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At TrueColorsRadio sings:
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1. For Your Love
132
6
2. Isn't She Lovely
130
4
3. Part-Time Lover
119
5
4. That's What Friends Are For
117
6
5. Send One Your Love
105
32
6. My Cherie Amour
100
5
7. Pops, We Love You
71
17
8. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
62
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9. Free
61
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Artist of a day
Stevie Wonder
Original name
Stevland Hardaway Morris/JudkinsDate of birth
13.05.1950 (74)Place of birth
Saginaw, MichiganTotal songs: 9
Likes: 897
Dislikes: 86
Awards:
Won 25 Grammy Awards: as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award which he was presented in 1996.
1983: inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1989: inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2002: received the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's Spring Sing. The same year, Wonder received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Stevie Wonder was the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach. The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and it was exacerbated by the oxygen therapy given while in his hospital incubator. When Stevie was four, his mother left his father and moved to Detroit with her children. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. Morris has remained Stevie Wonder's legal surname ever since. He began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica, drums and bass. During childhood he was active in his church choir.
Ronnie White of The Miracles gives credit to his brother Gerald White for persistently nagging him to come to his friend's house in 1961 to check out Stevie Wonder. Before signing, producer Clarence Paul gave Wonder his trademark name after stating "we can't keep calling him the eighth wonder of the world".
By age 13, Wonder had a major hit, "Fingertips". The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts, making him the youngest artist to top the former in its history and launching him into the public consciousness. Dropping the "Little" from his name, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover, co-sung by his mentor, producer Clarence Paul.
In September 1970, at the age of 20, Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a songwriter and former Motown secretary. Wright and Wonder co-wrote the songs on the next album, Where I'm Coming From, which did not succeed in the charts. Reaching his twenty-first birthday on May 13, 1971, he allowed his Motown contract to expire.
Wonder independently recorded two albums, which he used as a bargaining tool while negotiating with Motown. Eventually the label agreed to his demands for full creative control and the rights to his own songs. Wonder returned to Motown in March 1972 with Music of My Mind. Unlike most previous albums on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection of singles, B-sides and covers, Music of My Mind was a full-length artistic statement with songs flowing together thematically. Wonder's lyrics dealt with social, political, and mystical themes as well as standard romantic ones, while musically Wonder began exploring overdubbing and recording most of the instrumental parts himself.
On August 6, 1973, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a truck. This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste. Despite the setback, Wonder re-appeared in concert at Madison Square Garden in March 1974 with a performance that highlighted both up-tempo material and long, building improvisations on mid-tempo songs such as "Living for the City".
It was in Wonder's next phase that he began to commercially reap the rewards of his legendary classic period. The 1980s saw Wonder scoring his biggest hits and reaching an unprecedented level of fame evidenced by increased album sales, charity participation, high-profile collaborations, political impact, and television appearances.
By 1985, Stevie Wonder was an American icon, the subject of good-humored jokes about blindness and affectionately impersonated by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live. Wonder sometimes joined in the jokes himself such as in The Motown Revue with Smokey Robinson. He was in a featured duet with Bruce Springsteen on the all-star charity single for African Famine Relief, "We Are the World", and he was part of another charity single the following year (1986), the AIDS-inspired "That's What Friends Are For".
Wonder's songs are renowned for being quite difficult to sing. He has a very developed sense of harmony and uses many extended chords utilizing extensions such as ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, diminished fifths, etc. in his compositions. Many of his melodies make abrupt, unpredictable changes. Many of his vocal melodies are also melismatic, meaning that a syllable is sung over several notes.
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ideas, recommendations and other help:
Darya Safonova
Eduard Abramayn
Emil Abramayn
Anton Mishakov
Olga Lazutina
Alexander Shipilin
Mariya Konstantinova
Svetlana Petrashova
George Gritsouk
Mariya Savina
Ildar Krukov
Diana Karenovna
Nikolai Chesnokov
This is:
Non-commercial internet radio station, broadcasting popular modern music including best compositions from the past, showcasing soul, funk, rock, disco, blues, reggae and other genres of music.
