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| x The Voidoids | Punk rock | Blank Generation |
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, also known as Richard Hell & the Voidoids or just simply 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...
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| x Zablujena generacija |
Zablujena generacija (Delusive or Stray generation) is a Slovene "saloon" punk - alternative rock musical group from Idrija.
The group started out in 1994. The original lineup, who took their lead from the legendary American punkers The Ramones, was...
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| x Kira Roessler |
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Alternative rock |
Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1962) is an American bass guitarist, singer and Emmy award-winning dialogue editor. She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag.
While sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3, members of Black Flag...
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| x dsp | Electronic music |
"dsp" is an experimental electronic music collective originally from Canada.
Formed in the late eighties, it released cassette compilations of tape loops, found sound constructions, results of circuit bending, and ambient music from homemade...
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| x Takahiro Nishikawa |
Takahiro Nishikawa (西川隆宏) was the former keyboard player for the band "Dreams Come True" which he left in March, 2002.
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| x Lance Loud |
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New Wave |
Alanson Russell "Lance" Loud (June 26, 1951 – December 22, 2001) was an American magazine columnist and new wave rock-n-roll performer. Loud is best known for his 1973 appearance in An American Family, a pioneer reality television series that...
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| x Art Alexakis |
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Rock music | Los Angeles |
Arthur Paul "Art" Alexakis (born April 12, 1962) is best known as the American singer, composer, and guitarist of the rock band Everclear. He has been a member of several notable bands, in addition to his own work as a songwriter for other artists....
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| x Liam Gallagher |
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Rock music | Manchester |
William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher (born 21 September 1972) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and...
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| x The APF Brigade | Anarcho-punk | Peterborough |
The APF Brigade were an anarcho-punk duo from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The group was founded by Andi Export (later Xport) and Jon Hindle in the early 1980s.
They were members of the cassette culture scene, and released a number of...
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| x Oskar Merikanto | The Most Beautiful Songs (baritone: Jorma Hynninen, piano: Ralf Gothóni) |
Oskar Merikanto ( pronunciation (help·info)) (5 August 1868 – 17 February 1924) was a Finnish musician and composer.
He was born to Swedish-speaking parents in Helsinki. His father, originally Frank Mattsson, changed the family name to sound more...
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| x Ralphy Rodríguez |
Ralphy Rodríguez (born April 1973) is a singer and former member of Menudo. He replaced Charlie Massó.
He joined Menudo in early 1987, at a time that the group's worldwide fame was still strong, although it had begun to wane. He was popular among...
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| x Senesino |
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Senesino (Francesco Bernardi) (31 October 1686 – 27 November 1758) was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel.
Senesino was the son of a barber from...
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| x Eddie Lang |
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Jazz | The Chronological Classics: Eddie Lang 1927-1932 |
Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as the Father of Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt.
Lang was born...
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| x Freddie Keppard | Jazz | New Orleans | The Complete Set: 1923-1926 |
Freddie Keppard (sometimes rendered as Freddy Keppard) (February 27, 1889 – July 15, 1933) was an early jazz cornetist.
Keppard was born in the Creole of Color community of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. His older brother Louis Keppard was also a...
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| x Yolanda Vadiz |
Yolanda Vadiz (1959–1987) was a Puerto Rican soprano. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rico and her Master's degree in Manhattan School of Music in New York. While in New York, she sang the leading role in the zarzuela "Dona...
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| x Emma Albani |
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Dame Emma Albani, DBE (1 November 1847 – 3 April 1930) was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, and the first Canadian singer to become an international star. Her repertoire focused on the operas of Mozart, Rossini,...
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| x The Strawmen |
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Pop music | Sacramento |
The Strawmen are an independent band from Sacramento, California, featuring guitarist David Leonhardt, bassist Mark Harmon and vocalist Bill Harmon. Before the Strawmen could record their debut album or play a live concert, two-thirds of the band...
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| x James Petrillo |
James Caesar Petrillo (March 16, 1892 – October 23, 1984) was the prominent leader of the American Federation of Musicians, a trade union of professional musicians in the United States and Canada.
Petrillo was born in Chicago, Illinois. Though in...
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| x Instant Automatons |
The Instant Automatons flourished between 1977 and 1982. Founded by Mark Automaton (Mark Lancaster) and Protag (Martin Neish), they later added Mic Woods to the line-up. Their guiding principle was that artistic expression should be free from the...
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| x John Daniel |
John Daniel was a 17th century musician, born in Somerset, England.
