Statue in Ray Charles Plaza in Albany, GeorgiaIn 1979, he was one of the first honorees of the Georgia State Music Hall of Fame being recognized for being a musician born in the state. Ray's version of "Georgia On My Mind" was made into the official state song for Georgia. In 1981...
Piano (Born Santa Clara, Cuba 1919, died 2003) Ry Cooder famously likened Rubén González’s piano playing to “a cross between Thelonius Monk and Felix the Cat” and his renaissance in his 80s when he became an international star was one of the great elements in the Buena Vista Social...
Ben Decca is a veteran musician born in the Cameroonian area of Douala in 1958. His fans have dubbed him the “Makossa man’’ in honour of the Makossa memories his songs rose in their minds. In 2015, he marked the 30thanniversary of his music career and so far so good, music has f...
Though born in Philadelphia, the tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose nickname was “The Sound,” became synonymous with west coast cool jazz that emerged in California during the 1950s. Famed for producing a gorgeously feathery tone that caressed the ear, Getz also played a major role in exposi...
曾推出兩本著作及四張唱片,包括《Twelve Tales in Eleven Monochromes》(1996)、《Stuck in Traffic》(2003)、《Little Cold Red》(2005)、《Whale Song》(2008)及《The Adventure of a Small-Headed Turtle》(2012)。 Born and based in Hong Kong, Wilson Tsang is a visual artist and a singer-song wri...
Tom Scholz was born in Toledo, Ohio, where he spent much of his childhood playing sports and tinkering with almost anything motorized, which piqued the interest of many casino players. Tom Scholz also had a passion for mini-bikes, go-karts, model airplanes, and studying online gambling laws ...
Born in Nea Kokkinia, Piraeus, George Dalaras is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in modern Greek music. With a career spanning over fifty years, Dalaras has been a consistent force in the music scene, introducing Greek folk and Rebetiko music to new gen...
In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Age: Dec. at 70 (1944-2014) Birthplace: Texas, USA, Beaumont Also ranks #20 on The Greatest Rock Guitar...
In 2001 the band released White Blood Cells. The album's stripped-down garage rock sound drew critical acclaim in the UK and soon afterward in the US, making The White Stripes one of the more acclaimed bands of 2002. The album was followed up in 2003 by the commercially[21][22] and ...
When they played their first gig, in 2003 at Coachella, the first thing Iggy did was start jumping in the air, flipping the bird to the crowd — "Fuck you, fuck you and fuck you." Then Iggy turned to the side of the stage, where the elite were standing — Sonic Youth, Queens of...