Since very young, Tyler James always wanted to be famous and attended the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marble Arch, London, England. This is the same school that has brought luck to other celebrities such as Adele, Dua Lipa and Amy Winehouse. Just the latter became his best friend. They also lived together for [...]
Shannon is an American dance-pop artist best known for the hit "Let the music play".The single reached number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart in 1983.After the huge success of "Let the music play", the singer-songwriter scored other dance hits with "Give me tonight", "My heart's divided" and "Do you wanna get away".Three [...]
Shalamar is an American disco-funk group formed in the 70s by Gary Mumford, Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel.Their first hit was "Uptown festival", a Motown medley recorded at Ike & Tina Turner's studio Bolic Sound in 1976.The next two records by Shalamar, "Disco gardens" and "Big fun", saw a change of line-up. The arrival of [...]
Before ABBA conquered the world in the mid 70s, Scottish pop group Middle of the Road was quite successful across Europe and Latin America with catchy europop songs. Formed in 1967 by Sally Carr, drummer Ken Andrew, guitarist Ian McCredie and his brother Eric, the band moved to Italy looking for success. In Italy, [...]
Harvey Danger was an American alternative rock band formed in the early '90s and was composed of University of Washington students Sean Nelson, Jeff Lin, Aaron Huffman and Evan Sult. After playing cover songs at college parties, the group raised the interest of Greg Lover, founder of independent record label Arena Rock. Their first [...]
Alex Cartañá is a British singer-songwriter and actress of Spanish origin. Born in 1983, she grew up in Mallorca but soon decided to leave the island to focus on studying performing arts in the UK. In 2003, Alex signed a recording contract and lent her vocals to Lee-Cabrera's latin-dance single "Shake it (move a [...]
The Lemon Pipers was an American bubblegum/psychedelic pop band best known for number one hit "Green tambourine". Formed by a group of high school musicians in 1966, the original lineup comprised singer Ivan Browne, drummer William Albaugh, guitarist Bill Bartlett, keyboardist R.G. Nave and bassist Bob Dudek. This version of the band didn’t stay [...]
Ashford and Simpson were an American r&b-soul duo formed by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Born in Fairfield, South Carolina, in 1941, Nickolas grew up in Willow Run singing in a church choir while Valerie, born in 1946 in the Bronx, comes from a very musical family that includes her brother Ray Simpson, lead [...]
Real McCoy is a German Eurodance/pop music project that was internationally successful throughout the 1990s with the hit singles "Another night", "Run away" and "Come and get your love". Initially known as M.C.Sar & The Real McCoy, the collective released their debut single, a cover version of Technotronic's "Pump up the jam" in late [...]
Lennie Peters and Dianne Lee formed British folk-pop duo Peters & Lee in 1970. Born in Islington, north London, in 1993, Lennie lost his sight in both eyes at the age of 16 after an accident but the tragedy did not stop him from pursuing his dreams. He had been a pianist/singer in pubs [...]