Soft-rock pioneer of “Sailing” fame Christopher Cross returns to The Barns after two sold out performances in spring 2012.
This
singer-songwriter fused rock and pop to craft the groundbreaking sound of his
GRAMMY-winning eponymous masterpiece in 1980, featuring songs such as “Ride
Like the Wind” that still delight audiences today.
Christopher Cross hails from San Antonio, Texas, where he gained local notoriety with the hard rock group Flash before accepting a solo album contract with Warner Brothers in 1978.
His eponymous 1979 debut became a smash hit, and along with sophomore follow-up album Another Page (1983), generated eight songs that reached the Billboard charts in three years, including “Sailing” and “Think of Laura.”
At the 1980 GRAMMY Awards, Cross became the only artist to have won Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year as well as Best New Artist in the same night.
The song “Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do),” co-written by Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen for the acclaimed film Arthur, won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and was performed by Cross at the ceremony.
Cross has written many successful songs for TV and film, including “Loving Strangers” for the 1986 Tom Hanks film Nothing in Common and “Lemon's Theme,” a duet with Tina Fey featured on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock.
Averaging about 100 live shows per year, Cross continues to tour extensively on the strength of his music’s enduring popularity: to date, Cross has sold over 9 million albums worldwide.
“The biggest gift of my career has been to work with and meet those artists I idolized growing up, whether it’s Randy Newman or the Beach Boys.”— Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross performs on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 8 pm and Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm.
Christopher Cross hails from San Antonio, Texas, where he gained local notoriety with the hard rock group Flash before accepting a solo album contract with Warner Brothers in 1978.
His eponymous 1979 debut became a smash hit, and along with sophomore follow-up album Another Page (1983), generated eight songs that reached the Billboard charts in three years, including “Sailing” and “Think of Laura.”
At the 1980 GRAMMY Awards, Cross became the only artist to have won Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year as well as Best New Artist in the same night.
The song “Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do),” co-written by Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen for the acclaimed film Arthur, won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and was performed by Cross at the ceremony.
Cross has written many successful songs for TV and film, including “Loving Strangers” for the 1986 Tom Hanks film Nothing in Common and “Lemon's Theme,” a duet with Tina Fey featured on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock.
Averaging about 100 live shows per year, Cross continues to tour extensively on the strength of his music’s enduring popularity: to date, Cross has sold over 9 million albums worldwide.
“The biggest gift of my career has been to work with and meet those artists I idolized growing up, whether it’s Randy Newman or the Beach Boys.”— Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross performs on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 8 pm and Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm.
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