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Best known for his or her 1965 smash “Wooly Bully,” which helped introduce Tex-Mex rhythms to mainstream rock and roll & move, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs were formed in Dallas by business lead vocalist Domingo Samudio, who also took the name Sam the Sham from a tale about …

Hailing from Houston, Tx, Robert Glasper is really a jazz pianist using a knack for mellow, harmonically organic compositions that also reveal a subtle hip-hop impact. Inspired to try out piano by his mom, a gospel pianist and vocalist, Glasper went to Houston’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing Arts. …

A jazz, boogie-woogie, leap blues pianist, and bandleader, Sam (Sammy) Cost was created Samuel Blythe Cost in Honey Grove, Tx on Oct 6, 1908. Early in his executing career he proved helpful being a vocalist and dancer in a variety of Dallas club locations, but his great and versatile piano …

Although underrated, Roseanna Vitro’s versatility, sense of swing, and highly appealing voice made her probably one of the most consistently interesting jazz singers from the 1990s and 2000s. She began her profession in Houston within the middle-’70s (originally performing blues and rock and roll) where she experienced a two-year engagement …

Romanthony is really a new-school acidity garage area producer who all routinely summons both organic soul as well as the organic audio of originals in the glory times of acidity house and garage area during the later ’80s. Though he’s a lot more an underground name in his indigenous America …

Although Jessica Simpson dabbled in film, reality Television, and eventually modern country music through the 2000s, she actually is best known like a dance-pop vocalist who rose to fame in the past due ’90s alongside such teenaged acts as 98°. Simpson was created and elevated in Dallas, TX, where she …

b. 19 March 1942, Tyler, Tx, USA. Dobson prepared to be always a novelist and he just took up your guitar and began songwriting in 1963. He performed in Tx folk night clubs alongside Man Clark and Townes Vehicle Zandt, but a gathering with David Allan Coe’s music group outside …

One of the large contingent of talented songwriters who surfaced in Texas within the 1980s and ’90s, Robert Earl Keen struck a unique stabilize between sensitive story-portraits (“Corpus Christi Bay”) and raucous barroom fun (“That Buckin’ Song”). Both of these track types in Keen’s result were unified by way of …

Dallas-based vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey began singing in his regional church at age 15 using a quartet group in his indigenous Texarkana. Inspired by famous brands Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lil’ Kid Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Aaron “T-Bone” Walker, he started singing blues skillfully at 20 after he transferred to …

Neo-honky tonker Tag Chesnutt parlayed a good grounding in traditional nation into chart-topping stardom through the ’90s. Delivered in Beaumont, Tx, in 1963, Chesnutt was raised hearing his father’s intensive nation record collection (Bob Chesnutt have been a locally well-known singer who under no circumstances strike it big, and therefore …