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Joan
Osborne
1963年7月8日出生于阿拉斯加南部的安克雷奇。90年代早期来到纽约,就读于纽约大学电影学院。一个偶然的机会琼在当地一家小酒吧中演唱了爵士歌后比莉-郝乐迪的名曲《上帝保佑孩子》,自此人生的轨迹完全被改变。她开始从事音乐事业,模仿自己所喜欢的埃特·詹姆斯以及蕾·查尔斯等人进行表演。最初奥斯本不愿受大唱片公司的摆布,自己成立了厂牌“女性欢呼”(Womanly Hips),并推出《灵魂展示》(Soul Show)这样一张唱片,还与其他艺人一起举办音乐会。1995年,她终于认识到商业合作的重要性,就与Mercury公司签约,第二张《意味》(Relish)由此发行。经过将近一年时间的等待,公众发觉了这张专辑的价值,单曲《我们中的一个》(One Of Us)成为排行榜首。
女歌手Joan Osborne经由水星公司推出了自己的首张专辑Relish,其中的单曲"One of Us"不仅传遍全球也为她赢得了歌迷的喜爱。同时这张布鲁斯风格的专辑还给她带来了五项格莱美奖提名,其中最佳新人的提名具有格外重大的意义。此后的两年中,Osborne为推广Relish而走遍世界,其间她也经历了One of Us和St. Teresa所带来的宗教纠纷。一切结束后,Osborne再次重返录音棚开始制作下张专辑Righteous Love,由于没有唱片公司的资助,她自掏腰包创作并录制新歌,也正是因为这个原因,新专辑包含了从东方风情、宗教风格到纯粹的布鲁斯等众多音乐形式。
If God
had a name what would it be?
And would you call it to his face?
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question?
1-And
yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?
If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see if, seeing meant
That you would have to believe in things like heaven
And in Jesus and the saints, and all the prophets?
(repeat 1, 1)
Back up
to heaven all alone
No, nobody calling on the phone
No, just tryin' to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome
上面就是这歌的歌词,虽然不是琼本人写的,但她敢拿来唱就已经很有魄力了,我把它翻译一下,大概就是这个意思: