Sinead OConnor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor (/ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnər/;[2] born 8 December 1966)[3] is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O’Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince’s song "Nothing Compares 2 U".

Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures. These include her ordination as a priest, despite being a woman with a Roman Catholic background, and strongly expressing views on organised religion, women's rights, war, and child abuse. In addition to her ten solo albums, her work includes many singles, songs for films, collaborations with many other artists, and appearances at charity fundraising concerts.

In 2017, O'Connor changed her name to Magda Davitt. On converting to Islam in 2018, she changed it again to Shuhada' Sadaqat.[4][3][5] However, she continues to record and perform under her original name
Early life
O'Connor was born in Glenageary in County Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.[7] She is the third of five children, sister to novelist Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin.

Her parents are Sean O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister and chairperson of the Divorce Action Group, and Marie O'Connor. In 1979 O'Connor left her mother and went to live with her father and his new wife. At the age of 15, her shoplifting and truancy led to her being placed for eighteen months in a Magdalene Asylum,[8] the Grianán Training Centre run by the Order of Our Lady of Charity. In some ways, she thrived there, especially in the development of her writing and music, but she also chafed under the imposed conformity. Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, "I have never—and probably will never—experience such panic and terror and agony over anything."[9]

O'Connor in June 1993 wrote a public letter in The Irish Times which asked people to "stop hurting" her: "If only I can fight off the voices of my parents / and gather a sense of self-esteem / Then I'll be able to REALLY sing ..." The letter repeated accusations of abuse by her parents as a child which O'Connor had made in interviews. Her brother Joseph defended their father to the newspaper but agreed regarding their mother's "extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical". Sinead said that month, "Our family is very messed up. We can't communicate with each other. We are all in agony. I for one am in agony."[10]

Musical career
1980s
One of the volunteers at Grianán was the sister of Paul Byrne, drummer for the band In Tua Nua, who heard O'Connor singing "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand. She recorded a song with them called "Take My Hand" but they felt that at 15, she was too young to join the band.[11] Through an ad she placed in Hot Press in mid-1984, she met Colm Farrelly. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band called Ton Ton Macoute.[7] The band moved to Waterford briefly while O'Connor attended Newtown School, but she soon dropped out of school and followed them to Dublin, where their performances received positive reviews. Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in world music, though most observers thought O'Connor's singing and stage presence were the band's strongest features.[7][12]

O'Connor's time as singer for Ton Ton Macoute brought her to the attention of the music industry, and she was eventually signed by Ensign Records. She also acquired an experienced manager, Fachtna O'Ceallaigh, former head of U2's Mother Records. Soon after she was signed, she embarked on her first major assignment, providing the vocals for the song "Heroine", which she co-wrote with U2's guitarist The Edge for the soundtrack to the film Captive. O'Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his views on music and politics, and O'Connor adopted the same habits; she defended the actions of the Provisional IRA and said U2's music was "bombastic".[3] She later retracted her IRA comments saying they were based on nonsense, and that she was "too young to understand the tense situation in Northern Ireland properly".[13]

Her first album The Lion and the Cobra was "a sensation" when it was released in 1987[14] and it reached gold record status and earned a Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy nomination. The single "Mandinka" was a big college radio hit in the United States, and "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" received both college and urban play in a remixed form that featured rapper MC Lyte. In her first US network television appearance, O'Connor sang "Mandinka" on Late Night with David Letterman in 1988.[15] The single "Troy" was also released as a single in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, where it reached number 5 on the Dutch Top 40 chart.[16].

O'Connor named Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Pretenders as the artists who influenced her on her debut album.[17] In 1989 O'Connor joined The The frontman Matt Johnson as a guest vocalist on the band's album Mind Bomb, which spawned the duet "Kingdom of Rain".

1990s
Her second album – 1990's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got – gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews: it was rated "second best album of the year" by the NME.[18] She was praised for her voice and her original songs. She was also noted for her appearance: her trademark shaved head, often angry expression, and sometimes shapeless or unusual clothing.

The album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got featured Marco Pirroni and Kevin Mooney, of Adam and the Ants fame, and contained her international breakthrough hit "Nothing Compares 2 U", a song written by Prince and originally recorded and released by a side project of his, The Family.
Hank Shocklee, producer for Public Enemy, remixed the album's next single, "The Emperor's New Clothes", for a 12-inch that was coupled with the Celtic funk of "I Am Stretched on Your Grave". Pre-dating but included on I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got was also "Jump in the River", which originally appeared on the Married to the Mob soundtrack; the 12-inch version of the single had included a remix featuring performance artist Karen Finley. Also in 1990, O'Connor starred in a small independent Irish movie Hush-a-Bye Baby directed in Derry by Margo Harkin.[20]

In 1990, she joined many other guests for former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin. (In 1996, she would guest on Broken China, a solo album by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd.) In 1991, her take on Elton John's "Sacrifice" was acclaimed as one of the best efforts on the tribute album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin.

In 1990, she contributed a cover of "You Do Something to Me" to the Cole Porter tribute/AIDS fundraising album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization. Red Hot + Blue was followed by the release of Am I Not Your Girl?, an album of standards and torch songs that she had listened to while growing up. The album received mixed-to-poor reviews, and was a commercial disappointment in light of the success of her previous work.

Also in 1990, she was criticized after she stated that she would not perform if the United States national anthem was played before one of her concerts. Frank Sinatra threatened to "kick her in the ass".[21] After receiving four Grammy Award nominations, she withdrew her name from consideration.[3]

She spent the following months studying Bel canto singing with teacher Frank Merriman at the Parnell School of Music. In an interview with The Guardian published 3 May 1993 she reported that her singing lessons with Merriman were the only therapy she was receiving, describing Merriman as "the most amazing teacher in the universe."[22]

Also in 1992, she contributed backing vocals on the track "Come Talk To Me", and shared vocals on the single "Blood of Eden" from the studio album Us by Peter Gabriel.

The 1993 soundtrack to the film In the Name of the Father featured "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart", with significant contributions from U2 frontman Bono.

The more conventional Universal Mother (1994) did not succeed in restoring her mass appeal; however the music videos for the first and second singles, "Fire on Babylon" and "Famine", were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.[23][24] She toured with Lollapalooza in 1995, but dropped out when she became pregnant. The Gospel Oak EP followed in 1997, and featured songs based in an acoustic setting.

In 1994, she appeared in A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of The Who in celebration of his 50th birthday. A CD and a VHS video of the concert were issued in 1994, followed by a DVD in 1998.

