Since its immense popularity and iconic nature, " grace " and the meaning behind the words of " Amazing Grace " have become as individual as the singer or listener.

At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

Motörhead, since their first album release in 1977, have had continued popularity in the punk scene, and singer Lemmy is a fan of punk rock.

Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980s, starting with another primetime variety special alongside actress and singer Liza Minnelli, Goldie and Liza Together ( 1980 ), which was nominated for four primetime Emmys.

* Savannah Outen, a singer who gained popularity on YouTube

Vaudeville singer Emma Carus, famed for her " female baritone ", is said to have been largely responsible for successfully introducing the song in Chicago and helping contribute to its immense popularity.

Live looping is not exclusive to electronic music and is found in the singer / songwriter genre, achieving new popularity in the employ of popular artists such as Imogen Heap, Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Marbin, and KT Tunstall.

John Robert " Joe " Cocker ( born 20 May 1944 ) is an English rock and blues singer, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of the Beatles.

By 1995 punk rock had gained nationwide mainstream popularity in the wake of successful albums by the Offspring and Green Day, and the Vandals signed to Offspring singer Dexter Holland's new label Nitro Records.

In 1941, Tatum recorded two sessions for Decca Records with singer Big Joe Turner, the first of which included " Wee Wee Baby Blues ", which attained national popularity.

However, his success and popularity in this role caused friction with the group's actual lead singer, Annabella Lwin.

Lee's popularity faded in the late 1960s as her voice matured, but she continued a successful recording career by returning to her roots as a country singer with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s.

David Allan Coe ( born September 6, 1939 ) is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.

The band was formed in October 1967 by Andrew Loog Oldham with soul singer P. P. Arnold, a performer who reached a higher level of popularity in the UK than her native US.

Falling into You ( 1996 ), Dion's fourth English-language album, presented the singer at the height of her popularity, and showed a further progression of her music.

It was founded by Bobbejaan Schoepen, a Flemish singer, guitarist, and entertainer who enjoyed international popularity in the fifties and early sixties.

She was the only Western singer ever to break through the barrier separating Arab and Western music and achieve true success ( as opposed to niche popularity ) in an Arab country.

The popularity of the Volkssänger ( people's singer ) in Bavaria began in the 1880s, and continued in earnest until the 1920s.

" A dreadful singer, she was furious at the popularity of The Bugaloos's more melodic, upbeat sound, and she plotted elaborate, unsuccessful schemes to destroy or enslave them.

In the 2000s, Bowling for Soup reached popularity, as well as Burden Brothers ( which was co-founded by Toadies lead singer Vaden Todd Lewis ).

In his 1994 book " My Singing Teachers ," Torme cited Patty Andrews, lead singer of The Andrews Sisters, the most successful show business act of the 1940s ( second only to Bing Crosby ), as one of his favorite vocalists, saying, " They had more hit records to their credit than you could count, and one of the main reasons for their popularity was Patty Andrews.

Along with enka singer Keiko Fuji, they won " the award for mass popularity " at the 12th Japan Record Awards in 1970.

Ahmed Adaweyah () is an Egyptian singer and he was the first big star of sha ' abi music during its first wave of popularity in the 1970s.

The band enjoyed steadily increasing popularity: in 1987, Flipside fanzine voted them Best Live Band, beating the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fugazi, and the highly successful thrash metal band Metallica included photo inserts of lead singer James Hetfield wearing SNFU's iconic ' zombie ' design t-shirt in their $ 5. 98 E. P.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

Still, because we do not have much information about what occurred while Eleanor was in Poitiers, all that can be taken from this episode is that her court there was most likely a catalyst for the increased popularity of courtly love literature in the Western European regions.

In this way free love currents and other radical lifestyles such as naturism had popularity among individualist anarchists.

Keel included fifteen different Dowland pieces in his two sets of Elizabethan love songs published in 1909 and 1913, which achieved popularity in their day.

Her character stood out as a positive portrayal of a Jewish woman and at the height of her popularity, she fell in love with another woman, a witch named Tara Maclay.

Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes that the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love, might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its extraordinary power on the board, as might the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.

Hawaiian statehood was a major factor which further drove the tropical lifestyle popularity, and Americans fell in love with their romanticized version of an exotic culture.

The immense popularity of the series led Nixon to enjoy her first leading role in a feature, playing a video artist who falls in love, despite her best efforts to avoid commitment, with a bisexual actor who just happens to be dating a gay man ( her best friend ) in Advice From a Caterpillar ( 2000 ), as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday telepic Papa's Angels ( 2000 ).

Preserved by a series of fragmentary papyruses which attest its popularity, it served as a source of inspiration for Ovid's Ars Amatoria, written around 3 BC, which is partially a sex manual, and partially a burlesque on the art of love.

François Duvalier's appropriation of Vodou images as a terror technique, the increase in US assembly and large-scale export agriculture, the popularity of disco, and Jean-Claude Duvalier's appreciation of konpa and chanson française disillusioned many youth and love.

The growing literacy and popularity of novels fed back into the mainstream lifestyle and the romance novel proliferated the stories of ideal romantic life narratives on a micro-level, giving the romantic love an important and recognised role in the marriage-type relationship.

As he grows older, Ramsay ’ s association with the ostracized Mary Dempster comes to hurt his popularity at school, though he realizes that he enjoys her company and is, as he realises later, in love with her.

Fueled by Marina's exotic status as a Frenchwoman in the Soviet Union, and Vladimir's unmatched popularity in his country, their love was passionate and impulsive.

While the growing popularity of the Internet took some time, now one in five singles is said to look for love on the Web, which has led to a dramatic shift in dating patterns.

Macross creators Mikimoto Haruhiko and Kawamori Shoji have stated that Minmay's popularity in both sides of the war is partially inspired by the song Lili Marleen, a German love song which was popular on both sides during World War II.

Ito analyzes that the popularity was due to the fact that the 2 helping editors ' favorite " type " was sporty young men, that was what most of gay people love.

The plans met with some resistance by local planning boards, but were overcome thanks to his popularity and his love of the Big Apple.

In addition to the degree of popularity brought him by the novels, in recent months Andrea Camilleri has become even more of a media icon thanks to the parodies aired on an RAI radio show, where popular comedian, TV-host and impression artist Fiorello presents him as a raspy voiced, caustic character, madly in love with cigarettes and smoking ( Camilleri is well known for his love of tobacco ).

The sirventesc is very frequently composed in the form, sometimes even with rhymes, of a love song having acquired some popularity, so that it might be sung to the same air.

Fueled by Marina's exotic status as a Frenchwoman in the Soviet Union, and Vladimir's unmatched popularity in his country, their love was passionate and impulsive.

His relationship with the people of Zaire is shown, with the mutual love between Ali and the people of the nation contrasted with Foreman's awkward and unsuccessful efforts to build his own popularity.

The " dangerous love " of Depression-era gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ( popularly known as Bonnie and Clyde ) has maintained an enduring international popularity in film, television, music and poetry.

Romeo and Juliet, due to their enduring legacy and popularity, are considered an ideal supercouple outline for aspects of forbidden or tragic love, and the relationship between Anthony and Cleopatra has been described as fitting the power-couple trope.