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Cleanup|date=July 2008Refimprove|date=December 2008Infobox musical artist | name = Pink Martini| image = Pink Martini at Oregon Zoo.jpg| caption = Pink Martini at the Oregon Zoo .| image_size = | landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Portland, Oregon|Portland , Oregon , United States | genre = Jazz , latin (music)|latin , lounge music , European classical music|classical , others| years_active = 1994–present| label = Heinz Records|Heinz (USA), Naďve Records|Naďve (Europe), Wrasse Records|Wrasse (UK)| associated_acts =| website = http://www.pinkmartini.com/ pinkmartini.com| current_members = China Forbes (vocals) Thomas Lauderdale (piano) Robert Taylor (trombone) Gavin Bondy (trumpet) Brian Lavern Davis (percussion) Derek Rieth (percussion) Martín Zarzar (drums) Phil Baker (upright bass) Timothy Nishimoto (vocals and percussion) Nicholas Crosa (violin) Pansy Chang (cello) Dan Faehnle (guitar) Maureen Love (harp)| past_members = Doug Smith (percussion) Jonas Tauber (bass) David Eby (cello) John Wager (bass) Richard Rothfus (percussion) Pepe Raphael (vocals) Paloma Griffin (violin) Pink Martini is a 13-member "little orchestra" http://pinkmartini.com/about/bio/ About Pink Martini from their official website from Portland, Oregon , 1994 in music|formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas Lauderdale . They draw inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned Pop music|pop .
History
Pink Martini has twelve musicians (and sometimes travels with string sections), and performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden . Since then, the band has gone on to play with over 30 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl , the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new Frank Gehry -designed Walt Disney Concert Hall , with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004 & 2008; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in NYC; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; and the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia.
Lauderdale met China Forbes , Pink Martini’s lead vocalist, at Harvard . He was studying history and literature while she was studying English literature and painting. Late at night, they would break into the lower common room in their college dormitory and sing arias by Puccini and Verdi – and the occasional campy Barbara Streisand cover –thus sealing their creative collaboration. Three years after graduating, Lauderdale called Forbes who was living in New York City, where she’d been writing songs and playing guitar in her own folk-rock project, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together for the band. Their first song “Sympathique”– with the chorus “Je ne veux pas travailler”(”I don’t want to work”) – became an overnight sensation in France, and was even nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards. Forbes though fluent only in English sings in 15 different languages.cite news|title=Pink Martini|accessdate=1 January 2012|newspaper=CBS Sunday Morning|date=1 January 2012
Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist”in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000.
In October 2004, the group released its second album, Hang on Little Tomato .
In May 2007, the group released its third album, Hey Eugene! .
Their fourth studio album, Splendor in the Grass (album) was released on October 27, 2009.
Sympathique , Hang on Little Tomato and Hey Eugene! have all gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey, and Pink Martini's records have collectively sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php? story_id=117899914494122200 "Make mine Martini" , Portland Tribune , retrieved May 15, 2007.
On New Year's Eve 2005, Pink Martini performed live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. This performance was aired live on National Public Radio 's Toast of the Nation , and in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting was recorded for a live DVD and later broadcast on US public broadcasting and French television.Citation needed|date=February 2008 The DVD has been rereleased to retail as Discover the World: Live in Concert , featuring not only the full concert, but several vignettes and a short documentary of the band's history.
The band has collaborated and performed with Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Henri Salvador, Jane Powell, Chavela Vargas, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, DJ Dimitri from Paris , clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Hiroshi Wada, DJ Johnny Dynell and several drag queens from New York City, among others. On June 1, 2007, the band appeared on the long-running BBC Two Later with Jools Holland TV music program. On June 14, 2007, Pink Martini performed on Late Show with David Letterman , performing "Hey Eugene".citation needed|date=January 2011 Pink Martini played Walt Disney Concert Hall on New Year's Eve for the first two years it was open (2003/4 and 2004/5). They returned to play NYE there again in 2008/9.
In May 2009, the band recorded three concerts with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Carlos Kalmar for the band’s fifth album … a symphonic record which is slated for a 2011 release.
Pink Martini songs appear in such films as In the Cut , Nurse Betty , Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and the Pussycats , Tortilla Soup , Shanghai Kiss , Mary and Max , and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith and have been used on television shows such as Dead Like Me , The Sopranos and The West Wing (television)|The West Wing , among others.Citation needed|date=February 2008 Their song "Una notte a Napoli" is an integral part of the Italian movie Loose Cannons (film)|Mine Vaganti (2010), by the Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek . The song "No Hay Problema" is included as background/setup music for Microsoft 's Windows Server 2003 and was also used as the background/setup music for an early build of Windows Longhorn , now known as Windows Vista .Citation needed|date=February 2008 In February 2011, the group's lead singer, China Forbes, recorded a http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2011/02/24/dosvedanya-mio-bombino-musical-best-wishes-to-astronauts-paolo-aleksandr-for-atv-docking/ video greeting to the European Space Agency 's Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli , and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri , on board the International Space Station . The astronauts were preparing to oversee the docking of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo vessel, Johannes Kepler, which took place at 17:08 CET on 24 February. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMVXKHSBKG_index_0.html The greeting was set to the sound track of Dosvedanya Mio Bombino - one of Pink Martini's signature songs - and was mixed with footage of the actual docking.
In November 2011, they played at the Balboa Theater with the Bonita Vista High School band, Club Blue .
Discography
1997: Sympathique
2004: Hang on Little Tomato #122 US
2007: Hey Eugene! #30 US
2009: Splendor in the Grass (album)|Splendor in the Grass #45 US
2010: Joy to the World (Pink Martini album)|Joy to the World http://pinkmartini.com/store/index.php? main_page=product_info& cPath=6_7& products_id=33& zenid=1c87a3436ee7af3d050907d35553f1b0 #35 US
2011: A Retrospective (Pink Martini album)|A Retrospective http://pinkmartini.com/store/index.php? main_page=product_music_info& cPath=6_7& products_id=37 #67 CAN
2011: 1969 (Pink Martini album)|1969 (duet with Saori Yuki ) http://pinkmartini.com/store/index.php? main_page=product_info& cPath=6_11& products_id=36& zenid=01e35730a7d49cfeb7cf24d59ea19b30 #64 CAN
DVD
2009 : Discover the World: Live in Concert (DVD)
References
External links
Commons cat
imdb name|2681578, for a partial list of soundtrack appearances
http://www.pinkmartini.com/ Pink Martini official website
http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html? type=audio& id=mb090918pink_martini Pink Martini on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (18 Sep 2009)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/arts/music/15pink.html Music Review | Pink Martini Grab a Cocktail and Listen to the Vintage-Chic Band (15 June 2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=7XZk3djmMW8 Pink Martini - video greeting to ISS astronauts (24 February 2011)
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