Joshua Kadison

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Joshua Kadison, Stuttgart 2008
Joshua Kadison, Stuttgart 2008
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Painted Desert Serenade
  DE 3 
platinum
platinum
04/25/1994 (54 weeks)
  AT 4th 
gold
gold
07/10/1994 (19 weeks)
  CH 7th 
gold
gold
05/01/1994 (31 weeks)
  UK 45 05/27/1995 (6 weeks)
  US 69 
platinum
platinum
01/29/1994 (52 weeks)
Delilah Blue
  DE 35 10/16/1995 (9 weeks)
  AT 32 October 29, 1995 (4 weeks)
  CH 28 10/15/1995 (6 weeks)
Vanishing America
  DE 16 06/18/2001 (12 weeks)
  CH 29 06/17/2001 (10 weeks)
Singles
Jessie
  DE 12 04/11/1994 (32 weeks)
  AT 6th 07/03/1994 (15 weeks)
  CH 11 05/15/1994 (22 weeks)
  UK 15th 02/26/1994 (16 weeks)
  US 26th 10/09/1993 (22 weeks)
Picture Postcards from LA
  DE 55 09/19/1994 (12 weeks)
  US 84 11/12/1994 (9 weeks)
Beautiful in My Eyes
  DE 55 02/06/1995 (11 weeks)
  UK 37 11/12/1994 (5 weeks)
  US 19th 04/16/1994 (21 weeks)
Take It on Faith
  DE 76 10/02/1995 (9 weeks)
Carolina's Eyes
  CH 42 05/20/2001 (9 weeks)

Joshua Kadison (born  February 8, 1963 in Santa Barbara , California ) is an American pop musician.

Life

Joshua Kadison is the son of actress Gloria Castillo and screenwriter, producer, and director Ellis Kadison. In 1978, when Kadison was 15 years old, his mother died of cancer at the age of 45. He then moved through America and lived, among other things, with an Indian woman.

In 2005 he separated from his long-time girlfriend and later made his bisexuality public.

Musical career

In 1994, Kadison had a hit with Jessie from his first album Painted Desert Serenade . Other successful tracks from this album were Picture Postcards from LA and Beautiful in My Eyes . Rumors that he dedicated Jessie to actress Sarah Jessica Parker and that he was in a relationship with her at the time, he has denied.

His second album Delilah Blue sold rather moderately compared to its predecessor; the only single, Take It on Faith , was way down on the charts. EMI terminated the contract with Kadison. After a three-year hiatus, his book 17 Ways to Eat a Mango: A Discovered Journal of Life on an Island of Miracles and his 5-track EP Saturday Night in Storyville were released on a small label in 1998 , which also released the album Troubadour a year later appeared in a TimeQuake .

Another three years later he was welcomed back to EMI: his last album to date on a major label, Vanishing America , produced by Leslie Mandoki , was released. It couldn't replicate the success of the first. The single Carolina's Eyes was a radio hit, but it turned out to be a poor seller.

With his pieces from Venice Beach Sessions 1 and Venice Beach Sessions 2 , which can be downloaded from his website or iTunes, Joshua Kadison went on a major tour in Germany for the first time in late summer 2006, and the concerts were all well attended.

In the spring of 2008 he brought out another 6-track EP entitled Return of the Dragonfly , and in the spring of 2008 he was again on tour in Germany.

Works

Albums and EPs

  • 1994: Painted Desert Serenade
  • 1995: Delilah Blue
  • 1998: Saturday Night in Storyville ( EP )
  • 1999: Troubadour in a TimeQuake
  • 2001: Vanishing America
  • 2005: The Venice Beach Sessions - Part 1 (EP)
  • 2006: The Venice Beach Sessions - Part 2 (EP)
  • 2008: Return of the Dragonfly (EP)

Books

  • 17 Ways to Eat a Mango: A Discovered Journal of Life on an Island of Miracles. Hyperion, New York 1999. ISBN 0-7868-6457-5 .
    • Translation: Seventeen Ways to Eat a Mango. German by Helga Augustin. Knaur, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-426-66061-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Ellis Kadison's biography on IMDB
  3. ↑ Joshua Kadison at laut.de-biography
personal data
SURNAME Kadison, Joshua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Barbara , California , United States