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This influential late-’70s pop/jazz outfit boasted in-the-pocket grooves, clever horn charts, and Pauline Wilson’s signature vocals set to lyrics that (generally) clearly communicated a Christian world view. Within their maximum, Seawind produced just three albums, but Pauline and spouse/drummer Bob released an recording in the first ’80s, and different other …

Most widely known for his lush, Oscar-winning rating towards the 1981 film Chariots of Open fire, Vangelis was being among the most successful and admired electronic composers of his period. Created Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou in Volos, Greece on March 29, 1943, his nascent musical skill was recognized young, but he …

After Juliana Hatfield disbanded the jangle pop trio the Blake Infants in 1990, she released a solo career, performing likewise melodic indie guitar pop. Performing within an endearingly slim voice, Hatfield wedded her buzzing hooks to sugary, lovelorn pop and startlingly honest confessional music. Her 1992 single debut, Hey Babe, …

Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and arranger Sean O’Hagan founded his initial significant music group in Cork, Ireland, in the first ’80s. Along with songwriting partner Cathal Coughlan and an ever revolving band of music artists, that music group, Microdisney, achieved excellent U.K. reputation using their literate and frequently politically tinged make …

Combining English pop and American origins rock and roll, Julian Dawson 1st obtained prominence in Europe with an individual on Rough Operate Reports in the mid-’80s. Then released two albums on Polydor Information. He also documented two albums with Ian Matthews’ music group, Plainsong. His initial domestic release, Go on …

Gospel vocalist Valerie Boyd made her debut in mid-1999 with BACK Live.

Mexican singer/songwriter Julieta Venegas set up initially set up herself being a cutting-edge Latin choice artist through the past due ’90s, before her career shifted direction significantly with her third album, Sí (2003), a broadly attractive pop/rock effort graced with legitimate hits, including a few chart-toppers. In the wake of …

Although given birth to in Hawaii, singer/songwriter Sara Lov found her big break in LA, where she formed the dream pop duo Devics together with pianist Dustin O’Halloran. The group authorized with Bella Union, a U.K.-centered record label run by Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde, and relocated to Italy. Lov later …

Since their formation in Tottenham, London, Britain, in the past due 80s, Urban Species were widely tipped as another potential breakthrough in UK hip-hop. They originally comprised business lead rapper Mint (b. Peter Akinrinola) and DJ Renegade (b. Winston Little), whose collaboration principally included messing about within their north London …

The smooth jazz all-star collective Urban Knights features pianist Ramsey Lewis mainly because its constant member. Sometime Urban Knights consist of Grover Washington Jr., Maurice White colored, the Feelings, Najee, Dave Koz, Fareed Haque, and Earl Klugh. Lewis united the many Knights for outings like 1995’s self-titled debut, 1997’s Urban …