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Ricardo Montaner

Among Latin pop’s steadier and much more seasoned performers, Ricardo Montaner specializes primarily in intimate ballads, though over time he proved himself unafraid to pursue divergent varieties of music and write tracks of varied natures. With regards to reputation, the Argentine-Venezuelan vocalist benefited significantly from his association with telenovelas, many …

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Ric Menck

Best known because the drummer for power-pop cult favorites Velvet Crush, Ric Menck also recorded an endless group of indie label singles under a number of names like the Springfields and Choo Choo Teach. A indigenous of Champaign, Illinois, through the middle-1980s he shaped his very own label, Picture Reserve, …

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October Project

Within their brief, three-year career, October Project released two albums stuffed towards the seams with soaring, sweeping, aching melodies. Their intense, plaintive pop tracks are tinged using the impact of both substitute pop and modern movements from the 1990s, however they seem to have significantly more in keeping with Broadway …

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Mick Ronson

Guitarist, arranger, songwriter, manufacturer, and perennial sideman Mick Ronson made his tag during glam rock’s early-’70s heyday but worked consistently with frequent collaborators David Bowie and Ian Hunter until his loss of life in 1993. From 1967-1968 he used a hometown garage area rock and roll group, the Rats, in …

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Of Montreal

The brainchild of singer/guitarist Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal was among the next wave of bands to emerge from the sprawling Elephant 6 collective. A indigenous of Athens, Georgia, Barnes was motivated to create the euphoric indie pop group within the wake of the broken love with a female from Montreal. …

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Michael Penn

Perhaps one of the most acclaimed vocalist/songwriters to emerge through the later 1980s, Michael Penn was seemingly destined to get a career in present business. The oldest boy of movie director Leo Penn and celebrity Eileen Ryan, he was created August 1, 1958 in NY City’s Greenwich Community area; in …

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Michael J. Sheehy

Following the demise of Fantasy City Film Club in 1999, Michael J. Sheehy quickly surfaced like a single singer/songwriter. Even though many of his U.K. contemporaries had been exploring melodic acoustic guitar rock and roll or neo-prog, Sheehy struck out in another path; his dark and frequently darkly funny, punk-spirited …

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Michelle Malone

A singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose music is informed by blues, nation, and roadhouse rock and roll & move, Michelle Malone’s shows can move from contemplative and coffeehouse peaceful to rowdy and “Twin Reverb on 10” noisy at the change of a dime, and her passionate, uncompromising design has won …

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Great Northern

The Los Angeles-based quartet Great Northern creates a shimmering cross of alternative rock and textured desire pop. The center of the music group is vocalist/songwriter Solon Bixler, who was simply raised inside a traditional music environment because the son of the composer and conductor. His 1st intro to the music …

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Rev. C.L. Franklin

The pastor of Detroit’s Bethel Baptist Church, a confidant of Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., and dad of Aretha Franklin, this charismatic preacher is well known for “hair-raising” sermons.

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