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Heather Nova

Heather in Hanau, Germany 2005
Background information
Birth name Heather Allison Frith
Born (1967-07-06) July 6, 1967 (age 44)
Origin Bermuda
Genres Alternative rock
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 1990–present
Labels WORK, V2
Website www.heathernova.com

Heather Nova, (born Heather Allison Frith, July 6, 1967) is a Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet.[1] She has released eight full-length albums and has found lasting success in Germany where two of her albums South and Storm have made their way into the Top-5 of German official album chart.[2]

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Biography [link]

Heather Nova was born in Bermuda. Her mother is a Canadian from Nova Scotia, and her father is a native Bermudian. Her uncle, Michael K. Frith, worked for The Jim Henson Company, and was a creator of Miss Piggy, and of the television shows Fraggle Rock and Between the Lions.[3] His son, Heather's first-cousin, is folk singer Johnathan Frith.[4]

Nova spent most of her childhood with her family, including one sister, television reporter Susannah, and one brother, reggae singer Mishka, [5] on a 40 ft (12 m) boat (named "Moon") built by her father, where the Friths spent most of 1970s and part of the 1980s, sailing throughout the Atlantic and Caribbean waters and coasts. Since her idyllic childhood, Heather has played over 600 concerts, sold over 2 million albums and has a career of 20 years in the music industry.

Nova started playing guitar and violin at an early age, writing her first song when she was 12. Her family relocated to New England where she attended the Putney School in Putney, Vermont. Following her graduation in 1983, Nova enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she majored in film in 1989. She also sat in on poetry classes and wrote music to go with her student films. Later, she would forego film study to focus on creating music.

Career [link]

After graduating from RISD, Nova briefly relocated to New York City (where she unsuccessfully tried to interest some major labels in a demo), before moving to London, England, a place she called home for twelve years (she already had British citizenship due to her Bermudian origins). In 1990, she released her first recording, Heather Frith, an EP; she had not yet changed her name. The name change came a year or so later, in an effort to create a name with more buzz.[citation needed]

The new name debuted in 1993 with her second EP Spirit in You and her first full album, the critically acclaimed Glow Stars, after being discovered by producer Felix Tod and introduced to Big Cat label manager Steven Abbott. The success of the album led her to record and release her first live album Blow the same year, which she supported by a tour of Europe. In 1994, she released Oyster, for which she toured for almost two years. Another live album, Live from the Milky Way, was released in 1995. Siren, the follow-up to Oyster because of the hit single "London Rain", was released in 1998, after which she joined Sarah McLachlan and others on the North American Lilith Fair, a music festival with only female performers.

After the release of Siren and a world tour to promote the record, Nova took a break while various television show and film soundtracks licensed some of her songs and her record company (Sony Records/The WORK Group) released various singles from the album, which received only moderate play on America's MTV2, Europe's MTV and Canada's MuchMusic and on mainstream radio, although she was popular on college radio. Also during this time, she recorded a version of the often covered traditional song "Gloomy Sunday", for the German WWII feature film drama Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (released under the International title Gloomy Sunday). She released yet another live album, Wonderlust, in 2000.

Over the years, Nova has written and recorded over 120 songs. With the release of South (2001), she returned to the international spotlight with an appearance on the soundtrack of the John Cusack movie Serendipity. She also appeared on the soundtrack to the Sean Penn film, I am Sam and sung on The Crow. A collaboration with Swedish indiepop band Eskobar, for a song called "Someone New", led to its music video being played primarily on America's MTV. Storm, Nova's fifth studio album, recorded with Mercury Rev as her backing band, was released in late 2003 on her own Saltwater label, went top 5 in Germany, followed by a tour during which Nova became eight months pregnant. She quickly followed the birth of her son with her next record Redbird, released in 2005, again Top 10 in Germany.

In December 2005, Nova released Together As One, an EP supporting the Bermuda Sloop Foundation, which operates the Bermuda sloop Spirit of Bermuda.

