Gifted having a warm, gravelly tone of voice, Scottish singer Ray Wilson has already established a profession of high and lows so far. A Levi’s Television advertisement dragged him from rock and roll limbo and propelled his group Stiltskin in to the U.K. graphs. A few weeks later, his employing …

Fondling electronic shades using their synthesisers, Swedish outfit Pluxus (pronounced Plook-suss) generate pop naïf that seems as if influenced by older skool video games, cartoon themes as well as the control keys of cellular phone keypads. Although they right now forge catchy synthesiser and drum machine masterpieces, Pluxus possess their …

Innovative jazz trombonist and composer Nils Wogram has performed and documented in a multitude of settings from single to huge ensemble, and it has released more than 20 albums being a leader or co-leader. Wogram was created in 1972 in Braunschweig, Germany, with age 12 he started traditional training on …

b. 4 June 1907, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA, d. 28 November 1976, Beverly Hillsides, LA, California, USA. Russell’s education included a spell on the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Over the stage in the past due 20s, she is at the Broadway revue The Garrick Gaieties (1930) as well as the …

b. Thomas Mossie McQuater, 4 Sept 1914, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, d. 20 January 2008, Scotland. A self-taught trumpeter, he obtained wide professional knowledge in the middle-30s playing in lots of leading United kingdom dance rings. These included Jack port Payne, Lew Rock and Ambrose. During Globe Battle II McQuater is …

The storyplot goes that Nicolai Dunger was discovered singing and playing guitar on his balcony in Piteå, Sweden. However the representative for Telegram who agreed upon him was most likely not very happy using the experimental music that surfaced from the expected singer/songwriter as well as the record Music Wearing …

Lengthy songs with some complex arrangements forced Mayadome, a Swedish rock group, in to the eye of the general public in Oct 1996 when Shrapnel Information released the group’s debut album, Paranormal Activity. The group’s music relatively echoed the traditional intensifying metal noises of Dream Theatre, but proceeded to go …

b. Luis Memoryón Valle Sánchez, 29 Oct 1964, Holguín, Cuba. Valle started playing piano at age seven. His research were first on the Escuela Provincial de Arte in Holguín and then went to the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana, graduating from there in 1984. He proved helpful being a …

The stepdaughter of jazz trailblazer Don Cherry, vocalist Neneh Cherry forged her own groundbreaking mixture of pop, dance, hip-hop, and R&B, presaging the emergence of both alternative rap and trip-hop. She was created Neneh Mariann Karlssson on March 10, 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden, the girl of Western world African percussionist …

A significant trombonist who’s quite versatile, Jiggs Whigham has so far not really received the recognition that he deserves, possibly because he has spent lots of time performing in Germany. After graduating from senior high school in 1961, Whigham became a member of the Glenn Miller Ghost Orchestra (beneath the …