The winners from the 1981 Eurovision Track Contest, Uk quartet Dollars Fizz were, through the entire early ’80s, regarded being among the most successful bands of the era, chalking up a minimum of nine Top 20 hits between 1981-1983, including three chart-toppers, “Building YOUR BRAIN Up” (their Eurovision winner), “The …

Despite their prefabricated formation via a television plan known as Popstars: The Rivals, Girls Aloud achieved both mainstream success and widespread critical acclaim within their native Britain. Through Popstars’ procedure for elimination, Ladies Aloud’s regular membership amounted to Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Cole (née Tweedy), and Kimberley …

Named because of their producer, Ritchie Rome, the group was made by the past due Jacques Morali (passed away of Supports 1991), who also believed in the Community People. The initial trio was Cheryl Jacks, Cassandra Wooten, and Gwen Oliver. These were disco mavens, created to make dance flooring fodder …

Making use of their 1992 debut, ISN’T IT ABOUT TIME, SWV scored a string of TOP R&B hits that established them among the most widely used R&B sets of the ’90s. SWV (their name means for Sisters with Voices) is usually made up of three college close friends: Coko (delivered …

b. c.1953, NEW YORK, NY, USA. His parents had been music artists and from a age Groder performed trumpet and flügelhorn. Early in his professional profession he performed in resort and casino rings in Atlantic Town backing going to pop stars. For approximately ten years he trained in Philadelphia before …

The all-girl music group Rebel Pebbles formed in 1989 when singer Rachel Murray met ex-Pandoras guitarist Karen Blankfield by way of a paper ad. Adding drummer Cheryl Bullock and bass participant Robin Barnetti, the LA quartet started gigging and documented a self-released, three-song EP known as Party Time. Pursuing Party …

Guitarist/songwriter/maker Ray Parker Jr. experienced strikes mainly because Raydio (the million-selling “Jack port and Jill,” “You Can’t Switch That”), Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio (“Two Locations at exactly the same time,” “A FEMALE Needs Like [Just AS IF YOU Perform]”), and Ray Parker Jr. (the main R&B and pop platinum …

Reba McEntire was probably the most successful feminine recording musician in nation music within the 1980s and 1990s, where period she scored 22 number 1 strikes and released five platinum albums, six platinum albums, two double-platinum albums, four triple-platinum albums, a quadruple-platinum album, along with a quintuple-platinum album, for qualified …

Among the great man/female spirit vocal organizations, Ruby & the Romantics had an epic solitary in 1963 with “Our Day time SHOULD COME.” It topped both pop and R&B graphs and for most may be the definitive like/angst track. Business lead vocalist Ruby Nash Curtis, Ed Roberts, George Lee, and …

Distant Oaks, a SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region traditional Celtic music group made up of Deborah L. Light (vocals, electric guitar, citole, cittern, fretted dulcimer) and her sons Jared Light (recorders, whistles, krummhorn, Scottish smallpipes, Boundary pipes, bodhran) and Shayne Light (Celtic harp, Medieval harp, stepdancing) started as an …