Biography: Y Kant Tori Read, Y Society, Y Trwynau Coch, Y&T, Y.U.P., Ya Boy, Ya Kid K, Ya Mbongo Lokassa, Ya Ya Choral, Yabby You,

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Y Kant Tori Read Biography, Photos, Pictures

Y Kant Tori Read is a band founded by singer/songwriter Tori Amos before she achieved success as a sensitive alternative songstress The name refers to Amos’ days at the Peabody conservatory, where she played songs on her piano after hearing them once, but never mastered reading sheet music

Formed in 2007, Y Society are a collaborative effort between Boston rapper Insight and Washington, DC, DJ/producer Damu the Fudgemunk Each of the two had earned his keep on the independent hip-hop scene — Insight as a longstanding mainstay in Boston’s rap underground and member of Electric Company, and Damu as the DJ for 2006 underground breakout Panacea — but with their debut, Travel at Your Own Pace (2007), this MC/DJ partnership stood out among the resurgence of back-to-basics hip-hop groups cropping up throughout the 2000s

Y Trwynau Coch Biography, Photos, Pictures

Punk rock came to Wales through the efforts of Y Trwynau Coch One of the first Welsh bands to form their own record label, the group had such hard-edged hits as “Recordiau Sgwar 001” and “Wastod Ar Y Tu Fas

A legendary live band that arguably never managed to translate its electric on-stage intensity into its studio albums, Y&T stood within reach of the Grail of rock & roll stardom many times in their long career — but through a series of mistakes, bad timing, and sheer bad luck, the ultimate prize always seemed to elude them in the end

Recovering from ’80s punk wave in Finland, there spawned two very complex but innovative rock groups, CMX and YUP Although YUP was founded in the late ’80s, a later version of YUP dates to the early ’90s

Consistently maintaining intact his self-assured and cocky attitude, West Coast gangsta rapper Ya Boy quickly made the right connections in the industry as a developing MC in the Bay Area’s independent rap scene

Ya Kid K was born Manuela Barbara Moasco Kamosi in Zaire, 1973 By the time she was 11, Kamosi had moved to Belgium From there she traveled to Chicago, arriving in the Windy City just in time for the mid-’80s underground house music boom

Ya Mbongo Lokassa Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the top soukous session guitarists, Lokassa played with Rochereau’s Afrisa and Sam Mangwana’s African All Stars before moving to Paris in 1983 He has appeared on dozens of albums and was one of the founding members of Soukous Stars

Ya Ya Choral Biography, Photos, Pictures

Beginning life as an experimental electronic outfit, Sydney band Ya Ya Choral became a much-admired, if commercially unsuccessful, hard rock outfit over the course of a decade

Yabby You was born Vivian Jackson in a Kingston ghetto By the time he was 17, Jackson was so malnourished that he had to be hospitalized He eventually left with severe arthritis and crippled legs

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