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The Oscar-winning lyricist behind such classic movie themes as “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,” “The Shadow of Your Smile,” and “Somewhere My Love (Lara’s Theme),” Paul Francis Webster was born December 20, 1907, in New York City
In the wake of Madonna’s success, many dance-pop divas filled the charts, but out of them all, Paula Abdul was the only one who sustained a career The former LA Lakers cheerleader and choreographer began to make inroads in pop music when she was hired as an assistant dance director on the Jacksons’ Victory tour, which led to a job choreographing Janet Jackson’s videos for Control
The mother of a two year old boy, and an ex- rock chick, Bomer spent 1986 until 1990 living in Boston, Mass, where hanging out and seeing bands essentially constituted her college career
Paula Cole was one of the many female singer/songwriters who rose to prominence in the mid-’90s in the wake of alternative’s commercial breakthrough Drawing heavily from the ethereal, pretty sound of Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos, Cole created songs that relied equally on dreamy melodies and poetic, introspective lyrics
Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Pedro Almodóvar caught plenty of acclaim as well as heat for his bold, risk-taking body of work, and he also composed score material and played a significant role in the music that was featured in those films
A Liverpool, England, native, singer/guitarist Peter Beckett came to America in 1974 to join an international group of writer/musicians called Skyband who recorded an album for RCA Records
While best known as the longtime frontman for Chicago, singer Peter Cetera also enjoyed success as a solo performer Born September 13, 1944 in the Windy City, Cetera was in a band called the Exceptions when in late 1967 he was recruited by another aspiring group, then called Chicago Transit Authority, to play bass
Baritone vocalist Peter Clarke performs with several groups including the Revel Players and theBoston Gay Men’s Chorus ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
I was born in 1977 in Schenectady, New York My family including 3 brothers and 2 sisters moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico when I was 7 I developed a love for film and music at an early age because of my father who brought me to the cinema every week and my brothers who sang and played electric guitar
Composer and pianist Peter Greenwell channeled the sophistication and wit of his mentor, Noël Coward, to emerge as one of the postwar generation’s foremost interpreters of the cabaret tradition