What performer recorded an album named after the country where Maturin is located?
Aldemaro Romero
Title: Venezuela (album)
Passage: Venezuela is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1958, under contract with RCA Victor.
Title: Live Like You Were Dying
Passage: Live Like You Were Dying is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on August 24, 2004, by Curb Records and was recorded in a mountaintop studio in upstate New York. It entered the "Billboard" 200 chart at number one, with sales of 766,000 copies in its first week. The album was certified 4 x Platinum by the RIAA for shipping four million copies, and was nominated for two Grammies in 2005 for Best Country Vocal Performance Male and Best Country Album, winning for Best Country Vocal Performance. Five singles were released from the album, all were top 15 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, two of which hit #1.
Title: Saginaw, Michigan (song)
Passage: ``Saginaw, Michigan ''is a 1964 song performed by Lefty Frizzell. The single was Lefty Frizzell's sixth and final number one on the U.S. country chart.`` Saginaw, Michigan'' spent a total of twenty - three weeks on the country chart and peaked at number eighty - five on the Billboard Hot 100. The song earned Lefty Frizzell a Grammy nomination.
Title: That'd Be Alright
Passage: "That'd Be Alright" is a song written by Tia Sillers, Tim Nichols and Mark D. Sanders, and performed by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released in December 2002 as the fourth and final single his album "Drive". The song reached the Top 5 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at number 2.
Title: Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It
Passage: "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It" is a song written by Jerry Laseter and Kerry Kurt Phillips, and performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in October 1996 as the fifth and final single from his third studio album "All I Want" (1995). It peaked at number 4 on the United States "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, while it reached number one on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Title: How Long Will My Baby Be Gone
Passage: "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" is a 1968 song written and recorded by Buck Owens. "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" was the last of eight number ones on the country chart in a row for Buck Owens. The single spent a single week at number one and a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. The song is still performed at the Country Bear Jamboree attraction at certain Disney parks.
Title: Famous in a Small Town
Passage: "Famous in a Small Town" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released in April 2007 as the second single from her album "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend". It was Lambert's second Top 20 hit on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2008.
Title: Me and Tennessee
Passage: "Me and Tennessee" is a song written by Chris Martin and performed by Tim McGraw and Gwyneth Paltrow. It is included on the soundtrack to the 2010 film "Country Strong", in which the two star. It peaked at number 34 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart and at number 63 on the UK Singles chart.
Title: Maturín
Passage: Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inhabitants. Maturín is also a busy regional transportation hub, connecting routes from the northeastern coast to the Orinoco Delta and the Gran Sabana.
Title: Francis Gago
Passage: Francis del Valle Gago Aponte (born 1973 in Maturín, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss World Venezuela 1992 and also won Reina Sudamericana 1992 and placed second runner-up to Miss World 1992 as Miss World Americas.
Title: Caripito
Passage: Caripito is a city in the state of Monagas, Venezuela. It has around 50,000 inhabitants. It is the third largest city in the state, after Maturín and Punta de Mata.
Title: I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore
Passage: "I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore" is a song co-written by Skip Ewing and Donny Kees, and performed by American country music singer Bryan White. It was released in February 1996 as the first single from his album "Between Now and Forever". The song peaked at number 4 on the U.S. country chart and at number 2 on the Canadian country chart. It also peaked at number 1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
Title: Floria Márquez
Passage: Márquez has also performed more than 34 concerts with several symphony orchestras in Venezuela, a privilege granted to few popular artists in her country. She performs an average of 70 shows each year.
Title: Kanye West
Passage: In September 2013, West was widely rebuked by human rights groups for performing in Kazakhstan at the wedding of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grandson. He traveled to Kazakhstan, which has one of the poorest human rights records in the world, as a personal guest of Nazarbayev. Other notable Western performers, including Sting, have previously cancelled performances in the country over human rights concerns. West was reportedly paid US$3 million for his performance. West had previously participated in cultural boycotts, joining Shakira and Rage Against The Machine in refusing to perform in Arizona after the 2010 implementation of stop and search laws directed against potential illegal aliens.
Title: All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight
Passage: "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" is a song written and recorded by American country music performer Hank Williams Jr. It was released in October 1984 as the second single from his album "Major Moves". It peaked at number ten on the country music charts. From 1989 to 2011 Williams performed a version of the song (reworked as "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night") as the opening theme to "Monday Night Football". The song was reinstated in 2017, with a new version by Williams Jr., Florida Georgia Line and Jason Derulo.
Maturín Venezuela (album)