Camille Dalmais, better known by her mononym Camille, is a French singer, songwriter and occasional actress. She was born and raised in Paris. As a teenager, she studied ballet and developed an interest in bossa nova music and American stage musicals. She attended the prestigious Lycee International de Saint Germain-en-Laye, where she obtained her baccalaureate […]
This Is Soul
As a teenager I used to play table tennis in the basement of a house in Cheltenham and as we practiced for our youth league games, we would listen to music. Unfortunately we only had one LP. That LP was called ‘This Is Soul’ and we played it to extinction. It from this time that […]
Kyrie Eleison
Kyrie, is a transliteration of the Greek Κύριε, the vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison (ancient Greek: Κύριε, ἐλέησον, –. ‘Lord, have mercy’). The phrase Kýrie, eléison (Greek: Κύριε, ἐλέησον), or one of its equivalents in other languages, is one of […]
The Cardigans
The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in Jonkoping, Sweden, in 1992 by guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead singer Nina Persson. Living together in a small apartment, The Cardigans recorded a demo tape with Persson providing lead vocals on only one of the songs towards […]
In The Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. They have exerted a strong influence both on the early 1970s progressive rock movement and on more recent rock and experimental artists. Although the band has consistently undergone changes in personnel throughout its history, guitarist and primary composer Robert Fripp, the only […]
Anime Day
Anime is hand drawn and computer animation originating from Japan. In Japan and in Japanese, anime (a term derived from the English word animation) describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. However, outside of Japan and in English, anime is colloquial for Japanese animation and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. Animation […]
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical comedy-drama miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), an aspiring supervillain; Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), his superheroic nemesis; and Penny (Felicia Day), a charity worker and […]
Alice Merton
Alice Merton is a German-Canadian-British singer and songwriter. Merton was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a German mother and an Irish-born father. Merton’s family moved frequently due to her father’s job as a mining consultant.] When she was three months old, Merton moved to Connecticut. Shortly thereafter, they relocated to Oakville, Canada where she was […]
Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven” is a song by the English band Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. The song originated in 1970 when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were spending time at Bron-Yr-Aur, a remote cottage in Wales, following Led Zeppelin’s fifth American tour. According to Page, he wrote the music “over a long period, the […]
Oh Happy Day
‘Oh Happy Day’ began as a hymn written in the mid-18th century (“O happy day, that fixed my choice”) by English clergyman Philip Doddridge (based on Acts 8:35) set to an earlier melody (1704) by J.A. Freylinghausen. By the mid-19th century it had been given a new melody by Edward Rimbault, who also added a […]