Idea:
The station is conceived as a convenient and accessible source of quality music for personal listening and aimed at those for whom music is a large component of life and personal philosophy.
There are no commercials, no news and no DJs.
The defining criteria for addition of a song into the playlist is the melody, rhythm or uniqueness (originality).
Application:
Home and/or work. In the car, or on rollerblades. With headphones, from a cellphone or on a quality acoustic setup.
Music for a restaurant, cafe or bar. Office or warehouse. In the rain, or in the summertime, in the heat or at night.
Maintaining your positive mood with an optimistic attitude!
Singing:
Notable residents of the station:
Barry White, Elton John, Chris Rea, George Michael, Joe Cocker, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Sting, Simply Red, Rod Stewart, Sade, Lionel Richie, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Bryan Ferry, Dire Straits, etc.
Technology:
Playback of the content is done by random choice from a collection of renewable playlists. The distribution of tracks on air is even. Each composition during playback is accompanied with an information stream including song lyrics, and a relevant photo of the artist or album art. Many compositions include short commentary, describing the history of the composition or the performer.
Voting is accessible during playback, and recommendations and comments are welcome in the separately designated field. The results of the voting are using in a rating of 10 and 100 most liked, and your recommendations influence the 10/100 Last Added list.
Contact:
Info@truecolorsradio.ru
On air since August 2, 2011.
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a dayDate of birth
30.09.1959 (64)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Canada, TorontoOn board since
06.08.2011First recommendation
Pretenders - Thin LineTotal songs: 174
Total likes: 29533
Average grade: 169.7
Total dislikes: 1940
Artist of a Day notes: 2
General input: 176
Favourite artists:
Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Don Henley, Jeff Lynne, Tina Turner![](/users/7/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a dayDate of birth
04.10.1985 (38)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
23.03.2012First recommendation
Pink Floyd - Learning To FlyTotal songs: 144
Total likes: 9882
Average grade: 68.6
Total dislikes: 817
General input: 144
Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Funk, DiscoFavourite artists:
Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, James Brown, Bryan Ferry![](/users/2/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a dayDate of birth
26.04.1986 (38)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
02.04.2012First recommendation
Depeche Mode - Policy of TruthTotal songs: 106
Total likes: 13831
Average grade: 130.5
Total dislikes: 1608
Artist of a Day notes: 2
General input: 108
Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Funk, BluesFavourite artists:
George Benson, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Bryan Ferry, Kool and the Gang, Laid Back, Led Zeppelin![](/users/14/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a dayDate of birth
05.05.1985 (39)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
03.11.2012First recommendation
Earth Wind And Fire - After The Love Has GoneTotal songs: 157
Total likes: 9855
Average grade: 62.8
Total dislikes: 1116
Artist of a Day notes: 3
General input: 160
Favourite musical styles:
Soul, Rock, Jazz-funkFavourite artists:
Bee Gees, Phil Collins, George Benson, Bryan Ferry, Laid Back, Chris Rea, D Train, Kool & The Gang, Pink Floyd, Gary Moore, Chris Rea, Elton John, Bill Withers, Lionel Richie, Billy Ocean, Jamiroquai, Sting, Womack & Womack, Toto, KC & The Sunshine Band, Foreigner![](/users/6/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a dayDate of birth
26.05.1982 (42)Place of birth
Ukraine, KuznetcovskLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
02.08.2011First recommendation
Phil Collins - True ColorsTotal songs: 130
Total likes: 8337
Average grade: 64.1
Total dislikes: 761
Artist of a Day notes: 10
General input: 140
Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Funk, DiscoFavourite artists:
Chris Rea, Rod Stewart, Lionel Richie, Chris Isaak, Tina Turner, SadeHaving a large personal collection of music, I always noticed the extra pleasure of hearing a favourite track play on the radio, or in some cafe, or the beach, or any other place.
This observation led to an idea—at first glance a non-trivial one—launching a personal radio stream! The initial audience was meant to be myself, and others close in their musical tastes (and otherwise).
