Musician and Performer
Embrace have not only enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim at home where they have picked up several awards and nominations including the coveted best new band award at the Brats, but they have also enjoyed similar success overseas, most notably in America where the band were put on the cover of billboard magazine, and in Thailand where their single "You're Not Alone" stayed at number 1 for six weeks becoming the biggest selling single of that year. Closer to home his band are famous for spearheading a movement which later became known as guerilla gigging. Secret gigs by the band so far have involved playing everywhere from beaches and forests to most notoriously a staged break in of the big brother house.
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Famous quotes containing the words musician and/or performer:
“I think
The nightingale, if she should sing by day
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)