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Roberto Cacciapaglia was born in Milan, Italy. He received his degree in music composition from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, under the direction of Bruno Bettinelli. While at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi he also studied orchestra direction and electronic music.

Roberto Vecchioni (born June 25, 1943) is an Italian singer-songwriter and writer. Biography. Vecchioni was born in Carate Brianza, province of Milan, to a family of Neapolitan origin. In 1968 he graduated in Ancient Literatures at the Università Cattolica of Milan, where he remained for two years as assistant lecturer of History of Religions.

Jay-Z said he was inspired by the power of Kuti's work and his life story, which resulted in his interest to help produce the musical. Fela! is a story about an African pioneer and political activist who made his first moves on the scene during the 1970s. Jay-Z performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2010.

Her artistic debut was at the San Remo festival in 1995, and since then, she's been participating in that festival with different results. The same 1995 won in the cathegory of "Sanremo Giovani" with Loredana Berte's song Sei Bellissima; in 1996 won in the cathegory of "Giovani", this time with the track Non ci sto and she recorded her first album.

Arca uses warm electronic sounds, mixed with organic instruments and rainy guitars to draw melancholic landscapes. 3) Arca (or ArcA) is a Chilean musical project initially created by Camilo Lillo. Working with Luis Araneda, an old friend of his, in another musical project, Camilo decided to invite Luis as vocalist and lyricist on the "ArcA ...

CapaRezza is the pseudonym of Michele Salvemini, an Italian singer originating in Apulia, Italy (born in Molfetta, October 9th, 1973). CapaRezza lyrics criticize society with a pungent irony in contexts that are sometimes fantastic and unreal. At first CapaRezza may seem nonsensical because he uses many strange metaphors, and above all, since he has disowned the mainstream of hip-hop, he ...

Hi-Rez, is a 17 year old upcoming rapper, located in Fort Lauderdale, FL and has been establishing a large fan base in the thousands very quickly. Hi-Rez has done collaborations with artist from across the country and opened up for some of the most talented local artist in South Florida.

Alessandro Lindblad (born July 7, 1991 in Stockholm, Sweden), commonly known by his stage name Alesso, is a Swedish DJ and electronic dance music producer. He has worked with numerous EDM (and other) artists, including Avicii, OneRepublic, Calvin Harris, Usher, David Guetta, and Sebastian Ingrosso.He has also performed at numerous music festivals, including Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival ...

Alessandro Mahmoud (born 12 September 1992 in Milan), known by the stage name Mahmood, is an Italian singer-songwriter.His mother is Italian while his father is Egyptian. He won the 2019 Sanremo Music Festival on 9 February 2019 with the song "Soldi".

Sofía Daccarett Char, better known as Sofia Carson (born April 10, 1993), is an American singer and actress. Her first appearance on television was as a guest star on the Disney Channel show, Austin & Ally. In July 2015, she appeared as Evie, one of the main characters in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Disney's Descendants.

Keyboardist Weldon Irvine looms large in the pantheon of jazz-funk, profoundly influencing the subsequent generations of hip-hop artists for whom he served as collaborator and mentor. Born in Hampton, VA, on October 27, 1943, Irvine was raised by his grandparents in the wake of his parents' divorce, and while his grandmother played standup bass in a series of regional classical ensembles, her ...

A contemporary of Janis Joplin, Genya Ravan & her band Ten Wheel Drive often appeared on the same bill as Janis. Genya embarked upon a solo recording career in 1972 & released five albums between 1972 & 1979: "Genya Ravan" (1972), "They Love Me, They Love Me Not" (1973), "Goldie Zelkowitz" (1974), "Urban Desire" (1978) & "…And I Mean It!"

Michael Franks (born 18 September 1944 in La Jolla, California, USA) is a smooth jazz singer and songwriter from the United States. He has recorded with a variety of well-known artists, such as Patti Austin, Brenda Russell, Art Garfunkel, and David Sanborn.His songs have been recorded by The Manhattan Transfer, Patti Labelle, Carmen McRae, Diana Krall, Shirley Bassey and the Carpenters.

