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Whisky Priests

This folk-rock outfit was formed in 1985 by Gary Miller and his accordion-toting twin brother Glenn Miller as a car for realizing their collective creative juices. Gary’s insightful lyrics had been smart beyond his years, his mind was abuzz with amazing melodies, and Glenn was an achieved self-taught accordionist. To …

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Grace Under Pressure

Keyboardist Vehicle Wilmott and vocalists Linda Elder and Nancy Powell shaped Grace UNDER GREAT PRESSURE in 1985, adding guitarist Brad Pack and drummer Steve Hoy immediately after. Three years later on, the Edmonton music group saw their solitary “Belli-to-Belli” become extremely popular on Canadian radio.

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Stringband

Vocalist Marie-Lynn Hammond, banjoist Bob Bossin and fiddle participant Terry King shaped Stringband in 1971 in Ontario. The trio released their 3rd party first record, Canadian Sunset, in 1974. Country wide Melodies appeared the next season, but after 1977’s Because of the next, Stringband split up. Two posthumous albums have …

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Big Noise

Big Sound, a Uk septet led by singer Anthony Fenelie and Huw Lucas and shaped in Birmingham in 1985, had a U.S. singles graph admittance in 1989 with “Name and Quantity.”

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Hanoi-Hanoi

After playing in the Brylho and Blitz and in the bands of Raul Seixas, Jorge Mautner, Luiz Melodia, Gal Costa, and Caetano Veloso’s, the former A Bolha Arnaldo Brandão (bass) formed the Hanoi-Hanoi using the poet Tavinho Paes. The 1st LP, released in 1986 (Hanoi-Hanoi), offered just 30,000 copies, but …

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Magdolna Rúsza

Also called Magdi, Magdolna Rúsza is a Serbian-born, Hungary-based pop singer, who — albeit controversially — was chosen in 2006 to represent Hungary in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, held that year in Helsinki. Delivered in the 28th of November in 1985, Magdi would make her initial waves as a …

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Olivia Ong

Olivia Ong is a Singaporean vocalist who found achievement in Japan with English-language renditions of bossa nova classics. Delivered on Oct 2, 1985, the multilingual vocalist began her profession at age group 15 after earning a singing competition and being honored a recording agreement in Japan in 2001. Originally, she …

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Lucien Cailliet

After private study and just work at the Dijon Conservatory, Cailliet relocated to the united states, settling first in Pa and in California. Furthermore to his personal works including =Remembrances of Stephen Foster= (1935) and =Variants on Pop! Moves the Weasel= (1938), Cailliet offers produced an orchestral transcription of Mussorgsky’s …

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Laughing Clowns

Ed Kuepper’s Laughing Clowns were a little more from the beaten route compared to the Saints, the infamous Australian punk music group Kuepper played acoustic guitar for through the ’70s. Integrating jazz affects into their exclusive undertake post-punk, the Laughing Clowns released many information between 1980 and 1985, before Kuepper …

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Carolina Crackerjacks

Arthur “Acoustic guitar Boogie” Smith began using the music group name Carolina Crackerjacks at least ahead of 1938 recording classes for the Bluebird label. This regular group would continue as you of Smith’s support units for pretty much the next half a hundred years. The Carolina Crackerjacks documented with Smith …

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