Sophistication Moore was a find out of another period — nearly a geological age’s length — in popular entertainment: an opera vocalist who found achievement for the silver screen and also charted some strike records. Her tale is also perhaps one of the most convincing tales of achievement, beat, redemption, …

Blues shouter and later gospel preacher, Gatemouth Moore got his begin in Kansas Town while still an adolescent, performing for the rings of Bennie Moten and Walter Barnes. Graced having a soft but powerful tone of voice much like Charles Dark brown, Moore spent the 1940s penning and documenting songs, …

Composer, conductor, and orchestrator Ray Heindorf worked prolifically in Hollywood right away from the audio era of the films in the later ’20s to the finish from the studio room program in the later ’50s. Because the head from the music section at Warner Bros. Images for greater than a …

Like her fellow soprano Eileen Farrell, Kirsten were only available in radio and throughout her career, sang both popular music and opera, but Kirsten was also among the glamour numbers on the Met, following in the footsteps of such sopranos as Geraldine Farrar and Grace Moore, who became her coach. …

Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander keeps the distinction to be perhaps the just singer in rock and roll history whose impact could be detected in such polar opposing musical designs as ’80s glam metallic (Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil, Enuff Z’nuff’s Donnie Vie), and ’90s alternate (Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Rock Temple Pilots’ …

Four NY ‘brand-new jill swingers’ (they choose the term ‘brand-new ghetto groundbreaking music’) using the hardcore attitude of rap, 7669 arrived in 1994 amid a swirl of deliberately provocative press shots, notably topless poses astride huge motorcycles, which also graced the album cover. Much less readily obvious was the actual …

A multi-instrumentalist from Glasgow, Richard Youngs began releasing albums in the first ’90s on various indie brands. His music runs from genuine experimental, instrumental, minimal, and avant-garde to folk-inspired songwriting and intensifying rock and roll. In songwriting setting, he is much like Robert Wyatt, Anthony Moore, and specifically, other fine …

Among rock’s most colorful and wacky personas is Cheap Trick’s guitarist and primary songwriter, Rick Nielsen. Along with his zany stage clothes not usually connected with rock and roll & move (a sweater, bow connect, baseball head wear, etc.) and an unending military of guitars — his most well-known one …

Alongside Shot Jackson and Friend Emmons, famous sideman Jimmy Day time stood among the best possible steel guitarists ever to grace country music; “Mr. Nation Spirit,” he and his acoustic guitar, the famous Blue Darlin’, lent their artistry to information from performers which range from Webb Pierce to Ray Cost …

Best known because the guitarist (and frequently the vocalist) of hard-edged prog rockers Triumph, Rik Emmett continued to release his own single profession after leaving the group in the past due ’80s. Created in Toronto, Canada in 1953, Emmett found the guitar right before his teenage years, and finally studied …