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Oscar-winning American pop lyricist Dorothy Fields was the first woman to be elected into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, in recognition of her long and successful career of hit songs, movie scores, and Broadway scores that spanned the late ’20s through the early ’70s
Dory Previn was a successful lyricist for motion picture theme songs during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning three Academy Award nominations for best song; in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, she published books of memoirs and wrote and performed in musical theater works
Doug Stevens and the Outband are consistently winning fans in the gay and straight country music communities In the short time this band has been together, they’ve played Gracie Mansion, Town Hall in N
Berlent developed his music as a graduate of music, acoustics, and psychology at Yale University and tested it for universal success and acceptance Hundreds of musical pieces were tested, and only those proven most effective in evoking a gradual emotional, respiratory, cardiovascular, and mental response curve which enhance intimacy were chosen
Dan Martin and Michael Biello are the fathers of the newly born gay music scene and are responsible for many new artists coming to light in the community Martin has written scores for films and videos, including Clones in Love, winner of the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival’s top prize for Best Short
A retro-rock outfit based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dragonauta was founded in 1999 by vocalist Federico Wolman, guitarist Daniel Libedinsky, bassist Martín Mendez (not the Uruguayan-born Opeth bassist), and drummer Ariel Solito
Porgy & Bess author Dubose Heyward wrote fiction and short stories during the 1920s and 1930s that focused on the lives of black Americans living on the waterfront of Charleston, SC
”Anti-folkie” Dudley Saunders explores a peculiar brand of American balladry that bounds from the starkness of Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen to acoustic-based R
Duran Duran personified new wave for much of the mainstream audience And for good reason, too Duran Duran’s reputation was built through music videos, which accentuated their fashion-model looks and glamorous sense of style
The emergence of Dustin Hoffman in 1967 heralded the arrival of a new era of Hollywood stardom; diminutive, wiry and unassuming, he was anything but the usual matinee idol, yet he quickly distinguished himself among the most popular and celebrated screen performers of his generation