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Phillips, 'Little' Esther
Initially a singer with Johnny Otis's 1950s R&B revue, Esther Phillips lent tremendous conviction to her performances of the soul-meets-country songs that flourished briefly in the early '60s, but, with her Dinah Washington-influenced vocals, she was also convincing in nearly every other pop style, ...
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Scott, Jimmy (Jazz)
Though Jimmy Scott would eventually become known for his jazz ballad singing, the Cleveland-born vocalist who started out with the bands of Lionel Hampton and Paul Gayten began his solo career in the early 1950s recording commercial R&B material. Scott suffered from a rare condition known as Kallman...
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.38 Special
In the 1970s, brothers Donnie, Ronnie, and Johnny Van Zant of Jacksonville, Florida, oversaw a veritable Southern rock dynasty. Ronnie played in Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny ruled the Van Zant Band, and Donnie purveyed tough, low-slung boogie as the vocalist and guitarist in .38 Special. The band's no-fri...
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10,000 Maniacs
Led by vocalist Natalie Merchant, 10,000 Maniacs combined danceable rhythms, jangly guitars, catchy melodies, and liberal politics to create an accessible version of 1980s college rock. The band broke into the mainstream with a cover of Cat Stevens's classic "Peace Train," and followed up with a str...
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10cc
The quirky British 1970s outfit 10cc had its roots in '60s pop--band member Graham Gouldman had penned hits for the Yardbirds, the Hollies, and others--giving it a solid grounding in songcraft. The members meshed their sophisticated songwriting skills with a loopy sense of humour for a string of hit...
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13th Floor Elevators
Led by the inimitable Roky Erickson, the 13th Floor Elevators not only defined the acid-tinged sound of 1960s American garage music, they established a precedent for wild, unhinged Texas rock as well. Erickson's powerful vocals and trippy lyrics mixed perfectly with the band's blend of gritty R&B an...
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1990s
With tart lyrics delivered deadpan in a faux-snotty Glaswegian accent, choppy and purposeful guitar parts, and precise, dance-punk rhythms that occasionally loosen into glorious Stonesian sloppiness, the band 1990s fit neatly into the early-2000s new wave revival, and, fittingly, released their 2007...
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2 Live Crew
Miami's 2 Live Crew are arguably the most infamous group in hip-hop history. After several years of middling success as a standard Miami booty act, the group released AS NASTY AS THEY WANT TO BE in 1989. The record was filled with lyrics so outrageous and sexually explicit it made the grooves in th...
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2Pac
Beginning his career in the early 1990s as a member of the Oakland rap-funksters Digital Underground, 2Pac rose to become perhaps the single most controversial figure in rap music, easily equal in popularity and notoriety to Snoop Dogg on the West Coast and sometime rival Notorious B.I.G. out East. ...
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3 Doors Down
With the assistance of its contemporaries Creed and Godsmack, 3 Doors Down helped keep the grunge flag flying in the mid-1990s in the wake of the demise of genre founders like Nirvana and Soundgarden. Combining the mammoth, sludgy riffs of the aforementioned bands with a dose of pop melody and an ey...
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30 Seconds To Mars
Actor Jared Leto--perhaps best remembered by Generation X fans as dreamy Jordan Catalano from the TV show MY SO-CALLED LIFE--and his brother, drummer Shannon Leto, are the nexus of this popular MTV-ready alternative band who debuted in 2002. Despite harsh scrutiny from the music press, Jared Leto pr...
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311
Inspired by funk, reggae, and heavy rock, not to mention the rap-rock innovations of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311 formed in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1990. They toured relentlessly, releasing several albums before getting their big break in 1996 with the single "Down" from their self-titled album. They'...
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50 Cent
Hailing from Queens, New York, rapper 50 Cent had already garnered a grass-roots reputation as one of the hottest MCs around when he was tapped in the early 2000s by hip-hop golden boy Eminem for inclusion on the soundtrack to his film 8 MILE and a place of his own on the Detroit rapper's Shady labe...