The obvious pluses, differentiating this solution from listening to files stored on the computer, radio, or other sources:
1. Autonomy. There’s no need to choose, launch, download, select, etc. At a maximum, it’s opening a window and pressing play. 2. You never know what song is next—the element of surprise, just like on the radio—but you know for sure that it’ll be a good one (everything in the rotation is chosen by you). 3. Good distribution of song playback—no more “overlistening”. 4. No advertising, news, entertainment shows, just music. 5. Ability for everyone who is interested to listen simultaneously, and the location and time of day don’t make any difference. The only requirements is access to the internet.
So, based on these general attitudes, in August 2011, TrueColors Radio was started. The only problem of that moment was solved. That would have been a satisfactory place to stop.
But, I was lucky, and a certain amount of listeners from my circles started to show initiative with adding musical and related organizational suggestions. This was unexpected, and another new, significant result appeared: familiarity with a ton of new music, all matching a certain taste.
This, I can say with certainty, is very valuable. From experience in past years, for every year of listening to music available from different sources, my collection was growing by maybe a few dozen new tracks that were new to me. In the previous year of TrueColors Radio I heard several hundred tracks, which match 100% with my musical coordinate system.
I value this breakthrough greatly, and am very grateful to the people who spend a lot of their time researching and suggesting a variety of tracks, selecting them with accordance to the main criteria they’re familiar with. This possibility of mutual enrichment is the second serious result achieved thanks to TrueColors.
What next? The time is ripe to set another high goal, on a social scale. Here, the possibility of reaching the goal doesn’t have key importance, since, as a very respected professor in university said, distant, perhaps unachievable goals allow for setting of the right direction of growth, and it’s not too important if the goals themselves are reached in the end.
With respect to radio, the idea is simple: the listener, hooked by a long-known song, with further listening will open themselves to a lot of novelty collected on the station, and perhaps will bring something of their own.
In this fashion they will see a widening of their musical engagement and maybe even more—the improvement in the quality of their taste! This is that distant and noble goal.
We’ll see, to what degree our team can realize it.
Welcome and stay with us. Alexandre Gritsouk.
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a day;Date of birth
26.03.1985 (39)Place of birth
Russia, VladimirLocality
Spain, Palma de MallorcaOn board since
08.08.2011First recommendation
The Temptations - Just My ImaginationTotal songs: 37
Total likes: 2851
Average grade: 77.1
Total dislikes: 269
Artist of a Day notes: 12
General input: 49
Favourite musical styles:
Disco, Blues, Rock, SoulFavourite artists:
Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, George Michael, Tina Turner, Elton John![](/users/38/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a day; PRDate of birth
28.08.1980 (43)Place of birth
Russia, SeverodvinskLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
16.05.2013Total songs: 45
Total likes: 1742
Average grade: 38.7
Total dislikes: 249
Artist of a Day notes: 5
General input: 50
Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Funk, Disco, Blues, SoulFavourite artists:
Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Sade, Jamiroquai, Bee Gees, Chris Isaak, Sting, Elton John![](/users/12/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes;Date of birth
04.12.1984 (39)Place of birth
Russia, MuromLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
24.07.2012First recommendation
Funk and Stein - Good To Be DeadTotal songs: 26
Total likes: 1731
Average grade: 66.6
Total dislikes: 183
General input: 26
Favourite artists:
Tori Amos, Radiohead, De-Phazz, Massive Attack, Sade, Jamiroquai, Portishead![](/users/13/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes;Date of birth
23.10.1910 (113)Place of birth
Georgia, TbilisiLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
30.09.2012First recommendation
Seal - Wishing On A StarTotal songs: 17
Total likes: 1223
Average grade: 71.9
Total dislikes: 189
General input: 17
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a day;Date of birth
04.08.1987 (36)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
24.06.2012First recommendation
Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My LifeTotal songs: 14
Total likes: 1063
Average grade: 75.9
Total dislikes: 90
Artist of a Day notes: 2
General input: 16
Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Funk, DiscoFavourite artists:
Norah Jones, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Jamiroquai, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins![](/users/9/info.jpg)
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Recommendations; Notes; Artist of a day; Lyrics; PRDate of birth
26.06.1985 (39)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
15.01.2012First recommendation
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie AmourTotal songs: 8
Total likes: 572
Average grade: 71.5
Total dislikes: 61
Artist of a Day notes: 11
General input: 19
Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Soul, Funk, Disco, BluesFavourite artists:
Elvis Presley, Barry White, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Sade, Nina Simone![](/users/50/info.jpg)
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DesignDate of birth
28.01.1990 (34)Place of birth
Russia, UfaLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
04.10.2012Design and copywriting of everything you see on TrueColors Radio are the result of Olesya’s participation in the project. In addition, all tasks related to the branding and the accompanying graphic decisions (from cards to car stickers) fall on her fragile shoulders.
