"Engelbert Humperdinck (singer) Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer. Humperdinck has been described as ""one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around."" His singles ""Release Me"" and ""The Last Waltz"" both topped the UK music charts in 1967, and sold more than a million copies each. In North America, he also had chart successes with ""After the Lovin'"" (1976) and ""This Moment in Time"" (1979). He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India (present-day Chennai, India) in 1936, one of ten children to"
"Gail Ann Dorsey Gail Ann Dorsey (born November 20, 1962) is an American musician. With a long career as a session musician, she is perhaps best known for her lengthy residency in David Bowie's band, from 1995 to Bowie's death in 2016. Aside from playing bass, she sang lead vocals on live versions of ""Under Pressure"" (taking the part originally sung by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury) and dueted with Bowie on other songs, including ""The London Boys"", ""Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)"", ""I Dig Everything"", accompanying Bowie on clarinet, and a cover of Laurie Anderson's ""O Superman"". From 1993 to 1996, Dorsey"
"substance in the work. That is my responsibility to the music and the audience."" Gail Ann Dorsey Gail Ann Dorsey (born November 20, 1962) is an American musician. With a long career as a session musician, she is perhaps best known for her lengthy residency in David Bowie's band, from 1995 to Bowie's death in 2016. Aside from playing bass, she sang lead vocals on live versions of ""Under Pressure"" (taking the part originally sung by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury) and dueted with Bowie on other songs, including ""The London Boys"", ""Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)"", ""I Dig Everything"", accompanying Bowie on"
"Ray Dorset Raymond Edward Dorset (born 21 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and founder of Mungo Jerry. He composed most of the songs for the band, including the hit singles ""In the Summertime"", ""Baby Jump"", ""Lady Rose"", ""You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War"", ""Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black"", and ""Hello Nadine"" plus ""Feels Like I'm in Love"", a Number #1 single for disco singer Kelly Marie. Dorset attended Stanwell Road School (which was renamed Abbotsford County Secondary School) and Southall Grammar Technical School from the age of 13 after"
"Jimmy Dorsey James Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He was known as ""JD"". He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards ""I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)"" and ""It's The Dreamer In Me"". His other major recordings were ""Tailspin"", ""John Silver"", ""So Many Times"", ""Amapola"", ""Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)"", ""Pennies from Heaven"" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, ""Grand Central Getaway"", and ""So Rare"". Jimmy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of a coal miner"
"established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have ""qualitative or historical significance."" Jimmy Dorsey James Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He was known as ""JD"". He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards ""I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)"" and ""It's The Dreamer In Me"". His other major recordings were ""Tailspin"", ""John Silver"", ""So Many Times"", ""Amapola"", ""Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)"", ""Pennies from Heaven"" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances"
"Thomas A. Dorsey Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was known as ""the father of black gospel music"" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as ""dorseys"". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom. As formulated by Dorsey, gospel music combines Christian praise with the rhythms of jazz and the blues. His conception also deviates from what had been, to that time, standard hymnal practice by referring explicitly to the self and its relation to"
"Lee Dorsey Irving Lee Dorsey (December 24, 1924 – December 1, 1986) was an African American pop and R&B singer during the 1960s. His biggest hits were ""Ya Ya"" (1961) and ""Working in the Coal Mine"" (1966). Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint, with instrumental backing provided by The Meters. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorsey was a childhood friend of Fats Domino before moving to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then began a career in prizefighting. Boxing as a lightweight in"
"Brad Arnold Bradley Kirk Arnold (born September 27, 1978) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of the band 3 Doors Down. Arnold grew up in Escatawpa, Mississippi. He wrote the song ""Kryptonite"" in high school algebra class at age 15. Arnold is a founding member of 3 Doors Down, and was 16 years old at the time of the band's formation. Arnold was initially both a drummer and a singer, before focusing on the latter role around the time guitarist Chris Henderson joined the band. Arnold is a recovering alcoholic who stopped drinking in 2016. He"
"Rob Arnold (singer) Robert Allan Arnold (born 13 August 1982), commonly known as Rob Arnold, is a singer from Wellington, New Zealand, who achieved fame in a New Zealand boy band, Boyband, as “Gay Boy”. Their debut single, a remake of the classic Kinks song ""You Really Got Me"", debuted at #1 on the New Zealand Music Charts on 9 October 2006. Before Boyband, Rob had auditioned for every series of New Zealand Idol, as well as achieving minor notoriety by auditioning twice on reality show “Showstoppers”, the second time in disguise, incurring the anger of judge Michael Hurst. He"
"enough they have been the most vocal in encouraging me back."" The couple divorced in 2011, and McCluskey's wife returned to her native San Diego with their children. Andy McCluskey George Andrew McCluskey (born 24 June 1959) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder, singer and bass guitarist of the electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). McCluskey also founded pop girl group Atomic Kitten, for whom he served as a principal songwriter, and has collaborated with various popular acts. A pioneer of electronic music in the"
