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Scott Bultman was the associate editor of the All Music Guide from 1991-1993 He began his musical career in high school, playing guitar in a band with classmates, at the birth of MTV and the music-video generation
The British teen-pop band S Club 7 was created in 1999 by pop impresario Simon Fuller, who chose the group’s seven members — Rachel Stevens, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee, Jo O’Meara and Tina Barrett — from nearly 10,000 hopefuls
Shawn Colvin is one of the bright spots of the so-called “new folk movement” that began in the late ’80s And though she grew out of the somewhat limited “woman with a guitar” school, she has managed to keep the form fresh with a diverse approach, avoiding the clich�d sentiments and all-too-often formulaic arrangements that have plagued the genre
Sheryl Crow’s fresh, updated spin on classic roots rock made her one of the most popular mainstream rockers of the ’90s Her albums were loose and eclectic on the surface, yet were generally tied together by polished, professional songcraft
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Named in honor of a passage from CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity, the Austin, TX-based CCM trio Sixpence None the Richer began taking shape in the early ’90s, when guitarist Matt Slocum first met vocalist Leigh Nash (nee Bingham) at a church retreat
Sonny & Cher proved one of the magical musical combinations of the mid ’60s and one of the better rock-influenced MOR acts of the early ’70s, their wisecracking repartee providing counterpoint to a series of adoring hit duets
A jazz fan since age 15, Bennett has been a jazz reviewer for the Musical Heritage Society since 1985 His reviews appear in both the Musical Heritage Review and since 1991 in the Jazz Heritage Review
Spice Girls were the first major British pop music phenomenon of the mid-’90s to not have a debt to independent pop/rock Instead, the all-female quintet derived from the dance-pop tradition that made Take That the most popular British group of the early ’90s, but there was one crucial difference
Half rock, half electronic pop, Stefy feature keyboardist Jason Gaviati, guitarist Sean Meyer, drummer Andreas Brobjer, and vocalist Stefy Rae Before hooking up with Rae and forming Stefy, Gaviati performed with other groups and as a part of Samantha Ronson’s live band; Meyer played occasional gigs while he studied at the Musicians Institute; and Brobjer was a drummer for hire