She appeared in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy in 1997, playing the Virgin Mary.[25]

In 1998, she worked again with the Red Hot Organization to co-produce and perform on Red Hot + Rhapsody.

2000s
Faith and Courage was released in 2000, including the single "No Man's Woman", and featured contributions from Wyclef Jean of the Fugees and Dave Stewart of Eurythmics.

Her 2002 album, Sean-Nós Nua, marked a departure in that O'Connor interpreted or, in her own words, "sexed up" traditional Irish folk songs, including several in the Irish language.[26] In Sean-Nós Nua, she covered a well-known Canadian folk song, Peggy Gordon, interpreted as a song of lesbian, rather than heterosexual, love. In her documentary, Song of Hearts Desire, she stated that her inspiration for the song was her friend, a lesbian who sang the song to lament the loss of her partner.

In 2003, she contributed a track to the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, a cover of Parton's "Dagger Through the Heart". That same year, she also featured on three songs of Massive Attack's album 100th Window before releasing her double album, She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty. This compilation contained one disc of demos and previously unreleased tracks and one disc of a live concert recording. Directly after the album's release, O'Connor retired from music.[27] Collaborations, a compilation album of guest appearances, was released in 2005—featuring tracks recorded with Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, Jah Wobble, Terry Hall, Moby, Bomb The Bass, The Edge, U2, and The The.

Ultimately, after a brief period of inactivity and a bout with fibromyalgia, her retirement proved to be short-lived—O'Connor stated in an interview with Harp that she only intended to retire from making mainstream pop/rock music, and after dealing with her fibromyalgia, chose to move into other musical styles.[28] The reggae album Throw Down Your Arms appeared in late 2005.

On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album Theology at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics.[29] The performance was released in 2008 as Live at the Sugar Club deluxe CD/DVD package sold exclusively on her website.

O'Connor released two songs from her album Theology to download for free from her official website: "If You Had a Vineyard" and "Jeremiah (Something Beautiful)". The album, a collection of covered and original Rastafari spiritual songs, was released in June 2007. The first single from the album, the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber classic "I Don't Know How to Love Him", was released on 30 April 2007.[30] To promote the album, O'Connor toured extensively in Europe and North America. She also appeared on two tracks of the new Ian Brown album The World Is Yours, including the anti-war single "Illegal Attacks".[31]

2010s
In January 2010, O'Connor performed a duet with R&B singer Mary J. Blige produced by former A Tribe Called Quest member Ali Shaheed Muhammad of O'Connor's song "This Is To Mother You" (first recorded by O'Connor on her 1997 Gospel Oak EP). The proceeds of the song's sales were donated to the organisation GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services).[32] In 2012 the song "Lay Your Head Down", written by Brian Byrne and Glenn Close for the soundtrack of the film Albert Nobbs and performed by O'Connor, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
In 2011, O'Connor worked on recording a new album, titled Home, to be released in the beginning of 2012,[33] titled How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?,[34][35] with the first single being "The Wolf is Getting Married". She planned an extensive tour in support of the album but suffered a serious breakdown between December 2011 and March 2012,[36] resulting in the tour and all other musical activities for the rest of 2012 being cancelled. O'Connor resumed touring in 2013 with the The Crazy Baldhead Tour. The second single "4th and Vine" was released on 18 February 2013.[37]

In February 2014, it was revealed that O'Connor had been recording a new album of original material, titled The Vishnu Room, consisting of romantic love songs.[38] In early June 2014, it O'Connor's new album was retitled I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss, with an 11 August release date. The title derives from the Ban Bossy campaign that took place earlier the same year. The album's first single is entitled "Take Me to Church".[39][40]

In November 2014, O'Connor's management was taken over by Simon Napier-Bell and Björn de Water.[41] On 15 November, O'Connor joined the charity supergroup Band Aid 30 along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording the latest version of the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?" at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, to raise money for the West African Ebola virus epidemic.[42] In 2015 she spoke of plans to publish a memoir.[43]

O'Connor said that she would release a new album in 2019, titled No Mud No Lotus, with a demo song from the album, "Milestones" produced with David Holmes

Ric Ocasek

Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek (/oʊˈkæsɛk/), was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and painter. He was the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band the Cars. In 2018, Ocasek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars.[2] That same year, he exhibited a number of his paintings in a national tour.[
Early life
Ocasek was born on March 23, 1944,[4] and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.[5] When Ocasek was 16 years old, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from Maple Heights High School in 1963.[6][7] Ocasek briefly attended Antioch College and Bowling Green State University, but dropped out to pursue a career in music.[8][9]

Ocasek met future Cars bassist Benjamin Orr in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band The Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program.[10] He reconnected with Orr a few years later in Columbus, Ohio, and the two began booking bands together. They formed a band called ID Nirvana in 1968 and performed in and around Ohio State University.[11]

Career
Early career
Ocasek and Orr were in various bands in Columbus and Ann Arbor, Michigan, before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, they formed a Crosby, Stills and Nash-style folk rock band called Milkwood. They released one album, How's the Weather, on Paramount Records in early 1973 but it failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, which included Orr and keyboardist Greg Hawkes, who had played on Milkwood's album. Ocasek and Orr also performed as an acoustic duo during this period. Some of the songs they played became the early Cars songs. Later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton in the band Cap'n Swing. Cap'n Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori, who began playing songs from their demo tape on her show. After Cap'n Swing was rejected by several record labels, Ocasek got rid of the bass player and drummer and decided to form a band that better fit his style of writing. Orr took over on bass and David Robinson, best known for his career with the Modern Lovers, became the drummer. Hawkes returned to play keyboards and the band became "The Cars" in late 1976.[citation needed]

The Cars
Main article: The Cars
Ocasek was a founding member of the Cars, recording numerous hit songs from 1978 to 1988. He played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals for a majority of songs (bassist Benjamin Orr was lead vocalist on the remaining tracks). After splitting writing duty with Orr in the 1970s, Ocasek became the principal songwriter of the band, and wrote nearly all of the Cars' material, sharing credit on only a few songs with bandmate Greg Hawkes as co-writer. In 2010, Ocasek reunited with the surviving original members of the Cars to record their first album in 24 years, titled Move Like This, which was released on May 10, 2011.[12]

