Christopher Cross-Christopher Cross (1979)

Tanned during the 70s in many roadside bars and gambling dens in the San Antonio area of ​​Texas, Christopher Cross was the archetype of the standards of American soft rock, his music was always pretentious and complicated and perhaps for this reason he became One of the best artisans of success for radio and ballads, among which is the one made for the movie "Arthur the Bachelor of Gold", which won him the Oscar in 1981.
In 1978 he got a contract with Warner Bros and published his first album, to brighten his compositions Warner himself surrounded him with some of the most brilliant stars of the moment such as Michael McDonald, Larry Carlton, Eric Johnson or Don Henley among others Many.
This debut contained songs like the emotional "Say You'll be mine", the ballad "Sailing" or his most remembered song the wonderful "Ride like the wind".
This album rose to the top of the charts and would get 6 Grammy Awards (surprisingly, it beat the most acclaimed album of that year as it was "The Wall" by Pink Floyd) with more than 7 million copies sold and had a sequel providing the same musical arguments in the following album "Another Page" (1983), which however would not reach the sales quantities of his splendid debut album.