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Artist: Occupants of Six Across
Artist: Augis
Simple I like to do what I like - just to compose expressive things in style.. It's not my main occupation, as I'm working in IT engineering, so.. Not matter. The things will come right I think. Anyway.. [+] Read More
Artist: Kapere Jazz Band
Formed in 1986 by two professionals from South Nyanza, William Owidi Jakapere and Polycap Otieno Ofuo, for whom music is a part-time occupation. They are a five-piece, neo-traditional benga ensemble. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Sona Diabate
Sona Diabate comes from an extensive family of hereditary griot musicians from Guinea that includes many of the biggest names in traditional West African music. She is a particularly gifted singer who, as part of her occupation, must memorize vast amounts of oral history and compose "praise songs" to important figures and benefactors. She has... [+] Read More
Artist: Sun Dragon
Sun Dragon was a group associated with producer Derek Lawrence, and their studio sides included accompaniment by Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice, in the time after the latter three had given up on Roundabout -- the group effort that brought them together -- but before Deep Purple became their full-time occupation. ~ Bruce Eder, All... [+] Read More
Artist: Balloon
The German producer Balloon gained popularity in the commercial, international club circuits for his large presence (weighting in at over 300 pounds) and the novelty single "Pussy Lovers". The single gained attention for its use of a sample from the film From Dusk Till Dawn where heech Marin's character (a brothel owner) describes his occupation... [+] Read More
Artist: Hans Ulrik Neumann
Danish guitarist Ulrik Neumann was already an established star in the 1930s when he and his sister Gerda became a popular guitar and vocal duo. They made their career principally in Norway and Denmark and kept working even during the German occupation, when they skirted laws restricting the hours of any clubs by performing in the mornings or any... [+] Read More
Artist: Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920 at Wadowice, Poland. After studying in secret during the Nazis' occupation of his homeland, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1946, later serving at the Krakow diocese. Upon completing a six-year teaching tenure at the Krakow Seminary, in 1958 Wojtyla was appointed an auxiliary bishop... [+] Read More
Artist: Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Still revered as an icon decades after her death, "the Sparrow" served as a touchstone for virtually every chansonnier, male or female, who followed her. Her greatest strength wasn't so much her technique, or the purity of her voice, but the raw, passionate power of... [+] Read More
Artist: muris varajic
Muris Varajic,guitarist from Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina.Born on 24. September 1979 in Foca(BiH).Current location:Sarajevo,BiH.Has played with many bands and pop-rock Stars from Ex Yugoslavia.Statistics per year since 2000:over a 150 club gigs, jam-sessionsand big venues concerts,about 4 full albums and over 20 single songsin recording... [+] Read More
Artist: DJ Venom
Venom began DJing in 1989, involved in the hip-hop scene. Through working at a local radio station, he met and started working with the hip-hop music director. Venom's interest in the music grew and he took it on as a full-time occupation. In 1991 with the coaxing from some fellow DJs, Venom went to his first techno/house event and immediately... [+] Read More
Artist: Michael Altenburg
Michael Altenburg was a composer, teacher and minister who publihsed a number of sacred works which are still sung today. His career as a teacher, minister and composer are somewhat sporadic and intermingled with one another. While one occupation flourished the others seem to fade. Life situations dictated what he did but the fruits of his... [+] Read More
Artist: Hubert Rostaing
A relatively minor figure in jazz history, Hubert Rostaing will always be remembered as Stephane Grappelli's successor with Django Reinhardt's Quintet of the Hot Club of France. He worked early on in Algiers with the Red Hotters, moving to Paris in 1939. Rostaing played with Reinhardt on and off during 1940-48, appearing on many recordings... [+] Read More
Artist: Boyd Tinsley
