Hailing from the rural outskirts of Cornwall, Ted Jasper grew up on the Southwest coast where, inspired by his surroundings, he began an obsession with producing, remixing, and re-working electronic music. The short but powerful discography of London based house prospect Ted Jasper has shown the producer is willing to paint outside of the lines. […]
Ramene Ta Trompette
Like the New Orleans street music it offers, Ramène Ta Trompette was formed around the streets and squares of the pink city of Toulouse, and now extends its territory wherever it is welcomed. The band consists of Clarinet – Mathieu Viry, Trombone – Fanny Schubnel, Tuba – Coline Lemarchand, Banjo/Vocals – Valentin Oustiakine and Washboard/Vocals […]
N’famady Kouyaté
N’famady Kouyaté is a young energetic master musician from Guinea, who relocated to Cardiff in 2019. A talented multi-instrumentalist who wowed audiences across the UK and Ireland during autumn/winter 2019/20 with his modern interpretations of traditional West African Mandingue songs and rhythms supporting Gruff Rhys on the Pang! album tour. N’famady’s primary instrument is the […]
Brigitte Bardot
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 […]
Charles Laughton
I few days ago I was re-watching one of my very favourite old movies ‘Hobson’s Choice’ starring Charles Laughton. Laughton originally a Yorshireman born in Scarborough made an impressive career in Hollywood in a number of well regarded movies such as Mutiny on the Bounty and Witness for the Prosecution. He was married to another […]
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 […]