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Jersey Town rapper Randy Nichols, better referred to as Ransom, was originally given birth to in Brooklyn, NY in Sept 1980. His father’s slaying and mother’s serious disease forced Nichols in which to stay foster care a couple of years, but he and his mom ultimately relocated to Shirt Town …

Brooklyn-based R&B vocal group the Mello-Harps shaped in 1955. Regarding to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Apr 1990 problem of Record Enthusiasts’ Once a month, co-founders Arnold “Johnny” Malone (initial tenor), second tenor Joe Gowder, baritone Daniel “Bunny” Elder, and bass Ossie Davis had been longtime friends through the borough’s …

Produced in 2005 by cousins Tom Truck Buskirk and George Langford, Brooklyn, New York-based indie electronic duo Javelin crafts cool, abstract, R&B-flavored pop with an focus on painstakingly re-created samples and loops. The band’s 2009 self-released assortment of demos (Jamz n Jemz) and couple of Thrill Jockey 12″s (Javelin, NUMBER …

David Nelson contributed liner records and history vocals to selections of recordings by his sibling, who performed as both Ricky Nelson and Rick Nelson as he progressed from teenager idol to mature country-rocker, respectively. A Sibling Remembers, a documentary 1st shown in the past due ’80s, displayed David Nelson’s personal …

The hypnotic, undulating cadence from the Theremin has graced the soundtrack of several horror film soundtracks — with least one classic rock & roll tune, the Seaside Children’ “Great Vibrations”). However the device has not motivated a big contingent of full-time adherents; they have mostly been utilized as a way …

The nickname “Wingie” may possibly not be particularly attractive regardless, but seems at its worse with regards to this artist, since he is actually one of the one-armed trumpeters who worked in the music business. He’s much less well-known as Wingy Manone, who distributed his physical impairment aswell as his …

Given birth to and raised in Buffalo, NY but moving to LA, veteran songwriter/guitarist Michael Campagna is an extremely versatile musician whose accomplishments have got ranged from using the industrial music group Psychic Television to co-writing music for well-known R&B performers like Chaka Khan, Jennifer Vacation, and Maxine Nightingale. Music …

Lillian Roxon’s Rock and roll Encyclopedia, posted in the past due ’60s, has outlived its usefulness being a rock reference book, surpassed by many others that cover sometimes the pre-1970 amount of rock &r oll with much larger detail. In its time, however, it got a pioneering impact. There have …

Having a sound that mixes 21st century indie tones as well as the past due-’70s new wave attitude of Speaking Heads or the present day Lovers, NY City’s the Virgins were formed in 2006 by lead singer/songwriter Donald Cumming. A genuine item of N.Con.C., Cumming was raised in Tribeca. His …

b. 24 Might 1877, Chambersburg, Pa, USA, d. 29 Dec 1941, NY, USA. A composer for the musical theater in the first area of the 20th hundred years, Bowers researched at Franklin & Marshall University in Lancaster, Pa, and received an intensive musical education. In 1903 he collaborated with librettist …