Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews（1967年1月9日出生于南非的约翰内斯堡）是一位在格莱美奖得奖的南非裔美国创作歌手。他最为人所知的是作为戴夫 马修乐队的主唱，作词人和吉他手，但他同样是一位独奏艺术家，并和其他音乐人如提姆 雷诺兹和特伊 阿纳斯塔索一起演奏。作为一名客串演员，他也在几部王牌电影里出现过。
 
Dave Matthews是上世纪九十年代之后美国涌现出的极具实力的新一代摇滚乐男歌手，在90年代之后的美国摇滚乐界具有重要的地位。1991年他在美国弗吉尼亚州招揽了Stefan Lessard，Leroi Moore，Boyd Tinsley和Carter Beauford这几个人，组建了自己的乐队the Dave Matthews Band。起初Dave Matthews和他的这支乐队并不为人所知，但是通过在美国大学校园内的一系列的巡回演唱会，乐队和Dave Matthews本人的知名度一步步地扩大，并且初步拥有了一些固定歌迷的支持。1993年，乐队在美国各地的巡回演唱会结下了果实，他们独立发行了一张现场专辑《Remember Two Things》。随后他们就引起了一些大的主流唱片公司的注意，RCA唱片公司最终和他们签约。
South African vocalist/guitarist Dave Matthews formed the Dave Matthews Band in Virginia in the early 90s. Featuring Matthews, Stefan Lessard, Leroi Moore, Boyd Tinsley, and Carter Beauford, the groups music presents a more pop-oriented version of the Grateful Dead crossed with the worldbeat explorations of Paul Simon and Sting. The band built up a strong word-of-mouth following in the early 90s by touring the country constantly, concentrating on college campuses. In addition to amassing a sizable following, their self-released album Remember Two Things sold well for an independent release; soon, they were attracting the attention of majors. Signing with RCA, the Dave Matthews Band released their major-label debut, Under the Table and Dreaming, in the fall of 1994. By spring of 1995, the record had launched the hit single What Would You Say and sold over a million copies.
A year and a half after the release of Under the Table and Dreaming, the record had sold over four million copies in the U.S. alone. In April of 1996, the Dave Matthews Band released Crash, which entered the charts at number two and quickly went platinum. Throughout 1996, the group toured behind Crash, sending it to double-platinum status. Also in 1996, Matthews launched an attack on bootleggers in conjunction with the Federal Government, targeting stores that were selling semi-legal discs of live performances. The efforts of Matthews, his band, and his management resulted in an unprecedented crackdown on bootleggers in early 1997 — with nearly all of the major foreign bootlegging companies placed under arrest by the United States — thereby putting a moratorium on the entire underground industry.
To further combat the bootleggers, Dave Matthews released an official double-disc live album, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, in the fall of 1997. It was an unexpected success, debuting at number three on the charts and selling a million copies within the first five months of its release. The live record paved the way for the April 1998 release of Before These Crowded Streets, the groups most ambitious album to date. Another live effort, Listener Supported, followed a year later. Summer tours also packed the late 90s, with sold-out shows across the U.S. The new millennium, however, saw the band back in the studio with Glen Ballard to record its fourth studio album — Everyday, issued in February 2001. Although popular, it was overshadowed by rumors of a darker album recorded with Steve Lillywhite in 2000 but ultimately rejected; the band eventually chose songs from the session, did some re-recording of others, and released the results as in July 2002 as Busted Stuff. Its debut single, Where Are You Going, was also featured on the soundtrack to the Adam Sandler flick Mr. Deeds.
In 2003, Matthews released his first solo album, the moody and brooding Some Devil. A Dave Matthews and Friends tour followed — his friends being Trey Anastasio, Brady Blade, Tony Hall, Ray Paczkowski, and Tim Reynolds — and the albums single, Gravedigger, earned Matthews the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The Dave Matthews Band was back on the road in 2004, and also released more live material. They also joined Bruce Springsteens Vote for Change tour toward the end of the year, just as their mail-order-only DMB Live Trax series debuted. In early 2005, they launched a website that featured progress reports on their next album in the form of video footage, diaries, and soundbites. When the flawed Stand Up finally appeared in May, it was the bands first album of all-new material since 2001s Everyday. Weekend on the Rocks, another live set, followed Stand Up at the end of the year. In 2006 the two-disc compilation The Best of Whats Around, Vol. 1 presented one disc of previously released studio material and one of unreleased live recordings. The year 2007 found Matthews and Tim Reynolds touring Europe and then America, a performance from which was captured on the album Live at Radio City Music Hall. Work had also begun on a new Dave Matthews Band studio album.