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Jenna Mammina combines together folk music, pop, and jazz in her performing. She’s a gentle tone of voice, improvises with subtlety, and leaves listeners using a content sense. Mammina sang in cathedral from age five, made an appearance in college musicals, performed with regional bands, discovered piano and electric guitar, …

The Atlanta-based trio Toy is led by singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist Alice Lei, and even though their sound has often been categorized as quirky alt-pop, a multitude of styles are combined together for a fascinating blend — blues, jazz, pop, rock, folk, world, and samples. Although Plaything have released …

Disco diva Ce Ce Peniston seemed poised to be that genre’s reigning crossover attraction. She was created in Dayton, OH, but her family members transferred to Phoenix when she was nine. Peniston was crowned Miss Dark Az in 1989 and agreed upon with A&M in the first ’90s. Her debut, …

Dance-pop singer Samantha James is normally inspired less with the R&B divas you might expect in her particular design of music than with a subtler variety of 1980s singers influenced by vintage cocktail jazz and bossa nova, such as for example Basia, Sade, and Tracey Thorn of Everything However the …

Clean jazz guitarist Peter White’s lyrical lines and musical inventiveness certainly are a joy to hear. The affable Englishman’s elegance and playfulness arrive through in his music, providing his design of clean jazz a liveliness that others in the genre absence. Born Sept 20, 1954, for an British dad and …

Raised in a little town in the western midlands of England, bassist Sara Lee got her big break when she was functioning being a secretary at Polydor Details. She got an opportunity to play for renowned musician Robert Fripp, which resulted in careers with Robyn Hitchcock and Gang of Four. …

U.K. DJ/remixers/manufacturers Jon Pearn and Michael Grey started working jointly in the first ’90s even though their breakthrough emerged after issuing 1996’s “America (I REALLY LIKE America).” Shortly, the United kingdom duo became perhaps one of the most in-demand remixers in the dance-music field, climbing membership/dance charts all over the …

The duo Eye To Eye shaped in 1979 following keyboardist Julian Marshall (formerly of Marshall-Hain) noticed dancer/singer Deborah Berg sing at an improvisational dance performance in NORTH PARK. Weeks afterwards, Berg flew to London, where she and Marshall started writing jointly at his house. They quickly garnered an archive deal …

New York-based Si*Sé was shaped by multi-instrumentalist Cliff Cristafaro, aka DJ U.F. Low, and Dominican Republic-descendant vocalist Carol C. Both unified their understanding and experience within the drum’n’bass and electronica field, accumulated metropolitan and Latin rhythms after getting joined up with by talented music artists, getting an experimental downtempo collective. …

Yazoo, known within the U.S. as Yaz, had been a short-lived but quite effective ’80s synth pop duo. They created in 1981, after synthesizer participant Vince Clarke remaining Depeche Setting; Clarke experienced penned the vast majority of the band’s debut recording, Speak & Spell, like the TOP U.K. strike “I …