The 33-year-old, who has reached global success by performing on the soundtrack of Hollywood blockbuster Brave, says that at university in Glasgow she concentrated on playing instruments in a band rather than singing alone.
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From his days obsessed with Metallica, to playing in a mambo band called Latin Pimps in college, to actually running away with the circus to play the guitar, Robert Gomez has had a colorful musical history.
He was living in Mill Valley then, playing bass in a rock band called Stick Figures.
Other highlights will include Sir Kenneth Branagh performing in Macbeth in a deconsecrated church and Mercury Prize-winning band The xx playing 18 gigs to tiny crowds in a secret venue.
He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.
In fact, his passion is music, playing percussion in a pagode (a popular variation of samba) band.
In Los Angeles, a band playing salsa classics from the back of a truck led a march up Broadway.
They will even have a chance to design an album sleeve for a band's forthcoming release or to plug a favourite record in playing the role of a disc-jockey.
Mr. SEGELL: I'm actually a recreational drummer, and I've been playing in the same band for 35 years, ever since I was in college.
By 2007, when I saw the band in a club in Manchester, it was playing with the relentless quality that Smith has always favored.
At the same time as the main awards ceremony in the Odyssey Arena, Northern Ireland band Snow Patrol were playing a free gig to 15, 000 people at City Hall, with Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Ulster Hall.
Webber and Wells got their start playing together in the neo-psychedelic folk-rock group Black Mountain, a Canadian band known for channeling acts like Led Zeppelin, complete with electrified riffs and aggressive beats.
By the time he was 19, Holland was playing with the house band at Ronnie Scott's, a legendary jazz club in London, where he got to play with Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins.
Masked chimney-sweeps climb houses in feats of bravery, witches shout at the audience accompanied by a band playing dissonant melodies, and white or brown bears demonstrate their strength.
In addition to singing and playing bass, frontman Gene Simmons has turned the band into a merchandising machine, plastering their distinctive black-and-white facepaint on every sort of product imaginable.
The band started out playing at Columbia University fraternity parties while he was a student there in the early '80s.
We met at the university and found out that we all shared the passion for the Commodore 64's tunes and decided to form a band, not knowing that we hit a dry spot in the music scene playing 8-bit rock.
At that time, the band had recently finished the original session in New Orleans, then spent a week playing its music for a New York audience.
The free concert on Thursday, which also acts as a curtain raiser to the new football season in the US, will see the band playing in Times Square and Giants' Stadium in New York.
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