Swing Girls is a Japanese 2004 teen comedy film directed and co-written by Shinobu Yaguchi. The plot follows a group of inept high school girls who form a big band. The cast includes Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya and Yukari Toyashima. The film ranked 8th at the Japanese box office in 2004, […]
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. She was raised in Rio de Janeiro. Her father was a language professor, and she became fluent in several languages. She immigrated to the United States in 1963 and settled there permanently. Astrud sang on two tracks on the 1963 album Getz/Gilberto with […]
Edwin Starr
Charles Edwin Hatcher, known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American singer and songwriter. In 1957, Hatcher formed a doo-wop group, the Future Tones, and began his singing career. However after just one single, he was called up for military service in the United States Army for three years, where he was posted […]
Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. A native of Athens, Georgia, Peyroux grew up in New York and California. In interviews, she has called her parents “hippies” and “eccentric educators” who helped her pursue a career in music. As a […]
Old Time Sailors
Old Time Sailors is a flashmob musical show designed to take the audience back in time through an unforgettable trip to the 19th century. Every member of the audience receives a copy of the Sunday Sailor, their own newspaper shaped program which includes the lyrics to all the songs and dance moves to the jigs […]
TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI
TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI is a female groove band formed in 2018 in Tokyo by three Japanese session musicians, Emi Kanazashi (keyboard and vocals), Juna Serita (bass and vocals) and Yuriko Seki (drums, chorus and composer). Their producer got opportunity to live in NY for eight years in 1980s and 2010s, and he went to around […]
Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin OBE who died yesterday was a British and French singer and actress. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema. A native of London, Birkin began her career as an actress, […]
Nova Twins
Nova Twins are an English rock duo formed in London, in 2014, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South. Love and South have been close friends since childhood and have played in bands that were often booked on the same bill. Both of them come from a mixed background; Love is of Iranian […]
Bala Desejo
Bala Desejo is a Brazilian musical group formed in Rio de Janeiro in 2020, during the Covid 19 pandemic, when musicians and former Escola Parque schoolmates Dora Morelenbaum, Julia Mestre, Lucas Nunes and Zé Ibarra (the latter two also members of the group Banda Dônica) decided to spend the quarantine together in an apartment in […]
Melanie Pain
Mélanie Pain is a French indie pop singer from Caen. Having relocated to Paris, she spends her days in a design agency and her nights singing for electro and pop music projects. It is with Villeneuve’s album that Mélanie found her right voice. Sweet and touching with a voice midway between Astrud Gilberto and Kim […]