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Richard Edwards (musician)
Richard Edwards is a London-based classical and jazz trombone player as well as composer/arranger. Discography As sideman With Jamiroquai * ''Blow Your Mind'' (Sony Soho Square, 1993) * ''Emergency on Planet Earth'' (Sony Soho Square,1993) * ''Too Young to Die'' (Sony Soho Square, 1993) * ''Half the Man'' (Sony Soho Square, 1994) * ''The Return of the Space Cowboy'' (Sony Soho Square, 1994) With Colin Towns * ''Mask Orchestra'' (Jazz Label 1993) * ''Nowhere & Heaven'' (Provocateur, 1996) * ''Bolt from the Blue'' (Provocateur, 1997) * ''Another Think Coming'' (Provocateur, 2001) With Working Week * ''I Thought I'd Never See You Again'' (Virgin, 1985) * ''Companeros'' (Virgin, 1986) * ''Fire in the Mountain'' (10 Records, 1989) * ''May 1985'' (Promising Music 2015) With others * Kim Appleby, ''Breakaway'' (Parlophone, 1993) * Kim Appleby, ''Kim Appleby'' (Parlophone, 1990) * Lorne Balfe, ''Penguins of Madagascar'' (Sony Classical, 2015) * Gilbert Becaud, ''Ensemble'' (RCA, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trombone
The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones use a telescoping slide mechanism to alter the Pitch (music), pitch instead of the brass instrument valve, valves used by other brass instruments. The valve trombone is an exception, using three valves similar to those on a trumpet, and the superbone has valves and a slide. The word "trombone" derives from Italian ''tromba'' (trumpet) and ''-one'' (a suffix meaning "large"), so the name means "large trumpet". The trombone has a predominantly cylindrical bore like the trumpet, in contrast to the more conical brass instruments like the cornet, the flugelhorn, the Baritone horn, baritone, and the euphonium. The most frequently encountered trombones are the tenor trombone and bass tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aura Dione
Maria Louise Joensen (; born 21 January 1985), known as Aura Dione, is a Danish singer and songwriter. In 2008, she released her debut album, '' Columbine''. The album spawned the hit single " I Will Love You Monday (365)", which reached number one in Germany, achieved over 80 million video views and was certified platinum. After winning the European Border Breaker Award in 2011, Dione won Best Female Artist and Hit of the Year for "Geronimo" at the Danish Music Awards 2012 and Female Artist of the Year in 2013; she is one of Denmark's top two female recording artists and one of Germany's top three. Life and career Early life Aura Dione was born Maria Joensen on 21 January 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her mother is of Faroese and French descent, while her father is of Danish and Spanish descent. Her parents introduced her to music, and she began writing songs when she was as young as 8 years old.Rune Langhoff"Aura af Verden" ''Berlingske Tidende'' (23 January 2008). Retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Heyward
Nicholas Heyward (born 20 May 1961) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He came to international attention in the early 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter for Haircut One Hundred. He and the band parted ways after their first album, after which he continued as a solo artist. Biography Early life Born in Beckenham, Heyward spent his early years in and around south London. He attended Kelsey Park School for Boys in Beckenham where he studied art and photography. He left school at 16 to work as a commercial artist. Haircut One Hundred Heyward and school friends Graham Jones and Les Nemes, the core of Haircut One Hundred, started bands together as far back as 1977. They were first known as Rugby, then the Boat Party, Captain Pennyworth and Moving England, before settling on Haircut One Hundred. The band signed with Arista Records in 1981 and had four UK top 10 singles between 1981 and 1982. Their debut album, '' Pelican West'' (1982), written by Heyward, reached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri Halliwell
Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner (''née'' Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress. She rose to fame in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Ginger Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the Spice Girls are the best-selling female group of all time. Their slogan "girl power" was most closely associated with Halliwell and her Union Jack dress from the 1997 Brit Awards also became an enduring symbol. Halliwell left the Spice Girls in 1998, citing exhaustion and creative differences, but rejoined when they reunited for a greatest hits album (2007) and two concert tours: the Return of the Spice Girls (2007–2008) and Spice World (2019). After leaving the Spice Girls, Halliwell pursued a career as a solo artist, signing a recording contract with EMI. She released her debut album, '' Schizophonic'' (1999), which produced the UK number-one single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal (Irish Band)
HAL are a band from Dublin, Ireland, composed of brothers Dave Allen (vocals/guitar) and Paul Allen (vocals/ bass), Paul Hogan ( drums) and Stephen O'Brien ( keyboards, occasional guitars and backing vocals), who formed in 2003. Biography Hal were signed to Rough Trade Records in 2004 following competition between several record labels. Their first single, "Worry About the Wind" was released in 2004. Their self-titled debut album followed and "Don't Come Running" / "I Sat Down" were released as a double A-side single. The band also released "Keep Love As Your Golden Rule" on a split 7-inch single with (The Magic Numbers) They also contributed their cover of John Lennon's "Mind Games" to a '' Q magazine CD in October 2005. The band toured worldwide in 2004 and 2005 supporting shows for Doves and Grandaddy. the band went back into the recording studio at the end of 2005. In August 2010, the band announced that they were working on their next album on their website and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Help The Girl
