Name	Mousse T.
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Born	October 02, 1966Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Origin	Germany
Genre	House / funk / pop
Occupation	DJ, producer
Years active	1990–present
Label	Peppermint Jam
Url	Official website

Mousse T. (born Mustafa Gündoğdu, 2 October 1966, Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German DJ and record producer of Turkish descent. He is best known for his collaboration with Tom Jones, "Sex Bomb", released on the album Reload.

Biography

One of the first producers of house music in Germany, alongside contemporaries Boris Dlugosch, DJ Tonka and Ian Pooley, Mousse T. began his career in 1990 as keyboard player for a small band known as Fun Key B. At the same time, he set up his own recording studio and began DJing in the city of Hannover. Besides working on his own productions, usually with partner Errol Rennalls, Mousse T. also wrote and produced tracks for other artists. In 1993, he founded, along with Rennalls, Peppermint Jam Records, a label specializing in uplifting house music and melodic acid jazz.

His 1998 production "Horny" featuring Hot 'n' Juicy (and a chorus sung by Inaya Day) on vocals reached the top of the Billboard dance charts in the late 1990s and Top 20 in the UK and Australia. His first album, Gourmet de Funk, was released in 2001. In 2004, he once again entered the Single Charts with his song "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?", which is featured on his second album, All Nite Madness, also released in 2004. The song features the vocals of Emma Lanford.

In 2006, Placido & Loo released a mash-up called "Horny As A Dandy". The song fused the vocals of "Horny" and the music of "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols. In 2007, he wrote and produced the music for Marc Rothemund's film. Pornorama. His music has been featured in several films and TV series in both the U.S. and internationally.

Discography

Albums

2002 Gourmet de Funk

2004 All Nite Madness

2004 Right About Now

2007 Re-orchestrated (iTunes only)(Live-CD with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg/Scott Lawton, conductor)

Singles

;Mousse T. : Most tracks co-written by Errol Rennalls

1994 "Mine", as Davey Dee & Mousse T.

1995 "EP", as Davey Dee & Mousse T.

1996 "Come and Get It"

1996 "Everybody"

1997 "Bad Boy/Horny"

1998 "Horny '98" (with Hot 'n' Juicy)

1999 "Ooh Song"

2002 "Fire" (with Emma Lanford)

2003 "Is It 'Cos I'm Cool?" (with Emma Lanford)

2003 "Brother on the Run"

2004 "Pop Muzak" (with Andrew Roachford)

2004 "Right About Now" (with Emma Lanford )

2006 "Horny as a Dandy" (vs. Dandy Warhols, mash-up produced by Loo & Placido)

2009 "All Nite Long (D.I.S.C.O.)" (with Suzie); Germany #71

;Afropeans

2000 "Pianolick"

2001 "No. 1"

2003 "Everybody/Fallin'"

2004 "Afropeans EP"

2004 "Better Things" (with Inaya Day)

;Other aliases

1989 "Don't Stop", as Fresh & Fly (with Hans Hahn)

1991 "African Rhythm", as Fresh & Fly (with Ralf Droesemeyer and Jörg Rump)

1991 "Family of Music", as F.O.M. (with Ralf Droesemeyer)

1991 "C'mon Get Up", as F.O.M. (with Ralf Droesemeyer)

1995 "Mind Flavor EP", as Mind Flavour

1996 "Odyssey One", as 'Federation X (with Grant Nelson)

1996 "Keep Pushin'", as Booom! (with Boris Dlugosch and Inaya Day)

1997 "Hold Your Head Up High", as Booom! (with Boris Dlugosch and Inaya Day)

2001 "Miami Special", as Peppermint Jam Allstars (with Boris Dlugosch and Michi Lange)

