b. 19 July 1957, Hampton, Virginia, USA. An celebrity and vocalist who found prominence in stage musicals through the 80s, with a method and voice similar to the much-missed Ethel Merman. Criswell was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where, therefore she says, the ‘live’ theater used to reach within a bus …

Easily among jazz’s greatest vibraphonists, Bobby Hutcherson epitomized his instrument with regards to the era where he came old just how Lionel Hampton did with swing or Milt Jackson with bop. He wasn’t as well-known as those two forebears, maybe because he began in less available place when he surfaced …

Vocalist/songwriter Andrew Heilprin composes a tangible and much more subdued sound in comparison to his times fronting the SoCal punk music group 40 Watt Area. He honors Bob Dylan giving himself the moniker of Blue-Eyed Kid. His assortment of 50-some music followed him on a journey to Hawaii in 2002 …

In 1980, Patti LuPone received her 1st Tony Award for best actress inside a musical on her behalf portrayal of Eva Peron, the ambitious, doomed wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita. In 2008, LuPone earned her second Tony as Mama Rose, the …

Peter Scott Lewis composes in a number of genres, from concerto to chamber music to vocal music. Frequently his work, like the tune cycle Where in fact the Center Is Pure as well as the cello concerto Through the Hill, is certainly descriptive and evocative of the surroundings where he …