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The pop duo sensation that spawned such acts as Simon & Garfunkel, Brewer & Shipley, and Seals & Crofts was predated with the duo formed by songwriters, guitarists, and vocalists Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle. Primarily attracting interest as songwriters of Dean Ford & the Gaylords’ one “Mr. Heartbreak’s Right …

American pianist David Buechner was created in 1964. He exhibited prodigious early skill on the key pad, and earned difference because the highest-placed American laureate through the 1986 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. During his teenagers and early twenties, Buechner attained notable successes in several international tournaments, including those of …

Alongside Johnny Hallyday, Claude François was one of the primary stars of French rock and roll & roll, rising through the so-called “yé-yé” movement of the first ’60s. Like Hallyday, his early achievement came mainly from French adaptations of English-language rock and roll and folk strikes, instead of from original …

Of all informed lists of rock and roll & move villains, the Crew Slashes would need to rank close to the top. They weren’t rock and roll & rollers to begin with: their clean-cut white tranquility glee club strategy was really within the design of early- and middle-’50s groups like …

A fantastic Los Angeles-based pianist with a sophisticated design that builds upon the enhancements of days gone by, Adam Carney was originally an orchestral brass participant along with a pop keyboardist from NY. He started playing jazz in 1986, examined on the California Institute from the Arts (where he graduated …

The premier jazz vocal act ever, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross revolutionized vocal music through the past due ’50s and early ’60s by turning from the increasingly crossover slant from the pop world to embrace the sheer musicianship inherent in vocal jazz. Applying the ideas of bop harmonies to swinging vocal …

Crystal clear, expressive, songwriting and light-as-air vocals took Cosy Sheridan from your folk music coffeehouses of north Fresh England to stages and festivals over the USA. A past champion from the “New Folk” honor in the Kerrville Folk Event as well as the “Troubadour” honor in the Telluride Event in …

Apart from Ray Columbus & the Invaders, the La De Das were New Zealand’s most widely used rock band of the ’60s. As big seafood in an exceedingly small fish-pond, their function doesn’t endure to scrutiny together with the era’s best American and British acts. However they do record some …

b. c.1964, USA. This teetotal, drug-free rapper, who documented his debut record for EastWest Information in 1994, reminded many critics from the previous school rappers from the Bronx, NY. Focusing on the African-American knowledge as postulated by Afrika Bambaataa among others, his 1994 debut record, Makin’ Movements, was marred by …

The Hi-Lo’s tower being among the most innovative and influential close harmony quartets from the postwar era, expanding the parameters of traditional pop via sophisticated, jazz-inspired arrangements that profoundly shaped the rock & roll generation who followed within the group’s wake. Therefore named for his or her expansive vocal range, …