Contact him a blues singer if you like, but Ollie Nightingale will probably continually be recalled most readily for the emotionally billed Memphis soul he cut from 1968 to 1970 as front side guy for Ollie & the Nightingales. Like the majority of great soul performers, Ollie Hoskins arrived right …

b. Max Leon vehicle Gelder, 12 Feb 1916, Amsterdam, holland, d. 2 Oct 2004, Hand Springs, California, USA. Geldray was created right into a musical family members and reputed to become among the 1st jazz harmonica players in European countries. His mom was a classically qualified pianist, as well as …

Ronnie Carroll was mainly well-known for a couple of things: “blacking up” being a minstrel to impersonate singers of African descent (yes, it certainly did happen), and representing THE UK for just two consecutive years in the Eurovision Tune Contest. He was created Ronald Cleghorn on August 18, 1934, in …

Ken Boynton can be an energetic singer/songwriter, acting professional, filmmaker, and in addition very energetic like a voiceover designer. With this many logs around the fire, you can question how he offers come release a his fifth recording, “Discover a way”, in 2000. His enthusiasm for songwriting and performing offers …

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Lowen spent the majority of his profession within a composing and performing relationship with Dan Navarro. He was created David Eric Lowen Oct 23, 1951, in Utica, NY, the son of the Baptist minister dad and a mom who was simply a previous music instructor. He …

During a extended and uncommonly productive job, Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida accomplished a ubiquity in popular music which has yet to become fully recognized. Mainly in charge of the Brazilian/North American “samba jazz” that could ultimately catch on by means of a musical pattern referred to as bossa nova, he …

Among the flashiest guitarists (both visually and instrumentally) to emerge from the ’80s rock and roll picture was Steve Stevens. Delivered in Brooklyn, NY, on, may 5, 1959, Stevens initial picked up your guitar when he was just seven yrs . old, and afterwards became a devoted prog rock and …

Slick Rick foreshadowed and epitomized the pimpster attitude of several rappers through the past due ’80s and early ’90s, with silver chains, his brand eye-patch, and recordings which were believe it or not misogynistic — “Deal with Her Such as a Prostitute,” for instance, became an underground strike in 1988, …

Although he’s generally forgotten today beyond Canada, where his commercial career lasted far much longer than it did in america, Wilf Carter was a distinctive existence in country music and cowboy music in the 1930s before end from the 1950s. Rare may be the mid-century yodeller whose history predates the …

Jamaica’s initial dancehall superstar, Yellowman ushered in a fresh period in reggae music following Bob Marley’s loss of life. His early-’80s achievement brought the recognition of toasting — the reggae exact carbon copy of rapping — to a complete fresh level, and helped set up dancehall because the wave into …