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  Australia
  Australia ( /əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
  For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
  
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  Japan
  Japan ⁱ/dʒəˈpæn/ (Japanese: 日本 Nihon or Nippon; formally 日本国  Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
  Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
  Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.
  
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  Las Vegas Valley
  The Las Vegas Valley is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the US state of Nevada, and is the heart of the Las Vegas–Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a 600 sq mi (1,600 km²) basin area that contains the largest concentration of people in the state. The history of the Valley significantly intertwines with the history of the city of Las Vegas and one of the two primary cities (as used by the census bureau) in the MSA, with the other being Paradise. The valley is home to the three largest incorporated cities in Nevada: Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas.
  The names Las Vegas and Vegas are used to indicate the valley, the strip, the city and are used as a brand by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and used to denominate the entire region. The metropolitan area's population was at 741,459 in 1990. The population was approximately 2 million in 2010 (estimated). The valley is an area generally defined by the Spring Mountains on the west, Sheep Mountains to the north, Muddy Mountains and Lake Mead to the east, and the Black Mountains to the south.^{[citation needed]}
  
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  North Carolina
  North Carolina (ⁱ/ˌnɔrθ kærəˈlaɪnə/) is a state in the Southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 10th most populous of the 50 United States.
  North Carolina is comprised of 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. In the past five decades, North Carolina's economy has undergone a transition from heavy reliance upon tobacco and furniture making to a more diversified economy with engineering, biotechnology, and finance sectors.
  North Carolina has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet (2,037 m) at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the Eastern US. The climate of the coastal plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles (500 km) from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate.
  
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  Sydney Opera House
  The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, opening in 1973 after a long gestation that had begun with his competition-winning design in 1957.
  Utzon received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003. The Pritzker Prize citation stated:
  The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.^{[citation needed]}
  The Sydney Opera House is on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and inland by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
  Contrary to its name, the building houses multiple performance venues. The Sydney Opera House is among the busiest performing arts centres in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people. It provides a venue for many performing-arts companies, including the four key resident companies Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and presents a wide range of productions on its own account. It is also one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, with more than seven million people visiting the site each year, 300,000 of whom take a guided tour.
  
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  Tufts University
  Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. The university is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its disciplines more than any peer school and is well known for its internationalism and study abroad programs. Among its schools is the United States' oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
  In 1852, Tufts College was founded by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a non-sectarian institution of higher learning.Charles Tufts donated the land for the campus on Walnut Hill, the highest point in Medford, saying that he wanted to set a "light on the hill." The name was changed to Tufts University in 1954, although the corporate name remains "the Trustees of Tufts College." After more than a century, Tufts was a small New England liberal arts college. The French-American nutritionist Jean Mayer became president of Tufts in the late 1970s and, through a series of mergers with other institutions, transformed the school into an internationally renowned research university. It consistently ranks among the country's best colleges.
  
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  University of Miami
  The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, U Miami, Miami, or The U) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key.
  As of 2009^[update], the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12 separate colleges, including a medical school, law school, and a school focused on the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences. These colleges offer approximately 115 undergraduate, 114 master’s, 51 doctoral, and two professional areas of study. Over the years, the University's students have represented all 50 states and close to 150 foreign countries. With more than 13,000 full and part-time faculty and staff, UM is the sixth largest employer in Miami-Dade County.
  Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $326 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM also offers a large library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage and music. UM also offers a wide range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities, a student newspaper and radio station. UM's intercollegiate athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and its football team has won five national championships.
  
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  Aimee Mann
  Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.
  Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School (Richmond, Virginia) in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes.^{[citation needed]} The band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004.
  In 1983, she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday, which achieved success in 1985 with its first album, Voices Carry. The title song is said to be inspired by Hausman and Mann's breakup. The video became an MTV staple, winning the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. Mann was featured on the Rush song "Time Stand Still" (from Hold Your Fire, 1987) which hit #3 on the American rock charts and became a minor UK hit, singing backup vocals and appearing in the music video. Her laughter is also heard at the start of "Force Ten," from the same album. With Mann playing an increasingly important role in songwriting, 'Til Tuesday released two more albums, Welcome Home and Everything's Different Now. Shortly after the release of Welcome Home, Mann told a writer for Nine-O-One Network Magazine that she was much more pleased with it than "Voices Carry", primarily because she felt it made more of a personal statement about her life. On their final tour, musician Jon Brion joined the band, which broke up in 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career.
  
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  Amanda Palmer
  Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has since started a solo career, and is also one half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn.
  Palmer was born in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She attended Lexington High School, where she was involved in the drama department, and attended Wesleyan University where she was a member of the Eclectic Society. She staged performances based on work by the Legendary Pink Dots, an early influence, and was involved in the Legendary Pink Dots electronic mailing list, Cloud Zero.^{[citation needed]} She then formed the Shadowbox Collective, devoted to street theatre and putting on theatrical shows (such as the 2002 play, Hotel Blanc, which she directed).
  With an interest in the performing arts, both in music and in theatre, Palmer spent time busking as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride" in Harvard Square, Cambridge; Edinburgh, Scotland; Australia (where she met Jason Webley); as well as many other locations. She references this line of work on The Dresden Dolls' self-titled CD, with the song "The Perfect Fit":
  