''God Help the Girl'' is a 2009 album by Stuart Murdoch of the band Belle and Sebastian with female vocalists such as Catherine Ireton. God Help the Girl is also the name of the band and the accompanying film released in 2014. The songs are about a Scottish girl who is hospitalized after a nervous breakdown. Two songs (" Funny Little Frog" and "Act of the Apostle") were taken from the repertory of Belle and Sebastian. Origin of the project The author of the project ''God Help the Girl'' is Stuart Murdoch, lead singer of the Glasgow-based Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian. In 2004, during a tour promoting their album ''Dear Catastrophe Waitress'', he came up with the idea of writing a series of songs telling about the life of girls and young women which could be sung not by his group but female vocalists. Thinking about this project, he started writing new songs which were shelved for the time being; after some time the idea of arranging them in a logical whole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustin Man
Paul Douglas Webb (born 16 January 1962), also known by the stage name Rustin Man, is an English musician. He was the bassist for the English band Talk Talk. Biography Webb attended The Deanes School in Thundersley, Essex, with drummer Lee Harris, and they became good friends. They played in the reggae band Eskalator before being recruited to form Talk Talk in 1981. Webb played bass for Talk Talk until 1988. His composition "Another Word" from the album '' The Party's Over'' is the only Talk Talk song not written or co-written by vocalist Mark Hollis. In the early 1990s, he and Harris formed .O.rang. In the early 2000s, he adopted the name "Rustin Man" and collaborated with Beth Gibbons on '' Out of Season'' (2002). He also produced the James Yorkston album '' The Year of the Leopard'' (2006), and the Dez Mona album ''Hilfe Kommt'' (2009). His second album under the Rustin Man moniker, '' Drift Code'', was released on 1 February 2019 on Domino Records. On 3 Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Gibbons
Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the band Portishead, who have released three albums. She released an album with fellow English musician Rustin Man, '' Out of Season'', in 2002, and a recording of contemporary Polish composer Górecki's Symphony No. 3 in 2019 with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, she released her first solo album without collaboration, '' Lives Outgrown''. The album received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2024 Mercury Prize. Early life Gibbons was born in Exeter, Devon, England and raised on a farm with three sisters. Her parents divorced when she was young."Solo album bio" Biography previously published on a Finnish site (archived), Retrieved 15 August 2014. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career with " Solsbury Hill" as his first single. After releasing four successful studio albums, all titled ''Peter Gabriel'', his fifth studio album, '' So'' (1986), became his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, " Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. A 2011 ''Time'' report said "Sledgehammer" was the most played music video of all time on MTV. A supporter of world music for much of his career, Gabriel co-founded the World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival in 1982, and has continued to produce and promote world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mike Flowers Pops
The Mike Flowers Pops (also known as MFP, The Pops or The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra) are a British easy listening band fronted by Mike Flowers (real name Michael Roberts). History Formed in 1993, the Mike Flowers Pops can have up to fourteen members on stage at any time, and they are principally known for easy listening or lounge music covers of both 'classic' and contemporary pop music. The band became famous in the United Kingdom in 1995 when they released a cover version of Oasis' hit song "Wonderwall", in an easy listening style. After seeing the band perform, BBC radio producer Will Saunders had recruited Flowers for BBC Radio 1 DJ Kevin Greening in order to cover the 'Hits of 95' for Greening's Saturday show; "Wonderwall" was his first week's project. Chris Evans heard the song and made it 'single of the week' on his Radio 1 breakfast show, telling listeners that this was the original version of the song. The single, issued by London Records under the name The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence And The Machine
Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band formed in London in 2007 by lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, drummer Christopher Lloyd Hayden and harpist Tom Monger. The BBC played a large part in their rise to prominence by promoting Florence and the Machine as part of ''BBC Music Introducing''. At the 2009 Brit Awards, they received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award. The band's debut studio album, ''Lungs (album), Lungs'', was released on 3 July 2009, and held the number-two position for its first five weeks on the UK Albums Chart. On 17 January 2010, the album reached the top position, after being on the chart for twenty-eight consecutive weeks. As of October 2010, the album had been in the top forty in the United Kingdom for sixty-five consecutive weeks, making it one of the best-selling albums of 2009 and 2010. The group's second studio album, ''Ceremonials'', released in Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith Blomfield (born 21 July 1981) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. After signing with Epic Records in 2008, Faith released her debut album, '' Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?'' (2009), which produced the UK top-twenty singles " Stone Cold Sober" and " New York". Her second album, '' Fall to Grace'' (2012), charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, earned her two Brit Award nominations, and spawned her first UK top-ten single " Picking Up the Pieces" and the top-twenty cover version of INXS's " Never Tear Us Apart". Faith's third album, '' A Perfect Contradiction'' (2014), was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and spawned the UK top-ten singles " Can't Rely on You" and " Only Love Can Hurt Like This", with the latter topping the charts in Australia. She collaborated with the duo Sigma on the 2014 single " Changing", which charted atop the UK Singles Chart. Her fourth album, '' The Architect'' (2017), debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
