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Inspired by both traditional Brazilian singers as well as the improvisations of American jazz divas like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Flora Purim was perhaps one of the most adventurous singers from the 1970s. After conference and marrying her hubby, percussionist Airto Moreira, within their indigenous Brazil, Purim transferred with …

“The First Woman of Music,” Ella Fitzgerald was arguably the best possible woman jazz singer ever (even though some may vote for Sarah Vaughan or Billie Vacation). Blessed with a lovely tone of voice and a variety, Fitzgerald could outswing anyone, was an excellent scat vocalist, and acquired near-perfect elocution; …

Dani Darbonell, ex-Magia Pet, Dr. No, and Ojos de Brujo Macaco became a member of La Hermandad Chirusa, a music group created by talented music artists from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Spain, to create his first single record. Playing an assortment of rap, rhumba, pop, funk, and reggae, Macaco’s Un …

Bristol, Britain indie pop symbols the Flatmates were formed in mid-1985 by vocalist/guitarist Martin Whitehead — also the creator from the famed Subway Company label — and drummer Rocker, whose roommate Kath Seaside soon signed to play bass. By adding another roommate, vocalist Deb Haynes, Whitehead relinquished vocal tasks, as …

The wealthy violin music of Francophone artist Catherine Lara continues to be heard for pretty much three decades. Starting her profession as an instrumental violinist, she veered off into pop/rock and roll territory within the middle-’70s, carrying on to fuse her vocals and violin with a number of musical designs. …

Tortoise revolutionized American indie rock and roll within the mid-’90s by using straight down tried-and-true punk and rock and roll & roll affects, emphasizing instead the incorporation of a number of left-field music styles from the prior twenty years, including Krautrock, dub, avant-garde jazz, classical minimalism, ambient and space music, …

Within the early/mid-1990s, Don Lennon offered as lead singer of Boston’s The Umpteens, who released three cassettes and something single throughout their brief tenure. Lennon proceeded to go single in 1997, using the launch of Maniac on Martin Phillips Information. The disk was documented at Studio room 7 with maker …

Eggs was among Washington, D.C.’s greatest indie-pop rings of the first 1990s, but had been often lost within the shadows of the labelmates Unrest, another excellent D.C. indie-pop band of enough time. Led by Andrew Beaujon, previously of Scaley Andrew, Eggs carved out a distinct segment for themselves in the …

Jan Panter was area of the ubiquitous legions of young lady singers who poured into London, and whose recorded function streamed from the Uk record industry over the early to mid-’60s. What produced her somewhat different was that she in fact hailed from London. Her documenting career started in 1965 …

Italian act Fiamma Fumana comprises 3 talents: singer Fiamma, combined with musicians Alberto and Marco. In Italian “fiamma” means “fire” and “fumana” to “fog” or “mist,” which collectively, as the music group claims, represents the strange resilience of days gone by. Alberto, who takes on the accordion, was a founding …