Influential Music Artists- POP

Frank Sinatra

'' Francis Albert Frank Sinatra, was an American singer and actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing ear with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist

in the early to mid-1940's, after being singed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the 'bobby soxers' he released his first album, The Voice if frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950's, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity. In 1973 he recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with Theme From and New York, New York in 1980. Using his Law Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally.''

Cover Album Analysis

This Frank Sinatra's cover album called: ''Sinatra At The Sands'' looks very interesting, as there's one very strong lighting used, to point out on the singer as well as another man, who's playing on piano, where they both wearing a black tuxedo, which makes them look very smart, which could be argue that they are very important people. What I really like about it, is the black background, which makes them, and the writing section stands out, by using a bright colours such as: yellow, blue, red, in order to match with the lighting colours scheme of red and blue. Overall look of this cover album looks very smart, and nice to my, where we can see the singer on the stage.


Barbra Streisand

''Barbra Joan Streisand, is an American singer, actress, film producers, and director, who has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Awards, an American Film Institute awards, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71,5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 millions albums sold worldwide''.

Cover Album Analysis

This Barbra Streisand's cover album which called: ''Till I Loved You'' contains a elements of elegance and gentility , contrasting with the perfect black and white background, which gives to the whole album a simplistic style, as there isn't anything what would make me say: ''Wow'', however, there's a touch of soul, as well as love as she is addresses directly to us, the audience. What I like about it, is the way how she represent herself there, like showing us that even though she is somebody, she is like everybody else as well as to show that ''you don't have to be half naked on the cover page, to sell your music albums''. Overall, there's nothing I would personally change, maybe the writing, as you can't really see it well, however, I love the way of how writing is shown there, where the singer is middle, as I find it more than unconventional, because nowadays the titles are usually all over the singer's face or body.

The reason why I decided to do these two album cover pages, is to show the different between how male and female artists represent their style of music, where as you could notice, are not any similarities, even though they both represent POP style of music. However, I think that the first one, represent this style of music in a better way, by using a bright colours, where the singer is on the stage with an another man. Another, album looks more classical and elegance to me, by using black and white background, doesn't really represent POP style, as POP style of music is more a cheerful and colorful etc. What they have in common, is just the colour of ''black'' which could symbolized the stereotype as well as to makes them look serous.