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Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known simply as Shakira, is a Grammy-award winning Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, music-video director, dancer, choreographer, instrumentalist and philanthropist who has sold over eighty million albums worldwide. She has won two Grammy awards, ten Latin Grammy awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, twenty-seven Latin Billboard Awards and has been nominated for a Golden Globe. She has been in the music industry since 1990, releasing her first album the following year. A child prodigy, she began writing poems and songs at age four and taught herself the guitar at age ten. The death of a......

Sugababes

Sugababes are an English all-female pop trio based in London, UK, consisting of founding members Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan & Siobhán Donaghy. The group's initial run lasted from 1998 to 2012, with all 3 original members being replaced over that time. The original members of the group reformed in 2019, after a brief stint as Mutya Keisha Siobhan.The group was formed in 1998 with original members Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan & Siobhán Donaghy, who were introduced to each other by manager Ron Tom. After some initial success, Donaghy departed and the introduction of Heidi Range (formerly of Atomic Kitten) in 2001 was met with the commercial breakthrough of the......

Sigma

"Sigma" can refer to;1. A United Kingdom-based Drum and Bass collective2. An Arizona, USA based punk-rock band3. One of the many pseudonyms of Canadian electronic artist Renard.4. A Psy-Trance artist from Ramat-Gan, Israel5. A boy group from Taiwan (SIGMA乐团).6. A Greek rapper.—1. Sigma (Σ) is a British drum and bass duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie. They met at Leeds University at drum and bass nights. Their 2010 collaboration with DJ Fresh "Lassitude" peaked at number 98 on the UK Singles Chart. Their single "Nobody to Love", a rework of Kanye West's "Bound 2", was released on 6 April 2014. It topped the UK......

Soothsayers

Soothsayers' web site describes themselevs as: "A group of musicians playing a fusion of nu Afro beat and dub; a cultural collision created by movement of people; music with vision and a message; music for all people from all cultures and nations".Noted for their blistering shows, South London collective Soothsayers have been kicking up a live storm with their organic mix of reggae, afro-beat, funk and urban jazz for over 10 years. But where their debut Lost City drew on jazz and African music and acclaimed follow-up Tangled Roots channeled funk and hip-hop alongside afro-beat and reggae, One More Reason brings their love of dub to the fore – harnessing some......

Stamatis Spanoudakis

Stamatis Spanoudakis (Σταμάτης Σπανουδάκης) is a famous Greek classical and new age composer. He was born in Athens Greece at a very early age. Music became the most important part of his life. As a child, he first studied Classical music (guitar and theory) with professor Haralampos Ekmektsoglou. Then, as a teenager in the sixties and the seventies, he played bass guitar and keyboards in a number of bands in Athens, Paris and finally, London, where he lived for a number of years and recorded his first albums.After that, Classical music won him over again, so he decided to return to his studies of composition, at first in Wurzburg Germany with professor Bertold Hummel and......

Stereomatic

1) An Israeli trance music producer2) A greek project that has released two albums so far consisting of nu jazz covers of classic greek tracks from the 60s and the 70s3) A late 90s Australian band featuring members of Black CabAbout 1, Eliran Maimone a.k.a StereoMatic is a young artist from the city of Ashdod, Israel. At the age of 17 he discovered the world of electronic music production, and started creating his own music. Eliran was also influenced and supported by his environment and also his older brother arik aka delirious, that is also a successful electronic producer. Steromatic started his musical path with the Full-On genre, but he soon went on to explore other......

Sabrina

There are a few artists under the name Sabrina: 1.) Sabrina Salerno, born on 15 March 1968 in Genoa (Italy) is a popular Italian singer and also model, dancer and producer. She is also an actress who has appeared in a number of European TV series, movies and theatre. In 1989 she appeared in the film Fratelli d'Italia with Jerry Calà.She initially used the single-name credit Sabrina under which she had a few very popular hits in the late 1980s such as "Boys" and "Chico". For more recent recordings, she is now using her full name.She performed live at the Montreux Pop Festival in 1988.Sabrina was photographed naked in erotic magazines (such as......

Sandra

Sandra is one of Germany's most popular singers in modern times. At the age of 16 she fronted the all-girl disco trio Arabesque from 1978 to 1984. She rose to international stardom in 1985 with the release of her single (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena - its synth-based 1980's dance sound crafted by boyfriend Michael Cretu proved to be an overwhelming success, reaching #1 in 21 countries. Through the following years she had a string of major top 10 hits, including In the Heat of the Night, Hi! Hi! Hi!, Everlasting Love, Heaven Can Wait, Secret Land and Hiroshima. In 1988 Sandra Lauer married the Romanian musician and composer Michael Cretu (born Mihai Creţu)......