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Charlie Singleton was most widely known because the guitarist and sometime falsetto vocalist and keyboardist for the ’80s funk group Cameo. Created July 15, 1954, he became a member of Cameo in 1981, because the music group was creating a changeover from hard George Clinton-style funk to even more synth-driven …

Hungarian-Canadian conductor János Sándor is really a familiar name to customers of budget-line CDs within the Laserlight and Delta brands, amongst others; he in addition has documented for the flagship label of his house nation, Hungaroton. He frequently preferred the Central Western light music which has happy audiences in the …

Kano pioneered and exemplified Italo disco, a heavily melodic and synthesizer-oriented design of dance music inspired by U.S. and Western disco, from Stylish and Giorgio Moroder. The task of suppliers and music artists Matteo Bonsanto, Luciano Ninzatti, and Stefano Pulga, alongside a range of program music artists and vocalists, Kano …

A hard rock-band based in NEW YORK but having a combination of American and Swedish music artists, Princess Pang were formed in 1985 and released an individual album through Metallic Blade titled IN ANY MANNER You WANT TO BUY, in 1989. Regrettably, except for a small amount of interest garnered …

The electro outfit Kartoon Krew was in charge of several novelty 12″ releases on Profile through the mid-’80s. Both “Inspector Device” and “Batman” sampled liberally from like-titled theme music, and subsequently, they were very similar in method of Meco’s kitschy disco treatment of the Superstar Wars theme. Although group hardly …

Songwriter, manufacturer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist Kashif was area of the post-disco vanguard that revolutionized R&B with synthesizers and drum devices. With regards to commercial yet intensifying pop-oriented R&B, he’s the hyperlink from Patrick Adams, Leroy Burgess, and Leon Sylvers III to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and for that reason …

Minnesota-based speed-metal band.

Fusion guitarist with neo-bop features. Also has latin jazz.

Though given birth to in Jamaica, vocalist Precious Wilson spent her years as a child in England, later on moving to Connecticut. She sang gospel thoroughly as a teenager before time for England. Wilson became a member of the Silent Eruption, which later on became Eruption, and documented singles made …

Roxanne Shanté (given birth to Lolita Gooden) was taking walks outside a fresh York housing task called Queensbridge when she heard 3 men discussing the way the trio U.T.F.O. acquired canceled the look of them at a present they were marketing. Gooden wanted to create a rap record that could …