Christopher Comstock, known professionally as Marshmello, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He has an image of masking himself with a white bucket. He released his debut studio album Joytime, consisting of 10 songs, via his label Joytime Collective in January 2016. One single was released from the album, titled “Keep It Mello”, […]
Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. In 1999, she won a radio contest to perform with the Canadian singer Shania Twain at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, before an audience of 20,000 people. Twain and Lavigne sang Twain’s song, “What Made You Say That”, and shee told Twain that she was going […]
Free
The most remarkable about the birth of Free was the youth of the band members who came together to rehearse and play their first gig on the evening of 19 April 1968 at the Nag’s Head pub, which was at the junction of York Road and Plough Road in Battersea. Bass player Andy Fraser was […]
10cc
10cc are an English band formed in Stockport in 1972. It initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme – who had written and recorded together since 1968. The group featured two songwriting teams. Stewart and Gouldman were predominantly pop songwriters, who created most of the band’s accessible […]
Singing Nuns
This has become something of a phenomenon since the first nun picked up a guitar and had a hit record with Dominique in 1963, although it hasn’t always ended well. Jeanne-Paule Marie “Jeannine” Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire (”Sister Smile”) and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and […]
Angele
Angèle Van Laeken, better known by her stage name Angèle, is a Belgian singer-songwriter, musician, pianist, record producer and actress. She was born on in Uccle, Brussels. Angèle is the daughter of the singer Marka and of the actress Laurence Bibot. Her brother is the rapper Romeo Elvis. Her father encouraged her from an early […]
Jake Thackray
John “Jake” Thackray was an English singer-songwriter, poet and journalist. He was born in Leeds, and was educated at the Jesuit St. Michael’s College, and a Jesuit boarding school in Dolgellau, north-west Wales, and considered joining the priesthood, but instead chose to study Modern Languages at Durham University. After graduation he spent four years teaching […]
Rebecca Clarke
Rebecca Clarke was a British-American classical composer and violinist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players. Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started on violin after sitting in on lessons that were being given to her brother, Hans who was 15 months her […]
L.E.J.
L.E.J, short for Lucie, Élisa and Juliette, sometimes Elijay, is a French band composed of three women from Saint Denis, a city in Paris’ suburbs. All three members were born in 1993: They are childhood friends and have known each other since they were toddlers. Their passion has always been music: Juliette studied cello at […]
Benny Goodman
Goodman was the ninth of twelve children born to poor Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. His father, David Goodman, came to the United States in 1892 from Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor. His mother, Dora Grisinsky, came from Kovno. They met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Goodman’s birth. […]