Terry Winter (singer)

Thomas William Standen (born May 8, 1941 – September 22, 1998) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, better known as Terry Winter. He started singing in the 1960s in Portuguese, under the name Tommy Standen but it was like Terry Winter and performing in English who became himself more famous in Brazil and Latin America, with the hit "Summer Holiday".

Terry Winter
Birth nameThomas William Standen
Born(1941-05-08)May 8, 1941
 Brazil
DiedSeptember 22, 1998(1998-09-22) (aged 57)
GenresJovem Guarda, ballad, rock, Brazilian popular music, sertaneja music
Occupation(s)singer, composer, guitarist
Instrumentsvocal, guitar
Years active1963–1996
LabelsAlbatroz, Mocambo, RCA Victor, Beverly, EMI-Odeon, New Records, Arcane, Dollar, Copacabana,
Associated actsHeleninha, Nil Bernardes, Silvia Massari

Biography

Childhood and youth

Thomas William Standen was Brazilian and son of the Brazilians Charles Walter Standen and Maria Thereza Standen, but grandson of English citizens. His maternal grandfather was a veterinarian and his grandmother housewife, and they lived in Brazil. He spent most of his childhood at a family farm in Penedo, at the time still part of the municipality of Resende (RJ) and now part of Itatiaia district, where his father had a small factory. He studied at an English college, and his family maintained English traditions and customs, including speaking English at home with Portuguese. Prior to his career as a singer in the 1960s, Standen was an English teacher.

Early career and success

Early in his career, he adopted the stage name Tommy Standen, initially mis-written as Tommy Staden. He was present in the Alegria dos Bairros auditorium program of Rede Excelsior, opening the programs by singing songs in Portuguese. He recorded an EP and a single for small labels until he was hired by RCA. There, he performed as a songwriter, having songs recorded by artists like Nilton César ("Ao Mundo Vou Contar" in 1966), Ronnie Von ("Pequeno Príncipe", partnership with Fred Jorge in 1967) and Dick Danello ("Leylan", in 1969). At the same time, he released his own albums, such as "O Quente" and "A Varanda".

Singing in English

With the 1969 Tomorrow Tomorrow compact, released by the Beverly label, it begins recording in English. Although this version was overshadowed by the success of the original, Standen decides to change his name and record always in English, now as Terry Winter, thus making himself a foreigner. His first songs under the new pseudonym were "You'll Notice Me" and "Mission to Carry," included in LP New Tonton, a collection of songs by international artists released by the Beverly pavel. In "You'll Notice Me," he uses the pseudonym Bart Baraboskin, references to Burt Bacharach, his musical influence, and his wife, Miriam Baraboskin. This song was released as a single and reached moderate success, which leads him to record his first LP, Terry Winter, 1971, released by New Records.

On New Records, Terry Winter reaches his greatest hits. From the first album, the song "Summer Holiday" becomes one of the biggest hits of 1972 and is also released in other Latin American countries, achieving similar success. Another prominent song from the first album is "Our Love Dream". In the meantime, he secretly records a vinyl by Odeon under the pseudonym Ian Simmons.

After his success, Winter returns to the RCA record label and, in 1975, becomes Brazilian in the Programa Silvio Santos: at the beginning of the interview, presenter Silvio Santos only communicates with the singer through an interpreter, but at the return of the commercial interval, Winter starts to talk with Santos in good Portuguese. According to Winter, he had not revealed his identity before for fear of losing his success. Still in this program, announced that it would change again the stage name, for Thomas Williams, change that did not occur.[1]

Terry Winter also worked as an actor, as in the telenovela A Viagem, by Ivani Ribeiro, produced and screened by Rede Tupi between 1975 and 1976, where he made the character Rui. In 1976, she achieved great success with the song "Our Love", in a duet with Heleninha, which allows her to enter markets like the United States and record an LP in Spanish.

Change of course

Winter did not get much success as an interpreter in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, he recorded some CDs with Nil Bernardes (using the name Neil Bernard) and Silvia Massari, but without success. He also recorded a last album, also ignored by the media. Parallel to this, in 1982, he adopts a new pseudonym to compose songs in Portuguese, for thinking that Terry Winter was not suitable for this. Like Chico Valente, he created hits in the voices of música sertaneja singers, such as "Sonho de um Caminhoneiro" and "Mãe de Leite" (recorded by Milionário and José Rico), "Filho Pródigo" (by Júnio and Julio), "Convite de Casamento" (recorded by Ataíde and Alexandre), "Meu Velho Amigo" (Tonico & Tinoco) and "Rei bdo Gado" (opening theme of the telenovela eponymous of Rede Globo). He also composed songs for popular singers such as Gugu Liberato ("Bugaloo Da Da"), Gretchen ("Hula Hula"), Fofão ("Guerra mas Estrelas") and Vanessa ("Doce Alegria"). He then set up his own label, Fascination Edições Musicais S/C Ltda – ME, with Nil Bernardes, businessman Álvaro Gomes and artist Orival Pessini, interpreter of the character Fofão. They produced albums for the sertanejo groups Matogrosso & Mathias, Carlos César & Cristiano and Sisters Galvão, as well as Fofão's albums, from which came hits such as "Guerra mas Estrelas", "Eu Quero Ver" and "Mundo Novo". In 1988, he released the LP Pleasure, which would be the last of his solo career, including songs like "Never Gonna Let You Go", "Energy of Love" and "Music is Power". As a singer, he also participated in festivals singing in the pair Chico Valente and Nil Bernardes. In the Festival Agroceres, exhibited in Rede Bandeirantes in 1987, the song "Coração Caipira" obtained the first place, and was later recorded by Nil Bernardes in its solo disc. The two also participated in the 1st and 2nd Rimula Regional Music Festivals, in 1989 and 1991, shown on SBT; in the first, the song "Chão Vermelho" was among the ten best and was recorded for the LP of the Festival, being the last appearance of Winter like singer; in the second, Nil Bernardes interprets the song "Sinfonia Sertaneja" alone and wins the prize of best interpreter.[2]

