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Johanna Kurkela (born 10 April, 1985 in Lumijoki, Finland) is a Finnish singer. She started to play the violin at the age of five and continued for for seven years. She went on to the classical piano a few years later. She attended secondary school in Oulu at Madetojan musiikkilukio (an upper secondary school, otherwise known as a gymnasium in other parts of Europe) specializing in music. Her first published work was the duet Tahdon tanssia kanssasi with Tomi Metsäketo in 2004. Kurkela released her first album Hetki hiljaa in 2005. She got a lot of publicity in Finnish Preselection...

Maxwell George Schneider (born June 21, 1992) is an American singer, dancer, actor, model, and musician. .

AKA Komet, he works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Described as “abstract analogue pointilism”, “ambience for spaceports” or “hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat”, Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. After studying fine arts and publishing several graphic editions, he began to satisfy his obsession for electronic music in 1984 by starting his first tape experiments and running a cassette label. With the founding of AG...

Melinda Schneider's journey across an engaging emotional terrain - which began with the confident and promising My Oxygen album in 2000 and gained inexorable momentum with the accomplished Happy Tears in 2002 and the triumphant Family Tree in 2004 - continues with album four, Stronger - her first recordings since taking out the two most prestigious gongs at the Tamworth Country Music Awards for her brash, sassy blended country - Song Of The Year (for Real People) and Album Of The Year, having previously picked up the Golden Guitar for Female Vocalist Of The Year. .

EARLY HISTORY Schneiderman's entertainment career began in high school where she merged an interest in singing and theater, which included lead roles in musicals and plays, as well as mastering piano, guitar and french horn. By age 18 she was fronting a cover band and went on to perform with Body and Soul, the region's top Motown/old school funk act. Despite performing for crowds of up to 15,000, Schneiderman was dreaming about starting a solo career and in 1999 left to become a full-time singer/songwriter. During that first year Schneiderman won the grand prize in The Lilith Fair competition and...