Musical Artist
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A Musical Artist can describe either an individual musician or a band of musicians. Ideally, a Musical Artist will have released a Musical Album. Right now, anyone who contributed in any way to an album or song is typed as a Musical Artist;...
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| Aztlan Underground | Topic | Alternative rock |
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 message of dignity for indigenous people, all of humanity, and Earth. Aztlan Underground has been cultivating a grass roots audience across the country, which has become a large and loyal underground following. Their music includes spoken word pieces and...
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| Alessandro Scarlatti |
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Alessandro 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 Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
Scarlatti was born in Sicily, in Palermo. He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and there is reason to suppose that he had some connection with northern Italy, since his...
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| Alex Lifeson |
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Alex 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 acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments such as mandola, mandolin and bouzouki. He also performs backing vocals in live performances, and occasionally plays keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers. During live performances,...
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| Boy band | Topic |
A boy band, written in some countries boys band or boy's band, is a type of pop group featuring several young male singer. They can be distinguished from rock bands. The members are generally expected to perform as dancer as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music. Although there are no distinct traits defining a boy band, one could label a band a "boy band" for following mainstream music trend, changing their appearances to adapt to new fashion trends, having...
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| Carmen Electra |
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Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, television personality, and entertainer. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, and on the TV series Baywatch, and has since become recognizable for her roles in the parody films Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans.
Patrick was born in White Oak, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the daughter of Patricia, a...
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| Dave Grohl |
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Topic | Rock music | Warren |
David Eric Grohl (b. January 14, 1969, Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, DC area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream. In 1990 he became the drummer for grunge group Nirvana. Following the April 1994 death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Grohl formed the Foo Fighters, a group in which he sings and plays guitar. In addition to leading the Foo Fighters, Grohl has also performed...
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| Domenico Alberti | Topic |
Domenico Alberti (around 1710 – 1740) was an Italian singer, harpsichord and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.
Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti. He wrote opera, song and sonatas for keyboard instrument, for which he is best known today. These sonatas frequently employ a particular kind of arpeggiated accompaniment in the left hand which is now known as the Alberti bass. It consists of regular broken chord, with the lowest note...
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| 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 political activist. He is best known for his pioneering activism in gay liberation and prison reform and his participation in the punk subculture. He died from AIDS in 1996.
The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson's early childhood was spent in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany.Donaldson later described his...
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| Davy Jones |
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Davy Jones (born David Thomas Jones December 30, 1945) is an English actor and singer, best known as a member of The Monkees.
Jones was born in Manchester, England on December 30, 1945. He lost his mother to a protracted illness by the time he was 14. His father had hopes for him as a jockey, and just after his mother died, when Davy was 14 years old, his father sent him to live with Basil Foster to train. Basil was approached by a friend who worked in the theatre on the West End of London...
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| Emma Abbott |
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Emma Abbott (December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891), American opera singer, was born in Chicago, Illinois. She made her debut as a guitar player and singer in Peoria, Illinois in 1859. She met Clara Louise Kellogg, who encouraged her to study in New York. She studied in New York City under Achille Errani, Milan under Sangiovanni and Paris under Delle Sedie. She became a soprano at the Church of the Divine Paternity about 1870.
She had a fine soprano voice, and appeared first in opera in London...
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| Ertegün brothers | Topic |
Ahmet Ertegün (July 31,1923 – December 14, 2006) and Nesuhi Ertegün (November 26, 1917 – April 15,1989), were the Turkish-American executives of Atlantic Records. They also co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the North American Soccer League.
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| The Elephant Six Collective |
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The Elephant 6 Recording Company (or simply Elephant 6) is a collective of American musicians who spawned some of the most notable independent bands of the 1990s, including The Apples in Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Of Montreal.
The collective was officially founded in Denver, Colorado (but figuratively in Athens, Georgia) by childhood friends Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart, and Jeff Mangum. The four grew up making music and sharing cassette tapes...
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| Gregorio Allegri |
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Gregorio Allegri (1582 – February 17, 1652) was an Italian composer and priest of the Roman School of composers. He mainly lived in Rome, and died there.
He studied music under Giovanni Maria Nanini, the intimate friend of Palestrina. Being intended for the Church, he obtained a benefice in the cathedral of Fermo. Here he composed a large number of motet and other sacred music, which, being brought to the notice of Pope Urban VIII, obtained for him an appointment in the choir of the Sistine...
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Goodness were 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 Friel (drums). Akre, Friel, and Newcomb later joined Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Rick Friel to form the rock band The Rockfords.
Goodness recorded a version of "Electricity, Electricity" with Mike McCready using the pseudonym "Petster" on...
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| Girl group |
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A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singer who generally harmonize together. Girl groups are often backed by male musicians, and serve as front artists for behind-the-scenes songwriter and music producer. The term "girl group" is generally not applied to girl band, in which women play instruments as well as sing. Examples include The Supremes, Destiny's Child, Bananarama, The Spice Girls, TLC, and more recently the Sugababes, Danity Kane, The Pussy Cat Dolls, and...
