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Jo Vally

Jo Vally is a Flemish pop singer whose recognition like a hitmaker spans years, through the 1980s in to the fresh millennium. Created Valère Lauwers on Oct 12, 1958, in Wolvertem, Belgium, he started his music profession in the 1970s. He produced a Eurovision Music Festival operate in 1981 using …

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The Perms

Canadian alt-rock trio the Perms shaped in Brandon, Manitoba in 1998. Brothers Shane (bass/vocals) and Chad Smith (acoustic guitar/vocals) experienced each been playing within their personal bands for quite some time before enlisting drummer Paul Thorsteinson to create a vintage power pop trio influenced by their shared like for ’70s …

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Harry Connick, Jr.

With hardly any exceptions, the career of Harry Connick, Jr., could be divided in two — his 1st two albums encompassed straight-ahead New Orleans jazz and stride piano while his later on profession (which paralleled his increasing celebrity position) alternated between more sophisticated New Orleans music and pop vocals having …

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Joe Jackson

In his 1999 memoir, An end to Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin being a musician who kept one foot in the favorite and one in the classical realms of music. Like Gershwin, Jackson possesses a restless musical creativity that has discovered him straddling musical …

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Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack was pop music’s best journeyman. A vocalist and keyboardist who loved considerable success during the period of his extended career within the services of bands which range from Ace to Press to Mike + the Technicians, his finest function often arrived at the trouble of his personal identity …

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The Sports

Shaped in Melbourne, Australia in 1976, the Sports activities presented Steve Cummings (lead vocals) Martin Armiger (guitar), Andrew Pendlebury (guitar), Jim Niven (keyboards/vocals), Robert Glover (bass) and Paul Hutchins (drums). Affected by rock and roll, rockabilly, nation and new influx, the band documented several beautiful pop tracks in the brand …

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Chris Tsefalas

West Coastline singer/songwriter Chris Tsefalas crafts alternately hook-filled and atmospheric power pop gems within the vein of Joe Jackson, Paul Westerberg, and Matthew Lovely. The Portland-based musician documented his debut record, I’m FINE?, in 2006 with maker John Moen (of Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and Sleater-Kinney), Richard Buckner, and …

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Ranking Joe

Reggae DJ Rating Joe was created Joseph Jackson in Kingston on June 1, 1959. Starting his recording profession right around enough time that this reggae/dub movement started sweeping the entire world during the middle-’70s, renowned maker Coxsone Dodd required Joe under his wing as he got a DJ place having …

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Joy Askew

Vocalist Pleasure Askew recorded a lot of her debut for Personal Music/BMG, Tender Town, in her house studio. She experienced no idea at that time that her songs will be the basis for her 1st solo recording. But Askew, a experienced vocalist and sidewoman vocalist to performers as assorted as …

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Volcano, I’m Still Excited!!

Probably named in tribute towards the Tom Hanks movie Joe Versus the Volcano, the Brooklyn trio Volcano, I’m Still Excited!! was created from the medical complications from the group’s innovator, Tag Duplass. The guitarist and songwriter got scored a demonstration cope with Mercury Information in 1998 and shifted to NEW …

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