Chris Isaak

Christopher Joseph Isaak (born June 26, 1956), better known as Chris Isaak is a U.S. indie rock, pop and rock and roll singer and songwriter.

He signed a contract to Reprise Records in 1984 for his first album Silvertone.

He released his best-known song in 1990: "Wicked Game" from the album Heart Shaped World and also from the film soundtrack starring from the David Lynch film Wild at Heart and from the 2000 film called The Family Man. The second video for the song (the first being a typical movie soundtrack video, with clips from Wild at Heart), directed by Herb Ritts, is also well-known: shot in black and white, it stars Isaak and model Helena Christensen rolling on the beach, holding each other, and whispering in each others' ears.

In 2001, Chris Isaak starred on his own television show called The Chris Isaak Show. It aired from March, 2003- March, 2004 in the United States on the cable television network Showtime. The show featured Chris Isaak and band playing themselves with the episode plots based on fictional accounts of the backstage world of Chris Isaak.

Discography

  • Silvertone (1985); debut
  • Chris Isaak (1987)
  • Heart Shaped World (1989)
  • San Francisco Days (1993)
  • Forever Blue (1995)
  • Baja Sessions (1996)
  • Speak of the Devil (1998)
  • Always Got Tonight (2001)

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The show featured Chris Isaak and band playing themselves with the episode plots based on fictional accounts of the backstage world of Chris Isaak. She has produced (including Leo Kottke's Peculiaroso), and provided a voiceover for a 1980s cartoon version of Pinocchio, in which she played the Blue Fairy. It aired from March, 2003- March, 2004 in the United States on the cable television network Showtime. She hosts a weekly talk radio on KAOS (Evergreen State College radio) in Olympia, Washington. In 2001, Chris Isaak starred on his own television show called The Chris Isaak Show. She is organizer of the web community, "Furniture for the People", which is involved in gardening, social activism, bootleg exchange and left wing politics. The second video for the song (the first being a typical movie soundtrack video, with clips from Wild at Heart), directed by Herb Ritts, is also well-known: shot in black and white, it stars Isaak and model Helena Christensen rolling on the beach, holding each other, and whispering in each others' ears. Rickie has one daughter from her marriage with French musician Pascal Nabet Meyer.

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Always Got Tonight (2001). Commercially and critically well-received, it included a hit single, "Chuck E's in Love", and won her the Best New Artist Grammy award along with five other nominations. Speak of the Devil (1998). A 1979 contract with Warner Brothers resulted in her first, eponymously-titled album. Baja Sessions (1996). She settled down in Los Angeles where she waited tables and played at local clubs. Forever Blue (1995). As a teen, Jones became involved in the summer of '69 hippie scene in California, and ran away from home.

San Francisco Days (1993). Born in Chicago, she grew up in a fractured and dysfunctional family setting. Heart Shaped World (1989). Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a vocalist and songwriter from the United States. Chris Isaak (1987). The Evening of My Best Day (2003). Silvertone (1985); debut. Live at Red Rocks - (2001).

It's Like This - (2000). Ghostyhead - (1997). Naked Songs - (1995). Traffic From Paradise - (1993).

Pop Pop - (1991). Flying Cowboys - (1989). The Magazine - (1984). Girl at Her Volcano (EP) - (1983).

Pirates - (1981). Rickie Lee Jones - (1979).