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  Angela Aki
  Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ, Anjera Aki^?), born Kiyomi Angela Aki (安藝 聖世美 アンジェラ Aki Kiyomi Anjera) on September 15, 1977, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Itano, Tokushima, Japan.
  Aki was born in the small town of Itano, population 14,600, in the mostly rural island of Shikoku, to a Japanese father and Italian-American mother. She is the daughter of Kiyoshi Aki, the owner and co-founder of Aeon Corporation, a large eikaiwa (English conversation) chain of schools in Japan.
  Aki began to take piano lessons when she was three years old and lived in Tokushima through sixth grade, and spent her junior high school days in Okayama. She has admitted that growing up mixed-race in rural Japan proved very difficult and she turned to the piano as an escape from the isolation she felt. She grew up listening to a mix of enka, The Carpenters and The Bee Gees.
  Aki moved to Hawaii when she was fifteen years old and graduated from Iolani School-she speaks English and Japanese. She was immersed in music there for four years. She graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and majored in political science
  
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• Anna Goodman
  Anna Goodman is an American songwriter who was married to Ben Folds from 1987 to 1992. She co-wrote several Ben Folds Five songs including Kate (Whatever and Ever Amen), Alice Childress (Ben Folds Five), The Last Polka (Ben Folds Five), Alice Childress (Naked Baby Photos), Smoke (Whatever and Ever Amen), and Lullabye (The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner).
  Anna was also a long-time member of Sin-é Cafe's resident band Porkchop, which was composed of Beavis and Butt-Head directors and producers, Mike deSeve and Brian Mulroney; Ryan Adams guitarist J. P. Bowersock; Dale Burleyson; Gaijin a Go-Go's Phil Maynes; Brad Brown and Chris LaFrenz.
  
  
  
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  Ben Folds
  Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Since the group disbanded, Folds has performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world. He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor and "Weird Al" Yankovic and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. In addition to contributing music to the soundtracks of the animated films Over the Hedge, and Hoodwinked!, Folds produced Amanda Palmer's first solo album and has been a judge on the NBC a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off since 2009.
  Folds became interested in piano at age nine. His father, a carpenter, brought one home through a barter trade with a customer who was unable to pay. During this time, Folds listened to songs by Elton John and Billy Joel on AM radio, and learned them by ear.^{[citation needed]} During his years at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Folds played in several bands as the pianist, bassist, or drummer.
  
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  Ben Kweller
  Ben Kweller (born June 16, 1981, San Francisco, California) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
  Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco in 1981. In 1982, his family relocated to Emory, Texas, where his father, Howard Kweller, became the town's first doctor. In 1986, the Kwellers moved to the larger Texas town of Greenville. Kweller was exposed to music at a very early age. Howard taught Ben how to play the drums when he was seven years old. For the next year, they would play together almost every night after Howard got home from work. Howard sang and played guitar while Ben played the drums. The duo played songs by The Beatles, The Hollies, Jimi Hendrix, and other artists of the 1960s. Howard is also a longtime friend of Nils Lofgren, a neighbor of his. Kweller has mentioned in interviews that meeting Lofgren greatly helped his exposure to music. When Kweller turned eight, someone showed him how to play "Heart and Soul" on the piano and the youngster immediately began to create his own songs using the same chords. By the time he was nine, he had a dozen original compositions under his belt and entered a songwriting contest sponsored by Billboard magazine, where he won an honorable mention.
  
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  Ben Lee
  Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee (born 11 September 1978 in Sydney) is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake (2003). Lee has released eight solo studio albums.
  Lee's musical career began in 1993 with the band Noise Addict, who were signed to Steve Pavlovic's independent label Fellaheen Records, on the strength of a self-produced and distributed four-track demo recorded in Lee's bedroom. Pavlovic's connections brought the band to the attention of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Beastie Boys' Mike D, both of whom released the band's material in the US. The group put out several releases on the Beasties' Grand Royal Records. These including the acoustic Young and Jaded EP in 1994, which contained Lee's Evan Dando tribute, "I Wish I Was Him." In 1995, Grand Royal released the band's only full length, the Brad Wood produced Meet the Real You. Noise Addict made a music video for the song "16", toured with Sebadoh, but then broke up. Lee was also briefly a member of the alternative act Gerling. In 2009 Lee recorded a new Noise Addict album, "It was Never about the Audience," with a new lineup; Lou Barlow and Lara Meyerratken.
  
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  Billy Joel
  William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
  Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.
  
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• Caleb Southern
  Caleb Southern is an American musician and record producer. He has worked with Ben Folds Five, Fear of Pop and Archers of Loaf. He currently lives in Downtown Durham, North Carolina, and is a member of Partners Against Crime, District 5.
  
  
  
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  Charlie McDonnell
  Charles Joseph "Charlie" McDonnell (born 1 October 1990) is a British vlogger and musician from Bath, Somerset, England. As of May 2012^[update], his YouTube channel, charlieissocoollike, has almost 1,500,000 subscribers. On 15 June 2011, his channel was spotlighted on YouTube's front page in the Entertainment category after being the first UK channel to reach a million subscribers. As of May 2012^[update], his YouTube videos have over 236,376,000 views.
  McDonnell was born and raised in Bath, Somerset with his younger siblings Bridie and William McDonnell. He was educated at Beechen Cliff School, a state comprehensive foundation school in Bath.
  After setting up the YouTube channel, "charlieissocoollike" in April 2007, McDonnell started posting video blogs or "vlogs" to a small audience. He first came to prominence when his video entitled "How To Get Featured on YouTube" became very popular after it was featured on YouTube's UK homepage. His audience jumped from just under 150 subscribers to over 4,000 in two days.
  