Brian was born November 12, 1943, in Brooklyn/Queens, New York City, where his first musical experience ranged from church choir at nine, to clarinet and guitar, to his first local harmony group, the Delfis.

# Tommy Tucker (Robert Higginbotham, March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) was an American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and peaked at #23 in the UK Singles Chart.

Antonello Venditti was born in Rome, the son of a police commissary. He studied piano in his youth and made his debut in the music world in the early 1970s at the Folkstudio of Rome, together with singers the like of Francesco De Gregori and Giorgio Lo Cascio.

Rina Sawayama (born 16 August 1990 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese-British London-based singer, songwriter, producer and model. Born and raised in Japan until moving to the UK at the age of 5, Rina would go on to study politics at Cambridge University.

Brenda Fassie (November 3, 1964 – May 9, 2004), was a legendary South African pop singer and widely considered the voice for disenfranchised blacks during apartheid. She was affectionately known as the Queen of African Pop. Brenda was born in Langa, Cape Town as the youngest of 9 children. She was named after Brenda Lee, an American country ...

Artemios Roussos was born on June 15, 1946 in Alexandria, Egypt, and died on January 25, 2015 in Athens, Greece. As George and Olga’s first son, he was of Greek extraction.

Eugene Rousseau (born 23 August 1932 in Blue Island, Illinois) is an American classical saxophonist. He plays mainly the alto and soprano saxophones. He studied at the Paris conservatory on a Fulbright grant with Marcel Mule in 1962.

It is fitting that composer and pianist Fabrizio Paterlini was born and lives in the ancient northern Italian city of Mantua, Lombardy. A romantic and historically significant centre of musical and artistic excellence, the city’s elegance and cultural depth permeate Paterlini’s exquisite original solo piano compositions.

Gustav Holst (born September 21, 1874 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK - died May 25, 1934) was an English composer and a music teacher for over 20 years.

Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (Turin, 23 November 1921 - Rome, 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in late 1950s. His public persona - the character he played both in his songs and his movies - was a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women. His great passion for music showed up at a very young age.

Edoardo Vianello è un cantautore italiano, nato a Roma, 24 giugno 1938. Il 22 aprile del 1956 Edoardo Vianello si esibisce in pubblico per la prima volta, in occasione di uno spettacolo allestito dagli alunni dell’Istituto di ragioneria Leonardo da Vinci, al “Teatro Olimpico” di Roma, che si chiamava ancora “Teatro Flaminio”.

Robert W. Smith is an American composer, arranger, and teacher. He was born in the small town of Daleville, Alabama in 1958 . He attended high school in Daleville, after which he left for Troy State University, where he played lead trumpet in the Sound of the South Marching Band.

Read Francesco Cilea's bio and find out more about Francesco Cilea's songs, albums, and chart history. Get recommendations for other artists you'll love.

Arthur Arshawsky (23 May 1910 – 30 December 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an accomplished jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and author. He was born in New York City (but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut) and began learning the saxophone when he was 15 and by age 16, had begun to tour with a band.

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (1743–1805) was a classical-era composer and cellist from Italy.. Boccherini was born on the 19th February 1743 in Lucca, Italy, to a musical family. His father, a cellist and double bass player, sent Luigi to study in Rome in 1757 and, after various concert tours, in 1769 his talents brought him to the Spanish court in Madrid, where he was employed by Don Luis, the ...

King Malachi Street (October 21, 1935 – October 21, 1978), commonly known as Mel Street, was an American country music singer. Street was born in Grundy, Virginia to a coal mining family. Publications cite his year of birth as 1933, although his family maintains that he was born in 1935.

Su Madre era trabajadora Social del New York City Welfare Department, y su hermana estudiante universitaria. Markolino siempre hablaba de su padre. Decía que era un negro cubano de apellido Dimond, pero ninguno de sus compañeros y amigos de la época lo conoció. Mark estudió algo de música siendo un niño, pero principalmente era autodidacta.

