Recent Posts Tagged With 'musicians'

• Michael Tilson Thomas

  Posted on Saturday December 20th, 2008 at 18:01 in classical music, composers, musicians, conductors

  Michael Tilson Thomas born 21 December 1944Michael Tilson Thomas, aka MTT, is an American conductor, pianist, composer, and director of the San Francisco Symphony.Tilson Thomas grew up in an artistic family - his grandparents, the Tomashevskys, were ...

• Dan Hartman

  Posted on Sunday December 7th, 2008 at 18:01 in songwriters, musicians, disco, singers, death from hiv aids, record producers

  Dan Hartman born 8 December 1950 (d. 1994)Dan Hartman was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.Born Dan Earl Hartman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hartman joined his first band, The Legends, at the age of 13, with his brother David. Hart...

• Robert Odeman

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 18:01 in writers, composers, musicians, actors, Holocaust, germans, nazi germany

  Robert Odeman born 30 November 1904 (d. 1985)Robert T Odeman, born Martin Hoyer in Hamburg, Germany was a German classical pianist, actor, writer, and composer. He was a Holocaust survivor.Odeman [pictured right] met his first love, architecture stud...

• Billy Strayhorn

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 18:01 in jazz, composers, musicians, death from cancer

  Billy Strayhorn born 29 November 1915 (d. 1967)William Thomas 'Billy' Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting two decades. The compositi...

• Stephen Hough

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 18:01 in classical music, composers, musicians

  Stephen Hough born 22 November 1961Stephen Hough is a British-born classical pianist and composer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005.Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Hoylake, where he began pi...

• Keith Strickland

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 18:01 in musicians, popular music

  Keith Strickland born 26 October 1953Keith Strickland (born Julian Keith Strickland, in Athens, Georgia) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and one of the founding members of the The B-52's.Originally, Strickland was the band's drummer, but foll...

• Patrick Cowley

  Posted on Saturday October 18th, 2008 at 18:01 in musicians, disco, popular music, death from hiv aids, record producers

  Patrick Cowley born 19 October 1950 (d. 1982)Patrick Joseph Cowley was a Disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist. He recorded in a similar style to Giorgio Moroder, and is often credited with pioneering electronic dance music.Born ...

• Bob Mould

  Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 18:01 in songwriters, musicians, singers, popular music

  Bob Mould born 16 October 1960Bob Mould born in Malone, New York is a musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for influential 1980s rock band Hüsker Dü.Hüsker Dü first gained notice as a 'speed-core' punk ro...

• Chris Lowe

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 18:01 in musicians, popular music, sexuality disputed

  Chris Lowe born 4 October 1959Christopher Sean Lowe is an English musician, who, with his colleague Neil Tennant, makes up the successful pop duo, Pet Shop Boys.He attended the Arnold School (then named Arnold House School), a private school in his h...