Production
During his time with the Cars, Ocasek developed a reputation as a successful producer, and took this role for many up-and-coming bands of differing genres including Bad Brains' Rock for Light and Guided by Voices' Do the Collapse. His other production credits include Weezer's Blue Album and Green Album (both multi-platinum), Suicide,[13] Romeo Void, Hole,[13] Bebe Buell,[14] No Doubt,[13] Nada Surf, Irish folk-punk band Black 47, Bad Religion, Johnny Bravo, D Generation, The Wannadies, Possum Dixon, Martin Rev, Jonathan Richman, and the 2006 album by The Pink Spiders titled Teenage Graffiti. He also produced a portion of the third Motion City Soundtrack album, Even If It Kills Me. In 2014, Ocasek produced Everything Will Be Alright in the End, the ninth studio album by Weezer and his third collaboration with the band, and For All My Sisters, the sixth album by The Cribs.[15]

Solo career
The singer released his first solo album in 1982. Beatitude is a somewhat more experimental variation of the Cars' new wave rock sound. On some tracks Ocasek played all of the instruments.[16] Greg Hawkes also played on the album.[17] A more synthesizer-heavy follow up, This Side of Paradise, was released in 1986. This album featured Hawkes, Elliot Easton and Ben Orr.[16] A No. 15 hit single, "Emotion in Motion," accompanied the album.[citation needed]

The Cars disbanded in 1988, and Ocasek disappeared from the public eye for a couple of years. He resurfaced in 1990 with his own album, Fireball Zone. One track, "Rockaway," enjoyed a brief stay on the charts, but his solo albums have seen disappointing sales, especially compared to his success with the Cars. He subsequently released other solo works throughout the decade, including 1993's Quick Change World, 1996's Getchertiktz (a collaboration with Suicide's Alan Vega and Canadian poet Gillian McCain comprising only beatnik poetry set to music, sound effects, etc.), and 1997's Billy Corgan-produced Troublizing (which Ocasek supported with a very brief tour, his first since leaving the Cars). In 2005 Ocasek released another album, Nexterday, to little fanfare, but it received positive reviews.[18]

Recordings by Ocasek were reportedly among thousands of tapes destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[19]

In other media
Ocasek wrote a book of poetry in 1993 titled Negative Theatre. It was at one time expected to be incorporated into an album and multimedia incarnation of the same name, but those plans were dropped abruptly. For many years Ocasek had a hobby of making drawings, photo collages, and mixed-media art works which, in 2009, were shown at a gallery in Columbus, Ohio as an exhibit called "Teahead Scraps".[20]

Ocasek had a cameo role as a beatnik painter in the John Waters film Hairspray,[21] and had a small part in the 1987 movie Made in Heaven[22] in which he played a mechanic.

Ocasek stated in a 2005 interview in Rockline that he hated touring and was unlikely to do so again. He also stated he would not be reuniting with the Cars again, but gave the okay to his former bandmates to do so, with Todd Rundgren replacing him on vocals, using the name the New Cars.[citation needed]

On April 17, 2006, Ocasek appeared on The Colbert Report and volunteered to put Todd Rundgren "on notice". He appeared again on the July 26, 2006, episode to cheers from the audience as he volunteered to lead a commando mission to "rescue" Stephen Jr., the baby eagle at the San Francisco Zoo named after Stephen Colbert. He also appeared again on April 18, 2007, in order to support his wife during her appearance on the show, after remarks that she found Colbert "extremely attractive". He has been mentioned many times in other episodes as well. The Cars, with Ocasek, appeared on The Colbert Report on August 9, 2011, to promote their new album, Move Like This.[citation needed]

In 2012, Ocasek released Lyrics and Prose, a complete collection of lyrics from his solo and Cars' albums. The book also contains prose and poetry never set to music, as well as previously unpublished photographs and artwork.[citation needed]

Personal life
Ocasek was married three times. He married early in life, but divorced and was married to his second wife, Suzanne Ocasek, in 1971.[23] Ocasek was still married to Suzanne when he met 18-year-old supermodel[24] Paulina Porizkova during filming of the music video for the Cars' song "Drive" in 1984. Ocasek and Porizkova were married on August 23, 1989[25] on Saint-Barthélemy island. In May 2018, Porizkova announced she and Ocasek had separated a year earlier.[26][27]

Ocasek had six sons, two from each of his three marriages. His eldest son, Christopher was a singer who formed the rock group Glamour Camp which released one album in 1989. His other children include Adam, Eron, Derek (b. 1981),[23][28] Jonathan Raven (b. 1993),[29] and Oliver (b. 1999).[30][failed verification]

He and co-founder of the Cars Benjamin Orr were close friends who became estranged when the band broke up. Their friendship was commemorated in the song "Silver", which Ocasek wrote as a dedication to Orr upon his death in 2000.[citation needed]

Death
Ocasek was found dead in his New York City townhouse on September 15, 2019.[31] Early reports said he died of natural causes, and was discovered dead by his estranged wife Paulina Porizkova.[32] Sources differed on Ocasek's age at the time of his death, with some sources and public records stating he was either 70 or 75 years old. Some obituaries, including that of The New York Times, included both ages.[33]

Discography
Solo albums
Beatitude (1982)
This Side of Paradise (1986)
Fireball Zone (1991)
Quick Change World (1993)
Negative Theater (1993)
Troublizing (1997)
Nexterday (2005)
Spoken word albums
Getchertiktz with Alan Vega and Gillian McCain (1996)
Production credits
Suicide – Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev (1980)[40]
Ric Ocasek – Beatitude (1982)
Romeo Void – Benefactor (1982)[41]
Bad Brains – Rock for Light (1983)[42]
Alan Vega – Saturn Strip (1983)[43]
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions -Rattlesnakes (1984; Remixed three songs for U.S. release)[44]
Ric Ocasek – This Side of Paradise (1986)
The Cars – Door to Door (1987)[45]
Suicide – A Way of Life (1988)[46]
Ric Ocasek – Fireball Zone (1991)
Suicide – Why Be Blue (1992)[47]
Ric Ocasek – Quick Change World (1993)
Ric Ocasek – Negative Theater (1993)
Black 47 – Fire of Freedom (1993)[48]
Alan Vega – New Raceion (1993)[49]
Weezer – Weezer (Blue Album) (1994)[50]
Bad Brains – God of Love (1995)[51]
Bad Religion – The Gray Race (1996)[52]
Nada Surf – High/Low (1996)[53]
Ric Ocasek – Troublizing (1997)
D Generation – No Lunch (1998)[54]
Jonathan Richman – I'm So Confused (1998)[55]
Possum Dixon – New Sheets (1998)[56]
Guided by Voices – Do the Collapse (1999)[57]
The Wannadies – Yeah (1999)[58]
Weezer – Weezer (Green Album) (2001)[59]
No Doubt – Rock Steady (2001; tracks "Don't Let Me Down" and "Platinum Blonde Life")[60]
Le Tigre – This Island (2004)[61]
Ric Ocasek – Nexterday (2005)
Brazilian Girls – Talk to La Bomb (2006; track "Last Call")[62]
The Pink Spiders – Teenage Graffiti (2006)[63]
Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me (2007; Five tracks)[64]
Shwayze – Let It Beat (2009; track "Crazy for You")[65]
Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright in the End (2014)[66]
The Cribs – For All My Sisters (2015)

