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Artist Name |
Artist Bio |
Instruments |
Genres |
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Annie Lennox |
Ann Griselda Lennox was raised in Aberdeen, Scotland and was the only child of a shipyard worker and a cook. She began playing the piano at age 3, and by the time she turned 7 became a member of Miss Auchinache’s choir. She started playing the flute at age 11 and a few years later she was admitted… Read More_» |
piano, voice |
alternative, electronic, rock, singer-songwriter, traditional |
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Gabriel Kahane |
Composer and singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane writes string quartets, musicals and pop songs. What unites all of his musical efforts is the desire to communicate honestly and without pretense.
Equally at home as a performer as in the composing studio, the two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow was hailed … Read More_» |
composition, guitar, voice |
classical, folk, rock, singer-songwriter |
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Judy Collins |
Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes for over 50 years. Judy claims that her mother named her after Judy Garland. Her father, Charles “Chuck” Collins was a Seattle-based 1950s American radio presenter whose tastes… Read More_» |
guitar, piano, voice |
folk, pop, rock, singer-songwriter |
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Natalie Merchant |
Singer-songwriter and pianist Natalie Merchant was born in 1963, in Jamestown, New York. Her father was a jazz musician and her mother, a classical music devotee, was a secretary. She studied the piano, spent free time in the library and dreamed of becoming an artist. Participating in an accelerated… Read More_» |
composition, guitar, piano, voice |
folk, rock, singer-songwriter |
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Sting |
Born in 1951, in Wallsend, north-east England, Gordon Sumner’s life started to change the evening a fellow musician in the Phoenix Jazzmen caught sight of his black and yellow striped sweater and decided to re-christen him Sting.
Sting got his start playing bass with local outfits The Newcastl… Read More_» |
guitar, piano, voice |
classical, jazz, pop, rock, singer-songwriter |
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Tori Amos |
Eight-time Grammy Award-nominated pianist, singer-songwriter and composer Tori Amos joins Peter on Linked Music this month. Perhaps best known for her confessional, piano-driven ballads, Tori’s influences range wide–from conservatory, to her own pop band, to alternative rock, to electr… Read More_» |
composition, piano, voice |
alternative, classical, orchestra, singer-songwriter |