In 2002, she self-published The Sorrowjoy, a 72-page book of her poetry and drawings. An album of the same name was released in March 2006, which featured Nova reading the poems from her book set to ambient music.

She also collaborated with the German trance artist ATB on tracks like "Love Will Find You", "Feel You Like A River" and the international hit "Renegade".

In 2008, Nova released an album called The Jasmine Flower, a solar powered acoustic album recorded in Bermuda, before touring as an acoustic tour. In the fall of 2010 she embarked on another European tour promoting her The Jasmine Flower album. On this tour, she played four unreleased songs ("Save A Little Piece Of Tomorrow", "Everything Changes", "Burning To Love", and "Turn The Compass Round") that are included on her current album, 300 Days At Sea. This full-band album was released on May 27, 2011.

Personal life [link]

Nova lives in Bermuda with her husband, music producer Felix Tod, and their son Sebastian (born in 2004).

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

Singles [link]

  • "Spirit In You" (1993)
  • "Frontier" (1993)
  • "Walk This World" (1994) - UK #69[6]
  • "Maybe An Angel" (1995)
  • "Truth and Bone" (1996)
  • "London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)" (1998)
  • "Heart & Shoulder" (1998)
  • "I'm The Girl" (1999)
  • "Gloomy Sunday" (1999)
  • "Love Will Find You" (2000, with ATB)
  • "Feel You Like A River" (2000, with ATB)
  • "I'm No Angel" (2001)
  • "Someone New" (2002, with Eskobar)
  • "Virus of the Mind" (2002)
  • "River of Life" (2003)
  • "Welcome" (2005)
  • "Done Drifting" (2006)
  • "Renegade", (2007, with ATB)
  • "Made of Glass", (2007 with ATB)
  • "Ride" (2008)
  • "Higher Ground" (2011)
  • "Beautiful Ride" (2011)

Heather Nova is popular in New Zealand with "Oyster" peaking at #23 and "Siren" peaking at #18 in the RIANZ Top 40. The single "Walk This World" peaked at #19 and still gets occasional radio play.

EPs [link]

  • Heather Frith Ep (1990)
  • Spirit In You (1993)
  • Live From The Milky Way (1995)
  • The First Recording (1997) Reissue of Heather Frith Ep
  • Together As One (2005, a fundraiser for the Bermuda Sloop Foundation)
  • Higher Ground EP (2011)

DVDs [link]

  • Live at the Union Chapel (2004)

Books [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ "Allmusic: Heather Nova". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p44942. Retrieved 2008-05-16. 
  2. ^ "Chartverfolgung / Nova, Heather / Longplay". musicline.de. https://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Nova%2CHeather/?type=longplay. 
  3. ^ The Bermudian magazine, October, 2001, Page 13. Profile, by Rosemary Jones: READING BETWEEN THE LIONS. Bermudian Michael Frith takes his passion for learning to TV.
  4. ^ POTSI (archived): Heather Nova Biography
  5. ^ The Royal Gazette: Mishka to perform in front of home crowd at Snorkel Park Published Aug 17, 2011
  6. ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 398. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 

External links [link]

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Talk to Me

Talk to Me may refer to:

Film and television

  • Talk to Me (1984 film), an American drama starring Austin Pendleton
  • Talk to Me (1996 film), an American television film starring Yasmine Bleeth and Ricky Paull Goldin
  • Talk to Me (2006 film), a British documentary by Mark Craig
  • Talk to Me (2007 film), an American drama starring Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Talk to Me (TV series), a 2007 British drama serial
  • Talk to Me, a 2000 sitcom starring Kyra Sedgwick

    • Music

    Albums

  • Talk to Me (Xuxa album), a 1994 album by Xuxa
  • Talk to Me (Joey McIntyre album), a 2006 album by Joey McIntyre
  • Talk to Me: Hits, Rarities & Gems, a 2006 album by Wild Orchid

    • Songs

  • "Talk to Me" (Babyface song), 1996, featuring Eric Clapton
  • "Talk to Me" (Anita Baker song), 1990
  • "Talk to Me" (Joe Seneca song), originally recorded by Little Willie John (1958), covered by many artists
  • "Talk to Me" (Kiss song), 1980
  • "Talk to Me" (Peaches song), 2009
  • "Talk to Me" (Stevie Nicks song), 1985
  • "Talk to Me" (Wild Orchid song), 1997
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    Talk to Me (Xuxa album)

    Talk to Me is the first English language album by Brazilian, singer, presenter and actress Xuxa. The album is a compilation of Xuxa's most popular songs in English versions for her TV show for cable channel MTM - Xuxa (TV series) - but the material was never released commercially neither in America, nor in Brazil.

