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Artist: Tumor
Artist: Tumor Circus
Artist: Matthew Zachary
Pianist and motivational speaker Matthew Zachary has built his career around helping the sick and dying. Diagnosed with a brain tumor at a young age, he was told his tumor removal was not only risky, but could result in the loss of his piano-playing abilities. He survived the ordeal and turned his talents into something that could help others... [+] Read More
Artist: KURT SARNAU
WRITING MUSIC AND COPYWRITING ALL KINDS OF SOMGS SINCE LEAVING THE ARMY IN 74. WAS IN PUNK ROCK BAND 86 TO ?
AND MAX ROCK AND ROLL MAG NOTED MY SONG ON OUR VIOLENT TUMOR
COMPILATION 45 RELEASE :RUNNIN MACHINE\" NUMBER 2 APRIL 86
SO \"NOMAK - VAMPIRE DIOCESE \" IS UPGRADE OF THAT SONG.
GO TO WWW.COPYRIGHT.GOV PLUG IN MY LAST NAME \"SARNAU\"
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Artist: Amen
Neo-metal act Amen was formed in Los Angeles in 1994 by singer Casey Chaos and guitarist Paul Fig; eventually onetime Ugly Kid Joe drummer Shannon Larkin signed on, bringing with him ex-Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo. Following the 1998 death of Snot frontman Lynn Strait, the group's bassist John "Tumor" Fahnestock agreed to join Amen as well, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Blackstar
England's short-lived Blackstar rose from the ashes of grindcore pioneers Carcass, whose Jeff Walker (vocals/bass), Carlo Regadas (guitar) and Ken Owen (drums) wished to continue exploring the technical death metal previewed on that band's final album, the very un-Carcass-like Swansong. After drafting rhythm guitarist Mark Griffiths... [+] Read More
Artist: R.E.M.
R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground. While there were a number of hardcore and punk bands in the U.S. during the early '80s, R.E.M. brought guitar pop back into the underground... [+] Read More
Artist: George Gershwin
In a career tragically cut short in mid-stride by a brain tumor, George Gershwin (1898-1937) proved himself to be not only one of the great songwriters of his extremely rich era, but also a gifted "serious" composer who bridged the worlds of classical and popular music. The latter is all the more striking, given that, of his contemporaries,... [+] Read More
Artist: Control Denied
Since its formation in 1983, Chuck Schuldiner was the creative center of the influential heavy metal band, Death. Combining strong songwriting with powerful, brutally delivered lyrics, the band was anything if not extreme. Seeking a project a little closer to his classic metal roots, in 1996 Schuldiner assembled Control Denied, a band which... [+] Read More
Artist: Barricada
Spanish heavy metal band Barricada was formed in the early '80s by singer/bassist Enrique Villarreal, who was joined by ex-Némesis guitarist Javier Hernández, drummer Mikel Astrain, and ex-Kafarmaún singer/guitarist Sergio Oses, making their live debut in 1982. Soon, guitarist Alfredo Piedrafita replaced Sergio Oses. In 1983, independent... [+] Read More
Artist: Wretch Like Me
Vocalist Abe Brennan got together Wretch Like Me in 1996 after the breakup of his former band, My Name. Accompanied by former My Name and Goodbye Harry guitarist Trevor Lanigan, guitarist Roy Anderson, drummer Jason Livermore, and bassist Jeff Matz, this Fort Collins, CO-based quintet brought on a high energy of pop-punk silliness upon the... [+] Read More
Artist: Carl Barat
Although his appearance on Client's 2004 single "Pornography" was technically Carl Barat's first work as a solo artist, Barat began working on his solo career in earnest after the Libertines disbanded later that year due to Pete Doherty's increasing drug use and instability. In 2005 he signed to Vertigo Records and started writing songs, often... [+] Read More
Artist: King Snake Roost
King Snake Roost's debut EP, From Barbarism to Christian Manhood (1987), exemplified their heavy, guitar-driven style of garage music. Soon after its release, David Quinn replaced bassist Michael Raymond and the band moved from Adelaide to Sydney where they released three singles: "Top End Killer"/"A Storm Brewin'" (May 1988), Alice Cooper's... [+] Read More
Artist: Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz was one of Latin music's most respected vocalists. A ten-time Grammy nominee, Cruz, who sang only in her native Spanish language, received a Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement award, a National Medal of the Arts, and honorary doctorates from Yale University and the University of Miami. A street in Miami was even renamed in her honor,... [+] Read More
