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Peter Andre

In 1992 and 1993, Peter Andre defied the chances by learning to be a pop star in Australia when the very last thing the country wanted was a singing, dancing, muscle-flexing R&B pop hero. In 1995 he attained the near-impossible once again by duplicating the same feat across European countries. …

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Hubert Parry

The need for Hubert Parry towards the renaissance of British musical lifestyle is often underestimated, but like his equally great colleague for the reason that endeavor, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Parry is more regularly within music encyclopedias than for the programs of contemporary orchestras. His deep influence on years of …

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Rob Brown

THE BRAND NEW York-based alto saxophonist Rob Dark brown represented a fresh expect many jazz listeners who felt their music may be learning to be a mite cowardly as the ’80s began winding down. With lots of the genre’s players even more intention on modeling fits than blowing hard, the …

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Marian Anderson

A legendary African-American interpreter of both operatic and concert repertoire, Marian Anderson was possessed of 1 of the best possible contralto voices in living memory space. Her profession was notable not merely for her creative achievements — that have been many — also for a dignified tenacity when confronted with …

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Rising Star Fife & Drum Band

b. 2 June 1909, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, d. 27 Feb 2003, Gravel Springs, Mississippi, USA. A sharecropper the majority of his existence, from 1970 Turner were able to purchase some property of his personal. A player from the fife, and of the bass and snare drums that accompany the fife, …

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Ethel Levey

b. Ethelia Fowler, 22 November 1880, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, d. 27 Feb 1955, NEW YORK, NY, USA. An excellent dancer and vocalist, Levey made an appearance in burlesque theatres and on the vaudeville circuit for a few years gaining moderate success. During this time period of her …

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Carl Anderson

An expressive and flexible vocalist, Carl Anderson worked in theatrical productions and recorded spirit, pop, rock and roll, and fusion times. He was created in Lynchburg, VA, and shifted to Washington in 1969. Anderson sang using the rock-band Second Eagle before relocating to LA in the first ’70s and becoming …

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Alexander Borodin

Though definately not prolific like a composer — by day he was a scientist noted for his research about aldehydes — Alexander Borodin however earned a protected place in the annals of Russian music. Being a innovative heart, Borodin was the most achieved from the Russian nationalists composers. He previously …

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Jackie Kelso

b. John Joseph Kelson, 27 Feb 1922, LA, California, USA, d. 28 Apr 2012. After learning saxophone privately, Kelso became a member of a LA dance music group when he was 15. Through the 40s he used dance bands, inside a US Navy music group while on armed service service, …

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Chuck Wayne

Although he often paid his bills with non-jazz pursuits, indigenous New Yorker Chuck Wayne was an expressive and talented, if underexposed, bebop guitarist such as Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, and Johnny Smith. Wayne was under no circumstances an enormous name in the jazz globe, but he do cross …

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