As emotionally revealing as her music was, Shirley Horn was a notoriously reticent interview.
Her position as a world-music star gives her an important platform for her activism: She's been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for nearly 10 years, and has her own foundation to support higher education for girls in Africa.
Although she's happy to hear you say her name is a little quirky, the 29-year-old may cringe if you label her music as such.
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The term "world music" strikes her as too anthropological and voyeuristic, she says, but dance music is something anyone can throw on and move to.
Still, Jackson admits that the "wild red bull" reputation fits her music just as well.
As for the music, her latest CD is not breaking any new ground, but it does remind everyone who owns the ground Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce and others are walking on.
Katalin Bogyay started her career as a theatre and music critic.
Scott-Young said she is taking the backlash to the show in stride, saying the positive responses from her music industry friends such as Diddy and LL Cool J gave her confidence to push forward.
And yet, whether one likes her music-making or not, she emerges from this film as sincere in her artistry, if tortured by her demons.
Donda West was a major influence on her son's life, as the music producer-singer-songwriter has often said -- including in lyrics to some of his songs.
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Stone is also known for her connections to what is referred to as music royalty.
As a result, when people try to describe her music they often prefix it with Afro but have no idea if it's punk, punk-soul, or anything else for that matter.
Although this record is anything but traditional, Maria Rita has gained the respect of major samba figures with her fresh approach to the music, as in an understated rendition of the song "Pra declarar minha saudade, " written by one of the artists she's up against, Arlindo Cruz.
It was a shocking moment that made the alternative ending that HGO used a soft fading away of the music as Elisabeth cradles the dead Carlos in her arms all the more poignant and terrible.
The piece, it turns out, was composed by Dena El Saffar, a Chicago-born Iraqi-American who has spent years learning to play the august classical music of her ancestors, the style known as maqam.
Opposition AMs had criticised her absence as disrespectful, saying she should have "faced the music".
She started the Gap with her late husband Donald in 1969 as a San Francisco jeans and music store.
After graduating in 2000, Teng took a job as a computer engineer, but quit this past spring to perform her music around the country.
Sarafin told me via telephone from Los Angeles what he sees as the essential attraction of Gaga, both in her image and her music.
She's a jazz violinist with her own swing band and is known as a champion of contemporary American music.
She just started working as an art director and set designer, so I got to see her first music video project, which was really cool.
Ms Plant is professor emeritus in art history at Monash University in Melbourne but she is a social historian at heart and her canvas embraces literature, music, politics, architecture and town planning as well as arts and crafts.
This is not to suggest the Bard of Hogwarts is up there with the Bard of Avon, only that her words turn into music coming out of the mouths of such performers as Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson.
Charlie Gillett, who presents the BBC World of Music programme, says there is nobody to compare to her, as she was popular in West Africa - after living in exile in Guinea - and East Africa - she recorded a version of the Swahili song Malaika, as well as her home in South Africa.
Watson was steeped in music as a child, from the time his mother held him in her arms at the Mount Paton Church and he listened to the harmony and shape-note singing of such songs as "The Lone Pilgrim" and "There is a Fountain, " according to a 1998 article in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by Dan Miller.
It makes perfect sense that Degas attended her debut engagement, as a connoisseur of spectacle, a regular at the opera, the music hall, the cafe concert and the racetrack, according to the evidence of his work.
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As a thank you for their help, Alexys and her band Inertia are releasing a single and a music video to raise funds for the foundation.
She was a bright student, whose progress was generally described as "good" or "very good", although she was considered "indifferent" to her music and spelling lessons.
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