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Probably the most celebrated British guitar hero to emerge in the 1970s and ’80s, Mark Knopfler rose to fame as the first choice of Dire Straits, and his songwriting and incisive guitar work played a decisive role to make them a global success story. At the same time when punk …

b. Ronald Moodnick, 8 January 1924, London, Britain, d. 11 June 2015, London, Britain. An achieved and versatile acting professional, singer, writer and composer, Moody nursed an ambition to become an entertainer from an extremely early age group. The desire was strengthened during his period as an accounts clerk in …

b. Robert Field Rounseville, 25 March 1914, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 6 August 1974, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After schooling as an operatic tenor, Rounseville sang in the chorus or performed small roles within a succession of Broadway productions, many of which were strikes: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Babes …

Prolific keyboardist, producer, and arranger Tag Portmann began playing the piano at age five. Within 3 years, he was executing before delighted viewers and earning honours with his skill. Switching from traditional music to pop and jazz, Portmann obtained enough focus on receive a scholarship or grant to New York’s …

b. Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Robert D’Abruzzo, 26 Feb 1914, NY, USA, d. 3 Might 1986, LA, California, USA. An acting professional and vocalist who, although he liked a long profession in many regions of showbusiness, can be remembered primarily for his 1st film part, when he portrayed the composer George …

Detroit, Michigan local Joseph LoDuca is a film and tv composer most widely known for his active collaborations with filmmaker Sam Raimi. Early dreams to be always a rock and roll guitarist led a teenaged LoDuca to possibilities opening along with his music group for famous brands Bob Seger and …

Howard Keel produced a splash as the cheerful and virile main character in various MGM musicals from the 1950s, nonetheless it wasn’t until 1984 that he received the opportunity to record his initial album being a single performer. The chance came into being because of his long-running part in the …

Best known seeing that Radiohead’s innovative jack port of all investments — a multi-instrumentalist equally comfortable using electric guitar, xylophone, sampler, or keyboards — Jonny Greenwood also pursued a single career being a composer even though helping his music group push the limitations of its music into uncommon and decidedly …

Musical theater songwriter and librettist Jonathan Larson was created on Feb 4, 1960, in Support Vernon, NY, and was raised in White Plains, NY, where he analyzed piano and music theory. He examined acting and started composing musicals at Adelphi School, that he graduated with honors in 1982. His initial …

A multi-talented acting professional, musician, writer, and co-founder of Washington-based indie rockers Enation, Jonathan Jackson was created in Orlando, Florida for an amateur ventriloquist and businesswoman mom, and your physician, nation music singer, and congressional applicant father. Elevated in Battle Floor, Washington along with his siblings Candice and Richard Lee …