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Artist: Wisbech Grammar School
Artist: Nelly
When Nelly first debuted nationally in summer 2000, he seemed like a novelty, but it quickly became apparent that he was, in fact, an exceptional artist, a rapper with truly universal appeal. He wasn't from the East or West Coast, and wasn't really from the Dirty South, either. Rather, Nelly was from St. Louis, a Midwestern city halfway between... [+] Read More
Artist: Manishevitz
Manishevitz began in Virginia as the brainchild of Adam Busch, formerly of the Curious Digit. With the help of guitarist Via Nuon, the band's first release for Jagjaguwar, (1999's Grammar Bell and the All Fall Down,) was a promising disc of intimate, gentle indie pop liberally laced with folk and acoustic blues tones. Busch and Nuon soon... [+] Read More
Artist: E. Gayathri
Carnatic music has a long tradition of producing child prodigies who learn the grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of music as others might learn a language during early childhood. E. Gayathri was born around 1959 in Madras. Her father, Aswathama, was a Telugu film music director and music was in her blood. It is said that she took to the concert... [+] Read More
Artist: Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib (born: Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan) was one of the great writers of classical Urdu poetry. While the majority of his poems were written before his nineteenth birthday, Ghalib showed a remarkable maturity and a firm understanding of philosophy, ethics, theology, grammar and history. The product of a Turkish aristocratic heritage, Ghalib... [+] Read More
Artist: Doug Cameron
Doug Cameron is an excellent electric violinist who thus far has been content to perform mostly in the crossover and pop/jazz field. Growing up in New York, Cameron started on the violin when he was five. He developed quickly and was still in grammar school when he played in the Westchester Conservatory Orchestra and the New York State Youth... [+] Read More
Artist: Ty
Mild-mannered British rapper Ty lacks the ragga flow and quick patois of most rappers from the Big Dada label; he's more the big brother, with clever, mature themes that commonly go far beyond the usual shot-callers involved in rap music. Born in London to Nigerian immigrants, Ty began recording during the mid-'90s, and appeared on tracks... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnny Frigo
Johnny Frigo has really had two careers. He started out playing violin in grammar school and after switching to tuba in order to play in his junior high school band, he took up the bass. Frigo started playing professionally as a bassist in 1934 and had some low-profile jobs until joining Jimmy Dorsey in the mid-'40s. In 1947, he formed a trio... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Pendleton
Brian Pendleton was the rhythm guitarist in the first lineup of the Pretty Things, playing on their mid-'60s singles and first two albums. Like the band's lead guitarist Dick Taylor (and Mick Jagger), he had gone to Dartford Grammar School in the London suburbs. In addition to playing rhythm guitar, he also played slide, most memorably as a... [+] Read More
Artist: Joseph Weigl
This Austrian conductor and composer is most noted for his production of operas. He was afforded the opportunity of studying in Vienna with Witzig and Albrechtsberger who was teaching at the grammar school when Weigl was in attendance. Weigl studied with Albrechtsberger until 1782 but two years before their departure, Weigl's first opera "Die... [+] Read More
Artist: Ernie Carson
With the passing of Wild Bill Davison in 1989, Ernie Carson has come the closest of anyone to filling the gap left by the colorful and highly expressive cornetist. Carson began playing trumpet while in grammar school and was working in theater bands by the time he was a junior in high school. A member of the Castle Jazz Band during 1954-1956... [+] Read More
Artist: The Others
The Others were part of the last wave of mid-1960's British beat bands, formed at Hampton Grammar School in Middlesex with Paul Stewart on vocals, Bob Freeman and John Stanley on guitars, Ian McLintock on bass, and Nigel Baldwin on drums. They were well suited to covering American rock 'n roll, with a lean, tough sound that allowed them to turn... [+] Read More
Artist: The Harmonizing Four
One of the top gospel quartets of the postwar era, the Harmonizing Four was also a relative anomaly of the period; as their contemporaries raced to modernize their sound, rejecting the traditional jubilee style in favor of the intensity of the burgeoning "hard gospel" movement, the Four remained true to their roots, focusing instead on the... [+] Read More