بي بي كينغ

رايلي بي كينغ المشهور باسم بي بي كينغ (B.B.King) عازف غيتار ومغني بلوز وكاتب أغاني أمريكي ولد في 16 سبتمبر 1925 وتوفي في 14 مايو 2015 ,صنفته مجلة رولينغ ستونز في المركز السادس في قائمتها لأفضل 100 لاعب غيتار على مر العصور
السيرة المهنية
اقتنى كينغ أول غيتار في حياته، حين كان في الخامسة عشرة من عمره، وبحلول أواسط الأربعينيات من القرن الماضي، انتقل إلى ممفيس، ليتدرب على يد ابن عمه عازف الغيتار في موسيقى البلوز بوكا وايت، وسرعان ما ابتدع كينغ أسلوبه الخاص في العزف على الغيتار، مبتكرا نغما متهدجا لم يسبقه إليه أحد، إذ استحوذ على المستمعين، الذين كانوا يميزونه فور سماعه، بدأ كينغ عزف موسيقى البلوز والغوسبل في ممفيس، وبعد أن أتيحت له فرصة المشاركة لمدة عشر دقائق في برنامج إذاعي محلي، أطلق عليه اسم صبي البلوز في شارع بيل (Beale Street Blues Boy)، وهو اللقب الذي اختصر ليصبح "بي بي"، وهو اسم التحبب، الذي انبثق منه حرفا بي. بي. الشهيران في اسمه اليوم.

حتى بلوغه سن الخامسة والأربعين كان كينغ، أصدر ما يزيد عن عشرة ألبومات منها Singing the Blues عام 1957 وهو أول ألبوماته وIndianola Mississippi Seeds عام 1970 الذي خلط به كينغ موسيقى البلوز مع البوب والروك ، هذا بالإضافة إلى ألبومات وأغاني منفرده عديده.

ويضمن أسلوب كينغ المتميز الملتهب في العزف على الغيتار وحضوره الطاغي نفاد جميع البطاقات في الحفلات الموسيقية التي يقدمها أثناء جولاته العالمية ويصر كينغ، أثناء تنقله من حفلة إلى أخرى مع رفيقه الدائم غيتار من نوع "غيبسون" صنع حسب مواصفات خاصة به، ويطلق عليه اسم "لوسيل" تحببا، على أنه لا يعتزم التقاعد قريبا رغم كبر سنه حيث أنه أوضح في مقابلة له مع المراسل كيفن تشابل لمجلة "إيبوني" "إن كانت موسيقاي تؤثر على خمسة أشخاص من كل مائة، فإن ذلك يستحق كل ما أبذله من عناء".

الجوائز
فاز كينغ في حياته الفنية بجائزة غرامي 14 مرة، وأدرج اسمه عام 1984 في قاعة مشاهير مؤسسة البلوز، في حين أدرج عام 1987 في قاعة مشاهير الروك آند رول ،وفي عام 2003 صنفته مجلة رولينغ ستونز في المركز السادس في قائمتها لأفضل 100 لاعب غيتار على مر العصور، وجرى التصديق رسميا على شهرته، عندما احتفى الرئيسان الأميركيان بيل كلنتون، وجورج بوش، بإنجازاته في حفل تكريم خاص في مركز كينيدي.

وفاته
توفي عازف الجيتار الأمريكي BB King، المعروف بأنّه أسطورة البلوز، عن عمر ناهز الـ 89 عاماً في منزله في لاس فيغاس.

في السينما
قام بي بي كينغ بالتمثيل 11 فيلما ، وله ما يزيد على 53 موسيقى تصويرية في الأفلام .

B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists.[3]

King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert and Freddie King).[4][5][6] King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s.[7] In 1956 alone, he appeared at 342 shows.[8]

King was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago, and as his fame grew, toured the world extensively. King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 14, 2015.
Early life
Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925,[9] on the Berclair cotton plantation near the town of Itta Bena, Mississippi,[10][11] the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella King.[11] He considered the nearby city of Indianola, Mississippi to be his home.[12] When King was four years old, his mother left his father for another man, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elnora Farr, in Kilmichael, Mississippi.[11]

While young, King sang in the gospel choir at Elkhorn Baptist Church in Kilmichael. King was attracted to the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ because of its music. The local minister performed with a Sears Roebuck Silvertone guitar during services. The minister taught King his first three chords.[13] It seems that at the age of 12 he purchased his first guitar for $15.00,[11] although another source indicates he was given his first guitar by Bukka White, his mother's first cousin (King's grandmother and White's mother were sisters).[14]

In November 1941, "King Biscuit Time" first aired, broadcasting on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. It was a radio show featuring the Mississippi Delta blues. King listened to it while on break at a plantation. A self-taught guitarist, he then wanted to become a radio musician.[15]

In 1943, King left Kilmichael to work as a tractor driver and play guitar with the Famous St. John's Gospel Singers of Inverness, Mississippi, performing at area churches and on WGRM in Greenwood, Mississippi.[16][17]

In 1946, King followed Bukka White to Memphis, Tennessee. White took him in for the next ten months.[11] However, King returned to Mississippi shortly afterward, where he decided to prepare himself better for the next visit, and returned to West Memphis, Arkansas, two years later in 1948. He performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM in West Memphis, where he began to develop an audience. King's appearances led to steady engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis, and later to a ten-minute spot on the Memphis radio station WDIA.[18] The radio spot became so popular that it was expanded and became the Sepia Swing Club.[19]

He worked at WDIA as a singer and disc jockey, where he was given the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "Blues Boy", and finally to B.B.[20][21][22] It was there that he first met T-Bone Walker. King said, "Once I'd heard him for the first time, I knew I'd have to have [an electric guitar] myself. 'Had' to have one, short of stealing!"[23]

Career
1949–2005
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, King was a part of the blues scene on Beale Street. "Beale Street was where it all started for me," King said. He performed with Bobby Bland, Johnny Ace and Earl Forrest in a group called The Beale Streeters.[24]

