Female Musicians
Women of the radio waves. Chat about their latest singles, or concerts. Post pictures and chat about their unique look and sounds.
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Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan September 6 1971 in Limerick, Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_O%27Riordan
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Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982) started taking piano lessons at a very early age and played for a couple of years, but switched to the harp at seven. Her approach to the harp, from the percussive aspects of her playing to her chord changes, was also influenced by West African and Venezuelan harp music, which she began studying at a folk music camp she attended in her early teens. At the same time, she also listened to more vocal-based folk, punk, and jazz like Karen Dalton, Texas Gladden, Patti Smith, and Billie Holiday. By the time she reached high-school age, Newsom decided she wanted to become a composer, and while that became the focus of her st…
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Linda Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer. Her many vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career. As a result, she has earned multiple Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden Globe nominations. A singer-songwriter and record producer, she is recognized as a definitive interpreter of songs.[2] Being one of music's most versatile, and commercially successful female singers in U.S. hist…
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Kehlani Ashley Parrish (born April 24, 1995) is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Kehlani is originally from Oakland, California, where she achieved initial fame as a member of the teen group Poplyfe. In 2014, she released her first commercial mixtape, Cloud 19. The mixtape was listed as one of the Complex's "50 Best Albums of 2014." Her second commercial mixtape, You Should Be Here (2015), debuted at number 5 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart, preceded by her sold-out North American promotional tour. In 2016, she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album for You Should Be Here. Kehlani released her debut album, SweetSexySavage, in Jan…
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Samantha Jade is an Australian R&B / Pop singer. She is 19 years old. Her debut album is due to debut in 2006 on Jive Records. Her label CEO John Harris hyped the young phenom discovered in the city of Perth, Western Australia, being compared to Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston. "She is the best raw talent that we have found," Harris said of Affinity West Records . Samantha performed at the Sony booth at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show. Samantha sings the title track for the Step Up Soundtrack. Source:Wikipedia
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Monika Brodka (born February 7, 1987) is a Polish singer, who rose to fame as the winner of season three of the Polish Pop Idol in 2004, beating Kuba Kęsy. She was the second female winner of the show, and as of 2006, is the youngest of the four. Her single "Znam Cię Na Pamięć" debuted at #5 on MTV Poland's chart "The Interactive Chart".
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Profile Name: Agnes Monica Muljoto Profession: Singer and Actress Birthdate: 1986-Jul-01 Birthplace: Jakarta, Indonesia Nationality: Indonesian Family: Mother ( Jenny Siswono ), Father ( Ricky Muljoto ), and Brother ( Steve Muljoto ) Talent agency: Entertainment Inc. [edit] About Agnes Agnes started her career in the age of 6 as a host of a children TV show and as a singer. Her first album was not a big hit in Indonesia since at that time not many children in Indonesia bought cassettes of child singers. At the age of 12, she entered acting world. "Lupus Milenia" was her first series. Although not too successful, the series led her the series …
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Vrai nom : Kaci Deanne Brown Nationalité : Américaine Genre principal : Variétés Naissance : 07 juillet 1988 Age : 19 ans
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L7 was an American all female punk rock band from Los Angeles, that was active from 1985 to 2000.Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. History L7 was formed by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner on shared electric guitar and shared vocals. A year previous, Gardner had performed backing vocals on the Black Flag song "Slip It In". The punk rock duo were soon joined by Jennifer Finch on bass guitar and Roy Koutsky on drums. Koutsky left shortly after and Demetra Plakas ("Dee" for short) became their permanent drummer. The band's name derives from a 1950s slang phrase meaning "square", but is often …
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Laura Bell Bundy - 5th Annual ACM Honors at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville - Sept 19
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Hannah Reid was born on 30 December 1989. She is the lead singer and songwriter of London Grammar. She grew up in Acton, and went to school in West London. She had classical vocal training. She wanted to pursue psychoanalysis as a career and worked as a hairdresser and in a bar before going to University. She was initially planning to pursue acting after earning a drama scholarship. She was studying Art History and English at University Nottingham when she started the band.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, R&B and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time. Franklin is one of the most honored artists by the Grammy Awards, with 18 competitive Grammys to date, and two honorary Grammys. She has scored a total of 20 No. 1 singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart, one of which also became her first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967). "I Knew You Were Waiting (For M…
