bob-dylan
Bob Dylan [ dɪlən ] (* May 24 1941 in Duluth , Minnesota ; really Robert Allen Zimmerman) is an American folk – and rock musicians , poets and painters . Bob Dylan sings, plays guitar , harmonica and piano and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century.
Dylan began in the late 1950s as a folk musician and turned to the mid-1960s rock music. His texts were at the beginning of his work from the contents of the folk movement and one of its most famous representative, Woody Guthrie , and later by Symbolist poets like Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire , but also by the Biblical influences.
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bobby-womack
Robert “Bobby” Dwayne Womack (* March 4 1944 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an African-American singer and songwriter . His music style is Soul and R & B with the greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s.
His father, who was also a musician, encouraged early in the career of Bobby and his brother Cecil . Together the two founded his own band under the name Womack Brothers . They were discovered by Sam Cooke , of them in the early 1960s, a recording contract for Cooke’s SAR Records procured. Sam Cooke led by the Womacks in a less sacred music emphasized more commercial direction, and named the band in The Valentinos . Their first minor hit was the 1964 single It’s All Over Now , their cover version by the Rolling Stones so successful was that Womack could live well through the royalties for some time.
After Sam Cooke died in 1964, married Bobby Womack, the young widow Barbara, which resulted in a minor scandal. This expanding, as his younger brother Cecil, the daughter of Sam Cooke, Linda married.
At 31 December 1975 Bobby married his second wife, Regina bank. In early 1976 he was awarded a contract with Columbia Records . In 1981 he joined the label Beverly Glen , where he was also the album The Poet on. After a successful legal battle with Beverly Glen because of the absence of royalties Womack transferred in 1985 to MCA . In 1986, he worked with the Rolling Stones on their album Dirty Work , and sang with Mick Jagger ‘s duet Harlem Shuffle . In 1997 he published again Christian-inspired music ( Back to my roots ).
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blake-lewis
Blake Colin Lewis (* July 21 1981 in Redmond , Washington ) is an American singer-songwriter and beatboxer . In 2007 he participated in the sixth season of American Idol and some came second.
Blake Lewis on 21 Born July 1981 in Redmond (Washington), the son of Dallas and Dinah Lewis. He went to the Kenmore Junior High and then to the Inglemoor High School .
On 23 May 2007 Lewis succumbed Jordin Sparks in the final.
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billy-joe-shaver
Billy Joe Shaver (* August 16 1939 in Corsicana , Texas ) is a Texan songwriter , singer , writer and actor .
Billy Joe Shaver grew up with his older sister Patricia Watson with his mother Victoria Shaver, the father was already before the birth of the son ran away. As his mother worked in a night club in Waco, Shaver spent much time as a child with his grandmother in Corsicana / Texas. After the eighth grade left Billy Joe Shaver, the school and worked as a cotton picker. On the day of his seventeenth birthday, wrote to Billy Joe Shaver at the U.S. Navy one. After his army service, he took several odd jobs, among other things, he tried his hand as a rodeo rider. During this time he met Brenda Joyce Tindell, whom he married soon. The couple had a son in 1962, John Edwin . When the child was there, hired Shaver in a sawmill. One day he got his right hand (Shaver is right-handed) in the machine and lost two fingers almost completely. Billy Joe and Brenda were divorced and remarried several times -. There were three marriages and two divorces in 1999 died in quick succession and his mother Brenda Joyce from cancer, son Eddy died a year later.
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billy-joel
Billy Joel (* May 9 1949 as William Martin Joel in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter.
orrissey was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He seems to have found his craft and his own voice in the American country blues of Mississippi John Hurt and Robert Johnson, the pure country of Hank Williams, the Kansas City jazz of Count Basie and Lester Young, and the New York folk songwriters of the 1960s.[citation needed] His eponymous (ie., self-titled) first album released in 1984 on the Reckless label, and then re-recorded for the Philo label, includes the song “Small Town on the River”, a song about a small town in New Hampshire after the mill closes.
Over the course of his long career, two of Morrissey’s eleven albums received Grammy nominations and several earned 4-star reviews in Rolling Stone.Stephen Holden, for the New York Times, wrote, “Mr. Morrissey’s songs have the force of poetry…a terseness, precision of detail and a tone of laconic understatement that relate his lyrics to the stories of writers like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford.He is also the author of the novel Edson (Random House/Alfred A. Knopf 1996) and the recently completed Imaginary Runner.
Although Morrissey expresses admiration for Carver’s stories, he credits a fellow New Hampshire writer as a more important mentor and influence:
I used to hang out with this guy who taught at the University of New Hampshire who was a mentor of sorts. His name was Thomas Williams [...] He died in 1990. We often went fishing and hunting together. A good many of his friends were also writers and so when they’d get together the talk would go from rainbow trout to Eudora Welty to rough grouse. So I just kept my mouth shut. There was a lot more I was going to learn than teach in that group. Tom always said, “just say what you mean as economically as possible and get out,” and that’s really what I try to do with my lyrics.
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bill-withers
Bill Withers (* July 4 1938 when William Harrison Withers, Jr. in Slabfork , West Virginia ) is an American singer and songwriter .
Withers was born in the mining town of Slabfork. His parents divorced when he was three years old. He then lived at times with his mother Mattie Rose in Beckley . His father, William Harrison Withers Sr., a Baptist deacon and treasurer for the UMWA miners’ union, died when Withers was 13 years old. Withers Jr. joined with 17 in the U.S. Army, where he was nine years including in the Middle East served. During this time he began to write songs. In 1967 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a professional career as a musician. First he took demo tapes on – one of these bands led to a contract in which, in Hollywood based record label Sussex Records . His debut album Just As I Am was by Booker T. Jones produced and released in January 1971. It reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 . Far greater was the success of the first single Is not No Sunshine . These are placed in third position of the Billboard Hot 100 and earned Withers in the following year his Grammy .
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bill-morrissey
Bill Morrissey (November 25, 1951 – July 23, 2011) was an American folk singer/songwriter from New Hampshire. Many of his songs reflect the harsh realities of life in crumbling New England mill towns.
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bill-staines
Bill Staines (born February 6, 1947, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England, who writes and performs in a traditional vein. He has also written and recorded children’s songs.
Raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, Staines began his professional career in the early 1960s in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. He began touring nationwide a few years later. In 1975 he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival. He performs about 200 times a year and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and The Good Evening Show.
Staines’ songs include “Bridges,” “Crossing the Water,” “Sweet Wyoming Home”, “The Roseville Fair”, “A Place in the Choir”, “Child of Mine,” and “River.”
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bill-madden
Bill Madden (born 1946) is an American sportswriter for the New York Daily News. A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, he has served on the Historical Overview Committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, 2007 and 2008, helping to select candidates for the final ballots presented to the Veterans Committee.
Madden grew up in Oradell, New Jersey, and graduated from Bergen Catholic High School.
He was a sportwriter with UPI for nine years before he joined the Daily News in 1978, and covered the New York Yankees before becoming a columnist in 1989. He has written the books Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With “Boss” Steinbrenner (1991, with Moss Klein), Zim – A Baseball Life (2001, with Don Zimmer), Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee (2003), and Bill Madden: My 25 Years Covering Baseball’s Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies (2004) and Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball (2010).
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ben-sollee
Ben Sollee (b. ca. 1984) is a cellist and vocalist known for his percussive playing style, genre hopping songwriting, wide appeal, and political activism. His music incorporates banjo, guitar, percussion and unusual cello techniques to create a unique mix of folk, bluegrass, jazz and R&B.
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