Eydie Gorme was active from the early 1950s to the late 2000s. She came from a Sephardic Jewish background. As such, she spoke fluent Spanish, thus enabling her to perform pop and Latin pop. Sometimes,…

Jenni Rivera was unquestionably one of the most talented artists of all time. Born in 1969, she was more than just a singer. She was also a songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She sang songs…

The Grass Roots are one of the more notable American rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. After all, few acts can sell more than 20 million records, even if they have been around for…

Michael Stanley Gee was a singer-songwriter and disc jockey from Cleveland, Ohio. Growing up in a blue-collar community of Cleveland, he first hit the rock scene as a member of The Bossmen, releasing one album…

Starz is a rock band that formed in the mid-1970s. Since then, it has been active on and off, as shown by how it missed most of the 1980s and 1990s. Starz has never seen…

American folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie has been performing since the 1960s, and he shows no signs of slowing down. He has written and recorded many great songs throughout his career, but which ones are the…

Joan Armatrading is a celebrated singer-songwriter. She was born in what was once called Saint Christopher and Nevis. However, she grew up in England with a short interval in Antigua. Armatrading left school at a…

Montana boasts of being one of the eight states in the United States defined by mountainous terrains. It is endowed with natural resources yet remains with a low population. For this reason, the state attracts…

Syleena Johnson is an American singer-songwriter. Her parents are notable in their own right. Johnson’s father was Syl Johnson, a singer-songwriter who was much-sampled but often uncompensated. Meanwhile, her mother is Brenda Thompson, the first…