;(Co-)Production for other artists

1991 Psyche - "Angel Lies Sleeping"

1992 Marc Davis - "Moviestar"

1995 Ve Ve - "We've Got Love"

1996 Raw Instinct - "De La Bass"

1997 Ferry Ultra feat. Roy Ayers - "Dangerous Vibes"

1997 Bootsy Collins feat. MC Lyte - "I'm Leavin U (Gotta Go, Gotta Go)"

1997 Byron Stingily - "Sing a Song"

1997 Randy Crawford - "Wishing on a Star"

1999 Cunnie Williams - "Saturday"

1999 Tom Jones - "Sex Bomb"

2000 Monie Love - "Slice of da Pie"

2001 Ann Nesby - "Love Is What We Need"

2002 No Angels - "Let's Go to Bed"

2004 Inaya Day - "Nasty Girl"

2007 Se:Sa feat. Sharon Phillips - "Like this Like that"

See also

Marianne Rosenberg

References

External links

Official Mousse T website

Myspace page

Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:People from Hagen Category:Club DJs Category:German house musicians Category:German musicians Category:German dance musicians Category:German people of Turkish descent Category:Participants in the Bundesvision Song Contest

Andrew Roachford (born 22 January 1965, London) is a British singer-songwriter.

Andrew Roachford was the main force behind the band Roachford, who scored their first success in 1989 with the hits "Cuddly Toy (Feel For Me)" and "Family Man". Formed in 1987 the line-up was Andrew Roachford (vocals, keyboards, percussion), Chris Taylor (drums), Hawi Gondwe (guitars) and Derrick Taylor (bass guitar). By 1988 the band were touring supporting acts such as Terence Trent D'Arby and The Christians. Shortly afterward, a seven album recording contract with Columbia was signed. They went on to have a string of success throughout the 1990s, becoming Columbia's biggest selling UK act for ten years. !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| US !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| AUS !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| NZ !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| GER !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| SWI !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| AUT !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| NET !style="width:3em;font-size:75%"| SWE |- | 1988 | Roachford

Released: 12 July 1988

Label: CBS

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Released: 1991

Label: Columbia

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Released: 30 March 1994

Label: Columbia

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Released: 29 September 1997

Label: Columbia

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Released: 9 October 2000

Label: Columbia

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Released: 4 August 2003

Label: Absolute

Released under the artist name Andrew Roachford

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Released: 30 May 2005

Label: Columbia

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Released: 27 June 2005

Label: Peppermint Jam/SPV

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Singles

⁺ "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" by MOBO Allstars was a charity single released collectively by MOBO Award nominees in 1998, reaching #47 in the UK singles chart. The artists featured on the recording were Another Level, Beverley Knight, Mica Paris, Damage, Nine Yards, Don-E, Hinda Hicks, Celetia, Dina Carroll, Dru Hill, Shola Ama, Truce, Misty Oldland, Ultimate Kaos, Kle'shay, Lynden David Hall, Kele Le Roc, East 17, Conner Reeves, Des'ree, Cleopatra, Glamma Kid, Honeyz, Kelle Bryan, Roachford, Byron Stingily, Alyson Brown, D'Influence, Michelle Gayle, Ignorants, Soundproof, Tony Dortie, David Grant and Carrie Grant

References

External links

Roachford official UK site

Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:British male singers Category:Black British musicians

Name	Randy Crawford
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Veronica Crawford
Born	February 18, 1952Macon, Georgia, United States
Instrument	Vocals
Genre	Jazz, R&B;, Disco
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1970s-present
Label	Warner Bros. Records

Randy Crawford (born Veronica Crawford, February 18, 1952, Macon, Georgia) is an American jazz and R&B; singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist.

Career

Crawford first performed at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. Crawford recorded "Don't Get Caught in Love's Triangle," produced by Johnny Bristol, during her short stint on the Fantasy label.

In 1978 former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett had Crawford perform on his second solo album "Please Don't Touch". Hackett discovered Crawford in a Chicago club and was so impressed that he had her sing "Hoping Love Will Last", which was the opening song on side two of the album.

