One Night In America

As the barometer of global fashion culture, American pop music reflects the constant evolution of pop culture as various music styles and genres emerge one after another with the advancement of time, setting off a storm in the world.

Upon hearing names from Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin,Roy Orbison to James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, then Bruno Mars, LadyGaga, and Black Eyed Peas, these melodies will surely go off in your heart.They are voices of American pop music and our source of sensation.

On August 25 to 26, we give Chinese city elites the most authentic American sing and dance show in Majestic Theatre, a theatre with an antique feel created with billions yuan of redecoration. Each song, each dance, each line being spoken, and each beam of light will inspire joy and happiness. At One Night In America, you will relive the highlights of the century long history of American pop music within 100minutes.

In 1950s, America saw an era of peace and tranquility as the Second World War ended and the economy rose rapidly. American youth started to search for new spiritual pursuits as they led a life of abundance. Rock androll, with its simple and straightforward rhythm and themes about personal characters, freedom and even rebels, seemed to hit right in the spot of American youth back then. Therefore, we saw Elvis Presley wrote Jailhouse Rock when he was 18, sending the prisoners on a high; and Bill Haley expressed his zeal of incessant rockand roll with Rock Around the Clock.Besides those rock and roll extremists who shouted and chanted, there were also“gentle” rock and roll singers who pursued their own tones. Chuck Berry’s Johnnie B Goode gave those disobedient people a brand new way to go up against the world: you can live aconventionally disciplined life, but as long as you have rock and roll in your heart, you are not astray from the right path.

The 1960s and 1970s are years of disturbance and the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was born at that time. America lost in the Vietnam War, leading to a post-war emotional unrest, and the longing for peace and equality were brewing in the hearts of American youth. Woodstock was born to the occasion under the theme of peace, anti-war, equality and inclusiveness. It was an unprecedented music festival in terms of both its scale and the star-studded lineup. More than 450,000 people participated in this music revelry; the most popular singers, including Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, were on stage one after another. Woodstock gave everybody an ideal world of freedom with the purest rock and roll.

At the same time, Hip-Hop started to catch on. Hip-Hop is rooted in black music and represents the attitude of “be happy even when life is not so good”. Hearing I Feel Good sang by James Brown, you can see it in your imagination that the string on his guitar was broken as he was playing with such passion; and I Will Survive sang by Gloria Gaynor would give you a glimpse of the feelings of dying people when they hold onto their last gasp to hear out acomedy. Music composed in that age is full of vitality, shedding a beam of light in people’s heart even though it is just pieces of notes and melodies.

After 1980s, American economy started to recover, which laid down the breeding grounds for the reckless and wild development of pop music of various themes and genres. MTV was born at that time, making it popular among people around the world to mimic Michael Jackson’s hip movements in black suit and long white socks; Madonna’s Like AVirgin raised the feminist consciousness; Nirvana’s “song of deodorant” - Smells Like Teen Spirit - made alternative rock mainstream; MC Hammer gave Hip-Hop teens in the 1990s a newmusic direction with his U Can’t TouchThis…

Today, American pop music has already been spread around the world, and its stories are to be continued.

One Night In America, international singers are gathering

LuizFernando Brazde Oliveira Director/lead singer/international singer/bass player

He holds a bachelor’s degree in music and music theory at Saint Paul University. He excels at bass, guitar, classic guitar, ukulele, piano,harmonica, percussion music, and electronic instruments. He is also able to sing and perform in French, Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Apart from composing, arrangement, and directing related business, his independent studio also cooperates with domestic and foreign publishers in content creation and audio book publication. 

Alena Barsukova Lead singer/international singer

Alena graduated from Impulse Music College, Amur State University and later established her fame as a pop singer and opera singer capable of the entire scale of musical notes. In 2009, she won the favor of organizers with the huge success of the concert named Young Voiceof Russia which received major popularity in Russia's Far East cities. She is particularly good at English, Russian, and German songs. With perfect voice,attractive appearance, and rich body language on stage, she will definitely rock her audience.

LaTrece Bracks Lead singer/international singer

LaTrece Bracks is a natural born singer. Her rich, full & powerful voice coupled with her stylist versatility has been compared with such vocal icons as Aretha Franklin & Natalie Cole

Elcinho Lead singer/international singer

Elcinho is from Rio de Janeiro of Brazil and good at HIP HOP, Rap, and Pop with fascinating stage moves and rhythmical singing style that is typical for an African descent and definitely appealing.

Steeve Deville Guitarist

Steeve Deville is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer from Mauritius, who for years has been teaching himself. At the age of sixteen, he began to assume the position of professional musician and play different kinds of music on stages throughout the island. He was once under the influence of George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, and Stevie Wonder and organized a variety of international jazz festivals in Mauritius, Indian Ocean countries,Africa, and Europe. He was identified as a special artist in a grand festival held in Nice, France.

Bryon Hill Keyboardist/pianist

Bryon Hill is an expert in the piano and keyboard performance of jazz,funk, and R&B. After graduating from Howard University, he started the career of musical performance, composing, and music production. He used to make arrangements and engage in album making for rappers from many well-known American bands.

Danny Black Drummer

Danie (Heijun) - He started to play drum when he was 10, enrolled in Moscow Music School (for drum and percussion) when he was 12, and joined Berezka as a drummer when he was 15. He participated in the Young Drummer Competition in Prague in 2006. He frequently visits cities such as Moscow, St Petersburg, Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai for performing shows.

The world street dancing champion CASTER since its establishment in 2006 has become the largest street dancing training group in Shanghai. It is also a gathering place for trend setters and a cultural landmark among young people both home and abroad. The institution owns a world-classstreet dancing competition Battle in Shanghai that attracts a number of 1,000 competitors all over the world and an off-line and on-line audience totaled respectively 20,000 and 200,000. As the chief designer of the dancing part in the One Night In America, CASTER will work closely with the production team to integrate emotional aspect of classic songs with the visual impact of modern dance.