House of Pain

“Leap Around,” an impossibly infectious and catchy one, instantly elevated Home of Discomfort from an unidentified white hip-hop group to near-stars when it became an enormous crossover strike in 1992. It produced the band looked after broke the music group, consigning these to the amount of one-hit miracles. House of …

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Lizzie Higgins

b. Elizabeth Ann Youlden, 20 Sept 1929, Aberdeen, Scotland, d. 20 Feb 1993, Aberdeen, Scotland. Higgins was the only real girl of Scottish ballad vocalist Jeannie Robertson and piper Donald Higgins. She remaining school at age 15 and worked well for some time as a seafood filleter. Following the ‘finding’ …

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Lizbeth Webb

b. 30 January 1926, Caversham, Oxfordshire, Britain. A much-admired ingénue in Western world End musicals through the past due 40s and early 50s, Lizbeth Webb started her career being a vocalist with dance rings. Following a suggestion from an eminent head of one of these well-known ensembles, Geraldo, Charles B. …

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John Fry

Being a sophomore in senior high school, avid consumer electronics buff John Fry made a decision to take up a record label and saving facility. Creating a makeshift documenting studio room in his grandmother’s sewing space, he created Ardent Information in 1960. The studio room, situated in Memphis, later on …

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Sabelle

A songwriter signed to the Sony/Function label (with her very own recording agreement) after she present success being a songwriter with “Appear What You’ve Done” for Asante in 1996, Sabelle was raised in NEW YORK as a kid success, winning skill shows and executing on Showtime on the Apollo. She …

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Dean Wareham

Vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham is more influential than he’s usually particular credit for. Frequently sounding such as a stressed out slacker, Wareham offers inspired several indie rockers expressing their sadness having a wistful tenor. Wareham was created in Wellington, New Zealand, on August 1, 1963. In 1977, Wareham and his parents …

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Jeff London

An acoustic singer/songwriter who veers from Americana to folk-pop, Jeff London officially began his profession within the mid-’90s by sporadically performing around Portland, OR. Like a single designer, London released Uneasy and Slowness in 1999 (on Jealous Butcher and Hush, respectively) and Col. Summers Recreation area in 2001 (on Hush/Jealous …

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David Van Tieghem

New York-based percussionist David Truck Tieghem shows a remarkably wide sense of what takes its percussion instrument, “using” from kitchen what to a theater itself. Occasionally coming beneath the proceeding “performance artwork,” his are a soloist with many albums under his very own name so when an accompanist to Laurie …

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Mabon “Teenie” Hodges

Tempo guitarist Mabon “Teenie” Hodges was an essential ingredient from the Memphis Spirit sound from the 1970s. Together with his brothers, Leroy (bass) and Charles (body organ), he generated the chugging, bluesy grooves and even rhythms that, especially with vocalist Al Green, became a prominent section of American music background. …

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Vocal Sampling

Assembled in the first ’90s at Havana’s National Superior Institute of Arts by ex-Ena Jazz Sextet pianist René Baños, singer/guitarist Reinaldo Santer, and percussionist/bassist Abel Sanabria, Vocal Sampling became a six-member group after becoming became a member of by singer/guitarist Jorge Chaviano, tropical trombonist Oscar Porro, and percussionist Renato Mora. …

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