The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will honor America with the 2,459th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Grammy Award-winning duo will be inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday, February 6, just outside the Musician’s Institute at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard, in the company of the Walk of Fame stars of Al Jolson, Hal David, Rush, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Journey.
The next evening, Tuesday, February 7, will perform downtown at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum, where they will perform classic hits and have a Q&A session with the intimate audience.
America includes singer/songwriter/guitarist Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell. They met--along with Dan Peek who left the group in 1977 and passed away last year (2011)--while high school students whose fathers were stationed at an Air Force base in England.
The group had instant success with their first, self-titled release, which hit #1 on the U.S. charts and went platinum on the strength of “Horse With No Name,” their first #1 hit single. They won the “Best New Artist” Grammy in 1972.
They released 16 studio albums, and had massive hits with the #1 song “Sister Golden Hair,” “Tin Man,” “Lonely People,” “I Need You,” “Don’t Cross The River” and “You Can Do Magic.” Beginning in 1974, America started working with longtime Beatles producer George Martin, for a total of six albums.
They continue to perform more than 100 live shows a year and in 2011 released the Back Pages CD, America’s interpretations of some of their favorite songs which includes songs by Bob Dylan, The Buffalo Springfield, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, Jimmy Webb, Mark Knopfler, Fountains of Wayne, New Radicals and Gin Blossoms, among others.
America find time to perform for various charities including Artists For The Arts Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Keep Memory Alive Foundation for Alzheimer Research. Other charities include: Walk Against Cancer, DART (“Dana’s Angels Research Trust”), to help raise funds for research and studies to find a treatment for victims of Niemann-Pick Type C disease (NP-C) and many more.
America will touring in the USA started February 17 followed by dates overseas.
For more information on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, visit www.walkoffame.com
For more information on America, please visit http://www.venturahighway.com/
Source: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce/Grammy Museum
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