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3 unusual facts about pop music


Master of the Rings

The album is known as a turning point in Helloween's career, as it marks the band's return to their power metal roots after a commercial failure in their previous album, the progressive rock and pop-influenced Chameleon.

Oi Thalassies oi Hadres

The main subject of the film is the influx of foreign cultural elements in the Greek society in the 1960s, like the music genres of pop and rock.

Velkommen til Medina

Velkommen til Medina (Danish for "Welcome to Medina") is the second studio album by the Danish pop singer Medina.


2300 Jackson Street

2300 Jackson Street is the fifteenth and most recent studio album released by American Pop/R&B group The Jacksons, and their final album for record label Epic, released in the United States on May 28, 1989 (see 1989 in music).

231045-0637

The music on this album is unlike the hard rock of Gasolin' more poppish and is the start of the electronic sounds that would dominate his next records such as Jungle Dreams and Midt om natten.

A Story Untold

"A Story Untold" is a song, originally written as a doo-wop song by Leroy Griffin, but adapted to the pop music genre in 1955.

Aardvark Records

Aardvark Records is a British internet promotional music company started by Andrew Reeve and Alex di Savoia, which promotes the genres indie rock, Americana, alt country, dance music, electronica, adult contemporary and pop music.

Afortunada

"Afortunada" is a Pop song recorded by Chilean singer and song-writer Francisca Valenzuela and this song is the fourth official single from her first solo debut studio album, Muérdete La Lengua, released in Chile on 7 January 2008.

Ally Burnett

Ally Burnett is an American pop and rock singer/songwriter best known for song placements on MTV shows such as 'Jersey Shore' and her theme song for 'The Seven'.

Are You Jimmy Ray?

"Are You Jimmy Ray?" is a single co-written and performed by British pop singer Jimmy Ray from his 1998 self-titled debut album.

Bahibbik Wahashteeny

Bahibbik Wahashteeny (I Love You, I Miss You) is the seventeenth full-length Arabic studio album from Egyptian pop singer Angham, launched in Egypt on July 25, 2005 (see 2005 in music) by Rotana Production Company.

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

Best of Uetoaya: Single Collection

Best of Uetoaya: Single Collection is the first greatest hits album by Japanese pop singer Aya Ueto.

Billy Rich

As a session musician, Rich has gotten the chance to play different styles of music, including Reggae, Blues, Country Western, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Samba, Pop and Bluegrass.

Cherrelle

That song (with a music video homage to the film King Kong, featuring Cherrelle as the beast's love interest) was covered about a year later by pop singer Robert Palmer on his 1985 album Riptide.

Comment ça va

"Comment ça va" (French for How do you do?) is a 1983 pop song by Dutch boy band The Shorts.

Dan Seals

The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980, including the No.

Danny Gans

His first record album, produced by Michael Omartian, was cross-marketed in both the pop and Christian music genres and, although Gans never charted, it sold in both mainstream and Christian music outlets.

Erin Anttila

Erin Helena Maureen Anttila (née Koivisto, born Helsinki, Finland 2 July 1977), known in Finland as simply Erin, is a Finnish singer who rose to fame with the pop group Nylon Beat.

Everything Your Heart Desires

"Everything Your Heart Desires" is a 1988 song by pop music duo Hall & Oates.

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).

Hennes bästa

Hennes bästa was released on 8 June 1998 and is a compilation album from Swedish pop singer Lena Philipsson.

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes

The song was an answer song to the big pop music hit Perry Como had with his song "Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes." Slim Willet and Skeets McDonald also recorded country versions of the song that became hits.

Jean Kluger

He wrote widely for the French, Flemish and German pop music markets, including songs for Bobbejaan Schoepen, Dalida, Will Tura, Ringo and Petula Clark.

Katie Stevens

In her performance of "Chain of Fools", DioGuardi told her she had found where she belonged: R&B-pop, but she needed to work on being younger.

Kayne Taylor

Kayne Taylor is a pop music singer from Melbourne, Victoria who won the 2004 Australian series of Popstars Live.

Kung av sand – en liten samling 1983–2007

Kung av sand - en liten samling 1983–2007 was released on August 30, 2007 through Aftonbladet and is a compilation album from Swedish pop artist Per Gessle.

L.E.O.

Spawned by an on-stage cover of ELO's "Telephone Line" by lead singer-songwriter Bleu and Mike Viola, it quickly produced an entire album of original songs similar in style to 1970s AM radio pop music.

