Staying Alive!

Even, music came to me normally but I was one who shut the door to it. Like almost every Bengali middle class family, my parent too tried hard to inject some music sense into me. They wanted me to learn it but at that time I felt that their wish was sort of force on me and I tried my best to walk to the opposite path. I think at a certain age we all feel the same. Today I know how foolish I was but there is no point of returning. Music is an quintessence, shutting door is not enough to move away from it, I have to gave up and then latter embrace it back. No, I never learned it but genuinely loved it.  In our early days it was ‘Rabindra Sangeet’, song written by  Tagore and then a time comes for every Indian to move away to the Hindi Film song, I was too not an exception. Where for English, it started with Beatles and Elvis and then there is never ending list. I also very fob of Julio Iglesias, Magda(Egyptian) and some other labels that is totally unknown to this world apart from those are involved in plagiarism. In recent past we lost two great musician, first it was Donna Summer and then Robin Gibbs of BeeGees. My little tribute to the both.

Dona Summer

Donna Summer was born on December 31, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts. Summer's performance debut occurred at church when she was ten years old, when she replaced a vocalist who had failed to show up. Summer later attended Boston's Jeremiah E. Burke High School, where she performed in school musicals.  Summer first moved to  New York where she was a member of the blues-rock band, Crow and then Germany. She  became fluent in German, singing various songs in German.  she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.

Donna Summer was the Queen of Disco in the 1970s with a pop/dance/rock sound that was a hybrid of American soul and European synthesizer based music.

Maintaining an unbroken string of hits throughout the 70s and 80s, most of which she wrote, Donna holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit #1 on the Billboard charts and first female to have four #1 singles in a 12 month period; 3 as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbra Streisand.

A five-time Grammy winner, Donna Summer was the first artist to win the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (1979, "Hot Stuff") as well as the first-ever recipient of the Grammy for Best Dance Recording (1997, "Carry On"). In 2004, she became one of the first inductees, as both an Artist Inductee and a Record Inductee (for 1977's "I Feel Love") into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York City.

She Diagnosed with lung cancer, Summer died on the morning of May 17, 2012, at her home in Florida after a battle with the disease. She was posthumously described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers."

Robin Gibb

Robin Gibb was born in 1949 on the Isle of Man, about half an hour before his twin brother Maurice. His parents, Barbara and Hugh, were both musical. Barbara sang and Hugh was a drummer and bandleader. Robin had four siblings - an older sister and brother, Lesley and Barry, twin Maurice and younger brother Andy. The family moved for some time to Manchester, England before emigrating to Australia in 1958.

During their childhood, Robin, Maurice and Barry began performing together. They played under various band names, but finally settled on The Bee Gees, where Andy Gibb was preferred to be a solo performer. Robin and the group also became known for penning hit records for other artists including Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

In late 1970's, following a successful live album, Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live, the Bee Gees agreed with Stigwood to participate in the creation of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It would be the turning point of their career. The cultural impact of both the film and the soundtrack was seismic, not only in the United States, but in the rest of the world as well, bringing the nascent disco scene mainstream.

The Bee Gees' overwhelming success rose and fell with the disco bubble. By the end of 1979, disco was rapidly declining in popularity, and the backlash against disco put the Bee Gees' American career in a tailspin. Since then they had a few album but never tasted same success. In 2001, the group released what turned out to be their final album of new material as a group, This Is Where I Came In. The album was another success, reaching the Top 10 in the UK. They disbanded officially in 2003 when Maurice Gibb died suddenly at 53.

Robin Gibb passed away on May 20th 2012. R.I.P. Robin Gibb.

!!!The Creative Souls Never Dies, they Stay Alive forever!!!