Daniel held some offices at court, and was the author of Songs for the Lute, Viol and Voice (1606). He was the brother of the poet Samuel Daniel.
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| x Chris Squire |
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Progressive rock | London | Fish Out of Water |
Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (born 4 March 1948), is an English musician, known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album. He is widely...
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| x Eddie Edwards | Dixieland |
Edwin Branford "Eddie" Edwards (May 22, 1891 – April 9, 1963) was an early jazz trombonist, best known for his pioneering recordings with the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
Eddie Edwards was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, started playing violin at...
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| x Frank Christian |
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Frank Joseph Christian (September 3, 1887 – November 27, 1973) was an early jazz trumpeter.
Frank Joseph Christian was born in the Bywater neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. In an interview for Tulane's Jazz Archives, he described his...
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| x Jean Schwartz |
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Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 – November 30, 1956) was a songwriter.
Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old. He took various music related jobs including demonstrating and selling sheet...
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| x Frankenshred |
Frankenshred is a heavy metal band based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Started in 1996 by Dr. Frankenshred, World War Spencer and Kelly Knight, the band has steadfastly grown into a well known band outside of Phoenix. In 1997, they released...
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| x Mickey Joe Harte | Pop music |
Michael Joseph (Mickey Joe) Harte (born 1973) or now simply known as Mickey Harte is an Irish professional singer-songwriter from Lifford, County Donegal. He is known internationally as a representative of Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest.
He...
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| x Boston Pops Orchestra |
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The Celtic Album |
The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in playing light classical and popular music.
The Boston Pops was founded in 1885 as a second, popular identity of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO...
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| x Ward Kimball |
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Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 – July 8, 2002) was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men.
While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical...
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| x Kirk Powers |
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Rock music | Brooklyn |
Kirk Powers is a rock music bassist. In 1976 he joined American Tears, one of the first keyboard-oriented Heavy Ivory bands. He also made pre-production demos and masters with Touch. He found work in the 1980s touring with various artists including...
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| x Egon Petri |
Egon Petri (23 March 1881 – 27 May 1962) was a classical pianist.
Petri's family was Dutch and he was born a Dutch citizen, but he was born in Hanover in Germany and was brought up in Dresden. His father was a professional violinist who taught his...
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| x TexAns | United States of America | Never Again |
TexA.N.S. (Tex & the Anti Nazi Squad) was the name of a band in which, most notably, Tool's Maynard James Keenan played bass guitar for in the 1980s. They released a cassette entitled Live At Sons and Daughters Hall (which contained live and studio...
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| x Tom Brown |
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Dixieland |
Tom Brown (June 3, 1888 – March 25, 1958), sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown, was an early New Orleans dixieland jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally.
Tom P. Brown was born in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. His younger...
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| x Leslie Cheung | The Best of Leslie Cheung |
Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed Gor Gor (哥哥), which means elder brother, was a Hong Kong film actor and musician. Cheung was considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop", and "combining a hugely...
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| x Marcel Mule |
Marcel Mule (June 24, 1901; December 18, 2001) was a French classical saxophonist.
Marcel Mule was known worldwide as one of the great classical saxophonists, and many pieces were written for him, premiered by him, and arranged by him. Many of these...
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| x Yvonne Loriod |
Yvonne Loriod (20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.
Loriod was born in Houilles, Yvelines, France. She...
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| x Eddy Duchin |
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Eddy Duchin (April 1, 1909 or April 10, 1910 – February 9, 1951) was an American popular pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his fight against leukemia.
Edwin Frank...
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| x Nigel Benn |
Nigel Benn (born 22 January 1964), known as "The Dark Destroyer", is a British former boxer who held world titles in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions.
Benn was also in the British Army, where he served in The Troubles for 18 months....
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| x Subhumans |
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Punk rock | United Kingdom | The Day the Country Died |
The Subhumans are an English anarcho-punk band formed in the Warminster and Melksham area of Wiltshire in 1980. Dick Lucas joined later in the year, having formerly been in another local band, The Mental. Other members had been in The Stupid Humans....
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| x Ugly Rumours |
Ugly Rumours was the name of a rock band founded in part by former UK prime minister Tony Blair, while studying law at St John's College, Oxford during the early 1970s; he sang and played guitar. The band's name came from the cover of the Grateful...
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| x Sylvia Robinson | Disco | Pillow Talk |
Sylvia Robinson (March 6, 1936 – September 29, 2011) was an American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive, most notably known for her work as founder/CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records.
She is credited as the...
