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54 Seconds

Consisting of Spencer Gibb on vocals and guitar, J. J. Johnson on drums and vocals, Stewart Cochran on piano, synthesizer, keyboard and vocals and Glenn McGregor on bass.

Aishah and The Fan Club

Besides Aishah who sang lead vocals, the other members included Paul Moss on guitar and programming, Dave Larsen on drums, Glenn Peters on bass, Malcolm Smith on keyboards, and Hazri Yutim on second keyboard/synthesiser.

Arrocha

The term "Arrocha" is recent, but the music itself has existed since the mid-'70s, when admirers of Odair Jose Reginaldo Rossi Fernando Mendes and Waldick Soriano, in that it bought an electronic keyboard, began to sing the songs of their idols in bars and nightclubs in suburban areas or inland in the country.

Bläck Fööss

Willy Schnitzler and Rolf Lammers have both played keyboard; in 1994, the band had its biggest split, with frontman Tommy Engel leaving for a solo career after so-called creative differences.

Bone Symphony

The group consisted of Scott Wilk on lead vocals and synthesizer, Marc Levinthal (guitar, bass synthesizer and sequencer, drum machine, 808 programming) and keyboard artist Jacob Magnusson (Iceland).

Bratmobile

Jon Nikki (Prima Donnas, Gene Defcon, Mocket, Sarah Dougher, Sir, Puce Moment) added guitar, bass and keyboard parts to the minimal Brat sound.

Colour of My Soul

Rob Derbyshire is an experienced touring musician, having worked as keyboard player with legendary former Motown artist Edwin Starr, while the other group member and producer Paul 'Solomon' Mullings worked with reggae bands in the Midlands and was a guitarist in Pato Banton's band.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Session guitarist/keyboard player Mike McEvoy (Michael J McEvoy) co-wrote the songs on their Getahead album and Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro played on three tracks ("Cascade", "Can't Grow Trees on Money" and "Who Are You").

Dan Swanö

Swanö has also released a solo progressive death metal album entitled Moontower, on which he showcases his multi-instrumental talent, playing all instruments (guitar, bass, drums, keyboard) as well as providing all the vocal work.

Daniel E. Freeman

Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.

Danilo Madonia

During a piano bar evening he befriended the Genoese musician Bob Callero, the bass player of the 1970s prog bands (Osage Tribe and Duello Madre, and played with the artists Lucio Battisti, Patty Pravo and Loredana Berte, Callero offered Madonia a chance to go to Milan and start a tour as keyboard player for Eugenio Finardi in 1982.

David Ingram

As a keyboard player, Ingram was a member of the Marin County based group AnExchange, who toured Europe with The Platters and The Coasters, backed up Carlo Thomas, worked with record producer Bob Conti, and performed with the Las Vegas Enterprize in the Fredrick Apcar's production, The Sands Playmate Review.

De La Salle College Churchtown

Republic of Loose Members: Brez - Guitar, Vocals & Deco - Keyboard.

Dean Menta

Menta had been a keyboard tech for the band and was recruited to handle guitar duties after Trey Spruance declined to tour for the album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime.

Deena Payne

She used to tour with ex-Animals keyboard player Alan Price as a backing singer and she was a member of the novelty girl band Cats U.K., who scored a UK top 30 hit with "Luton Airport" in October 1979.

G.I. Orange

G.I. Orange was a British New Wave and pop band, formed in the mid 1980s by the brothers Karl Whitworth (lead vocals and guitar), Simon Whitworth (bass guitar and vocals), and Mark Whitworth (keyboard and vocals), plus Gary Holt (drum and vocals).

Geoff Nicholls

Nicholls' involvement with the band ended when Adam Wakeman (a member of Ozzy Osbourne's solo band) was chosen to play keyboards during Sabbath's 2004 and 2005 tours as part of Ozzfest and Scott Warren (Dio) handled keyboard duties on the 2007 Heaven and Hell tour.

HeliOS

Others include the keyboard, mouse, RS232 and Centronics servers (built into the host I/O server), the null server (like Unix's /dev/null), and the logger server (like Unix's syslog).

Henry Gee

Gee earned his B.Sc. at the University of Leeds and completed his Ph.D. at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where, in his spare time, he played keyboard for a jazz band fronted by Sonita Alleyne, who went on to establish the TV and radio production company Somethin’ Else.

I'll Remember

It utilizes a synthesized keyboard arrangement to bring about a continuously reverberating sound of heartbeat.

If You Leave...

For the recording sessions, McEvoy recruited the talents of Grammy award-winning songwriter Jimmy Smyth on guitar, keyboard player James Delaney, bassists Paul Moore, Eoghan O’Neill, and drummer Des Lacey, with special guests Brian Connor on piano and David Agnew on oboe.

Lament for the Numb

The Stone People consisted of Dobbyn himself on the guitar, piano and as the lead vocalist, album producer Mitchell Froom on the keyboard, Bruce Thomas on the bass guitar and Pete Thomas on the drums and as the percussionist.

Laura Stevenson

After they disbanded in 2005, she was appointed keyboard player for the lead singer Jeff Rosenstock's new project, Bomb The Music Industry!.

League of Lights

Formed around vocalist Farrah West and keyboard player/producer Richard West from British rock band Threshold, League of Lights recorded their debut album with contributions from guitarist Ruud Jolie of Dutch symphonic rock act Within Temptation, drummer Mark Zonder of US progressive metallers Fates Warning, and bassist Jerry Meehan.

