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| x Massive Attack |
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Massive Attack are a British DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour...
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Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor | ||
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| x William S. Burroughs |
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William Seward Burroughs II ( /ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997(1997-08-02)) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation...
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William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain | ||
| x Meg Lee Chin |
Meg Lee Chin is best known for her work with the anarchic industrial supergroup Pigface, headed by Martin Atkins of Invisible Records. She built her own recording studio dubbed Egg, where she recorded her first album, and after appearing on Pigface...
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Pigface | |||
| Meg Lee Chin vs. Hanzel und Gretyl | |||||
| Meg Lee Chin vs. Martin Atkins | |||||
| x Ani DiFranco |
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Ani DiFranco ( /ˈɑːniː/; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.
DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York...
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Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco | ||
| Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan | |||||
| Indigo Girls & Ani DiFranco | |||||
| x Beck |
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Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements...
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Beck & Willie Nelson | ||
| Caspar and Mollusk | |||||
| Beck & The Flaming Lips | |||||
| Beck & Emmylou Harris | |||||
| Thurston Moore / Beck Hansen / Tom Surgal | |||||
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| x Built to Spill |
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Built to Spill are an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho. The band has released seven full-length albums. Their most recent album, There Is No Enemy, was released on October 6, 2009.
Former Treepeople guitarist/vocalist Doug Martsch...
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Built to Spill & Caustic Resin | ||
| The Spinanes | |||||
| x Dusty Springfield |
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her...
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The Springfields | |||
| Dusty Springfield & Daryl Hall | |||||
| The Village Green | |||||
| The Lana Sisters | |||||
| x Elliott Smith |
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Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon,...
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Heatmiser | ||
| Stranger Than Fiction | |||||
| Elliott Smith and Pete Krebs | |||||
| x Mary Timony |
Mary B. Timony (born in Washington, D.C., 1970) is an American independent singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, and violist. She was a member of the bands Helium and Autoclave, and currently plays in Wild Flag.
Timony attended the Duke...
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Helium | |||
| Autoclave | |||||
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| The Spells | |||||
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| x Modest Mouse |
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Modest Mouse is a Portland, Oregon based American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for...
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Modest Mouse & 764-Hero | ||
| x Radiohead |
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Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass), Phil Selway (drums,...
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Band Aid 20 | ||
| x Cypress Hill |
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Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Cuban-American/Latino hip hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide. It is one of the most well...
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Sonic Youth & Cypress Hill | ||
| Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill | |||||
| Roni Size & Cypress Hill | |||||
| x John Williams |
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John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star...
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John Williams & The Boston Pops Orchestra | ||
| The Count Basie Orchestra | |||||
| x Frank Sinatra |
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Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful...
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Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra | ||
| Frank & Nancy Sinatra | |||||
| Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim | |||||
| The Sinatra Family | |||||
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| x Harry Connick, Jr. |
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Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, big-band leader/conductor, pianist, actor, and composer. He has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in...
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Branford Marsalis & Harry Connick, Jr. | ||
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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album,...
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Mariah Carey & Luther Vandross | ||
| Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men | |||||
| x The Chieftains |
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The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.
The band's name came from the book Death of a Chieftain by Irish author...
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James Galway & The Chieftains | ||
| Van Morrison & The Chieftains | |||||
| The Chieftains | |||||
| Leahy with The Chieftains | |||||
| Meryl Streep and The Chieftains | |||||
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| x Dan Fogelberg |
Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music. He...
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Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg | |||
| x James Taylor |
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James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
Taylor achieved his major breakthrough in 1970 with the #3...
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Joni Mitchell & James Taylor | ||
| James Taylor & Alison Krauss | |||||
| John Sheldon & James Taylor | |||||
| James Taylor & Inez Foxx & Charlie Foxx | |||||
| James Taylor & J.D. Souther | |||||
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| x Styx |
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Styx ( /ˈstɪks/) is an American rock band that became famous for its albums from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Chicago band is known for melding the style of prog-rock with the power of hard rock guitar, strong ballads, and elements of...
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Styx & REO Speedwagon | ||
| x The Temptations |
The Temptations are an American vocal group known for their success in the 60s and 70s at Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, during its five-decade career, R&B;, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music. Known for...
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Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations | |||
| Stevie Wonder & The Temptations | |||||
| x Annie Lennox |
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Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954), is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s as part of the New Wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A....
