Inspired by Betty Carter and Sheila Jordan, NY resident Lisa Sokolov is among the more interesting and chance-taking jazz vocalists who surfaced within the ’90s. Sokolov isn’t as radical as Ann Dyer — for example, she isn’t as left-of-center as Carter, although you can find components of Carter in her …

Richard Tauber remains, for most, the quintessential Viennese operetta tenor. And a performer, he was a composer, his functions displaying his knowledge of the operetta and melody genres otherwise the genius of the Lehár or Johann Strauss, Jr. He didn’t have an ideal tone of voice; his Bs and Cs …

Though nation singer Rodney Atkins didn’t get his 1st guitar until 1 Christmas in senior high school, he took to the instrument instantly and was quickly taking part in anywhere he could around his Cumberland Space, Tennessee, residential. While at university at Tennessee Technology in Cookeville, Atkins utilized the chance …

Fortunately or not really, Roger Clinton’s identity was irrevocably linked with his older half-brother Bill’s once he was elected President of america, though they have really nothing in connection with his degree of skill. Clinton was created July 25, 1957, something of his mother’s second relationship, and was extremely close …

Alabama bluesman Robert McCoy was definately not a huge name within the blues globe; the obscure vocalist/barrelhouse pianist just recorded sporadically, and several blues enthusiasts haven’t even heard about him. non-etheless, he was a deserving and likable musician such as Leroy Carr. McCoy was created in the tiny city of …

Chicago acid jazz outfit Water Spirit originally comprised saxophonist/musical director Mars Williams, DJ Jesse de la Peña, guitarist Tommy Klein, bassist Ricky Showalter, trumpeter Ron Haynes, keyboardist Frankie Hill, and drummer Dan Leali; shaped in 1993, the group quickly surfaced like a Windy Town club favorite because of their regular …

Broadway superstar Sarah Brightman was the motivation behind such stage strikes as Phantom from the Opera and Requiem, written in her honor simply by ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber. Delivered August 14, 1960, in Berkhampstead, Britain, Brightman began dance at age three, and a decade later produced her London theatrical debut …

Known first of all like a pianist, LA indigenous (and current upstate NY resident) Lincoln Mayorga can be an arranger, producer, composer, and instructor. Mayorga started issuing his personal recordings in 1974, while also operating as Walt Disney Studio’s personnel pianist, carrying out on such soundtracks because the Rose, Pete’s …

Rockabilly bombshell Lillian Briggs was created in 1932 and raised in Allentown, PA. She was splitting responsibilities playing trombone in Pleasure Cayler’s All-Girl Orchestra with her day time job traveling a laundry pickup truck when in 1952 she was found out by famous DJ Alan Freed, who presented Briggs in …

Among hip-hop’s initial (and finest) superproducers, Marley Marl was an early on innovator within the artwork of sampling, developing new methods that led to a number of the sharpest beats and hooks in rap’s Golden Age group. As the creator of Chilly Chillin’, Marl constructed a roster filled up with …