From Marco Frisina's Web Page. Marco Frisina was born in Rome on December 16th 1954. He got a diploma in Composition in 1979 at “Santa Cecilia”'s Conservatoire, and he also took an Arts degree at “La Sapienza” University in Rome in 1983.

Luigi Tenco (March 21, 1938 – January 27, 1967) was a popular Italian singer, songwriter and actor. He committed suicide (there are of course the usual conspiracy theories) the night he and Dalida, the famous Italian-Egyptian singer, who was also his partner, were eliminated from the prestigious (at the time) San Remo Festival, when the song "Ciao amore ciao" didn't make it to the final.

Her fourth CD, the live album Stages (2010), was met with critical praise, including being named as an Editor’s Pick at CD Baby and “best live album of the year” at Wildy’s World. After Dark followed in 2010, with the Loren original Thirsty winning the Independent Music Awards’ Vox Pop poll for best jazz song of the year.

Alan Sorrenti was born on 1950 in Naples, Italy, and is an italian singer, very popular in Italy for some popular songs. Actually, he started as an experimental progressive rock performer, releasing two great albums Called "Aria" (1972) and "Come un vecchio incensiere all'alba di un villaggio deserto" (1973), where he showed extraordinary vocal abilities.

Jacek Kaczmarski (March 22, 1957, Warsaw - April 10, 2004, Gdańsk) was a Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author. Kaczmarski was considered by many to be the voice of the anti-communist Solidarity movement in the 1980s, for his commitment to a free Poland, independent of Soviet rule.

Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music."

Luigi Arditi (1822-1903) was an Italian violinist, composer, and conductor.. Arditi was born in Crescentino, Piemonte, on 22nd July 1822. He began his musical career as a violinist, and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan.

Iris DeMent (born 5 January 1961 in Paragould, Arkansas, USA) is a Grammy-nominated American country/folk singer and songwriter. As well as recording a series of successful solo albums, DeMent has sung duets with artists such as Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris and has featured on the albums of many other performers. In October 2012, she released "Sing the Delta", her first album of original ...

In December 2007, Di Stefano was flown to the San Raffaele clinic at Milan, where he slipped into a coma. He died in his home in Santa Maria Hoè near Milan on 3 March 2008, aged 86. Version 6, edited by uglyfat on 12 May 2011, 3:17pm

JIA PENG FANG (Chinese name:贾鹏芳 Traditional Chinese name:l賈鵬芳) was born in the year 1958 in the town Jams in the Helong Jiang Province of China, and got his first Erhu at the age of eight in 1965 - the year that marked the start of the Cultural Revolution. Jams, a town about thirty hours by train from Beijing, situated close to the Russian border, was not excluded from the ravages ...

Joni Eareckson Tada is the author of over 35 books. Her best-selling and award-winning works cover topics ranging from disability outreach to reaching out to God and include: A Christmas Longing depicting her best-loved Christmas paintings; Life and Death Dilemma addressing the tough issues of physician-assisted suicide.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (b. 3 February 1525 – 2 February 1526; d. 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer and the most well-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina became famous through his output of sacred music.

I Peawees pubblicano un paio di singoli in vinile per altrettante etichette inglesi e, con la rinnovata formazione, volano nel Regno Unito per un tour di 13 date che permette al gruppo di conquistare nuovi fan al di fuori dei confini nazionali.

CROMA LATINA is band born in Italy in the renound Adriatic Rivera city of Cattolica. Their store started 10 years ago following a holiday on the Caribbean Island of Cuba where life follows the rhythm of music and dancing.

Scuola che verrà costruita e inaugurata a Maggio con la presenza alla cerimonia degli stessi Pooh. Sempre a Maggio prende corpo il progetto "Cuore Azzurro": la Figc chiede ai Pooh di comporre l'inno ufficiale della Nazionale Italiana di Calcio.