According to King and Joe Bihari, Ike Turner introduced King to the Bihari brothers while he was a talent scout at Modern Records.[25][14] In 1949, King began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles-based RPM Records, a subsidiary of Modern. Many of King's early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who later founded Sun Records. Before his RPM contract, King had debuted on Bullet Records by issuing the single, "Miss Martha King" (1949), which did not chart well. "My very first recordings [in 1949] were[sic] for a company out of Nashville called Bullet, the Bullet Record Transcription company," King recalled. "I had horns that very first session. I had Phineas Newborn on piano; his father played drums, and his brother, Calvin, played guitar with me. I had Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch on tenor sax, his brother, Thomas, on trumpet, and a lady trombone player. The Newborn family were the house band at the famous Plantation Inn in West Memphis."[26]

King assembled his own band; the B.B. King Review, under the leadership of Millard Lee. The band initially consisted of Calvin Owens and Kenneth Sands (trumpet), Lawrence Burdin (alto saxophone), George Coleman (tenor saxophone),[27] Floyd Newman (baritone saxophone), Millard Lee (piano), George Joyner (bass) and Earl Forest and Ted Curry (drums). Onzie Horne was a trained musician elicited as an arranger to assist King with his compositions. By his own admission, King could not play chords well and always relied on improvisation.[28]

King's recording contract was followed by tours across the United States, with performances in major theaters in cities such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, and St. Louis, as well as numerous gigs in small clubs and juke joints of the southern United States. During one show in Twist, Arkansas, a brawl broke out between two men and caused a fire. He evacuated along with the rest of the crowd but went back to retrieve his guitar. He said he later found out that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. He named the guitar Lucille, as a reminder not to fight over women or run into any more burning buildings
Following his first Billboard Rhythm and Blues charted number one, "3 O'Clock Blues" (February 1952),[32] B.B. King became one of the most important names in R&B music in the 1950s, amassing an impressive list of hits[22] including "You Know I Love You", "Woke Up This Morning", "Please Love Me", "When My Heart Beats like a Hammer", "Whole Lotta Love", "You Upset Me Baby", "Every Day I Have the Blues", "Sneakin' Around", "Ten Long Years", "Bad Luck", "Sweet Little Angel", "On My Word of Honor", and "Please Accept My Love". This led to a significant increase in his weekly earnings, from about $85 to $2,500,[33] with appearances at major venues such as the Howard Theater in Washington and the Apollo in New York, as well as touring the "Chitlin' Circuit". 1956 became a record-breaking year, with 342 concerts booked and three recording sessions.[34] That same year he founded his own record label, Blues Boys Kingdom, with headquarters at Beale Street in Memphis. There, among other projects, he was a producer for artists such as Millard Lee and Levi Seabury.[12] In 1962, King signed to ABC-Paramount Records, which was later absorbed into MCA Records (which itself was later absorbed into Geffen Records). In November 1964, King recorded the Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater.[32] King later said that Regal Live "is considered by some the best recording I've ever had . . . that particular day in Chicago everything came together . . ."[35]

From the late 1960s, new manager Sid Seidenberg pushed King into a different type of venue as blues-rock performers like Eric Clapton (once a member of The Yardbirds, as well as Cream), and Paul Butterfield were popularizing an appreciation of blues music among white audiences.[36] King gained further visibility among rock audiences as an opening act on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American Tour.[37] He won a 1970 Grammy Award for his version of the song "The Thrill Is Gone;"[38] which was a hit on both the Pop and R&B charts. It also gained the number 183 spot in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[39]

King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2014.[7][40] In 2004, he was awarded the international Polar Music Prize, given to artists "in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music."[41]

From the 1980s to his death in 2015, he maintained a highly visible and active career, appearing on numerous television shows and sometimes performing 300 nights a year. In 1988, King reached a new generation of fans with the single "When Love Comes to Town," a collaborative effort between King and the Irish band U2 on their Rattle and Hum album.[32] In December 1997, he performed in the Vatican's fifth annual Christmas concert and presented his trademark guitar "Lucille" to Pope John Paul II.[42][43] In 1998, he appeared in The Blues Brothers 2000, playing the part of the lead singer of the Louisiana Gator Boys, along with Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Koko Taylor and Bo Diddley. In 2000, he and Clapton teamed up again to record Riding With the King, which won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.[44]

Discussing where he took the Blues, from "dirt floor, smoke in the air" joints to grand concert halls, King said the Blues belonged everywhere beautiful music belonged. He successfully worked both sides of the commercial divide, with sophisticated recordings and "raw, raucous" live performance.[35]

2006–2014: Farewell tour and later activities
In 2006, King went on a "farewell" world tour, although he remained active afterward.[45] The tour was partly supported by Northern Irish guitarist, Gary Moore, with whom King had previously toured and recorded. It started in the United Kingdom, and continued with performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival and in Zürich at the Blues at Sunset. During his show in Montreux at the Stravinski Hall, he jammed with Joe Sample, Randy Crawford, David Sanborn, Gladys Knight, Leela James, Andre Beeka, Earl Thomas, Stanley Clarke, John McLaughlin, Barbara Hendricks and George Duke.
In June 2006, King was present at a memorial of his first radio broadcast at the Three Deuces Building in Greenwood, Mississippi, where an official marker of the Mississippi Blues Trail was erected. The same month, a groundbreaking was held for a new museum, dedicated to King,[47] in Indianola, Mississippi.[48] The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opened on September 13, 2008.[49]

In late October 2006, King recorded a concert album and video entitled B.B. King: Live at his B.B. King Blues Clubs in Nashville and Memphis. The video of the four-night production featured his regular B.B. King Blues Band and captured his show as he performed it nightly around the world. Released in 2008, they documented his first live performances in over a decade.[50]

In 2007, King played at Eric Clapton's second Crossroads Guitar Festival[51] and contributed the songs "Goin' Home", to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (with Ivan Neville's DumpstaPhunk)[52] and "One Shoe Blues" to Sandra Boynton's children's album Blue Moo, accompanied by a pair of sock puppets in a music video for the song.[53]

In the summer of 2008, King played at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, where he was given a key to the city.[54] Also in 2008, he was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame
King performed at the Mawazine festival in Rabat, Morocco, on May 27, 2010.[56] In June 2010, King performed at the Crossroads Guitar Festival with Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, and Eric Clapton.[57] He also contributed to Cyndi Lauper's album Memphis Blues, which was released on June 22, 2010.[58]

In 2011, King played at the Glastonbury Music Festival,[59] and in the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he recorded a concert video.[60]

Rolling Stone ranked King at No. 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[61]

On February 21, 2012, King was among the performers of "In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues," during which President Barack Obama sang part of "Sweet Home Chicago".[62] King recorded for the debut album of rapper and producer Big K.R.I.T., who also hails from Mississippi.[63] On July 5, 2012, King performed a concert at the Byblos International Festival in Lebanon.[64]

On May 26, 2013, King appeared at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.[65]

On October 3, 2014, after completing his live performance at the House of Blues in Chicago, a doctor diagnosed King with dehydration and exhaustion, and the eight remaining shows of his ongoing tour had to be cancelled. King did not reschedule the shows, and the House of Blues show would prove to be the last before his death in 2015
Equipment
For more information about King's guitar, see Lucille (guitar).
B.B. King used equipment characteristic of the different periods he played in. He played guitars made by various manufacturers early in his career. He played a Fender Esquire on most of his recordings with RPM Records.[69] However, he was best known for playing variants of the Gibson ES-355.

