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Music Career of popular Classical Crossover Soprano & songwriter - Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is a multi-talented English woman. She is a beautiful singer and a theatre personality who has over the years enthralled millions of audiences in 34 countries across the world with her singing and acting talents.
Sarah Brightman who was born on August 14th, 1960 has by the age of three become a ballet dancer. At the age of eleven, Sarah began taking acting and jazz lessons at the Arts Educational Boarding School. Two years later, Sarah Brightman began her theater debut with a performing role of Vicky, the orphaned child in a theater play “I and Albert” {1973} that staged at Picadilly Theatre in London.
At the age of sixteen, Sarah Brightman performed on the BBC’s “Top of the Pops” television show for a year with Pan’s People dance group. At the age of eighteen, Sarah Brightman became a lead singer with “Hot Gossip” musical group in 1978. She created a chartbuster disco hit ‘I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper’, a space-themed number. The song sold an over 500,000 copies in 1978.
Alternating between singing and acting, Sarah Brightman in 1981 found a spot on the new musical “Cats”, wherein she played the role of Jemima. It was here during rehearsals Sarah Brightman met Lloyd Webber, who she would marry in 1983 and become his theater companion performing in his musical stage plays. Beginning with “Song and Dance” Sarah began performing on her husband Lloyd Webber’s musical plays. Lloyd Webber specially created “Requiem” to suit her voice and vocal range and her performance on “Requiem” received her first Grammy nomination. Next came the role of Christine Daae in Lloyd Webber’s musical “Phantom of the Opera”. Sarah Brightman went on to appear in musicals along with Lloyd Webber and toured several places in United States, England and Canada playing their musicals. They also played their “Requiem” in Soviet Union. After ten successful years on musicals, Sarah’s theatrical career almost came to an end when she took divorce from her husband Lloyd Webber in 1990.
Sarah Brightman released two solo albums while performing in musical theatres. The albums are “The Trees They Grow So High” {1988}, a collection of traditional folk songs accompanied by piano; and “The Songs That Got Away” {1989}, a collection of musical theatrical songs cut from the shows by composers such as Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
Soon after her divorce, Sarah Brightman plunged back into music after meeting the former “Enigma” band member Frank Peterson. Sarah Brightman created a crossover genre of music blending classical vocals, pop and instrumentation to cater to all genres of musical listeners. Sarah Brightman released her first solo album “Dive” in 1993. The album featured a hit song “Captain Nemo” by the Swedish electronica band Dive. Her sophomore album “Fly” was released in 1995 and in contained a famous hit number ‘A Question of Honour’ that catapulted Sarah Brightman to fame in
Europe. Sarah Bright released her third album “Time to Say Goodbye” {1997}. The album sold over 5 million copies worldwide that includes 3 million copies alone in Germany. In 1998, Sarah released her fourth album “Eden” that has more pop music elements. Her fifth album “La Luna” released in 2000 reached #1 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover charts. Sarah’s sixth album “Classics” in 2001 contained operatic arias and other classical masterpieces. The “Harem” her seventh album released in 2003 is a Middle Eastern themed album. The album has collaboration from Iraqi singer Kazem al-Saher.
Sarah Brightman released her eighth album “Symphony” in 2008. The album featured gothic music. The album has collaborations from several artists like vocalist Paul Stanley, Andrea Bocelli, and Fernando Lima.
Sarah Brightman released two solo albums while performing in musical theatres. The albums are “The Trees They Grow So High” {1988}, a collection of traditional folk songs accompanied by piano; and “The Songs That Got Away” {1989}, a collection of musical theatrical songs cut from the shows by composers such as Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
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