Brigitte Bardot often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French animal rights activist and former actress, singer, and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters, often with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, […]
Pon Jantapon
Pon Jantapon is a well-known Thai artist working under the Pordeemuan Studio. She was a member of the project group SODA5. She made her solo debut on February 2017 with the digital single “Poo Neep E-Pi”. It gave her, her highest charting position at No.3. Pon Jantapon’s song have spent spent 5 weeks in the […]
The Band Perry
The Band Perry were an American band composed of siblings Kimberley Perry (lead vocals, guitar), Reid Perry (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Neil Perry (mandolin, bouzouki, backing vocals). Kimberly sang in her own band as a teenager with her brothers Neil and Reid working as roadies. At ages 8 and 10, the brothers began performing […]
Lily Chao
While the title makes you think otherwise, something about the portrait of Taiwanese singer Lily Chao on the cover of Chinese Folk Songs tells you that this is not exactly an album of folk music. Maybe it’s the silky pink dress; maybe it’s the look on her face, big eyes gazing upward as she poses […]
Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin Adderley was born in September 1928, in Tampa, Florida. His elementary school classmates called him “cannonball” (i.e., “cannibal”) after his voracious appetite. He was a jazz alto saxophone of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during […]
Sandie Shaw
Sandie Shaw MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich) is a retired English pop singer and is one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s. On leaving school, she worked at the nearby Ford Dagenham factory, and did some part-time modelling before coming second as a singer in a local talent contest. As a […]
Riit
Riit was born Rita Claire Mike-Murphy in 1996 in the hamlet of Panniqtuuq (aka Pangnirtung) in Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost province, to an Irish father and an Inuk mother. She grew up in a musical environment, attending summer camps where she studied throat singing and guitar, and learned accordion while in college. Later she moved to […]
Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole is an English singer and songwriter. He was lead vocalist of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989. The Commotions’ 1984 debut studio album, Rattlesnakes, contained literary and pop culture references to such figures as Arthur Lee, Norman Mailer, Grace Kelly, Eva Saint Marie, Simone de Beauvoir, Truman Capote and Joan […]
The Go-Go’s
The Go-Go’s were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. Except for short periods when other musicians joined briefly, the band has had a relatively stable lineup consisting of Charlotte Caffey on lead guitar and keyboards, Belinda Carlisle on lead vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass, and Jane Wiedlin […]
FourWinds
FourWinds who consist of Tom Delany (Uilleann pipes / whistles), Caroline Keane (Concertina), Alan Murray (Bouzouki / guitar / vocals) and Robbie Walsh (Bodhran) produce an exciting landscape of tunes and lyrics that present Irish Traditional Music in a modern and creative context, while maintaining deep roots in the tradition. With influences including Begley and […]