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Sophie Delila
Sophie Delila (born 7 August 1983), is a London-based French recording artist, songwriter, musician and producer currently signed to Universal Music. Early life Sophie Delila was born and raised in Paris. Her father is an accomplished piano player and composer and her mother is a singer. Delila began playing the piano at age 5 and spent much of her childhood recording and songwriting in her father's home studio. Growing up, Delila was influenced by soul, blues and pop, particularly by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson and the Beatles. At age 17 Delila won a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Career After graduating Delila spent a couple of years songwriting and gigging in New York City. Here she wrote, recorded and produced the album ''All Yours'' which was independently released in 2005. Later that year, Delila moved to London, where she still lives. Working on new material, performing and collab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumer (musician)
Sarah Joyce (born 3 June 1979), better known by her stage name, Rumer, is a Pakistani-British singer-songwriter. Supported by leading music industry figures including Burt Bacharach, Elton John, Carly Simon, and Jools Holland, Rumer was nominated for two Brit Awards on 13 January 2011. Her debut album, '' Seasons of My Soul'', released in 2010, peaked on the UK Charts at #3, was certified platinum in 2013 having sold over one million copies, and was listed at #26 in the Official Top 40 Biggest Debut Albums of the Decade in 2019. Rumer's voice has been described by ''The Guardian'' and many others as being reminiscent of Karen Carpenter. Her stage name was inspired by the author Rumer Godden. ''Boys Don't Cry'', released in 2012, peaked on the UK Charts at #3. She has performed at several festivals such as Glastonbury Festival. Her album ''This Girl's in Love (A Bacharach & David Songbook)'' was released in November 2016. In August 2020, she released her fifth album, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soho House (club)
Soho House is an international private members’ club with a focus on the media, arts and fashion industries. Membership is highly selective and primarily drawn from these fields. The company operates clubs, hotels, restaurants and other venues. In 2015, it changed its name from SOHO House Group to Soho House & Co. The original location is at 40 Greek Street, Soho, London, England. As of March 2024, Soho House operated 42 club locations worldwide, with plans to open more. List of current and planned Soho Houses, updated as required. History and ownership Nick Jones (entrepreneur), Nick Jones (Soho House founder and previous managing director) sold 80% of the club to British high-street tycoon Richard Caring in 2008. On 13 January 2012, the ''Financial Times'' announced that 60% of Soho House Group had been acquired by the US billionaire Ron Burkle, through his investment fund Yucaipa Companies, Yucaipa in a £250 million deal, with founder Nick Jones retaining 10% and Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Scott's
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959. History The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was set up and managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street. The original venue continued in operation as the "Old Place" until the lease ran out in 1967, and was used for performances by the up-and-coming generation of musicians. Zoot Sims was the club's first transatlantic visitor in 1962, and was succeeded by many others (often saxophonists whom Scott and King, tenor saxophonists themselves, admired, such as Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt) in the years that followed. Many UK jazz musicians were also regularly featured, including Tubby Hayes and Dick Morrissey who would both drop in for jam sessions with the visiting stars. In the mid-1960s, Ernest Ranglin was the house guitarist. The club' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Star (United Kingdom)
The ''Daily Star'' is a tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Saturday in the United Kingdom since 1978. In 2002, a sister Sunday edition, '' Daily Star Sunday'' was launched with a separate staff. On May 6, 2020, ''The Star'' published its 10,000th issue. Ben Rankin is the Editor in Chief. When the paper was launched from Manchester, it was circulated only in the North and Midlands. It was conceived by the then-owners of Express Newspapers, Trafalgar House, to take on the strength of the ''Daily Mirror'' and '' The Sun'' in the North. It was also intended to use the under-capacity of the Great Ancoats Street presses in Manchester as the ''Daily Express'' was losing circulation. The ''Daily Star'' sold out its first night print of 1,400,000. Its cover price has decreased over the years to compete with its rival '' The Sun''. The ''Daily Star'' is published by Reach plc. The paper has predominantly focused on stories revolving around celebrities, sport, and news/gossip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its Masthead (British publishing), masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ''Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' and the ''Sunday Mail (Scotland), Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. The ''Mirror'' publishes an Irish edition, the ''Irish Mirror''. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Week
