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Led with the vocalist Mick Hucknall, the English blue-eyed soul group Simply Red became international stars making use of their debut album, Picture Book. In the strike ballad “Keeping Back again the Years,” Hucknall demonstrated that he could sing soulfully without affectation, while their cover from the Valentine Brothers’ “Money’s …

Pop singer Shayne Ward rocketed to popularity via the U.K. skill display The X Aspect. Born Oct 15, 1984, in Manchester, Britain, Ward initial surfaced within the little-known group Future before earning interest in another tv amateur competition, Popstars: The Competitors. Eliminated from the ultimate 30 contestants, he agreed upon …