    Production

    For the American television show, Xuxa re-recorded several of her hits in English. The songs have had their length shortened - allegedly a decision by the network so they were not long and tiring. In addition to the hits already known to her latin fans, Xuxa also recorded an entire new song titled Talk to me, which explicitly made an appeal for the public to be patient in regards to her poor English. The song featured a typical Brazilian sound with drums, also known in her native as "Axé" (ah-sheh).

    Most songs have simply added new voice over the instrumental material used in her Spanish and Portuguese versions. In majority most of the lyrics were translations with words carefully chosen not to lose rhyme however songs such as Do Say have turned out completely unrelated to its Portuguese and Spanish counterparts. The opening and closing theme used in the show was Xuxa's Theme (in Portuguese "O Xou da Xuxa Começou").

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    Talk to Me (Wild Orchid song)

    "Talk to Me" is a song by Wild Orchid, and was the second single from their self-titled debut, Wild Orchid. The song achieved gold status in South Africa (with 25,000 copies sold).

    Chart performance

    "Talk to Me" made dance chart history when it was the first single by a female group to enter the Billboard Hot Dance/Maxi Single Sales Chart at #10. After the single's huge success on the dance charts, it started receiving significant radio airplay. When the single was finally released commercially, the song's popularity had already started fading in the US. Nevertheless, sales were strong enough to push the single to land in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart at #48, making it their most successful single in the US. It also reached the Top 10 Singles Chart in Japan. The song also made very brief appearances at the lower segments of various European charts.

    Music video

    In the music video, Ferguson, Ridel and Sandstrom are shown singing in a recording booth, rehearsing dance moves and performing the song in front of lots of people.

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    Heather Nova

    ALBUMS

    300 Days at Sea

    Released 2011

    Live in Nijmegen

    Released 2010

    2009-11-06: Live at Union Chapel, London, UK

    Released 2009

    The Jasmine Flower

    Released 2008

    Redbird

    Released 2005

    Church Music

    Released 2003

    Storm

    Released 2003

    South

    Released 2001

    Wonderlust

    Released 2000

    Siren

    Released 1998

    Supernova (live at Club Knost)

    Released 1996

    Glow Stars

    Released 1996

    Live From the Milky Way

    Released 1995

    Oyster

    Released 1995

    Sleepin'

    Released 1994

    Blow

    Released 1993

    Live in the USA

    Beautiful Angel

    1994-05-04: Live at Sleepin' Arena, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2002-07-06: Forestglade Festival, Wiesen, Austria

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    Water From Wine

    by: Heather Nova

    Dark lets me see too much
    And i'm just groping
    for anything to touch
    Am I a seabird
    I have the strangest cry
    Am i just drifting
    Am i too far inside
    Everything's changing
    Everything's changing my mind
    I'm going backwards
    Backwards to water from wine
    I can hear thunder
    But I am made of stone
    I'm reaching out
    I'm reaching out but I'm still alone
    I look for my body
    but it just disappears
    Nodody knows me
    Everything feels like years
    Everything's changing
    Everything's changing my mind
    I'm going backwards
    Backwards to water from wine
    I look for joy
    It's in the cracks sometimes
    I can hear music
    but it's been locked inside
    Everything's changing
    Everything's changing my mind
    I'm going backwards
    Backwards to water from wine
    Everything's changing
    Everything's changing my mind
    I'm going backwards
    Backwards to water from wine
    Every night owns me, nothing is holy




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