Most widely known for co-founding soft rock and roll hitmakers Bread, vocalist/songwriter Wayne Griffin also won an Academy Honor for co-authoring 1970’s smash “FOR EVERYONE WE REALIZE.” Delivered in Cincinnati on August 10, 1943, Griffin grew up in Memphis, developing up in a nearby that housed rock and roll & …

Maria Taylor brought her warm, casual vocals to many projects — especially Azure Ray, a dreamy pop duo that featured Taylor and longtime partner Orenda Fink — before starting her own profession as a single singer/songwriter. Created in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama, she got her begin at age group 15 …

Barry Adamson’s are a bassist for Newspaper and Nick Cave’s Poor Seeds gave small indication from the organic, cinematic functions he has composed being a single artist. After departing the Bad Seed products in 1987, Adamson made a decision to follow the road of film composers like John Barry, Ennio …

Some contact him a genius, others state he’s certifiably insane, a madman. Truth is usually, he’s both, but moreover, Lee Perry is usually a towering physique in reggae — a maker, mixer, and songwriter who, along with Ruler Tubby, helped form the audio of dub and produced reggae music such …

In his 1999 memoir, An end to Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin being a musician who kept one foot in the favorite and one in the classical realms of music. Like Gershwin, Jackson possesses a restless musical creativity that has discovered him straddling musical …

The Dovells are most widely known for a small number of early-’60s dance hits, including their biggest one — “The Bristol Stomp” — number 1 (according to Cash Box) and number 2 (Billboard) within the pop charts in 1961, climbing its way to number seven within the R&B charts aswell. …

Through the late ’90s, Creed surfaced from a sea of post-grunge contenders to be among the decade’s biggest-selling rock and roll bands. At the same time when a great many other Seattle disciples had been lapsing into inactivity or tinkering with much less commercial noises, Creed transported the torch of …

Streetwise R&B balladeer Jaheim Hoagland comes from Fresh Brunswick, NJ, where he was raised in the 176 Memorial Parkway Homes public casing project. Misfortune strike early: his dad passed away in 1981, when he was just two years previous. From the musical family members helped him get over the tragedy …

Prior to the Cro-Mags, the thought of combining rock and hardcore collectively was unusual. But using the launch of their traditional debut, Age Quarrel, hardcore-metal was created, and in its wake arrived a legion of likewise designed offspring (Biohazard, Eyesight of Disorder, etc.). However the group endured an countless quantity …

The unsung hero from the baritone-sax, Jack port Washington hardly ever achieved much recognition but, along with Harry Carney, he was among the 1st strong soloists over the baritone. He in fact began playing soprano sax when he was 13 before switching completely to baritone. Washington became a member of …