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Evelyn Thomas (b. 22 August 1953) is best known for her song High Energy, which hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1984. High Energy also reached #5 on the UK charts in 1984 and #1 in Germany, in addition to becoming a major chart hit all over Europe.

Montreal’s Diva of Dance is ready to surpass her 1980’s accomplishments in this new millennium. The soft and sultry hot and gusty vocals that trade marked her Techno classics Hit n Run Lover, Mercy and The Woman In Me. Born in Nigeria, Carol moved to Montreal where she recorded the powerhouse album Hit n Run Lover, the LP confirmed Carol Jiani’s eminent arrival.

Bucks Fizz originally a vocal quartet formed in London in 1981, was one of Britain’s most successful acts of the 1980s, releasing a remarkable 20 hit singles and chart albums during that decade. While the Eurovision Song Contest may not be regarded as the most trendy route to fame, it opened the door for ABBA, when they won the contest with Waterloo in 1974. Seven years later, in 1981, Bucks Fizz, using an identical vocal line up of two male and two female voices, also won the Contest, with their catchy Making Your Mind Up.

Billy Ocean is a British recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s.

The most successful British girl-group in pop history, Bananarama formed inLondon in late 1981. Drawing equal inspiration for their name from thechildren’s television program The Banana Splits and the Roxy Music song“Pyjamarama,” the trio comprised lifelong friends Keren Woodward and SarahDallin along with Siobhan Fahey, whom Dallin befriended at the London Collegeof Fashion. After getting their start singing at friends’ parties and atnightclubs (where they performed accompanied by backing tapes — none of the women played their own instruments), they came to the attention of ex-Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook, who produced Bananarama’s first single, a cover ofSwahili Black Blood’s “Aie A Mwana.”

Alexander’s career began in the 70’s when he put his own band together with which he toured across the States, within this time he developed his distinctive vocal talents

The youngest of six children, Adeva joined a church choir at the age of 12 where she remained for 10 years, eventually becoming its director and vocal coach. Her mother was a missionary and her father a deacon, and her parents had once instructed: You sing gospel or nothing at all. Between stints of teaching she found time to take part regularly in talent contests. She was eventually banned from entering several competitions for winning so often and turned professional by starting out on the local club scene in the mid 1980s.

Dennis Jones is de artiestennaam van zanger Casper Janssen. Onder zijn eigen naam wint hij in 1987 Veronica's TV Talentenjacht. Hij scoort eind jaren tachtig, begin jaren negentig hits met singles als “Don't Wanna Give Up” en de Neil Young-cover “Heart Of Gold”.

Female rapper and songwriter Gin Dutch signed an exclusive publishing deal with Strengholt Music Group.

Summer On You:

ANBU is een collectief bestaande uit 6 jonge jongens uit het zonnige zuiden: Jiri11, MennoBoomin’, Johnson, Ferrari Jackson, Chacha en dj/videomaker Themlenny. De heren hebben als gezamenlijk doel: van elk optreden een enorme turn up maken.

Glen Faria, beter bekend als MC Fit of Fit, begon als MC in de populaire rapgroep ‘Flinke Namen’. Samen met Murh Mossel, Sef en the Flexican vormde hij deze groep en brachten zij een succesvolle Mixtape (Kunst- en vliegwerk) en album (Superstuntwerk) uit via platenmaatschappij Top Notch. De groep tourde door het hele land langs diverse pop podia (in combinatie met Dio) en festivals (waaronder de Alpha-tent op Lowlands).

Meer dan de zingende opticien

Nederland is een nieuw trio rijker. Zangeressen Elske DeWall, Krystl en Rachèl Louise brengen een ode aan de mooiste Americana en Country songs. De drie powervrouwen die hun sporen individueel hebben verdiend in de Nederlandse muziekscene besloten hun krachten te bundelen toen ze elkaars liefde voor Americana muziek ontdekten. En voilà, de nieuwe formatie ‘The BlueBirds’ is geboren.

Anne-Fay stopte recent met ZO! Gospel Choir en Cookachoo om zich volledig te kunnen focussen op haar solocarrière. Twee jaar lang werkte ze aan haar eigen muziek met producers Mihai Puscoiu en Reynard ‘Mucky’ Bargmann (die ook produceerde voor Wiley en Sevdaliza). Net als haar roots (Nederlands, Surinaams, Afrikaans, en Chinees), werd het een moksi.