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Fusion Music and World Peace!
Music can be more than plain recreation. It is also a gentle and non-violent path to understanding other people, especially from far away places. Music is unity in diversity, and we draw close ...
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MC Lars: Download His Songs
MC Lars, whose real name is Andrew Nielsen, grew up in the โiGenerationโ. This is his personal term for the children who grew up with constant Internet influence, and consequently have a ...
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His Masterโs Voice
The dog and trumpet trademark will remain an icon of early 20th century music for ever. โHis Masterโs Voiceโ (HMV) opened its doors for the first time in the 1920s, which saw an explosion of ...
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Enrico Caruso, The Man With Voice of Angels
Born in Naples, Italy in 1873, Enrico Caruso is regarded by many as having the greatest voice to ever grace the stage. As a tenor, Caruso set the standard for those who have followed his ...
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Musicians: Art for Profits!
Writers have publishers, painters have exhibitions, and actors have agents, but none of them have the industrial involvement of music. Music is a global profit making enterprise. Is this good or bad?
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Musicians: It takes Brains to Love Music!
The renowned scholar Howard Gardner has described 7 kinds of intelligence, and music is one of them. Most of us are aware that there are differences between being smart and being nice or polite. ...
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Musicians: James Blunt – The Rebirth of Falsetto
James Blunt, real name James Hiller Blount, was raised in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England. Even though he learned to play certain instruments at an early age, he did not learn about bands such as ...
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Musicians: The Offspring – Loud and Proud
This group is famous for their yelling out loud lyrics and their conglomeration of punk, alternative, and metal sounds. Origins of the band date as far back as 1984 when Bryan โDexterโ Holland ...
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Musicians: Black Eyed Peas
Although this group is a hip-hop sensation now, its first attempt in 1992 was shelved. Starting members Will.i.am (William Adams), Apl.de.ap (Allen Pineda), and Dante Santiago originally signed ...
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Contemporary Christian Music: Past, Present, Future
It is difficult to define the term โContemporary Christian musicโ, but most seem to narrow it down to artists who profess Christ openly, and sing music that is filled with gospel themes. The ...
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Matchbox Twenty: Always a following
Matchbox Twenty is an example of a band that has always had some sort of following, even when they were not a critical success. The band came out of the alternative, grunge-era music that was ...
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Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival – Musicians
Every year, around the end of February, over 300 schools attend one of the most famous Jazz Festivals in the world, located in... Moscow, Idaho? Even though most people have never heard of it, ...