The HU is a Mongolian folk metal band formed in 2016. With traditional Mongolian instrumentation, including the Morin Khuur, the Tovshuur, and Mongolian throat singing. the band calls their style of music “hunnu rock”, hu inspired by the Hunnu, an ancient Mongol/Turkic empire, known as Hünnü in Mongolia. Some of the band’s lyrics include old […]
Caterina Valente
Caterina Valente is a born Italian, naturalized French multilingual singer, guitarist and dancer. She speaks six languages and sings in eleven. Her brother—Italian musician, singer and film actor Silvio Francesco – performed with her, sang many duets, danced, and played the clarinet in the shadow of his famous sister. While she is best known as […]
Dance Crazes 3
I have decided to extend this theme to highlight both songs about dance crazes and those that were spawned in the 1970’s by the advent of disco. “Land of a Thousand Dances” (or “Land of 1000 Dances“) is a song written and first recorded by American rhythm and blues singer Chris Kenner in 1962. The […]
The 1960’s Dance Crazes 2
The Watusi is a solo dance that enjoyed brief popularity during the early 1960s. It was one of the most popular dance crazes of the 1960s in the United States. “Watusi” is a former name for the Tutsi people of Africa, whose traditions include spectacular dances. The naming of the American dance may have been […]
The 1960’s Dance Crazes
The Twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became a worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity while drawing controversies from critics who felt it was too provocative. Having seen teenagers in Tampa, Florida doing the dance, Hank Ballard wrote “The Twist”, which became […]
Anouska Shankar
Anoushka Shankar is a British-American sitar player and music artist. Shankar was born in London and her childhood was divided between London and Delhi. She is the daughter of Sukanya Shankar and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, who was 61 when she was born. Through her father, she is also the half-sister of American singer […]
Amy MacDonald
Amy Macdonald is a Scottish singer-songwriter. After being inspired by Travis at the T in the Park festival in 2000, she heard Travis’ song “Turn” and wanted to play it herself. She bought a Travis chord book, and started playing on her father’s guitar, teaching herself how to play at only 12 years old. Soon […]
Daði Freyr
Daði Freyr Pétursson known professionally as Daði Freyr or simply Daði, is an Icelandic musician living in Berlin. As the frontman of Daði & Gagnamagnið. Daði was born in Reykjavik but grew up in Denmark until the age of nine, then his family moved to Iceland and settled in the Southern Region, first in Laugaland […]
The Highwomen
The Highwomen is an American country music supergroup. In 2016, when Amanda Shires was finishing her record My Piece of Land in music producer Dave Cobb’s studio, Shires had an idea to create a female country supergroup in homage to the legendary Highwaymen country supergroup (consisting of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie […]
+eRa+
Era (styled as +eRa+) is a new age music project by French composer Eric Levi. Some of the lyrics were written by Guy Protheroe in an imaginary language similar to Latin, but deliberately devoid of any exact meaning. Musically, the project blends Gregorian chants with modern elements and genres, especially rock, pop and electronic music.They […]