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Black Eyed Peas Biography, Photos, Pictures

Positive messages and breakdancing are integral parts of hip-hop culture, but by 1990 those elements had been temporarily eclipsed by the tough gangsta image and bleak but compelling lyrics of West Coast groups like N

Blake Butler Biography, Photos, Pictures

A biting tongue encased within a macrocephalic head, Blake Butler is a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology who hopes to one day be a published novelist and semi-accomplished musician

Best known as the beatboxing contestant on season six of American Idol, Blake Lewis hails from Bothell, WA Lewis comes from a musical family — his mother used to be in a rock band and continues to sing and play guitar — and began singing himself at age five

Blondie was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the much-vaunted punk/new wave movement of the late ’70s The group was formed in New York City in August 1974 by singer Deborah Harry (b

Husky-voiced American Idol singing sensation Harold “Bo” Bice hailed from Helena, AL, and brought his Southern sensibility with him to the fourth season of Fox’s long-running talent contest

The owner of the Hidden Poet label, Bob Bates also manages singer/songwriter Steven Gellman, who has released a series of recordings on the imprint Bates should not be confused with the country picker or jazz bassist of the same name

Something for the Boys was a smash hit on Broadway in the early ’40s, at the height of starEthel Merman’s career The “boys” were of course the soldiers abroad, but much more within arms’ reach were the dancing male members of the cast such as Bob Davis

The most successful British girl group in pop history, Bananarama formed in London in late 1981 Drawing equal inspiration for their name from the children’s television program The Banana Splits and the Roxy Music song “Pyjamarama,” the trio comprised lifelong friends Keren Woodward and Sarah Dallin along with Siobhan Fahey, whom Dallin befriended at the London College of Fashion

While the folksinger named Bob Martin would probably have loved to have been featured on the original ’30s radio cast of The Lone Ranger, that was actually a different Bob Martin

One of popular music’s most prolific and popular songwriters, Bob Merrill was best known for a string of hits ranging from novelty smashes like “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” to more serious fare including Barbra Streisand’s “People

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