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Hannah Trigwell (born 28 October 1990) is an English singer-songwriter from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Hannah has released two EPs containing original material. Her debut EP 'Hold My Heart' was released in May 2010 and the follow up, 'Not Enough' was released in August 2011.
Hannah Trigwell began her musical career at the age of 17 when, as a self-taught singer and guitarist, she took to the streets of Leeds to play her music for anyone that cared to stop and listen. Like many up and coming musicians, Hannah owes much of her success to YouTube. Her YouTube page, containing videos of live versions of original songs and covers, has gathered over 2.75 million views and gains 10,000 hits per day! One of her earliest videos, a cover of the Tracy Chapman song 'Fast Car', has now amassed 289,217 views since its upload in December 2007.
In May 2010, Hannah released her debut EP, ‘Hold My Heart’, which reached number 6 in the iTunes Singer-Songwriter album charts. Off the back of the success of 'Hold My Heart' Hannah saw out 2010 by playing sold out shows at London Scala, Birmingham O2 and Manchester Academy whilst touring in support of Boyce Avenue on their 2010 Fall Tour.
Justin Drew Bieber ( /ˈbiːbər/ BEE-bər, born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian Pop/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Usher in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher, and then to a recording contract with Island Records offered by L.A. Reid. Bieber's debut single, "One Time", was released in 2009 and peaked in the top twenty in Canada and charted in the top thirty in several international markets. His debut album, the seven-track EP My World, followed in November 2009, and was soon certified platinum in the United States. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."
Cohen was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family. He attended Roslyn Elementary School. His mother, Marsha Klinitsky, of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, emigrated from Lithuania while his great-grandfather emigrated from Poland. He grew up in Westmount on the Island of Montreal. His grandfather was Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His father, Nathan Cohen, who owned a substantial Montreal clothing store, died when Cohen was nine years old. On the topic of being a Kohen, Cohen has said that, "I had a very Messianic childhood." He told Richard Goldstein in 1967. "I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest." Cohen attended Westmount High School, beginning in 1948 where he was involved with the Student Council and studied music and poetry. He became especially interested in the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar, and formed a country-folk group called the Buckskin Boys. Although he initially played a regular acoustic guitar as a teenager, he soon switched to playing a classical guitar after meeting a young Spanish flamenco guitar player who taught him "a few chords and some flamenco."