Leon and the Forklifts

The band began to make a name for itself, so the articles were written, "Always fair dressed in suits,' "lovin the ironing board keyboard stand," "the spinning bass, jumpin from amp to amp..." - The Buffalo News - The Gusto, Artvoice Magazine...

Martin Rebelski

Rebelski was recommended by a friend of Rob Gretton to play as a session musician for Doves, but soon became the band's touring keyboard player.

Mega Kid MK-1000

In its box is contained a Famicom cartridge containing several NES applications that work with the keyboard, such as crude word processors, keyboard exercises, mathematical games, G-BASIC and a handful of first generation NES games such as F-1 Race, Track & Field and "Jewel Tetris".

Meros

Mike Meros, American musician who played keyboard for the Beach Boys

Miracle Systems

The QXL ran the SMSQ Qdos-compatible operating system and used the host PC's disks, screen, keyboard, serial and parallel ports via an MS-DOS "server".

Orchestron

Rainbow keyboard players Tony Carey (1975-1977) and David Stone (1977-1979) used an Orchestron model B. The choir sound can be heard on the songs "Stargazer" from the album Rising, "Lady of the lake" and "Gates of Babylon" from the album Long Live Rock 'n' Roll.

Paul Peek

Eskew Reeder, Jr, also known as Esquerita was a co-writer and keyboard player on this first single.

Phil Sumner

He has since become a permanent replacement for previous keyboard player Eamon Hamilton who left to front Brighton based rock band Brakes.

Pop Trash

In his stead, keyboard player Rhodes and guitarist Cuccurullo took on more of the songwriting than usual, reworking some of their TV Mania material into some of the songs on the album.

Progres 2

Zdeněk Kluka (drums, vocals), Pavel Pelc (bass guitar, keyboard, vocals), Miloš Morávek (guitar), Roman Dragoun (keyboard, vocals)

Skabba the Hut

Skabba the Hutt were a Ska punk band that featured current The Bravery frontman/songwriter Sam Endicott on bass and keyboard-player John Conway, CSI: Miami actor Jonathan Togo, actor/filmmaker Will Carlough, session drummer Chris Markwood, solo-musician/voiceover-artist Brian Grosz and musician/illustrator Seth Berkowitz.

So What chord

Frank Mantooth dedicated two chapters to the chord under the name "Miracle voicing" in his work Voicings for Jazz Keyboard.

SoulDecision

The group was formed in Vancouver under the original name Indecision by singer and multi-instrumentalist Trevor Guthrie, singer David Bowman, and keyboard player Ken Lewko, who were studying music together at Capilano College.

Speed King

After the second verse, Gillan leaves the stage, and the improvised guitar-keyboard battle between current keyboardist Don Airey and current guitarist Steve Morse is played.

Spoon Records

Spoon Records is an independent record label managed by Hildegard Schmidt, wife of keyboard player Irmin Schmidt, since 1979, on which music by the krautrock band Can and its members has been released and re-released.

Susanne van Soldt Manuscript

The Susanne van Soldt Manuscript is a keyboard anthology dated 1599 consisting of 33 pieces copied by or for a young Flemish or Dutch girl living in London.

Thatcher, Arizona

Don Lancaster, early print on demand and personal computer pioneer, involved in the keyboard design of the Apple I computer.

The Marshall Tucker Band

The original lineup of the Marshall Tucker Band, formed in 1972, included lead guitarist, vocalist, and primary songwriter Toy Caldwell (1947–1993), vocalist Doug Gray (born 1948), keyboard player, saxophone player, and flutist Jerry Eubanks (born 1950), rhythm guitarist George McCorkle (1946–2007), drummer Paul Riddle (born 1953), and bassist Tommy Caldwell (1949–1980).

The Rosebuds

(They are not the original vocal group the Rosebuds who recorded for George Goldner's Gee Records in the 1950s.) Its current members are Ivan Howard (vocals/guitar/ drums/ bass/keyboards/programming) and Kelly Crisp (vocals/keyboard/drums/guitar/accordion).

TUME

One, it copied the keyboard layout of Deluxe Paint, the most popular image editing software at the time.

User interface

Archy, an experimental keyboard-driven modeless user interface by Jef Raskin, arguably more efficient than mouse-driven user interfaces for document editing and programming.

We See Lights

The Quiet Revolution gained members in January 2008 (Craig Ross on (bass/guitar), Ross Harvey (drums), Ciaran McGuigan (vocals) and Jonathan Lapsley (keyboard/vocals)) and soon became We See Lights.

William Curry

Billy Currie (born 1950), British musician and songwriter, keyboard player with Ultravox

William D. Drake

The other band members were the then-current Cardiacs drummer Dominic Luckman and two other former Cardiacs members (keyboard player and co-singer Mark Cawthra and bass player Jon Bastable (who'd been a backup Cardiac during Cawthra's tenure in the band).

Worn Thin

Weep was formed in 2008 by multi-disciplinary artist Eric "Doc" Hammer, previously of the gothic rock bands Requiem in White and Mors Syphilitica, together with keyboard player Alex Dziena, bass guitarist Fred Macaraeg, and drummer Bill Kovalcik.


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