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Having practiced hatha yoga and meditation since she was a teenager, graduating from Oberlin College with a degree in Performing Arts was just another step toward becoming the singer/dancer/spiritual seeker known as Wah!
Wah!, and its number of incarnations, was a vehicle for Liverpool post-punk enigma Pete Wylie Whether viewed as a prolific genius or as a blowhard lunatic with no quality control, there’s no denying that the larger-than-life Wylie was a steamroller of a character who did everything his way to the fullest possible extent
Venezuelan Wahala debuted in the local scene in 1997 The group’s name, a Nigerian word which means trouble, was an idea of singer/guitarist Gustavo Casas, who used it to name a previous project while living in London, England
Wahoo, musical brainchild of German producers/DJs Georg Levin and Steffen “Dixon” Berkhahn began as the imprint the pair used for joint remixes That is, before the tracks released under that name became popular enough that the project took on a life of its own
Wai Lana, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, grew up in Hong Kong and as a teenager came under the influence of Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (aka Siddha), following him to India, where she took up yoga
The consummate roots band, the Wailing Souls may never have gained the international reputation of their compatriots, at least not at the height of the genre’s popularity, but they did outlive most of them
Wainwrights Gentlemen was a mid-’60s group (sometimes misidentified as a late ’60s outfit) most notable as one of future Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan’s early bands and the distant spawning ground for the ’70s glam-rock band Sweet
With Tony Staub (mandolin, vocals), Paul Wykowski (guitar, vocals), and Adam Sullivan (bass), the York, PA, trio Waitin on a Train plays acoustic Appalachian folk-and-bluegrass-inspired music with a modern rock-and-punk-influenced rhythm and vocal delivery
The California quartet Waiting 4 Wyatt started off as the brainchild of sisters Lucy Levinsohn (vocals) and Anya Boyer (keyboards/vocals) While searching for a bassist for their first band, Lily’s Siren, the girls found a kindred spirit in Billy Berman (formally of Liquid Zu)
A member of one of India’s most influential musical families, Wajahat Khan is the son of Ustad Imrat Khan, and the nephew of Ustad Vilayat Khan The first sarod player in his family’s seven generations of musicians, Khan has played a major role in the evolution of the instrument by adapting the techniques of the surbahad to the sarod