In the September edition 1995 of Vintage Guitar magazine, early photos show him playing a Gibson ES-5 through a Fender tweed amp. In reference to the photo, B.B. King stated, "Yes; the old Fender amplifiers were the best that were ever made, in my opinion. They had a good sound and they were durable; guys would throw them in the truck and they’d hold up. They had tubes, and they’d get real hot, but they just had a sound that is hard to put into words. The Fender Twin was great, but I have an old Lab Series amp that isn’t being made anymore. I fell in love with it, because its sound is right between the old Fender amps that we used to have and the Fender Twin. It’s what I’m using tonight."[70]

He later moved on from the larger Gibson hollow bodied instruments which were prone to feedback when played a high volumes to various semi-hollow models beginning first with the ES-335 and then a deluxe version called the ES-355 which employed a stereo option.[70] In 1980, Gibson Guitar Corporation launched the B.B. King Lucille model, a ES-355 with stereo options, a varitone selector and fine tuners (neither of which were actually utilized by B.B.) and, at King's direct request, no f-holes to further reduce feedback. In 2005, Gibson made a special run of 80 Gibson Lucilles, referred to as the "80th Birthday Lucille", the first prototype of which was given as a birthday gift to King, and which he used thereafter.[71]

King used a Lab Series L5 2×12" combo amplifier and had been using this amplifier for a long time. It was made by Norlin Industries for Gibson in the 1970s and 1980s. Other popular L5 users are Allan Holdsworth and Ty Tabor of King's X. The L5 has an onboard compressor, parametric equalization, and four inputs. King also used a Fender Twin Reverb.[72]

He used his signature model strings "Gibson SEG-BBS B.B. King Signature Electric Guitar Strings" with gauges: 10–13–17p–32w–45w–54w and D'Andrea 351 MD SHL CX (medium 0.71mm, tortoise shell, celluloid) picks.[72]

B.B. King's Blues Club
In 1991, Beale Street developer John Elkington recruited B.B. King to Memphis to open the original B.B. King's Blues Club, and in 1994, a second club was launched at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's Times Square opened in June 2000 but closed on April 29, 2018. Management is currently in the process of finding a new location in New York City.[73] Two more clubs opened, at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in January 2002,[74] and in Nashville in 2003.[75] Another club opened in Orlando in 2007.[76] A club in West Palm Beach opened in the fall of 2009[77] and an additional one, based in the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, opened in the winter of 2009.[78] Another opened in the New Orleans French Quarter in 2016
Television and other appearances
King made guest appearances in numerous popular television shows, including The Cosby Show, The Young and the Restless, General Hospital,[80] The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street,[81] Married... with Children, Sanford and Son, and Touched by an Angel.

In 2000, the children's show, Between The Lions, featured a singing character named "B.B. the King of Beasts", modeled on the real King.[82]

B.B. King: The Life of Riley, a feature documentary about King narrated by Morgan Freeman and directed by Jon Brewer, was released on October 15, 2012.[83]

Commercials
King, who was diabetic, appeared in several television commercials for OneTouch Ultra, a blood glucose monitoring device, in the 2000s and early 2010s.[84] He appeared in 1995 in a McDonald's commercial with Australian guitarist Nathan Cavaleri, and then in a commercial for the Toyota Camry with his guitar Lucille.[85]

Personal life
King was married twice, to Martha Lee Denton, November 1946 to 1952, and to Sue Carol Hall, 1958 to 1966. The failure of both marriages has been attributed to the heavy demands made by King's 250 performances a year.[11][86] It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several different women.[11][9] After his death, three more have come forward, claiming King as their father as well.[87] Though neither of his marriages produced children, and biographer Charles Sawyer wrote that doctors found his sperm count too low to conceive children,[88] King never disputed paternity of any of the 15 who claimed it, and by all accounts was generous in bankrolling college tuitions and establishing trust funds.[87] In May 2016, the 11 surviving children initiated legal proceedings against King's appointed trustee over his estimated $30 million to $40 million estate. Several of them also went public with the allegation that King's business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, had fatally poisoned him. Autopsy results showed no evidence of poisoning. A defamation suit filed by Johnson against the accusing family members (including his own sister, Karen Williams) is pending. Other children have filed lawsuits targeting King's music estate, which remains in dispute.[87]

King was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1990.[89] He lived with diabetes for over 20 years, and was a high-profile spokesman in the fight against the disease.[46][90]

King was an FAA certified private pilot and learned to fly in 1963 at what was then Chicago Hammond Airport in Lansing, Illinois.[91][92] He frequently flew to gigs but in 1995 his insurance company and manager asked him to fly only with another certified pilot. As a result, he stopped flying around the age of 70.[93]

King's favorite singer was Frank Sinatra. In his autobiography he spoke about how he was a "Sinatra nut" and how he went to bed every night listening to Sinatra's classic album In the Wee Small Hours. During the 1960s Sinatra had arranged for King to play at the main clubs in Las Vegas. He credited Sinatra for opening doors to black entertainers who were not given the chance to play in "white-dominated" venues.[94]

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed B.B. King among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[95]

Philanthropy and notable campaigns
In September 1970, King recorded Live in Cook County Jail, during a time in which issues of race[96] and class in the prison system were prominent in politics. King also co-founded the Foundation for the Advancement of Inmate Rehabilitation and Recreation, tying in his support for prisoners and interest in prison reform.[96] In addition to prison reform, King also wanted to utilize prison performances as a way to preserve music and songs in a similar way that Alan Lomax did.[97]

In 2002, King signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underprivileged public schools throughout the United States. He sat on the organization's Honorary Board of Directors.[98]

