Etta James
Feb 22, 2012 Great Musician
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Jamesetta Hawkins was born January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, fourteen year old African American mother, Dorothy Hawkins, and unknown father (the artist will be to convince Rudolf Walter Wanderone, Jr., a famous professional snooker player known by the nickname “Minnesota Fats “). Abandoned by Dorothy, who leads a crush and is not able to care for her daughter, spent a difficult childhood with adoptive families find some solace in singing at church. In 1950 he reunited with his mother in San Francisco and form a vocal trio, the Creolettes, thanks to which she was noticed by the famous musician, producer and talent scout Johnny Otis: he is to persuade her to change her name to Etta James and impact in 1955 first 45 laps, “Roll With Me, Henry”, a duet with Richard Berry (the individual encounters a problem of censorship for the title too “licentious”, becoming “Dance with Me, Henry” then “The wallflower” in the interpretation by Georgia Gibbs).
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Les Claypool
Feb 15, 2012 Great Musician
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Les Claypool was born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California. Began his musical career at age fourteen, performing in several local bands, having completed his studies, he joined a cover band called Tommy Cranck Band and their durations during this period also bought his first Carl Thompson bass, which became his trademark factory. Discarded from Metallica to play bass, he plays first with Blind Illusion – that in 1988 they released the album SANE ASYLUM – and then with Primus. The first record of this group is O SUCK THIS, live work that is carried to success, thanks to the college radio circuit, followed by Frizzle Fry (1990), while SAILING THE SEAS OF CHEESE, major label debut for Interscope, it becomes hard d ‘gold bringing the group to open the concerts of various artists like Public Enemy, Anthrax, U2, Fishbone, and Rush.
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Whitney Houston dies at 48
Feb 12, 2012 Great Musician
The singer and actress Whitney Houston , one of the most powerful voices in pop music, died today at 48 years old at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, sources with the LAPD.
The singer was pronounced dead at 15:55 pm local time at the Beverly Hilton Hotel despite resuscitation efforts, said a police spokesman. Police Lt. Mark Rosen of Beverly Hills to the press said there was “no obvious signs of criminal intent” and that the cause of his death is being investigated.
Houston, who was preparing to return to the big screen in a remake of “Sparkle”, his first film role since “The Preacher’s Wife” in 1996, died on the eve of the 54th annual presentation of the Grammy Awards. The news of his death sparked a wave of reaction in the media, fans and other celebrities.
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Ben Harper
Feb 12, 2012 Great Musician
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Born in 1969 in Claremont, California, Ben Harper Start practicing on the guitar with his grandparents, who run a shop of musical instruments. Harper specializes in the use of a slide guitar very popular in the ’30s, the Weissnbourn, with which it can reflect the best blues sounds that make it look right now as a rival of Robert Johnson. The passion for modern music is instead embodied by names such as Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, able to bring intensity and energy to his musical proposal.
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Axl Rose
Feb 10, 2012 Great Musician
William Bruce Rose was born February 6, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana.
He pretty rough childhood due to abuse of the father and is ostracized at school because they felt “different”, but finds solace in the choir of the street and even in rock music. In the early eighties following Axl’s friend Jeff Isbell
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Barry White
Feb 7, 2012 Great Musician
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Born in Galveston, Texas, in 1944, grows Barry White singing in a gospel choir with his mother and playing the piano at once. After moving to Los Angeles, his first recording at the tender age of 11 years, playing the piano in the song “Goodnight My Love” by Jesse Belvin. They made their debut at sixteen with a group called the Upfronts, and subsequently worked for various independent labels in Los Angeles, until one of these, the Mustang, not hired him for forty dollars a week as an author. During this time White handles the idea of becoming an artist and makes the disc ALL IN THE RUN OF A DAY. His first statement is the dance song sung by Viola Wills “Lost without the love of my guy.”
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DAVID BOWIE
Jan 16, 2012 Great Musician
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David Jones – born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, London – recorded his first disc in 1964. The popularity comes with the single “Space Oddity” in 1969, a brilliant song vaguely psychedelic sci-fi to the arrangement. The triumph of the year 1972, that of the famous ZIGGY STARDUST – album populated with evergreen songs like “Rock’n'roll suicide,” “Starman,” “Suffragette City”, “Five Years” – which reached fifth place in Great Britain. ALADDIN SANE, released in April 1973, is a hard transition, although corroborated by songs like “Panic in Detroit”, “The Jean Genie” and the gorgeous “Time.” In the same year is also PIN-UPS, covers album.
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Keith Richards
Jan 1, 2012 Great Musician
Keith Richards was born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England.
An only child, is introduced to the musical world by his mother that makes him hard to know Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and bought him his first guitar for seven pounds. During the years of school – where he met Mick Jagger – was noticed by the director of the choir that recruits him to sing even coming to perform in front of the Queen Elizabeth II.
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Jimmy Page
Dec 31, 2011 Great Musician
Jimmy Page was born January 9, 1944 in Heston, Middlesex, England.
He began playing the guitar at thirteen and formed his first band – Neil Christian & the Crusaders – in high school, however, leaving this experience due to serious health problems. Starts to play full time in 1966 when she accepts the offer of the Yardbirds to join the group as a guitarist. After taking part in the album Little Games and several tours, Page decided to form their own band, even after the dissolution of the Yardbirds in 1968. This is how the New Yardbirds, along with bassist John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham under the battery, the four changes name to Led Zeppelin and immediately become one of the most important rock bands of the period, publishing – especially between 1969 and 1975 – a series of albums that have become classics of the genre, such as LED ZEPPELIN I LED ZEPPELIN II LED ZEPPELIN III LED ZEPPELIN IV, and HOLY HOUSE OF THE PHYSICAL GRAFFITI.
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Sting
Dec 21, 2011 Great Musician
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Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, was born October 2, 1951 in Wallsend near Newcastle, northern England. After having served for nearly a decade in the Police began his solo career in 1985, although for some years had begun to show signs of restlessness art. In 1982 had in fact participated in the film “Brimstone and Treacle” by recording a version of the classic ’30s “Spread a Little Happiness” written by Vivian Ellis, and later took part in the incision of the Dire Straits hit “Money for nothing” and collaborated with Phil Collins on the album NO JACKET REQUIRED.
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