"Andy McCluskey George Andrew McCluskey (born 24 June 1959) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder, singer and bass guitarist of the electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). McCluskey also founded pop girl group Atomic Kitten, for whom he served as a principal songwriter, and has collaborated with various popular acts. A pioneer of electronic music in the United Kingdom, McCluskey is an Ivor Novello Award-nominated songwriter whose work has topped charts in the UK and internationally. Andy McCluskey was born on 24 June 1959 in"
"Chicago, aged 93. The Library of Congress added his album """" (1973) to the United States National Recording Registry in 2002. Dorsey's father was a minister and his mother a piano teacher. He learned to play blues piano as a young man. After studying music formally in Chicago, he became an agent for Paramount Records. In 1924, he put together a band for Ma Rainey called the Wild Cats Jazz Band. He started out playing at rent parties under the names Barrelhouse Tom and Texas Tommy, but was also best known as Georgia Tom. For a short time around 1926,"
"The Dorsey Brothers The Dorsey Brothers were an American studio jazz band, led by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. They started recording in 1928 for OKeh Records. The Dorsey Brothers recorded songs for the dime store labels (Banner, Cameo, Domino, Jewel, Oriole, Perfect). A handful of sides during their Brunswick period were issued by Vocalion. They signed to Decca in 1934, formed a more traditional band, and performed live until a falling out in May 1935. Glenn Miller composed four songs for the Dorsey Brothers when he was a member in 1934 and 1935, ""Annie's Cousin Fannie"", ""Dese Dem Dose"", ""Harlem"
"Along with financial assistance to the hospital, he donated machinery and hospital equipment. Grammy Awards American Music Awards Golden Raspberry Awards Shaggy (musician) Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican musician, singer, DJ and former United States Marine. He is best known for his hit singles ""Oh Carolina"", ""Boombastic"", ""It Wasn't Me"", and ""Angel"". He took his stage name from the character Shaggy, from the popular children's TV show ""Scooby-Doo"". Burrell was born on October 22, 1968, in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1987, he took singing courses and was discovered a"
"Dorsey was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have ""qualitative or historical significance."" Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra appear in the following films for Paramount, MGM, Samuel Goldwyn, Allied Artists, and United Artists: Tommy Dorsey Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the ""Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His technical"
"Tommy Dorsey Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the ""Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best remembered for standards such as ""Opus One"", ""Song of"
"Arto Lindsay Arthur Morgan ""Arto"" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He first achieved recognition as part of New York no wave group DNA in the late 1970s. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as ""studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey"". His guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes. Although Lindsay was born in the United States, he spent many years in Brazil with his"
"Dennis Frederiksen Dennis Hardy Frederiksen (May 15, 1951 – January 18, 2014) was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion, Angel, LeRoux and Toto, as well as providing backing vocals for Survivor. He was occasionally credited as Fergie Frederiksen or just Fergie. He contributed to hit singles in three consecutive years, all with different bands: Survivor's ""American Heartbeat"" in 1982, LeRoux's ""Carrie's Gone"" in 1983 and Toto's ""Stranger in Town"" in 1984. Frederiksen started his musical career at the age of 13, and he played clubs and pubs at the age of 15 with"
"a Rastafarian. Some of his lyrics have been criticized as being homophobic. Andy stated that Trojan Records only agreed to release his album ""On Tour"" after removing a track containing the lyrics, ""The Father never make Adam and Steve, he make Adam and Eve"". Horace Andy Horace Andy (born Horace Hinds, 19 February 1951) is a Jamaican roots reggae songwriter and singer, known for his distinctive vocals and hit songs such as ""Government Land"", as well as ""Angel"", ""Spying Glass"" and ""Five Man Army"" with English trip hop duo Massive Attack. He is also famous for a cover version of"
"Pete Cosey Peter Palus Cosey (October 9, 1943 – May 30, 2012) was an American guitarist who played with Miles Davis' band between 1973 and 1975. His fiercely flanged and distorted guitar invited comparisons to Jimi Hendrix. Cosey kept a low profile for much of his career and released no solo recorded works. He appeared on Davis's albums ""Get Up with It"" (1974), ""Agharta"" (1975), ""Pangaea"" (1976), ""Dark Magus"" (1977), and ""The Complete On the Corner Sessions"" (2007). Cosey was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was the only child of a musical family. His father and mother wrote for Louis"
"Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including ""With a Little Help from My Friends"", ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Good Night"", and their cover of ""Act Naturally"". He also wrote the Beatles' songs ""Don't Pass Me By"" and ""Octopus's Garden"", and is credited as a co-writer of others, including ""What Goes On"" and ""Flying"". Starr was afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during childhood, and he fell"
"the soundtrack of the 2012 movie ""Seven Psychopaths"". P. P. Arnold Patricia Ann Cole (born October 3, 1946), known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards. Arnold was born into a family of gospel singers and performed as a vocal soloist for the first time when she was four years old. Her family lived in the African-American Watts ghetto of Los Angeles. Arnold married early and had two children, Kevin and Debbie. She worked two jobs, one in an office and the other in food"
