Tag Archives: Singer/Songwriter

Experienced he recorded his best-known melody, “Junkie John,” a couple of months earlier, Tim Dawe (true name: Jerry Penrod) may have been a celebrity. A catchy, psychedelic folk-rock tune, it experienced begun obtaining radio airplay when the FCC started to split down on drug-oriented recordings. Channels halted playing the solitary, …

Authoring Wolf Biermann is usually a complex job. This German vocalist, songwriter, and poet could be known as the most well-known, controversial, adored, and hated designer of post-war Germany, a scathing critic from the “actual socialism” which ultimately collapsed by the end from the ’80s. He might for some reason …

You start with his full-length recording debut in 1977, Henri Dès was being among the most successful Francophone children’s music singer/songwriters of his period. Given birth to Henri Destraz on Dec 14, 1940, in Renens, Vaud, Switzerland, he relocated to Paris in 1960 with expectations of becoming a specialist musician. …

Most widely known in Britain while an actor who also sustained a profession on display and stage for more than four years, Brian Protheroe can be known for a clutch of soft rock and roll records he produced as a vocalist/songwriter in the ’70s. Specifically, Protheroe was known for “Pinball,” …

One accusation no-one can level against Eivør Pálsadóttir is that she’s stayed within a rut. Actually, there has been such an assortment to her music that it is impossible to anticipate her following move. Blessed in 1983 in the administrative centre from the Faroe Islands (which participate in Denmark), she …

Most widely known for his function in Matia Bazar, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Carlo Marrale was created in Genova in 1952. In 1973, alongside guitarist Piero Cassano and bassist Aldo Stellita, he produced the group Plane, who, after an unsuccessful attempt at that year’s Sanremo Celebration, decided to link up …

A recognised singer/songwriter in his house nation of Denmark and beyond, the multi-instrumentalist Mads Langer was created in 1984 in the northern city of Skive. A brooding, heart-on-sleeve performer in the vein of Jeff Buckley and Thom Yorke, Langer discovered his art by dividing his early years between learning the …

The Asylum Choir was the past due-’60s duo of session keyboard player Leon Russell (b. Apr 2, 1942) and guitarist Marc Benno (b.July 1, 1947). They produced two albums, 1968’s Appear In the Asylum Choir and Asylum Choir II. Although latter was documented in Apr 1969, it had been not …

Vocalist/songwriter and past Cobra Starship keytarist Elisa Jordana was raised while Elisa Schwartz in Aged Bridge, NJ, hearing New Kids on the market and Whitney Houston, nonetheless it was Debbie Gibson who also inspired her to create her own tunes. She published her first track at age group seven; by …

In every of rock history, there may be few stranger stories than that of Father Yod & the Spirit of ’76 and Yahowa 13, the mystical quasi-cult psychedelic rock bands that documented prolifically in the middle-’70s. Psychedelic enthusiasts know about Yahowa via their link with Sky Saxon from the Seed …