Chris Isaak

具有貓王憂郁音質(zhì)的男歌手Chris Isaak，擁有歌手＼作曲家＼電視明星＼電影演員多種頭銜的Chris Isaak1956年出生于加州，大學畢業(yè)后曾經(jīng)組團Silvertone在1985年發(fā)行同名專輯，1987年才以個人名義發(fā)行。接下來Chris Isaak轉(zhuǎn)往電影發(fā)展。在《沉默的羔羊》、《雙峰：與火同行》都可以看到他的演出，1993年的《小活佛》則是他和基努里維主演的電影Chris有著一副電影明星的面孔，冷峻深沉中透出桀驁不馴，而他和藹的性格又使他得到了許多女明星的青睞，這似乎很難想象他會是情場中一個永久的失意人，但我們聽到的還是他那些傷感的情歌。在他89年的一張專輯“Heart Shaped World”（1989），其中有首單曲"Wicked Game"就是 Nicolas Cage主演的電影《Wild At Heart》里的插曲，于是在1990年底發(fā)行成單曲，最高得到第六名并獲頒金唱片，于是成為Chris Isaak的代表作品。90年代Chris Isaak共發(fā)行四張專輯與一張精選。 Chris Isaak嗓音渾厚、深沉、飄乎，渾厚的嗓音和清洌的吉他聲渾為一體，深沉含蓄，溫柔地向你傾訴衷情，撥動著你的心弦！ Chris Isaak 克里斯·艾塞克是橫跨樂壇20載的憂郁氣質(zhì)男歌手，也被人譽為90年代Roy Orbison的憂郁藍調(diào)詩人。 在1990被People Magezine選為世界50大最美的人,他的歌因為風格獨特被收錄在不少電影中，也在不少電影中客串演出。 Chris Isaak 原名Christopher Joseph Isaak，出生于1956年，一個堆高機操作員的兒子, 在1976-80年間曾是業(yè)余的拳擊手, 在San Francisco的俱樂部中演出并發(fā)掘。 Chris Isaak的音樂清一色以吉他為主旋律，時而陽光浪漫，時而輕柔舒緩。歌曲中融合了藍調(diào)、民謠、西部鄉(xiāng)村、南方搖滾等多種音樂風格，加上他那柔和感性的歌聲把一股淡淡的憂郁氣息悄悄地在每一個音符中漫延，一步步將聽者從金黃色的夏日午后引領到深藍色的寧靜夏夜，進而陷入無盡的沉思。
Songwriter Chris Isaak clearly loves the reverb-laden rockabilly and country of Sun Studios. In particular, he transfers the sweeping melancholy of Roy Orbison's classic Monument singles ("Crying," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "In Dreams") to the more stripped-down, rootsy sound of Sun, resulting in a stylized take on '50s and '60s rock & roll that made him into a star in the early '90s, propelled to a great degree by the hit single "Wicked Game."
Isaak began performing after he graduated from college, forming the rockabilly band Silvertone. The group, which featured guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, bassist Rowland Salley, and drummer Kenney Dale Johnson, would become the singer/guitarist's permanent supporting band. Isaak released his first album, Silvertone, on Warner Bros. in 1985. It was critically well received yet failed to sell well. Two years later, he released the self-titled Chris Isaak, which managed to scrape into the Top 200 album charts. After its release, the singer began an acting career with a bit part in Jonathan Demme's 1988 film Married to the Mob; he would later have parts in Wild at Heart, The Silence of the Lambs, and A Dirty Shame, as well as starring in his own situation comedy series for the Showtime cable network.
Released in 1989, Heart Shaped World initially sold more than Chris Isaak, yet it didn't manage to break big until late 1990, when the single "Wicked Game" was featured in David Lynch's Wild at Heart. Soon, the single became a Top Ten hit; the album also made it into the Top Ten and sold over a million copies. Both 1993's San Francisco Days and 1995's Forever Blue mined essentially the same vein as Heart Shaped World, yet both went gold and spawned a handful of hits. In 1996, Isaak released The Baja Sessions; Speak of the Devil followed two years later. Isaak's busy touring schedule and growing visibility as an actor kept him out of the recording studio until 2002, when he released Always Got Tonight, though in 2004 he did find time to cut his first seasonal album, Chris Isaak Christmas, which featured five new Yuletide tunes along with a batch of holiday favorites. The musician once again flexed his TV muscles in 2009 with The Chris Isaak Hour, whose debut on The Biography Channel was promoted in part by Mr. Lucky, his first album of original material in seven years.