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| Gilles Apap | Topic | Swing | Nice |
Gilles Apap (b. May 21 1963) is a violinist who plays gypsy music, swing, Irish music, and bluegrass music, as well as the masterpieces of classical music.
Born in Bougie, Algeria, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won the first prize in the contemporary music category at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. He released a CD with Sony Classical in 1996 called Gilles Apap & the Transylvanian Mountain Boys. He has worked as the concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Symphony in California. He...
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| Henri Chopin | Topic |
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, he created a large body of pioneering recordings using early tape recorders, studio technologies and the sounds of the manipulated human voice. His emphasis on sound is a reminder that language stems as much from oral traditions as from classic...
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| Jazz guitar | Topic |
The term jazz guitar refers to several aspects of the guitar as it is used in jazz and jazz fusion music. The term may refer to a type of guitar or to the variety of jazz playing styles (e.g. chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines) performed by guitarists in different jazz genres. These jazz guitar styles were developed by decades of influential jazz guitarists. The guitar has a long history in jazz music, both as an ensemble instrument performing chordal accompaniment, and as a solo...
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| Kejmanee Pichaironnarongsongkram | Topic |
Kejmanee Pichaironnarongsongkram (Thai: เก็จมณี พิชัยรณรงค์สงคราม), also known as Pin (born January 4, 1974) is an actress, model, and singer from Thailand, who is semi-popular in her native country.
In 1994, after graduating from Rangsit University, Pin joined the band Kidnappers. She released one CD with this band, which failed commercially, then moved to the United States for two years of postgraduate study. After returning to Thailand she pursued a career as a television actress, and had...
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| Keith Moon |
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Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained notoriety for his exuberant drumming style and his destructive lifestyle. Moon joined The Who in 1964, replacing Doug Sandom. He played on all albums from their debut, 1965's My Generation, to 1978's Who Are You, which was released two weeks before his death.
Moon is known for innovative, dramatic drumming, often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, extremely busy technique focused on...
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| Krzysztof Penderecki |
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Krzysztof Penderecki (, born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor of classical music.
After taking private composition lessons with Franciszek Skolyszewski, Penderecki studied music at Krakow University and the Academy of Music in Krakow under Artur Malawski and Stanislaw Wiechowicz. Having graduated in 1958, he took up a teaching post at the Academy. Penderecki's early works show the influence of Anton Webern and Pierre Boulez (he has also been influenced by Igor...
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| Lola Graham | Topic |
Lola Glenn Graham was born in Melbourne, Australia on September 23, 1918. She first came to public attention after winning a music competition at age six by playing the piano. In 1930 she was employed by Melbourne radio station 3?? and continued to work in radio for most of her life. She also worked extensively in live musical theatre as a band member and accompanist. Her repertoire included working with such artists as Barry Humphries. She married Fred Menhennitt on 23 February 1957 and had...
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| Louis St. Laurent |
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Louis Stephen St-Laurent (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent) , (February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was the twelfth Prime Minister of Canada from November 15, 1948, to June 21, 1957.
Louis St-Laurent was born in Compton, Quebec, a village in the Eastern Townships to Jean-Baptiste-Moïse Saint-Laurent, a French-Canadian, and Mary Anne Broderick, an Irish-Canadian. He grew up fluently bilingual. His English had a noticeable Irish brogue, while his gestures ...
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| Mack Sennett |
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Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an 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 Michael Sinnott in Richmond, in the province of Quebec, Canada Sennett was a son of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers; his father was a blacksmith in the small Eastern Townships village. At age 17 his family moved to Connecticut.
The family lived for a time in the...
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| Matteo Carcassi |
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Matteo Carcassi (Florence, Italy, 1792 - Paris, France, 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, gaining almost immediate success. In 1815, he was living in Paris, earning his living as a teacher of both the piano and the guitar. On a concert tour in Germany in 1819, he met his friend Antoine Meissonnier for...
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| Murat Ses | Topic |
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 music scene for decades.
He worked with several groups: Meteorlar (Meteors) (1966-1967), Silüetler (Shadows) (1967), Moğollar (Mongols) (1967-1972), Barış Manço and Kurtalan Ekspres (Express) (1973-1974), Edip Akbayram and Dostlar (Friends) (1974)...
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A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style or genre, different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform.
In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of instrument families (e.g., piano, strings, and winds) or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string...
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| Marietta Alboni | Topic |
Marietta Alboni (March 6 1826 – June 23 1894) was a contralto opera singer and pupil of Antonio Bagioli of Cesena Romagna, and later of Gioachino Rossini. She was born at Città di Castello, in the Umbria, and made her début at the age of 15 at Bologna as Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia, and her success led to an engagement at La Scala, Milan. In 1846-47 she sang in all the principal cities of Europe; in London, at Covent Garden, in rivalry with Jenny Lind, who was at Her Majesty's Theatre. She toured...
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