Author: Sweeperlutze

Maria Rosa Canelas better known as Rosinha de Valença, was a Brazilian composer, arranger and musician. She is considered one of the best acoustic guitarists in Brazilian music. She was born in 1941, in Valenca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She became interested in playing acoustic guitar as a child, after seeing her brother playing it. […]

Maria Muldaur is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. Muldaur was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, where she attended Hunter College High School. Muldaur cites as early musical influences classic country music, early rhythm and blues and doo-wop. Muldaur began […]

Spooky Tooth were an English rock band originally formed in Carlisle in 1967. Prior to Spooky Tooth, four of the band’s five founding members had performed in the band Art. Following the dissolution of Art, the members of that band’s final line-up (guitarist Luther Grosvenor, vocalist Mike Harrison, drummer Mike Kellie and bassist Greg Ridley) […]

Frumpy was a German progressive rock/krautrock band based in Hamburg, which was active between 1970–1972 and 1990–1995. All of the band members met as performers with Germany’s first folk rock band City Preacher, formed by Irishman John O’Brien-Docker in Hamburg in 1965. In 1968, the band had split, with O’Brien-Docker and several other members parting […]

Third World is a Jamaican reggae fusion band formed in 1973. Third World started when keyboard player Michael “Ibo” Cooper and guitarist (and cellist) Stephen “Cat” Coore who had originally played in The Alley Cats and then Inner Circle, subsequently left to form their own band along with Inner Circle singer Milton “Prilly” Hamilton. They […]

The Longest Johns are a British folk musical group from Bristol. They formed in June 2012 after first singing together at a friend’s barbecue. The original line up consisted of Josh Bowker, Andy Yates, Jonathan Darley and Dave Robinson. About a week later, they posted their first video on YouTube, singing “Haul Away Joe.” The […]

Visage were a British synth pop band formed in London in 1978. The band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s. Founding members Midge Ure and Rusty Egan started working on Visage to produce music to play at the clubs Egan was DJing at. Egan alongside Steve Strange […]

Lovebites (stylised as LOVEBITES) was formed in Tokyo in 2016 by bassist Miho and drummer Haruna. The two met while members of Destrose, another all-female metal band that disbanded in 2015. After recruiting guitarist Midori and support guitarist and keyboardist Miyako, the four chose vocalist Asami based on a demo she made. During one rehearsal, […]

Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer and songwriter. Jansen was sixteen when she joined Apocalypse (later known as After Forever) in 1997 as their lead vocalist. Three years later the band released its first album, Prison of Desire. She co-wrote the band’s words and music with Mark Jansen (no relation) until he left in 2002, […]

The Levellers are an English folk rock and Anarcho-punk band formed in Brighton in 1988, with Mark Chadwick on guitar and lead vocals, Jeremy Cunningham on bass guitar, and Charlie Heather on drums. Jon Sevink, the brother of Chadwick’s girlfriend, was brought in to play the fiddle. Their first EP, Carry Me, was released in […]