Ari Gold (musician)

Sir Ari Gold ( born February 11, 1977 in New York, USA) is an American pop and R & B singer, songwriter and LGBT activist.

Life

Gold was born in the Bronx, where he grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family. His singing career began as a child. To the Bar Mitzvah of his younger brother, he sang and was discovered by a talent agency. This was followed by more than 400 jingles of the child for children's programs and he also lent figures of children from various musicals his voice. An example of his prominence as a child star is the appearance on the television program " The Joe Franklin Show," where the about 10 -year-old boy singing the song " Yankee Doodle Dandy". He attended the Ramaz High School in New York, a school for Jewish children and began after his high school graduation to study at Yale University found that he finished at New York University. He then hoofed it first by a number of clubs in New York and worked as a background singer for the album " Swept Away " by Diana Ross. His first CD already appeared in 2001, his first album " Ari Gold " was released in 2004, since then it was his career steeply upward. , A tour took him, he appeared (France in around 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada and also in Europe, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic). Other CDs and albums followed. In New York, Ari Gold is already one of the well-known celebrities in the gay community, he is also now known worldwide. He calls himself "Sir" to enable a distinction to series character Ari Gold.

The song " Human" is a cover song by Human League. The video is inspired by James Bidgoods "Pink Narcissus " and Ari Gold is to be seen as Bobby Kendall similar as Pan.

He lives in New York's Lower East Side. As an activist, he stands up for human rights, against the spread of AIDS and the homeless. He also holds lectures across the United States in liberal Jewish institutions that deal with the question of Orthodox Judaism and Homosexuality, especially young men. The openly gay singer was also one of the first who've been outed as a homosexual before beginning her career as a pop star. In Germany Ari Gold is (yet ) a secret.

Various celebrities from the music business praised Ari Gold: RuPaul called him "brilliant ," the music producer Clive Davis said he write his songs straight from his heart, Boy George has said that he was an undiscovered star who wait for his big break, that people magazine wrote, he kidnaps people with his music to other place.

Appeared in 2005 in the Bruno Gmunder Publishing a book with model shots of Ari Gold, titled " Ari Gold. Photographs and Illustrations".

Music

He sang in a duet with Sarah Dash, a former member of the band LaBelle. Gold is committed to the legacy of Jewish singing good and has a CD worked with Jewish children songs. Together with the famous songwriter Desmond Child as a singer, he produced the song "I ` am all about you, "his biggest success so far, it even 20 of the British pop charts make it into the TOP. The singer has even become the main character of a play that deals with his career: " Ari Gold The making of a gay popstar ". The most known songs are: " Wave of You", " human ", " Love will take over", " Sparkle ".

Awards

• Outmusic Award, 2002 ( for his first CD with homosexual love songs ).
• USA Songwriting Competion Award, 2007.
• Independent Music Award, 2008 ( for Best R & B Song).

Albums

• Ari Gold, 2004.
• Space under sun, 2004.
• Love will take over: the remixes, 2005.
• Transport system, 2007.
• Between the Spirit and the flesh, 2011.

Swell

• Contemporary -R & B singer
• Americans
• Person (homosexuality in art)
• Pop singer
• LGBT activist
• Born in 1977
• Man