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Oscar Lopez (born 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist.
Lopez moved to Canada in 1979 and settled in Calgary, Alberta. He began pursuing music as a career, becoming a popular draw on the Canadian folk festival circuit, and released his debut album, Hola, in 1989. Several of his albums have been nominated for Canada's Juno Awards, and 2000's Armando's Fire was his first Juno win, for Best Instrumental Album. He has recorded on the Narada label.
Although he has continued recording, Lopez has not toured or performed in several years due to a battle with depression. As...
The Overlanders were a British music group active during the 1960s. Originally playing folk songs, the band found success hard to come by during the 'beat' era and so converted to a more mainstream sound. Their only major hit was a cover version of The Beatles' Michelle. It which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in January 1966, and featured arrangements from Tony Hatch.
The band failed to follow up their success and came to an end soon after when singer Paul Arnold left to pursue a solo career. They thus remain as archetypal one-hit wonders. .
There’s a new kid on the block and he’s the first-ever disciple of one of the most celebrated dance music producers of all time; Eric Prydz.
The hugely talented up-and-comer, Jeremy Olander, is set to cause quite a storm in the world of dance music throughout the course of this year. Championed by Prydz as ’the next big thing’, a man with 3 top 2 records under his belt and countless underground hits, Jeremy is already booked to tour Europe supporting the label boss at every major festival and event in 2011.
In addition, he is also so to appear...
There are at least two groups called Highlander.
1. Highlander were an early 90’s electronic folk rock band from Fife, Scotland. Their only studio album was the hit 1992 release, Born To Be A Warrior.
2. Highlander (J. Tap & Roland Ceelen) is a dutch duo that released a bunch of (Early) Hardcore/Gabber EPs in the 90s. They were also featured on dozens of compilations from the mid 90s untill about 2005. .
Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.
Born in Montreal, Canada, Peterson began learning trumpet and piano from his father at the age of five, but by the age of seven, after a bout of tuberculosis, he concentrated on the piano. Some of the artists who influenced Peterson during the early years were Teddy Wilson, Nat "King" Cole, James P. Johnson, and the legendary Art Tatum, to whom many have tried to compare Peterson in later years. In fact, one of his first exposures to the musical talents of Art Tatum came early in his teen years...
