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Sting

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist for the rock band The Police. Throughout his career, Sting has incorporated distinct elements of jazz, reggae, classical, New Age, and worldbeat into his music. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards; receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards (including Best......

Silver

Silver is a name of at least seven bands, one DJ and a producer. A Norwegian glam-punk band.Releases include, albums: "White Diary" (2004, Bad Afro), "World Against World" (2006, Bad Afro) and "Wolf Chasing Wolf" (2008, Bad Afro).Silver er et norsk glam-punk-rockeband. Bandet ble dannet i Flekkefjord i 1996, og debuterte i 2000 med Billboard Blackout EP. De var et av vinnerbandene under Zoom 2000 og ble sendt på den påfølgende Zoom-turneen i Norge, England og Skottland våren 2001. I 2001 slapp de Riot 1-2-3 EP på Virgin. Neste utgivelse ble albumet White Diary, etterfulgt av singlene «Angels Calling», «The Sin Fix Journal» og «Funeral Class......

Hooverphonic

Hooverphonic is a Belgian rock/pop group formed in 1995. Though initially placed in the trip-hop genre, they quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be classified so easily. The band originally called themselves Hoover but later changed their name to Hooverphonic due to other groups using the Hoover name.The band achieved international recognition through the inclusion of the track 2Wicky (from A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular) on the soundtrack to Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1996 film Stealing Beauty (Io Ballo da Sola).The original members of the group were vocalist Liesje Sadonius, keyboardist Frank Duchêne, bass guitarist and programmer Alex......

Redman

Redman (born Reggie Noble on April 17, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey) made his rapping debut on the EPMD songs "Hardcore" and "Brothers on my Jock", after Erick Sermon of the seminal group spotted him freestyling in a New York club and added him to their crew of aspiring emcees (along with K-Solo among others). Redman's 1992 Def Jam debut Whut? Thee Album broke into the US Top 50, achieved gold status in the United States, and prominent hip-hop magazine The Source subsequently named Redman Rap Artist of the Year for 1993.Redman's solo career continued throughout the remainder of the decade, with each of his albums selling at least half a million......

Loverdose

LOVERDOSE is collision of two London based djs /producers Levan and Gepy. Both artist has experience for past 10 years playing all around the world: Ibiza Tokyo, Moscow, Rome and all Major clubs in London.After having few session together both has realise that result was astonishing with very unique sounding. So, LOVERDOSE was born in august 2011. On October 2011 LOERDOSE released its first ep “Human Nature” on Human touch records. Two weeks after has followed second release “Alkapone” which was first huge success for LOVERDOSE which has stayed on Beatport deep house charts more then 10 weeks.LOVERDOSE influences are global, from pop - rock to ethno – folk which has created......

Bastard

There are at least 9 bands/artists with this name. Note: There also is a French rock band with the same name but different spelling - Bästard.)1. A band from London, England formed in 1975 by Lemmy Kilmister, after he got fired from Hawkwind. Lemmy recruited Larry Wallis and Lucas Fox and they decided to call themselves Bastard for brief period of time. Lemmy would soon change the name to Motörhead. 2. A short lived but legendary crust punk / d-beat band from Japan.3. Death metal band based in Iceland.4. An alternative rock band from Argentina formerly known as Blood Thirsty Bastards.5. A short lived visual kei band, also from Japan.6. And there is a band with the same......

Beloved

1) Beloved (US):Beloved was an American post-hardcore band from Greensboro and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Beloved recorded and released their debut EP, The Running (on the now defunct Vindicated Records), when they were only in their teens (Josh was only 16 at the time of recording). They caught the attention of Solid State Records and shifted their sound towards melodic hardcore while retaining the emo influences of their youth. In 2003 they released their debut full-length, Failure On.In 2004, drummer Joe Musten got married, and determined that it would not be possible to continue to tour with the band. They discussed replacements, but ultimately determined that the......