Tag Archives: 1960s – 2000s

Julie Felix isn’t too well-known in her local USA, but since 1964 she’s been a significant Uk folk music celebrity and continues to be compared more than there with Joan Baez. Felix was created in California, of combined Mexican and Local American ancestry. An all natural vocalist by inclination, she …

Julian Priester was a flexible and highly advanced trombonist with the capacity of playing hard bop, post-bop, R&B, fusion, or full-on avant-garde jazz; nevertheless, he continues to be under-appreciated because of the paucity of classes he documented under his personal name. Priester was created in Chicago on June 29, 1935, …

Louisiana Crimson (given birth to Iverson Minter) was a flamboyant guitarist, harmonica participant, and vocalist. He dropped his parents early in existence through multiple tragedies; his mom passed away of pneumonia weekly after his delivery, and his dad was lynched from the Klu Klux Klan when he was five. Crimson …

Small Eva Narcissus Boyd was a babysitter for Carole Ruler and Gerry Goffin when the songwriting group was inspired to create “The Loco-Motion,” a music predicated on a dance that Eva would do throughout the house. Eva also surely got to sing on the demonstration, which impressed Don Kirshner plenty …

The brother of Dolores Keane, among Ireland’s finest singers, Sean Keane has consistently garnered acclaim for his own talents. A previous person in Reel Union, which presented his sister, Mairtin O’Connor, and Johnny Faulkner, and Arcady, which presented Johnny “Ringo” McDonagh, Sharon Shannon, Cathal Hayden, and Frances Dark, Keane has …

Percy Sledge can forever be connected with “Whenever a Guy Loves a female,” a pleading, soulful ballad he sang with wrenching, convincing anguish and interest. Sledge sang most of his music that way, providing them in a robust hurry where he quickly transformed from soulful belting to quavering, tearful pleas. …

b. 27 August 1923, Santa Clara, Cuba, d. 22 November 1998, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. As a man Laserie analyzed percussion before shifting to Cuba’s capital, Havana. There he performed timbales with La Banda Gigante, whose vocalist was the mentioned Cuban vocalist Beny Moré. He also discovered engagements on Radio …

One-third from the I-Threes, reggae’s most influential feminine vocal trio, Judy Mowatt helped to carefully turn the final recordings of Bob Marley into long lasting classics. Her sensuous harmonies strengthened albums by Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Big Youngsters, Pablo Moses, Freddie McGregor, U-Roy, as well as the Wailing Souls. Her …

Though an often fierce and spirited alto saxophonist, Robin Kenyatta enjoyed a fairly uneven career, especially with regards to recordings. His greatest material is at the hard bop and free of charge vein, where his solos had been both extreme and imaginative. Additional times he performed more contemporary materials that …

German jazz and blues crooner Pleasure Fleming was created in the town of Rockenhausen in 1944. Known mainly on her behalf 1975 Eurovision strike “Ein Lied Kann Eine Brücke Sein,” Fleming provides released numerous information and made regular stage and tv appearances over time.