Photo: Pat Benatar (from her Facebook page) COMBO thinks you’ll find these articles regarding the business of music interesting and informative. Please enjoy and learn from them! | By Jim Axelrod, CBS News Sunday Morning | It only takes a couple of bars to see, and hear, why Pat Benatar and her husband, guitarist Neil Giraldo, indeed “belong together.” Married nearly 40 years, they are among rock’s most enduring couples, if not at the very top of the list.
Correspondent Jim Axelrod asked them, “Collaborating with somebody for four years is a lot; 40?”
“That’s insane,” said Giraldo. “We’re basically insane.”
Only if you define insane as selling 36 million albums, winning four consecutive Grammys, and recording 15 Top 40 hits, from “Heartbreaker,” to “Treat Me Right,” to “Love Is A Battlefield”:
Go here to watch the videos and report:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pat-benatar-and-neil-giraldo-rock-and-roll-love-story/
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Man Makes Violins From Recycled Material for Kids Who Can’t Afford Them in Peru
He’s a professional violinist and music teacher turned carpenter. Jesus Peralta wants to share his love of the violin with children in Lima, Peru, but he says the only way he can get the instrument into the hands of many future musicians is to make them himself. So he’s been crafting his own violins out of recycled materials. Wood, plastic bottles, and string all come together in his workshop for the total cost of about $20 dollars per violin. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/man-makes-violins-from-recycled-material-for-kids-who-can-t-afford-them-in-peru/vi-AARcz76
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s Rock & Roll Love Story // Man Makes Violins From Recycled Material for Kids Who Can’t Afford Them in Peru