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5th Dimension
With their heavenly, lushly produced arrangements of songs by contemporaries such as Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro, the 5th Dimension ruled the pop-radio roost in the late 1960s. The vocal-harmony group's sweet sound personified the sunnier, more optimistic aspects of the era, as expressed in such huge ...
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7 Seconds
One of the first hardcore punk bands (forming in 1980), 7 Seconds was also one of the first to embrace the straight-edge lifestyle, abstaining from alcohol and drugs of any kind. Unlike many other bands on the hardcore scene, 7 Seconds had evolved well beyond the limiting blueprint of the genre by t...
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808 State
Named after the legendary Roland drum machine, Manchester's 808 State had a profound influence on English dance music in the 1990s. On its early singles, the group coaxed furious beats out of electronic instruments and helped create a whole new vocabulary that was later incorporated into techno, jun...
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98 Degrees
In the late 1990s, the upper reaches of the pop charts were inhabited by a plethora of teen bands, among them the talented R&B group 98 Degrees. Although many considered them just an extension of such established male teen outfits as the Backstreet Boys and N Sync, 98 Degrees had more in common with...
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A Certain Ratio
One of the first bands on the legendary British label Factory, A Certain Ratio was perhaps the first punk-funk band in history. Following an early-1980s tour of the States with fellow Mancunians New Order, the groundbreaking act started incorporating Nuyorican soul styles, Latin rhythms, and club so...
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A Flock Of Seagulls
With the advent of MTV, pop music in the 1980s became more about visual image than ever before, and one band that caught that wave was the redoubtable A Flock of Seagulls. Their 1982 debut contained, among other compelling numbers, the infectious synth-pop hit "I Ran (So Far Away)." That song's acco...
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Perfect Circle (Rock)
Founded in the late 1990s by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan and guitar tech Billy Howerdel, A Perfect Circle takes the former group's brooding sonic template and lightens the heavy, prog-rock load with more melodic arrangements and varied instrumentation. Although APC originally began as a side-...
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A-Ha
The Norwegian synth-pop trio A-Ha burst onto the pop scene in 1985 with their debut single "Take On Me" reaching the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Equipped with good looks, pop hooks, and a groundbreaking video, A-Ha proved to be ideal MTV stars. The group was commissioned to comp...
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Aaliyah
The untimely death of the precocious young R&B star Aaliyah in 2001 was a shock to her many fans and to the music industry. The youthful siren's albums and her collaborations with Timbaland, R. Kelly, and Missy Elliot brought her as much renown as her lead role in the hit film ROMEO MUST DIE. Though...
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Neville, Aaron
New Orleans-based singer Aaron Neville has been singing since the late 1950s, working both as a solo artist and as a member of The Neville Brothers. His distinctive voice finally caught the world's full attention through his duets with Linda Ronstadt in the late 1980s. Neville's work is at its best ...
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Abba
Not many pop groups end up on postage stamps, as Abba has in its native Sweden; but then again, few groups become their homeland's most identifiable export. The group's stratospheric success was built on a foundation of buoyant, exquisitely arranged and produced pop music. Although they called it a ...
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Lincoln, Abbey
Jazz siren Abbey Lincoln began performing in the early 1950s. Following her marriage to drummer Max Roach in 1962 she became more politically aware. As well as collaborating with Roach, she began to write some of her own material, much of it stressing the rising tide of black consciousness in the US...
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ABC
ABC was the epitome of the flashy "new pop" sound that dominated the British charts in the first half of the '80s. The band's roots lay in the Sheffield electro-pop group Vice Versa, which shifted gears when singer/songwriter Martin Fry joined, moving towards a glam/soul sound that fitted in nicely ...
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Ibrahim, Abdullah
Abdullah Ibrahim is a South African pianist who fully incorporates the sound of his spiritual heritage into a jazz context. Inspired greatly by Duke Ellington (who sponsored his first session in 1963), he became dedicated to the transformative power of jazz. He has recorded consistently potent and a...
