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Born in LA in 1919, Virginia O’Brien was drawn to dancing young after viewing several films starring Eleanor Powell, but she ultimately became a vocalist. She was employed for any 1940 stage creation of Meet up with the People (she got the gig as the movie director was impressed with …

Joel Plaskett is really a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician whose music fuses the energetic melodies and hooks of power pop using the muscular power of hard rock and roll; as he once quipped, his music “combines the very best of Big Celebrity and Led Zeppelin.” Created in Nova Scotia …

New Orleans saxophonist has well in several different idioms — gospel, traditional, New Orleans funk, and R&B, and neo-bop. Only 1 record out, getting excited about more.

Santa Barbara-native Alastair Greene is really a blues-rocker that is a Southern California regular for a long time. Dealing with countless unbiased performers, he finally composed and documented his own single work in 2001, JUST A LITTLE Wiser.

Rapper Fredro Starr includes a great deal on his dish. The Queens, NY, indigenous amounts both an performing along with a music profession. Starr started his rapping profession when he founded the hardcore rap/hip hop group Onyx in 1991 with rap compatriots Sticky Fingaz and Sonee Seeza. The group’s initial …

The string band and bluegrass tradition is used the enthusiasm of contemporary music by clawhammer banjo player Macintosh Benford. A founding person in the Highwoods Stringband, Benford performed a key function within the old-time revival from the 1970s. Along with his most recent group, the Woodshed All Superstars, he’s continuing …

In his lifetime composer, violinist, and conductor Georges Boulanger loved a good way of measuring success. His music became specifically popular around enough time of his loss of life and in the years rigtht after. But while his name rode atop an enormous tide for a lot more than a …

Tony Reeves may not be as well referred to as Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Chris Squire of Yes, to mention two of the celebrity bass players in progressive rock and roll. But he possessed his own unique market in the world, as an associate of Colosseum, …

Curtis Potter was created in Mix Plains, Tx, but grew up in Abilene. He done KRBC-TV as well as the Expenses Fox Show within the middle-’50s. He was also a bandleader for Hank Thompson from 1959-1971.

With Jabo Starks, drummer Stubblefield laid down the beat for James Brown’s biggest ’60s hits. Stubblefield helped travel such seminal Brownish funk-fests as “Mom Snacks,” “Chilly Perspiration,” “State It Noisy (I’m Dark and I’m Happy),” “I ACQUIRED the Feelin’,” and “Cool Drummer.” Stubblefield’s popular break within the second option was …