"Eliot Sumner Eliot Paulina Sumner (born 30 July 1990), is an English musician and an electronic music producer. Her debut album, ""The Constant"" (2010), was released under the band name I Blame Coco, while her solo work has been released under her birth name. She is the daughter of musician Sting and actress Trudie Styler. Sumner began writing songs at the age of 15. When she was 17, she signed a multi-record deal with Island Records. Sumner spent six months writing and recording her debut album, ""The Constant"" (2010), in Sweden with producer Klas Åhlund, keyboardist Emlyn Maillard, and multi-instrumentalist"
"Sting (musician) Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music. As a solo musician and a member of the Police, he has received 16 Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for ”Every Breath You Take”, three Brit Awards, including Best British Male in 1994 and"
"Rubble"". Brandon Flowers (of the Killers) has dubbed him the ""Chairman of the Beat"". Sumner's autobiography ""Chapter and Verse"" was published in 2014. Sumner was a founding member of Joy Division, a Salford band formed in 1976. He and childhood friend Peter Hook both attended the fabled Sex Pistols concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall on July 20, 1976 and were inspired to form a band. The band is widely considered one of the most influential bands of the era. Primarily known as the band's lead guitarist (his main guitars were a Gibson SG and a Shergold Custom Masquerader), Sumner"
"Gordon Waller Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller (4 June 1945 – 17 July 2009) was a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as Gordon of the 1960s pop music duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the No. 1 million-selling classic ""A World Without Love"". Waller was born in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of a prominent surgeon. The family later moved to Middlesex, when Waller was a child, where Waller gained entrance to Westminster School. While attending Westminster School, he met fellow student Peter Asher, also the son of a doctor, and they began playing together as a duo"
"Bernard Sumner Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is a founding member of both Joy Division and New Order, and is widely credited with the latter band's move towards electronica and synthpop. Sumner is widely credited in advancing UK dance music, and the popularisation and technological advancement of sequencers. In the early 1990s, he collaborated with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr as Electronic. Sumner was educated at Salford Grammar School. From 1976 to 1979, Sumner was employed at the animation studio Cosgrove Hall Films as an artist on ""Jamie and"
"Church's pastor. He later adopted the stage name Gaines in the likeness of his uncles Reuben, a radio announcer, and Ronnie, a jazz nightclub performer, who also used the name professionally. After Arcadia High School, Gaines joined the band Stormer, with whom he recorded a demo and toured extensively in Los Angeles and Hollywood's Sunset Strip. At the time Gaines joined Stormer, they had already been a popular band for 10 years in the Los Angeles area. The lineup at the time consisted of Tom Hardy on vocals; Steve Hall on drums; Stephan Shawn on guitar, keys, and vocals; and"
"a showcase for Sumner's voice and compositions and won the 1981 Grammy Award for best traditional gospel performance. Sumner was credited not only for his singing, songwriting, and concert promotions, but was also noted for being the first to customize a coach bus for the entertainment business to use for music groups. After the Masters V disbanded in 1988, Sumner reformed the Stamps Quartet and performed with the group until his death in 1998. He was often seen in his latter years appearing as a guest artist on the Bill Gaither Homecoming videos. After Sumner's death, lead singer Ed Enoch,"
"Donny Simmons on lead guitar and vocals. In an interview about Stormer, Gaines recalled, ""We signed a deal with an indie label called Rockwoodz music out of Phoenix, Arizona, and they put us in the studio to record an album and a Christmas single. Well, the single was the only thing that ever made it to vinyl and 500 singles were sent out all over the U.S. to radio. We got some good reviews for the single in some trade magazines but nothing ever happened with the band. For whatever reason, Rockwoodz went belly up and the album was never"
