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All three Dreamgirls songs (as well as the piece " Our Town" that Randy Newman penned for Cars) lost the Oscar to " I Need to Wake Up" by Melissa Etheridge, which the songwriter created for An Inconvenient Truth. The others were " Love You I Do" and " Listen". "Patience" was one of three Dreamgirls songs nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 79th Academy Awards. Most choirs are led by a conductor, who leads the performances with arm and face gestures. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Following World War II, gospel music moved into major auditoriums, and gospel music concerts became quite elaborate.Ī choir is a musical ensemble of singers. The advent of radio in the 1920s greatly increased the audience for gospel music. Gabriel, William Howard Doane, and Fanny Crosby. The original gospel songs were written and composed by authors such as George F. The first published use of the term "gospel song" probably appeared in 1874. Most of the churches relied on hand clapping and foot stomping as rhythmic accompaniment. Hymns and sacred songs were often repeated in a call and response fashion. Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century, with roots in the black oral tradition. Gospel music usually has dominant vocals with Christian lyrics. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace.

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"Patience" is performed both in the film and on its related soundtrack by the trio of Eddie Murphy, Anika Noni Rose, and Keith Robinson. The socially-charged lyrics and impassioned singing behind the song make it an inspirational piece of protest music meant to evoke the 70s-era musical work of artists such as Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, and aspirations. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s. Movie critic Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor remarked that the emotional scene displayed "Murphy at his best." Similar praise came from David Rooney of Variety. Within the context of the film, the social protest song is spearheaded by star performer James "Thunder" Early (played by Eddie Murphy) only for its release to get killed by the hustling record business figure Curtis Taylor, Jr. The story follows the history and evolution of American R&B music during the 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of a Detroit, Michigan girl group known as the Dreams and their manipulative record executive. Adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name by composer Henry Krieger and lyricist/librettist Tom Eyen, Dreamgirls is a film à clef, a work of fiction taking strong inspiration from the history of the Motown record label and one of its acts, The Supremes.

Dreamgirls is a 2006 American romantic musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.