Bette Midler

被譽為“百變歌后”和“喜劇皇后”的Bette Midler，長期游走于流　行樂，百老匯舞臺劇，好萊塢電影等舞臺，以其多變的風格創造了　一個又一個深受大家喜愛的角色，是當今碩果僅存的全才女藝人之　 一。　 從1972年憑借“The Divine Miss M”奪得她的第一座格萊美獎杯以　來，Bette Midler榮獲包括‘年度歌曲’、‘年度唱片’、最佳流行女歌手　在內的4座葛萊美獎，她的歷年專輯總計獲得了全美唱片工會25張的　金／白金／超白金的銷售認證，以及全球超過1500萬張的銷售。除了格　萊美獎的喝采之外，Bette Midler的全方位才藝還為她帶來了無數的　獎座，其中包含了9座美國喜劇大獎、3座艾美獎、3座金球獎與1　座　東尼獎，她同時也以“歌聲淚痕”、“昨日今日永遠”兩度獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角的提名。　 Bette Midler counts singing as only one of her talents; at times, since 1972, when she first came to national recognition, it has seemed to be the least of her talents. Still, she has managed to score a number of major hits in a roller-coaster career as a recording artist. Born in Paterson, NJ, and raised in Hawaii, Midler early on showed an interest in singing and acting, and by the 60s she had moved to New York and gotten a role in the long-running Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof. Midler developed a nightclub act that included comedy and singing of a variety of kinds of material, including show tunes, pop hits, and even a takeoff on the Andrews Sisters, and appeared with increasing frequency in New York with her accompanist, Barry Manilow. She was signed to Atlantic Records and released The Divine Miss M (1972), which went gold and included a Top Ten single cover of the Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Bette Midler (1973) was similarly successful. Midlers album sales fell off during the rest of the 70s, though her records always reached the Top 100 in the album chart. But in 1979 she starred in the film The Rose, a fictional account of the life of Janis Joplin, and the title track became a Top Ten hit. 1980 saw the release of Midlers concert film, Divine Madness, and her best-selling book, A View from a Broad. Her next film, Jinxed (1982), however, was a major flop, and subsequent records didnt fare well. Midler made a cinematic comeback with Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), but it wasnt until 1989 that she had another pop hit, when her version of Wind Beneath My Wings from her film Beaches became a number one hit. This rejuvenated her singing career, and 1990s Some Peoples Lives became a Top Ten, million-selling album, with the song From a Distance hitting number two. Midlers soundtrack album to her 1991 film For the Boys was also a gold-selling hit. Midler appeared in a television production of the Broadway musical Gypsy that produced a charting soundtrack album in 1993 following the release of her million-selling hits collection Experience the Divine. The gold-selling Bette of Roses (1995) was her first regular album release in five years. Her 1996 film The First Wives Club was a major box office success. In 1998, she switched to Warner Bros. Records and released Bathhouse Betty, which went gold. With film opportunities drying up, the 54-year-old singer/actress turned to television, developing a half-hour network comedy series based on her own life. Though it didnt last long, Bette premiered on CBS on October 11, 2000; six days later, she released a second Warner Bros. album, also called Bette. During the next five years, Midler covered two seminal artists songbooks, Rosemary Clooney and Peggy Lee, coming out with her first-ever Christmas record, which included a duet with Johnny Mathis, Cool Yule, in 2006.