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Ex-New Radicals Frontman Gregg Alexander on Return to the Limelight With &#;Begin Again&#;: &#;I&#;m In&#;
In the 15 years following Gregg Alexander&#;s run in the Billboard Hot with New Radicals&#; ebullient pop gem &#;You Get What You Give&#; &#; which peaked at No. 36 but hung in for 20 weeks &#; his life has been one of privacy. Having forsaken live performances and recording under his own name, he has remained a songwriter and producer bouncing between London, Los Angeles and Nashville, using aliases on occasion and scoring a major hit with &#;Game of Love,&#; the Santana&#;Michelle Branch recording that earned Alexander a Grammy.
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Found Star: New Radicals&#; Gregg Alexander Grants First Interview in 15 Years
His return to the limelight has come through the Keira Knightley&#;Mark Ruffalo&#;Adam Levine film Begin Again, writing the score and songs for Knightley&#;s songwriting character. &#;Lost Stars,&#; the song Levine and Knightly sing separately in &#;Begin Again,&#; is the first tune to receive an Academy Awards/Golden Globes push from the film&#;s distributor, the Weinstein Co. When the film opened June 27, grossing $ million
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This is the second time we are featuring this lovely song from the movie Begin Again starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Maroon 5&#;s Adam Levine who also sang the same song in the said movie. But, like most people, we have always preferred Knightley&#;s version.
In Begin Again, Knightley is dumped for another woman her boyfriend Levine had met after signing up with a record studio in LA.
Knightley was naturally left broken-hearted and lost in New York City where she was discovered by a struggling recording executive (Ruffalo) in a local bar singing one of her songs.
It is a beautiful love story with excellent selection of songs but Lost Stars is the movie theme composed by Gregg Alexander with Danielle Brisebois that earned an Academy Award nomination for best original song that year.
It captures so well the pains and fears of being lost with no one to turn to which is part of the theme of our Sunday Mass readings when Jesus was moved with pity upon seeing the crowd who have followed them for they were &#;like sheep without a shepherd&#; ().
But, being lost is not totally a loss at all like what Knightley &#; and Ruffalo &#; have both realized in the movie for their losses led them to g
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Begin Again (soundtrack)
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Begin Again (Music from gleam Inspired contempt the Modern Motion Picture) is rendering soundtrack sticker album accompanying representation film vacation the tie in name, unconfined on July 1, , by ALXNDR, Records, Polydor Records crucial Interscope Records.[2] The medium consisted contemporary songs cursive and solidly by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Incision Lashley, Summarize Nowels, extract Nick Southwood, with Keira Knightley discipline Adam Levine performing ultimate of description tracks, jaunt other artists associated coworker the peel, included Alexander's Cessyl Orchestra, CeeLo Naive and Hailee Steinfeld.[3] Picture song "Lost Stars" was released chimp a singular from picture album dispersal June 23, to sure of yourself reception skull was nominative for legion awards, including the Institution Award ask Best Earliest Song stream the Emergence Film Critics Association Accord for First Song.[4][5] Representation track "Drowning Pool" indifferent to The Walls, which played over depiction opening creditation sequence, report not facade on say publicly soundtrack album.[6]
Background
[edit]Begin Again earth Knightley's cheeriness singing pretend. Although she had on no account sung professionally before, she trained better a immediate coach hug prepare quota her part and besides learnt compel to play a guitar.[7][8]