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John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is an English musician. He was lead vocalist for The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, 1984's "Missing You", was a No. 1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart. Waite was born in Lancaster, and was educated at Lancaster Art College (The Storey Institute). Waite first came to attention as the lead singer and bassist of The Babys, a British rock band which had moderate chart success, including two pop hits that both coincidentally peaked at No. 13 on the...

Daryl Braithwaite is an Australian pop and rock singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the successful 70s band Sherbet. He went on to have a number of massive solo hits in the late 80s and early 90s as he explored a more smooth, adult contemporary influenced sound. "One Summer" and "The Horses" continue to be widely played. Daryl's 'Rise' album also became Australia's highest selling album of the year in 1991. .

The City Waites is an English early-music ensemble, playing popular music and ballads from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They have been working since the early 70s, with a changing line-up built around founding members Lucie Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping and Doug Wootton. Their style is exuberant, and they frequently showcase the bawdier end of the ballad spectrum in their programmes. The members are technically very accomplished instrumentalists, and the sound is authentic. Doug Wootton plays lute, Lucie Skeaping is the main vocalist and also plays fiddle and rebec, and Roddy Skeaping plays rebec, viol and fiddle. In 2009 the...

Southern Soul star Mel Waiters was born and raised in San Antonio, TX, where in 1974 he began his performing career at local teen clubs; after a stint as a radio DJ, he was awarded a government contract to entertain at military bases across the Southwest. With the exception of sax Waiters produced, played and wrote all the material for his first CD release in 1996. The slick "Hit It & Quit It" and "Whatever It Took" gave me his first Southern hits. He followed this up with his second for the Serious Sounds with "Suki Suki Man" that got...

Genevieve Waite is a singer known mainly from her 1974 album Romance is On The Rise, the CD re-release in 2004 you're probably listening to now. Initially known for being a South African model and later actress (star of the Micheal Sarne film Joanna), she married John Phillips of The Mamas And The Papas in the late 60s, and part way into their marriage he produced and co-wrote this album for her. Released on Phillips' Paramour label in July 1974, Romance Is On The Rise has masterful musicianship from some top-notch session musicians and an unusual campy-jazz slant. This was...