Ado is a Japanese singer. In 2014, Ado took an interest in music after software for the video-sharing website Niconico was released on the Nintendo 3DS. She began watching videos on the small screen of the handheld game console, and was impressed by cover singers on Niconico who sang without showing their faces. In 2017, […]
Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth was an English singer and actress known for her scat singing. She was the wife of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec Dankworth and singer Jacqui Dankworth. Laine was born Clementine Dinah Hitching on 28 October 1927, in Southall, Middlesex. Her father, Alexander […]
The Lambeth Walk
“The Lambeth Walk” is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The song takes its name from a local street, Lambeth Walk, once notable for its street market and working-class culture in Lambeth, an area of […]
FLOW
FLOW is a Japanese rock band formed in 1998 as a five-piece band made up of two vocalists, a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer. The group began in 1993 when brothers Kōshi (elder: vocals, rhythm guitar) and Take (younger: lead guitar) began playing together. They formed Flow in 1998, and by 2000, were joined […]
Hymne à L’amour
“Hymne à l’amour” is a 1949 French song with lyrics by Édith Piaf and music by Marguerite Monnot. It was first sung by Piaf that year and recorded by her in 1950 for Columbia records. It was written to Piaf’s lover and the love of her life, the French boxer, Marcel Cerdan. On 28 October […]
Blue Velvet
“Blue Velvet” is a song recorded by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo for her thirteenth studio album, I’m Not. It was released by Pony Canyon as the album’s leading single in May 1997. It served as the third ending theme song to the Fuji Television anime series Dragon Ball GT, from episode 42 to episode 50. […]
Let’s Jump The Broomstick
“Let’s Jump the Broomstick” is a song written by Charles Robins and performed first by a black Nashville group, Alvin Gaines & The Themes, in 1959, then covered that year by Brenda Lee. Her version of Let’s Jump The Broomstick” originally released on Decca Records, reached No.12 in the United Kingdom in 1961. The song […]
Non Più Andrai
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has composed more than 600 operas, concertos, masses, dances, arias, Singspiele and so on, and many have interesting stories behind them. The aria with the most stories and myths, however is Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso, the famous finale of the first act of Le Nozze di Figaro (K.492/1786). It is usually […]
Florrie Forde
Florrie Forde was an Australian-born British vaudevillian performer and popular singer, notable in music hall and pantomime. From 1897 she lived and worked in the United Kingdom, where she found her greatest success, as one of the most popular stars of the early 20th century as a music hall entertainer and recording artist. Forde was […]
Lily Morris
Lily Morris was an English music hall performer, who specialised in singing comedic songs. She was born in the Holborn area of London, the daughter of Maurice Crosby, a cigar maker and amateur songwriter. He directed her early career, which started in music halls in 1894, when she was 11 years old. Her first successful […]