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Chicago-area resident Todd Kelsey informs listeners about Irish history over a thick bed of industrial-metal As Neocelt, he released Irish Apocalypse in 1994 on the Wallace Multimedia

Formed by Tony Churchill and music-industry veteran Harvey Fuqua, New Birth was originally named the Nite-Liters As the Nite-Liters, they enjoyed chart action with three R&B hits: “K-Jee,” “Afro-Strut,” and “Pull Together

Female quintet vocal group w/ “Cold Stupid” ‘87 ~ Scott Bultman, All Music Guide

New Direction Biography, Photos, Pictures

The 40-member gospel youth choir New Direction was formed on Chicago’s South side by Jeral Gray; their self-titled debut was issued on the Word label in early 1999; Get Yer Praise followed a year later

New Edition’s early, Jackson 5-inspired material made them the forerunners of two generations of teen pop (most of which was geared to white audiences) As they matured and progressed, they laid much of the groundwork for the fusion of hip-hop and R&B known as new jack swing

New Orleans Nightcrawlers Biography, Photos, Pictures

The New Orleans Nightcrawlers are a dozen musicians from around the Crescent City who work in a number of other outfits, among them Dr John and Dukes of Dixieland Their other gigs, however, do not prevent members from coming together as a cohesive whole on recordings, although the situation does hamper live performances, which are few and far between

The New Ridaz entered the musical stage in 2006 with their self-titled album and single “Special Girl” Members Dos and Zig Zag had been instrumental to the Latin rap scene in the southwestern states of the U

New York City Biography, Photos, Pictures

New York City scored the first time out with “I’m Doing Fine Now,” so on the surface the group may have seemed like just a bunch of guys who got together, had a hit, and disbanded

New York Port Authority Biography, Photos, Pictures

Named after the largest bus terminal in the US, New York Port Authority (NYPA) was an obscure funk/soul/disco band that was active in the Big Apple in the late ’70s The six-man band signed with Holland-Dozier-Holland’s Invictus label in 1977, when its members included singer/bassist Reginald A

One of the more media-exposed Christian rock bands of the ’90s, Newsboys formed in the late ’80s around a core of John James, Peter Furler, and Philip Urry Though early in their career the band was panned for a perceived over-reliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped secular music’s alternative revolution in the early ’90s for an image makeover, with good results

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