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b. Elsie Evelyn Place, 10 July 1900, London, Britain, d. 17 Feb 1996, London, Britain. An celebrity and vocalist – probably one of the most famous leading ladies from the British musical stage. Her dad was the professional and composer Gilbert Laye (he added the ‘e’ to the family members …

The person who added the catch phrases “Git-R-Done” and “Lord, I AM SORRY” towards the American lexicon and drew fans from the pickup truckload to his shows became probably one of the most successful comics of the first 2000s. Dan Whitney, known better as Larry the Wire Guy, promises he …

Composer, arranger, keyboardist and woodwinds participant Karl Jenkins fell in using the London jazz picture of the later ’60s while their studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Ahead of spending over ten years within the last incarnations of Soft Machine, he spent amount of time in several jazz groups, …

b. Harry Rulten, 17 Feb 1891, South Berwick, Maine, USA, d. 11 Dec 1940, Killingworth, Connecticut, USA. Murray’s early Broadway performances included many revues prior to the musical Springtime Of Youngsters (1922). This got music by Walter Rollo and Sigmund Romberg, lyrics by Matthew C. Woodward and Cyrus Timber. Then …

A subtle and supportive drummer who was simply among the finest from the golf swing period, Wallace Bishop (generally known as “Bish”) was greatly underrated by everyone but his fellow music artists. He started playing drums when he was an adolescent and had a chance to research with Jimmy Bertrand. …

Lee Hoiby continued the neo-Romantic custom of Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti (in whom he studied), forging an idiom that’s both melodic and accessible. He examined piano under Gunnar Johansson and Egon Petri, originally likely to turn into a pianist, but Menotti asked him to review composition on the …

Kinnaird (b. 30 Apr 1949, Edinburgh, Scotland) and Primrose (b. 17 Feb 1952, Carloway, Isle Of Lewis, Scotland), are recognized for their Gaelic-influenced folk music. Kinnaird analyzed the cello from age seven, as well as the Scottish harp in her teenagers. In 1978 she recordedThe Harp Essential, the very first …

German drummer Klaus Weiss appeared in organizations numerous American expatriates in addition to leading his personal rings in trio, quintet, sextet, and big-band configurations from your ’60s with the ’90s. Affected by such drummers as Big Sid Catlett and Friend Rich, Weiss started playing expertly at age group 16. His …

Often connected with occasional collaborator Hans Peter Lindstrøm (aka Lindstrøm), Prins Thomas is really a Norwegian electronic dance music maker and DJ whose so-called space disco style is really a mélange of disco, house, minimal techno, electro, Krautrock, jazz fusion, space rock, and much more. Created Thomas Moen Hermansen and …

Billie Joe Armstrong (electric guitar, vocals) received slings and arrows from obstinate punk supporters when his music group Green Time leapt in the underground and onto MTV in 1994. Delivered on Feb 17, 1972, in Berkeley, California, Armstrong may be the youngest of six kids; his father passed away from …