Sentences with phrase «as a musician before»

When I think back to my time as a musician before all of this happened, I can see that what I'm doing now is a better fit for my skills and personality.

Lev, an orphaned shepherd boy, begins a journey of discovery when he's hired to play as a musician before the prophets.

Beginning as a musician before creating paintings, Huanca is not only interested in the materiality, but also sound.

Not exact matches

Before he made it big as a musician, Legend worked at Boston Consulting Group, one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world.

Tara Slone worked as an actress and musician (she was the lead singer of the Juno - nominated band Joydrop) before becoming a TV host.

«My friend who's also a musician described it as feeling like people have decided who you are before they've even met you,» she says.

Woodstock as an artist's colony started way before 1969; every town had its artists, musicians, social activists.

Tuesday - Thursday, March 13 — 15: Before becoming deeply involved in philanthropy and moving to Ulster County, Peter Buffett grew up «normal» in Omaha and then established a successful career as a composer and musician.

Starring Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, a slacker musician whose life takes a remarkable turn, it began life as a novel, The Dark Fields, by Dubliner Alan Glynn before becoming a powerful big - screen thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.

Following musician wannabe Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) as he randomly connects with a bizarre pop group called Soronprfbs (don't worry, no one in the film knows how to pronounce it either) playing one random show with them before they quickly adopt him to be their keyboardist and whisk him away to a remote cabin in Ireland to record their album.

Tony Curtis stars as a musician who moves to New York to seek his fame and fortune, where he meets and strikes up a friendship with Debbie Reynolds, before seeing his dreams rather shattered.

Featuring never - before - seen Coltrane family home movies, footage of John Coltrane and band in the studio — discovered in a California garage during production of this film — along with hundreds of never - before - seen photographs and rare television appearances from around the world, Coltrane's story is told by the musicians that worked with him including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Reggie Workman, musicians that have been inspired by his fearless artistry and creative vision like Common, John Densmore, Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Kamasi Washington, along with Coltrane's children and biographers, in addition to well - known admirers such as President Bill Clinton and philosopher Dr. Cornel West.

Guy Pearce turns in a reserved performance as Keith, a former musician and dissatisfied family man longing to leave his job as a high school music teacher and return to the exciting life he had before he and his wife (Amy Ryan) left New York City for a quiet, suburban existence.

The two - time Grammy Award winner began his career as a musician selling millions of records worldwide before crossing over into television with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Before Ken got his degree in Elementary Education, he worked on farms, in factories, as a musician, and as a piano tuner and technician.

Still, early on, before the deafness, before recognition as a musical paragon of the highest possible order, Beethoven could, as the report - card phrase puts it, work and play well with others, especially fellow musicians, and he acquired several long - haul friends who rolled with his punches, though, alas, no lover (he was just too gauche for even the most admiring woman).

Before I started game development I was a guitarist / singer in various rock bands over the past 20 years and if I learned anything from being a musician is you are nothing without the people who come to your shows, buy your music, and etc. so it's important to interact with your fans and I feel this is something that needs to be carried over as indie developer.

As the title suggests, Smash Hits features a collection of songs from the first five titles of the franchise, before Guitar Hero learned a lesson from Rock Band and invited the other musicians along.

This ragtag group of students must encounter crazed students known as Digiheads, battle malevolent musicians, confront the almighty μ, and face their deepest inner - traumas before tasting the sweet nectar of freedom.

As with all the 3D games, though, there's a greater emphasis on emotional scenes between characters like living tree musicians, Link's own grandmother and sister, and even the lost demigods that failed to protect this Hyrule long before the game started.

Jazz musicians have a list of standards, great tunes on which they improvise, hearing (playing) them as they haven't been interpreted before.

Ed Freeman worked for twenty - five years as a musician, composer, and record producer before taking up photography full - time twenty years ago.

Before he started the gallery at the age of 28 in 1983, Martin played the violin, saxophone and keyboards as a professional musician in an orchestra and an ensemble as well as in a rock band, a jazz band and a folk band.

Trained as a visual artist, musician, and composer, Christina Kubisch studied painting, flute, and piano before turning to electronic music in the mid-1970s.

Other never - before - seen works, include The Sun Makes Him Sing Again (Brown), a series of cyanotypes from the lyric sheets of various deceased musicians such as The Mamas and the Papas, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, and Jimi Hendrix, and Will The Sun Remember At All, a suite of nine digital prints of stage lights taken from live album covers by various deceased musicians such as James Brown, Etta James and Muddy Waters.

Robert Ballagh was born in Dublin in 1943, he originally studied architecture and worked as an engineering draughtsman, a musician and a postman before dedicating himself to painting in 1967.

A couple of points of clarification: I knew the term glitch before Oval, but Oval helped bring it to the forefront as a term of artistic practice — I think artists took it from musicians.

Highly versatile, Paik trained as a classical musician, becoming involved in performance art before working with televisions and video, and thereafter installation art of various kinds.

A musician as well as a visual artist, and one who studied painting before turning his attention to performance, Kjartansson infuses his multi-media works with a vitality that is visual and aural, textural and rhythmic.

Before hitting the road in 2010 for Expedition Blue Planet: North America, Cousteau served as the water advisor and spokesperson for the global Live Earth 2010 Run for Water — a project that teams her public advocacy on environmental issues with actress Jessica Biel, musician Pete Wentz, and many more.

«I think I was meant to be a musician,» says Schwisberg, who was a violin prodigy as a child before moving on to become a DJ and later make 36 jazz records in the 1980s.

On the day before what would have been her 17th birthday, Carmen was remembered as a musician who wanted to be a Florida Gator.