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• Damian Kulash
  Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. (born October 7, 1975) is the lead singer and guitarist for Chicago-based rock band OK Go.
  Born in Washington D.C., USA, Kulash graduated from St. Albans School in 1994, and later Brown University in 1998 with a concentration in Art-Semiotics. The family name was originally "Kulas" when Kulash's great-grandparents lived in Poland. In a podcast, Kulash states that one of his grandfathers invented the modern day fish stick, and the other found a species of beetle.
  While in college at Brown, Kulash played in at least three bands - A La Playa, Calixto Chinchile, and Square. He released three CDs in his senior year: an album of experimental Elvis covers (for his senior project), an eponymously-titled 5 song EP from his electronic pop band Square, and Appendices, a collection of more than a dozen miscellaneous recordings from his time in college, including solo songs, collaborations with friends, class projects, studio experiments, and recordings from previous bands.
  Included on the Appendices record are the original recordings of "Bye Bye Baby," which was later re-recorded for OK Go's debut record, and 4 songs from a never-finished EP for his punk band A La Playa.
  
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• Darren Jessee
  Darren Jessee (born April 8, 1971) is a drummer, singer-songwriter, and member of the rock bands Ben Folds Five and Hotel Lights.
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  Hotel Lights
  Prior to his involvement with Hotel Lights, Jessee received songwriting credits for the following Ben Folds Five songs:
  "Brick" (Folds / Jessee) - Whatever and Ever Amen
  "Song for the Dumped" (Folds / Jessee) - Whatever and Ever Amen
  "Magic" (Jessee) - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
  "Where's Summer B.?" (Ben Folds / Jessee) - Ben Folds Five
  "Kate" (Folds / Jessee / Anna Goodman) - Whatever and Ever Amen
  "Mitchell Lane" (Jessee) - Whatever and Ever Amen (bonus track on remastered version)
  "Amelia Bright" (Jessee) - unreleased track performed live by the band 1999-2000. This song was later featured on the Hotel Lights album Firecracker People
  "Leather Jacket" (Jessee) - No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees
  "Wandering" (Folds / Jessee) - Speed Graphic (EP) - note, this is a Ben Folds solo album
  "Stumblin Home Winter Blues" (Jessee) - Originally released on Hotel Lights self titled debut album in 2006. It was later recorded by Ben Folds Five for Ben Folds retrospective album The Best Imitation of Myself, in 2011.
  "Sky High" (Jessee) - Announced as one of the tracks from Ben Folds Five's upcoming album.
  
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  Elliott Smith
  Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery" and use of multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies.
  After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars. In 1997 he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998.
  
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  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
  In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
  John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
  
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  Evan Olson
  Evan Scott Olson is a rock singer and songwriter based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Born in West Point, New York during the "Summer Of Love," 1967, his father was an officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Olson has recorded seven albums including "One Room" (Universal) and "Red" (LoveCat Music). Although he primarily plays guitar, he plays most of the instruments on his CDs. In the late 1980s, while still in college, he was in the group Majosha. He then went on to become a member of the pop group Bus Stop. He has also written and recorded several television commercial jingles including songs for The Hershey Company and Mercedes Benz. His songs have been featured in numerous television shows and movies including Sex And The City, 90210, Friday Night Lights, In America, Scooby Doo and Mtv's The Hills.
  On the DVD release of the Pilot and the first season of Baywatch Evan Olson's song "Strong Enough" replaced "Above The Waterline" by Kim Carnes which was original used during the TV airing of the show
  
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• Fear of Pop
  Fear of Pop is the name of an experimental recording project by Ben Folds (of Ben Folds Five) and Caleb Southern (Ben Folds Five's long-time producer), along with John Mark Painter (of Fleming and John), William Shatner and others. Their only album Volume 1 was released in 1998.
  Folds and Southern began recording music for the "Fear of Pop" project during 1997 in various locations around the United States as an outlet to make music away from Ben Folds Five. In an open letter to fans on Frank Maynard's quasi-official Ben Folds Five website, Folds said that Fear of Pop had "helped satisfy my need to express some things musically - textures, orchestration, rhythms - things that don't always naturally fall into the standard three minute singer/song format. I love to paint sounds in an abstract way, discovering their effect after it's all put together. Once you’ve sold a million records, you've earned the right to experiment self-indulgently at the expense of your record company."
  In 1998, 550 Records (under Epic/Sony) released Folds' Volume 1. The cover of the album, an image entitled "Just Your Average Second On This Planet" by David Bethell, featured the silhouette of a running man (possibly naked, possibly Ben Folds) being pursued by cowboys on horseback with lassos. The back of the album case showed the silhouette of a boy in a cowboy outfit sitting on a park bench, apparently pleasuring himself. The inner cover showed a woman being stabbed by a man on a television set seen by an open city window. At some stores, a limited edition 12" vinyl single for "In Love" was bundled for free with Volume 1. It featured a remix of the song by Thievery Corporation, as well as a couple of cuts off of the album.
  
