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Tirike

Founded and led by southern Madagascar-born football player-turned-vocalist Augustin Tirike (given birth to Enomearry Augustin Etirinday), Tirike produced a thrilling, Malagasy, dance music and tsapiky. The group combines ultra-fast rhythms, electrifying electric guitar and keyboards interplay, and call-and-response music featuring Tirike’s performing in the Mahafaly dialect. The band’s ideal success …

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John “Duff” Lowe

John “Duff” Lowe played piano using the Quarry Males for some time in the past due 1950s, probably around past due 1957 and 1958. He wasn’t in the music group lengthy and he wasn’t a significant member, but he was present when the Quarry Males — also including John Lennon, …

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Amir Khan

Born in Apr 1912 in Kalanaur, Amir Khan became probably one of the most respected and influential Hindustani classical vocalists of his day time. He learned in the beginning from his dad, Shahmir Khan, but later on soaked up a number of performing designs from different gharanas. His forte was …

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Ferdinand den aldre Zellbell

This Swedish musician was an organist who played the harpsichord and string bass exceptionally well. He had not been only an associate from the Royal Chapel but was the organist on the Storkyrkan. Zellbell was a music instructor whose compositions had been adequate but extremely methodical and repetitious. He offered …

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Monroe Vincent

b. 9 Dec 1919, Woodville, Mississippi, USA, d. Apr 1982, Oakland, California, USA. Also known throughout his profession as Vince Monroe, Polka Dot Slender and Mr. Calhoun, Vincent was 40 years previous and surviving in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before he produced his first information, although he previously been playing harmonica …

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Garwood Van

b. 1911, Newark, NJ, USA, d. Apr 1999, Nevada, USA. Truck offered his musical apprenticeship in a number of dance rings, including those led by Hal Grayson, Eddie Oliver, Victor Teen, Lennie Hayton and different studio room ensembles. He produced his very own orchestra, intensely orientated towards resort and supper …

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Junior Pettis

b. Coleman Pettis Jnr., c.1935, Alabama, USA, d. Apr 1988. Pettis worked well under a number of pseudonyms including Daddy Rabbit, Alabama Junior, and Junior Pettis. He discovered to play acoustic guitar at age eight and relocated to Chicago in 1952. He was highly affected by Lee Jackson, with whom …

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Nicky James

b. Michael Clifford Nicholls, Apr 1943, Birmingham, Britain, d. 15 Oct 2007. Located in Birmingham, Midlands, Britain, James acquired previously led regional music group the Lawmen, and been an associate of Denny Laine’s Diplomats, before getting into a solo profession. Putting your signature on to Columbia Information, then added a …

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Jeremy Kelly

The folksy jangle and ethereal riffs of guitarist Jeremy Kelly reverberate back again to the past due ’60s when groups like the Byrds as well as the Zombies were smitten by ringing guitars and dreamy textures. Nevertheless, while spirits of days gone by are echoed in his function, Kelly fashioned …

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Street Drum Corps

You can view them in the touristy regions of any large city like NY, Chicago, or Boston: teenagers performing for spare change by drumming on improvised instruments scrounged from dumpsters and building sites, like those five-gallon white plastic material paint buckets. A street-level sensation since at least the first ’90s …

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