The last years and death

In the 1990s, Terry Winter missed success and was looking for a new label, as he had been putting together several compositions. In 1998, however, bouts of asthmatic bronchitis, a condition he had suffered as a child, became more frequent, until, on an August morning, he went awry and with the delay in the arrival of the rescue, he suffered a stroke. He was taken to an emergency room in the São Paulo district of Butantã and from there he was transferred to a hospital in Jabaquara, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit. The prospects for recovery were good, however, after thirty-two days of hospitalization, contracted pneumonia and died on September 22, 1998 at age 57. He was buried on September 23, 1998 in the Campo Grande cemetery, in the district of Campo Grande. He left four children from his marriage to Miriam Baraboskin: Shannon Mark, Shareenne, Scott Sherman and Shane Morgan.

Pseudonyms

Despite having made more success with the stage name Terry Winter, the singer used several other pseudonyms. As a singer, he performed as Tommy Staden, Tommy Standen, Terry Winter, Ian Simmons and Chico Valente. As a composer, he signed Tommy Standen, Tommy, Bart Baraboskin, Tony Temple, Dell Clyde, Don Paul, Eric Joe Summer, Joe Baker, Kat Karatiev, M. Maulin, Oliver Charles, Tom Morgan and Chico Valente.

Legacy

Terry Winter was especially important for Brazilian music when inaugurating a generation of Brazilian singers who sang in English and used English pseudonyms, and thus obtained success outside Brazil. After Winter came Morris Albert, Dave Maclean, Chrystian, Michael Sullivan and the Pholhas group.

Discography

Albums

Year Album
1971 Terry Winter
  • Format: LP
  • Recorder: New Records
  • Cat. No.: NRLP-205 (1971) / BLP-9043 (1972)
1973 Terry Winter
  • Format: LP
  • Recorder: RCA
  • Cat. No.: 103.0095
1974 Terry Winter
  • Format: LP
  • Recorder: RCA
  • Cat. No.: 103.0123
1976 Terry Winter
  • Format: LP
  • Recorder: RCA
  • Cat. No.: 103.0186
1979 Terry Winter
1988 Pleasure
  • Format: LP
  • Recorder: 3M
  • Cat. No.: 7M8-0007

As Tommy Staden

Year Compact Recorder
1963 "Maria" / "Regina" [EP]
" Graças a Você" / "Aventureiro Sonhador"
Albatroz
1965 "Running from Love" / "Escarcéu" Mocambo

As Tommy Standen

Year Compact Recorder
1966 "Véspera do Fim do Mundo (Eve of Destruction)"
"Não Brinque com Fogo"
RCA Victor
1967 "O Quente"
"Eu Vou Chorar por Você"
LC-6308
"A Varanda"
"Uma Aventura a Más"
LC-6348
1969 "Tomorrow Tomorrow"
"Marley Purt Drive"
Beverly BCS-041

As Terry Winter

Year Compact Recorder Album
1970 "You'll Notice Me"
"Mission To Carry"
New Records /
Copacabana Discs
NRCS-1002 New Tonton (collection)
1972 "Summer Holiday"
"The Whistler"
NRCD-1006 Terry Winter (1971)
"Summer Holiday" / "I Know" [EP]
"Our Love Dream" / "The Whistler"
NRCS-2003
"Our Love Dream" [PROMO]
"Shadow Dark and Blue"
BCS-162

As Ian Simmons

Year Compact Recorder
1972 "I Think You're the Woman for Me"
"Someone Is Talking"
Odeon

As Terry Winter

Year Compact Recorder Album
1972 "I Just Looked at Myself (Bum Chicka Bum)"
"The Idols Have Gone"
RCA Victor 101.0143
"Fiesta de Verano (Summer Holiday)" [MEX]
"Descubrirás Que Yo Existo (You'll Notice Me)"
3-10794
"Fiesta de Verano (Summer Holiday)" [EP] [MEX]
"I Just Looked at Myself (Bum Chicka Bum)" / "Descubrirás Que Yo Existo (You'll Notice Me)"
MKE-1502
1974 "Love Making"
"Fahrenheit 32"
101.0264 Terry Winter (1974)
1975 "Our Love" [duet with Heleninha]
"Life Is Like a Cloud"
101.0370 Terry Winter (1976)
1976 "Our Love" [duet with Heleninha]
/ Do Your Thing [or Do That Baby] [EP]
"Big City" / "Tell Me Once Again"
102.0149
"Nuestro Amor (Our Love)" [US]
"Por Confiar De Más (Our Love Dream)"
RCA / Arcane DKA0-9400
1977 "Thanks" [ESP]
"What's Come Over You"
RCA Victor PB-9073 Terry Winter (1976)
"Use Me"
"Life (It's All Part of Me)"
101.0509
1980 "Look at Me" with Neil Bernard
"Sunday Night"' with Neil Bernard
New Records / Copacabana Discs NRCS-1883
1981 "Once More a Fool" with Neil Bernard
"Something for Someone" with Neil Bernard
NRCS-1980
1982 "Heaven" with Neil Bernard
"Happiness" with Neil Bernard
1985 "Lovely Love" with Silvia Massari
"Happy Now" with Silvia Massari
Dollar CS-2.140

References

  1. "Biografia de Terry Winter no Letras.com.br". letras.com.br. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  2. "Bem vindo ao novo site da Rede Hoje". radiohoje.com.br. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
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