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Mpho Pholo
Mpho Skeef (pronounced /mpʰo skʲɪəf/, born ), known by her stage name of Mpho, is a South African-born British singer-songwriter based in London. Early and personal life Skeef was born during the apartheid regime in South Africa to Sipho Mabuse and Mary Edwards. Her first name is a SeSotho word meaning "gift". Mpho spent her first birthday imprisoned in Caledon Square, Cape Town with her mother who was an anti-apartheid campaigner. Daily Record �Rising star MPHO could be Britain's answer to Beyonce 25 June 2009 By Bev Lyons She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of four and was brought up in Stockwell, Clapham and Brixton by her mother and her stepfather, Eugene Skeef. She attended the BRIT School in Croydon. Career Mpho began working in the music industry in 2004, initially as a backing vocalist for artists such as Ms Dynamite, Natasha Bedingfield, Ty, Terri Walker, Skinnyman, Rodney P, and Spacek. She was a lead vocalist on the Bugz in the Attic single "Booty La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ty (rapper)
Benedict Okwuchukwu Godwin Chijioke (17 August 1972 – 7 May 2020), better known by his stage name Ty , was a Nigerian-British rapper. He released the albums '' Awkward'' (2001), '' Upwards'' (2003), '' Closer'' (2006), '' Special Kind of Fool'' (2010) and ''A Work of Heart'' (2018). ''Upwards'' was nominated for a Mercury Prize. Ty collaborated with musicians such as Shortee Blitz, Drew Horley, Tony Allen, Roots Manuva and De La Soul. Early life Benedict Okwuchukwu Godwin Chijioke was born in London into an Igbo family from Nigeria. He spent many years of his youth in the care of private foster parents in Jaywick, Essex—as reported in a 2019 Channel 4 News feature by Symeon Brown— "so they could focus on work and study." In the piece he said: "As kids we had no clue why we were here, and then my parents said 'we're going now, but you're staying'," he said. "So we didn't know why we were being left here. And just feeling a little bit abandoned really." Career In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Beach
"Echo Beach" is a song by Canadian musical group Martha and the Muffins. Written by band member Mark Gane, it was released as a single from their album '' Metro Music'' in 1980 and went on to reach number five in Canada, number six in Australia, and number 10 in the UK. It was certified gold in Canada on October 1, 1980, a month after ''Metro Music'' achieved gold status; the song also won the Juno Award for Single of the Year. "Echo Beach" was the band's only significant international hit, although they had other popular singles in Canada. Background Echo Beach in the song is not a real place. It's a metaphor for a pleasant location that someone thinks of when they have an unsatisfactory job. There is now an Echo Beach in Toronto, but it was named after the song. The song was created while Gane was working checking wallpaper for printing faults. He found the work rather dull and his mind drifted to times he would like to live over again. One such time was an evening spent at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha And The Muffins
Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian rock band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single "Echo Beach" under their original band name, they had a number of hits in their native Canada, and the core members of the band also charted in Canada and internationally as M + M. Career Formation and early years (1977–1978) The group's initial line-up came together in Toronto in 1977, when David Millar asked his fellow Ontario College of Art student Mark Gane to help him start a band. Millar recruited Martha Johnson to play keyboards; Johnson brought in a friend from high school, Carl Finkle, to play bass; and Gane's brother Tim signed on as the drummer. With Millar and Mark Gane as guitarists, and Johnson as lead vocalist, this is the line up that debuted at an Ontario College of Art Hallowe'en party in October 1977. They chose the name "Martha and the Muffins" to distance themselves from the aggressive names adopted by many punk ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switch (producer)
David James Andrew Taylor, better known by his stage name Switch, is an English record producer, songwriter, DJ, and sound engineer. He is best known for his work with Beyoncé, M.I.A. and Major Lazer, of which he was a founding member. He was nominated at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in the Record of the Year category for "Paper Planes" by M.I.A., which he co-produced with Diplo. Other artists he has produced include Christina Aguilera, Chaka Khan, Santigold, and Brandy among many others. He has released various singles under his own name, and is also well known for remixing and producing for many major artists. Most notably, Switch has worked extensively with fellow British artist M.I.A., co-producing tracks on her albums ''Arular'', '' Kala'', and ''Matangi''. For the latter, he travelled to work with M.I.A. in A. R. Rahman's Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios and other locations such as Kodambakkam, Chennai and Trinidad and Tobago. He says "When you go somewhere like In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Nowels
