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Maria Taylor brought her warm, casual vocals to many projects — especially Azure Ray, a dreamy pop duo that featured Taylor and longtime partner Orenda Fink — before starting her own profession as a single singer/songwriter. Created in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama, she got her begin at age group 15 …

Along with his raspy, soulful voice and salt-and-pepper hair, Taylor Hicks was among the unlikeliest contestants to get to the ultimate round of American Idol, but his quirky charm and rousing delivery of songs like “Takin’ It towards the Streets” earned Hicks a devoted legion of fans called the Soul …

b. 1976, Birmingham, Western Midlands, England. Thinking about music from an early on age, Parker used your guitar in 1985 and in 1993 with two college friends created a music group they named Unusual Brew. The group didn’t last lengthy and quickly Parker was using Blue Horizon, an area blues …