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Yungblud

Yungblud is Dominic Harrison from Doncaster, United Kingdom, an indie rock musician whose debut track, King Charles, a proper 21st century protest song, was released in the Summer of 2017. 'King Charles' is two and a half minutes of rage against the system. The tune's driving back-beat almost makes it resemble a hip-hop crossover.The name "YUNGBLUD" came from him being the youngest member of his management roster. His manager used to call him "The Youngblood". Dominic decided that "Dominic Harrison" was a little too polite for the music he was writing so he started trying to figure out a stage name to call himself, as he was......

Yass

Yass # 1 is a DJ from Paris, France who plays in local clubshttp://www.last.fm/music/YassYass # 2 (Yass Smaali) is a Singer-Songwriter also born near Paris, France but who emigrated to Belgium.http://www.last.fm/music/Yass+SmaaliYASS # 3 is a German noise-rock band out of the dark woods of the Black Forest. Markus (TEN VOLT SHOCK) and Frank (KURT, TEN VOLT SHOCK) are combining their driving-blistering guitar sound and their heavy pounding beats with dark and pulsating synthesizer-loops to an energetic and powerful piece of modern Noise-Rock. http://www.yass-theband.de Source...

Yazoo

Yazoo (known as "Yaz" in the U.S.) were an English synthpop duo from Basildon, UK.Yazoo were formed in early 1982 by former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke (synthesizers) and English singer Alison Moyet (vocals) and signed to Mute Records in the United Kingdom.Their debut single "Only You" was released on 15 March 1982 and rose to number 2 on the UK charts. They also released two studio albums: Upstairs at Eric's in 1982 and You and Me Both in 1983.Shortly after the release of the second album, Moyet and Clarke decided to break up. Moyet pursued a solo career while Clarke first founded (the short lived) The Assembly followed by the successful......

Yello

Yello is a popular Swiss electronic band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their single Oh Yeah, which featured a rich mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals. The song became famous after being featured in the American movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Secret of My Success, and more recently Soul Plane. The song is the theme for Duffman on The Simpsons. In the UK they are probably best known for the Number 7 hit The race. This song was also from 1988 to 1990 the title track of the german music video TV-show "Formel Eins" (=Formula One) and was a Number 4 hit in Germany.Yello was originally formed by Boris......

Yaeji

Kathy Yaeji Lee (born August 6, 1993 in New York City, U.S.), also known as Yaeji, is a Korean-American singer/producer of electronic deep house music, with whispered vocals in Korean and English. Yaeji was born in Flushing, Queens as a single child in a Korean family. Growing up, she moved from New York to Atlanta when she was 5, and then to South Korea in the third grade. Yaeji grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and eventually moved back to the United States to study conceptual art, East Asian studies and graphic design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Yaeji embraced DJing as a hobby while attending Carnegie Mellon, after learning how to use Traktor and beginning......

Yazz

Yazz (born Yasmin Evans in Shepherd's Bush, London on May 19, 1960) is a British pop singer who remains best known for her successful 1988 dance track, "The Only Way Is Up".After a spell as a catwalk model, she scored a number of club hits after recording with group, Biz, in 1983. Her first commercial success came in early 1988, when she supplied the vocals on Coldcut's "Doctorin' the House". She soon launched a solo career on Big Life records, a label set up by her future husband Jazz Summers, releasing her debut single "The Only Way Is Up" in the summer of 1988. It went on to spend five weeks at the top of the chart, eventually......

Yuksek

Pierre-Alexandre Busson better known as Yuksek, is a French electronic music producer, remixer and DJ. Yuksek means "high" in Turkish.Yuksek born in 1977, native of Reims, France. Yuksek played the piano at the Conservatoire of Music until the age of 17 – the time he decided to give up his studies. After playing the piano for ten years at a conservatoire, he took part in several bands such as Klanguage, whose first album was released in 2007.He created his first tracks as Yuksek in 2002 and then started to perform successfully as a DJ all over the world. At the same time, his first EPs and remixes were released on labels such as Relish, I'm a Cliché, Kitsuné,......

Yanni

Yanni (real name: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης / Yiannis Hrysomallis) is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who was born in November 14, 1954 in Kalamata, Greece. Starting his career in 1977, joining up the Minneapolis-based rock group Chameleon, his musical efforts have spanned over three decades and brought him international popularity. Although many fans and critics call his music "New Age", Yanni himself has distanced himself from that label. In his autobiography, Yanni devotes an entire chapter to the subject, stating that he prefers to call his music "contemporary instrumental".Yanni is a self-taught pianist who began his musical interest by......