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When Vanessa Williams started her singing career, she was known chiefly because the Miss America pageant champion who’d been forced to renounce her name for posing in Penthouse newspaper. Williams not merely place the scandal behind her, she basically obliterated it, turning out some slick, sophisticated strikes that produced her …

Sam Donahue was a well-respected tenor saxophonist in the swing period who, in several cases, nearly became famous, although he finished up fairly obscure. Donahue come up with his first music group in 1933 when he was simply 15, an clothing that he led for five years. His initial big-name …

Delivered on the isle of Andrus within the Bahamas, Spence developed an idiosyncratic (and inimitable) electric guitar design rife with percussive and improvisatory vamps around staid hymns and such “square” specifications as “To arrive on the Wing along with a Prayer.” He was a folk guitarist’s Thelonious Monk, and his …

b. Margaret Solid wood, 9 Feb 1892, Brooklyn, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 18 March 1978, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. After learning performing with operatic soprano Emma Calvé, Solid wood began singing within the chorus of musical comedies, before steadily accumulating to small functions. Her Broadway debut is at Victor Herbert’s …

Generally known for his symphonic works, specifically the favorite symphonic suite Sheherazade, along with the Capriccio Espagnol as well as the Russian Easter Festival Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov still left an oeuvre that also included operas, chamber works, and songs. Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is obtainable and engaging due to his skill for tone-coloring …

John Phillips might easily be called one of the better pop songwriters from the later on 20th hundred years. He honed his songwriting and organizing skills with performing groupings that obtained a modicum of achievement. But his crowning musical accomplishment was the task he did along with his ’60s group …

Although he was an excellent classically trained pianist who emigrated to america in 1911, Jean Goldkette’s importance to jazz is really as a bandleader within the 1920s. Goldkette in fact acquired over 20 rings under his name with the mid-’20s, nonetheless it was his primary unit (which documented for Victor …

Songwriter Dennis Linde remained a fixture of the united states charts for many years, penning blockbusters for everybody from Elvis Presley towards the Dixie Chicks. Given birth to March 18, 1943, in Abilene, TX, Linde spent a lot of his adolescence in St. Louis, 1st picking up your guitar at …

A sorely underappreciated veteran of the brand new Orleans R&B picture, singer/songwriter/maker/pianist Eddie Bo evolved into among the city’s foremost funk players through the past due ’60s and early ’70s, although he never really had a country wide hit commensurate along with his music standing. Given birth to Edwin Joseph …

With 36 number 1 hits under his belt, Charley Satisfaction, who’s black, has helped prove how little competition matters to nearly all country music fans. It’s used quite a while to comprehend that, though. His initial one, “Snakes Crawl during the night,” premiered without promotion photos, as some on the …