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Roderick David “Rod” Stewart ,

(born 10 January 1945) is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He has Scottish and English parentage.

With his distinctive raspy voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early ’70s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces proved to be influential on the formation of the heavy metal and punk rock genres, respectively. ….Read More

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01.Hot Legs
02.Tonight’s the Night
03.Handbags and Gladrags
04.Cut Across Shorty
05.Every Picture Tells a Story
06.Maggie May
07.Reason to Believe
08.People Get Ready
09.Have I Told You Lately
10.Tom Traubert’s Blues (waltzing matilda)
11.The First Cut is the Deepest
12.Mandolin Wind
13.Highgate Shuffle
14.Stay with Me
15.Having a Party
16.Gasoline Alley (bonus track)
17.Forever Young (bonus track)

Rod Stewart – Unplugged… And Seated (Collector’s Edition)

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Lhasa de Sela ,

(born 1972), better known as Lhasa, is a Mexican American singer and songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and now lives in Canada.

Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father and an American mother. Her first decade was spent criss-crossing the United States and Mexico in a converted school bus with her parents and three sisters where they were home-schooled by her mother. She started singing in a Greek cafe in San Francisco when she was thirteen. At age nineteen she moved to Montreal and sang for five years in bars, where she developed the material that eventually became her first album, La Llorona, released in 1997. La Llorona, which mixes traditional South American songs with original songs, was strongly influenced by Mexican music, but also Eastern European gypsy music and alternative rock. The album was released by the Montreal independent record label Audiogram and brought her much success, including the Félix Award for “Artiste québécois — musique du monde” in 1997 and the Juno Award for Best Global Artist, in 1998.

After touring in Europe and North America for several years, Lhasa left her singing career in 1999 and moved to France to join her three sisters in a circus/theatre company named Pocheros. She eventually reached Marseille, where she started writing songs again. She then returned to Montreal to produce her second album, The Living Road, which was released in 2003. While La Llorona had been entirely in Spanish, The Living Road included songs in English, French and Spanish. A two year tour followed the release of “The Living Road”, taking her and her group to seventeen countries. She was a guest singer on the Tindersticks’ track ‘Sometimes It Hurts’ off their Waiting for the Moon album, and later joined Tindersticks’ singer Stuart Staples for a duet on the track ‘That Leaving Feeling’, found on his Leaving Songs album. She has also appeared as a guest on the albums of French singers Arthur H and Jérôme Minière, and the French gypsy music group Bratsch. Lhasa received the BBC World Music Award for Best Artist of the Americas in 2005. The accumulated worldwide sales of her two albums are nearing one million. ….Read More

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01. Is Anything Wrong
02. Rising
03. Love Came Here
04. What Kind of Heart
05. Bells
06. Fool’s Gold
07. A Fish on Land
08. Where Do you Go
09. The Lonely Spider
10. 1001 Nights
11. I’m Going in
12. Anyone and Everyone

Lhasa De Sela – Lhasa

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Melody Gardot ,

(born 1985) is an American jazz singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was disabled at 19 after being struck by a car while riding her bicycle and became a musician after discovering music therapy. She has been influenced by such blues and jazz artists as Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin as well as latin artists such as Stan Getz and Caetano Veloso.
After meeting in New York City in 2008, Grammy award-winning producer Larry Klein began work with Gardot, shaping and building the 2009 Universal Records release, ‘”My One and Only Thrill”‘. Recorded in Los Angeles at Capitol Records, the album features the orchestration of Vince Mendoza and 11 songs (10 of which are original and a cover of Somewhere Over the Rainbow). ….Read More

Melody Gardot – My One And Only Thrill
(Bonus Track Version)

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Yannick Noah ,

(born May 18, 1960, Sedan, Ardennes, France) is a pop-soul singer, former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for winning the men’s singles title at the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France’s Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder, with his mother, of a charity organization for underprivileged children. ….Read More

Yannick Noah – Metisse(s)

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Ultravox ,

(formerly Ultravox!) are a British New Wave band that rose to prominence in the late 1970s/early 1980s. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic movement, although it both pre- and post-dated New Romanticism by several years. They are arguably best known for the song Reap The Wild Wind in the United States and Vienna elsewhere.

This band had two major periods (1973 to 1979, and 1980 to 1986) in which it was, literally, “managed” by two different band leaders, who were never in the band together. In the first period the frontman was John Foxx, now a successful electronic musician, who oriented the band to experimental sounds and changes of styles (glam, punk, industrial, synthpop, art) until 1979, when he decided to quit to become a soloist and dedicate to electronic and synthpop music; in the second period, Midge Ure was the frontman, and who oriented, along with Billy Currie, the band to a more pop and electronic sound and a commercial success, until 1988, when the group decided to disband. A third major period existed, from around 1992 to 1996, being Billy Currie, the only who remained in Ultravox since the beginnings, who oriented the band, but with new members and without any success. ….More

           Track Listing :

