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UB40

A reggae band formed 1978 in Birmingham, UK. The music grasps from roots reggae and dub to lovers rock and pop. It is the second most commercial successful reggae band with +70 million sold albums. Many of their hits have been stylishly covers of early reggae and rocksteady hits from Jamaica. After success in UK, UB40's won USA with Labour of Love (1983), their first album of covers. UB40 was 1986 the first Western band to play behind the Iron Curtain, live in Moscow, Soviet Union. UB40 is known for hits as 'Food For Thought', (1980) 'Red Red Wine' (1983), 'Please Don't Make Me Cry' (1983), 'I Got You Babe' (1985) with......

Braids

Braids is an art rock/electronic band from Calgary, Alberta and currently based in Montreal, Quebec. The group formed in 2006, consisting of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith. Their first album, Native Speaker (2011), has received mostly praise from critics, remarkable for its innovative melodies and Standell-Preston's "dynamic" vocals.Keyboardist Katie Lee left the group during the recording of their 2013 album, Flourish // Perish. Raphaelle Standell-Preston is also the vocal half of Blue Hawaii.The 30th of April 2015 they released 'Deep In The Iris', their third album. Source...

Stylophonic

Stylophonic (b. Stefano Fontana, 1970 in Milan, Italy - aka Fontana Mood), stated his career started in 1987, with a main interest in house, producing the Beatbox Show album release (2006) & others.Sites: Discogs & Wikipedia (Google trans: Italian to English). Source

Nikonn

Behind the personal project NIKONN hides one of the most important personalities in the modern greek music scene, Nikos Bitzenis: one of the founding members of the most successful greek electronica group (MIKRO), creator of many inspired remixes, co-founder of UNDO RECORDS and co-director of several music videoclips. In a few words, a restless personality.POLADROID is Nikonn's escape from his acceptable and well-established music profile, from the up tempo and groove mood of MIKRO. It is a trip that could only set as limits the sea bed or the clouds in the sky and nothing else. Dreamy addictive melodies combined with airy vocals by Maria Papadopoulou take you on a......

Dionysos

There is more than one artist under this name:1. Dionysos is a French rock band formed in 1993 in Valence, Drôme. The band consists of five members known as Élisabeth Maistre a.k.a Babet, Guillaume Garidel a.k.a Guillermo, Mathias Malzieu, Michaël Ponton a.k.a Miky Biky and Éric Serra Tosio a.k.a Rico. Mathias is the main songwriter and fronts the band. Their latest studio album is La mécanique du cœur. Their first release, Happening Songs, was entirely in English, and Babet wasn't part of the band yet. In 1999, they released Haïku, which brought the band into the public eye, mainly thanks to the success of the single Coccinelle.The name is based on the name of the......

The Pasadenas

The Pasadenas are a R&B / pop group from the United Kingdom, best known for their hit songs, "Tribute (Right On)" and "I'm Doing Fine Now".The Pasadenas didn't belong in the '80s. The band was caught in a time warp; they bounced between '50s doo wop, '60s Motown, and early-'70s funk and R&B. However, they presented these influences when mainstream pop music had become too shallow and over-produced; instead of sounding dated, the group was actually a refreshing change of pace.The band wasn't given much attention in America, but they were superstars in their native England. Formed by twins David Milliner and......

gabriels

Gabriels is an LA based trio, with lead singer Jacob Lusk and producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope. Their five track debut EP Love and Hate in a Different Time was released in 2020. Jacob Lusk is an influential member of the LA gospel community and in Gabriels' music you can hear the influences of gospel, soul and funk. Source

Roachford

Roachford is/was a band based around singer/songwriter Andrew Roachford.Andrew Roachford was born and raised in South London on 22nd January 1965 to West Indian parents He has achieved four gold status albums and was Columbia Records' longest serving recording artist, achieving a total of eleven top 50 hits. His most well known song is 1988's 'Cuddly Toy', which on a re-release a year later reached No.4 in the uk chart. 5 years later in 1994 he gained huge sales and critical acclaim with the album 'Permanent Shade Of Blue', combining pop, soul, blues and rock with socially and politically aware lyrics.Andrew Roachford is currently a member of......