May 18, at the Centre of Excellence, promises to be a classy evening out for the young and the young at heart as five-time Grammy Award winner/singer/songwriter Christopher Cross joins Grammy Award winning sensation Peter Cetera and Air Supply for what promises to be "the greatest night of romance."Cross replaced Patty Smyth and Scandal as previously advertised due to a conflicting date on May 19, in Seattle.
Cross was by far one of the biggest superstars of the 80s, virtually defining adult contemporary radio with a series of smoothly sophisticated ballads including the number one hit, Sailing.
His 1980 self-titled debut album with the lead single Ride Like the Wind rocketed to the number two spot; the massive success of the second single Sailing made Cross a superstar, and in the wake of two more Top 20 hits, Never Be the Same and Say You'll Be Mine, he walked off with an unprecedented and record-setting five Grammys in 1981, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for Sailing.
He soon scored a second number one, as well as an Academy Award, with Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do), which he co-wrote with Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen for the smash Dudley Moore comedy Arthur.Cross' much-anticipated second album Another Page came out in 1983 and produced the hits All Right, No Time for Talk, and a top ten entry for Think of Laura, a song featured prominently in the daytime drama, General Hospital.
Amazingly, he charted eight songs into the Billboard Top-40 charts between 1980 and 1983. Four years, two albums, eight hit singles, several world tours, five Grammy's, and one Oscar marked Cross' meteoric rise to the top.Cross has released eight albums (not counting hits packages), a body of work revealing a steady, focused dedication to his artistic growth.Those who have followed Cross have reaped the rewards of set after set of intelligently written and performed melodic pop.
Beyond the Cross-mania years, he co-wrote and sang the song that helped define the 1984 Summer Olympics, A Chance for Heaven; he co-wrote and sang the delightful Loving Strangers for the hit 1986 Tom Hanks movie, Nothing in Common; and the following year he presented I Will (Take You Forever), a lovely duet with international Les Miserables star Frances Ruffelle, which tune has been featured in many a wedding.
Singles from most all of his albums charted in Japan and elsewhere in the East, while In the Blink of an Eye enjoyed a smashing top-ten success in Germany and surrounding territories in 1992.Cross continues to record and perform an average of about 100 live shows per year. Every few years, the world has been gifted with a new set of songs, each of the albums growing innately from the last while resolutely advancing the state of his art.