“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” is a song written by Norman Whitefield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. Barrett Strong had the basics of a song he had started to write in Chicago, where the idea had come to him while walking down Michigan Avenue that people were always saying “I heard […]
Lenka
Lenka Eden Kripac is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress best known for her song “The Show”, from her debut album, Lenka. The daughter of Czechoslovak jazz trumpet musician Jiří Křipač and Eden, an Australian schoolteacher, Lenka was raised in the Australian coastal town of Bega until age seven, when her family moved to Sydney. There […]
Serenade
A Serenade in its oldest usage, which survives in informal form to the present day, is a musical greeting performed for a lover, friend, person of rank or other person to be honoured. The classic usage would be from a lover to his lady love through a window. It was considered an evening piece, one […]
Vivian Ellis
Vivian Ellis, was an English musical comedy composer. Ellis was born in Hampstead, London in 1903 and educated at Cheltenham College. He began a musical career as a concert pianist, but became a composer and lyricist. His grandmother, Julia Woolf, had also been a concert pianist as well as composing an opera, Carina. He had […]
Caro Emerald
Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw, known for the music project Caro Emerald, and latterly The Jordan is a Dutch pop and jazz singer who mainly performs in English. She started singing lessons at age 12 with James Gilloffo in Amsterdam and joined a girl vocal group, Les Elles, under his guidance. Following high school, she […]
Michael and MIchelle
It took a single evening for Michael Fox and Michelle Dockery to bond over a shared passion. What started as a casual jam – in between shooting scenes and encouraged by a friend – quickly turned into something distinct. Something special. Until then, Fox and Dockery had been preoccupied by various professional distractions – most […]
Solstice
Solstice are a UK progressive band fusing elements of rock, folk, funk, jazz and blues. Their story began in the legendary Marquee Club in London’s Wardour Street has, with many a twist and turn along the way, finally arrived at the chapter journalist, Martin Kietly, describes as “Solstice becoming the band it was always meant […]
Slip Jigs
The Slip Jig refers to both a style within Irish music, and the Irish dance to music in slip-jig time originating from England. The slip jig is in 98 time, traditionally with accents on 5 of the 9 beats — two pairs of crotchet/quaver (quarter note/eighth note) followed by a dotted crotchet note. The slip […]
Hornpipe
The Hornpipe is any of several dance forms played and danced in Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day. The earliest references to hornpipes are from England, with Hugh Aston’s Hornepype of 1522 and others referring to Lancashire hornpipes in 1609 and 1613. It is suggested that the hornpipe […]
Missing Persons
Missing Persons is an American rock band founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio (née Consalvi), and drummer Terry Bozzio. They later added bassist Patrick O’Hearn and keyboardist Chuck Wild. Dale and Terry Bozzio met while working with Frank Zappa, and they married in 1979. Cuccurullo encountered the pair […]