"""frustrated actor"". In 1974, again with Stony Browder, he formed Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, becoming its lyricist and bass player. The band combined swing and Latin music with disco rhythms and had its biggest hit in 1976 with ""Cherchez La Femme"". Their self-titled debut release was a Top 40-charting album which was certified gold and was nominated for a Grammy. In 1979, Darnell left Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band. He joined the band Machine, and co-wrote their best known song ""There But for the Grace of God Go I"". He also began producing for other artists, such as Don"
"Zarm on the 1990s television show ""Captain Planet and the Planeteers"". In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of ""The Threepenny Opera"". Sting also appeared as himself in the video game ""Guitar Hero World Tour"". Sting (musician) Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical,"
"Leonard Skinner Forby Leonard Skinner (January 11, 1933 – September 20, 2010) was an American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, and businessman from Jacksonville, Florida. He is known in popular culture as the namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Skinner was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1933 and graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1951. He attended Jacksonville Junior College on a basketball scholarship before being drafted into the U.S. Army. After his discharge from the Army, Skinner attended Florida State University, where he graduated in 1957. For many years, Skinner was a gym teacher"
"Wesley Linton helped to open another opportunity for them. With West Adams, Dwayne Coppedge, Matt Wilder, Mike Simons and Bo Faulkner, ""Zacchaeus Tree"" was formed. Linton, of Greenville, North Carolina, promoted and managed the band as a mentor, financial advisor, and band pastor under the name 'Sunday School Hype'. With original music, strong vocals and powerful guitar ballads, the band's ministry grew quickly. Mike Simons and Matt Wilder were still in high school, but Zaccheus Tree allowed them the chance to perform on the local stage and on a much larger regional level. During the band's time together they ministered"
"2011 at his home in Llandudno, Wales. Gordon Lorenz Gordon Lorenz (4 March 1943 – 5 June 2011) was an English songwriter and record producer, who made his fame by writing the UK Christmas number one hit ""There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"" for St Winifred's School Choir. Since the song's release, Lorenz became one of the most prolific record producers in the music industry, producing over 800 albums selling eight million records, and earning seventeen platinum, gold and silver discs. Born in Childwall, an affluent suburb of Liverpool, his parents were both members of the Salvation Army. He was a"
"Brother Dave Gardner David Gardner (June 11, 1926 - September 22, 1983), known as Brother Dave Gardner, was a U.S. comedian, professional drummer and singer. A Tennessee native, Gardner studied drumming, beginning at age 13. After a one-semester term as a Southern Baptist ministerial student at Union University in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee, he began a musical career as a drummer and occasional vocalist. After a pair of demo singles for Decca Records around 1956, he had a 1957 Top-20 hit on OJ Records with ""White Silver Sands"". It was his comedic routines between songs, however, that brought him"
"leader, the album ""Honi Gordon Sings"", for Prestige Records. This included well-known jazz musicians – Makanda Ken McIntyre (alto sax, flute), Wally Richardson (guitar), Jaki Byard (piano), George Duvivier (bass), and Ed Shaughnessy (drums). This was her only album as leader. The Gordons recorded together again the following year, this time on Mary Lou Williams' ""Black Christ of the Andes"", but the group was not commercially successful and broke up, with Honi Gordon pursuing a solo career. Gordon again recorded with Williams in 1967. In 1972 and 1973 she appeared on recordings led by Mingus. These were released principally as"
"his great-aunt. The collection included a five-LP anthology produced by Sony-Columbia. In particular, he was drawn to musicians like Louis Armstrong and the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens At age 13, he was attending Sego Junior High School in Augusta, Georgia, where his band director was trombonist Don Milford. Gordon graduated in 1985 from Butler High School in Augusta. He performed in New York City as part of the McDonald's High School All-American Band. He then studied music at Florida A&M, where he played in the marching band. His early works as a professional were with Wynton Marsalis, but in"