"Howie Dorough Howard Dwaine Dorough (born August 22, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He is best known as a member of American music group Backstreet Boys. Howard Dwaine Dorough was born in Orlando, Florida, where he met future friend and bandmate AJ McLean through a mutual vocal coach. His mother, Paula Flores, is Puerto Rican, and his father, Hoke Dwaine Dorough (1938–2008), was Irish American. Dorough's love and passion for entertainment started when he was three years old, begun by jumping on his grandparents' bed, singing ""Babyface"" with his little guitar. He started performing around age six"
"title song of the movie, ""My Boys Are Good Boys"", as well as co-writing the song in collaboration with Doug Goodwin. In 1979, he signed with Elektra/Asylum label. Just after his first record release, however, he died of a massive heart attack at his home in Canoga Park, California on August 19, 1979, aged 46. He is interred near his brother, Johnny and their parents at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California in Ascension, Lot 8319, Space 4. Dorsey last appeared in public on August 18, 1979 at The Performing Arts Center in Oxnard, California. He played a"
"the early 1960s living in a house with Johnny ""Sambuca"" Todd in Jersey where he honed his talent. In 1965, Dorsey teamed up with Gordon Mills, his former roommate in the Bayswater area of London, who had become a music impresario and the manager of Tom Jones. Mills, aware that Dorsey had been struggling for several years to become successful in the music industry, suggested a name-change to the more arresting ""Engelbert Humperdinck"", borrowed from the German 19th century composer of operas such as ""Hansel and Gretel"". Dorsey adopted the name professionally but not legally. Mills arranged a new deal"
"Konshens, Krayzie Bone, and Ky-Mani Marley, and released in July 2012. J.O.E. Alty George Nunes III (14 July 1986 – 7 February 2011), better known by his stage name J.O.E., and previously as Lil Joe, was a Jamaican reggae singer. From Kingston's Vineyard Town area, Nunes was the son of Alty George Nunes and Patsy Ricketts, the principal dancer of the National Dance Theatre Company, and studied at Wolmer's Boys High School. Known for his 'conscious' lyrics, Nunes was a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. He was a member of the group Jah Children in the 1990s, who"
"single was scheduled for release in early 2008. Rob has resurged in popularity in Europe, primarily due to his recent appearances in Amsterdam in preparation for Eurovision 2018. Rob Arnold (singer) Robert Allan Arnold (born 13 August 1982), commonly known as Rob Arnold, is a singer from Wellington, New Zealand, who achieved fame in a New Zealand boy band, Boyband, as “Gay Boy”. Their debut single, a remake of the classic Kinks song ""You Really Got Me"", debuted at #1 on the New Zealand Music Charts on 9 October 2006. Before Boyband, Rob had auditioned for every series of New"
"Shaggy (musician) Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican musician, singer, DJ and former United States Marine. He is best known for his hit singles ""Oh Carolina"", ""Boombastic"", ""It Wasn't Me"", and ""Angel"". He took his stage name from the character Shaggy, from the popular children's TV show ""Scooby-Doo"". Burrell was born on October 22, 1968, in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1987, he took singing courses and was discovered a year later, while singing in the streets with friends. His son Richard O'Neil Burrell is a rapper known as Robb Banks."
"the refugees in England and Austria, where they settled for life. He was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Dorsey died aged 93 in Chicago, Illinois, and was interred there in the Oak Woods Cemetery. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1982. Thomas A. Dorsey Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was known as ""the father of black gospel music"" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as ""dorseys"". Earlier in his life he was"
"Ali-Ollie Woodson Ali-Ollie Woodson (born Ollie Creggett; September 12, 1951 – May 30, 2010) was an American R&B singer, musician, songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and occasional actor best known for his twelve years with The Temptations alongside Otis Williams. He also worked with Aretha Franklin, Jean Carn, and Bill Pinkney. Woodson was born September 12, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, and was raised in Town Creek, Alabama. Bill Pinkney started Woodson on the road at the age of 19, giving him a job as a musician and then vocalist for Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters in the early 1970s. He would return to"
"Tim Arnold (musician) Tim Arnold (born 3 July 1975) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, producer musician and film maker from London. His music has been compared to David Bowie and he is the last musician to collaborate with David Bowie and Kate Bush mentor Lindsay Kemp He is also an active campaigner for the preservation of the London district known as Soho and its role in the enhancement of the performing arts. He is the founder of Save Soho, a coalition of performers including Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch, residents and politicians that came together out of concern for the"
"Dorsey Burnette Dorsey Burnette (December 28, 1932 – August 19, 1979) was an American early rockabilly singer. With his younger brother, Johnny Burnette, and a friend named Paul Burlison, he was a founder member of The Rock and Roll Trio. He is also the father of country musician and Fleetwood Mac member Billy Burnette. Dorsey William Burnett Jr. was born on December 28, 1932 to Willie Mae and Dorsey William Burnett, Sr. in Memphis, Tennessee. The 'e' at the end of his surname was added later. His younger brother, John Joseph ""Johnny"" Burnett, was born on March 25, 1934. The"