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Musical Artist, Musical GroupBlonde Redhead is an American rock trio comprising Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace. They take their name from a song by DNA, a no wave band from New York. The band performs in multiple languages including English, Japanese, Italian, and French. ...
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Film music contributor, Musical Artist, PersonBruce Douglas Cockburn, OC (; phonetically: "co-burn") (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has recorded an immense volume of work, his 29th album being released in summer 2006, and has written songs in styles ranging from...
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Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, Deceased PersonAlvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American singer and guitarist, with 20 number-one hits on the Billboard country music charts. Both as a solo artist and with his band, the Buckaroos, Buck Owens, along with his partner Don Rich,...
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Film actor, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group MemberDwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs...
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Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Musical GroupLed Zeppelin were an English rock band that formed in September 1968. Led Zeppelin consisted of Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards) and John Bonham (drums, percussion). With their heavy, guitar-driven sound,...
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Musical Artist, Musical Group, Musical Group MemberYo La Tengo (Spanish for "I got it") is an American indie rock band, based in Hoboken, New Jersey. With more than 15 albums released since 1984, they have demonstrated unusual longevity for the indie-rock scene. They are frequently regarded as one of the definitive...
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupBlack Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England. Formed in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums), the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of 21...
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupKings of Leon are a rock band made up of the three Followill brothers (Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill), and their cousin (Matthew Followill), based in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, United States. Their influences include Southern rock, garage rock, Hard rock, country and...
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Film music contributor, Person, Award Winner, Musical Artist, Record Producer, Musical Group MemberAphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971) is a British/ Irish electronic music artist. He has been described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music."Rephlex Records was co-founded by Aphex Twin with his friend...
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Musical ArtistAztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles. Since early 1989, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore. Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions. This unique sound is the backdrop for the band's message of dignity for...
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupAnalog Brothers is an experimental rap crew featuring Ice Oscillator also known as Ice T (keyboards, drums, vocals), Keith Korg also known as Kool Keith (bass, strings, vocals), Mark Moog also known as Marc Live (drums, violyns and vocals), Silver Synth also known as...
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Musical Artist, Songwriter, Musical Group, Lyricist, ComposerABBA is a Swedish Edison award and Eurovision winning pop/dance group active between 1972 and 1982. The quartet was formed through the friendship of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and also consists of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (usually known as Frida) and Agnetha Fältskog....
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupThe Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons. Immensely popular in North America and Continental Europe, they had little success by comparison in their home country. Alan Parsons...
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Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Opera Composer, Composer, Songwriter, Influence Node, Theater Character, LyricistAntonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of...
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Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, ComposerAni DiFranco (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a Grammy Award winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist (having released nineteen albums) and is widely celebrated as a feminist icon. DiFranco was born in...
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Film actor, Musical Artist, Person, Deceased PersonAaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), better known as Aaliyah, was a multiple Grammy Award-nominated American Music Award-winning American singer, dance, actress, model, and teen idol. Introduced to audiences by R&B;/pop singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah...
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Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Opera Composer, Composer, Person Or Being In FictionAntonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), was an Italian composer and conductor. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time. Raised in a prosperous family of merchants in Legnago,...
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Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, ComposerAnton Diabelli (September 6, 1781 – April 7, 1858) was an Austria music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli...
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Person, Musical Artist, Deceased Person, Opera Composer, ComposerAlessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 – October 24, 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his opera and chamber cantata. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and...
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Musical Artist, Person, Deceased Person, Opera Composer, Composer, Film music contributor, Influence NodeAlban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austria composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian romanticism with a personal adaptation of...
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupArticolo 31 is a popular band in Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms. They are one of the most popular Italian rock/hip hop groups. Members are the rapper J Ax, and DJ Jad; they took their name from the Irish constitutional...
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Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, Songwriter, Lyricist, ComposerAmy Lee Grant (born November 25 1960 in Augusta, Georgia) is an America singer-songwriter, best known for her Contemporary Christian Music and pop music, and a New York Times Bestselling author, TV personality, and occasional actress. Grant made her debut in 1977 as...
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Person, Musical Artist, Guitarist, Musical Group MemberAlex Lifeson, OC (born August 27, 1953), is a Canadian musician, known as the guitarist for the rock group Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since. For Rush, Lifeson plays electric and...
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Musical Artist, PersonAmr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab (born October 11, 1961) is an Egypt singer and composer of jeel music. Diab has become one of the highest selling Middle East artists of all time, as he was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 & 2007, as being the best...
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Film actor, Film writer, Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, TV ActorArlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice. Arlo Guthrie's most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a talking blues song that lasts for 18...
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Film actor, Musical Artist, Person, Author, TV Actor, CelebrityBritney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop singer and older sister of Jamie Lynn Spears. She has sold over 168 million records worldwide (as of April 2008) according to Zomba Label Group. The RIAA ranks her as the fourth best-selling female artist...
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Musical Artist, Record Producer, Musical GroupThe Beastie Boys are an American hip hop group from New York City consisting of Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Michael "Mix Master Mike" Schwartz,...
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupBoney M. is a pop and disco group masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian. The four original members of the band were Liz Mitchell, Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell. Boney M., with their bubble-gum infectious tunes, became one of the...
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Musical Artist, Musical GroupBoogie Down Productions was a hip hop group originally comprised of KRS-One, D Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album Criminal Minded. The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from...