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AC/DC
AC/DC is generally regarded as a titanic force in the world of heavy rock, occupying a sphere of seminal influence right alongside Kiss. These Australian guitar gods--led by Angus Young, an axe-wielding man-boy in a school uniform--churn out songs laced with sexual double entendre and heavy riffs. S...
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Acid Mothers Temple
Part Japanese hippie collective (or "soul-collective" as the members prefer to call it) part cosmic psyche-rock juggernaut, Acid Mothers Temple's most consistent presence has been guitarist and frontman Kawabata Makoto; a veteran of numerous Japanese heavy rock bands, Makoto formed the group in 1996...
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Adam Ant
Adam & The Ants started out in the late-'70s London punk scene, but former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren turned their image around. By 1980 they were part of the brief "new romantic" scene, wearing outrageous clothes that combined pirate gear with Native American warpaint. Their sound was a fr...
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Sandler, Adam
As a featured performer on Saturday NIGHT LIVE between 1991 and 1995, Adam Sandler's forte was goofy physical comedy, but he has also displayed a talent for genuinely witty musical parody and acting, both on his subsequent comedy albums and in hit films like THE WEDDING SINGER, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, and...
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Belew, Adrian
Adrian Belew first came to public attention as an idiosyncratic session guitarist, working with David Bowie, the Talking Heads and others. His organic, Hendrix-inspired sound made him a six-string sensation. In short order, he joined the '80s version of King Crimson and simultaneously embarked on a ...
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Aerosmith
A hard-rocking, no-holds-barred American group fronted by the wiry Steven Tyler, Aerosmith plays heavy riffs with a blues underpinning. After huge hits and sold-out tours in the 1970s, the band sank into oblivion for the first half of the '80s. They returned on the crest of Run-DMC's version of "Wal...
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Aesop Rock
New York MC and beat-maker Aesop Rock offers rapid-fire, often stream-of-consciousness lyrics, stuttering beats, and a frequently murky, atmospheric production aesthetic, making him one of the most distinctive hip-hop artists of his era. Though he began making music in the '90s, Brooklyn-based rapp...
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Afghan Whigs
The Afghan Whigs played a brand of smart no-frills rock perfectly suited to benefit from an interest in the underground generated by the grunge bonanza. Led by tortured soul Greg Dulli, the Whigs infused their tough guitar-based sound with elements of country, roots rock, and, later, a 1970s R&B vib...
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AFI
Hardcore revivalists-turned-goth-punks AFI ascended to a new level of stardom when they decided to slap on some eyeliner and embrace their inner Robert Smiths. After several independent releases, the Southern California-based outfit released their major-label debut, SING THE SORROW, in 2003 to much ...
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Bambaataa, Afrika
Together with other visionary DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa can be credited with inventing hip-hop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His musical innovations and genuinely collaborative style--considering any record fair game to infuse with a hip-hop beat--made him a pioneer in the...
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Against Me
Although their Butch Vig-produced major label debut was released in 2007, Gainesville, Florida's Against Me! existed a full 10 years before that, growing from Tom Gabel's solo acoustic joint into a full-fledged, old-school punk band. That trajectory hints at the surprising variety of sounds that the...
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Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front formed in the early 1980s shortly after hardcore punk made its way up to the Rotten Apple from its birthing grounds in Washington DC. Led by guitarist Vinnie Stigma and vocalist Roger Miret, Agnostic Front played an extremely aggressive, hyper-macho brand of hardcore that quickly cros...
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Jamal, Ahmad (Jazz)
With his spare, subtle swing, pianist Ahmad Jamal is an important figure in both mainstream and post-bop jazz. The commercial success of his 1950s trio recordings made important inroads for jazz. His influence on Miles Davis was acknowledged by the trumpeter himself, who recorded many tunes from Jam...
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