Dance at nJPac Dazzles with Beauty and Boldness - ArtsFreePress
Dance at nJPac Dazzles with Beauty and Boldness - ArtsFreePress
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Meet the Artist<br />
the UK as it was televised on BBC.<br />
HisThrough The Years World Tour has<br />
included stops in Morocco, Engl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong>, Wales, Irel<strong>and</strong>, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Canada <strong>and</strong> the US. A novel Rogers cowrote<br />
<strong>with</strong> Mike Blakely, Wh<strong>at</strong> Are The<br />
Chances, was released September 3rd<br />
<strong>and</strong> Rogers’ New York Times Best Selling<br />
autobiography, Luck Or Something<br />
Like It, was released in paperback on<br />
September 27 th . In addition, Kenny<br />
Rogers Presents The Toy Shoppe<br />
Starring Billy Dean—a show co-written<br />
by Rogers <strong>and</strong> Kelly Junkermann <strong>and</strong><br />
fe<strong>at</strong>uring music by Rogers—began a run<br />
of performances <strong>at</strong> the Starlite The<strong>at</strong>re in<br />
Branson, Missouri, on November 1 st th<strong>at</strong><br />
will run through the holiday season until<br />
December 21 st (Rogers will not appear in<br />
the production).<br />
A trailblazing artist, Rogers has sold<br />
more than 120 million albums worldwide<br />
during his illustrious five-plus decades in<br />
show business. He was the first country<br />
artist to consistently sell out arenas <strong>and</strong><br />
quickly became a pop superstar as well—<br />
his 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary<br />
Top 10s is fourth-best all-time among<br />
men, trailing only Elton John, Neil<br />
Diamond <strong>and</strong> Elvis Presley. Rogers has<br />
recorded 12 No. 1 albums <strong>and</strong> 24 No. 1<br />
hits: “The Gambler,” “Lady,” “Lucille,”<br />
“She Believes In Me,” “Coward Of The<br />
County,” “Through The Years” <strong>and</strong><br />
“Isl<strong>and</strong>s in the Stream” (<strong>with</strong> Dolly<br />
Parton) among them. His Gre<strong>at</strong>est Hits<br />
album has sold over 24 million copies<br />
worldwide. He is the RIAA’s 8 th bestselling<br />
male artist of all time <strong>with</strong> one<br />
Diamond album, 19 Pl<strong>at</strong>inum albums<br />
<strong>and</strong> 31 Gold albums. He has received<br />
hundreds of awards for his music <strong>and</strong><br />
charity work, including three Grammys,<br />
11 People’s Choice Awards, 18 American<br />
Music Awards, eight Academy of<br />
Country Music Awards <strong>and</strong> five Country<br />
Music Associ<strong>at</strong>ion Awards. Remaining<br />
a popular entertainer around the world,<br />
Rogers was voted the “Favorite Singer of<br />
All-Time” in a 1986 joint poll by readers<br />
of both USA Today <strong>and</strong> People. He<br />
continues to receive acclaim for his new<br />
recordings <strong>and</strong> live performances. For<br />
more inform<strong>at</strong>ion: kennyrogers.com<br />
December 2013<br />
njpac.org III
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