A classically trained violinist and current member of the Dave Matthews Band, Boyd Tinsley grew up in Charlottesville, VA. The aspiring guitarist discovered a proficiency for the violin in a middle school strings class, and went on to study under Isadore Saslav, the concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony. When he was 16, Tinsley balked at the... [+] Read More
Artist: Exquisite Corpse
Begun by Robert Heynen in 1993 as a side project from the ambience of Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Exquisite Corpse soon became his full-time occupation with the release of several EPs and the 1994 full-length Inner Light. The seeds of the group were sown in 1993 when Heynen and producer Tim Freeman came together on a Psychick Warriors remix... [+] Read More
Artist: Horst Winter
An Artie Shaw-influenced swing-era clarinetist, Winter formed his first orchestra and made his first records in 1930s Berlin. He recorded for the German-based Tempo label during World War II with such artists as Willi Berking and Meg Tevelian. After the war he relocated to Vienna and became an Austrian citizen. Winter formed his Vienna Dance... [+] Read More
Artist: Harold Cooper
Sometimes credited as just plain old Harry Cooper, this early jazz trumpeter moved to Kansas City as a child and first took up his horn in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps Band. He was still in high school when he began gigging with the likes of Bennie Moten and George E; Lee, i.e. very heavy musical company. In the early '20s he was... [+] Read More
Artist: Fatboy Slim
Norman "Jack-of-All-Genres" Cook, in addition to his former occupations as bassist for the Housemartins and one-third of acid house hitmakers Pizzaman, is also the man behind one of the most popular of the new flock of English "Brit-hop" producers, Fatboy Slim. Releasing his Fatboy material through club staple Skint, Cook's raucous blend of... [+] Read More
Artist: Nana Mouskouri
Globally speaking, Nana Mouskouri is the biggest-selling female artist of all time. Her fluency in multiple languages -- Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese -- enabled her to reach audiences all over Europe, the Americas, and even Asia. Possessed of a distinctive, angelic soprano -- the product of having been born with only one... [+] Read More
Artist: Will Ackerman
William Ackerman has gained prominence both as a musician and a businessman, and at least one of those occupations seems to have been unintentional. Though Ackerman has played guitar since the age of 12, when he dropped out of college it was to become a carpenter, and his first company was called Windham Hill Builders. But Ackerman composed... [+] Read More
Artist: NoahJohn
Though originally a stage moniker for surreal singer/songwriter Carl Johns, as he felt uncomfortable seeing his name on promotional material, Noahjohn has come to incorporate a revolving coterie of 25 members since 1997. In addition, Johns is also the founder of Madison, WI's Speakeasy Records and the Wild Chirp fanzine.
Following his... [+] Read More
Artist: Taka Boom
The sister of Chaka Khan, vocalist Yvonne Stephens forged a new identity by combining the Swahili word for "love of my people" ("Taka") with a last name derived from her ex-husband's occupation (demolitions expert). She worked alongside Khan locally in their hometown of Chicago until Chaka joined Rufus, and Taka moved to Los Angeles. Boom was a... [+] Read More
Artist: Vassilis Tsitsánis
Although Vassilis Tsitsanis cut his first record shortly before the onset of World War II, it is to the postwar period that he truly belongs, and to the Greek postwar mindset that he owes his strongest allegiances.
Tsitsanis was born the son of a craftsman who played bouzouki but forbade his son to touch the instrument. After his father's... [+] Read More
Artist: Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori
"Il principiante di musica" was one of two theoretical works by Gregori. This was an elementary text book that saw five editions. His second theoretical work was entitled "Il canto fermo in practica." As a violinist and composer the first noted position for Gregori was as a violinist in the palatine chapel of Lucca. He was then twenty five years... [+] Read More
Artist: John Keeble
As an English organist Keeble formerly studied with Kelway as a choirboy in Chichester Cathedral and went to London to study organ and Greek with Pepusch. His theoretical work," The "Theory of Harmonics," if nothing else, demonstrated Pepusch's influence on Keeble. The work rose to some interest during its time but is of little musical use --... [+] Read More