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| x Philippe Wynne | Funk | Wynne Jammin' |
Philippé Wynne (April 3, 1941 – July 14, 1984), born Phillip Walker, was an American R&B; singer. Best known for his role as the lead singer of The Spinners (a role he shared with fellow group member Bobby Smith), Wynne scored notable hits such as ...
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| x Rudolph Réti |
Rudolph Reti (Serbian: Рудолф Рети, Rudolf Reti) (November 27, 1885 – February 7, 1957), was a musical analyst, composer and pianist. He was the older brother of the great chess master Richard Réti (but, unlike his brother, he did not write his...
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| x John Collura |
John Christopher Collura (born April 13, 1972 (1972-04-13) (age 37) in New York) was the lead guitarist of the pop-punk group The Ataris. He joined the band in 2001.
Collura grew up in Hawthorne, New Jersey. His previous Orange County, New York...
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| x Jean Charest |
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John James "Jean" Charest, PC, MNA (pronounced: [ʒɑ̃ ʃɑʁɛ]; born June 24, 1958) is a Canadian politician who has been the 29th Premier of Quebec since 2003. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from June 25, 1993 until November 3, 1993....
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| x DJ Hollywood | Hip hop music | Rarities |
DJ Hollywood (born December 10, 1954) is an American old school hip hop DJ and rapper. According to Kurtis Blow, Hollywood was the first rapper in the hip-hop style. His rhymes are from the top of the dome, he has never written anything down. Some...
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| x Vincent Novello |
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Vincent Novello (6 September 1781 – 9 August 1861), English musician, son of an Italian who married an English wife, was born in London.
As a boy, Novello was a chorister at the Sardinian chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt...
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| x Deep End |
Deep End was a short-lived supergroup founded by guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who and featuring David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. The group also included drummer Simon Phillips, bassist Chucho Merchan, percussionist Jody Linscott, keyboardist John ...
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| x Henry Ford |
Henry Ford (c.1898 – c.1919) was an early New Orleans jazz string bass player. Ford worked with such musicians as Alphonse Picou, "Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle, and Bouboul Valentin. From about 1908 to 1912 he led a band in residency at Delacroix...
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| x Alphonse Picou |
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Alphonse Floristan Picou (October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961) was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music.
Alphonse Picou was born in a prosperous middle class Creole of Color family in downtown New Orleans. He...
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| x Dread Zeppelin |
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Reggae | Sierra Madre | Heartbreaker |
Dread Zeppelin is an American band best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a 300 pound Vegas Elvis impersonator. Over the years they would also perform songs originally by Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and The...
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| x Leonardo Vinci |
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Opera |
Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.
He was born at Strongoli (or Naples) and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his...
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| x Joseph Salemi |
Joseph "Pete" Salemi (September 15, 1902 – January 17, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist.
Salemi was born in Corleone in Sicily on September 15, 1902. Salemi was the youngest of three sons and a daughter. He came to the United States in 1914...
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| x Dink Johnson |
Ollie "Dink" Johnson (October 28, 1892 – November 29, 1954) was a dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.
Dink Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, younger brother of the bass player/bandleader William Manuel Johnson. He worked around...
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| x Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni |
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (March 18, 1657 – February 1, 1743) was an organist and composer born in Rieti, Perugia, Italy. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century.
Taken to Rome as...
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| x Niccolò Jommelli |
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Baroque music | Armida abbandonata (Les Talens Lyriques feat. conductor: Christophe Rousset) |
Niccolò Jommelli (10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was an Italian composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the...
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| x Roy Henderson |
Roy Galbraith Henderson CBE (4 July 1899 – 16 March 2000) was a leading English baritone in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He later became a teacher of singing, his most notable student being Kathleen Ferrier.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Henderson...
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| x Lucecita Benítez |
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Luz Esther Benítez (born July 22, 1942), better known in the music world as Lucecita, is a Puerto Rican singer.
Lucecita was a member of what is historically known in Puerto Rico as the New Wave, or Nueva Ola of popular music, created by Alfred D....
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| x Brett Gurewitz |
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Punk rock | United States of America | Mr Brett Demo Sessions (Tape) |
Brett W. Gurewitz (born May 12, 1962), nicknamed Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records (which has handled many Bad Religion releases) and sister-labels ANTI-, Burning...
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| x Gandhi | Rock music |
Gandhi was an American rock band formed by Helmet frontman Page Hamilton (vocals/lead guitar), with Anthony Truglio (guitar), John Andrews (guitar/vocals), Christian Bongers (bass guitar/vocals), and Matt Flynn (drums). Matt Flynn is the current...
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