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Artist: Solitary Confinement
Artist: Feral Confine
Artist: A.R. Rahman
Since Roja hit movie screens in South India in 1992, A.R. Rahman has been redefining the country's widely popular film music. Generally regarded as the finest Indian film composer of his time (and certainly the most commercially successful), Rahman produced music for nearly 35 wide-screen releases during his first five years in the industry. He... [+] Read More
Artist: The Ellingtonians
Another spinoff band of Ellington side musicians recording outside the orchestra's confines. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Lata Mangeshkar
Any account of Indian playback music must start with Lata Mangeshkar. While it is not possible to more than list the most important playback singers, one, because of her supreme stature, merits detailed attention. Born September 28, 1929 in Indore, India, Lata Mangeshkar has been active in all walks of Indian popular and light classical music... [+] Read More
Artist: Lil Jon
Atlanta and the surrounding area had always been a hotbed for party rap and bass music throughout the '90s, and more than anyone else, Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz took these styles to the masses with a cutting-edge Dirty South attitude perfect for the burgeoning club scene of the time. The Atlanta-based rapper/producer began as a club DJ before... [+] Read More
Artist: Donna Brooks
Seldom recorded vocalist whose output was largely confined to some late-'50s sessions on Dawn. One of these has been reissued on Fresh Sound. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Paul McCartney
Out of all the former Beatles, Paul McCartney by far had the most successful solo career, maintaining a constant presence in the British and American charts during the '70s and '80s. In America alone, he had nine number one singles and seven number one albums during the first 12 years of his solo career. Although he sold records, McCartney never... [+] Read More
Artist: Karl Amadeus Hartmann
An important student of Webern who developed a chromatic, atonal idiom and a "variable meter" approach to rhythm while writing within the structural confines defined as classical. Hartmann wrote nine symphonies and in a variety of musical genres. ~ Mary K. Scanlan, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Leslie Phillips
Gospel music's she-rebel, Phillips left the gospel industry in the late '80s because of its confining nature. She now records secular material on Virgin Records with producer and husband T-Bone Burnett, under the name of Sam Phillips. ~ Bil Carpenter, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is a much-beloved American icon and an indisputable genius not only of R&B but popular music in general. Blind virtually since birth, Wonder's heightened awareness of sound helped him create vibrant, colorful music teeming with life and ambition. Nearly everything he recorded bore the stamp of his sunny, joyous positivity; even... [+] Read More
Artist: The Richmond Group
The Richmond Group never made it outside the confines of Liverpool, but within the confines of that city's second wave of new acts, post-Beatles in 1963-64, they were among the more exciting stage acts. The band-vocalists Dave Kerrigan and Eddie Cave (who'd previously fronted a Liverpool band called The Fyx), lead guitarist Barry David, rhythm... [+] Read More
Artist: The Notorious B.I.G.
In just a few short years, the Notorious B.I.G. went from a Brooklyn street hustler to the savior of East Coast hip-hop to a tragic victim of the culture of violence he depicted so realistically on his records. His all-too-brief odyssey almost immediately took on mythic proportions, especially since his murder followed the shooting of rival... [+] Read More
Artist: Walter Olmos
Argentinean singer Walter Olmos was raised in the bosom of a modest family, forced to ask for money on the streets of his native Catamarca, and confined in a children's center at the age of 13, leaving it three years later. It was in June of 1993 when the young man began singing a local style known as cuarteto, being discovered by Rodrigo El... [+] Read More
Artist: Hydra
Norwegian hard rockers Hydra featured vocalist Jørn Lande, guitarists Ingar and Johnny, bassist Finn Tore and drummer Geir Inge, and, despite occasional domestic singles and compilation appearances, never amounted to anything -- even within the confines of their homeland. In fact, their only notable contribution to popular music was introducing... [+] Read More
Artist: David Joseph
David Joseph was the keyboardist and at times de facto leader of Hi-Tension, a late-'70s disco outfit whose hits such as the "British Hustle" were largely confined to the United Kingdom. Joseph left the band in 1984, a year after releasing a solo album on Island Records. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: cherokee motel
Cherokee Motel was created for the listener wanting to break free of the shallow superficial confines of american pop music. It started one day when Justin, then just a disgruntled company employee, sensed a niche in the musical force of America. Venting his suppressed talents and frustrations through musically creative channels, he conceived... [+] Read More
Artist: Charles Douglas
Indie rocker Charles Douglas was born in Dayton, OH in 1976, first emerging as one half of the duo Vegetarian Meat. A nervous breakdown confined him to a hospital bed for the better part of 1996 and 1997, and upon his release he dissolved Vegetarian Meat, took a job at Burger King and began forging a solo career. The Moe Tucker-produced The... [+] Read More
Artist: Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records -- "Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The... [+] Read More
Artist: Tulus
Tulus was one of the many black metal bands that have been pouring out of Norway in the last couple of decades. Formed around 1991, they released three albums in the late nineties, with a style firmly planted in black metal, in particular the vocals and the biting guitar riffing, with the songs usually more in the mid-paced realm rather than the... [+] Read More
Artist: Ira Stein
Pianist Ira Stein debuted in 1982 alongside oboe player Russel Walder on the Windham Hill release Elements; apart from 1986's Transit, he otherwise spent the majority of the decade confined to a series of Windham Hill collections as well as several releases by labelmate William Ackermann. After reuniting with Walder in 1990 for Under the Eye,... [+] Read More
Artist: Night Gathering
The two members of this narrow collective have known each other since their adventure, stepping cautiously from notehead to notehead, along the music staff, began. The first drum Worm hit with precision was in EZ's basement and the first drummer EZ played with was worm. They have played in innumerable combinations but always together, the axis,... [+] Read More
Artist: Johannes Cornago
A Spanish composer who primarily served in the courts of Naples for Alfonso V And Fernando I. Cornago was probably a member of the Franciscan order. Within the content of his musical arrangements Cornago was able to convey a saddened sense of sobriety as textual themes often contended with lost loves and amorous melancholy. Methodological... [+] Read More
Artist: Girolamo Fantini
A trumpeter and writer on the trumpet Fantini served in the court of the Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando II, and traveled to Rome with Frescobaldi accompanying him on the organ: a concert of historic import. Fantini was an extremely talented trumpeter and was instrumental in releasing the trumpet from the confines of its former tonal range --... [+] Read More
Artist: Dean Martin
Enjoying great success in music, film, television and the stage, Dean Martin was less an entertainer than an icon, the eternal essence of cool. A member of the legendary Rat Pack, he lived and died the high life of booze, broads and bright lights, always projecting a sense of utter detachment and serenity; along with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis,... [+] Read More
