Fatoumata Diawara is a Malian singer-songwriter currently living in France. Diawara was born in 1982 in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents. As an adolescent, she was sent back to their native Bamako in Mali to be raised by an aunt. When she was eighteen, Diawara moved to France to pursue acting. She briefly returned […]
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto who died at the end of March 2023, was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music […]
The Big Moon
The Big Moon are an English indie rock band, formed in 2014 in London by frontwoman Juliette Jackson. Their debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension, was released in April 2017, containing a number of singles previously released on their EP, The Road. The album was shortlisted for the prestigious Mercury Prize in 2017. They […]
Momoe Yamaguchi
Momoe Yamaguchi began a career in show business while she was still a student in junior high school. At the end of 1972, at the age of 13, Yamaguchi, along with many of her schoolmates, applied by postcard to appear on the idol talent search television show Star Tanjo!. After a series of successful preliminary […]
The Andrews Sisters
Today we are really travelling back in time. Looking through YouTube you will find that many modern groups will cover songs orginally made famous by the Andrews Sisters, so today we shall celebrate the originals. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie woogie eras. The group consisted […]
Cab Calloway
Cabell “Cab” Calloway III was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor. In 1927, Calloway joined his older sister, Blanche Calloway, on tour for the popular black musical revue Plantation Days. Calloway spent most of his nights at Chicago’s Dreamland Café, Sunset Cafe, and Club Berlin, performing as a singer, drummer, and master of […]
Wednesday (Jenna Ortega)
Wednesday is an American coming of age, supernatural comedy horror television series based on the character Wednesday Addams by Charles Addams. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, it stars Jenna Ortega as the titular character. Four out of the eight episodes are directed by Tim Burton, who also serves as executive producer. Wednesday premiered […]
Animal Songs – Monkey 3
We continue to ‘Monkey’ around with another collection of songs. “Monkey Man” is a song by the Rolling Stones, featured as the eighth track on their 1969 album ‘Let it Bleed’. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote “Monkey Man” as a tribute to Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whom they met on the set of […]
Animal Songs – Deer 2
A second visit to the world of the ‘Deer’ A collective noun for Deer is a ‘Bevy’ and so we bring you a Bevy of songs that celebrate this animal. “Deer” is the thirteenth single by the Bay Area collective Peach Tree Rascals released in June 2020 by Homemade Projects and 10K Projects. The song […]
Animal Songs – Elephant 2
Back to the world of the Pachyderm for another great collection of songs. This time our focus is on those who are children at heart. Nellie the Elephant” is a children’s song written in 1956 by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart about a fictional anthropomorphic elephant of that name. The original version, released in October […]