Snail Mail is the American indie rock solo project of guitarist and singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan. In 2015, she started playing her songs live with her band and released the EP Habit in 2016. Snail Mail's debut studio album, Lush, was released on June 8, 2018. Snail Mail's music is heavily guitar-inspired.

Kirlian Camera was founded by the keyboardist/vocalist Angelo Bergamini in Parma, Italy in Spring 1980. The band really was born in 1979, called Suicide Commando, but this name was dropped for the existence of a namesake band.

Later on in Italy will carry in tour in the more important Italian clubs (Mercati Generali-MI, Boa Goa-GE, Link-BO, Brancaleone-Rome) for two times with with in Deejays di Karminsky Experience and with the singer showman Count Indigo a show set up to the English way of the Lounge clubs and will call it "London Cocktail Party".

Songs: Ohia was largely a solo project for singer-songwriter Jason Molina (December 30, 1973 – March 16, 2013). Critics and fans alike have found considerable difficulty in trying to define the band's sound, usually settling on more general labels such as indie rock and folk-rock.Most are quick to draw comparisons to Neil Young and Will Oldham, (the latter of which Molina has collaborated ...

Richard Elfman founded the theatrical troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.In 1978 the remnants of the Mystic Knights formed together under lead singer Danny Elfman as the band Oingo Boingo. The hyperkinetic ska-flavored New Wave band is characterized by their manic live performances and eclectic range of songs; Elfman and the band performed for a remarkable twenty years.

The Grass Roots is an American pop and rock band that began as the studio based brainchild of songwriting duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, yet soon an actual group came into being that was one of the biggest touring bands of the late 60s.

The result, Fresh Aire, was released in 1975 under the pseudonym Mannheim Steamroller, in the hopes of the album being a best seller. Fresh Aire II was subsequently released in 1977 and Fresh Aire III was released in 1979. Mannheim Steamroller quickly grew into a full band, with Davis on drums, Berkey on keyboards, and Eric Hansen on bass and lute.

The Bay City Rollers received their first break when prominent record executive Dick Leahy caught their act by chance in an Edinburgh club. After signing with Leahy's Bell Records, the band's first hit was "Keep on Dancing" (UK #9, 1971), a cover of a 1965 Gentrys hit, recorded at the suggestion of pop impresario and producer Jonathan King.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a funk rock band based in Hollywood, California and were formed in 1983, in Los Angeles, California. The band currently consists of founding members Anthony Kiedis (vocals) and Michael "Flea" Balzary (bass) along with a longtime member Chad Smith (drums). Guitarist John Frusciante quietly left the band on good terms in late 2008.

Il Balletto di Bronzo is an Italian progressive rock band mainly active in the early 1970s. Their 1972 album, Ys, is considered one of the best of the era. The group was founded in Napoli, Italy in 1969 and was first composed of Lino Ajello (guitar), Vito Manzari (keyboards) and Gianchi Stringa (drums).

ABBA are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982.

Emmi is the name of more than one artist: 1) British / Australian singer and songwriter Emmi 2) Finnish singer-songwriter Emmi. 1) British / Australian Emmi is the singer of Blind Pig in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.Official Website & Official Youtube Channel. Her singles are:

Shingo NAKAMURA was born in 1986. He started to compose music in 2002, at the age of 16. In 2004, he started to distribute his original songs, in the name of "mek", at "Muzie", a music distribution site for indies.

Ivri's single, "Jesse," was one of thousands of entries received from across the world, and Ivri was the only non-American artist chosen to appear on the CD. The video for "Jesse," which was filmed in Northern Tel Aviv, has received widespread buzz in the blogosphere, even prompting Perez Hilton to post the video on his website and call it ...

With Ama Lou's impressive, expressive lyricism and her edgy aesthetic and creative genius when it comes to her music visuals. She has certainly bought her own stonework along, and is paving her own way to become one of the most inspirational and fundamental artists around.