Artist: Marvin Gaye
One of the most gifted, visionary, and enduring talents ever launched into orbit by the Motown hit machine, Marvin Gaye blazed the trail for the continued evolution of popular black music. Moving from lean, powerful R&B to stylish, sophisticated soul to finally arrive at an intensely political and personal form of artistic self-expression, his... [+] Read More
Artist: Tammi Terrell
Singer Tammi Terrell joined forces with the immortal Marvin Gaye to create some of the greatest love songs ever to emerge from the Motown hit factory; sadly, their series of classic duets -- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," and "You're All I Need to Get By" among them -- came to an abrupt and tragic halt with... [+] Read More
Artist: Matthew Ward
As a member of the '70s Jesus rock mainstays 2nd Chapter of Acts, vocalist Matthew Ward helped create the sound that eventually became CCM; upon the group's dissolution in 1988, Ward embarked on a solo career. Ward grew up in North Dakota on his family's farm, one of nine siblings; after moving to Sacramento, his mother died of a brain tumor in... [+] Read More
Artist: Lou Gramm
First rising to prominence as the frontman for platinum-selling hard rock combo Foreigner, Lou Gramm later mounted a successful solo career, cracking the Top Five in 1987 with "Midnight Blue." Born in Rochester, NY on May 2, 1950, Gramm first surfaced as the drummer with the band Black Sheep, assuming lead vocal duties prior to recording the... [+] Read More
Artist: Frank Patterson
"Ireland's Golden Tenor," Frank Patterson was born and raised in Tipperary; announcing his intentions to become a singer on his first day of school, he performed as a member of the local group the Wren Boys as a teen before quitting school to work in his mother's printing business. Upon relocating to Dublin in 1961, Patterson studied vocal... [+] Read More
Artist: Power of Zeus
One of the more obscure hard rock acts of the early '70s, Detroit's Power of Zeus became the first hard rock group to sign and record for Motown subsidiary Rare Earth, but theirs was hardly a successful relationship. The band that would become Power of Zeus was formed in 1968 by vocalist/guitarist Joe Periano, shortly after his release from the... [+] Read More
Artist: Chaino
The self-styled "percussion genius of Africa," exotica-era enigma Chaino was actually born Leon Johnson in Philadelphia in 1927; raised primarily in Chicago, the details of his early life are largely a mystery, although at some point he learned to play the bongos and began touring the so-called "chitlin" circuit of black nightclubs. During the... [+] Read More
Artist: Don Cruz Lizárraga
Clarinet player and bandleader Don Cruz Lizárraga was one of the originators of the banda tradition of Mexico. Together with his horn-dominated band La Banda El Recodo, Lizárraga brought the ranchera Cumbias, baladas, corridos, balades ritmica, boleros, and pasos dobles of Mexico to the international stage.
Lizárraga's interests in music... [+] Read More
Artist: Paul Nash
Orchestral jazz composer and guitarist Paul Nash was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1948. The son of a classical pianist, he earned his first fleeting taste of musical success in 1966 when one of his many teenage rock bands appeared between a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix and headliner the Blues Project at the legendary Greenwich Village nightclub... [+] Read More
Artist: Don Stover
Don Stover was one of bluegrass' best loved musicians. A benefit concert, featuring Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Laurie Lewis, Chesapeake, Bill Keith and Jim Rooney, at the Somerville Theater in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1994, raised more than nine thousand dollars for Stover to undergo a brain tumor operation. A video of the event was... [+] Read More
Artist: Bud & Travis
The folk duo of Bud Dashiell and Travis Edmonson performed hundreds of shows and recorded ten albums between 1958 and 1965, all without ever securing a hit single. Bud & Travis played a key role in the folk revival. Their superb guitar playing, effortless harmonizing, and boundless catalog of pop, folk, and Latin material influenced and informed... [+] Read More
