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| x Aztlan Underground |
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Alternative rock | Los Angeles |
Aztlan 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...
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| x Alex Lifeson |
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Hard rock | Victor |
Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend and...
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| x Carmen Electra |
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Carmen Electra |
Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, singer, dancer and sex symbol. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game...
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| x Dave Grohl |
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Rock music | Warren | Pocketwatch |
David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C.-area bands, including the hardcore punk...
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| x Domenico Alberti | Baroque music |
Domenico Alberti (c. 1710 – 1740) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.
Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti. He wrote operas, songs, and sonatas for...
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| x Donny the Punk |
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Stephen Donaldson (July 27, 1946 – July 18, 1996), born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual-identified LGBT political activist. He is best known for his pioneering activism in gay...
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| x Davy Jones |
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Davy Jones (born David Thomas Jones 30 December 1945) is an English pop singer-songwriter and actor best known as a member of The Monkees.
Jones was born in Manchester, England on 30 December 1945. He lost his mother to emphysema when he was 14...
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| x Emma Abbott |
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Emma Abbott (December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891) was an American operatic soprano and impresario known for her pure, clear voice of great flexibility and volume.
Abbot was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of a struggling Chicago musician. As...
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| x Gregorio Allegri |
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Baroque music | Miserere, Messe, Motets |
Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 7 February 1652) was an Italian composer and priest of the Roman School of composers. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.
He studied music under Giovanni Maria Nanini, the intimate friend of Giovanni Pierluigi...
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| x Goodness |
Goodness was a rock band from Seattle, Washington (U.S.), led by Carrie Akre, formerly of Hammerbox and now primarily a solo artist. Goodness featured Akre (vocals), Danny Newcomb (lead guitar), Garth Reeves (guitar), Fiia McGann (bass), and Chris...
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| x Gilles Apap | Swing | Nice | No Piano On That One |
Gilles Apap (born May 21, 1963) is a french violinist who plays Romani (gypsy) music, swing, Irish music, and bluegrass music, as well as the masterpieces of classical music.
Born in Bougie, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won the first...
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| x Henri Chopin |
Henri Chopin (June 18, 1922 – January 3, 2008) was an avant-garde poet and musician.
Henri Chopin was a little-known but key figure of the French avant-garde during the second half of the 20th century. Known primarily as a concrete and sound poet,...
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| x Keith Moon |
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Rock music | Harlesden | Two Sides of the Moon |
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style and notoriety for his eccentric and often self destructive behavior, earning him...
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| x Lola Graham |
Lola Glenn Graham was born in Melbourne, Australia on September 23, 1918. She first came to public attention after winning a musical competition at age six by playing the piano. In 1930 she was employed by Melbourne radio station 3?? and continued...
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| x Mack Sennett |
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Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy".
Born as Mikall (or...
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| x Matteo Carcassi |
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Matteo Carcassi (1792 – January 16, 1853) was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.
Carcassi began with the piano, but learned guitar when still a child. He quickly gained a reputation as a virtuoso concert guitarist.
He moved to Germany in 1810,...
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| x Murat Ses |
Murat Ses (Ses means sound in Turkish) is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements. He is creator of the Anadolu Pop style, a synthesis of Anatolian Music and Western elements that has been influencing Turkish...
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| x Marietta Alboni |
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Marietta Alboni (March 6, 1826 – June 23, 1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. With the exception of Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest contralto of the nineteenth century.
She was born at Città di Castello, in Umbria....
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| x Mance Lipscomb |
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Blues | Texas Songsters, Volume 5: Texas Country Blues |
Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (Mance...
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| x The Medallions | Rhythm and blues |
The Medallions were a rhythm and blues band led by Vernon Green. They were the first doo-wop group to record for Dootone Records. Their first release, "Buick 59," (based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R&B; hit "Rocket 88") was backed with a ballad...
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| x Neil Peart |
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Hard rock | Hamilton | A Work in Progress |
Neil Ellwood Peart (pronounced /ˈpɪərt/) OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is considered perhaps the greatest percussionist in Rock history; a role he is best known for with the Canadian rock band Rush. He has also...
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| x Pretty Tony |
Tony "Pretty Tony" Butler was an influential 1980s electro and freestyle artist based out of Miami, Florida.
He recorded a string of popular club tracks on Jam Packed and Sherman Nealy's Music Specialist label in the mid-'80s. Butler's tracks with...
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| x Paolo Agostino | Baroque music |
Paolo Agostino (or Agostini; Augustinus in Latin; c. 1583 – 1629) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication in the...
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| x Paolo Fresu |
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Paolo Fresu (born February 10, 1961) is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.
Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de...
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| x Rocca |
Rocca is an Italian American rapper who was born in California. His first official album entitled: "Sexy Smooth" was released in January of 1993 and did quite well in the states as well as many other countries. Rocca has 3 music videos to his...
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| x Russell Crowe |
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Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor and musician. His acting career began in the early 1990s with roles in Australian TV series such as Police Rescue and films such as Romper Stomper. In the late 1990s, he...
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| x Rodolphus Agricola |
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Rodolphus Agricola (Phrisius) (February 17, 1443 – October 27, 1485) was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek well. Agricola was a Hebrew scholar...
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| x Stig Anderson |
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Stig 'Stikkan' Erik Leopold Anderson (né Andersson) (25 January 1931 – 12 September 1997) was born in Hova, Sweden, and is best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA.
As well as being the manager of the Swedish supergroup, Anderson was also the...