Here we really made use of her skills and experience, developed during her studies to be a designer and work at a PR agency as well as her obvious intuition and creativity.
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Search optimizationDate of birth
23.05.1981 (43)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
13.09.2013Favourite musical styles:
Rock, Funk, Blues, ReggaeFavourite artists:
Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Extreme, Chris IsaakFirstly, the absence of commercials aspects, and as a corollary absence of advertising in any form.
Secondly, the possibility of influencing the repertoire by any of the listeners; with the help of recommendations to include a particular song in the track list, as well as with the help of likes/dislikes for the ones already in it.
Most importantly: the music. The music is of various styles and epochs but united by something that doesn’t have a concrete definition; possibly the melody, maybe the quality of the performance, or maybe it just rings in unison with the strings in our souls, which reflect our views on life.
If good music is a part of your life, join us, recommend and vote.
We’re happy to see you among our listeners. Welcome and stay with us.
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System designDate of birth
25.10.1981 (42)Place of birth
Russia, MoscowLocality
Russia, MoscowOn board since
02.09.2011Specifically, the entire interface including display of information about the tracks (cover, comments, lyrics), voting and charts, recommendations, the content management system, and much of the other functionality that highlights your visit to the TrueColors Radio was developed and implemented by Alexander.
Results like these are possible for a graduate of a relevant faculty, having work experience with internet technologies, not being too distracted by the musical component of the project. After all, someone has to solve the strictly technical problem, not float in the musical clouds, as many other members of the TrueColors Radio team typically do.
We’ll gladly consider your musical recommendations and other suggestions! To do this it isn’t necessary to register! It’s enough to add your name, the message (name of the song) and the verification code.
Recommendations chart
It’s easy to determine the chances that a certain composition will be added, simply by listening to the station for a few hours. It’s even faster to get oriented by looking through the TOP100 tracks.
Three main criteria:
1) The song should be melodic! The simplest sign of the melodic quality of a composition: desire to sing along. Or, as a minimum, when the song stops the tune should be easily continued in the mind.
2) Of course melodic songs exist in any genre, but the track must follow our station’s format. The format is limited from different sides with a few main directions: soul, funk, rock, disco, blues, reggae and other relatively calm genres. The most important thing is to avoid extremes: metal, heavy rock, rap,"chanson", opera, and other styles will unfortunately stick out from the main direction even with a bright melody.
3) Good quality! A lot of great music, recorded mainly before the 60s, doesn’t have the quality of modern sound recording. This can be taken as motivation to find a good cover.
All recommended compositions are stored in the music database of the radio and may be played on-air at any moment, but sometimes this happens with a significant delay.
After the decision is made, a composition is put on-air and appears in the TOP/30/100 section of recent additions.
If a composition was added on the station but attributed to another recommender it means it was recommended by them before you.
Registered members have access to the following functionality:
1. Detailed view of recommendations
2. Full track listing
3. Song list with Dislike toggles
4. Emulation of display of any track from the list
5. List of recently deleted tracks
6. Addition of comments to a track
7. Addition of lyrics to a track
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To start playback with a program that supports playback of web audio, please use these links:M3U playlist
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