Avril Lavigne
Avril Ramona Lavigne (; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but spent the majority of her youth in the small town, Napanee, Ontario. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain, and by 16, Lavigne had signed a recording contract with Arista, now RCA Records. Record executive Antonio "L.A." Reid offered her a two-album deal worth more than $2 million. When she was 17 years old, Lavigne broke onto the music scene with her debut album, Let Go, released in 2002.
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Ayumi Hamasaki
is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former actress. Also called Ayu by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to pursue a career in entertainment. In 1998, under the tutelage of Avex CEO Max Matsuura, she released a string of modestly selling singles that concluded with her 1999 debut album A Song for ××. The album debuted atop the Oricon charts and stayed there for four weeks, establishing her popularity in Japan.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.
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Crookers
Crookers are an Italian DJ/production duo (Bot and Phra) who have worked together since 2003. When the two artists met, both were trying to branch out of their genre and explore dance music. Their first collaboration worked. Phra said "It felt natural to team up, seeing that we had the same musical tastes… which isn’t that easy here in Milan".
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Dave Gahan
Dave Gahan (; born 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British electronic band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. He is also an accomplished solo artist, releasing albums in 2003 (Paper Monsters) and 2007 (Hourglass). Despite his band-mate Martin Gore continuing to be the main Depeche Mode songwriter, Gahan has contributed a number of songs to the band's most recent albums, Playing the Angel (2005) and Sounds of the Universe (2009). Two of these songs were released as singles, including "Suffer Well" in 2006 and "Hole to Feed" in 2009.
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Dave Seaman
Dave Seaman (born 29 April 1968) is a British dance music DJ and record producer. He was formerly a member of the DMC Publishing, and editor of music magazine Mixmag. He formed one half of Brothers In Rhythm with Steve Anderson, doing production work for (amongst others) Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue. He has since founded Audio Therapy record label. He is also well-known for his releases in the famed Renaissance Masters Series' (see Renaissance (club)) and a number of releases for Global Underground.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
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Gary Numan
Gary Numan (born Gary Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (with Tubeway Army) and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.
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Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German composer and music producer. For nearly three decades he has composed music for over 100 films including Rain Man, The Lion King, Crimson Tide, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, The Dark Knight, Sherlock Holmes and Inception.
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez. Timberlake became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman.
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Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (; born May 18, 1950) is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games.
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Michael Bublé
Michael Steven Bublé (; born 9 September 1975) is a Canadian singer. He has won several awards, including two Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in the UK and Canada. He found worldwide commercial success with his 2005 album ''It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible'' was an even bigger success, reaching number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and the European charts. Bublé has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide.
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Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer born Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born 12 September 1961) is a Canadian-born French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author. She has sold more than 25 million records and is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France. She holds the record for the most number one hits in the French charts, with nine as of 2010.
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Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who then went on to have a successful solo career as well as being a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement.
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Praga Khan
Praga Khan (born Maurice Engelen) is a Belgian techno music musician. His New Beat style stems back to the 1980s when techno came out of the Belgian underground.
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Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter. During the half-century that he performed, he drew from his roots: gospel, soul, and blues, as well as developing his own style at a time when R&B;, and rock were still in their infancy. In 2001, Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer.
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The Go-Go's
The Go-Go’s are an all-female American rock band formed in 1978. They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.
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Tiësto
Tiësto OON (; born Tijs Michiel Verwest on January 17, 1969) is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto. On his latest productions, however, he has dropped the "DJ" label and is now known simply as "Tiësto", an alias which is a twist of his childhood nickname.
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Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Jones is particularly noted for his powerful voice.
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IGN InsiderWe have the electronic music goliath's three-song EP with Jan Hammer (Miami Vice Theme) live and streaming. Check it! by March 16, 2010 - has made a stellar name for himself in the electronic musicworld remixing Elvis' A Little Less Conversation, and releasing two excellent albums (If you haven't checked it out, run to grab Boomin' Back At You). He's turned his success into a...
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GamespotThough it never quite became the "next big thing" some predicted it would in the 1990s, the electronic music scene is alive and well. It's also more balkanized than the former Yugoslavia, with various genres (house, techno, drum & bass) splintering into subgenres (deep house, trance, techstep) and into sub-subgenres (chicago house, hard trance, dark techstep). One of the...
IGN InsiderWe talk to the man behind the Forza and Need for Speed: ProStreet soundtracks. by , IGN AU Australia, November 15, 2007 - Dutch musician Junkie XL has been a fixture on videogame soundtracks for over a decade now, and there's little doubt that you would have heard his music, whether it was a licensed track or an original score. Ever played Forza, Quantum Redshift or Need for...
IGN InsiderMixologist drops new single for game. by September 7, 2007 - Noted international mixologist (DJ/Producer/Musician) Junkie XL is pushing out a new single entitled "More" in conjunction with EA's Need For Speed Pro Street videogame. Tom Holkenberg (JXL's legal alter ego) is no stranger to the Need For Speed franchise, having composed the score for the original incarnation of the...
IGN InsiderElectronic master to bring his singular brand of noize to the masses. by February 15, 2007 - While Junkie XL is busy putting the finishing touches on his , he will also be hitting the bricks with a vengeance come March. That's right, JXL will be heading out on tour. Junkie XL 2007 TourMarch 30th Boston, MA @ Avalon 31st Austin, TX @ Sky April 5th Toronto, CAN @...
IGN InsiderSoundtrack to SSX Blur coming your way. by February 14, 2007 - The soundtrack to SSX Blur will be released on February 20th, 2007 as the result of a joint partnership between EA and Nettwerk MusicGroup. The music included on SSX Blur was written and composed by legendary electronic madman Junkie XL. "To me, SSX is a classicvideogame franchise. Most challenging in the...
The StateDixie Chicks "Taking the Long Way" 3.5 stars Collaborating here with producer Rick Rubin, country-pop's defiant darlings explore personal and political themes in a much-anticipated set that's both urgent and surprisingly intimate. Along with the A-list harmonies and refreshing melodies of chick trio Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, a top-notch group of session...
Yahoo Daily News45 minutes ago ARTIST: JUNKIE XL ALBUM: TODAYNEW YORK (Billboard) - On his new studio album, Dutch DJ/producer Tom "Junkie XL" Holkenborg does away with the big-name theatrics that populated his previous collection, "Radio JXL -- A Broadcast From the Computer Hell Cabin." This time around, XL spotlights one voice only, newcomer Nathan Mader. Like others in the electronic...