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| x Sonny Bono |
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Rock music | Detroit | Inner Views |
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.
Born in Detroit to Italian immigrants Jean and Santo, Sonny was the youngest...
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| x Salma Hayek |
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Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican actress, director, and television and film producer. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.
Hayek is...
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| x The Voidoids | Punk rock |
The Voidoids, also known as Richard Hell & The Voidoids, were an American rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers. Formed in New York City, at various...
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| x Ugo Farell |
Ugo Farell (12 March 1974 - ) is a French singer with an unusually high tessitura. The nature of his voice has become a topic of speculation, enhanced by the singer's refusal to discuss the topic. It remains therefore undisclosed (although it is...
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| x Vernon Green |
Vernon Green (May 1, 1937 – December 24, 2000) was leader of the rhythm and blues band The Medallions. He wrote the 1954 song "The Letter" which contained the nonsense lyric, "the puppetutes of love," which was later picked up by Steve Miller as ...
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| x Yostailingo |
Yostailingo is the oldest group on the Northwest Mexican hip hop underground scene. Originally formed in 1990 as Yo-Sta, and then renewed in 1993 adopting the Yostailingo name and performing gangsta rap. The members are Chars Bass and (Ezze aka...
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| x Hildegard Knef |
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Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was born in the German city of Ulm (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) and was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.
She began...
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| x Micky Dolenz |
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George Michael Dolenz, Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, television director and theatre director; he is best known for his role as the drummer/vocalist in the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.
Dolenz was born in Los...
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| x Francesco Cilea |
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Opera | Adriana Lecouvreur (conductor: Gianfranco Masini) |
Francesco Cilea (also Cilèa) (July 23, 1866 – November 20, 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur.
Born in Palmi near Reggio Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an...
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| x Giovanni Pacini |
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Opera | Saffo (National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland & Wexford Festival Opera Chorus feat. conductor: Maurizio Benini) |
Giovanni Pacini (February 2, 1796 – December 6, 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.
Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The...
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| x Robert Ross |
Robert Ross is an American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and leader of the Robert Ross Band. Ross was nominated a total 6 times for a New York Music Award before winning for Best Blues Artist in 1989. He has also won several...
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| x Peter Tork |
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Psychedelic rock | Stranger Things Have Happened |
Peter Tork (b. February 13, 1942) is an American musician and actor, best known as a member of The Monkees. Although born in 1942, many news articles report him as born in 1944 as this was the date given on early Monkees press releases.
Tork was...
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| x John Deacon |
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Hard rock |
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951), also known as Deacon John, is a retired English musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only...
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| x Eddie Blazonczyk |
Eddie Blazonczyk is a polka musician and leader of the band The Versatones. He was born in Chicago to Polish Immigrant parents. Their album Another Polka Celebration won the 1986 Grammy in the Polka Category. He was awarded a National Endowment for...
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| x Sophia Loren |
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Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934) is an Italian actress, naturalized French. in 1965. In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non...
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| x Chuck Sabo |
Chuck Sabo is a rock drummer. He has worked primarily as a session musician.
He has recorded with:
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| x Peter Phipps |
Pete Phipps is a rock drummer. He was a member of Gary Glitter's backing band, The Glitter Band.
He has also toured and recorded with
He has also toured with
Phipps has recorded with
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| x Joan Crawford |
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Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro...
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| x Dudley Moore |
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Dudley |
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as...
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| x Ivor Novello |
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Gosford Park |
David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century.
Novello was born at Llwyn-yr-Eos (Grove of...
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| x Transister |
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Alternative rock | Los Angeles |
Transister is an alternative rock band formed in late-1995 in Los Angeles by music business veterans from both the United States and the United Kingdom. Despite only having released one album to moderate sales, their work has been featured on a...
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| x Irvine Welsh |
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Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958 Leith, Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.
Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, a port...
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| x Pablo Casals |
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European Classical music | Cello Suites - Pablo casals (Disc 1) |
Pau Carles Salvador Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo,...
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| x Carmen Miranda |
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Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GCIH, better known by the stage name Carmen Miranda (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaɾme͂j miˈɾɐ͂dɐ]; February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer and actress popular in the 1940s and...
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| x John Wozniak |
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Psychedelic rock | Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground |
John Christian Wozniak (born in Minnesota on January 19, 1971) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Marcy Playground. He is the son of a developmental psychologist dad and a free spirited...
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| x Third-wave of ska |
Third wave ska is a music genre that was a revival of Jamaican ska with various additional American and British styles of music, such as 2 Tone, rock music, punk rock, pop music, hardcore and jazz. The term third wave ska has also been used to refer...
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| x DJ Mahmut and Murat G | Hip Hop |
DJ Mahmut & Murat G is a Turkish hip hop duo from Frankfurt, Germany. Murat G raps in German and Turkish; and DJ Mahmut uses music from east and west. The group was founded in the early nineties. They also established their own label Looptown...
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| x Luke Helder |
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Lucas John Helder (born May 5, 1981) was a University of Wisconsin–Stout college student and Pine Island, Minnesota, resident who earned notoriety as the Midwest Pipe Bomber in May 2002.
While attending the University of Wisconsin-Stout and living...
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| x Jonathan Edwards |
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Blue Ridge |
Jonathan Edwards (born July 28, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an artist, musician, folk singer, songwriter and performer, perhaps best known for his crossover folk singles "Sunshine" and "Shanty".
Edwards's music career began in high school...
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| x David Blaine |
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David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. He has set and broken...
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In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:
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