Tag Archives: 1960s – 2000s

Little known beyond Africa, Joseph Kamaru continues to be influencing the music picture in his homeland of Kenya since 1967. While his first strikes, including “Celine,” “Thina Wa Kamaru” and “Tugatigitihanio,” had been rhythmic dance music, recorded along with his sister, Catherine Muthoni, and his shows were “x graded, adult …

This Native American artist shows impressive versatility in his recording career, performing with energy, vitality, and spiritual depth in a number of different genres. Followers of tranquil Indian flute music will understand him from many recordings he manufactured in this design from the past due ’70s. As opposed to the …

Image designer Tom Wilkes created some of the most iconic and important images in pop music history, masterminding covers for landmark recordings like the Rolling Rocks’ Beggars Banquet, Janis Joplin’s Pearl, and Neil Young’s Harvest. Delivered in Long Seaside, CA, on July 30, 1939, Wilkes funded research at Long Seaside …

b. Jana Margaret Meyer, 30 August 1942, Great Falls, Montana, USA. Her parents both analyzed traditional violin and she started playing at age three. Nevertheless, her maternal grandfather, a nation fiddler, affected her musical path. After her parents divorced, Jae was raised with her mom in Colorado and Idaho, getting …

His surname about as prevalent in Latin music as tasty fixings on the bocadilla, Idelfonso Acosta’s international position being a guitarist and composer has probably been compromised by his decision to stay in Cuba. No-one is acquiring him for granted there, nevertheless, at least by his position as president from …

Carmine D’Amico carved out a distinct segment in the music business primarily being a program guitarist, starting his profession by playing over the Royal Teenagers’ strike “Short Pants” on the sensitive age of 9. After several periods with Brill Building teenager idols like Connie Francis and Frankie Avalon, D’Amico came …

Arguably perhaps one of the most successful songwriting partnerships from the rock era, the husband-wife team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil formed a cornerstone from the famous Brill Building sound, writing hits for the Drifters as well as the Righteous Brothers, amongst others. Before Mann and Weil fulfilled, each …

Beverly Martyn (b. Beverly Kutner) was an extremely respected United kingdom folksinger when she fulfilled and fell deeply in love with United kingdom vocalist/songwriter John Martyn. A longtime friend of Paul Simon, she got recommended the allusion to Donovan in the Simon and Garfunkel tune “Fakin’ It.” Throughout a middle-’90s …

Not really a virtuoso from the amaze-and-stun range, Josef Suk produced his considerable reputation through a conscientious method of the masters, an enthusiastic appreciation for Czech music, and a music imagination from the first purchase. Grandson of Josef Suk (the composer and person in the Bohemian String Quartet) and great-grandson …

b. 1 July 1948, London, Britain. Playing bass acoustic guitar and performing, Ford first captivated attention through the UK folk music growth from the 60s. In these early years, he used folk and pop rings like the Five Very pleased Walkers, Jaymes Fender AS WELL AS THE Vulcans, and Elmer …