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• Fleming and John
  Fleming and John is a musical husband and wife team, Fleming McWilliams and John Mark Painter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
  The couple met while attending Belmont College in Nashville, and immediately began collaborating on songs. While pursuing a record contract, Painter began playing in studio sessions for artists like dc Talk, Sixpence None the Richer, Indigo Girls, Jars of Clay, Nanci Griffith, and Jewel.
  In 1994, the band recorded "Harder to Believe than Not To" for I Predict A Clone, a tribute album to Steve Taylor. The following year, the couple released their first album, Delusions of Grandeur on Universal Records. Ben Folds, who called Fleming and John the "The Carpenters of the 1990s with Led Zeppelin's rhythm section", invited them to open for his band. They performed and record with Folds for many years.
  In 1999, Fleming and John released their second album, The Way We Are, which spawned a minor hit with the single "Ugly Girl".
  The duo has recorded many cover songs, including "Winter Wonderland" (to the tune of Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop"), "Eldorado" (Electric Light Orchestra), "California Dreamin'" (the Mamas & the Papas), "Somebody to Love" (Jefferson Airplane), "After the Lovin'" (Engelbert Humperdinck). A longtime concert favorite has been Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" to the tune of Zeppelin's "Black Dog".
  
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  Frank London
  Frank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer active in klezmer and world music. He also plays various other wind instruments and keyboards, and occasionally sings backup vocals. With The Klezmatics, he won a Grammy award in Contemporary World Music for "Wonder Wheel (lyrics by Woody Guthrie)".
  London received a B.A. in Afro-American music from the New England Conservatory in 1980. He is on the music faculty of SUNY Purchase.
  London is best known for his role as trumpeter in the New York City-based klezmer band The Klezmatics. He is also a member of Hasidic New Wave and leads Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars. He was a co-founder of both Les Misérables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band.
  In addition to his work in klezmer music, he is in demand as a sideman, and has performed or recorded with such diverse artists and groups as John Zorn, John Cale, Itzhak Perlman, Allen Ginsberg, LL Cool J, Mel Tormé, David Murray, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, La Monte Young, Natalie Merchant, They Might Be Giants, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds Five, Marc Ribot, Reggie Workman, Chava Alberstein, Anne LeBaron, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Luna, Maurice El Medioni, Gal Costa, Ljova (Lev Zhurbin), Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, Avraham Fried, Iggy Pop, and countless others. He played at Carnegie Hall with Angelique Kidjo, Youssou N'Dour and Omara Portuando. He played the trumpet solo on LL Cool J's "Goin' Back to Cali."
  
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  Jeff Buckley
  Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as a guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace.
  Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record his second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim — fully clothed — in the Wolf River, when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. His body was found on June 4, 1997.
  
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  Jesus
  Jesus ( /ˈdʒiːzəs/; Greek: Ἰησοῦς; 7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE), also referred to as Jesus Christ or simply Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and most Christian denominations venerate him as God the Son incarnated. In Islam, Jesus (in Arabic: عيسى‎ in Islamic usage, commonly transliterated as Isa) is considered one of God's important prophets.
  Most modern historians agree that Jesus existed and was a Jewish teacher from Galilee in Roman Judaea, who was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect, Pontius Pilate. Scholars have offered competing descriptions and portraits of Jesus, which at times share a number of overlapping attributes, such as a rabbi, a charismatic healer, the leader of an apocalyptic movement, a self-described Messiah, a sage and philosopher, or a social reformer who preached of the "Kingdom of God" as a means for personal and egalitarian social transformation. Scholars have correlated the New Testament accounts with non-Christian historical records to arrive at an estimated chronology of Jesus' life.
  
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  John Mayer
  John Clayton Mayer ( /ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər; (born October 16, 1977) is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following, and he now lives in New York City. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland."
  Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio. The blues influence can be heard throughout his 2005 live album Try! with the John Mayer Trio and his third studio album Continuum, released in September 2006. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change". He released his fourth studio album, Battle Studies, in November 2009. His fifth album, Born and Raised, was released on May 22, 2012. He has sold over 10 million albums in the U.S. and 20 million albums worldwide.
  
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  Julia Nunes
  Julia Nunes (born January 3, 1989) is a singer and songwriter from Fairport, New York. Her career has progressed online through her videos of pop songs on YouTube in which she sings harmony with herself and plays acoustic instruments, primarily the ukulele, guitar, melodica and piano.
  Nunes was born into a musical family in New York. Her father is a pianist and a composer of children's songs. One grandfather was a composer of Portuguese fado music and the other a jazz pianist. Nunes started piano lessons at age seven before switching to the guitar in her teens. She started writing songs at age 14 and began playing the ukulele in 2005. She also plays guitar and melodica. She indicated in the comments section of one of her YouTube videos (see below) that she holds dual USA-Portuguese citizenship.
  Nunes is known for her videos on YouTube. Among them are original songs, as well as covers of some of Nunes' favorite bands, such as Say Anything, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Destiny's Child. Her original songs have been featured on the main page of YouTube twice, under the username 'jaaaaaaa', which she says was the result of holding down the "a" key randomly after the "j" key, the first and last letters of her first name.
  
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  Millard Powers
  Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and grammy nominated recording engineer.
  Powers studied piano for six years, and played trumpet in his middle school and high school bands for five years. He went on to study Guitar Performance and Communications at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
  Majosha was a band formed around early 1988 with Ben Folds on bass, Powers on guitar, and Dave Rich on drums. They played their first show at Duke University's Battle of the Bands in 1988 and won. Majosha released an EP, Party Night: Five Songs About Jesus in 1988, which contained four tracks, and none of which were about Jesus. After gaining popularity, they released their first album, Shut Up and Listen to Majosha in 1989. Around the same time, they did a dance mix of Get That Bug which was released in Japan. The band's label was Fresh Avery Records. All tracks were produced by Folds and Powers.
  The Semantics, a power-pop band formed by Millard Powers and Will Owsley, featured Jody Spence and Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey. Ben Folds appeared on drums on two demos which were not released and on keyboard at a few live performances. Folds was not involved with the creative aspects of the group. The band was signed to Geffen Records, and their album Powerbill, initially slated for release through Geffen Records in 1993, was released in Japan through Alfa International on December 21, 1996.
  
