Detroit-native Don Juan Mancha wore many hats during his 40-year foray in the music biz: songwriter, producer, arranger, record label owner, street manager, and radio DJ. Everything began in senior high school where he sang in a variety of vocal groups like the Delrays with Barrett Solid. After Air Push …

Orestes Barbosa wrote highly successful and common valses, foxes, and sambas which were recorded by composers/interpreters like Castro Barbosa, Silvio Caldas, Francisco Alves, Noel Rosa, Carlos Galhardo, Aracy de Almeida, Orlando Silva, Zezé Gonzaga, and Paulinho da Viola, amongst others. He also composed ten books and was a reporter, reviser, …

The Gospel Music Workshop of America’s Men’s Chorus features over 600 vocalists and it is led and made by Frank Wilson, who in addition has caused the GWMA Country wide Mass Choir as well as the Mighty Clouds of Pleasure. The group’s debut documenting, Live in LA, premiered in the …

The early-’90s formation Samuel Smiles was originally conceived like a live setup to process smoky late-night jazz with an exploration of introspection in song. Originally a trio composed of vocalist Tim Bowness (No-Man/Darkroom), keyboards guy Peter Chilvers (Alias Sophistication), and guitarist Michael Bearpark (Darkroom), they are actually aided by saxophonist …

Manufacturer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Joe Thomas is a ex – wrestler who finished up grappling, as they say, with Beach Children maestro Brian Wilson. The live Dvd movie productions which were ultimately released following the relationship of Wilson and Thomas proceeded to go south are evidently studied in a few …

The Starlets notched a set of girl group classics, one under their own name, the additional inadvertently giving rise towards the career of Patti LaBelle. Shaped in Chicago in 1961, the group was shaped by vocalists Jane Hall and Maxine Edwards, who fulfilled while employed in a pecan digesting vegetable. …

Doo wop quintet the Beavers formed in NEW YORK in early 1949; the lineup was set up by vocal trainer Joe Thomas and comprised lead tenor Freddy Hamilton, tenor Dick Palmer, lead baritone John Wilson, bass Raymond Johnson, and pianist/arranger Howard Biggs, who acquired previously offered in the same capability …

Although hip-hop trio Camorra takes their name from a branch from the Italian Mafia that operates within their indigenous Brazil, their message is a lot more positive compared to the gangster connotations might imply. Rappers Vinícius Anderson, Ney, and Carlos Cleverson are chiefly worried about the issues of metropolitan Brazil, …

Considered one of the better samba interpreters of most times despite a restricted discography and an early on demise at 19, Vassourinha debuted as singer at Rádio Record (São Paulo SP) in 1935, forming a duo with Isaura Garcia. In the same calendar year he acted in the film Fazendo …

Alton McClain, as the business lead vocalist of Alton McClain & Future, had a high Ten R&B/Best 40 pop strike with “It all Must Be Like” and recorded the initial edition of “I’ve Learned to Respect the energy of Like” (compiled by Angela Winbush), later on a 1986 number 1 …