Biography: Mika, Mikael Tariverdiev, Malcolm Arnold, Mike Harney, Mike Post, Miklos Rozsa, Miley Cyrus, Milli Vanilli, Millie Weitz, Minister Dorrell Addison,

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Mika
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Pop magpie Mika’s bright, kaleidoscopic music has drawn comparisons to everyone from Queen and Elton John to the Scissor Sisters and Rufus Wainwright Born Michael Holbrook Penniman in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and American father, Mika and his parents moved to Paris while he was still a very young child, and eventually London by the time he was nine years old

Mikael Tariverdiev Biography, Photos, Pictures

Composer Mikael Tariverdiev was born on August 15, 1931, in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, the USSR He studied at the prestigious Gnesins Music School in Moscow under the renowned Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian

Malcolm Arnold Biography, Photos, Pictures

Sir Malcolm Arnold towers among the premier British composers of the 20th century The author of nine symphonies, 17 concertos, and 132 film scores, chief among them the Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai, his adherence to tonality and melody positioned him in stark opposition to prevailing musical tastes, and he remains a critical lightning rod, championed by admirers for his populist sensibilities and decried by critics for the same reason

Mike Harney has been an avid follower and booster of Progressive Bluegrass and its rich cousin, New Acoustic Music, for over a decade He listens to music at least four or five hours a day at both his home and office in Massachusetts and attends concerts as frequently as he can

The most famous and prolific composer ever to ever to grace the field of television music, Mike Post contributed some of the most memorable themes in the medium’s history, writing scores for programs including Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P

Miklos Rozsa Biography, Photos, Pictures

A Hungarian-born composer, most famous for his Hollywood and British film scores, but also responsible for a significant body of chamber pieces, concertos, and orchestral music for the concert hall

Young Miley Cyrus became an overnight sensation in 2006 as the star of the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana, but fortunately her family has had some experience with that sort of thing — her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, went from obscurity to stardom in a few short months when the song “Achy Breaky Heart” hit the charts in 1992

Milli Vanilli Biography, Photos, Pictures

Milli Vanilli The mere mention of the name still calls up the same derision it did when the dance-pop duo’s career came to a sudden and ignominious end: Fakers Frauds A blatant marketing scam

Millie Weitz Biography, Photos, Pictures

Millie Weitz never aspired to a career in music, which didn’t stop her from contributing in a serious way to the history of recorded music A purely amateur performer who happened to be a member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, she was part of the non-professional cast recruited for the original run of the ILGWU-fostered musical Pins and Needles in 1937, and got her rendition of the show’s “Nobody Makes a Pass at Me” recorded by Decca Records

Minister Dorrell Addison Biography, Photos, Pictures

Minister Dorrell “Donnie” Addison is well-known throughout the United States for his work in the field of traditional black quartet gospel music His love for the genre and commitment to preserve and promote groups of the past and present is unquestioned

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