Artist: Baby S
Raised on the West Side of Los Angeles, Baby S is a gangsta rapper whose primary influences include DJ Quik, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and late N.W.A. member Eazy-E. Baby has a rapping style that is unmistakably California -- the minute he starts to flow, one can easily tell that he is from the West Coast. The L.A. resident started rapping when he was... [+] Read More
Artist: Murphy Lee
The St. Lunatics crew had been a fixture in its native St. Louis since the early '90s, scoring regional hits and continuing to develop its unique Midwestern spin on the Dirty South dynamic. But while they had secured management and a major-label deal, nothing materialized until the multi-platinum success of Lunatics member Nelly's 2000 solo... [+] Read More
Artist: Toya
The popularity of Dirty South-style rap artists has helped put St. Louis on the musical map, especially following the huge success of Nelly's Country Grammar album. The city's true musical style lies somewhere between the South and the Midwest, though, with a diverse collection of artists who draw as much inspiration from Chicago as Atlanta.... [+] Read More
Artist: Work of Saws
Bred on the healthy pop influences of XTC and Richard Davies, Minneapolis' Work of Saws was initially conceived as a hobby project of singer/guitarist Brock Davis. Using a beat up tape recorder, Davis began compiling hundreds of one- to two-minute "songlets" that ran the stylistic gamut, including country-pop vignettes, playful punk/pop ditties,... [+] Read More
Artist: Jimmy Ford
Never mind the double-size garage addition -- better build a triple or even more to house all the performers by the name of Jimmy Ford whose names have graced the sticky little circles pressing plants used to glue onto the center of records. From the rockabilly side of the garage there was at least one Jimmy Ford, perhaps two, making singles for... [+] Read More
Artist: Edward U. Howard
Not to be confused with either the gospel keyboardist or romantic R&B singer/songwriter of the same name, the man most commonly identified as Edward U. Howard or just plain Ed Howard is linked with two soul songs of social consciousness that have become popularly covered standards.
In the case of soul material, cover versions in the rap style... [+] Read More
Artist: Peoples Equals
Mike Wait is just plain cool. He enjoys brief accidental swims in the Yarra with all of his clothes on, and the eyeball-hair-growing aftermath. He also loves to write bio's. He knows there's no cash in hand jobs. Luke Caesar is anal about his grammar and enjoys playing old video game tunes on his bass. Inspired by the Backstreet Boys and the... [+] Read More
Artist: Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was the son of an English master at Swansea Grammar School, which he attended. Moving to London, he pursued a career as a journalist and broadcaster. His first two books of poetry, Eighteen Poems (1934) and Twenty-Five Poems (1936), drew attention to him, but it was with his 1946 collection Deaths and Entrances (1946)... [+] Read More
Artist: Marga Gomez
Marga Gomez, best known for her candid, dignified but physical, stand-up comedy, actually got her professional start as an actor. Growing up the bratty only child of well-known Cuban comedian Willy Chevalier and sensual Puerto Rican dancer Margarita Estremera -- Margo The Exotic to Anglos -- Marga came honestly to entertainment. Soon after... [+] Read More
Artist: Dave Godin
Music journalist and historian Dave Godin was the heart and soul of Britain's enduring Northern soul collector's culture. Not only did he inadvertently give a genre, scene, and community their name, but he compiled a series of tasteful, illuminating records and CDs that lent enormous meaning and historical meaning to music that might have... [+] Read More
Artist: Mr.Fussy
Mr. Fussy is a rock/pop artist in New York City. He hangs with the Love Bats! Its a good hang. Artist description compiled of quotes from friends and enemies.Mr. Fussy croons like Robert Goulet, dances like Mr. T, rocks like a hurricane, enjoys a dark lager, has a fantastic turkey call, prefers Led Zeppelin over the Spice Girls on most days,... [+] Read More
Artist: Dick Taylor
Although his name is not recognized by most rock fans, Dick Taylor was an important figure in 1960s British rock as lead guitarist and frequent songwriter for the Pretty Things, and has deep ties to the general birth of the British blues-rock scene. A teenage friend of Mick Jagger, he attended the same grammar school in the London suburb... [+] Read More