Mingma Sherpa

Mingma Sherpa (born 23 September 1980) is a Nepalese pop singer, born in Lukla, Nepal into the Sherpa family.

Ordsall, Greater Manchester

Ordsall is home to Salford Lads Club, which is featured on the inside cover of the album The Queen Is Dead by the pop band the Smiths.

Panzerballett

Panzerballett plays both original compositions by guitarist Zehrfeld and his creative arrangements of popular songs from rock ("Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple), to pop ("Ein Bisschen Frieden" by Nicole), to jazz ("Birdland" by Weather Report) to soundtrack (as the title theme The Simpsons).

Paulini discography

The discography of Australian R&B and pop singer-songwriter Paulini consists of two studio albums, one extended play, nine singles, including three as a featured artist, and eight music videos.

Pebe Sebert

In 2010 Sebert co-wrote her daughter Kesha's hit song "Your Love Is My Drug" which became a top ten single in nine countries and also reached triple platinum in the U.S. Later in that same year, Pebe and her daughter Kesha gave away their songs "Disgusting" to Pop Singer Miranda Cosgrove for her debut album and "Time of Our Lives" to Miley Cyrus for her debut EP also titled "Time of Our Lives".

Pineapple Princess

"Pineapple Princess" is an American pop song made popular by Annette Funicello in the summer of 1960.

Poslednja Igra Leptira

Music and lyrics were witen by Neša Radulović, except for "Dečko, 'ajde o'ladi" ("Chill Out, Boy") for which music was written by Radulović and Sašo Bogojevski. Special guest on this album was Riblja Čorba frontman Bora Đorđević. The biggest hit from the album was "Dečko, 'ajde o'ladi", Radulović's duet with Lidija Asanović, which brought them Oskar popularnosti award for the Pop Band of the Year.

Reichen Lehmkuhl

A former United States Air Force officer, he is best known for winning season four of the reality game show The Amazing Race with his then-partner Chip Arndt, and for his much publicized 2006 relationship with pop singer Lance Bass.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

Semplicemente

"Semplicemente" (en: Simply) is a pop song by Italian duo Zero Assoluto, released in 2005.

Stilelibero

Stilelibero (Freestyle) is the eighth studio album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, released in 2000 on the BMG label.

Talent Party

Talent Party was a Southern teen dance TV program that aired between 1964 and 1973 featuring many of the popular artists in Rhythm and blues, rock and pop music of the day.

Tatiana Thumbtzen

She is mostly well known for her role in portraying the love interest of pop star Michael Jackson in the "The Way You Make Me Feel" music video off his seventh studio album, Bad.

TD Bank Ballpark

TD Bank Ballpark has hosted four major concerts, including traditional pop and jazz musician Tony Bennett, country music artist Willie Nelson, pop music star Jessica Simpson, and a 50's festival including The Teenagers, The Duprees, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Berry.

The Masticators

The Masticators was a band in the pop genre founded by Lisa Mychols in 1998 with the following lineup: Robbie Rist - Drums, Patrick McGrath - Lead Guitar and Severo Jornacion - Bass.

The Rocky Fellers

Stanley Kahn discovered The Rocky Fellers, a pop/rock band in the 1960s, and signed them to Scepter Records.

Tout c'qui nous sépare

"Tout c'qui nous sépare" (English: "All That Separates Us") is a 1991 pop song recorded by French singer Jil Caplan, released as CD single in March 1991.

Una Rosa Blu

Una Rosa Blu (A Blu(e) Rose) is the seventh studio album by Mexican pop singer-songwriter Gloria Trevi, released by Univision Records on October 2, 2007 (see 2007 in music) in Latin America and the United States.

Wayne Fontana

Wayne Fontana (born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, 28 October 1945) is an English rock/pop singer, best known for the 1965 hit "Game of Love" with The Mindbenders.

WRQN

WRQN now advertises themselves as "Feel Good Favorites" and removed most 1960's hits from their playlist and added 1980's pop music hits to the playlist including hits from George Michael, Prince, Soft Cell, Michael Jackson, Heart (band), Level 42, Mr. Mister and many others.

Zhao Chuan

Zhào Chuán (赵传) (born 18 June 1961), known sometimes as "Chief" Chao, is a Taiwanese pop singer.


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Alix Bauer

In 1982, she joined Timbiriche, a successful pop music band in Mexico, during the 1980s, together with Diego Schoening, Sasha Sokol, Benny Ibarra, Mariana Garza, Paulina Rubio, Erik Rubín, They recorded 10 albums and 2 max-singles, and she performed in the play Vaselina, produced by Julissa.

