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By Christian Emil

 Tom Petty was born October 20, 1950 in Gainesville in Florida.

Tom Petty’s interest in rock and roll music began at age 10 when he met Elvis Presley.

In the summer of 1961, his uncle, Earl Jernigan, was working with the Elvis Presley film ‘Follow That Dream’, and invited Tom to come down and watch it. Tom Petty immediately became an Elvis Presley fan and he soon traded his beloved Wham-O slingshot for a box of Elvis LP’s. He listened to Elvis’s records non-stop for years, then the Beatles, and then Tom started started his career as an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He released his first single called ‘Up in Mississippi’ in 1971.

He is the lead singer of the rock band ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ (1976 - ) and he is a member of ‘Mudcrutch’ (2008 - ) too. For a short period (1988 1991) he was a member of the group ‘Traveling Wilburys’ under the identity of ‘Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr’. The band counted other big names such as Dylan and McCartney.

Tom has recorded a bunch of hit singles, where many of them are still heavily played on classic rock radios, such as ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream’, ‘An American Girl’, and ‘I Won’t Back Down’

His music, and of course most notably his greatest hits, have become increasingly popular among younger generations. He also continues to host sold out shows on his present tour dates.

Tom Petty is also a vocal critic in the modern recording industry.

Tom Petty has for the most of his career been releasing albums with his band, ‘The Heartbreakers’. He has occasionally released solo work, like ‘Highway Companion’, where he performed most of the backing music himself. However, the members of ‘The Heartbreakers’ have played on every single one of his solo albums and the band has always been backing him when touring.

He has also toured with ‘Mudcrutch’ in 2008. In November 2008 ‘Mudcrutch’ released ‘Extended Play Live’ which is a EP recorded during the band’s tour to promote their debut album ‘Mudcrutch’.

On February 3, 2008, ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ performed at the Super Bowl Halftime show. It were a spectacular show, which was consistently well received

Tom Petty first took appearance in a film in 1978, when he had a little known part in ‘FM’ (a music film). Later on he had a small part in ‘Made In Heaven’ from 1987 (a tribute to ‘Queen’).

He has also showed up in several episodes of ‘It’s Garry Shandling’s Show’ in the period of 1987 to 1990, acting as one of Garry Shandling’s neighbors. Petty has also featured in another Shandling’s show; ‘The Larry Sanders Show’, as a final guests. In that episode, Petty got bumped from the show and almost comes to a fight with Greg Kinnear; I do also think that he looks a little like a freak who could get out in such situations.

Petty also appeared as the mayor of Bridge City in the movie, ‘The Postman’ from 1997, which were directed and starred by Kevin Costner. And if anyone haven’t seen ‘The Postman’ I can highly recommend the movie.

In 2002 he appeared in ‘The Simpsons’ in the episode called ‘How I Spent My Strummer Vacation’ (and no it ain’t because I spelled it wrong: the episode is actually called strummer). In the episode, he were acting like a tutor to Homer Simpson in the art of lyric writing. They are composing a song about a drunk girl who drives down the road while she is concerned about the state of public schools. What a funny thing to write about, but what could there possibly else be written about in a ‘Simpsons’ episode?

Homer actually succeeds as a performer but this angers the other stars at the show and as usual it all goes totally wrong.

Petty also has a role as the voice of ‘Elroy Kleinschmidt’ in the animated show ‘King of the Hill’.

In 2007 ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ made a documentary about their life’s named ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’.

Among many other rewards and honors, Tom Petty been honored with 19 ‘Grammy Award’ nominations and in 1999 ‘Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ received a star on the Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’.

Personally I find him amazingly interesting because I find his music catching and because despite his high age he’s still able to catch the youth of today. He might not be the most handsome, but he is for sure a very interesting performer.

I’m too, is also one of the, earlier mentioned, young people who searches for his music even though that he actually belongs to my grandfathers generation.

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 (Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1972) Puerto Rican singer and composer, one of the reggaeton and Latin hip-hop highlights of the current scene.

On February 1, 1972 born in a wealthy family from the town of Santurce Tego Caldern. Over the years, that child would become one of the most famous reggaeton singers and music of his native country, Puerto Rico. His compositions have achieved considerable success in large part because they show a significant influence of salsa and rhythms characteristic of Antillean music. No doubt that is the result of his great admiration for the idol to generations of Latinos, Ismael Rivera.

The racism and life on the street are two of the themes which revolve around the compositions of Tego Caldern. African tradition of his people and his experience in prison will have made enough to reflect their feelings in many of their songs and dedicate his efforts to talk to young people about the evil that can be found on the street.

Tego Caldern’s life can be defined as traveling as soon moved his family and he spent his youth first in Rio Grande, another city of Puerto Rico. It was precisely in those years when his parents took him to music lessons, which helped him to train in this area. He later moved to all United States.

Although the music did not fail to be present in your life at any time since teenager Tego Caldern was dedicated to many different jobs to survive. The now famous performer was still very young when he began to take its first steps as a percussionist music: at the time was engaged to play the drums in the group Escolquer. His artistic interests changed in 1988, while living in Miami. There he discovered the rap and started to penetrate this world.

The career of this singer known for its aesthetic Afro started when he participated in the recording Crazy Boricua 2. Then go through a time of silence, until the rapper Eddie Dee helped him back to sing. The result of this collaboration are the themes that appear in terror of lyric and Boricuas NY.

Tego Caldern began to have serious problems when he decided to return home. He had no luck in his facet as a musician and was doomed to delinquency. It was at that time when the singer ended up in Puerto Rico prison after being tried for possession of weapons. Far from being the start of its decline, this meant their recovery phase as an artist.

In 2002, after leaving prison, launched under the direction of the White Lion Records label debut album, El Abayarde. This album was a resounding success which has sold over 300,000 copies and led to Tego Caldern to start a spiral of tours, collaborations and concerts. Its impact was such that even then many fans know him as El Abayarde.

All titles of this work is true hits: The Abayarde, Cambumbo, Your eyes, Plant and Bonsai flag, among others. Later, on July 1 of 2003, the record company RCA began to distribute copies of Abayarde in various locations in the United States. Achieved in this country the same success as in Puerto Rico and this time was even nominated for the Latin Grammys. In addition to performing all of these recordings Tego Caldern has taken part in the film 45 and has had the privilege of working with prestigious musicians from different genres, such as Angel “cachet” Maldonado and Gilberto Santa Rosa.

In 2004 participated in a compilation of Latin hip-hop published under the title The Enemy of Guasbiri and two years later, after signing a contract with the multinational Atlantic Records, released his second album: The Underdog / El underestimated. The new work rhythms merged from various sources (pump, reggae, blues, Cuban rumba and salsa NY) and maintained its lyrical quality and direct contact with the street. This album was followed Abayarde The counter-attack (2007), in a line similar to the one above, which received a Grammy nomination for 2008.

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