paula-cole
Paula Cole (* April 5 1968 in Rockport , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American singer . She accompanied Peter Gabriel ‘s 1993 Secret World Tour. Their biggest solo hit she had with Where Have All The Cowboys Gone . Other hits included I Do not Want To Wait by the theme song for the popular youth series Dawson’s Creek contributed and I Believe In Love .
patty-larkin
Patty Larkin (b. June 19, 1951, Des Moines, Iowa)is a Boston-based singer-songwriter.
Patty Larkin redefines the boundaries of folk-urban pop music along with her creative guitar wizardry and uncompromising vocals and lyrics. Acoustic Guitar hails her “soundscape experiments” whereas Rolling Stone praises her “evocative and delicate sonic shading.” She has been described as “riveting” (Chicago Tribune), “hypnotic” (Entertainment Weekly) and a “drop-dead brilliant” performer (Performing Songwriter).
Patty Larkin grew up in an exceedingly musical and inventive family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Descended from an extended line of Irish yank singers and taletellers, her mother was a painter, her sisters each musicians. She learned at a young age to understand the sweetness and magic of the humanities. She began classical piano studies at age seven, and have become swept up within the sounds of pop and folks within the 60s, teaching herself the guitar and experimenting with songwriting in highschool. An English major, Larkin sang throughout her highschool and faculty career, beginning out in coffeehouses in Oregon and San Francisco. Upon graduation from the University of Oregon, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts and devoted herself to music, busking on the streets of Cambridge and learning jazz guitar at Berklee faculty of Music and with Boston space jazz guitarists.
patty-griffin
Patty Griffin (birth name Patricia Jean Griffin , * March 16 1964 in Old Town (Maine) ) is an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award winner. Griffin was particularly for the indigenous style of their songs and their relationship with musicians such as Emmylou Harris , Ellis Paul and the Dixie Chicks announced that occurred with it or have played their songs, making them a larger audience of pop – and country music known were. Griffin also earned in the folk in America, a broad fan base. She also received the highest award of the Americana Music Association as “Artist of the Year” (artist of the year) in 2007 and the prize for best album for Children Running Through. 2010, she took with former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant on an album (Band Of Joy) and went with him on tour.
patti-smith
Patti Smith, Lee (*December 30 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA ) is an American punk and rock musician, photographer, painter and poet. It is regarded as “Godmother of Punk”.
Patti Smith comes from a poor home, finished with 16 out of school and then began to work in a factory. At 18, she gave birth to a daughter that she released for adoption.She moved to New York City and got there in the summer of 1967, the artist and later became famous as the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe know and lived with him for several years. He created numerous photographs of her later album covers. In 1969 she began her from the Beat generation influenced poetry in magazines such as Rock and Creem published. Travels have taken her to France, where they include the tombs of their idols Jim Morrison and Arthur Rimbaud visited.Their friendship with Lenny Kaye , Sam Shepard , Todd Rundgren and Tom Verlaine (then at the punk group Television ) in 1974, they encouraged its first single, Hey Joe , where Patti Smith, the then current straight kidnapping of Patty Hearst , the granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst , processed.
Was published in 1975 Horses , the first LP of the late Patti Smith Group with Lenny Kaye, Ivan Kral, Richard Sohl, and Jay Dee Daugherty. The band was the precursor and model of the English and American punk and new wave movement. Patti Smith also established himself as an icon of the burgeoning women’s movement.
The free-associative lyrics, Patti Smith, half breathless, half syncopated were put on seemingly primitive rock chords, her songs and her chosen cover versions (Gloria (Them), My Generation (The Who)) a rebellious and edgy appeal.
patti-austin
Patti Austin (* August 10 1950 in New York City , New York) is an American pop and jazz singer.