"Michael Z. Gordon Michael Zane Gordon (born April 4, 1941) is an American screenwriter, producer, musician and composer. Gordon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota. He has two sisters. He and his family moved to Glendale, California in 1957, and moved to Los Angeles, California shortly thereafter. Gordon graduated from Fairfax High School in 1958. Gordon, a self-taught musician, formed his first rock band, the Marketts (originally spelled ""Mar-Kets"") in 1961. Gordon wrote and co-produced the band's first hit song, ""Surfer's Stomp,"" shortly after the group was formed. In 1961 the band signed"
"would perform together in church. It was during high school that Gordon decided that she was going to pursue music. She was later accepted to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and interned at a record company. Gordon wrote her first complete song, ""Daddy's Song"", at the age of 15. Wynter worked at Atlantic Records closely with producer D'Mile since 2004; her first track to fame, ""Gonna Breakthrough"", written by Wynter Gordon and produced by D'Mile, was used as the title track to Mary J. Blige's 2005 album ""The Breakthrough"". Soon after, Wynter"
"Gordon Lorenz Gordon Lorenz (4 March 1943 – 5 June 2011) was an English songwriter and record producer, who made his fame by writing the UK Christmas number one hit ""There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"" for St Winifred's School Choir. Since the song's release, Lorenz became one of the most prolific record producers in the music industry, producing over 800 albums selling eight million records, and earning seventeen platinum, gold and silver discs. Born in Childwall, an affluent suburb of Liverpool, his parents were both members of the Salvation Army. He was a pupil of Evered Avenue school in Walton"
"""All for Love"", with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, ""You Will Be My Ain True Love"" with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through his international hit ""Desert Rose"" with Cheb Mami. In 2018 he released the album ""44/876"", a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born on 2 October 1951, in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. At eight or"
"to help further the group's career. The group changed their name to 'Tiger' and went through a succession of bass players including ex-Smile bassist Barry Wyles, and were managed by Neil Christian for a while. After recruiting Alan Butler back into the group they worked together again and recorded ""High School Dropout"" at Marquee Studios. They finally split in 1971 after being continually turned down and out of work. Hector and Butler later found success with their band the Hammersmith Gorillas, later shortened to the Gorillas in 1977. In 1971 Read was struggling financially and heavily using amphetamines and sleeping"
"Sweeney Todd (band) Sweeney Todd is a Canadian glam rock band formed in Vancouver in 1975. The band's original lead vocalist Nick Gilder left the band to start a solo career, and was replaced by a young Bryan Adams, who later enjoyed international success as a solo artist. The band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, originally consisted of vocalist Nick Gilder, guitarist Jim McCulloch, bassist Budd Marr, keyboardist Dan Gaudin and drummer John Booth. The single, ""Roxy Roller"", became a No. 1 hit in Canada, holding the top position in the ""RPM"" national singles chart for three weeks beginning on"
"within a few months had joined a Toronto punk band called Intensive Chaos. Primarily self-taught, Gordon continued to play in a string of basement bands and soon graduated to the independent scene where he started playing local gigs with Jonathan Cummins (Bionic, Doughboys), and Cam and Brad Maclean in Circus Lupus. After finishing high school, Gordon enrolled in the jazz program at Humber College to further his musical knowledge. Around the same time the demise of Circus Lupus led him to join the newly formed Rocktopus. Rocktopus released several independent cassettes and an EP on Lone Wolf Records. The band"
"volume varied widely from the original LP issues with identical numbers, and some volumes contained none of the same songs as their original issues. The label's biggest self-recorded hit as a single was ""Teen Beat"" by drummer Sandy Nelson, reaching number four on ""Billboard"" in 1959. Other successful Original Sound artists included: The first few ""Oldies But Goodies"" LPs were hugely successful (Volume 1 reached #12 on the Billboard Album charts and stayed on the chart for 183 weeks). Their success influenced other labels to put out compilations of their hits and near-hits, as well as helped validate the standing"
