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Arielle Dombasle ,

(born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery de Fromental on April 27, 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a French-American singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer’s Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s The Blue Villa (1995). She became known to American audiences through her appearances on Miami Vice and the 1984 miniseries Lace. ….Read More

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Ay.o ,

(born as Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin on 14 September 1980 in Frechen near Cologne, Germany) is an Afro-German singer-songwriter. She uses the Yoruba translation Ay.o or Ayo. of her first name Joy. The name has to be written with a dot below or behind the o – without it, it would refer to a pitted board game popular among the Yorubas.

Her debut album Joyful, which was first released in 2006, reached Double-Platinum status in France, Platinum in Germany and Poland, Gold status in Switzerland and Italy and Greece. The album was released in the United States on 20 November 2007 by Interscope Records.

She has a son, Nile, who was born in late 2005 with her partner, the Afro-German reggae singer Patrice. At the end of 2007, she moved with her family to the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan in New York City.

The president of UNICEF France, Jacques Hintzy, announced on 4 February 2009 that the singer was named patron of UNICEF to promote the right to education for all children in the world. ….Read More

           Track Listing :

01. Down On My Knees
02. Without You
03. Letter By Letter
04. How Many Times?
05. And It’s Supposed To Be Love
06. Watching You
07. Only You
08. Help Is Coming
09. These Days
10. Life Is Real
11. What Is Love?
12. Neva Been

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Breathless ,

is an album by the progressive rock group Camel, released in 1978. It is the last album to feature the group’s original keyboardist Peter Bardens, who left the group before the tour for the album. He was replaced with two keyboardists for the tour: Dave Sinclair (Bassist Richard Sinclair’s cousin) and Jan Schelhaas. ….Read More

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The Spotnicks ,

is an instrumental rock group from Sweden, who were formed in 1961. They were famous for wearing “space suit” costumes on stage, and for their innovative electronic guitar sound. They have since released 42 albums, selling more than 18 million records, and still tour.
The Spotnicks originated from “Rock-Teddy and The Blue Caps”, a group formed in 1957 in Gothenburg by guitarist Bo Winberg (born 27 March 1939), with Bo Starander (born 11 March 1942) (rhythm guitar), and Björn Thelin (born 27 June 1942) (bass guitar). In 1958 they added Ove Johansson (drums), changed their name to “The Frazers”, and began playing regularly in local clubs. They signed a recording contract in 1961, and changed their name to “The Spotnicks”, a play on the Russian satellite Sputnik as suggested by their manager, Roland Ferneborg. Starander was later known as Bob Lander.

They soon became the first Swedish group to have significant international success, in a similar style to The Shadows and The Ventures. They toured Europe, and one of their early records, “Orange Blossom Special”, became their first big international hit, making the Top 30 in the UK Singles Chart in 1962 on the Oriole label, and reaching # 1 in Australia. ….Read More

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Raffaella Carrà ,

(born as Raffaella Roberta Pelloni, 18 June 1943, Bologna, Italy), in Italy often simply known as la Carrà and in some Latin American countries sometimes simply as Raffaella, is an Italian singer, dancer, TV hostess, and actress. She is a quite popular figure in the markets of Italy, Spain and Latin America, both as a result of her many well known taped presentations and records of all time, and because of her many popular TV shows. ….Read More

Raffaella Carra – Raffaella Cara

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Free – Songs Of Yesterday ,

Free – Songs Of Yesterday 5 CD Boxset

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5000 Volts ,

is the name of a British disco recording act which achieved success throughout Europe during the 1970s. The group consisted of vocalists Tina Charles and Martin Jay, with a changing group of session musicians.
They released several singles in the mid 1970s, but did not achieve success until radio stations began playing the B-side to their single, “Bye Love”. The song, “I’m On Fire”, was then released in its own right and became a major hit throughout Europe, peaking at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart;[1] and at number 1 on the German Top100 Singles chart and the Swedish chart. It also charted in the United States where it reached number 26. Though Charles provided the vocals, she was not at the time publicly acknowledged as the group’s singer, and on the band’s 1974 appearance on BBC Television’s Top Of The Pops, singer/actress Luan Peters fronted the group. However, the publicity surrounding the revelation of Charles’ contributions to the group gave her solo career a boost. ….Read More

5000 Volts – 5000 Volts

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Tori Amos ,

(born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is a pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley, with whom she has one child, Natashya “Tash” Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.

Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. She is known for her emotionally intense songs that cover a wide range of subjects including sexuality, religion and personal tragedy. Some of her charting singles include “Crucify”, “Silent All These Years”, “Cornflake Girl”, “Caught a Lite Sneeze”, “Professional Widow”, “Spark”, and “A Sorta Fairytale,” her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. ….Read More

Tori Amos – Abnormally Attracted To Sin

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Ketevan “Katie” Melua ,

born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian/British singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling female artist and Europe’s highest selling European female artist. ….Read More

Katie Melua – Live At The O2 Arena

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Alain Barrière ,

est un chanteur français, auteur-compositeur, né le 18 novembre 1935 à La Trinité-sur-Mer, de son vrai nom Alain Bellec. Il naît dans une famille de mareyeurs bretons, obtient un diplôme d’ingénieur des Arts et métiers (promotion Angers 1955, dite « An155 »). Cependant il préfère se tourner vers la chanson.

En 1961, il adopte son pseudonyme et participe au concours du Coq d’or de la chanson française dont la finale se déroule à l’Olympia. Il parvient en finale avec sa chanson Cathy et se classe 11e sur 12. Mais pendant ce concours Bruno Coquatrix le remarque et Alain Barrière signe un contrat avec la maison RCA.

Il vit alors de quelques cachets dans les petites salles parisiennes, avant de se faire un nom en 1963, avec le succès du titre Elle était si jolie, sélectionné pour représenter la France au Concours Eurovision de la chanson où il finit cinquième.

C’est en 1964 qu’il lance son plus grand succès : Ma vie.

Un autre grand succès est Tu t’en vas, interprété en duo avec Noëlle Cordier en 1974. L’année suivante, il fait construire et crée le Stirwen (« étoile blanche » en breton) un théâtre-discothèque-restaurant situé à Carnac, avec une salle de spectacle (amphithéâtre) dans laquelle il donne des concerts chaque été.

En 1977, il quitte la France pour les États-Unis : l’entreprise Stirwen a des difficultés et le chanteur des démêlés avec le fisc. Il revient quatre ans plus tard, mais les deux albums qu’il enregistre n’ont pas le succès escompté. Un second exil le mène au Canada. Il ne revient définitivement qu’au début des années 1990, mais sans renouer véritablement avec la chanson. ….Read More

Alain Barriere – 30 Annees En Chansons

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Kate Elizabeth Voegele ,

(born December 8, 1986) is a singer-songwriter, musician, and actress from the Cleveland suburb of Bay Village, Ohio. She is currently signed to Interscope Records.

Voegele began gaining interest from record labels and management companies after recording a series of demos. The first demo “The Other Side” (released in 2003) was produced by multi-platinum, award winning producer Michael Seifert. Her second demo “Louder Than Words” (released in 2004) was produced by Marshall Altman. Kate signed a record deal with MySpace Records in 2006 and released her debut album Don’t Look Away (produced by Marshall Altman) in May of 2007. The album has since sold over 225,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

She released her second studio-album, A Fine Mess, in May, 2009. It was produced by Mike Elizondo. ….Read More

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Artemios (Demis) Ventouris Roussos ,

Artemios (Demis) Ventouris Roussos (born June 15, 1946) is a Greek singer.

He was born in Egypt to ethnic Greek parents George and Olga (Engineer Yorgos Roussos), and raised in Alexandria. His parents lost everything and moved to Greece after the Suez Crisis. ….Read More

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Camel ,

are an English progressive rock band formed in 1971. An important figure in the Canterbury scene, the group has been releasing studio and live recordings steadily, with considerable success, since their formation. ….Read More

Camel – Mirage

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State of Siege ,

(French title: État de Siège) is a 1972 French film directed by Costa Gavras and starred by Yves Montand and Renato Salvatori.
In Uruguay in the early 1970s, before the military dictatorship, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) played by Montand, is kidnapped by a group of urban guerrillas.

Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas and expose the American intervention in Latin America Dictatorships and her central role in the violation of human rights on those dark times. ….Read More

Los Calchakis – State Of Siege

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Papillon ,

is a 1973 film based on a novel by French ex-convict Henri Charrière. The film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière (”Papillon”) and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega. ….Read More

Jerry Goldsmith – Papillon

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