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Atmospheric Seattle, WA-based indie rock outfit Dark Whales shaped in 2008 throughout the talents of vocalist/guitarist Alex Robert, guitarist/keyboardist Alan Foote, drummer/percussionist Davey Brozowski, bassist Ryan Middleton, and keyboard player/percussionist Mike Bayer. Using the roomy rainy neo-traditional pop-infused folk-rock visual of fellow Pacific Northwest shape-shifters just like the Moondoggies as …

Using a career which spawns over three decades, Paulo Gonzo continues to be among the leading lights in the Portuguese popular music scene. As well as for anyone who has relied his profession mostly on the effectiveness of mature contemporary-friendly ballads, it’s in some way puzzling to learn how he …

Viennese pop duo Papermoon was founded in 1991 by guitarist Christof Straub and singer Edina Thalhammer. Their combination of folk and pop quickly collected interest when Austrian radio train station ?-3 performed their track “Night time After Night time” on large rotation in 1992. The group got a record agreement …

Vocalist/songwriter, painter, and sculptor and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter for colorful Southern California-based retro-pop collective Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, London-born Christian Letts crafts bucolic indie folk confections having a hook-laden pop middle. In 2011 Letts fulfilled Marcus Mumford while starting for Mumford & Sons on the Railroad Revival Tour. Both became …

Because of their sophisticated flavor and pop sensibility, Clã (meaning “clan”) became a 90’s and 00’s Portuguese pop mainstay. In 1992 music artists Helder Goncalves (piccolo bass), Manuela Azevedo (vocals), Miguel Ferreira (keyboards), Pedro Biscaia (keyboards), Pedro Rito (bass) and Fernando Goncalves (drums) arrived together to developing Clã. Four years …

David Ian is usually a jazz pianist known for his holiday-themed albums. Given birth to David Ghazarian in Toronto, Canada, Ian started playing traditional piano around age group five, and later on analyzed jazz piano with Akron, Ohio’s Pat Speed. Besides piano, Ian can be an achieved guitarist and performed …

The ’70s R&B trio Silk was among the many groups to reach from that genre in the wake of classic Motown and through the heyday of their native Philadelphia scene.

Damien Leith was among the myriad youthful singers launched to success via the worldwide television sensation Pop Idol. Delivered January 18, 1976, in State Kildare, Ireland, Leith spent his youth in locales as far-flung as Libya and Botswana, because of his father’s are an engineer. As a teenager he and …

Among the oldest “old-time” performers on record is Polk Miller, who all fought seeing that an artilleryman in the American Civil Battle in the Confederate aspect and, according to his kid, is thought to have got furled the confederate flag in Appomattox. Settling in Richmond, Virginia in 1868, Miller opened …

Jazz, spirit, and gospel vocalist, songwriter, and professional Gregory Porter was created in LA but was raised in Bakersfield, California, where his mom was a minister. As a kid, he fell beneath the spell of his mother’s Nat Ruler Cole records, understanding how to imitate Cole, but his early dreams …