She led R&B; veterans The Crusaders on the hit "Street Life" (1979). This song stayed atop the U.S. jazz chart for twenty weeks and has since become both a rare groove and disco classic. It was featured in the soundtrack for the film, Sharky's Machine,

Her follow up solo efforts included "One Day I'll Fly Away" (1980); "You Might Need Somebody" (1981); and "Rainy Night in Georgia" (1981); which all became soul standards. The album, Secret Combination (1981) stayed on the UK Albums Chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped, despite a return to the UK Top Ten with "Almaz" in 1986. She remained with Warner Bros. through to the early 1990s, but was unable to score either a big R&B; hit or major crossover success, despite having one of the most readily identifiable voices and distinctive approaches of any contemporary female vocalist.

Naked And True (1995) brought Crawford back to her roots: it included George Benson's "Give Me the Night", and confirmed her soul heritage by featuring Funkadelicists Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and the Fred Wesley Horns. She enjoyed her highest profile of the decade when rising starlet, Shola Ama, had a worldwide hit with her 1997 cover of "You Might Need Somebody".

Crawford recorded a live session with Joe Sample on 24 July 2007 at Abbey Road Studios for Live from Abbey Road. The episode she shared with David Gilmour and Amos Lee was screened on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. and Channel 4 in the UK.

She has sung with Bootsy Collins, Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, Rick Springfield and Joe Sample amongst others.

Discography

Singles

Most of the following singles charted in various countries. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Song title !! U.S. R&B;

Trivium

The soundtrack of "The Competition" entitled "People Alone" was revived by Filipina singer Jamie Rivera in 1999.

References

External links

Randy Crawford biography at musicianguide.com

Randy Crawford at Vh1

Randy Crawford biography at Yahoo Music

Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:African American singers Category:American female singers Category:American jazz singers Category:BRIT Award winners Category:People from Macon, Georgia

Name	John Dahlbäck
Background	non_performing_personnel
Origin	Sweden
Genre	House, Tech house, Minimal techno
Years active	2002-
Label	Pickadoll Records
Associated acts	Jesper Dahlbäck

John Dahlbäck, born 1985, is a Swedish house music producer and DJ currently based in London, UK.

Dahlbäck is also the owner and founder of Pickadoll Records, with releases by, apart from his own work, artists like Sébastien Léger and Dada Life. He has recorded minimal techno under the alias Hug and as Hugg&Pepp; together with his cousin and fellow producer Jesper Dahlbäck. Remixes include Kleerup's "Longing for Lullabies" and Alanis Morissette's "Underneath".

He made an appearance with a set on Pete Tong's The Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 on October 4, 2008.

His track "Don't Speak" features on Disc 2 of Tiësto's album.

Dahlbäck's debut album Mutants was released in May 2010.

Singles

Love inside (feat. Andy P)

Blink

Bingo

Come with power

Everywhere (feat. Andy P)

He is not

It feels so good

Now it's not summer

If you give me (feat. DJ Extraball)

Hustle up

Bordeline

Don't speak

Push your body

Hungarian (vs. DJ TA88)

Out There (feat. Basto!)

Golden Walls (feat. Arno Cost)

Autumn

Valleybrook

Lick My Deck

More Than I Wanted

Pyramid

Olympia

Farao

Sfinx

Kairo

References

External links

Official site

Category:Swedish house musicians Category:1985 births Category:Living people

Name	Anastacia
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Anastacia Lyn Newkirk
Born	September 17, 1968Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genre	R&B;, soul, rock, pop
Instrument	Vocals
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, actress, fashion designer, philantropist
Years active	1988–1992 (dancer)1998–present (singer)
Label	Epic, Daylight (2000–2008) Mercury (2008–2010)
Url	www.anastacia.com

Anastacia (born Anastacia Lyn Newkirk; September 17, 1968– has also led to her being nicknamed "The Little Lady with The Big Voice". She was also known for her trademark glasses (often darkly tinted), but she had surgery to correct her vision permanently in August 2005.

Early life and career beginnings

Anastacia was born in Chicago, Illinois Then she enrolled at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.

Anastacia soon became interested in dance despite being diagnosed with Crohn's disease when she was thirteen. She first gained prominence stealing the show from D. L. Hughley while he was hosting BET's Comic View, singing Oleta Adams' "Get Here" in 1992. During the early 1990s, she appeared regularly on Club MTV and in a couple of videos for the female hip hop group Salt-n-Pepa. Anastacia signed a contract with Daylight Records, a custom label of Sony BMG's Epic Records in March 1999. The Cut was hosted by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez of the girl group TLC. A then-unknown Anastacia finished in second place, but impressed Lopes and the show's three judges so much that she scored herself a record deal.

