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Rebecca Black (born June 21, 1997) is an American pop singer who gained worldwide attention with her 2011 single "Friday". Her mother paid $4000 to have the single and an accompanying music video put out as a vanity release through the record label ARK Music Factory. The song was co-written and produced by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson of ARK Music Factory. After the video went viral on YouTube and other social media sites, "Friday" was derided by many music critics and viewers, who dubbed it "the worst song ever." The music video, uploaded to YouTube, has received more than...

A "visual-kei" rock band from Osaka, Japan. Years active: 1994 - 1999 "STELLA MARIA" had a lot of member changes in their activity. The band released two mini-albums, two maxi-singles, and a few demo-tapes/live-distributed CDs over the years, they also participated on various compilation albums. Final line-up: Vocal: Tsurugi (DEATH TRASH → 魂爵惑 → D.I.S.C → Lúcide → STELLA MARIA) Programming/Synth Guitar/Electric Guitar: #4 (STELLA MARIA → 廃人黒薔薇族 → STELLA MARIA → LU-C SORT DRIVE → Captain Double Lynch → 雲の旅団 → Skunk Works) Acoustic Guitar/Bass: naoya (STELLA MARIA → CRUNCH) Drums/Percussion: Takashi Ex-members: Bass: Ma～Na (Stella Maria → Snow)...

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people. Born in the late 1940s, Chiweshe grew up in Zimbabwe's forest region of Mhondoro, about 45 miles from the capital city, Harare. Chiwese began learning to play the mbira dza vadzimu in 1964. It was very unusual for a girl to play mbira at that time and Chiweshe had to face the dissaproval of her community, where woman performers were often treated as "loose women." Chiweshe perservered to become perhaps the best known player of the instrument outside Zimbabwe. The mbira dza...

Stellastarr* are an American Indie rock band based in New York City. The band is composed of: Shawn Christensen (vocals, rhythm guitar), Amanda Tannen (bass, vocals), Arthur Kremer (percussion, keyboards) and Michael Jurin (lead guitar, vocals). The group formed in March 2000 from the ashes of a previous musical effort - Ghistor - formed by Shawn, Amanda, and Arthur while studying art and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. A few years later, after a chance meeting with Michael, who had recently relocated to Brooklyn from his hometown Philadelphia, the former classmates reunited, this time with Shawn on vocals....