Biography
Amy Winehouse Phenomenon
The queen of soul music is the most controversial figure in the world. The young British singer Amy Winehouse, known as “a phenomenon of our times”, became at the age of only 24 a subject study for the gutter press and also for several specialists in music and psycho-sociologists. In the last six months, it [...]
Moby
Born September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York City. Given the legal name Richard Melville Hall. Given the nickname ‘Moby’ at birth due to having Herman Melville as an ancestor. Lived in a basement apartment in New York City with James Hall and Elizabeth Hall and 3 pet lab rats, a dog named Jamie, and [...]
Maroon 5
Sometimes Plan B can put Plan A to shame. Singer/guitarist Adam Levine, guitarist Jesse Carmichael, bass player Mickey Madden and drummer Ryan Dusick would second that emotion, seeing as how their first shot at the big time got them some rave notices, but not much else. Now, their second shot, in the form of neo-soul [...]
Mariah Carey
The best-selling female performer of the 1990s, Mariah Carey rose to superstardom on the strength of her stunning five-octave voice; an elastic talent who moved easily from glossy ballads to hip-hop-inspired dance-pop, she earned frequent comparison to rivals Whitney Houston and Celine Dion , but did them both one better by composing all of her [...]
Madonna
After a star reaches a certain point, it’s easy to forget what they became famous for and concentrate solely on their persona. Madonna is such a star. Madonna rocketed to stardom so quickly in 1984 that it obscured most of her musical virtues. Appreciating her music became even more difficult as the decade wore on, [...]
