Music Industry

Growing up on the streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, made Frank Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in many down-trotted bars, he got his first major break in 1935 as part of The Hoboken Four on a popular radio show, Major Bowes Amateur Hour. In 1939 Sinatra […]

The programmatic content of the title is directly related to the legend of Luamerava, and there are clear influences of traditional African melodic material. Hofmeyr specifically references mbira music in this work. The mbira is a traditional African instrument which belongs to the lamellaphone family. It is an instrument with a series of thin plates, […]

English singer and song writer James Blunt made it to the pop charts in 2005 following the release of his album Back to Bedlam, which included the song “You’re Beautiful”. Multi talented Blunt, writes, sings and plays both piano and guitar. With only two released albums, he is relatively new to the music scene yet […]

Introduction So Solid Crew were the first British group to adopt the hip/hop garage genre from America and consequently they made quite a significant mark on British music. They were declared as “The most talked about and controversial musicians of the 21st century”. A lot of what made the band so successful is the way […]

During the mid 1940s, when the swing era was drawing to a close, a new style of jazz was in the making. Swapping the big bands for quartets, the dancing shoes for a tasteful suit and glasses combo and the largely diatonic, homophonic melodies for quick moving, chromatic lines; jazz music had evolved again, into […]

A history of the pop-group, The Beatles The Beatles<BR> The Beatles to this day are one of the most famous and <BR> popular rock ‘n roll groups in the world. The Beatles ;BR; include George Harrison, John Lennon(1940-1980), Paul ;BR; McCartney, and Richard Starkey(Ringo Starr). All of the ;BR; Beatles where born and raised in […]

There are a lot of things that I despise in the world today, and for many good reasons. One of these things (or should I say person’s) is Justin Bieber. Oh where do I start! First of all, his voice is so high pitched, you wouldn’t to be able to tell the difference between him […]

Kurt Donald Cobain, known for being a song writer and lead singer for Nirvana was born in Hoquaim Washington on February 20, 1967. Cobain seemed to have a pretty happy childhood growing up in Aberdeen Washington, a small logging town, with his Mother (Wendy) and Father (Donald). However, at the age of 8 his parents […]

As a young child, Michael Jackson had cultivated stardom as a singer and performer with the Jackson Five before he reached double digits in age. In the ’70s he remained a stalwart member of that group, becoming an ever more central figure in its continuing success. And although he began to step out as a […]

As a young child, Michael Jackson had cultivated stardom as a singer and performer with the Jackson Five before he reached double digits in age. In the ’70s he remained a stalwart member of that group, becoming an ever more central figure in its continuing success. And although he began to step out as a […]