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Artist: Stephanie Mills
Stephanie Mills first came to fame as "the little girl with the big voice" as the star of the hit Broadway play, The Wiz, an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic book, The Wizard Of Oz. She had many R&B hits such as "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love," "I Feel Good All Over," "(You're Puttin') A Rush On Me," "Something in the Way (You... [+] Read More
Artist: Sesa Mill
name sesa mill dob Sept. 5, 1986 hobbies Smokin' and writin' influence? Tupac, Nas, & Z-Ro. These are my biggest influences because they give me their lives inside their music. Every hard, happy, embarassing moment they went through was expressed in their lyrics. That itself has taught me to look at my life and express it in a way I feel others... [+] Read More
Artist: Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills, along with Robert Hood, Carl Craig, and Joey Beltram, is one of the biggest American names in techno. Championed for his music's relentless pursuit of hardness and his stripped-down, almost industrial DJ sets, Mills is the latest in a long line of Detroit-bred talent to take on an international reputation. A founding member of noted... [+] Read More
Artist: The Mills Brothers
An astonishing vocal group that grew into one of the longest-lasting oldies acts in American popular music, the Mills Brothers quickly moved from novelty wonders to pop successes and continued amazing audiences for decades. Originally billed as "Four Boys and a Guitar," the group's early records came complete with a note assuring listeners that... [+] Read More
Artist: Mac Mill
Artist: Ted Mills
Singer/songwriter Ted Mills sang lead vocals for Blue Magic, who are best known for dreamy Philly Soul ballads, the million-selling "Sideshow" and "Three Ring Circus." He also wrote their favorites: "Spell," "What's Come Over Me," "Chasing Rainbows" and "Tear It Down." Mills and the other members of the group -- Keith Beaton, Richard Pratt and... [+] Read More
Artist: Donald Mills
Donald Mills was the last surviving member of venerable singing group the Mills Brothers when he died on November 13, 1999. The singer was given a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998 for a musical career that spanned 70 years.
At age seven, Donald Mills began performing with his brothers John, Jr., Herbert, and Harry in Piqua, OH,... [+] Read More
Artist: Walt Mills
Artist: Irving Mills
Irving Mills did a great deal to help jazz, making himself a great deal of money in the process. He is most famous for his work as manager for Duke Ellington during 1926-1939, helping Ellington gain his job at the Cotton Club, in addition to securing numerous recording sessions and important engagements. He also wrote the lyrics to some of... [+] Read More
Artist: Frank Mills
Canadian-born composer/pianist Frank Mills scored a minor U.S. hit in 1972 with "Love Me, Love Me Love." It wasn't until the release of "Music Box Dancer" and its subsequent success in 1979, that MIlls became more of a household name. Success was to be short-lived however, and it wasn't long before Mills was back to performing in his native... [+] Read More
Artist: Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills is known more for her acting skills and her Disney film role as Pollyanna than as a singer who made it into the Top Ten. She managed that feat once, however, and almost repeated it when she was still a child star back in the '60s. "Let's Get Together," a song she originally sang in her second Disney movie, The Parent Trap, rose to... [+] Read More
Artist: Jackie Mills
For a period of time, Jackie Mills was in great demand as a drummer. He started out playing guitar, switching to drums when he was ten. Mills led his own band when he was 13 and soon started playing professionally in New York. Among the big bands with whom he performed in the 1940s were those led by Charlie Barnet, Teddy Powell, Dizzy Gillespie,... [+] Read More
Artist: Bob Mills
Folksinger Bob Mills is also an accomplished musician, efficient on a number of down-home type instruments, including the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, banjo, and even the bouzouki and the bodhran. During his career, Mills has toured nationwide, performing at folk festivals from New York to North Carolina. He has been a member of groups like the... [+] Read More
Artist: Leslie Mills
Leslie Mills got her start as a singer/songwriter with the rootsy pop band To the Moon Alice, which was a brief player in the mid-'90s HORDE festival/granola alternative scene. Though it managed a promising 1997 EP for A&M, shifting corporate tectonics forced To the Moon Alice's hand, and the band folded. Undeterred, Mills began shopping around... [+] Read More
Artist: Russell Mills
Multi-media artist Russell Mills first earned notice in music circles for his cover designs for acts including Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Robert Fripp and Nine Inch Nails; in between exhibiting his paintings, assemblages and collages throughout the globe, he also collaborated with Eno on the book More Dark than... [+] Read More
Artist: Sinclair Mills
Since his name sounds like a car manufacturer, and indeed is the name of several companies as well as a festival town in Canada, it makes sense that pianist Sinclair Mills would be related to the Profit family of New York City. Keyboard playing was their game, perhaps not the best way to turn a profit in the real world. Herman Profit, his uncle,... [+] Read More
Artist: Lincoln Mills
Lincoln Mills is one of the very few early jazzmen whose name could be mistaken for a business, and quite an important one at that. But when the trumpeter named Lincoln Mills ended his own life in the late '50s, it had nothing to do with the outcome of a landmark 1955 federal labor law case, Textile Workers Union v. Lincoln Mills. Whatever was... [+] Read More
Artist: Chris Mills
Americana singer/songwriter Chris Mills was born an Army brat, spending his formative years living in both the U.S. and Germany; as a teen he settled in southern Illinois, where he was exposed to the groundbreaking insurgent country sound of local heroes Uncle Tupelo. While in high school, Mills also fronted a speed metal band, but in the years... [+] Read More
Artist: Jodi Mills
Her singing style and smooth, R&B-based adult contemporary music influenced by pop divas like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, Jodi Mills' career in Christian music began as a member of the Celebrant Singers, where she toured extensively and met husband Wes, also a member of the group. Upon leaving the Singers, Jodi worked with Larnelle Harris... [+] Read More
Artist: Mike Mills
Mike Mills was the bassist for R.E.M., arguably the most important and influential American rock band of the post-punk era. Born December 17, 1958, in Orange, CA, he was raised in Macon, GA, and while attending junior high school met drummer Bill Berry. Despite early personality clashes, the two played together in a number of local bands and... [+] Read More
Artist: Morris Mills
Artist: Gin Mill
Artist: Alan Mills
Born Albert Miller in Montreal in 1913, Alan Mills was, at one time, the most popular folksinger in Canada. He trained as a journalist and worked for the Montreal Gazette, when the opportunity to sing came along in the early 1930's -- he walked away from the writing to go on tour singing in a classical idiom, with the London Singers under John... [+] Read More
Artist: Ted Mills
Ted Mills is a freelance writer and critic as well as a filmmaker (so he likes to put his money where his mouth is). From 1994 to 1996 he lived, taught, and wrote in Tsuchiura, Japan, where he fully developed his obsession for Japanese indie music, particularly the movement that became known as Shibuya-kei, though he had been listening to... [+] Read More
