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French singer Yvette Giraud was born in the ’20s and specialized in the chanson form (as opposed to the art song) but was equally at home with lighthearted or dramatic fare
Yvette Michele was first heard in 1995 as the sultry singer on Hot-97 DJ Funkmaster Flex’s The Mix Tape, Vol 1 Thanks to her contribution, “Everyday & Everynight,” she was offered a contract on Loud!/RCA for her debut album, My Dream
Music is a vehicle for expressing the deep spiritual convictions of author, gospel singer, and songwriter Yvonne Capehart The co-pastor, with her husband, of the Believers Life Center in Pensacola, Capehart continues to deliver her soulful message at seminars, revival meetings, conferences, retreats, and concerts
Yvonne Catterfeld was born in Erfurt, Thuringia, in 1979 At 15 years of age she started studying piano and flute At the same time she began pursuing vocal and dance lessons, which would lead to her post-secondary education in pop and jazz at the Music Academy of Leipzig
One of the first South African artists to break through to the international stage, Yvonne Chaka Chaka (born: Yvonne Mhinga) continues to attract attention with her infectious pop melodies, youth-minded lyrics (mostly in English), and girlish charm
An actress best-known for starring in numerous ’40s Technicolor costume adventures and Westerns, Canadian-born Yvonne De Carlo flirted briefly with a singing career in the second half of the ’50s, as the market for her kind of movies dried up
Singer and guitarist Yvonne Doll was born in Cincinnati, OH The daughter of a music teacher, music was always a part of her life She started training early, taking piano lessons for over a decade, guitar lessons for nearly that long, and even spending four years learning to play the alto saxophone
Yvonne Elliman had a brief moment in the spotlight during the middle of the ’70s, yet she appeared on many of the decade’s biggest hits as a backing singer While she was in high school in Hawaii, Elliman sang in a group called We Folk
Yvonne Fair got her start as a latter-day member of the Chantels and the James Brown Revue Signed to Motown in the early ’70s as a result of her work with Chuck Jackson, she appeared in a minor role as a chanteuse in the film Lady Sings the Blues before hooking up with producer Norman Whitfield for a first-rate series of singles: “Love Ain’t No Toy,” “Walk Out the Door If You Wanna,” what is perhaps the definitive version of “Funky Music Sho’ ‘Nuff Turns Me On,” and a stunning remake of the Kim Weston/Gladys Knight semistandard “It Should Have Been Me,” which dented the lower end of the pop charts in 1976
Originally started in 1995 as a melodic death metal band, France’s Yyrkoon (so named after an obscure character in Michael Moorcock’s Eliric series) have experimented with a number of different metallic styles over the course of their still developing career