At the age of four, she was producer Quincy Jones at a record production of her godmother, Dinah Washington , to where her father played trombone Gordon Austin. Jones took over from then on a voluntary function sponsored and promoted their career. Five years ago she appeared for the first time in the Apollo Theater in Harlem on. At age nine, she was part of the touring troupe of “Blue Opera” Free and Easy and entered in 1959 and 1960 in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Sweden. At 16 she won the song contest in Rio de Janeiro . In the 1960s and 1970s, she toured as a backing singer with artists such as Sammy Davis Jr. , Harry Belafonte and Roberta Flack . Your former solo productions flopped. Important successes were their first recording for Creed Taylor’s CTI label in the 1970s.
But only the recordings by Quincy Jones album The Dude led the early 80s to a breakthrough. The first own hit was 1982′s duet ” Baby Come to Me “with James Ingram . In 1983 the song was followed by How Do You Keep the Music Playing – also with Ingram. More duo partner was Michael Jackson ( It’s The Falling In Lov e) and George Benson ( Moody’s Mood For Love ).
During the eighties and nineties, which were partly overshadowed by drug problems, she took on essentially a born-songs. In 1989, she took the anniversary album for cartoon series Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown ! and jazz production Love Is Gonna Getcha back foot. Furthermore, the album is Real Me with Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Truelove noted. It participated in the New York Rock and Soul Revue , came in 1992 alongside Barbra Streisand in benefit concerts for the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee as well as for Commitment to Life IV in favor of the AIDS relief.
She is also on records by Billy Joel , Frankie Valli , Joe Cocker , Steely Dan and Paul Simon to hear. Only since the release of their tribute album For Ella with the WDR Big Band Cologne , in 2003 for a Grammy as Best Jazz Vocal Album nomination, the singer with the smoky, soulful voice is increasingly perceived as a jazz singer. For Avant Gershwin as the best jazz vocal album, she received a Grammy in 2008 with the WDR Big Band.
norah-jones
Norah Jones ( Brooklyn , March 30 of 1979 ) is a pianist , singer and songwriter U.S. . Born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar , officially changed its name to sixteen.
Norah was born in the city of New York , daughter of the player sitar Indian Ravi Shankar , having lived his childhood with his mother, Sue Jones, who moved to Dallas , Texas , when Norah was four. Jones attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of North Texas, where he majored in jazz piano. In 1999 , after two years in the program, Norah moved to New York, where he plays with his band Wax Poetic .
Norah is an award-winning musician ( multi- Grammy Award ) whose career was boosted in 2002 with her debut album Come Away With Me , an album of jazz piano with a touch of soul / folk , who obtained a great success selling twenty-three million of copies worldwide. Norah Jones won eight awards at the Grammy Awards in 2003 including “Best New Artist.” His album Feels Like Home released on February 9th of 2004 , was more influenced by music country instead of repeating the smooth style of Come Away With Me . With a week of release, Feels Like Home had sold one million copies. That same year, the magazine TIME listed Jones among the “most influential people of 2004.” Jones received three awards at the Grammy Awards of 2005, two for “Record of the Year” by her collaboration with Ray Charles on the song Here We Go Again .
nikki-jean
Nikki Jean (born Nicholle Jean Leary, St. Paul, Minnesota, u. s. on twenty five August 1983) may be a singer-songwriter, musician, and occasional actress. She was a section of the band Nouveau Riche, and is featured on Lupe Fiasco’s second album, The Cool, as a lyricist and vocalist. As an actress, she performed within the award winning freelance film On the Outs.
From April sixteen, 2008 to August half dozen, 2008, Nikki Jean was a part of the Glow within the Dark Tour with Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna and N.E.R.D.
In 2011, she signed as a recording artist with indie label S-Curve Records. She released her debut solo album Pennies in a very Jar. The lead single, “Steel And Feathers (Don’t Ever)” was co-written by Bob Dylan. The album contains the track “Million Star Motel” that options rapping from Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought. On July fourteen, She performed “How To Unring A Bell” on the Late Show with David Letterman to push her album.
nellie-mckay
Nellie McKay (* April 13 1982 in London ) is an American singer , songwriter and actress.
