Like fellow Wicked actress Laura Michelle Kelly before her, Broadway and Western End star Kerry Ellis is among the few artists to help make the crossover from theater towards the pop graphs. Blessed in Haughley, Suffolk in 1979, Ellis started singing young, and motivated by Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand, …

Although Gene Simmons found fame being a blood-spurting, fire-breathing, bass-playing demon with Kiss, his early years were about as far taken out as it is possible to possibly get from the notorious rock music group. Blessed August 25, 1949, and called Chaim Witz, he and his mom left Israel with …

Created in 1977 in Trieste, Italian singer Elisa Toffoli’s 1st steps in to the music globe arrived through dance, nonetheless it was singing that captured her heart and presented her natural skills. Elisa was raised enamored with music, expending hours of her years as a child singing alongside recordings by …

Within the mid-’50s Frank Perowsky remaining Des Moines, IA, for NEW YORK to review calrinet at Julliard and absorb the city’s enormous jazz scene at such clubs as Birdland, where he witnessed performances by such luminaries as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and much more. Pursuing his …

First emerging within the middle-’70s, Marvin Hamlisch was among the best composers in film, theater, and well-known music. As holder of several gold record honours for his soundtrack and ensemble recordings, as well as the composer of a few of the most well-known music ever trim by Barbra Streisand and …

Becky Baeling is certainly part of a fresh generation of disco revivalists, bringing back again the sultry grooves and party-all-the-time vibes of past due-‘70s and early-‘80s club music. Delivered in Madonna’s hometown of Rochester, Michigan, Baeling began acquiring dance lessons at age three; by enough time she was five she …

b. Cyril J. Trimnell-Ritchard, 1 Dec 1897, Surry Hillsides, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, d. 18 Dec 1977, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Starting being a dancer, Ritchard produced his theatrical debut in Sydney in 1917. Among his initial companions, in Katinka (1918), was Madge Elliott (b. 12 Might 1896, London, Britain, …

Merging theatrics and an outrageously flamboyant stage persona along with his okay natural-born talent (he possessed one of the biggest voices in every of music and penned a few of pop’s most long lasting and instantly recognizable compositions), among rock’s most significant all-time entertainers/showmen was unquestionably Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury. …

Tony-winning dancer, celebrity, and singer Chita Rivera made her main impact like a performer in Broadway musicals, showing up in them frequently for more than 40 years, including a breakout component in Western Side Tale and starring tasks in Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, The Rink, and Kiss from the Spider …

b. NEW YORK, NY, USA. Azucena went to Performing Arts SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Manhattan, majoring in performing. Leaning towards traditional music, she examined European art music and performed at the institution in opera. After graduation, she continuing her vocal research while focusing on many sessions being a back-up vocalist for …