"major contract; he continued performing locally for some time after that. He ran a dance club in Georgia in the 1970s, and returned to rockabilly performing in the 1980s as the Europeans revived it. Curtis Gordon Curtis Gordon (July 27, 1928 – May 2, 2004) was an American rockabilly singer. Gordon was heavily influenced by Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills, and Jimmie Rodgers as a child. He won a radio talent show as a teen and left high school to be the lead singer of his own band, which included fiddle player Jimmy Bryant. His parents demanded that he return to"
"Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the bestselling music groups of the 1960s and became counterculture icons of the decade's social revolution, alongside artists such as the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan. Their biggest hits—including ""The Sound of Silence"" (1964), ""Mrs. Robinson"" (1968), ""The Boxer"" (1969), and ""Bridge over Troubled Water"" (1970)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide. The duo met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize together and began writing"
"band Gardner. It was recorded in Odessa, Texas at a studio owned by Tommy Allsup, who had played on the same bills as stars such as Buddy Holly & the Crickets and Ritchie Valens in the 1950s. The Illusions' single became a regional hit. According to Parker, ""I was the elder statesman in the group – I was 19, 20-ish then ...and we played around town, and J.D. Souther’s group, the Senders, was in competition with us. We were buddies, but we got most of the great gigs because we had a full band and Mark played organ, harmonica and"
"Merritt, British Columbia. Sweeney Todd (band) Sweeney Todd is a Canadian glam rock band formed in Vancouver in 1975. The band's original lead vocalist Nick Gilder left the band to start a solo career, and was replaced by a young Bryan Adams, who later enjoyed international success as a solo artist. The band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, originally consisted of vocalist Nick Gilder, guitarist Jim McCulloch, bassist Budd Marr, keyboardist Dan Gaudin and drummer John Booth. The single, ""Roxy Roller"", became a No. 1 hit in Canada, holding the top position in the ""RPM"" national singles chart for three"
"Gordon Banks (musician) Gordon Banks (born February 22, 1955), a.k.a. Gordon 'Guitar' Banks, is an American guitarist, producer, writer and musical director. He was voted one of the top 100 guitarists in America by Rolling Stone magazine in 1985. Banks played an important part in Marvin Gaye's later years. Gaye referred to him as ""ID"" meaning ""The Indicator"". Banks was born on February 22, 1955 in Norfolk, Virginia. Adept at playing instruments at an early age, he joined his first band, The Showmen, at the age of twelve playing guitar. The group, noted for beach music, was created by later"
"Honi Gordon Sings Honi Gordon Sings is the only album recorded as a leader by jazz vocalist Honi Gordon. Honi Gordon sang as a member of the Gordons (with her father and two brothers) in the early 1950s. Her first recordings, in 1953, were with them. ""Honi Gordon Sings"" was recorded on March 23, 1962. The other musicians on the recording are Makanda Ken McIntyre (alto sax, flute), Wally Richardson (guitar), Jaki Byard (piano), George Duvivier (bass), and Ed Shaughnessy (drums). The album was originally released on LP by Prestige Records. It was re-released on CD in 1992. The AllMusic"
"by three sons. Irving Gordon Irving Gordon (February 14, 1915 – December 1, 1996) was an American songwriter. Irving Gordon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and later lived on Coney Island. He was named Israel Goldener but later changed his name to Irving Gordon. As a child, he studied violin. In high school he wrote a symphony piece, but his teacher laughed at it. Gordon wanted to study at Juilliard but Jews were not admitted at that time. After attending public schools in New York City, Gordon worked in the Catskill Mountains at some of the resort hotels in"
"reputedly specifically asked for him and the producers hired him. During the first half of the 60s he worked often with Tubby Hayes, and Joe Harriott. In 1962 he played a couple of nights with Dexter Gordon at Ronnie Scott's, recorded with Carmen McRae, in 1964 played r&b with Alexis Korner and Georgie Fame. He started teaching in 1962, one of his pupils being Ginger Baker, who went on to influence a whole generation of rock drummers. However, his heroin addiction meant his health was deteriorating, and increasingly many bandleaders would no longer hire him; his employment was limited to"
"Kim Gordon Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist, and actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s as a bassist, guitarist, and vocalist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, Gordon was raised in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, Gordon moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore"