- Name shared by: Ava Max (1994-) Ava Max uses her middle name instead of her given first name, which is Amanda. The Albanian American pop star has been topping the U.S. and European charts with songs like "Sweet but Psycho." ...
Bob Dylan's early folk albums are jam-packed with so many great protest songs that it's hard to choose just one. That said, the apocalyptic tone of "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" gives it an element of perennial prescience in today's fragile landscape. Rumors persist (thanks in part t...
With hit songs such as "Combien de Temps" and "Oh Ironie", his popularity spread Europe-wide with various albums, tours, and chart success in France and Switzerland. Teddy Stauffer Ernst Heinrich "Teddy" Stauffer (May 2, 1909 – August 27, 1991) was a Swiss bandleader, musician, actor...
Matthew Perpetua has been blogging (almost daily) about music since 2002. He’s worked at Buzzfeed, Rolling Stone, PRI, and has contributed to Pitchfork, MTV, and more. He offers wonderful reviews of songs and albums. Popjustice Popjustice was founded in 2000 by Peter Robinson, a music jou...
Lafontaine released three albums. The song "Coeur de Loup" was his first big hit and launched his career once and for all in Europe. The song garnered many awards in Belgium, France and Quebec. He represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 in Zagreb with his own composition ...
Backstreet Boys are a Grammy-nominated American pop group. They were the first group launched by fallen boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. They have had 13 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and have sold approximately 100 million albums, making them the best selling boy band of all time; th...
David Lanz (born June 28, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. He has released 13 albums, each having some chart success. His most famous album, Cristofori's Dream, topped the New Age charts in 1988, which was Number One on Billboard's first adult alterna...
Cortney Martin (CC BY 2.0) Two-time Grammy-nominated Fastball's song "The Way" reached number one in 1998, and their platinum album "All the Pain Money Can Buy" stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for a year. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy...
Joni Mitchell was born on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Canada. In 1968, she recorded her first, self-titled album. Other highly successful albums followed. Mitchell won her first Grammy Award (best folk performance) for her 1969 album, Clouds. She has won seven more Grammy Awards si...
After recording independent albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide and helped the band win two Grammy Awards out of six nominations. A year later, Evanescence released their first live ...