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Grand Drive

Grand Drive’s brothers Danny Wilson (business lead vocals/acoustic guitar) and Julian Wilson (keyboards) were originally from Australia, but was raised in the stony southwest London suburb of Sutton in the ’70s. In college, they fulfilled bassist Ed Balch and created their 1st group, Spirit Green, with many short-term drummers. It …

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Without doubt the main qawwal is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party — “Party” is a universal term for the qawwali ensemble but can be found in Sikhism also to describe some classical music ensembles, for instance, shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan & Party. Dubbed Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali (the Brightest Celebrity in Qawwali), …

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Rothko

Initially an instrumental trio comprising three bass guitarists, and later on an wall plug for the single function and collaborations of founding member Tag Beazley, the music from the London-based Rothko is frequently meditative, minimal, languid and sonically nebulous, the right music analog for the eponymous abstract expressionist painter. The …

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Steps

Prefab Uk dance-pop quintet Methods were assembled in 1997 through the a large number of applicants who taken care of immediately an advertisement put into the magazine The Stage; within the wake of comprehensive auditions, performers Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian “H” Watkins, Claire Richards, Lee Latchford-Evans, and Faye Tozer all produced …

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Epic Soundtracks

Perhaps most widely known being a co-founder of Uk post-punkers Swell Maps, Epic Soundtracks reinvented himself simply because an eccentric, critically acclaimed piano balladeer through the ’90s. Soundtracks — who trademarked his stage name, forcing Epic Information’ soundtrack department to improve its spelling to “Soundtrax” — was created Kevin Paul …

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Zero 7

The men behind the European downtempo outfit Zero 7 — producers Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker — launched their careers within the music industry as tea boys in a London recording studio. Soon thereafter, nevertheless, both had been in the solid of action, operating alongside a string of well-known English …

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Cavan O’Connor

b. Clarence Patrick O’Connor, 1 July 1899, Eire, d. 11 January 1997, London, Britain. An immensely well-known singer in the united kingdom from your 30s to the 60s, with an excellent, lilting tenor tone of voice. O’Connor’s family relocated to Nottingham, Britain soon after he was created and his Irish …

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Noonday Underground

The duo of DJ Simon Dine and vocalist Daisy Martey threw their hats in to the ever-growing ring of record-collector rock as trip-hop collective Noonday Underground. After Dine’s departure from Activities in Stereo system around 1997, the duo installed after allegedly bumping into one another in a Clapham pizza cafe. …

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Breed 77

Gibraltar, a little British protectorate close to Spain on the mouth from the Mediterranean Sea, will not loom large in rock and roll & roll background: ahead of Breed 77, the united states came closest to rock and roll importance when John Lennon and Yoko Ono had been married generally …

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Velocette

A couple days following the demise of Comet Gain in early 1997, four from the five associates continued to get England’s attention making use of their fresh project Velocette. Soon after they released their initial single “GRAB YOURSELF Jointly,” the press insurance began pouring in from both NME and Melody …

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