Barry Weiss

In 1981, Clive Calder of Zomba started his first U.S. record label Jive Records, which released British dance and pop music such as Q-Feel, A Flock of Seagulls and Tight Fit.

British Gas

Its extensive television advertising has featured many high profile individuals, and in the early 1990s one advertisement included Cheryl Cole (then Cheryl Tweedy) as a small child, more than ten years before the beginning of her pop music career.

Bruno Canfora

A conductor in a number of variety television and music shows, Canfora is also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed, among others, the songs "Brava" and "Come tu mi vuoi"; he was also author of a great number of successful songs for Rita Pavone, Ornella Vanoni and Kessler Twins.

Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia

The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia was started by Jaimie Vernon on July 1, 1998, as an online service of the Toronto Sun newspaper website.

Collège du Léman

Mustafa Sandal, popular Turkish pop music singer, record producer, businessman, and occasional actor.

Daniel Zueras

From the very beginning Dani stood out among his mates at the Academy for his sweet voice, singing Pop music and Ballads, with numbers like "Otra Vez", by Coti and Paulina Rubio, "Unchained Melody", by the Righteous Brothers, "Last Christmas" by George Michael, "Blue Velvet” by Bobby Vinton or "Me & Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul, among others.

Danilo Rea

He is widely sought after in pop music, and has performed with Domenico Modugno, Pino Daniele, and Gianni Morandi.

David T. Walker

Recently he has gained popularity in Japan for playing guitar for the pop music group Dreams Come True, and on band member Miwa Yoshida's solo albums, and has also performed live with them.

Django Haskins

His family's love for music exposed him to the likes of Cole Porter, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Motown, Gershwin, Thelonious Monk, The Replacements and Elvis Costello, familiarising him with pop music and its many forms.

Double Dragon Neon

The game's dialogue and graphical style is heavily 80s-inspired, and features a soundtrack composed by Jake Kaufman, inspired by the original Double Dragon as well as 80's pop music and arcade game soundtracks.

Etta Scollo

Chance encounters with producers from the Pop music scene led to the recording of the Paul McCartney song Oh! Darling, which Etta adapted with Italian lyrics in 1988.

George Greer

During Greer's studies at Florida State, he was for a time a roommate of Jim Morrison, who later became lead vocalist of pop music group The Doors.

George Noriega

Noriega came to prominence in the late 90s as he helped Latin artists such as Ricky Martin, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez cross over into the English pop music market.

Greg Sandow

In pop music, he became chief pop critic of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1988, and in 1990 joined the staff of Entertainment Weekly, which had just begun publication, and where he served first as music critic and then as senior music editor.

HappySad Records

Its major release, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was rediscovered and described thirty years later, in July 2002, in Japan's Record Collectors Magazine as "human mystical pop music".

Issa Bagayogo

Bagayogo blends his native Malian traditions with western pop music and has drawn comparisons to some of the great Malian musicians such as Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté.

Ivo Fabijan

Ivo Fabijan-Mrvelj (Vrbovac, Odžak, 1950 - Zagreb, 2006), was a controversial Croatian musician, singer and composer, and produced pop music and patriotic songs.

Jackie Landry Jackson

Jackie Landry Jackson (May 22, 1941 – December 23, 1997) was a member of The Chantels, the first nationally-successful black female pop music group.

Jenny Wren

The solo is played on an Armenian woodwind instrument, called duduk — a first in pop music history — played by Venezuelan born, world winds specialist & multi-instrumentalist Pedro Eustache.

John Mack Faragher

Several of his siblings have been in the pop music business, including Danny Faragher, Jimmy Faragher, Tommy Faragher, Davey Faragher, Pammy Faragher, and Marty Faragher.

Kauppakorkeakoulun Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat

The choir's artistic range spans classical Finnish (e.g. by Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja, Toivo Kuula, Selim Palmgren, and Armas Järnefelt) and international male choir music, modern compositions (e.g. by Einojuhani Rautavaara and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi), barbershop, as well as pop music arrangements.

KDPS

From a small collection of children's CDs the station has grown to a library of over 600 CDs and airs pre-teen pop music, such as Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter, Raven, the A-Teens and Jesse McCartney.

Kris Kirk

It contains thirty-four articles and essays on pop music on personalities including Little Richard, Brian Epstein, Dusty Springfield, Jayne County, Sylvester, Village People, Tom Robinson, Culture Club, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Bronski Beat, Divine, The Communards, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Marc Almond, Kenny Everett, Morrissey, and Boy George.