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Eurythmics | ||
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| Annie Lennox & Al Green | |||||
| Annie Lennox & David Bowie | |||||
| Annie Lennox & Aretha Franklin | |||||
| x Billy Joel |
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William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo...
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Elton John & Billy Joel | ||
| U.S.A. for Africa | |||||
| x Eurythmics |
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Eurythmics are a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, disbanded since 1990, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart (both previously in the bands The Catch and The Tourists), the duo released...
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Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin | ||
| x Phil Collins |
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Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the lead...
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Genesis | 1970 | |
| Band Aid | |||||
| Brand X | |||||
| David Crosby & Phil Collins | |||||
| The Phil Collins Big Band | |||||
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Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer...
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Richard Marx & Donna Lewis | ||
| Ringo Starr All-Starr Band | |||||
| x Bryan Adams |
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Bryan Adams, OC OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards...
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Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting | ||
| Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams | |||||
| Sweeney Todd | |||||
| Bryan Adams & Roger Waters | |||||
| Rock Aid Armenia | |||||
| x Tupac Shakur |
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Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music...
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Digital Underground | ||
| 2Pac & Outlawz | |||||
| Thug Life: Volume 1 | |||||
| 2Pac & Nas | |||||
| 2Pac & Dr. Dre | |||||
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| x De La Soul |
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De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. The...
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Nightmares on Wax & De La Soul | ||
| Native Tongues Posse | |||||
| Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul | |||||
| De La Soul & Parappa the Rapper | |||||
| Queen Latifah & De La Soul | |||||
| x The Sugarhill Gang |
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses an interpolation of the instrumental track from the classic hit "Good Times" by Chic as...
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Sugar Hill Gang And The Furious 5 | |||
| The Furious Five Meets The Sugarhill Gang | |||||
| x Pearl Jam |
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (vocals), Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), and Mike McCready (guitar). The band's current...
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Neil Young & Pearl Jam | ||
| Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill | |||||
| x Queen |
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Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar, guitars, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works...
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Queen & David Bowie | ||
| Queen & Elton John | |||||
| Queen & George Michael | |||||
| Queen + Paul Rodgers | |||||
| x U2 |
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion). U2's early sound was rooted in...
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Band Aid | ||
| Mary J. Blige & U2 | |||||
| U2 & Johnny Cash | |||||
| U2 & Green Day | |||||
| x Sheryl Crow |
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Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop. She has won nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy...
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Steve Earle and Sheryl Crow | ||
| Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson | |||||
| x Sinéad O'Connor |
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Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor ( /ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnər/; born 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O'Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of...
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Peace Together | ||
| Shane MacGowan & Sinéad O'Connor | |||||
| Billy Bragg, Andy White, & Sinéad O’Connor | |||||
| The The | 1988 | ||||
| x Hans Zimmer |
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Hans Florian Zimmer, German pronunciation: [hans ˈfloːʁi̯aːn ˈtsɪmɐ]; (born 12 September 1957) is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including award winning film scores for The Lion King (1994),...
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Buggles | ||
| Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard & Klaus Badelt | |||||
| Hans Zimmer & Klaus Badelt | |||||
| Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams | |||||
| Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard | |||||
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| x Danny Elfman |
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Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme. He was the lead singer and songwriter...
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Oingo Boingo | 1974 | |
| Oingo Boingo | 1976 | ||||
| x Lauryn Hill |
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Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress.
Early in her career, she established her reputation as a member of the Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo career with the release of...
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Fugees | ||
| Lauryn Hill & Carlos Santana | |||||
| x Snap! |
Snap! is a German eurodance project formed in 1989 by Frankfurt-based producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, but was most successful when fronted by rapper Turbo B, who...
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Snap! vs. Plaything | |||
| x Christopher Franke |
Christopher Franke (b. 6 April 1953, Berlin) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus...
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Tangerine Dream | 1971 | ||
| Agitation Free | 1967 | ||||
| x The Chemical Brothers |
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The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat...
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The Chemical Brothers with Justin Warfield | ||
| x ATB |
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André Tanneberger, under the stagename of ATB, (born 26 February 1973) is a German DJ, musician, and producer of trance music. According to the official world DJ rankings governed by DJ Magazine, ATB was ranked #11 in 2009. as well as in 2010 and...
