Author: Thomas Newman

If you love heavy metal music, then you must have heard that the first ever heavy metal band to top the charts was Quiet Riot. The band began with Kevin DuBrow teaming up with Randy…

Colt Ford is one of the more unusual individuals in the music world. Once upon a time, he was a professional golfer. However, he decided to become a professional musician, drawing influence from not just…

George Thorogood is an American musician who rose to prominence in the 1980s. He had numerous original hits. However, he is also notable because he re-popularized hits by even older generations of American musicians. On…

Riley Green is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has been interested in music since his childhood. His grandfather, Bufford Green, ran a music joint which is what inspired him to sing professionally….

Hank Williams Jr. came into the limelight for being Hank Williams Sr.’s son. The older Williams died at 29, and the younger Williams was forced to take up his father’s place. Therefore, Williams Jr. was…

The Turtles were an American rock band that dominated the industry from 1965 to 1970, when they opted to disband. According to Wnrn, the group was disbanded after conflicts with their record label. Originally, the…

Solomon Burke was an American R&B and soul singer whose career lasted from 1955 to 2010. He revolutionized the R&B sound and was one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s. According…

Jerry Vale, born Gennaro Louis Vitaliano to an Italian immigrants parent, was an American singer Actor from The Bronx, New York, the U.S. He started his career in the 1950s to 2002. His genre of…

Hank Snow, whose real name is Clarence Eugene, was an American-Canadian country music singer who had a career spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s. Snow was known as a traditional country music performer for…