Tag Archives: Contemporary Singer/Songwriter

Toulouse, France, vocalist/songwriter Michel Armengot, aka Artwork Mengo, focuses on love tracks. His soft, mild, somewhat wounded tone of voice perfectly suits the topic matter, and his music offers progressed from a radio-friendly smooth pop audio to a far more intricate mixture of pop, personal jazzy orchestrations, and mellow grooves. …

Vocalist/songwriter keyboardist/guitarist Tim Finn was created in Te Awamutu, New Zealand. Inspired by not merely British Invasion serves just like the Beatles, the Move, as well as the Kinks, but additionally his Catholic upbringing as well as the communal singalongs from the indigenous Maori people, Finn founded the ’70s art-rock …

A local of Jamaica, Queens, singer/songwriter Morley originally began her executing career like a dancer, finding a complete scholarship towards the Alvin Ailey Dance Middle at age 17. Following a leg damage dashed her expectations of dancing appropriately, she considered choreography, also teaching dance and yoga exercise throughout NY City’s …

A smart alternative pop duo with folk and country leanings (though they often times relied on synthesizers and drum machines, whilst playing live times), Timbuk 3’s Pat and Barbara K. MacDonald had written many better tracks than their shock 1986 strike “The Future’s Therefore Shiny, I Gotta Put on Tones.” …

Vocalist/songwriter Gabe Dixon emerged in the first 2000’s, fronting his piano-led rock and roll clothing the Gabe Dixon Music group. Affected by jazz, funk, and traditional rock symbols like Elton John and Jackson Browne, he shaped the group within the past due-90’s while going to the College or university of …

Vocalist/songwriter Ruby Amanfu’s profession has been filled with twists and changes. Delivered in Ghana but elevated in Nashville because the age group of three, she demonstrated musical guarantee from a age group. By enough time she was a junior in senior high school, she’d currently written numerous tracks and spent …

From Banknock in Stirlingshire, Scotland, Karine Polwart was a past due developer in music conditions; she was almost 30 before she became a specialist, nervously launching a profession in the beginning built on traditional Scots music, that she demonstrated such organic aptitude. She also started putting her beliefs in her …

Best-known like a name within the Compact disc liner notes of a number of the hippest nation and rock performers from the ’90s and 2000s, both Will Kimbrough’s single and his band work have already been championed by critics about both sides from the ocean. Kimbrough 1st came to the …

Lead Fugees rapper and sometime-guitarist Wyclef Jean was the 1st person in his group to go on a single profession, and he proved a lot more ambitious and eclectic by himself. Because the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef also became hip-hop’s unofficial multicultural conscience. A apparently omnipresent activist, he constructed …

Texas-born singer, songwriter, and actor Jay Brannan’s angelic voice and folky acoustic approach could make him look like a garden-variety modern singer/songwriter, but his musical sensibility brings him nearer to hard-to-fit-in-a-box feminine performers like Ani DeFranco, Lisa Loeb, Sinéad O’Connor, and Liz Phair, and he appears like nothing a lot …