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The" band of the University of North Carolina, all 19 year olds, led by Hal Kemp in the 1920's. A booking on a transatlantic ocean cruise led them to make their recording bow in London (where visiting American bands were a hot commodity, even then). The cruise itself was as much a lark as a professional stepping stone for the student band, whose members all figured to be doing something else professionally. But then fate played a hand: on the return trip, they were lucky enough to have the Prince of Wales (later the abdicated Edward VIII) as a fellow...

Two years ago, Selena Garcia quit her job. She sold her belongings and packed up her cozy life in Los Angeles to hit the road for the unknown. Over the next nine months, she drove across the country — playing shows, meeting with producers, and soaking up everything that her new environments had to offer. Her travels took her to Austin, Nashville, New York, and as far as London. Eventually, she settled in New York City. “I loved every city, but had no doubt that New York was the city that was going to push me to be my best....

Bio Groove Garcia is a young dj, musician and producer with more than 15 years of experience and a solid and rising career. He began in the world of music at the early age of 4. He played his first piano concert when he was just 5. Some years later he completed the solfa, piano, harmony and composition studies. Thanks to what he learnt and to an unquestionable talent, Groove Garcнa debuted in publishing with labels like Sushi Productions, Nitro o Cassagrande. Precisely, it was on Cassagrande where he published “Spanish Guitar” and “Mainland Spain”, two anthemic tunes which sold...

Walter "Kid" Smith recorded for Columbia in New York City around 1930 with a group called the Carolina Buddies. There was another session the very next day for another label, ARC, who also recorded Smith as a member of another group, Radio's Popular Wild West Entertainers, fronted by Patt Patterson and Lois Dexter. Smith was credited as Kid Williams, and it is presumed that Smith (Williams) does the harmonica solos, his first appearance on record with this instrument. A week later, some of these same musicians re-cut some of the same material for Victor, using aliases (with Walter dodging as...

Encarnita "Kany" García De Jesus (born September 25, 1982 in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. García first appeared on television in 2004 as a contestant on Objetivo Fama. She is widely considered the most successful non-winner in the history of the show. Kany García is born to a Spaniard father and Puerto Rican mother. García's father, Antonio, who gave up the priesthood when he met Shela, Encarnita García de Jesús, or Kany, grew up in a house where music was not only played, but also lived. The youngest of three children (Marishela and José Antonio, who...