Biography. “As soon as I got a microphone in my hand, when I was about 14, I realised I wanted to do this,” she says. “Most people don’t like the way their voice sounds when it’s recorded. I was just so excited by the whole thing that I wasn’t bothered what it sounded like.” A fan of such diverse artists as Jill Scott, Etta James, Billy Bragg, Peggy Lee, Jeff Buckley and The Cure, Adele’s soul-tinged songs of love’s lost and memories made are set to resonate with all who hear them. “I’ve got no problem explaining what my lyrics are about,” ADELE says. “My debut album is about being between 18 and 19; about love,” she continues. Anchoring it all together is ADELE’s incredible voice. ADELE is from a resolutely un-musical family. Secondary school proved instructive in as much as it gave ADELE an outlet to “meet all the R&B kids” and “sit around the playground singing.” “If I hear someone’s from stage school I’d think they were a dickhead, and I know it might make me sound like that.
Duffy. Chris Farlowe Official UK Site chrisfarlowe.co.uk. BOB DYLAN / Johnny Otis. A pioneering figure in the development of R&B following the demise of the big bands in the late '40s, Johnny Otis was the most prominent white figure in the history of black R&B. Johnny Otis, a son of Greek parents, grew up in a black residential area of West Berkeley, Californian Vallejo, across the bay from San Francisco.
Otis took up drums as a teenager and later learned piano and vibraphone. Otis had no serious interest in music until the age of twenty. In 1941, while attending a Count Basie concert, Otis was so impressed by the drummer Jo Jones, that he began intensive studying of the drums. Otis made his professional debut in 1939 with the West Oakland House Rockers. Leaving Berkeley in 1941, Otis toured with several "territory bands. " He settled in Los Angeles in 1943, where he first played in the bands of Harlan Leonard and Count Prince Otis Mathews, who played the casinos in Las Vegas. Will Mae "Big Mama" Thornton Otis' stage shows were something else. Meat Loaf. P!nk. Bonnie Tyler - Welcome to bonnietyler.com!