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There is a tendency, in writing and reading about classical recordings, to forget that they’re as much a part of business as art—and that, as a result of this duality, executives can play as important a role as artists in determining what we here and how we hear it
Early in their career, Buffalo natives the Goo Goo Dolls were frequently dismissed by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, the band refined and mainstreamed their sound enough to become of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the ’90s, selling millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with their inspirations
Film composer Goran Bregovic was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia on March 22, 1950, beginning his music career in 1966 as the bassist with the local rock band Bestije After a three-year stint as a member of Kodeks, in 1971 he joined the underground trio Mica, Goran and Zoran; three years later Bregovic founded Bijelo Dugme, one of Yugoslavia’s most successful and influential bands until their breakup in 1988
Coming into the public eye with his brooding score for the 1989 Australian film Dead Calm, composer Graeme Revell has gone on to score films for directors such as John Woo, Wim Wenders, Robert Rodriguez, Ted Demme, and Michael Mann
A staple of the OutMusic circuit, King has appeared on albums by Dan Martin and Rob Costin ~ Will Grega, All Music Guide
In a career packed with varying types of compositions, Galt MacDermot is still best-known for the music he wrote in the late-’60s Aquarian musical Hair Born and raised in Montreal, MacDermot was the son of a Canadian diplomat
The first major hit for the Gap Band was a snazzy juke toon called “Shake” Just prior to the completion of their first album, Charlie Wilson cited the song for his brothers, thinking they might ridicule the lyric
Motta’s songs have been performed in concerts and cabarets in New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia during years when he was also staging productions for the Houston Grand Opera, the Washington Opera, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and the Metropolitan Opera
Before she discovered she could write songs, Gwen Stefani was looking forward to a life of marriage, children, and white picket fences When her brother introduced her to ska and new wave music, it set off a chain of events that would eventually lead to millions of albums sold and a Madonna-sized public image that extended past music and into the worlds of film, fashion, and technology
Born Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon on January 13, 1925, in Culver City, CA, she began tap dancing in theater as a small child Cole Porter hired her for the 1950 Broadway musical Alive and Kicking