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George Webb

b. George Horace Webb, 8 Oct 1917, London, Britain. After playing piano around London, Webb was seduced with the revival motion and in 1942 shaped his personal traditional music group. The band became very popular with English enthusiasts, including over another couple of years leading lamps of the united kingdom …

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Carlos Goñi

Spanish singer/songwriter Carlos Moveñwe moved from his indigenous Madrid to Campayo, Alicante, at age six, soon learning to be a handball participant and guitarist. Garage area was the name of his 1st music group, and he later on became a member of Comite Cisne, playing alongside Remy Carerres, Lino Oviaño, …

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Louis Vierne

Given birth to blind, Vierne partially regained view at age group six. Obvious skill was compensated with piano and solfège research, to that have been added tranquility, violin, and an over-all program when he came into the Institution Country wide des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris in 1880. There he was …

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Aya Hirano

Known primarily being a tone of voice actress for some massive anime strikes in Japan, Aya Hirano carved away a little side career being a singer, as much successful tone of voice actresses have. Though offering voices since 2001 (and executing briefly within an under-15 idol group), Hirano didn’t start …

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Rouben Mamoulian

b. 8 Oct 1898, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russia, d. 4 Dec 1987, LA, California, USA. A recognized stage and film movie director whose name is specially connected with two masterpieces from the American musical theatre – Porgy And Bess and Oklahoma! – and a renowned Hollywood movie, Appreciate Me Tonight. Mamoulian …

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Luis Barbosa

One of the biggest sambistas ever, Luís Barbosa, sibling from the composer Paulo Barbosa, the humorist/vocalist Barbosa Júnior, as well as the radioman Henrique Barbosa, launched the straw head wear (fashionable among the dandies of his period) like a percussive device. His little discography (because of his precocious demise) provides …

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Frank Skinner

Back the 1970s, when film music first started to growth as a location of saving activity, you might have been very difficult put to discover a reference to the name Frank Skinner significantly less any types of his film scores about record. Skinner, although an essential figure in neuro-scientific film …

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Komitas

Before Madonna or Midori, before Liberace, almost a complete century before the one-name artists with whom we today feel therefore comfortable, there is Komitas, very most likely the first one-name musician today (ancient and Medieval times were, alternatively, filled with one-name people). The person who passed the name Komitas was …

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Solomon Linda

Solomon Linda is most beneficial remembered as the author of “Mbube” (translated as “The Lion”), perhaps one of the most successful tracks to emerge from South Africa. Although Linda documented the first edition along with his group, The Evening Parrots, in 1939, the track became an internationally-recognized traditional when it …

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Wilhelm Kuhe

Kuhe was a pianist, piano composer and instructor who studied in Prague with Proksch and Tomasek and in addition had a few lessons from Thalberg. Being a concert pianist he was quite effective choosing to stay in London where he not merely taught on the Royal Acadmey of Music but …

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