简介： 肯尼·罗杰斯，1938年8月21日出生于得克萨斯州的休斯敦，他家境贫穷，但还是坚持念完了高中，并学会了演奏吉他和小提琴。上高中的时候，就在一支叫做“学者”(The Scholars)的山地乡村摇滚乐队里演奏。高中毕业后，他录制了两首单曲：《我们永远再次堕入情网》(We’ll Always Fall in Love Again)和《对于你的孤独》(For You Alone)。在60年代初期，肯尼·罗杰斯在当地一些乐队中演唱，1996年，罗杰斯自己组建了一支名叫“首版”(First Edition)的乐队，乐队的歌曲《鲁比不要把你的爱情带进镇里》(Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town)第1首单曲是《爱让我振奋》(Love Lifted Me)，在1976年初成为一首小热门歌曲。 但真正带来突破的是1977年的《露西尔》(Lucille)，此曲获得排行榜冠军，它不仅成为一首主要的乡村热门歌曲，而且还获得了当年乡村音乐协会的年度最佳单曲。凭此曲获第20届格莱美最佳乡村男歌手奖。二年后凭《赌徒》(The Gambler)再获第22届格莱美最佳乡村男歌手奖。 在1978—1980年间，他有5首单曲获得乡村歌曲排行榜冠军：《爱或者相似的东西》(Love or Something like It)、《赌徒》(The Gambler)、《她相信我》(She Believes in Me)、《县里的懦夫》(Coward of the County)。同时，这些单曲大都进入流行歌曲排行榜的前10名。除此之外，他还推出了一系列同著名其他女歌手合唱的歌曲。其中如桃莉．芭顿等均是乡村歌坛的风云人物。1980年，罗杰斯以一首由莱昂内尔·里奇(Lionel Richie)创作的歌曲《女士》(Lady)登上美国排行榜并在榜首停留了6个星期。1984年推出了金唱片《夜视眼》(Eyes That See in the Dark)。 1989年，歌曲《誓言不变(对你永远忠诚)》[The Yows Go Unbroken(Always True to You)]进入排行榜前10名。随后的专辑《内部十分强大》(Something Inside So Strong)成为金唱片，但只进入排行榜前40名。 80年代末和90年代初，罗杰斯一直忙于慈善工作、音乐会、电视节目、电影、摄影和其他等事务并继续出版唱片。美国前总统克林顿也非常喜欢乡村音乐，也是他的歌迷和好友。 因为演唱流行乡村而曾经名列举世身价最高男歌手头衔的肯尼罗杰斯，也同样推出了爵士年代的抒情老歌。 这张碟收录了Kenny Rogers 10首醉人极品情歌。Kenny Rogers极感染力的磁性优美声，浪漫动人，加上发烧录音，令人一听难忘、百听不厌。Kenny Rogers历年成绩傲人，其唱片的世界总销量超越一亿张，勇夺三届葛莱美大奖及九张白金唱片。 Kenneth Donald Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. He has been very successful, charting more than sixty top 40 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 100 individual weeks in the United States alone. To his fans, he is extraordinarily popular; women in concert audiences bring him roses in unrelenting waves throughout a performance. Both his albums The Gambler and Kenny are featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever".[1] He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time", in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People. [2] He has received hundreds of awards for both his music and charity work. These include AMAs, Grammys, ACMs and CMAs, as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003.[3] Most recently, Rogers hit with his new album release, Water & Bridges, an across the board hit, that peaked at #5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting high in the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "I Can't Unlove You," is also a hit. He is currently planning a tour of the United Kingdom, in a 2006 BBC Radio 2 interview he told DJ Steve Wright, his favorite hit of his was "The Gambler".