Music career

2000–2002: Not That Kind and Freak of Nature

Anastacia's debut album, Not That Kind, was released in 2000. The album was a huge success, reaching the top ten in eight countries in Europe, Asia, and Oceania. It went triple platinum in Australia spurred by the success of her debut single "I'm Outta Love". and became a Top 10 hit in Italy. It also entered the Top 20 in Switzerland and France. It only gained sporadic Adult Contemporary and Hot AC format airplay. Again, it sparked Rhythmic/Dance format airplay and the dance mix of "Left Outside Alone" peaked at number five on the Hot Dance Club Play. After the original version of "Left Outside Alone" failed to catch on because of lukewarm promotional pushes, especially on radio, the album was postponed and eventually cancelled after the release date of August 30, 2004 passed.

Anastacia released three further internationally successful singles; "Sick and Tired" (which gave her another number one in Spain and another UK top five single), "Welcome to My Truth" (her best-selling hit in Spain), and the ballad "Heavy on My Heart" proceeds from the sale of which went towards her Anastacia Fund (a charitable organization providing research funding for breast cancer).

A small batch of her self titled album was released with a bonus DVD, Anastacia poster and slip case. The DVD includes "Making of Anastacia", "2002 Europe Promo Tour", and a photo gallery.

From September 2004 to August 2005, Anastacia went on the Live at Last Tour. By 2005 the tour was renamed to the Encore Tour.

In late 2005, she released her first greatest hits collection, called Pieces of a Dream, named after a track of the same name. The album spawned the hit singles "Pieces of a Dream" and the duet with Eros Ramazzotti, "I Belong to You (Il Ritmo Della Passione)", which was a huge hit in Europe, charting and peaking in the top ten in almost all the European countries. Even though Sony BMG did force her to release this collection, Anastacia has said that she is happy now that it was created as it was like a "story book", or summary of the first five years of her career.

Not long after the release of "I Belong to You (Il Ritmo Della Passione)", Anastacia released her first live DVD on March 27, 2006 in Europe. The DVD contains footage from concerts in Berlin and Munich. It includes music videos to her four singles ("Left Outside Alone" [U.S. version], "Everything Burns" [with Ben Moody], "Pieces of a Dream", and "I Belong to You (Il Ritmo Della Passione)", with Eros Ramazzotti), five alternative videos ("I Do", "Rearview", "Seasons Change", "Underground Army", and "Time") to songs from her self named album, and a documentary about the tour.

2007–2009: New record label, Heavy Rotation and Heavy Rotation Tour

Anastacia attended the memorial Concert for Diana on July 1, 2007, which would have been on Diana's forty-sixth birthday. This was one of the first major events to take place in the new Wembley Stadium, and one of her first major appearances since she took a break from the industry. She opened the medley section of the show and she sang a rendition of "Superstar", from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, with a gospel chorus behind her.

In August 2007, a video was put on the "Anastacia by S. Oliver" web site. During the video, when Anastacia was asked about her future plans, she confirmed that she was working on a new album as well as the clothing line. A specific month of release or title was not mentioned.

Anastacia suffers from Crohn's disease. Of her illness she says: "Bottling things up fuels the symptoms of Crohn's. I have had to learn not to be frightened of feelings. You might think it strange that I still wanted to fulfil my ambition of becoming a singer, trying to make it in a business that is so difficult and so pressurized".

Cancer diagnosis

In January 2003, Anastacia decided to have her breasts reduced because of back strain. From a routine mammogram for the surgery she discovered she had breast cancer. She immediately started and successfully completed surgery and radiotherapy.

External links

Anastacia.com — Anastacia's official website

Anastaciafanclub.at — Anastacia's official fanclub

Anastacia on YouTube

Anastacia at Blender

Anastacia at Billboard

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