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  Missy Higgins
  Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Her No. 1 albums in Australia are The Sound of White (2004) and On a Clear Night (2007), and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in Melbourne, she played piano by age six and sang at twelve. While boarding at Geelong Grammar School, she wrote a song for an assignment which was then entered into the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists. Higgins won and signed recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off, backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to No. 1 on the relevant Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Charts. Its second single, "The Special Two", went to No. 2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. She won her seventh ARIA in 2007.
  
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  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman ( /ˈɡeɪmən/; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, Newbery Medal, and Carnegie Medal in Literature. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work.
  Gaiman's family is of Polish and other Eastern European Jewish origins; his great-grandfather emigrated from Antwerp before 1914 and his grandfather eventually settled in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores. His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores; his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. He has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy. After living for a period in the nearby town of Portchester, Hampshire, where Neil was born in 1960, the Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town; one of Gaiman's sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, "Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family. It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid. I’d say, 'I’m a Jewish Scientologist.'" Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his family's religion.
  
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  Nick Hornby
  Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.
  Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England. He was brought up in Maidenhead, and educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English. His parents divorced when he was 11.
  Hornby has been married twice. He and his first wife have one son, born in 1992, who has autism. Hornby's second wife is producer Amanda Posey. They have two sons, born in 2003 and 2005. Hornby's sister, writer Gill Hornby, is married to writer Robert Harris.
  Hornby's first published book, 1992's Fever Pitch, is an autobiographical story detailing his fanatical support for Arsenal Football Club. As a result, Hornby received the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. In 1997, the memoir was adapted for film in the UK, and in 2005 an American remake was released, following Jimmy Fallon's character's obsession with the Boston Red Sox a baseball team, incidentally very different than the novel's portrayal of a football team. With the book's success, Hornby began to publish articles in the Sunday Times, Time Out and the Times Literary Supplement, in addition to his music reviews for the New Yorker. High Fidelity — his second book and first novel — was published in 1995. The novel, about a neurotic record collector and his failed relationships, was adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, and a Broadway musical in 2006.
  
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  Nicole Scherzinger
  Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (born June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, model and actress. Scherzinger is well known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. Previously, Scherzinger was a backing vocalist for the late-1990s rock group Days of the New and was a part of reality TV girl group Eden's Crush. After the disbandment of the group, she joined the Pussycat Dolls and became the group's lead vocalist during their transition into a career in music.
  The Pussycat Dolls rose to prominence when they enlisted Scherzinger as their lead front woman of the group. When Scherzinger joined the now multi-platinum group, they became a worldwide phenomenon, releasing two albums, PCD (2008) and Doll Domination (2008) and embarked on several concert tours. With her strong vocal range, Scherzinger scored the group a string of massive hit singles, including the number ones "Don’t Cha" (2005) and "Buttons" (2006), "Stickwitu" (2005), "I Hate This Part" (2008), and "When I Grow Up" (2008), which hit the Top 10 in 16 countries. In 2009, Scherzinger wrote and recorded an adaptation of A.R. Rahman’s "Jai Ho" (from the film "Slumdog Millionaire") which went to number one in 17 countries. Their debut album, PCD, has sold nine million copies worldwide, and their sophomore album, Doll Domination, has sold 5 million copies worldwide to date. The group won three Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and toured with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and The Black Eyed Peas. The Dolls have sold 15 million albums, and 37 million singles worldwide, making them one of the best selling girl groups of all time.
  
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  Regina Spektor
  Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Russian: Реги́нa Ильи́нична Спе́ктор, IPA: [rʲɪˈɡʲinə ˈspʲɛktər], English: /rɨˈdʒiːnə ˈspɛktər/; born February 18, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.
  Spektor was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1980 to a musical Russian Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. She has a brother Barry (Bear), who was featured in track 7, "* * *", or "Whisper", of her 2004 album, Soviet Kitsch.
  She learned how to play piano by practising on a Petrof upright that was given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika, when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving the USSR, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to the ethnic and political discrimination that Jews faced. Spektor is fluent in Russian and reads Hebrew, and has since paid tribute to her Russian heritage, quoting the poem February by the Russian poet Boris Pasternak in her song Après Moi, and stating “I’m very connected to the language and the culture.”
  
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• Robert Sledge
  Robert Sledge (born March 9, 1968) is an American musician, best known for his work with Ben Folds Five.
  Robert Sledge began playing bass guitar at the age of eleven. His brother was playing guitar at his house so he also learned how to play the guitar at the same time. Robert Sledge got his start in the music scene when he was discovered in his basement by Jon Royce of The Beam, a regionally known band. They were from Murfreesboro, NC, but played many shows to sold out crowds in the 1980s and early 90's in Atlantic Beach and they were also well known in Greenville, NC and all along the East Coast. The Beam played shows in Savannah, Ga as well, and played with Johnny WInter and opened for The Black Crowes. Robert Sledge had Steven Dean Davis(Stomp,Pandemonium),Jon Royce(Zakk's Coffeehouse), and Brad Dilday as well as others as his band mates in The Beam Before playing with Ben Folds Five he was bassist for the bands Toxic Popsicle and Lexx Luthor (with Godsmack's Sully Erna).
  Robert Sledge got his start in the music scene when he was discovered in his basement by Jon Royce of The Beam, a regionally known band. They were from Murfreesboro, NC, but played many shows to sold out crowds in the 1980s and early 90's in Atlantic Beach and they were also well known in Greensboro, NC. The Beam played shows in Savannah, Ga as well, and played with Johnny WInter and opened for The Black Crowes. Robert Sledge had Steven Dean Davis (Stomp, Pandemonium), Jon Royce (Zakk's Coffeehouse), and Brad Dilday as well as others as his band mates in The Beam. (The Sun Newspaper,(VA), Feb 17 1987) Robert was a founding member of the piano-rock trio Ben Folds Five. Robert was the bass player for the group as well as taking up backup vocal duties on almost every song at the time. During the Reinhold Messner tour Robert began to use synths on stage as well as playing bass until the band's break up in 2000.
  
