Within an era of odd and fascinating musical obscurities, Milwaukee-native Sigmund Snopek III could be perhaps one of the most fascinating artists to emerge from the later ’60s and early ’70s. By himself and along with his music group the Bloomsbury People, he started playing an unconventional combination of avant-garde …

Andrea Bocelli continues to be called “the 4th tenor”; the blind, Tuscan-born vocalist provides emerged among the most widely used voices within the area of light traditional and crossover vocals and it has made inroads in to the globe of opera aswell. His involvement in Pavarotti’s 1992 strike Miserere record …

No other kid star in the annals of popular entertainment enjoyed a lot popularity and renown as Shirley Temple — with the tender age of six, she had been among the largest celebrities on earth. Born Apr 23, 1928 in Santa Monica, California, she started acquiring dance classes at three, …

Though many have dubbed Superdrag a punk-pop or power pop band, their music shows itself to become atop of these genres. Taking just as much impact from the English Invasion-style pop from the Beatles as well as the Zombies simply because My Bloody Valentine and Hüsker Dü, Superdrag’s music mixed …

Charismatic and captivating, Patty Pravo has flushed through 40 years of Italian pop music, varying her image — initial beat queenie, after that elegant and provoking chanteuse — but never diminishing an exclusive personality. Blessed in Venice 9 Apr, 1948, Nicoletta Strambelli was bred within an incredibly intellectual environment, she …

Frida is really a Scandinavian vocalist most widely known as an associate from the massively successful Swedish pop clothing ABBA. With her warm mezzo-soprano vocal range and dazzling auburn locks, Frida often proved helpful in gorgeous counterpoint to her blonde soprano ABBA bandmate Agnetha Faltskog. Though she started her profession …

Jeremy Jay has dreamy, stream-of-consciousness indie pop inspired by synth pop, ’50s innocence, and most importantly, films. His Dreamwalker EP was conceived because the soundtrack to a brief film with the same name, starring Jay; St. Ives released it being a handmade, limited model of 300 copies in-may of 2007. …

b. 27 November 1910, LA, California, USA, d. 17 January 1989, Phoenix, Az, USA. Shaped in LA, California, USA, in 1935, the Ray Herbeck Orchestra shortly relocated to Chicago to go after the profitable Midwest one-nighter circuit. Making use of their theme track, ‘Love’, Herbeck’s was probably one of the …

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Music group were formed in 1969 by Mic and Jim Conway of Melbourne, Australia. Although their dad was a wool product owner, the brothers Conway was raised in a family group with professional ties to vaudeville, movie theater, and opera. Motivated by their parents’ assortment of …

Of the many rap performers who emerged from Atlanta through the later 2000s, B.o.B — who was simply just 17 when he signed his initial major-label record offer — was perhaps one of the most unique. His borderline eccentricity and creative brain, belied by his music’s standard Dirty South audio, …