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Libro de Tommy Mottola – Hitmaker: The Man and His Music

Libro de Tommy Mottola – Hitmaker: The Man and His Music

 

Ya conoces a Thalia atravez de su libro “Cada Dia Mas Fuerte” o “Growing Stronger.” Ahora te toca conocer a su marido, Tommy Mottola en su nuevo libro, “Hitmaker: The Man and His Music.”  El libro que escribio Tommy Mottola ya tiene fecha de lanzamiento para el dia Marzo 13, 2012. Lee mas de este libro:

“Hitmaker: The Man and His Music by Tommy Mottola (Mar., hardcover, $27.99, ISBN 978-0446585187). Mottola, one of the most powerful and successful executives in the history of the music industry writes about the singers he discovered, developed, and launched, including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, and Gloria Estefan. ”

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Source: AM New York

Amazon’s description:

Product Description

Much has been written about Tommy Mottola, one of the most powerful, visionary, and successful executives in the history of the music industry. He discovered, developed, and launched the careers of many superstars, including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, and Gloria Estefan and is credited with creating the “Latin Explosion.” He has had the privilege of working alongside Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, Tony Bennett, and Ozzy Osbourne, among other music giants.This is his story-a story of the modern music industry, from Elvis to the iPod, through the eyes of the man who made much of it happen.HITMAKER recounts how a Bronx kid and college dropout became one of the music industry’s most creative and controversial CEOs. For the first time, Tommy lays bare the facts behind the most sensational aspects of his life, including being married to and developing the career of Mariah Carey, managing Michael Jackson’s emotional ups and downs, and the power struggle with his onetime boss and mentor Walter Yetnikoff. HITMAKER will take you inside this world of power, money, and fame as he reveals his fascinating dealings with countless icons and how he was sitting at the top when the business suddenly changed.Tommy’s story is one of incredible highs and lows-and here it is, in his own voice, for the first time.

 About the Author

Tommy Mottola is one of the highest-profile executives in the history of the music industry. He is credited with discovering and guiding the careers of many of the world’s most iconic music artists. Starting as a musician and an Epic Records recording artist at the age of eighteen, he returned twenty years later to run that very company as Sony Music Entertainment’s global CEO. In his tenure, he is credited with tripling the company’s revenue, having sold an estimated eight billion units, and generating sixty-five billion in sales. Tommy now heads the Mottola Company, a global entertainment and media company in New York City. Mr. Mottola resides in New York City with his wife, Thalía, and their two young children.

Among Tommy Mottola’s current endeavors includes SUPERFLY:

“Super Fly: The Musical” is moving forward. Based on the notorious 1972 blaxploitation film, which featured songs by Curtis Mayfield, the Bill T. Jones-helmed project will be workshopped in New York in March. Music industry honcho Tommy Mottola is involved as a producer.

Source: AM New York – Behind The Curtain

Thalia’s “Growing Stronger” is available for Preview on Google Books

Thalia’s “Growing Stronger” is available for Preview on Google Books

 

If you still don’t own a copy, preview Thalia’s book “Growing Stronger” through Google Books.

If you own the book or you’ve enjoyed the preview on Google Books, leave your own review.

 

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Source: Google Books

 

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TOUCHED BY LYME: (book review) Thalia “growing stronger” after Lyme

TOUCHED BY LYME: (book review) Thalia “growing stronger” after Lyme

Entertainment superstar Thalia talks about having Lyme disease in her recent memoir “Growing Stronger.”

Singer Thalia says Lyme made her feel like she was dragged by a truck for 1000 miles.

The Mexican-born entertainer who goes by the single name of “Thalia,” is one of the most famous Spanish-language singers in the world. She’s sold more than 40 million records, has starred in “telenovellas” (soap operas) shown around the world, had a lavish storybook wedding to prominent music executive Tommy Mottola, has sung at the White House and danced with President Obama.

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In the midst of all of that activity, in 2008, she came down with Lyme disease.

Thalia devotes a chapter to the harrowing experience in her recently released memoir, “Growing Stronger.”

The singer started feeling ill near the end of her first pregnancy. After the birth, Thalia’s health really crashed, and she was incapable of caring for her newborn daughter.

Her doctors attributed her symptoms to post-partum depression. Thalia thought something else was going on. “They didn’t care what I said,” she writes. “It was as if I was talking to a wall.”

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[Sidenote: Thalia has declared she used to take over 30 medications per day to treat Lyme]

 

Nothing her doctors gave her helped at all. “I continued to feel like I had been run over by a truck that had dragged me for a thousand miles, along with a steamroller that had crushed every last bone in my body. I literally thought I was dying.”

Any time she could marshal even the smallest bit of energy, she’d check the internet for information that might help. Eventually, her research brought her to Lyme disease, a condition that was eventually confirmed and treated by Lyme specialists.

She recounts how difficult the treatment was: “I would sweat profusely, soaking my pajamas, the sheets and even the mattress; everything hurt, even my hair, which, by the way, started to fall out. At times it felt as if my head were going to burst, as if there were lead inside of it; my eyes ached in their sockets….the hypersensitivity of my skin was so severe that sometimes I couldn’t even handle the bed sheets.”

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Thalia writes that two years of heavy treatment put her “on the road to recovery.” She has changed her lifestyle to incorporate good nutrition, exercise, and stress reduction. She has returned to singing, writing, and other creative pursuits. “I have started to live again.”

“Growing Stronger” is available in both English and Spanish. Thalia has also created a Spanish language Lyme education site, www.sobrelyme.com.

 

Source: LymeDisease.org

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s VP for Education and Outreach. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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Interview with Thalia – Access Hollywood

 

 

 

 

Source: Access Hollywood http://www.accesshollywood.com/latino/thalia-discusses-her-sisters-2002-kidnapping-how-did-it-change-her-life-forever_video_1371395

Exclusive Interview with Thalia: Growing Stronger

Exclusive Interview with Thalia: Growing Stronger