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  Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson.
  Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal for most of his youth. Wainwright has dual US and Canadian citizenship. He attended high school at the Millbrook School in New York (which would later inspire his song "Millbrook"), and later briefly studied piano at McGill in Montreal. He began playing the piano at age six, and started touring at 13 with "The McGarrigle Sisters and Family", a folk group featuring Rufus, his sister Martha, his mother Kate, and aunt Anna. His song "I'm a-Runnin'", which he performed in the film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller at the age of 14, earned him a nomination for a 1989 Genie Award for Best Original Song. He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.
  
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  Sara Bareilles
  Sara Beth Bareilles ( /bəˈrɛlɪs/ bə-REL-is; born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. She has sold over 1 million records in the United States alone and has been nominated for a Grammy Award three times. In the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men. In February of 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the #80 spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.
  Bareilles was born and raised in Eureka, California, the youngest of three daughters of Bonnie Halvorsen (née Capellas), a funeral home worker, and Paul Bareilles, an insurance adjuster. She is of Italian, German, Portuguese, and French descent (she speaks Italian and lived in Italy for a year). Bareilles was raised Catholic and participated in the high school choir, Limited Edition, and local community theater musical productions, including her high school's production of Little Shop of Horrors as Audrey.
  
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  Scott Siman
  Scott Foster Siman (born July 22, 1954) is a leading American country music entertainment executive based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is president of RPM Management and co-owns RPM Music Group, a Nashville music publishing company. He previously managed country music stars Tim McGraw and Julianne Hough.
  Siman co-owns RPM Music Group with Blake Chancey, which own the rights to such hit songs as "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (Alan Jackson), "I'm Movin' On" (Rascal Flatts) and "Leave the Pieces" (The Wreckers), among others. Recent hits include "What Kinda Gone" (Chris Cagle), "Anything Goes" (Randy Houser), and Montgomery Gentry singles "One in Every Crowd" "Long Line of Losers" and "Oughta Be A Song About That." RPM has songs featured on the new albums from Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker and Steve Holy. RPM Music currently represents writers Aubrey Collins, Benji Harris, Nathan Stoops, and Matt Ramsey.
  RPM Management currently represents Margaret Durante (R&J Records/Emrose), Alyssa Bonagura (Rondor Music), Yarn, Humming House and rising country group Scarletta and Bo Bice in association with Rusty Harmon. RPM Management, which was affiliated with Front Line Management, counts among its former clients Shana Petrone, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Jessica Andrews, Billy Gilman, Springer, the Warren Brothers and Lance Miller.
  
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  Shawn Stockman
  Shawn Patrick Stockman (born September 26, 1972) is an American R&B singer, best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men. He is also a judge on the television show The Sing-Off, alongside Sara Bareilles and Ben Folds.
  Stockman recorded a solo album as a side project during the late 1990s, but the LP was never released. He has written the songs "Forever", "Hot Thing", and "Let It Go"; the latter of which was played during the Disney movie Seventeen Again.
  Shawn wrote and sang the song "Visions of a Sunset" for the Mr. Holland's Opus film soundtrack. He got his singing start with the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale at the age of 8.
  Most recently, Stockman started his own record label called Soul Chemistry Projects. He has also recorded a cover of Beyoncé Knowles' hit song "If I Were a Boy".
  Shawn has been serving as a judge along with Ben Folds, Nicole Scherzinger, and Sara Bareilles on NBC's "The Sing Off" with host Nick Lachey. The show first premiered on December 14, 2009, the second season premiered on December 6, 2010, and the third season winner was announced on November 28, 2011.
  
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  Tori Amos
  Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
  As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996.
  Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, The Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father, Reverend Edison Amos, became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At the age of 13 she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.
  
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  William Shatner
  William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author and film director. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek, and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
  Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. Afterwards, he hosted the reality-based television series, Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996, which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has since worked as a musician, author, producer, director and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008 he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
  
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• Adelaide (live, 2011: Adelaide, Australia)
• Air
• All Shook Up
• Ascent of Stan (live, 2002: New York, NY, USA)
• Birds
• Bitch Went Nutz (live, 2008: Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Bizarre Christmas Incident
• Brick (live acoustic, 2003)
• Champagne Supernova (live, 1996)
• Cologne (piano orchestra version 2008)
• Dr. Yang (live, 2008: Belgium)
• Evaporated (demo 1992)
• Family of Me
• For All the Pretty People
• Free Coffee (live, 2008: Germany)
• Girl
• Golden Slumbers (live, 2001: New York, NY, USA)
• Hava Nagila (live, 1997)
• Heist
• Hiro's Song (shaker version) (live, 2011: Melbourne, Australia)
• Honey Don't (alternate take 2000)
• Hospital Song (live, 1999: Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• House (original mix 2011)
• I Knew That 'cha Could (demo 2000)
• In Between Days (live, 2005)