McKay was in London as the daughter of the Scottish drummer of the band The Colour Wheel Iain McKay was born and an American actress. After the divorce, she moved at the age of two years with her mother to New York , where she remained until 1994. After a year in Olympia, Washington, she moved back to the East Coast to Pennsylvania , where the McKay High School.
In 2000 she began studying at the Manhattan School of Music . Bored and unhappy, she left them, but after two years and was now in New York clubs as a singer and stand-up comedian and turned the anti-folk scene to.
In February 2003 she was the opening act of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at Tonic to see at New York’s Lower East Side. For this they got good reviews, has signed a contract with Columbia Records and started in the late summer of 2003, the production of their first album.
Their music includes several genres from jazz to hip hop to disco and radio . The dynamic style and penetrating texts characterize it as an original singer. Their songs often include political issues. She is a member of PETA and their song Columbia Is Bleeding the cruel treatment in their eyes, treatment of animals by the Columbia University . John John describes their opinion about their favorite politician Ralph Nader . In addition, she regularly performs at benefit concerts to.
Neko Case
Neko Case (first name pronounced: Niko, *September 8 1970 in Alexandria , Virginia ) is an American singer-songwriter.
She began her career in Vancouver (Canada to look out for the school in Tacoma a graphic design studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design received. She played in several local bands (including Cub) the drums and became a member of the band Maow . There, she played drums and sang a peculiar mix of punk and country . First they toured it under the name Neko Case and Her Boyfriends.
One year after publication of the CD single Maow (The Unforgiving Sounds of Maow) Case published her first solo album in country style, still dominated by cover versions ( The Virginian ). It was followed by a duet album with Canadian singer-songwriter Carolyn Mark under the band name Corn Sisters ( The Other Woman ), the Case and Mark have recorded live in Seattle. The breakthrough came in 2000 with the then Neko Case album Furnance Room Lullaby . For her album Blacklisted two years later, she received good reviews worldwide. In 2001, Case took his own words in her kitchen, an EP ( Canadian Amp ) on an unplugged album, especially with cover versions (including Neil Young’s Dreaming Man ).
In 2000, the band formed in Vancouver, The New Pornographers . It consists of local music celebrities such as Carl Newman and John Collins. Case, the city after graduating from immigration legal reasons, had to leave and after Chicago moved, sings and plays tambourine for the three Pornographers albums. In live concerts, they will at times since 2005 by Katryn Calder represented. Cases in 2004 first live album was The Tigers Have Spoken on the market. On this 30-minute work gathered Neko Case’s own live versions of familiar pieces, as well as new titles are cover versions. In early March 2006 she released her fourth official solo studio album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood in Germany. Basic themes are a very well-intentioned political loss of confidence and references to Russian and Ukrainian folk tales. This album made in the USA is the ultimate breakthrough, as it not only in the Billboard – Charts moved in, but also among the major U.S. TV sizes David Letterman , Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien could occur and thus became known to a wide audience. Among other things, why it succeeded in March 2009 with their album Middle Cyclone on the sensational third place for them in the Billboard charts to enter.
natalia-zukerman
Natalia Zukerman is an yank artist and musician raised in Manhattan, New York. She is that the daughter of violist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman and flutist/writer Eugenia Zukerman, and also the sister of opera singer Arianna Zukerman. With numerous influences that embrace folks, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Bluegrass, Country and even Classical, Natalia Zukerman has been described by public radio as “an example of the best Americana.”[citation needed]
“Natalia’s voice might send an orchid into bloom whereas her guitar taking part in will open a beer bottle with its teeth.” –New Yorker
“a strutting brass band one minute, a sighing lover consecutive.” –The Boston Globe
“a wise mixture of rootsy designs from torch blues to country swing. If you’re a friend of Madeleine Peyroux, Bonnie Raitt or maybe Amy Winehouse, you’ll realize stuff to attach with here.” –Philadelphia Daily News
