Steve Hackett is a British musician who has been around for more than five decades. To most people, he will be most familiar for being the former guitarist of Genesis. However, Hackett has a solo career, which isn’t even mentioning the other acts that he has worked with over time. 1. Born in Pimlico Hackett…
John 5 is a guitarist of note. He picked up his stage name when he joined up with Marilyn Manson. However, John 5 has worked with a wide range of other artists, which isn’t even mentioning his career as a solo artist. As such, it is no exaggeration to say that he has contributed to…
What do you know about American rapper Rod Wave? Born as Rodarius Marcell Green in 1998, he has made a name for himself in a business that tends to gobble people up and then spit them out like yesterday’s trash. How has he done it? Much of it comes down to his ability to make…
Kiko Loureiro is a Brazilian musician. Over the course of his career, he has played the guitar for more than one well-known act. One example would be Angra while another example would be Megadeth. As such, Loureiro is a figure of some note. 1. Born in Rio de Janeiro Loureiro was born in Rio de…
He came to fame as a member of post-hardcore band Million Dead, but since breaking away from the band in 2005, Frank Turner has carved out a hugely successful solo career as a kind of modern-day Billy Brag (albeit much posher and with politics that veer more to the right than the left). Having spent…
Elvis Presley was a singer and actor who began his career in 1946, and he is usually associated with music genres including rock and roll, pop, country, rockabilly, gospel, blues, and R&B. He had established himself in the music industry by the mid-1950s but was then conscripted to the US Army in 1958. After serving…
Formed as a jazz-rock group in New York City in 1967, Blood, Sweat & Tears are known for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation. They have recorded songs with many rock stars and folk artists such as Billie Holiday, Laura Nyro, Eric Satie, James Taylor, The Band, and The Rolling Stones. Thelonious Monk…
When Dustin Kensrue and Teppei Teranishi founded the band in 1998, the duo was still in high school in Irvine, California. The rock and roll band is famous for their heavily distorted guitars, which featured prominently in their second and third albums. In 2005, when the band released their fourth album, they had made a…
Two years ago, Wanda Jackson announced her retirement. Now, she’s back with her 32nd album, Encore, an impeccably stylish collaboration with Joan Jett that sees Jackson in astonishingly good shape. She says it’ll definitely be her last album… unless she gets bored of retirement a second time around. Let’s hope she does. If you’ve ever…