• Unrelated
• Best Imitation of Myself
• Rocky
• Boxing
• Julianne
• Evaporated
• Alice Childress
• Barrytown
• Amelia Bright
• Tell Me What I Did
• Rock Star
• Losing Lisa
• Break Up at Food Court
• Hiro's Song
• Wandering
• The Secret Life of Morgan Davis
• Such Great Heights
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Time
• Sleazy
• Because the Origami
• Stumblin' Home Winter Blues

• A Working Day
• Picture Window
• Levi Johnston's Blues
• Doc Pomus
• Your Dogs
• Practical Amanda
• Claire's Ninth
• Password
• From Above
• Saskia Hamilton
• Belinda

• Effington
• Frown Song
• Dr. Yang
• You Don't Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor)
• Free Coffee
• Cologne
• Bitch Went Nuts
• Hiroshima
• Kylie From Connecticut
• Errant Dog
• Brainwascht

• Free Coffee (live at Providence, RI 9/25/08)
• Errant Dog (live at Boston, MA 9/26/08)
• Lovesick Diagnostician (live at Terminal 5, NY, NY 9/30/08)
• Dr. Yang (live at Terminal 5, NY, NY 10/1/08)
• Kylie From Connecticut (live at Detroit, MI 10/9/08)
• Free Coffee Town (live From Detroit, MI 10/9/08)
• Lovesick Diagnostician (live from Detroit, MI 10/9/08)
• Bitch Went Nutz (live from Detroit, MI 10/9/08)
• Frowne Song (Feeble Anthem)
• Cologne (live at St. Paul, MN 10/17/08)
• Way to Normal (live from Dallas, TX 10/23/08)
• Brainwascht (live from Dallas, TX 10/23/08)
• Effington (live from Dallas, TX 10/23/08)
• Annie Waits (live from Dallas, TX 10/23/08)
• You to Thank (live from Dallas, TX 10/23/08)
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces (live from the Warehouse, Houston, TX)

• Not the Same
• Jesusland
• Brick
• You Don't Know Me
• Still Fighting It
• Boxing
• Selfless, Cold and Composed
• Magic
• Landed
• Time
• Effington
• Evaporated
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Army
• Fair
• The Luckiest

• Salt Lake City
• Rockit Digitally
• Ballad of the Wriggly Twins
• In the Breeze
• Anger & Issues in Ellensburg
• God Bless College Park
• Rock for Freedom
• Vegoose

• In Between Days
• All U Can Eat
• Songs of Love
• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Learn to Live With What You Are
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Adelaide
• Rent a Cop
• Get Your Hands Off My Woman
• Bruised
• Dog
• Still

• Bastard
• You to Thank
• Jesusland
• Landed
• Gracie
• Trusted
• Give Judy My Notice
• Late
• Sentimental Guy
• Time
• Prison Food

• Zak and Sara
• Smoke
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Steven's Last Night in Town
• Boxing
• Annie Waits
• Brick
• Evaporated
• Not the Same
• The Ascent of Stan
• Lullabye
• Narcolepsy
• Rock This Bitch
• The Luckiest

• In Between Days
• Gone
• Hiro's Song
• You to Thank
• Weather Channel Music
• Evaporated
• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Radio Jingles for Tokyo Inter-FM
• Side of the Road

• Intro
• In Between Days
• Gone
• Hiro's Song
• Losing Lisa
• Landed
• You to Thank
• Anne Waits
• All U Can Eat
• Still Fighting It
• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Where's Summer B?
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Carrying Cathy
• Zak and Sara
• Brick
• Emaline
• Army
• Philosophy
• Short Bus Benny
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• "Stairway to Heaven"
• Not the Same
• Missing the War
• Rockin' the Suburbs

• [intro]
• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Zak and Sara
• Best Imitation of Myself
• Silver Street
• All U Can Eat
• Rock This Bitch
• Rent-A-Cop
• Get Your Hands Off My Woman Motherfucker
• Late
• Learn to Live With What You Are
• Philosophy / Miserlou / Chopsticks
• Brick
• Kate
• Girl
• One Down

• [intro]
• The Ascent of Stan
• Gone
• All U Can Eat
• Late
• Gracie
• Careless Whisper
• Zak and Sara
• Narcolepsy
• Carrying Cathy
• [story]
• Army
• Kate
• Rock This Bitch (Wallingford style)
• Steven's Last Night in Town
• Purple Haze
• Fair
• Short Bus Benny
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Zak and Sara
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• All U Can Eat
• Late
• Gracie
• Careless Whisper (feat. Rufus Wainwright)
• Philosophy
• Army
• Them That Got
• Give Judy My Notice (feat. Guster)
• Ultimate Sacrifice (feat. Guster)
• Evaporated
• Not the Same

• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Zak and Sara
• Silver Street
• One Down
• All U Can Eat
• The Last Polka / Hardee's
• Rent-A-Cop
• Late
• Best Imitation of Myself
• Rock This Bitch
• Careless Whisper
• Philosophy
• I Used to Be a Sentimental Guy / Learn to Live With What You Are
• Kate
• The Luckiest
• Army
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• Heavy Metal: The Ultimate Sacrifice
• Champagne Supernova
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Song for the Dumped
• Hava Nagila / Eddie Walker
• Not the Same

• Don't Change Your Plans
• Zak and Sara
• The Ascent of Stan
• Eddie Walker / Philosophy
• All U Can Eat
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• Army
• The Luckiest
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Brick
• Not the Same

