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Amakye Dede and the Apollo Kings International Band

Dede’s profession began in 1975 when he joined the Kumapim Royals being a composer and vocalist and moved to Nigeria. He produced his own music group, the Apollo Kings, in 1980. After shifting back again to Ghana, his single profession blossomed in the past due ’80s with some reggae-influenced highlife …

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Fletcher Henderson All Stars

All-star music group of previous Fletcher Henderson sidemen led by Rex Stewart in 1957 and 1958. They both documented and made an appearance at the fantastic South Bay Festival.

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Sivasakti Sivanesan

Given birth to in Jaffna in the north component of Sri Lanka on Feb 21, 1957, the classical vocalists and vina participant Sivasakti or Sivashakti Sivanesan started her formal initiation into Carnatic music at age five using the composer and choreographer Yalpanam N. Veeramani Iyer. She afterwards discovered from N. …

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Andrew Jenkins

b. 26 November 1885, Jenkinsburg, Georgia, USA, d. 25 Apr 1957. Jenkins, like Riley Puckett, was presented with incorrect treatment for eyesight disorders as a kid. It took apart virtually all his eyesight and finally resulted in full blindness. He got to religion being a youngster and reputedly frequently preached …

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The Bop Chords

Harlem’s the Bop Chords produced in 1955 in the same building where in fact the Ladders, Stations, and Willows got their begin. Lead vocalist Ernest Harriston, William Dailey, Ken Hamilton, Leon Ivey, and Morris Smarr acquired all sung with various other neighborhood groupings, and Hamilton acquired recorded using the Five …

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Anouar Brahem

The role from the Arabic, lute-like, stringed instrument, the oud, continues to be revolutionized through the playing of Anouar Brahem. While found in days gone by to accompany vocalists, the oud can be used by Brahem as an imaginative single device. In 1988, Tunisian newspapers Tunis-Hebdo published, “If we’d to …

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The Mastersounds

Vibraphonist Friend Montgomery and electric powered bassist Monk Montgomery (1921-1982) came collectively to create the Mastersounds (a melodic and easy hearing bop group) with pianist Richie Crabtree and drummer Benny Barth in 1957. The music group captured on for a couple of years, cutting ten information in four years for …

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The Esquires

The Esquires were a vocal group from Milwaukee, WI, formed in 1957 in the height from the R&B vocal boom. Gilbert Moorer, his sibling Alvis, and sister Betty had been children of the musical family members; their father experienced sung inside a gospel group known as the Friendly Five, while …

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Coon Creek Girls

Probably one of the most famous all-female string rings in nation, the Coon Creek Ladies were also one of the primary female groups to try out their own devices and concentrate on authentic hill music, rather than sentimental and cowboy tunes. The founding person in the long-lived group was Lily …

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The Charioteers

Gospel purists might feel that that which was done towards the Charioteers is something similar to trying to carefully turn a chariot right into a Corvette. The dark gospel group, recently transformed right into a vocal pop group by enterprising record organization executives, didn’t turn the required commercial quarter using …

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