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Able

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Able is an Australian band comprised of Joel Houston, Marty Sampson, Luke Munns, and Michael Guy Chislett (of The Academy Is...), who broke up in 2001 after winning the Channel V Leg Up Competition so that they could pursue their activities with the Hillsong United band.
2) Able is the name of an ambient electronic artist from Denver CO. His music is on the netlabel www.ropeswingcities.com
He fuses acoustic with minimal sounds and field recordings to create highly enjoyable, nostalgic sounding music.

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Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, composer, and occasional actor. He got his start as the front man for the Commodores, a nationally popular Motown band during the 70's. They had several hits such as Easy, Three Times A Lady, and probably the Commodores' most famous hit, Brick House. Richie quit the band in 1981 for a solo career. He released his self-titled debut in 1982. The album hit No.

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Edge of Colour

Surreal avant-pop group, EDGE OF COLOUR, create a lush and energetic stage show bringing
together live-looped vocals, surreal costuming, symphonic pop dance beats and hypercolour art and video. Featuring artist-musician Michelle Xen and Producer-MC John Teh, this duo has play the stage alongside performers John Cale, Grandmaster Flash and Decoder Ring.

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Tyga

Micheal Ray Stevenson (born November 19, 1989 in Compton, California), better known by his stage name Tyga, is an American hip hop artist signed to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment and Decaydance. He is of Vietnamese and Jamaican descent. He is the cousin of Travis McCoy, lead vocalist of the group Gym Class Heroes.

In 2006 he released his first mixtape, Young on Probation, and released his debut studio album, No Introduction, in 2008. He has since released a further mixtapes, with the latest being Well Done 3, released in the summer of 2012.

His single "Taste," released in 2018, is his best charting song so far. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930), is an Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality. Biography Named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer his mother admired, he was born in Bassendean, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, to Cromwell ("Crom") Harris and Agnes Margaret Harris (née Robbins) who had both emigrated from Cardiff, Wales. He is the nephew of Australian artist Pixie O'Harris, (1903-1991), i.e. Rhona Olive Pratt, née Harris.

Adventure Land

There's only a few things you will never forget. Your first kiss, your first broken heart and the song that gave you hope again. A melody that brings your heart to life, lyrics that give you hope, a sound that passes by your ears and goes straight to your spirit. Thats why we sing, thats why we write. Music is more than just a sound, it's something that can inspire you unlike anything else. Music is an adventure.

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Burt Bacharach

Bacharach studied music at McGill University and the Mannes School of Music. In the 1950s and the early 1960s he was the pianist, arranger and bandleader for Marlene Dietrich with whom he toured. He teamed with lyricist Hal David and others to write many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s. Bacharach's music has been sung by a number of popular singers including The Beatles,The Carpenters, Aretha Franklin, Jack Jones, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Luther Vandross and The Drifters. He met Dionne Warwick, with whom he would form a famed collaboration.

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Loveshy

There are at least two bands with the name Loveshy 1) Canberra Hardcore. 2)LoveShy is a UK pop duo, made up of Aimee Kearsley and Emma Beard. In 2002, they competed as soloists in TV show Popstars - The Rivals, making the last ten female singers, but failing to make the top five, who became Girls Aloud. The other five, minus Javine, then formed girlgroup CLEA (an acronym of their initials). CLEA scored three UK top 40 hits between 2003 and 2005, later becoming a trio.

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Dos Hell

Four piece Brisbane outfit Dos Hell are bringing a fresh wave of indie pop/rock and roll with the release of their new EP titled ‘In Stereo’ available now through iTunes.
You’ll be bouncing off the walls with their new mixture of classic 50s and 60s rock’n’roll and raw, energetic sound. Influenced by The Monkees, Buddy Holly, The Kinks and others of the 50's and 60's era; Dos Hell takes indie pop to a whole new level.

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