Ƙungiyar Switchfoot sanannen ƙungiyar kiɗa ce wacce ke yin hits a madadin nau'in dutsen. An kafa shi a shekarar 1996.
Ƙungiyar ta shahara don haɓaka sauti na musamman, wanda ake kira sautin Switchfoot. Wannan sauti ne mai kauri ko murdiya mai nauyi. An yi masa ado da kyakkyawan haɓakar lantarki ko ballad mai haske. Ƙungiyar ta kafa kanta a fagen kiɗan Kirista na zamani.
Abubuwan da ke cikin rukuni da tarihin samuwar ƙungiyar Switchfoot
A halin yanzu ƙungiyar ta ƙunshi mambobi biyar: John Foreman (mawaƙin jagora, guitarist), Tim Foreman (gitar bass, muryoyin goyon baya), Chad Butler ( ganguna), Jer Fontamillas (allon madannai, muryoyin goyon baya), da kuma Drew Shirley (guitarist).
'Yan'uwan John da Tim Foreman ne suka kafa madadin rukunin dutsen. Ko da yake sau da yawa suna yin gasa a gasar tseren igiyar ruwa ta ƙasa kuma sun yi ƙwazo sosai a abin da suke yi, dukansu ukun suna da sha'awar kiɗa.
Mutanen sun kafa ƙungiya (tsohuwar Up) kuma sun fitar da kundi guda uku kafin su fara halarta a 2003. A cikin 2001, Jerome Fontamillas ya shiga ƙungiyar akan maɓallan madannai, guitar da muryoyin goyan baya. Drew Shirley ya fara yawon shakatawa tare da ƙungiyar a matsayin mai guitarist a cikin 2003. Ya shiga Switchfoot bisa hukuma a cikin 2005.
Labarin nasara na Switchfoot
Rockers Switchfoot sun ji daɗin babbar shahara bayan fitowar The Beautiful Letdown (2003). A ƙarshen 1990s, ƙungiyar ta fara ƙara "kasuwanci" nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan synth rock, post-grunge da pop-power a cikin abubuwan da suka kirkira, wanda ya haifar da nasarar irin waɗannan sanannun kundi kamar Nothing Is Sound (2005) da Sannu. Hurricane (2009).
Kundin na ƙarshe ya sami rukunin lambar yabo ta Grammy don Best Christian Rock Album. Sun kira kansu “Kiristoci ta wurin bangaskiya, ba ta wurin kiɗa ba”. Wato, mutanen sun kasance masu bi, kuma ba kawai ƙirƙirar kiɗa ga Kiristoci ba.
An sanya hannu zuwa ɗaya daga cikin manyan alamun Kirista a cikin ƙasar, Switchfoot sun yi saurin bayyana tsare-tsarensu da dabarunsu don isa ga jama'a masu sauraro. Albums ɗin su na farko guda biyu, The Legend of Chin da New Way to Be Human, an sayar da su galibi ga masu sauraron Kirista, waɗanda nan da nan suka ƙaunaci ƙungiyar.
Koyon Numfashi shine sabon kundi don karɓar zaɓin Grammy don Mafi kyawun Album a cikin Rukunin Rock Linjila. An sayar da fiye da kwafi dubu 500. Don haka kungiyar ta samu matsayi mai girma.
Nasarar Kyawawan Letdown Album
Switchfoot sun fitar da kundi mafi kyawun siyarwa mai kyau Letdown a cikin 2003. Ya shiga jadawali Albums Top 200 na Billboard kuma ya kai lamba 85. Tare da Ma'anar Rayuwa guda ɗaya (wanda aka yi wahayi daga waƙar Eliot The Hollow Men), ƙungiyar ta kasance matsayi #5 a cikin dutsen zamani ta Billboard..
A wannan shekarar, Switchfoot ya ba da labarin wani balaguron balaguron Amurka na watanni uku. Matsakaicin adadin rukunin yana nuna nunin 150 a shekara. Mawakan sun kuma bayyana a matsayin baƙi na kiɗa akan shirye-shiryen TV da yawa kamar Kira na Ƙarshe tare da Carson Daly da The Late Late Show tare da Craig Kilborn.
A ƙarshen 2003, Beautiful Letdown ya kusanci matsayin platinum. Ma'anar Rayuwa ɗaya ta shafe makonni 14 a cikin Billboard Top 40. A cikin Maris 2004, Switchfoot sun saki ɗayansu na biyu Dare You to Move. Bayan haka, ta sake tafiya yawon shakatawa na watanni uku.
John Foreman ya shaida wa mujallar Rolling Stone a shekara ta 2003 cewa, duk da shahara da kuma album tallace-tallace, band ya kuduri aniyar cimma burin music na ɗaukaka Allah a nasu hanya da kuma ci gaba musically ko da sauri.
Ƙungiyoyin rock na Kirista na Kudancin California Switchfoot ba su taɓa tunanin cewa kiɗan su zai kai dubun dubatar magoya baya a duniya ba ko kuma zai kai su ga tauraro.
Gabaɗaya, ƙungiyar a yau tana da albam 11, wanda na ƙarshe shine Harshen Asalin.
Sunan Switchfoot
Switchfoot suna ne mai ban sha'awa wanda ke da ma'ana mai zurfi. John ya bayyana cewa wannan kalma ce ta surfer wanda ke bayyana tsarin canza matsayi na ƙafafu a kan allo don ɗaukar matsayi mafi kyau, juya a wata hanya.
Mawakan sun zaɓi wannan sunan ne don nuna falsafar ƙungiyar. Ƙungiyarsu ta ƙirƙira abubuwan ƙira game da canji da motsi, game da wata hanya ta daban ta rayuwa da kiɗa.
Siffofin Rukuni
Ƙungiyar Switchfoot, ba kamar masu fafatawa ba, duk da matakin shahara, ta kasance mai gaskiya ga ƙa'idodinta. Kungiyar tana matukar taimaka wa 'yan gudun hijirar Sudan a San Diego a fannin kudi da kuma halin kirki. Har ila yau, da son rai na ba da lokaci don yin magana da su, fastoci, faranta musu rai, kawo musu wani abu mai haske da kyau.
