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While Phil Collins was pursuing his single profession in 1985, Genesis bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford formed the pop/rock and roll music group Mike + the Mechanics. Featuring Rutherford (bass), previous Ace and Press member Paul Carrack (vocals, keyboards), ex-Sad Cafe member Paul Youthful (vocals), keyboardist Adrian Lee, and drummer Peter Truck …

The Lights’ cantankerous, chaotic L.A. garage area punk may be the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Monty Buckles, drummer Josh Erkman, and bassist Tim Ford. Buckles, who’s also a filmmaker and provides directed movies for End up being Your Own Family pet, the Cleverness, A-Frames, and Dark Lip area, was loosely associated …

Seattle-based cartoonist/artist/musician Pete Bagge is most likely best-known for his comic book series Hate, which skewered ’90s society and pop culture with relentlessly satirical glee. Among the series’ preferred goals was Seattle’s grunge picture, and Bagge’s poster and record art for regional bands and brands — like the grandaddy of …

Bassist, guitarist and clarinet participant and vocalist Gary Dalton joined up with with percussionist/vocalist Kent DuBarri to create the soulful, blues-influenced group, Dalton and DuBarri in the mid-1970s. The group’s sound was improved by the current presence of Hammond B-3 organist Rick Allen, who experienced previously caused southern California-based pop …

Walter Franco was a composer who made essential efforts displayed in the historic celebrations of Brazilian well-known music. As students of dramatic arts, Walter Franco composed music for many has by Albee, Esquilo, among others. In 1971, he composed the theme melody of the cleaning soap opera Hospital, that was …

An obscure five-piece group that recorded with maker Norman Petty in the famous Petty Sound Studios in Clovis, Fresh Mexico, the Affection Collection released at least one album, a self-titled LP for the Evolution label. Through the audio of the saving, it’s obvious it must day through the mid- to …

The sweet-voiced Christy Carlson Romano got her start among the orphans within a production of Annie. She afterwards toured using the Sound of Music among the Von Trapp kids (with Marie Osmond playing the part of Maria) but developing up with the nickname “Aretha Franklin Wannabe” directed to something even …

Latvia’s first-ever champion in the Eurovision Track Competition, Marie N was created Marija Naumova on June 23, 1973. A normal on Latvian Television talent shows through the middle-’90s and a celebrity of the locally created musical edition of Theodore Dreiser’s Carrie, she garnered additional interest in 1997 at a concert …

Although nowhere near as influential being a Raven, Venom, or perhaps a Jaguar, London, England’s Weapon are one particular New Wave of United kingdom ROCK bands one occasionally hears mentioned (not so accurately, they only had a few breakneck tracks) as having helped to inspire the next emergence of swiftness …

Dada Ante Portas, formerly referred to as Dada (Ante Portas), can be an English-language Swiss rock-band from Lucerne who broke to mainstream achievement in 2004 using their third album, Months Change. Made up of Pee Wirz (vocals, created Pirmin Wirz), Luc le Bo (acoustic guitar, vocals; created Luc Bachmann), Lukas …