01. Sleepwalk (2008 Digital Remaster)
02. Passing Strangers (2008 Digital Remaster)
03. Vienna (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
04. All Stood Still (2008 Digital Remaster)
05. The Thin Wall (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
06. The Voice (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
07. Reap The Wild Wind (2009 Digital Remaster)
08. Hymn (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
09. Visions In Blue (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
10. We Came To Dance (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
11. One Small Day (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
12. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
13. Lament (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
14. White China (Album Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
15. Loves Great Adventure (2009 Digital Remaster)
16. Same Old Story (Single Mix) (2009 Digital Remaster)
17. All Fall Down (2009 Digital Remaster)
18. All In One Day (Single Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)

Ultravox – The Very Best Of Ultravox

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Raphaël Haroche ,

Born in 1975, Raphaël is successful French singer. Being a great fan of David Bowie, he started touring with him.
His first album, the rock-oriented Hotel De L’Univers, made him being compared to Saez. Then he composed a completely different one, La Réalité, in a folk-guitar style, with the involvement of some Bowie’s musicians (while Bowie was releasing Reality…). Including the single Sur La Route with Jean-Louis Aubert, he knew the very success; his 2 next albums are still in this style.

           Track Listing :

01. Cela nous aurait suffi
02. Qu’on est bien dans ce monde
03. Laisse Faire
04. Hôtel de l’univers
05. La meute
06. Ici tout va bien
07. On craindra plus les balles
08. Choisis ton camp
09. Petite annonce
10. T’apporter mon amour
11. Libre service

Raphaël – Hotel De L’Univers

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Domenico Modugno ,

(January 9, 1928 – August 6, 1994) was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. ….More

Domenico Modugno – The Golden Collection – CD1

Domenico Modugno – The Golden Collection – CD2

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Dany Brillant ,

born Daniel Cohen-Biran (1965-12-28 – ) in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a Tunisian-French vocalist.

In June 2005, Brillant appeared on Les stars chantent leurs idoles, on France 2, alongside stars such as Julio Iglesias and Il Divo. ….More

Dany Brillant – Histoire D’un Amour

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Henry Saint Clair Fredericks ,

(born May 17, 1942), who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music during his 40+ year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific. ….More

Taj Mahal – Senor Blues

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Bob Dylan ,

(born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan’s most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’”, became anthems of both the civil rights movements and of the opposition to the Vietnam War. Dylan’s last studio album, Together Through Life, was released on April 28, 2009. ….More

Bob Dylan – Together Through Life

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Melissa McClelland ,

(born 1979 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Burlington, Ontario, Canada in her youth and now bases her career from Toronto.

McClelland’s music is influenced by blues and americana.

McClelland married Luke Doucet on June 24, 2006; the two have played together on numerous stages, including at the 2006 Calgary Folk Music Festival. He has produced three of her records, “Stranded in Suburbia”, “Thumbelina’s One Night Stand” and “Victoria Day”. ….More

Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day

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Ray Charles Robinson ,

(September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his stage name Ray Charles, was a blind musician. He brought a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his Modern Sounds recordings, as well as a rendition of “America the Beautiful” that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the “definitive version of the song, an American anthem — a classic, just as the man who sang it.” He also appeared in the 1980 hit movie, The Blues Brothers. Frank Sinatra called him “the only true genius in the business”. ….More

Ray Charles – Genius- The Ultimate Collection

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Caravan Plalace ,

It all started with a double bass player, a guitarist and a violinist; all highly talented musicians who are really into swing, Django addicts who enjoy tinkering with electro. Their project swayed a singer, a clarinettist, a trombonist who doubles up on percussion and a guitarist who also acts as DJ. With their “Zazou” look (inspired by Parisian paleo-punks from the 1940s), they serve up festive, frantic music, an improbable futuristic and melodious Charleston fit for the dance floor. Caravan Palace is to swing what the Gotan Project is to tango. ….More

Caravan Palace – Caravan Palace

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Bernabé Figueroa Williams ,

(born September 13, 1968) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball outfielder and musician.
In addition to his accolades on the baseball field, Bernie is also a critically-acclaimed musician. A classically trained guitarist, playing and composing music is Bernie’s first true passion with influences that include jazz, classical, pop, Brazilian, and Latin sounds. He is currently studying guitar and composition at the State University of New York, Purchase College. ….More

Bernie Williams – Moving Forward

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The Red Violin ,

is a 1998 Canadian drama film. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a violin and its many owners. The film was an international co-production between companies in Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom.
The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as ‘The Red Violin’ for its rich red colour. At the film’s beginning, the violin is being auctioned in Canada. As the bidding starts, the violin’s history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over 300 years, having been made in 1681. Its history is told in five locations around the world: Cremona; Vienna; Oxford; Shanghai; and Montreal. To its owners, the violin causes anger, betrayal, love, and sacrifice. In each setting the dialogue is spoken in the appropriate language. Also, a variation of the movie’s signature violin solo by composer John Corigliano is played at least once in the period it is played, with the exception of Cremona, where the solo is being hummed by Anna herself. Throughout the movie, the solos are played by noted violinist Joshua Bell. ….More

John Corigliano – The Red Violin

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