Levert

LeVert, a R&B/pop music singing group, formed in 1984 by brothers Gerald and Sean Levert

Marcus Lipton

Later, in response to the Sex Pistols' criticism of the British Royal Family, he argued that "if pop music is going to be used to destroy our established institutions, then it must be destroyed first".

Mikel Japp

Japp joined May Fisher, a Llanelli-based band, just before it was taken up by a London rock and pop music agency - through a friend who went on to establish 3PR - and sent on an extended and successful tour of Yugoslavia under a new name: Thank You.

Paula Yates

She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter (with Jools Holland) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube.

People in Stores

Playing with the likes of Mission of Burma, Wild Stares, Vacuumheads, CCCP-TV, V; and The Neats, PiS performed its own unique brand of original post-punk pop music in storied clubs around Boston such as the Underground, The Rat, Storyville, and The Channel.

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Raux

The Seattle dance pop music scene has spawned similar artists Blake Lewis, Go Periscope, and multi-platinum song writer Bonnie McKee who has penned hits for Taio Cruz, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and more.

Rockin' Duck

Grimms' Rockin' Duck combines pop music and poetry, recorded at Island Studios, London, England.

Roger Swallow

He has four decades of experience with electronica, including collaborative efforts with Florida's musician-laureate Jack Tamul, a renowned electronic synthesist, and then in one of the first pop music onstage electronic percussion experiments he played with the legendary Los Angeles band, Jules and the Polar Bears, with songwriter/vocalist Jules Shear and producer/keyboardist/programmer Stephen Hague.

Skenderija

It was a very popular place among young people, and big stars of Balkan pop-music, like Dino Merlin, had started their career here.

Stufstock

Stufstock (Stuf - Romanian for reed - and stock from Woodstock) is a music festival that has taken place each year since 2003 in Vama Veche, Dobrogea, Romania, to protest against what some people may consider bad quality music (e.g. manele and Romanian pop music), and to call for the preservation of Vama Veche from the large scale development that has overtaken much of Romania's Black Sea coast.

Sudbury, Suffolk

In the 21st century the town has hosted the charity fundraising pop music festival, Leestock.

Sui Vesan

At age 14, she took a trip to Syria with her father, where she was exposed to the music of the Middle East, as well as Western pop music, both of which influenced her music greatly.

Tameka Cottle

Cottle's other accomplishments include an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award in the R&B and Pop Music categories for "No Scrubs", as well as the ASCAP Rap Award for her work on the Sporty Thievz track "No Pigeons."

Tapu Javeri

Earth Hour 2013 Ambassadors include Pakistan's premiere fashion photographer Tapu Javeri,legendary actress Samina Pirzada, leading drama icon Adnan Siddiqui, pop music sensation Faakhir Mehmood, Pakistan's fashion icon Frieha Altaf, leading model and actor Mekhaal Zulfiqar, young and famous model Ayesha Omar and drama actor Agha Shiraz.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi

Genki Rockets has thus far produced two albums, Genki Rockets I: Heavenly Star and Genki Rockets II: No Border Between Us, consisting primarily of electronic pop music, sung mostly in English, with occasional Japanese phrases.

The Twain Shall Meet

Reviewer Bruce Elder of Allmusic describes the song "All Is One" as "unique in the history of pop music as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up its tempo like the dance music from Zorba the Greek while mimicking the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'".

This Is Pop Music

This Is Pop Music is the 3rd album by the Norwegian singer/song-writer Espen Lind and the second released under his name.

Tumbling Down

On 23 August 1974, Dutch pop music singer Yvonne Keeley released her own version of the song as a single.

Walker Brothers

The Walker Brothers, a British-based American pop music trio popular in the 1960s and 1970s

Wang Luobin

His songs continue to be popular today, and modern adaptations of them have been recorded by the Beijing Angelic Choir, a Chinese children's choir that has earned recognition both at home and abroad; by China's popular Twelve Girls Band; and by the famous Chinese rock singer Dao Lang, who is known for his western China-themed pop music.

WWHK

The station is owned by Birch Broadcasting and is currently playing string arrangements of classic rock and pop music performed by the Vitamin String Quartet.

X-Perience

Lack of current comparisons in the German pop music and only the synth-pop band Crown of Creation, which grossed in 1993 with Rick J. Jordan from Scooter the CD "Real Life" in Hanover and Bückeburg, has musical parallels.

Yaaks

Yaaks formed in October 2010, with the band having a collective admiration for the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Balearic beat and Pop music.