• Best Imitation of Myself
• Zak and Sara
• Silver Street
• Emaline
• Philosophy
• Chopsticks
• Careless Whisper
• Where's Summer B?
• Say Yes
• The Last Polka
• Mess
• Your Redneck Past
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Annie Waits
• Kate

• (Intro)
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• Zak and Sara
• Annie Waits
• Silver Street
• Careless Whisper
• Philosophy / Sweet Home Johns Hopkins
• Kate
• Lullaby
• Don't Change Your Plans
• Where's Summer B?
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
• Army
• Selfless, Cold, and Composed
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• (Intro)
• Steven's Last Night in Town
• Underground
• Not the Same
• The Luckiest
• Emaline
• Jane
• Short Bus Benny
• Song for the Dumped (Minor)

• Boxing
• Zak and Sara
• Careless Whisper
• Annie Waits
• Silver Street
• Mess
• Philosophy
• Battle of Who Could Care Less
• Jackson Cannery
• Narcolepsy
• Mr. Rogers Theme
• Uncle Walter / Pirate Song
• Rock This Bitch
• Army
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Last Polka
• Kate
• The Ascent of Stan
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
• Evaporated
• Not the Same
• Short Bus Benny / One Angry Dwarf
• Song for the Dumped

• Intro
• Short Bus Benny/One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• Zak and Sara
• Careless Whisper
• Annie Waits
• Silver Street
• Mess
• Philosophy
• Kate
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
• Narcolepsy
• Jackson Cannery
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Interlude
• Army
• Boxing
• Race for the Prize
• Fair
• Not the Same
• Evaporated
• Underground
• Song for the Dumped

• Intro
• Not the Same
• Zak & Sara
• Fired
• Still Fighting It
• Losing Lisa
• Hiro's Song
• The Ascent of Stan
• Fred Jones Pt. 2
• Carrying Cathy
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Smoke
• Song for the Dumped

• Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head)
• Dr. Yang
• The Frown Song
• You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor)
• Before Cologne
• Cologne
• Errant Dog
• Free Coffee
• Bitch Went Nuts
• Brainwascht
• Effington
• Kylie From Connecticut
• Cologne [Bonus]

• [introduction]
• Effington
• Brainwashed
• Free Coffee
• The Bitch Went Nuts
• You Don't Know Me
• Errant Dog
• Trusted
• Bastard
• Still Fighting It
• Jesusland
• Fred Jones, Part II
• Gracie
• Evaporated
• Underground
• Army
• Gone
• Kate
• Narcolepsy

• [introduction]
• Gone
• Trusted
• All U Can Eat
• Bastard
• Kate
• 3 Part Harmony
• Not the Same
• Landed
• Brown Note
• Narcolepsy
• Defiance
• One Angry Dwarf
• Underground
• Such Great Heights

• [introduction]
• Ascent of Stan
• Gone
• All U Can Eat
• Late
• Gracie
• Careless Whisper (feat. Rufus Wainwright)
• Zak and Sara
• Narcolepsy
• Carrying Cathy
• Army
• Kate
• Rock This Bitch
• Steven's Last Night in Town (feat. Brian Rosenworcel)
• Kiss the Sky (feat. Guster)
• Fair (feat. Guster)
• [encore break] / Short Bus Benny
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

• Theme From Dr. Pyser / Miserlou
• Gone
• Bastard
• All You Can Eat
• Jesusland
• Landed
• Annie Waits
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Brick
• The Last Polka
• [stage banter]
• Army
• Zak and Sara
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Not the Same
• One Angry Dwarf

• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Don't Change Your Plans
• Lullabye
• Brick
• The Last Polka
• Army
• In Between Days
• The Ascent of Stan
• Where's Summer B?
• Late
• Zak and Sara
• Rockin' The Suburbs
• Philosophy
• Narcolepsy
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

• Boxing
• The Ascent of Stan
• The Last Polka
• Gracie
• All U Can Eat
• Bastard
• Gone
• [band intro]
• Jesusland
• You to Thank
• Careless Whisper (feat. Rufus Wainwright)
• Landed
• [banter]
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Brick
• Army
• Philosophy
• [three part harmony practice]
• Not the Same

• Boxing
• Hava Nagila
• Bizarre Christmas Incident
• Best Imitation of Myself
• One Down
• Secret Life of Morgan Davis
• Alice Childress
• Mess
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Philosophy
• Eddie Walker
• Golden Slumbers
• Selfless, Cold and Composed
• Ascent of Stan
• Zak and Sara
• Emaline
• Brick
• One Angry Dwarf
• The Luckiest
• Army
• Kate
• Don't Change Your Plans
• Evaporated

• Avengers Theme
• Not the Same
• Zak and Sara
• Annie Waits
• Still Fighting It
• Hiro's Song
• Losing Lisa
• The Ascent of Stan
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Gone
• Make Me Mommy
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Best Imitation of Myself
• Philosophy
• The Luckiest

• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
• Zak and Sara
• Silver Street
• Best Imitation of Myself
• Not the Same
• Jane
• One Down
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Brick
• Narcolepsy
• Army
• The Last Polka
• Tiny Dancer
• Rock This Bitch
• Philosophy (feat. Misirlou)
• The Luckiest
• Emaline
• Eddie Walker
• Bizarre Christmas Incident

• Hiro's Song
• One Down
• The Secret Life of Morgan Davis
• Make Me Mommy