Keyboardist/vocalist Costs Heid was created August 11, 1948, in Pittsburgh, PA. An all natural and virtuosic musician who was simply inspired to try out jazz and blues by hearing the air, he played both in piano and body organ organizations. His brother may be the well-respected drummer and maker George …

For over three years, Albert Griffiths and his Gladiators have already been a significant force within Jamaican music. Delivered in 1946, in St. Elizabeth parish, he was raised in poverty in Trench City, and trained being a mason. Nevertheless, music beckoned, and linking with David Webber, sibling of the favorite …

Blondie may experienced a string of number 1 hits and Speaking Heads might have won the hearts from the critics, however the Vehicles were probably the most successful American new influx music group to emerge in the past due ’70s. Making use of their smooth, mechanical pop/rock and roll, the …

Sid Ruler & the Five Strings had been, for approximately five years, among the most popular rock & move acts employed in Tx — the funny thing about this was that the group hadn’t began to play rock and roll & move (which, at that time, didn’t have even a …

Among the initial white rock and roll & rollers to record for a significant label (Columbia), Sid Ruler (given birth to Sid Erwin) was also among the initial young Southern music artists to look from Western golf swing to rockabilly within the mid-’50s. Erwin was raised within the Dallas-Fort Worthy …

Within only a small number of releases, David Cooper’s Manchester-based Melodic imprint found favor with those searching for something a lot more than breaks and bleeps from their electronica music. Leading the charge in the label was Wayne Rutledge, who, as Pedro, released the label using the six-track Put together …

This UK-based alternative hip-hop duo comprises two DJ-producers, Matt Smooth and Rob Macintosh. They fulfilled when Smooth proved helpful within a London drum store and Mac proved helpful to get a drum producer. In 1995, they set up ‘Damage’, among the UK’s leading hip-hop membership evenings. Their debut, Bespoke made …

Melvin Davis by no means scored the crossover hit that could have made him a celebrity, but few performers on Detroit’s spirit music picture had a far more impressive réamounté than Davis, a singer, songwriter, drummer, and bandleader who caused everyone from Smokey Robinson and David Ruffin to Wayne Kramer …

b. 28 July 1961, Stockport, Cheshire, Britain. His dad, Pat Nash, was main arranger for the BBC North Dance Orchestra, after that located in Manchester. Subjected to music from early child years, Derek was prompted to build up like a musician and from age 12 he focused his interest on …

Maker/songwriter/guitarist/vocalist T. Life’s biggest strike was Evelyn “Champagne” King’s 1978 million-selling one “Pity.” The monitor was utilized as the starting theme for Keenan Ivory Wayans’ 1994 film Low Down Dirty Pity (Touchstone House Video) and was included on the 1998 RCA film soundtrack CD Even more Monty. Sometimes acknowledged as …