Canzetta Maria “Candi” Staton is an American singer–songwriter. Born in Hanceville, Alabama, Staton and her sister Maggie were sent to Nashville around the age 11 or 12 for school. While attending Jewell Christian Academy, Staton’s vocal abilities were soon noticed by her peers and the school’s pastor. Amazed by her voice, the pastor paired Staton […]
Susanne Sundfør
Susanne Aartun Sundfør is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Haugesund. In 2006, she joined Norwegian band Madrugada on tour, performing their song “Lift Me”, a duet the band originally recorded in the studio with singer Ane Brun. In November 2006 she released her debut single “Walls”, which would climb to […]
Vaughan Williams – Easter (Five Mystical Songs)
The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. The work sets four poems (“Easter” divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems. While Herbert was a priest, Vaughan Williams […]
Recessit Pastor Noster (Our Shepherd Has Departed)
Recessit Pastor Noster – today’s piece, written for a Tenebrae service for Holy Saturday, mourns the death of the Good Shepherd who has laid down his life for his sheep. After the sorrow of the Cross, the Church enters into the silence of Holy Saturday. On Holy Saturday the Church waits at the Lord’s tomb […]
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the “Lamb of God” is honoured within Christian liturgies descending from the historic Latin liturgical tradition, including those of Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. It is the name given to a specific prayer that occurs in these liturgies, and is the name given to the music pieces […]
Tavares
Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R&B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. They started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was nine years old. Future Aerosmoth drummer Joey Kramer appeared as the drummer with the group in a later […]
Belgrado
Belgrado are Patrycja Proniewska (vocals), Jonathan Sirit (drum machine & synthesizer), Fernando Marquez (guitar & synthesizer), Louis Harding (bass).Formed in 2010, Barcelona-based outfit has existed at the innovative forefront of the global post-punk scene. Now in their ninth year, the quartet continues to play at home and abroad, carrying with them a reputation built on […]
Wendy & Lisa
Wendy & Lisa (briefly known as Girl Bros.) are a music duo consisting of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. They began working with Prince in the early 1980s and were part of his band the Revolution. In interviews in 1986, the two reported they felt they were not getting the recognition and credit they deserved […]
Boum
“Boum!” (similar to “boom” in English) is a popular 1938 song by the French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet which won him the Grand Prix Du Disque. It was one of several songs that Trenet wrote for the film La Route enchantée, for which he also wrote the screenplay and played the leading role. The film was […]
Mary Ocher
Mary Ocher is a recording artist, performer, poet, director and visual artist. An only child to a voice and puppet theater actor (of the Obraztsov theater) father and an unemployed engineer mother, both of Jewish/Ukrainian descent. Her family immigrated to Israel in 1991 at the height of the Gulf War, first to a kibbutz in […]