In the 2000s to early 2010s, King[89] was also involved in a diabetes awareness campaign with American Idol contestant, Crystal Bowersox, with One Touch Ultra, starring in commercials promoting diabetes health management.[99][100]

برنت

خام برنت أو مزيج برنت (بالإنجليزية: Brent Crude) وهو خام نفطي يستخدم كمعيار لتسعير ثلثي إنتاج النفط العالمي، خاصة في الأسواق الأوروبية والأفريقية، ويتكون برنت من مزيج نفطي من 15 حقلا مختلفا في منطقتي برنت وتينيان (بعضها يقع في المملكة المتحدة والبعض الآخر في النروج) اللتين تنتجان نحو 500 الف برميل يوميا، ويعتبر من أنواع النفط الخفيفة الحلوة بسبب وزنه النوعي البالغ 38 درجة وانخفاض نسبة الكبريت التي تصل إلى 0.37 في المائة. وبناء على الفروق بينه وبين الخامات الأخرى، فانه بشكل عام يباع بسعر أعلى من سلة نفط 'اوبك' بنحو دولار للبرميل، وبسعر اقل من خام غرب تكساس بنحو دولار أيضا، وتستخدم قيمته لتسعير ثلثي واردات العالم المتداول بها من النفط الخام. وعلى الرغم من أن الدول الأوروبية تستهلك أغلب إنتاج خام برنت، لكنه يصدر أحيانا إلى الولايات المتحدة وبعض الدول الأفريقية، إذا كان الفرق بين سعره وسعر النفط المماثل في هذه الأسواق أكبر من تكاليف الشحن.ويعتبر اشراف حقوله على النضوب مشكلة كبيرة للمتعاملين الذين بدأوا يبحثون عن بديل للتسعير. اشتق اسم برنت من لقب أطلقته شركة شل لاستكشاف النفط على حقل نفط قامت بالتحقق منه في منطقة بحر الشمال نيابة عن شركتي إيكسون موبايل ورويال دوتس شل.وقد قامت شركة شل بتسمية جميع الحقول النفطية بأسماء طيور، وفي هذه الحالة فقد سميت المنطقة على اسم إوز برنت.

منيرة حمدي

وُلِدَت مُنِيرَة حمدي في باجة، وهي مغنية تونسية بدأت حياتها المهنية في برنامج نادي المواهب.

شاركت مُنِيرَة  في الحفل الافتتاحي لدورة عام 2001 م للمهرجان الدولي قرطاج، كما شاركت في أوبريت "رقص الكمان" في عام 2005م.

نبيل القروي

نبيل القروي (1 أغسطس 1963 بنزرت) هو رجل أعمال ورجل سياسة تونسي وواحد من اللاعبين الرئيسيين في عالم الإعلان في تونس. وهو على رأس مجموعة قروي وقروي وباعث قناة نسمة.
المسيرة
ريادة الأعمال
تدرب في التسويق والمبيعات في شركات متعددة الجنسيات. بعد أن سافر إلى جنوب فرنسا للعمل في شركة في كولغيت - بالموليف، انضم إلى قسم المبيعات والتسويق في هنكل. هناك اتصلت به شركة توظيف للانضمام إلى الوحدة الدولية لقناة كنال + التي بدأت في إنشائها في شمال إفريقيا. التحق بها كأول موظف في فرع شركة شمال أفريقيا ، حيث تمكن من المبيعات لمدة عامين. في عام 1996، أنشأ وكالة الاتصالات KNRG مع شقيقه غازي.

انضم بعد ذلك إلى شقيقه غازي في الإعلان: أسسوا معًا، في عام 2002، مجموعة دولية مستقلة من وسائل الإعلام والإعلان، قروي وقروي. على رأس المجموعة وبعد نجاح أول مكتب في المغرب، افتتح على التوالي مكاتب في الجزائر، الرياض، الخرطوم، نواكشوط وطرابلس. أصبحت مجموعته الآن معترف بها دوليًا لإبداعه وأفكاره المبتكرة، والتي أكسبته العديد من الجوائز من الجمهور والمهنيين.

بالتوازي مع التطور الدولي، تنتهج سياسة التنويع وإنشاء فروع فرعية للإنتاج السمعي البصري، والتفاعل الرقمي، والعرض الحضر، والتسمية الموسيقية. في عام 2009، تولى منصب شركة التلفزيون التابعة للمجموعة، نسمة.

إنه يقف في المغرب العربي، ورغبًا في إثبات جدواه، يتعهد بتثبيته من خلال العنصر الثقافي: إنه يجلب حياة جديدة إلى التراث الموسيقي المغاربي وينتج البرنامج التلفزيوني ستار أكاديمي المغرب الكبير حيث يعيش شباب شمال إفريقيا معًا ويتعرفون سريعًا على بعضهم البعض، مما يثبت أن الحواجز التي تعترض الاتحاد هي سياسية فقط. من عام 2016، يسافر إلى أنحاء الجمهورية التونسية، بما في ذلك المناطق الأكثر حرمانًا لمقابلة هؤلاء السكان، ويقدم لهم الضروريات الأساسية والرعاية الطبية

في 25 أبريل 2019، تم الاستيلاء على معدات نسمة بناءً على طلب الهيئة العليا المستقلة للاتصال السمعي البصري، والتي تشير إلى أن القناة تبث دون ترخيص منذ عام 2014 وبعد محاولات متعددة لإيجاد حل مع هذا سلسلة. في 23 أغسطس، تمنع الهيئة العليا المستقلة للاتصال السمعي البصري والهيئة العليا المستقلة للانتخابات نسمة التي تبث بدون ترخيص، من تغطية الحملة الانتخابية.

العمل السياسي
البدايات
في 30 ديسمبر 2010، عندما هزت الاضطرابات منطقة سيدي بوزيد في وسط تونس ووضعت وسائل الإعلام من قبل نظام زين العابدين بن علي، يتعهد ببث نقاش سياسي على قناته الترفيهية يتم الكشف عن حقيقة الوقائع لأول مرة للجمهور من قبل وسائل الإعلام المحلية. خلال الثورة التونسية في 2011، تحول القناة إلى قناة إخبارية تصبح مرجعًا في المشهد الإعلامي التونسي. بعد ذلك بث نبيل القروي مقابلة مع الباجي قايد السبسي، وهو شخصية غائبة عن المشهد السياسي لأكثر من عشرين عامًا. بعد هذه المقابلة، طُلب منه تولي منصب رئيس وزراء في مرحلة إنتقالية.

