Tom Odell is an English musician who has been active since the early 2010s. Amusingly, he started songwriting before he started singing because of his time in a band that struggled to maintain a lead singer. Eventually, Odell received a record deal because of Lily Allen, thus putting him on the path to stardom. So…
Sam Cooke, commonly referred to as the “King of Soul,” was instrumental in changing the pop and soul scene from the late 1950s until the early 1960s before he passed away. Sam Cooke is famous for songs such as “You Send Me” and “Wonderful World”, which topped the charts at their peak. Sam Cooke’s music…
Singer, songwriter, and musician Neil Diamond was born in New York on January 24, 1941. He began his career in the music industry in 1962. Diamond is one of the best-selling artists of all time as he has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 49.5 million albums in the United States. The singer…
Are there a lot of popular songs out there that have hidden meanings? We’re talking about genuine hidden meanings here and not the kind in horror movies where a record played backward results in a message from the devil himself. These are songs where the songwriter meant something else or the listener interpreted the words…
She may not have been as prolific a songwriter as Bob Dylan or as commercial as Joni Mitchell, but without Joan Baez, the 21st-century folk scene would be a very, very different place. Without her, Dylan would never have left the coffee bars of Greenwich Village. Mitchell, Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, and countless other female…
Hootie & the Blowfish was a band that came out of South Carolina, making their debut in 1986. The four-member rock band formed in the city of Columbia, featuring Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Mark Bryan, and Jim Sonefeld. They became a sensation and held the course for 20 years, taking a break from their rigorous…
Bruce Springsteen is a singer, songwriter, and musician who was born in New Jersey in 1949. He began his career in the music industry in 1964, and he is known as one of the founders of the heartland rock style of music. This style combines a mainstream rock style with songs that talk about working-class…
Pleasure P’s career as a R&B singer-songwriter started in the late 1990s. He was a founding member of Pretty Ricky. Specifically, he was the one who provided the main vocals while the others rapped. By the late 2000s, Pleasure P was ready to embark on a solo career. That has resulted in three studio albums…
Multi-instrumentalist Todd Rundgren was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1948, where he taught himself how to play the first of many instruments he’d become versed with, the guitar. Already at a young age, Rundgren’s fascination with music, thanks to the record collection belonging to his parents, would serve as the inspiration behind his…