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By Bill Demain
………………Russia doesn’t need Mariah Carey. They’ve got Alla Pugacheva. Italy could take or leave Barbra Streisand. They’ve got Mina. And why would Japan bother with Bon Jovi when they’ve got a homegrown version in the B’z?
Americans like to flatter themselves by thinking they both invented and hold the patent on platinum-selling superstars. But since the rock era began, hundreds of millions of albums have been sold by artists whose names remain as obscure to most of us as those of 19th-century Swedish kings.
While Nana Mouskouri and Zamfir may ring a bell—thanks to late-night TV ads—how about Wei Wei, Elissa, Daler Mehndi and Gloria Trevi? Yet in their respective countries, these artists are revered as heroes—saints, even.
Many of these acts initially modeled themselves on Western counterparts—Mouskouri cites Ella Fitzgerald as her creative mentor—but they added international flair by pulling their own native music into the mix. Johnny Hallyday, a kind of Gallic Elvis, combined American rockabilly, French chanson (lyric-driven story songs) and an electric stage presence to sell millions of records. The late Ofra Haza crossed Yemenite folk and sacred music with electronic pop and was hailed as the “Madonna of the East.”
For more, get the latest Issue of Performing Songwriter, ISSUE No. 105
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