As the lead singer and primary songwriter for Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas found achievement with a mixture of ’70s rock and roll influences, slick hooks, and ’90s post-grunge crunch. The Florida-based music group broke through in 1996 with “Drive” rather than looked back again, issuing solitary after solitary, scoring hits …

b. Barbara Anne Smith, 3 March 1961, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. In the past due 70s a fresh influx of DJs including Charlie Chaplin, Josie Wales and Brigadier Jerry had been plying their trade in the dancehalls. The amount of feminine performers in the same region was small, so …

From Sweden, Glory Bell’s Band was led by Glory North (vocals), a consummate live performer of considerable local popularity. As well as Miguel Santana (electric guitar), Franco Santuione (electric guitar), Marks Anderson (electric guitar, keyboards), Bob Anderson (bass) and Peter Udd (drums), the music group produced its debut in 1982 …

Automatic Man arrived of nowhere in 1976. Leading cover of their debut record acquired a simple however eye-catching blue alien looking out from space. An in depth go through the four-man lineup on the trunk sleeve, however, displays highly-respected ex-Santana drummer Michael Shrieve. However the brains and key songwriter behind …

Best known while the drummer in Jimi Hendrix’s Music group of Gypsys, Friend Kilometers also had an extended solo profession that drew from rock and roll, blues, spirit, and funk in varying mixtures. Born George Kilometers in Omaha, NE, on Sept 5, 1947, he began playing the drums at age …

The niece of influential Cape Breton fiddler Pal MacMaster, Natalie MacMaster has turned the music of Cape Breton, an island from the east coast of Canada close to Nova Scotia, into a global phenomenon. Whether executing with her music group, featuring electric guitar, piano, bass, drums and percussion, or using …

Ambient world fusion composer/multi-instrumentalist David Cortopassi has analyzed horizontal composition with Lyle Murphy, so that as a member of varied groups has toured using the Thankful Lifeless, the Doobie Brothers, Santana, Elvin Bishop, Bill Medley, and Tower of Power. He in addition has scored several movies, including The Best Chase …

Descemer Bueno is a Cuban musician, singer, songwriter, and maker whose professional profession offers seen him function in circles which range from jazz to hip-hop, traditional child, and Latin pop. In the 21st hundred years, he is viewed as probably one of the most essential figures in modern Latin music. …

An extended respected sideman in R&B circles, Byron Miller has so far just had a few opportunities to business lead his own record schedules. Although he previously began playing piano when he was five, Miller didn’t take music significantly until he previously a football damage while a junior in senior …

Armando Peraza was very long considered among popular music’s best percussionists — a expert of both conga and bongos. Not only is it a long-standing person in Santana, Peraza guested on several recordings by additional popular recording performers. Created in Havana, Cuba, on, may 30, 1924, Peraza dropped both parents …