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Liza Minnelli (real name - Liza May Minnelli) is an American actress and singer. She was born on March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Minnelli’s career has been known to be filled with highs and lows, both personal and professional, however she has never stopped recording albums, even though in her later career these were mostly live recordings of her concerts, several of them highly acclaimed record-breaking stints at the Radio City Music Hall among others.
In the beginnings she recorded several studio albums, for A&M and Capitol Records. The Capitol albums "Liza! Liza!", "It Amazes Me" and "There Is A Time" have recently been reissued on a 2CD compilation, for the first time in their entirety. Her perhaps biggest success in the music department might be the 1989 pop album Results, recorded with English duo Pet Shop Boys, which included a hit version of the Stephen Sondheim song "Losing My Mind". The album spawned 4 singles ("Don't Drop Bombs", "Losing My Mind", "Love Pains" and "So Sorry, I Said") and gave her a chance to film promotional videos for them and enjoy another long-overdue comeback in the music business.
Initially released on a VHS tape titled "Visible Results", the clips were later issued on a bonus DVD included in the 2005 remastered and expanded edition of the album. Later that year she performed "Losing My Mind" live at the Grammies ceremony before receiving a Grammy Legend Award, making her one of only 12 other entertainers, in a list that includes Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, and Mel Brooks among others, to win an Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award, even though she is sometimes discounted since her Grammy was a special award and was not won in a competitive category. |