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Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She has sung in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Turkish, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Catalan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British Diva Sarah Brightman's 'Symphony World Tour' )〕 Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in ''Cats'' and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She went on to star in several West End and Broadway musicals, including ''The Phantom of the Opera'', where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. The Original London Cast Album of the musical was released in CD format in 1987 and sold 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Phantom of the Opera Original Cast Recording sales )〕 After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical crossover artist. She is often credited as the creator of this genre and remains among the most prominent performers, with worldwide sales of more than 30 million records and 2 million DVDs, establishing herself as the world's best-selling soprano of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarah Brightman & Jackie Evancho on America's Got Talent )〕 Brightman's 1996 duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, "Time to Say Goodbye", topped charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest selling single of all time in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for 14 consecutive weeks and sold over 3 million copies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bocelli on )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrea Bocelli Biography )〕 It subsequently became an international success selling 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.〔()〕〔() 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Angel records )〕 She has now collected over 180 gold and platinum sales awards in 38 different countries. In 2010 she was named by ''Billboard'' the 5th most influential and best-selling classical artist of the 2000s decade in the US〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best of 2000's / Classical Artists )〕 and according to Nielsen SoundScan, she has sold 6.5 million albums in that country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ask Billboard: The Twitter-Sized Edition )〕 Brightman is the first artist to have been invited twice to perform at the Olympic Games, first at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games where she sang "Amigos Para Siempre" with the Spanish tenor José Carreras with an estimated global audience of a billion people, and 16 years later in 2008 in Beijing, this time with Chinese singer Liu Huan, performing the song "You and Me" to an estimated 4 billion people worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarah Brightman moved to tears upon hearing Olympic theme – The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games )〕 In 2012, Brightman was appointed as the UNESCO Artist for Peace for the period 2012–2014, for her "commitment to humanitarian and charitable causes, her contribution, throughout her artistic career, to the promotion of cultural dialogue and the exchanges among cultures, and her dedication to the ideals and aims of the Organization". Also, since 2010, Brightman is Panasonic's global brand ambassador.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Panasonic and UNESCO Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement )〕 Apart from music, Brightman has begun a film career, making her debut in ''Repo! The Genetic Opera'' (2008), a rock opera-musical film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, and in autumn 2011 and early 2012 Stephen Evans' "First Night", starring opposite Richard E. Grant. Brightman is the world's richest female classical performer with a fortune of £36m (about US$56m). In 2014, she began training for a journey to the International Space Station set for 2015. In May 2015, she postponed the flight until further notice, citing personal reasons. ==Family and early life== Brightman is the oldest of six children of businessman Grenville Geoffrey Brightman (1934〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Search birth, marriage and death records 1837–2006 | Overseas BMDs, parish records from 1538 )〕–1992) and Paula (Hall) Brightman.〔http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sarah_Brightman.aspx〕 Her younger siblings are Nicola, Claudia, Jay, Joel and Amelia (aka Violet). She was raised in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. At the age of three she began taking dance and piano classes and went on to perform in local festivals and competitions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''Billboard'' magazine )〕 At age 11, she successfully auditioned for the Arts Education School in Tring Park, a school specialising in performing arts. Education: Elmhurst Ballet School, Arts Educational School, and Royal College of Music. In 1973, at the age of 13, Brightman made her theatrical debut in the musical ''I and Albert'' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, playing one of Queen Victoria's daughters (Victoria). In 1976 she was recruited into Arlene Phillips' troupe Hot Gossip in 1977. The group had a disco hit in 1978 with "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper", which sold half a million and reached number six on the UK charts. Brightman, now solo, released more disco singles under her own label, Whisper Records, such as "Not Having That!" and a cover of the song "My Boyfriend's Back".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarah Brightman Official Website – Home Page )〕 In 1979, Brightman appeared on the soundtrack of the movie "The World Is Full of Married Men" and sang the song "Madam Hyde". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Brightman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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