Joan Osborne

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Joan Osborne (2009)

Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8, 1962 in Anchorage , Louisville , Kentucky ) is an American singer and singer-songwriter . At the end of 1995 she achieved a worldwide hit with One of Us .

Life

After moving to New York in the early 1990s, Osborne started her own record label called Womanly Hips , which released several independent recordings.

Her first album on a major label was called Relish and was released in March 1995 on Mercury Records . The globally successful single One Of Us (by Eric Bazilian , guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock formation The Hooters from Philadelphia), which was extracted from it, also brought good sales figures for the album, which, however, in contrast to the more pop music- sounding hit, tended towards country , blues and Was folk oriented. The following singles St. Teresa (1996, UK # 33) and Right Hand Man (1996) were rather smaller hits in comparison.

Her second studio album, Righteous Love , was released in the fall of 2000, which was a commercial failure due to its delay and quickly disappeared from the charts .

Osborne appeared in the 2002 film Standing in the Shadows of Motown and toured with the legendary Motown studio band The Funk Brothers . In 2003, she accompanied the Dixie Chicks on their US tour, appeared as a singer in the Jam -Rockern The Dead (formerly the Grateful Dead ) and released their third album How Sweet It Is , a collection of classic rock - and Soul - cover versions .

The album Bring It On Home , released in spring 2012, was nominated for Best Blues Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1995 Relish DE15 (31 weeks)
DE 		AT8 (16 weeks)
AT 		CH18 (23 weeks)
CH 		UK5
gold
gold

(20 weeks)UK 		US9
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(56 weeks)US
First published: March 21, 1995
2000 Righteous love - - - - US90 (4 weeks)
US
First published: September 12, 2000
2007 Breakfast in Bed - - - - US160 (2 weeks)
US
First published: May 2007
2008 Little Wild One - - - - US193 (1 week)
US
First published: September 9, 2008
2012 Bring It On Home - - - - US154 (1 week)
US
First published: March 26, 2012

more publishments

  • 1991: Soul Show: Live at Delta 88
  • 1996: Early Recordings
  • 2002: How Sweet It Is
  • 2005: One of Us
  • 2005: Christmas Means Love
  • 2006: Phil Lesh and Friends - Live at the Warfield
  • 2006: Pretty Little Stranger
  • 2014: Love and Hate
  • 2017: Songs of Bob Dylan

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1995 One of Us
Relish 		DE18 (23 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (12 weeks)
AT 		- UK6 (10 weeks)
UK 		US4th
gold
gold

(22 weeks)US
First published: February 21, 1995
(Re-published: December 28, 1995)
1996 St. Teresa
Relish 		- - - UK33 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: May 1996

more publishments

  • 1996: Right Hand Man
  • 1997: Ladder
  • 2007: I've Got to Use My Imagination
  • 2008: Sweeter Than the Rest
  • 2012: Shake Your Hips
  • 2014: Thirsty for My Tears

Awards for music sales

Golden record

  • BelgiumBelgium Belgium
    • 1996: for the single One of Us
  • New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
    • 1996: for the album Relish

Platinum record

  • CanadaCanada Canada
    • 1996: for the album Relish
  • NorwayNorway Norway
    • 1996: for the single One of Us

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA) Belgium (BEA) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 25,000 ultratop.be
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 100,000 musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ) New Zealand (RMNZ) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 7,500 nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI) Norway (IFPI) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 10,000 ifpi.no
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Gold record icon.svg gold1 Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3 3,500,000 riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 100,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Gold record icon.svg 4 × gold4th Platinum record icon.svg 5 × platinum5

literature

  • Uwe Böhm / Gerd Buschmann, Pop Music - Religion - Lessons. Models and materials for didactics of popular culture (Symbol - Mythos - Medien Vol. 5). Münster 2002. pp. 69-74.

Web links

Commons : Joan Osborne  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
personal data
SURNAME Osborne, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osborne, Joan Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville , Kentucky