Jane Mallory Birkin OBE who died yesterday was a British and French singer and actress. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema. A native of London, Birkin began her career as an actress, […]
Nova Twins
Nova Twins are an English rock duo formed in London, in 2014, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South. Love and South have been close friends since childhood and have played in bands that were often booked on the same bill. Both of them come from a mixed background; Love is of Iranian […]
Bala Desejo
Bala Desejo is a Brazilian musical group formed in Rio de Janeiro in 2020, during the Covid 19 pandemic, when musicians and former Escola Parque schoolmates Dora Morelenbaum, Julia Mestre, Lucas Nunes and Zé Ibarra (the latter two also members of the group Banda Dônica) decided to spend the quarantine together in an apartment in […]
Melanie Pain
Mélanie Pain is a French indie pop singer from Caen. Having relocated to Paris, she spends her days in a design agency and her nights singing for electro and pop music projects. It is with Villeneuve’s album that Mélanie found her right voice. Sweet and touching with a voice midway between Astrud Gilberto and Kim […]
Becky Hill
Rebecca Hill is an English singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence after appearing on the first series of The Voice UK, auditioning with John Legend’s Ordinary People. Judges Jesse J and will.i.am, the only coaches with an available space on their teams, turned around for her. She opted to join Jessie. In the battle […]
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
“I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate”, often simply “Sister Kate”, is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. Louis Armstrong claimed he had written the song and sold it for $10 he never received. Kate was a murdered brothel madame named Katie Townsend. Kid Ory […]
Juicy Lucy
Juicy Lucy was a British blues rock band officially formed in October 1969. After the demise of The Misunderstood, Juicy Lucy was formed by steel guitarist Glenn Ross Campbell, and prolific saxophonist Chris Mercer. The group later recruited vocalist Ray Owen, guitarist Neil Hubbard, bassist Keith Ellis, and drummer Pete Dobson. The band name was […]
ADG7
Ak Dan Gwang Chil (ADG7) was formed in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of National Liberation. “Gwang” means “national liberation” while “chil” (the number seven) refers to the 70th anniversary. A group of musicians from JeongGaAkHoe (a musical group that focuses on modernizing traditional Korean music) gathered together to form a band to find a […]
Harlem Nocturne
“Harlem Nocturne” is a jazz standard written by Earle Hagen (music) and Dick Rogers (lyrics) in 1939 for the Ray Noble orchestra, of which they were members. It was released by Noble and His Orchestra featuring Jack Dumont on Alto Sax. In its musical sojourn, “Harlem Nocturne” became one of those classic and timeless instrumentals […]
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris. Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a Sex Pistol concert. While Joy Division’s first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk, […]