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Beth McKee is a singer and songwriter who comes from Jackson, Mississippi, but was raised all around the American South. She takes on piano, body organ, and accordion aswell. Her music can be deeply affected by and steeped in the region’s wealthy musical history from blues and R&B to Cajun, …

Tracie Teen began her performing career at only 17 years, when she was discovered by Jam head Paul Weller through a paper advertisement for his new Respond label. Teen sang on the ultimate Jam one, “Defeat Surrender,” and on Weller’s first few Design Council singles aswell. Her debut record, DEFINATELY …

A continuation and enlargement of the audio from the under-appreciated SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA indie-pop outfit Contact and Response, Rubies comprises two of this group’s users, keyboardist Simone Rubi and bassist Terri Loewenthal, both of whom contribute vocals to make a harmony-rich audio that bridges New Order-ish electronic disco, soulful …

Vocalist/songwriter Sarah Elizabeth Foster is a soulful vocalist using a bent toward ’60s pop and R&B. A Houston, Tx indigenous, Foster graduated in the School of Miami in 2004 using a bachelor’s level in music. She after that relocated to NEW YORK and began composing and executing. She released her …

Lauren Pritchard is a dusky-voiced singer/songwriter having a bent toward blue-eyed spirit and country-inflected confessional pop. Given birth to in Tennessee, Pritchard relocated to LA in her early teenagers before getting the part of Ilse in the off-Broadway creation of Springtime Awakening. After relocating to Britain, Pritchard obtained a recording …

Although it will be simple to assume that Lazenby took their name in one from the (arguably) better James Bonds, the band was named — much more likely, really — after founding member Sarah Lazenby. Introduced to fellow music group creator Nick Lockwood by Arctic Monkeys supervisor Geoff Barradale, the …

Britain’s premiere program vocalists through the entire 1960s, the Breakaways also recorded a small number of little-known but superb gal group singles. The trio of Vicki Haseman, Margot Quantrell and Betty Prescott originally teamed in the vocal group the Vernons Young ladies; another onetime Vernon Gal, Jean Ryder, changed Prescott …

Dee Walker, the saving designer, was the creation of Dance Network label mind Paul Bultitute — his idea was to go with the early-80s influx of mod-revivalists with the addition of a sixties-styled “woman” singer in the picture of Cilla Dark or Sandy Shaw. In 1984, Baultitude authorized the 22 …

Between your time she was a Brill Building mainstay and her re-emergence as an early-’70s superstar, Carole King documented a one-shot album as an associate of the town, a trio comprising King on piano and vocals, Danny Kortchmar on guitar and vocals, and King’s husband to be Charles Larkey on …

This vocal trio was formed in 1958 by Iris ‘Riss’ Long with Lynne Abrams and Mary O’Brien (b. 16 Apr 1939, Hampstead, London, Britain, d. 2 March 1999, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Britain), the second option discovered through a newspapers advertisement positioned by Long. Beneath the management from the Joe Collins company, …