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One of the earliest of the 80's Heavy Metal club bands to gain national media exposure, Bitch was formed in 1981 and quickly gained a large local following. They generated notoriety (in part) as a result of their live performances which included sadomasochism and bondage themes. They were also the first artists signed to Metal Blade Records and one of the first ever heavy metal bands to have a female lead singer, Betsy "Bitch" (Weiss). No stranger to making history, Bitch was also exposed to the national media during the Parents Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.) hearings in the US Congress. Shortly after the band was formed, the band met Brian Slagel who had recently for…
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CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years. Their music has been called "freak folk", and incorporates elements of pop, blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop. CocoRosie began as a duo, with Sierra singing, playing the guitar, piano and harp, and Bianca singing and manipulating various children's toys, electronic and percussion instruments, as well as other exotic noisemakers. They subsequently added various backing musicians, usually a bassist, keyboardist, and beatboxer. They have been a very a…
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Name: 배슬기 / Bae Seul Gi (Pae Sul Ki) Profession: Singer and actress Birthdate: 1986-Sep-27 Birthplace: South Korea Height: 168cm Weight: 48kg Star sign: Libra Blood type: B Family: Younger brother and a younger sister TV Shows * Break (2006) * Rainbow Romance (MBC, 2005) * Banjun Drama Unforgettable Love (2005) Trivia * Education: Sanmyon University (Drama and Cinematography) * Religion: Christianity (Roman Catholic) * Bae debuted in the fall of 2005 as part of the project group The Reds with Oh Seung Eun and Ju So Young. After the group split up in early 2006 (since it was only a project group), she became a solo artist. * She is famous for her Bokko (ol…
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Belcalis Almanzar[1] (born October 11, 1992 in the Bronx), professionally known as Cardi B, is an American hip hop recording artist, as well as a television and social media personality. Born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, she first received public attention as an exotic dancer, and coupled with her "no filter attitude," through Instagram she became an internet celebrity. She continued to gain more recognition in 2015, after becoming a regular cast member of the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York. In February 2017, Cardi B signed her first solo record deal with Atlantic Records. She continued to rise to prominence in August, when…
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Alessia Caracciolo (Italian pronunciation: [aˈlɛssja kaˈrattʃolo]; born July 11, 1996), professionally known as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter.[2] She is signed to EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings and is best known for "Here", her debut single from the debut album, Know-It-All, released November 13, 2015.[3] A sleeper hit, the song reached the top 5 in the United States and the top 20 in Canada.[4] Prior to her work for Def Jam, she produced acoustic covers on YouTube.[5 Alessia Caracciolo, known as Alessia Cara, was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, then later moved to Brampton, Ontario, Canada where she attended Cardinal Ambrozic Catho…
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Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable for the final season. Early years Kitt was born Eartha Mae Keith on a cotton plantation in the town of North, South Carolina, a small town in Orangeburg County near Columbia, South Carolina. The plantation is now used for pecan cultivation and the h…
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The Dixie Chicks is a country music group, currently comprising Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines. The group has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States through August 2009. The group formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and was originally composed of four women performing bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years, without attracting a major label. After the departure of one bandmate, the replacement of their lead singer, and a slight change in their repertoire, the Dixie Chicks achieved massive country music and pop success, beginning in 1998 with hit songs like "Wide Open…
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Biography from Anja's official site As a child growing up around Oslo, Anja Garbarek (pronounced An-ya!) learned from her father, the jazz composer and saxophonist Jan Garbarek, that the only rule worth following is the one, which clearly states that there are no rules worth following. While she doesn't take much notice of other people's instructions - "because I always have to find my own way of doing things" - that message stuck. It has guided everything she has achieved in her career so far, and it is indelibly stamped across her extraordinary new album, Smiling And Waving. Recorded last year in London, where she now lives, this item of strange and shimmering beauty …
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Biography from AngelRecords.com Angela McCluskey swooped into my life in 1997. That’s what she does; she swoops into your world, as if from another epoch, all big hats and velvet and a dense Scottish slur. I was transformed, touched; she possessed an inexplicable magnetism, an infinite energy, scattering practical advice, poetry, Dorothy Parker-isms, and foul-mouthed jokes like fairy-dust. The force of her personality alone is enough to make her legendary, but here’s the thing: when she sings, only then will she righteously kick your ass. I could cite gushers like this: “The striking vocals of Angela McCluskey will make you remember the first time you heard Miles blow h…
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