Tag Archives: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

French rock and roll/R&B superstar Tété was created July 25, 1975, in Dakar, the capitol town of his father’s homeland, Senegal. When his parents divorced, he came back with his mom to northeastern France, to the city of St. Dizier. As a teenager, Tété drew his musical motivation in the …

Erik Monod, a.k.a. Riké, was section of reggae-pop French combo Sinsemilia, like a composer, lyricist and vocalist. He released two single albums within the 00s: 2003′ Air flow frais, and 2007’s Vivons!, showing his more traditional songwriting roots.

Possessed of the breezy, nonchalant design that belies his technical presents, pianist Bruce Hornsby creates powerful songs from your heart that contact on many distinctly American traditions: pop, jazz, bluegrass, and ’60s soul. He worked well for some time as a studio room participant and songwriter, and experienced his first …

As bass participant for the Jam, Bruce Foxton had the enviable function of backing among England’s esteemed singer/songwriters, Paul Weller. Foxton’s deft playing and harmonies certainly put into the Jam’s earning audio, although his very own songwriting (generally a monitor per record) dropped below the typical established by Weller. Just …

“THE NICE, the Poor & the Queen” identifies all the subject matter that live beneath the London sun, so it is a fitted if uncomfortable moniker to get a project — not really a music group, as its leader provides strenuously asserted — created by Blur frontman Damon Albarn in …

Greatly popular in his native Canada, singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn has found just cult success south from the border, regardless of a rich, varied body of work and considerable critical nods. He offers won several Juno Awards and it has kept the product quality control of all of his albums at …

Like their countrymen the Cardigans and Komeda, Sweden’s Cloudberry Jam drew from an eclectic pool of influences — the vintage Motown sound, cool jazz, a good hint of Latin American music — to hone their very own distinctive make of elegant, finely-textured lounge-pop. Shaped in the city of Hyperlinköping in …

A primary fixture from the Genovese music picture through the early to mid-’90s, and a prominent DJ focusing on spirit and funk within the ’80s, Bobby Spirit (given birth to Alberto De Benedetti) lent his vocals towards the ragga music group Sensaciou, the funk group Blindosbarra, as well as the …

Born in to the middle of the seven-daughter family members with creative and free-spirited parents, Butterfly Boucher received her first name thanks to some divine involvement her mom was experiencing. An image on an primary school wall structure, a print on the dance teacher’s leotard, along with a 45 rpm …

A local of Philadelphia, pop singer Ana Lovelis studied a number of efficiency disciplines in her teenagers, including classical ballet and music theater. Nevertheless, after senior high school Lovelis relocated to NEW YORK and became mixed up in arty/edgy club picture, especially playing within a punk ukulele addresses band. Eventually …