The coincidence caused the producers of American Idol to call Queen to appear in the final and sing with the two contestants who opted for the victory: the one who was the winner, Kris Allen, and Adam Lambert. "They were both good singers," May recalled, "but it was obvious that we established a special chemistry with Adam there. It happened naturally and made everyone smile. The reaction of the audience was impressive and I think that at that moment the idea of collaborating remained in our heads. "
The plan did not bear fruit until 2011 (Lambert had contractual obligations with American Idol that prevented him from doing so before). In November 2011, Lambert premiered as a Queen frontman at the MTV Europe Music Awards held in Belfast, a gala in which Queen (long before the fever unleashed by the film) was to receive the Global Icon prize. The following month, the music press reported an agreement between Lambert and the two members of the Queen group so that the collaboration would extend into more concerts.
This resulted in multitudinous recitals (for example, in the Independence Square in Kiev in 2012, where they sang with Elton John) and in two tours, one of three dates in 2012, one of 19 in 2014 and another, the longest to date, of 80 stops in the United States, Europe (Spain included) and Australia carried out between 2017 and 2018. The critics accepted the project willingly. The Independent said of the concert at the O2 Arena in London: "Lambert has a vocal range that impresses and is wonderfully extravagant." The Australian The Age , after a concert at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, said "Lambert has a great voice and hits the notes as Freddie did, it's extravagant and addictive". In his June review of 2018, Fernando Neira wrote in EL PAÍS: "And to all this, how about this Adam Lambert? Well, or at least quite better than any skeptic could fear of a former American Idol contestant ."
This has not made Lambert, one of the busiest men in the music industry, stop publishing his own records. The last, The Original High , released in 2015, betting on electronic tracks, very different from those he does with May and Taylor on stage. In addition, he has appeared in series as Glee , participated as a jury in Rupaul's Drag Race and in the own American Idol and acted in films such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Playmobil: the Movie (to which he lent his voice and will debut this summer) .
For now, it can be said that without having starred in any film has managed to get all the guests to the great gala of cinema. Many can not say that.
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