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Christopher Cross
With his silky-smooth vocals, kinetic guitar work and hits like Sailing, Ride Like the Wind and the Oscar-winning Arthur’s Theme, Christopher Cross returns to Hayes Hall for an evening of soft rock classics. The first artist in Grammy Award history to win Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist in a single night, Cross remains one of the defining voices of his generation and a beloved presence on stages around the world.
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Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross burst onto the music scene with his 1980 self-titled debut album, winning five Grammy Awards, including — for the first time in Grammy history — the “Big Four” most prestigious awards: Record of the Year (for the single Sailing), Album of the Year, Song of the Year (also for Sailing) and Best New Artist.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Cross has sold over 10 million albums. His music has garnered five Grammys, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy nomination and five Top 10 singles.
Within a year of the first album’s release, Cross joined music royalty Burt Bacharach to write Arthur’s Theme for the movie Arthur, which won an Academy Award for Best Song. With his 1983 release, Another Page, Cross was again in the Top 10 with the singles All Right and Think of Laura. His song Swept Away, composed for the hit television series Growing Pains, was nominated for an Emmy.
Cross started his own label and, since 2007, has released eight albums of new material, including A Christopher Cross Christmas and The Café Carlyle Sessions, jazz treatments of hits and favorites born out of a residency at the famous Hotel Carlyle in New York City.
All in all, it’s been quite a ride — one that has taken Cross from his early days in Texas, where he once served as a drum tech for Ginger Baker, bought gear from Jimmy Page and played lead guitar for Deep Purple on a night when Ritchie Blackmore fell ill, to this place as a respected singer-songwriter-guitar player who continues to share his original music with the world.
