Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath are the archetypal heavy metal band, the blueprint for countless imitators that sprang up in the late Seventies. While Deep Purple had classical pretensions and Led Zeppelin indulged in mysticism, Sabbath blended down-to-earth heavy rock with highly theatrical occult imagery. Their menacing presence, aided and abetted on stage by the manic leaps of singer Ozzy Osbourne, provided an aggressive contrast to late Sixties flower power. It also established a musical formula, which would, with time, come to seem restrictive, and lead to serious disagreements within the band. The four original members - guitarist Tony Iommi,...

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Shane Dawson

Shane Dawson is a 21 years old Internet celebrity from YouTube who resides in California His popularity of YouTube has soared in 2009 from many of his comedy skits and parodies cut video on his vlog ShaneDawsonTV (SDTV) and in his ShaneDawsonTV2 (SDTV2) YouTube channels that make him one of the most popular users on the ground and # 4 most subscribed of all time Shane comedy films always contain many of his different characters as Ned the Nerd Aunt Hilda Barb lesbians it his "mom" character and one of His most popular: Shananay a ghetto princess with a third eyebrow, and his three pets: 2 cats (Snoop and muffins) and 2 dogs (Charlie...

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Andy McKee

Andy McKee (born April 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American fingerstyle guitarist currently signed to the US-American record label Candyrat Records. His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable fanbase; in late 2006, a live performance of his flagship song "Drifting" became a Featured Video on YouTube and MySpace, achieving over 12,000,000 views on the former to date and remaining one of its highest rated music clips. A handful of McKee's other songs have experienced lesser success on YouTube, such as "Rylynn" and "Africa" both eclipsing 5,000,000 views apiece.McKee played his first guitar, an Aria nylon...

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Marie Christina Digby

Marié Christina Digby (pronounced /Marie Christina Digby/ ; born April 16, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. She is best known for her acoustic cover version of Rihanna's No. 1 hit "Umbrella", which attracted attention on YouTube in 2007. The song was subsequently played on the radio station STAR 98.7, was featured on the third season opening episode of the MTV show The Hills, and peaked at #10 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. Digby performed the song on the late night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly on August 2, 2007. Digby, whose mother is Japanese and father is Irish American, is the...

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Esmee Denters

Who is Esmee Denters' On 28 september 1988 Esmee Denters born in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. All from an early age she was fond of singing and fell in love with the Stevie Wonder album that her father was. In the summer of 2006, Esmee with the poste of videos on youtube.com which we have heard how good they can sing. At the movies did she covers of various artists and also if there is a request from a fan was for a particular Nr. did they like. Covers The various artists which has covered again Esmee see that they surely have singing talent. Esmee Denters on youtube.com amongst others the following covers posted: * Beyonce Knowles-"irreplaceable"...

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Ramones

The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting rock & roll down to its bare essentials - four chords; a simple, catchy melody; and irresistibly inane lyrics and speeding up the tempo considerably, the Ramones created something that was rooted in early '60s, pre-Beatles rock & roll and pop but sounded revolutionary. Since their breakthrough...

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Sepultura

From their humble beginnings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Sepultura went on to become the most successful Brazilian heavy metal band in history. Over a ten-year period, the band grew from strength to strength, transforming itself from a primitive death metal ensemble into one of the leading creative trendsetters of the international aggressive music scene. Unfortunately, a bitter internal crisis almost destroyed the band, and Sepultura struggled to recover their previous momentum. Hailing from Brazil's third-largest city, Belo Horizonte, Sepultura (which means grave in Portuguese) were formed in the mid-'80s -- a time when that country...

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Yusuf Islam ( Cat Stevens)

 Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.His albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified as Triple Platinum by the RIAA in the United States; his album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone, and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He has also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years, for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which...

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