KAJ are a music and comedy group from Vörå in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The group is part of the Finland-Swedish cultural sphere and primarily performs in Swedish with lyrics in the Vörå dialect. The group consists of Kevin Holmström, Axel Åhman, and Jakob Norrgård, whose first name initials form the band’s name. KAJ’s music spans multiple […]
Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani also known as Viostel, was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks, conductor and pianist. Though not raised with a strong musical upbringing, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church’s organ. His priest gave Cipriani his first music lessons and encouraged the boy and his family. Cipriani attended the Santa […]
Game of Thrones
The music for the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones is composed by Ramin Djawadi. The music is primarily non-diegetic and instrumental with occasional vocal performances, and is created to support musically the characters and plots of the show. It features various themes, the most prominent being the “main title theme” that accompanies the series’ […]
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Concert Hall in Vienna on 11 February 1785, with the composer as the soloist. A few days after the first performance, the composer’s father, Leopold, visiting in Vienna, wrote […]
Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet’s opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era, African-American setting. Bizet’s opera was, in turn, based on […]
Ado
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 […]