Tag Archives: 1950s – 1980s

The Shirelles were the very first main female vocal band of the rock era, defining the so-called girl group sound making use of their soft, sweet harmonies and yearning innocence. Their music was a mixture of pop/rock and roll and R&B — specifically doo wop and simple uptown spirit — …

Michael Sammes was created in Reigate, Surrey, and studied cello, singing, and planning. He visited work with a music publisher and produced the Mike Sammes Performers during the middle-’50s. A vocal outfit of differing size whose associates were frequently divided up into smaller sized ensembles for program function, the Mike …

Rex Franklin (b. 25 Sept 1935, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand) was drawn to nation music being a youngster from hearing the recordings of Tex Morton and Pal Williams and American superstars Wilf Carter and Hank Snow, which have been released in New Zealand. After departing school, he done a remote …

Rakotofra learned to try out the sodina flute while a kid. At age group ten, he relocated to Antananarivo to are a baker after his parents passed away and there he performed for enjoyment. His long profession offers included a overall performance for Charles de Gaulle in 1947, additional shows …

Though Matt Monro is well known best to world-wide audiences because the voice of 1 of the greatest James Relationship themes, “From Russia with Like,” the English vocalist produced an eternity of great work. Frequently criticized like a second-rate Sinatra imitation due to his light, expressive design of golf swing, …

Vocalist/songwriter Narvel Felts is at the united states music business for over 30 years. Created in Bernie, Missouri, he was a self-taught guitarist inspired by the united states music of such performers as Ernest Tubb and Floyd Tillman. Felts began in 1956 when he received his high-school skill contest having …

The very first woman to create a forro group, Marinês had gold records having a Dama perform Nordeste and Bate Coração, two of her 30 albums. A few of her strikes are “Peba na Pimenta,” “Pisa na Fulô,” “Xaxado da Em virtude deíba,” “Velho Ditado,” “Mais Um Pau-de-Arara,” “Balanço da …

A most well-known artist of the Golden Age of Brazilian radio, Aracy de Almeida is renowned on her behalf interpretations of sambas, carnival music, and, specifically, of Noel Rosa’s function. Appointed once by the essential composer because the greatest interpreter of his compositions, she stocks this honor within the appreciation …

Soprano Joan Sutherland’s mom taught her the piano and performing until she was 19, sufficiently that Joan won several performing tournaments. Her professional vocal schooling then started when she was accepted being a pupil of John and Aida Dickens in Sydney. The Dickenses instantly started focusing on her neglected soprano …

Rick Nelson was among the very biggest from the ’50s teenager idols, so that it took awhile for him to achieve the same degree of critical respectability while other early rock and roll greats. Yet right now the consensus is the fact that he made a number of the finest …