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Dance United | ||
| Sequential One | |||||
| ATB with Heather Nova | |||||
| Trance Allstars | |||||
| x Eiffel 65 |
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Eiffel 65 is an Italian three-piece eurodance group formed in 1998 and best known for pioneering in pitch-correction and autotune, and for their international hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". Their other hit singles include "Move Your Body" and "Too Much of...
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Hand in Hand for Children e.V. | ||
| x Chris Cornell |
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Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle; July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Soundgarden and as the former lead vocalist for Audioslave. He is also known for his numerous solo works...
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Soundgarden | ||
| Temple of the Dog | |||||
| Audioslave | |||||
| M.A.C.C. | |||||
| Alice Mudgarden | |||||
| x Bryan Ferry |
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Bryan Ferry CBE (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with...
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Bryan Ferry & Antony | ||
| Roxy Music | 1971 | ||||
| Roxy Music | 2001 | ||||
| x Chet Atkins |
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's...
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Chet Atkins & Tommy Emmanuel | |||
| Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed | |||||
| Chet Atkins & Merle Travis | |||||
| Chet Atkins and Doc Watson | |||||
| Chet Atkins & Les Paul | |||||
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| x Iris DeMent |
Iris DeMent (born January 5, 1961) is an American singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style includes elements of the country and folk music genres.
DeMent was the youngest child of Pat DeMent and his second wife, Flora Mae. As the baby of the...
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Tom Russell & Iris DeMent | |||
| John Prine and Iris DeMent | |||||
| Iris DeMent & Kari Bremnes | |||||
| x k.d. lang |
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Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include ...
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Tony Bennett & k.d. lang | ||
| Roy Orbison & k.d. lang | |||||
| x Yves Montand |
Yves Montand (French pronunciation: [iv mɔ̃ˈtɑ̃]; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991) was an Italian-born French actor and singer.
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina (née Simoni) and Giovanni...
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Les Enfoirés | 1986 | ||
| x House of Pain |
House of Pain is an Irish American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career again. The group's name is a reference to the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, a reference...
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Helmet & House of Pain | |||
| x Brian Setzer |
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Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group The Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with...
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra | ||
| Stray Cats | |||||
| Brian Setzer '68 Comeback Special | |||||
| The Honeydrippers | |||||
| Bloodless Pharaohs | |||||
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| x Incubus |
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Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex "Dirk...
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Incubus & DJ Greyboy | ||
| Time-Lapse Consortium | |||||
| x Will Smith |
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Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the...
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince | ||
| x Glen Campbell |
Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen...
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Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell | |||
| Glen Campbell & Leslie Satcher | |||||
| The Beach Boys | |||||
| Juicy Lucy | |||||
| Glen Campbell & Michelle Shocked with Texas Tornados | |||||
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| x Chumbawamba |
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Chumbawamba are a British alternative music band who have, over a career spanning three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music. Their anarchist politics exhibit an irreverent attitude toward authority, and the...
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Chumbawamba & Credit to the Nation | ||
| Negativland / Chumbawamba | 1999 | ||||
| Carpet Bombers for Peace | |||||
| x Mudhoney |
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Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band. Formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1988 following the demise of Green River, Mudhoney's members are vocalist and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer...
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Mudhoney and Jimmie Dale Gilmore | ||
| Mudhoney & Sir Mix-A-Lot | |||||
| x Primal Scream |
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Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (keyboards),...
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Primal Scream, Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound System | ||
| Primal Scream & P.P. Arnold | |||||
| x Paul van Dyk |
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Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk (born 16 December 1971(1971-12-16)) is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer. One of the first true Superstar DJs, Paul van Dyk was one of the...
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The Visions of Shiva | ||
| DFM | |||||
| Tilt vs. Paul van Dyk | |||||
| BT & Paul van Dyk | |||||
| Paul van Dyk vs. Marco V | |||||
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| x Andrea Bocelli |
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Andrea Bocelli, OMRI, OMDSM (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa boˈtʃɛlli]; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a...
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Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli | ||
| Bono & Andrea Bocelli | |||||
| x Chanté Moore |
Chanté Moore (born Chanté Torrane Moore, February 17, 1967, San Francisco, California) is an American R&B; and jazz singer.
Born to a gospel minister, she grew up singing in the church and was heavily influenced by the music of George Duke and Lee...
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Kenny Lattimore & Chanté Moore | |||
| LaTocha Scott & Chanté Moore | |||||
| Keith Washington & Chanté Moore | |||||