في 9 أكتوبر 2011، تبث قناته فيلم برسيبوليس، حاول حوالي 200 من السلفيين حرق مقر قناة نسمة قبل مهاجمة منزله بعد بضعة أيام. ونتيجة لذلك، تتم محاكمته بسبب تقويض قيم المقدسات أثناء "محاكمة برسبوليس"، وهي محاكمة لها تداعيات في الخارج. إذا كان يواجه عقوبة السجن لمدة تصل إلى ثلاث سنوات، فقد حُكم عليه أخيرًا في 3 مايو 2012 بدفع غرامة قدرها 2400 دينار تونسي، لكنه يحتفظ بالحق في الاستئناف. في المحاكمة، تسبب خطاب شكري بلعيد، زعيم اليسار ومحامي نبيل قروي، ضجة كبيرة. تغطي نسمة الحدث ويستقيل رئيس الحكومة. يتم قتل شكري بلعيد لاحقا.

حزب نداء تونس
بعد انتصار الإسلاميين التابعين لحزب حركة النهضة في انتخابات المجلس التأسيسي، بدأ مع الباجي قايد السبسي ومجموعة صغيرة من الشخصيات السياسية، إنشاء حزب سياسي لموازنة السلطة الحاكمة. تعقد نداء تونس اجتماعاتها الأولى منذ شهور، وكرس كل سياستها لإنضمام الديمقراطيين من جميع الأنواع.

يلاحظ بشكل خاص عندما يبدأ وينظم اجتماع باريس عام 2013 بين راشد الغنوشي، زعيم حركة النهضة، والباجي قايد السبسي، هذا الاجتماع يفاجئ المراقبين ويقلل بدرجة كبيرة من التوتر في البلاد. نبيل قروي يرافق قائد السبسي خلال رحلة إلى الجزائر. ومع ذلك، يلومه البعض في حزبه على طموحه ونفاد صبره وميله إلى المؤامرات.

في أقل من عامين، أصبح نداء تونس أول تشكيل للبلاد بالفوز في الانتخابات البرلمانية في أكتوبر 2014، وتنفذ الحملة من قبل مجموعة، قروي وقروي. خلال الانتخابات الرئاسية، يعمل كمزود خدمة في المجال السمعي البصري لترشيح الباجي قايد السبسي، الذي يصل إلى منصب رئيس الجمهورية في 31 ديسمبر من نفس العام.

أثناء وجوده في مفترق الهيئة العليا المستقلة للاتصال السمعي البصري في عام 2015 لدور محتمل لعبته في الحملة الانتخابية لنداء تونس، يدعم السيد حافظ قائد السبسي نجل الرئيس، في الكفاح من أجل القيادة الحزب ويصبح عضوًا في مجلسه التنفيذي في يناير 2016 بعد مساعدته في عزل محسن مرزوق، ثم يترك اتجاه نسمة حتى لو استخدم القناة للتوسط في تصرفاته. ومع ذلك، في مواجهة الخلافات التي تنشأ مع حافظ قايد السبسي، يجمد عضويته في الحزب ويلقي بالمنشفة في أبريل 2017. ثم سرب على شبكات التواصل الإجتماعي فيديو حيث يقول إنه يريد حل وسط منظمة غير حكومية تحارب الفساد، ثم استهدف الإخوان نبيل القروي قبل عام بتهمة التهرب الضريبي وعدم سداد قرض إلى بنك الإسكان.

حزب قلب تونس
في يونيو 2019، أعلن ترشيحه للانتخابات الرئاسية، التي هو على رأس توقعات كل التونسيين. في 18 يونيو 2019، تم اعتماد تعديلات مثيرة للجدل، متهمة بحظر نبيل القروي وألفة التراس تمنع الأشخاص الذين تبرعوا للسكان، أو استفادوا من التمويل الأجنبي أو الإعلانات السياسية خلال الاثني عشر شهرًا التي سبقت الانتخابات، أو لديهم سجل إجرامي. في 25 يونيو، قدم 51 نائبا من نداء تونس والجبهة الشعبية رفض بعدم دستورية القرار. في نفس اليوم، أصبح رئيسًا لحزبه الجديد قلب تونس، كان يُطلق عليه سابقًا اسم الحزب التونسي للسلام الاجتماعي.

في يوليو 2019، أعلن أن حزبه يقدم مرشحين في الانتخابات التشريعية في 33 دائرة انتخابية، وقائمته المكونة من 8 نساء و 25 رجلاً بمن فيهم بعضهم من نداء تونس مثل رضا شارف الدين. على الرغم من إلقاء القبض عليه، إلا أن ترشيحه لا يزال مستمراً، حيث لم تصدر ضده أحكام من قبل المحاكم، ولا يحرم من حقوقه المدنية.

في 9 أغسطس 2019، تم تثبيته من قبل الهيئة العليا المستقلة للإنتخابات لأنه بدأ حملته قبل الموعد الرسمي. في 28 أغسطس، وللأسباب نفسها، طلبت من فريق حملتها إزالة الملصقات التي تحمل شعار "لن يمنعنا السجن ... أراك يوم 15 سبتمبر".

المحاكمات والتتبعات القضائية
في عام 2016، تتهمه المنظمة غير الحكومية أنا يقض بغسل الأموال والاختلاس في الخارج، من خلال شركات الواجهة. في عام 2017، تم تسجيل تسريب حيث يدعو نبيل القروي إلى مهاجمة المنظمة غير الحكومية أنا يقض، والذي يسميه "خونة" و "عملاء من الخارج" ويدعو إلى نشر تقرير زائف ضدهم (يبرره على كونه رد فعل "ساخنة"). كما أنه مثير للجدل لعلاقاته مع الجيش الجزائري، وكذلك مع الإسلامي الليبي عبد الحكيم بلحاج.

في 8 يوليو 2019، كجزء من الاتهامات الموضوعة من عام 2016، وُجهت إليه تهمة غسل الأموال مع شقيقه غازي القروي، وتم تجميد ممتلكاته ومنع من مغادرة البلاد. قُبض عليه في 23 أغسطس 2019 بعد مذكرة توقيف صادرة عن شعبة الاتهام التابعة لمحكمة الاستئناف بتونس. ندد حزبه عبر بيان "الممارسات الفاشية". في 3 سبتمبر 2019 عند الاستئناف، تم اعتقاله.

الحياة الخاصة
نبيل له طفلان، ابنة وابن. ابنه خليل توفي في 21 أغسطس 2016 في حادث سيارة على طريق قمرت. زوجته سلوى سماوي كانت في رحلة عمل إلى جنوب إفريقيا وتعود حتى اليوم التالي، دفن ابنهم في 23 أغسطس 2016 في قرطاج.