''Music Week'' is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future. History Founded in 1959 as ''Record Retailer'', it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as ''Music Week''. On 17 January 1981, the title again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to ''Music & Video Week''. The rival '' Record Business'', founded in 1978 by Brian Mulligan and Norman Garrod, was absorbed into Music Week in February 1983. Later that year, the offshoot ''Video Week'' launched and the title of the parent publication reverted to ''Music Week''. Since April 1991, ''Music Week'' has incorporated ''Record Mirror'', initially as a 4 or 8-page chart supplement, later as a dance supplement of articles, reviews and charts. In the 1990s, several magazines and newsletters become part of the Music Week family: ''Music Business International (MBI)'', ''Promo'', ''MIRO Future Hits'', ''Tours Report'', ''Fono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Hale
Simon Hale is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist. Life Hale was born in Birmingham, England in 1964, being dually raised there and in South Manchester before moving to London, where he studied popular music at Goldsmiths College, University of London from 1982 to 1985. He is married to Claire Moore. His father is Tony Hale, formerly Head of Music and Programming at Capital Radio. Work He is best known for his arrangements on CDs for Jamiroquai, Björk, BT, Duncan Sheik, Madness, Incognito, Supergrass, The Beautiful South, George Benson, Tony Banks, Josh Groban, Charlotte Church and Robin Gibb. As well as arranging on Duncan Sheik's solo CDs, Simon has also done orchestrations on Duncan's songs for the film " A Home at the End of the World" and the Broadway musical '' Spring Awakening'', which won 8 Tony Awards in June 2007, including "Best Orchestrations" by Duncan and Simon. The original cast recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kirby (musician)
Robert Bruce Kirby (16 April 1948 – 3 October 2009) was an English arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He worked on the Nick Drake albums, '' Five Leaves Left'' and '' Bryter Layter'', and with Vashti Bunyan, Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello. Early life Robert Kirby was born on 16 April 1948 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, into a working class family. He won a scholarship to Bishop's Stortford College, an independent school in Hertfordshire. Cambridge University Kirby matriculated at Cambridge University in October 1967 as a choral exhibitioner at Caius College, intending to become a music teacher. He went on to perform with a choral group called The Gentle Power of Song, who recorded a single and two albums for Polydor. His tutor once told him that his compositions sounded like a breakfast cereal commercial. This was intended as an insult, but Kirby took this as his high praise: "As good as that, eh?". At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Jabre
Julien Jabre (born November 1976) is a French-Lebanese electronic music composer, producer, and audio engineer. Specializing in house music, he is associated with the French house. Biography During the mid-'90s, three French house music pioneers, DJ Deep, DJ Gregory, and Alex from Tokyo, hosted a radio show dedicated to electronic music on the Parisian station FG. A fan of the show A Deep Groove, Julien Jabre met them in 1994 through a friend who was interning at the radio. He made his DJ debut during a guest appearance by DJ Gregory, who entrusted him with the decks for the first time. Over the next two years, he frequently appeared on the radio. In 1997, the track "Faithfull" under the alias Fantom was released with Julien Jabre's as a producer. The success of Fantom was soon followed by "The Deep," another collaboration, this time with DJ Deep, and then Soha, a New York continuation of his partnership with Gregory. Simultaneously, he began releasing solo tracks on Basic Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia ( , ; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian and British singer and actress. Born and raised in New South Wales, Imbruglia became widely known in the early 1990s playing Beth Brennan in the soap opera ''Neighbours''. After leaving the series, she moved to the UK to begin a recording career. Her 1997 debut single, a cover of Ednaswap's song " Torn", quickly became a worldwide hit, topped the US ''Billboard'' Radio Songs Chart for eleven weeks in 1998, and was listed on the 50 Best Songs of the 1990s by ''Rolling Stone''. Her debut album, '' Left of the Middle'' (1997), was a commercial success — earning multi-platinum certifications in the US, the UK and Australia, and selling seven million copies worldwide. Subsequent albums, including '' White Lilies Island'' (2001) and '' Counting Down the Days'' (2005), were both met with commercial declines, but received gold certifications by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). As of 2021, Imbruglia has re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugababes
The Sugababes are an English girl group composed of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobhán Donaghy. The lineup changed three times before returning to the original lineup in 2011. Formed in 1998 by Ron Tom, the manager of All Saints, Sugababes released their debut album, '' One Touch,'' through London Records in November 2000. It achieved moderate success and produced the top-ten single " Overload". In 2001, Donaghy was replaced by Heidi Range. With Range, Sugababes released three multi-platinum albums: '' Angels with Dirty Faces'' (2002), '' Three'' (2003), and '' Taller in More Ways'' (2005). In December 2005, Buena was replaced by Amelle Berrabah. Following the release of their first greatest hits album, the Sugababes released the albums '' Change'' (2007) and '' Catfights and Spotlights'' (2008). In 2009, after 11 years in Sugababes, Buchanan, the final original member, was replaced by Jade Ewen. Sugababes released '' Sweet 7'' (2010), after which they signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