Richard Wright Nowels Jr. (born March 16, 1954) is an American songwriter and record producer. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles with multiple artists,Rick Nowles, Credits, AllMusic at AllMusic; retrieved July 13, 2021 and albums his songs have appeared on have sold over 250 million copies. In 2020, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Career In 1985, Stevie Nicks recorded Nowels' song " I Can't Wait" in Los Angeles, giving Nowels his first major songwriting and production credit. He was later asked to co-p ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Mirrors
''Sound Mirrors'' is the fifth studio album by Coldcut. It was released in January 2006. Four singles were released from the album including the Top 75 hit "True Skool" with Roots Manuva. Track listing CD #" Man in a Garage" (featJohn Matthias #"True Skool" (feat. Roots Manuva) #"Just for the Kick" (feat. Annette Peacock) #"Walk a Mile in My Shoes" (feat. Robert Owens) #"Mr Nichols" (feat. Saul Williams) #"A Whistle and a Prayer" (feat. Fog) #"Everything is Under Control" (feat. Mike Ladd & Jon Spencer) #"Boogieman" (feat. Amiri Baraka) #"Aid Dealer" (feat. Soweto Kinch) #"This Island Earth" (feat. Mpho Skeef) #"Colours the Soul" (feat. Dom Spitzer) #"Sound Mirrors" #"The State We're In" (feat. Lu Grady) (Japanese bonus track) #"Just for the Kick (Version 1)" (Japanese bonus track) A 2 CD edition features tracks 1-12 shown above on CD 1. The second CD features 3 tracks from 'People Hold On - The Best of Coldcut' and the disc is named 'Coldcut Classic 4 + 1'. CD 2 fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DBridge
dBridge, also known as Velvit (born Darren White), is an English drum and bass record producer whose career began during the genre's conception in the early 1990s.IMO Records"dBridge Biography", '' IMO Records'', 17 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011. dBridge was part of the duo Future Forces Inc., a project made with DJ Maldini, with releases on the record label Renegade Hardware. Later, they joined Fresh and Vegas to form the drum and bass supergroup Bad Company, of which dBridge was a member of during the late 1990s and early 2000s. During his time with Bad Company, they released the tracks "Planet Dust", "Nitrous", and "The Nine". dBridge released his first solo album, ''The Gemini Principle'', in 2008. dBridge owns his own record imprint, Exit Records. In 2011, Exit released a compilation called ''Mosaic Vol 1''. ''Mosaic Vol 2'' followed in 2013. In 2013 he collaborated with Kid Drama on Heart Drive, a project consisting of a series of podcasts preview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electro (music)
Electro (also known as electro-funk, and sometimes referred to as electro-pop) Globaldarkness.com. Retrieved on July 18, 2011. is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. It is defined by the prominent use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and draws direct influence from early hip hop and funk music. Electro music is typically characterized by synthetic beats, robotic textures, and minimal or electronically processed vocals—often delivered through vocoders or talkboxes. Unlike its boogie predecessor, which emphasized vocal elements, electro focused more on rhythm and machine-generated sound. The genre arose as the popularity of disco waned in the U.S., blending funk and early hip hop elements with influences from New York's boogie scene and electronic pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of the national organisation. Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England. Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding. This investment has helped to transform the building stock of arts organisations and to create many additional high-quality arts activities. On 1 October 2011 the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was subsumed into the Arts C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spacek (band)
Spacek (also known as Spacek Sound System) is a British electronic music band. Its members are Steve Spacek (Real name Steve White), Ed Spacek, and Morgan Spacek. The group released its debut album, ''Curvatia'' in 2001, followed by 2003's ''Vintage Hi-Tech''. Although primarily performing electronic music, the group also fuses elements of R&B music, R&B, Hip hop music, hip hop, trip hop, broken beat and Soul music, soul into its anomalistic soundbed. Steve Spacek is brother to UK drum and bass artist dBridge. Biography 1996–2001 The trio was formed in the mid-90s by bassist, vocalist, and songwriter, Steve White but initially was a 5 piece that included Francis Hylton (Now in Incognito) and keyboardist Steve Morgan. Through a mutual friend, White was introduced to guitarist Edmund Cavill and with manager Jason Knight approached drummer, Morgan Zarate to the lineup to form Spacek. All three members subsequently adopted Spacek as their surnames. By 1998, the group had obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
