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Tom Waits is an inimitable musician with a unique style, signature voice with a hoarseness and a special manner of performance. Over 50 years of his creative career, he has released many albums and starred in dozens of films. This did not affect his originality, and he remained as before an unformatted and free performer of our time. While working on his works, he never […]

Nel Yust Wyclef Jean is an American musician born on October 17, 1970 in Haiti. His father served as the pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. He named the boy in honor of the medieval reformer John Wycliffe. At the age of 9, Jean's family moved from Haiti to Brooklyn, but then to New Jersey. Here is a boy […]

Many call Gone with the Wind a one-hit band. The musicians were hugely popular in the late 1990s. Thanks to the composition "Cocoa Cocoa", the group gained long-awaited popularity, and soon it became the hallmark of the group "Gone with the Wind". Unpretentious lines of songs and a cheerful melody are the key to a XNUMX% hit. The song "Cocoa Cocoa" can still be heard on the radio today. […]

Ismael Rivera (his nickname is Maelo) became famous as a Puerto Rican composer and performer of salsa compositions. In the middle of the XNUMXth century, the singer was incredibly famous and delighted fans with his work. But what difficulties did he have to go through before becoming a famous person? Childhood and youth of Ismael Rivera Ismael was born in […]

In the 1990s, the alternative rock and post-grunge band The Smashing Pumpkins were incredibly popular. Albums were sold in multi-million copies, and concerts were given with enviable regularity. But there was also the other side of the coin… How was The Smashing Pumpkins created and who joined it? Billy Corgan, after failing to form a band in […]

Los Lobos is a group that made a splash on the American continent in the 1980s. The musicians' work is based on the idea of ​​eclecticism - they combined Spanish and Mexican folk music, rock, folk, country and other directions. As a result, an amazing and unique style was born, by which the group was recognized all over the world. Los […]