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At the heart of Staind’s loud, angst-laden music are the confessional lyrics and introspective personality of frontman Aaron Lewis While other post-grunge bands were able to successfully mine the dark caverns once explored by Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, Lewis allowed his sensitivity to pour freely from his words and often pensive vocals, enabling Staind to strike a balance between heavy metal bombast and thoughtful, melodic rock
A pianist and flügelhorn player who recorded a couple of chamber jazz-styled works for Discovery in the late ’50s and early ’60s The first was with a sextet, the second with a large orchestra that included Paul Horn
Alonso Jasso has been a bus boy, gas meter reader, claim adjuster, and middle school teacher He never has distinguished himself in any of those positions He was born and grew up in San Antonio, Texas, a town deeply rooted in multiculturalism before the expression was coined
Sister acting/singing duo Aly & AJ — whose full names are Alyson and Amanda Joy Michalka — showed a passion for both kinds of performing at a very young age: they started playing piano at age six and began acting classes soon after
Although Amy Grant cannot claim to have invented the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) style of gospel music, she did the most to popularize it in the 1970s and 1980s before successfully crossing over to pop music in the ’80s and early ’90s
The most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s, the origins of the Swedish superstars ABBA dated back to 1966, when keyboardist and vocalist Benny Andersson, a onetime member of the popular beat outfit the Hep Stars, first teamed with guitarist and vocalist Bjorn Ulvaeus, the leader of the folk-rock unit the Hootenanny Singers
Singer who made her professional debut at the age of 13 on the Broadway stage in Annie Since her stellar performance, Andrea McArdle has performed in numerous Broadway shows, recorded albums and has appeared on film and television
Russian composer Andrei Petrov was born on September 2, 1930, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Upon his graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1954, he went on to compose several instrumental pieces (the symphonic poem “Radda and Loiko,” the ballets “The Station Master,” and “The Shore of Hope
Vocalists named Andrew Davis can be found with an abundance associated with syllables such as “sha la la” on doo wop records This one was part of the 1986 British revival of Charlie Girl and appears on an original soundtrack of that show released in the following decade
Many performers with this name come by their recording credits by making noise on their instruments; this Andrew Davis, an executive producer in Hollywood, makes the most noise when his films such as Holes run behind schedule