• Nadia Reid

    Preservation Nadia Reid

    Nadia Reid

    Nadia Reid (born Nadia Reid-O’Reilly on 23 August 1991) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter based in Auckland. Her albums, "Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs", and "Preservation", have received wide acclaim at home in New Zealand and internationally. Reid performs live with a regular band of musicians consisting of Sam Taylor (guitar), Richie Pickard (bass), and Joe McCallum (drums). Reid’s first single from her album ‘’Preservation’’ Read more on Last.fm

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  • Gaz Coombes

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    Gaz Coombes

    Gareth "Gaz" Coombes (b. 8 March 1976 in Oxford, England) is a singer/songwriter and the former lead singer and guitarist for the alternative rock band Supergrass. His debut solo album, "Here Come The Bombs", was issued on 21 May 2012. He is also currently a member of the band The Hotrats. "Here Comes the Bombs" was produced by Sam Williams, who previously produced Supergrass' debut album "I Should Coco" in 1995. The first single, "Sub Divider" was issued as a free download from Coombes' website and the second Read more on Last.fm

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  • Tony Allen

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    Tony Allen

    Tony Allen (born Tony Oladipo Allen in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 August 1940; died 30 April 2020 in Paris) was a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and worked in Paris, France. Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's band Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat music. Of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Allen taught himself to play drums by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Kokoroko

    Closer To Me Kokoroko

    Kokoroko

    KOKOROKO are a young, London based Afrobeat 8-Piece band led by trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey, playing a fusion of Jazz and Afrobeat. Members: Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi, Richie Seivwright, Yohan Kebede, Duane Atherley, Tobi Adenaike, Onome Edgeworth, Ayo Salawu. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Gloria Ann Taylor

    what's your world Gloria Ann Taylor

    Gloria Ann Taylor

    Gloria Ann Taylor began as Gloria Taylor, singing Northern Soul sides with an uncanny touch of Dolly Parton. As Disco approached however, Taylor and her husband Walter Whisenhunt changed tack somewhat, eventually creating 'Deep Inside of You', one of the most expensive private press 12 inches you could hope to find. It's much sought after to this day, and with good reason; it's a stunningly skewed interpretation of disco music, earthy and spaced out simultaneously. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Anaiis

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    Anaiis

    Anaiis (formerly known as Anaïs) is a London-based singer-songwriter who released her debut EP 'before zero' in 2018. Born in Toulouse, France to a Senegalese father and Franco-Italian mother, Anaiis played violin and sang in a classical choir. At the age of ten, she moved to Dublin, learned English and started to experiment as a songwriter. Later relocating to California, where her first exposure to gospel and R&B led to a love of soul music, and to New York, where she graduated from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Nick Hakim

    Vertigo Nick Hakim

    Nick Hakim

    Born to Chilean and Peruvian parents and based in Brooklyn -- though Washington, D.C. is his hometown -- Nick Hakim arrived in 2014 as a purposefully raw and refined balladeer with an old soul. Prior to his breakout year, he appeared on Gizmo's Red Balloon album beside the likes of Gwen Bunn and Casey Benjamin, but 2014 was when he released a pair of warmly received EPs. The predominantly acoustic Where Will We Go, Pt. 1 (July) and Where Will We Go, Pt. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Grouper

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    Grouper

    Grouper is the solo project of American musician, artist and producer Liz Harris (born July 15, 1980). She has released material on her own label and other independent labels since 2005. Grouper released the critically acclaimed Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill in 2008, followed by six more records, including a two-part album, A I A, and the piano-led album Ruins. Her twelfth album, Shade, was released in 2021. Harris was born July 15, 1980, in Northern California and grew up around the San Francisco Bay area. Read more on Last.fm

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  • James Blake

    I Had A Dream She Took My Hand James Blake

    James Blake

    James Blake Litherland (born 26 September 1988) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is known for his emotive vocal style, often employing a light head voice and falsetto. He first gained wider attention in 2010 with the extended plays "The Bells Sketch", "CMYK" and "Klavierwerke". He subsequently signed with A&M Records and released his self-titled debut album "James Blake" in 2011, which received critical acclaim and reached the top ten of the UK Albums Chart. Read more on Last.fm

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