“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” is a song written by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott and Sol Marcus. Composer and arranger Horace Ott came up with the melody and chorus lyrics after a temporary falling out with his girlfriend (and wife-to-be), Gloria Caldwell. Ott then brought it to writing partners Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus to […]
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theatre. He recorded pithy and humorous, often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. Lehrer was considered a child prodigy and skipped two […]
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, […]
Epica
Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen after his departure from After Forever. Their former guitarist Ad Sluijter described the band as “a bridge between power metal and gothic metal.” Vocalist Simone Simons has expressed a preference for the group to be described as symphonic metal, although the […]
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 […]
Myrkur
Myrkur is a solo black metal project by Danish singer Amalie Bruun. Initially, the real-life identity of the person behind the project was kept unknown. Her identity has since been made public. Myrkur has released four full-length studio albums to significant critical acclaim, as well as a live album and two EP. Her most recent […]
Bach – Violin Concerto in A Minor
The Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, is a violin concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach. It shows the influence of Italian composers such as Bach’s older contemporary Vivaldi. Bach is known to have studied Vivaldi’s music from around 1714 when he was working at Weimar. Italian influence can be seen in keyboard music he […]
Beabadoobee
Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus, known professionally as Beabadoobee, is a Filipino-British singer-songwriter. Laus was born in Iloilo City in the Philippines in June 2000 and moved to the United Kingdom with her parents at the age of three. She grew up in West London listening to original Pinoy music as well as pop and rock […]
Glamorous Sky
“Glamorous Sky” is Mika Nakashima’s 16th single overall, her 1st under the name Nana starring Mika Nakashima, and the second most successful single in her career after “Stars”. Released in 2005, it is her first rock song and it was used as one of the image songs for the film Nana (as one of the […]
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope are an English psychedelic rock band from London that originally were active between 1967 and 1970. The band’s songs combined the elements of psychedelia with whimsical lyrics. The band were also known at various times as The Sidekicks, The Key, I Luv Wight and Fairfield Parlour. Having performed since 1963 under the name The […]