Category Archives: Artist_Profile

The Webb Sisters

By diverse | Published: 07/01/2012
The Webb Sisters are beguiling, dynamic performers with hugely expressive voices and plangent harmonies, they are highly skilled multi-instrumentalists and songwriters of originality and intelligence. Ingénues yet thinkers, the sisters’ youthful energy and musical training combine in adventurous, lyrical and emotionally enthralling performances. Charley and Hattie’s singing and playing (harp, guitar, mandolin, piano, drums) draw from [...]
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Danny & The Champions Of The World

By diverse | Published: 11/11/2011
“On the back sleeve of the new record, I’m holding a Stratocaster,” grins Danny Wilson. “A friend saw it and said, ‘Woah, a Strat… Controversial!’ Yeah, too fuckin’ right! I wanna play a Strat, and I wanna plug it into a valve amp, and I wanna play music with my friends, and we’ve got a [...]
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Carrie Rodriguez

By diverse | Published: 19/06/2011
Rodriguez’ journey from teenage violin student to touring the world with the likes of Chip Taylor (famed songwriter of “Wild Thing), Lucinda Williams and Alejandro Escovedo, has resulted in a prodigious output of recordings – eight albums in as many years – for the young musician. Carrie Rodriguez’ professional career was launched in 2001 after a [...]
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Laura Marling

By diverse | Published: 10/12/2010
Born on 1st February 1990 (in case you want to send a card) in Eversley, Hampshire, England. This singer-songwriter and guitarist was still studying for her A-levels when she released her debut single at the start of 2007, and had completed her debut album by the end of the year. Raised in a musical household, [...]
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Fionn Regan

By diverse | Published: 31/10/2010
Fionn Regan is an Irish singer-songwriter and artist from Bray, County Wicklow, who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his Mercury-nominated debut album, The End of History. In 2010, Regan released his second album, The Shadow of an Empire. Regan’s first releases were the single, “Little Miss Drunk”, and three EPs [...]
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Simone Felice

By diverse | Published: 28/07/2010
I’m alive.Got my breast-bone sawed in two and my lungs collapsed and the main valve of my heart replaced by a carbon device that ticks like a pocket watch to the beat of my blood for the rest of my days, but I’m alive. Strange days indeed.What a wild thing to learn from the [...]
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Joan Baez

By diverse | Published: 10/02/2010
b. Joan Chandos Baez, 9 January 1941, Staten Island, New York, USA. The often-used cliché – the queen of folk to Bob Dylan’s king – her sweeping soprano is one of the most distinctive voices in popular music. An impressive appearance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival followed the singer’s early performances throughout the Boston/New [...]
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