Busta Rhymes is a rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George ""Buster"" Rhymes. Early in his career, he was known for his wild style and fashion, and today is best known for his intricate rapping technique, which involves rapping at a fast rate with lots of internal... read full bio
Live is a rock band from York, Pennsylvania, consisting of lead guitarist Chad Taylor, bassist Patrick Dahlheimer, drummer Chad Gracey, and singer Chris Shinn. Live achieved worldwide success with their album Throwing Copper, which has sold eight million copies in the US. The band grew popularity in the mid-1990s with hit singles such as, “Lightning Crashes”, which stayed at the... read full bio
Roger Hodgson has been recognized as one of the most gifted composers, song writers, and lyricists of our time. As the legendary voice of Supertramp and composer of the band’s greatest hits, he gave us ""Give a Little Bit"", ""The Logical Song"", ""Dreamer"", ""Take the Long Way Home"", ""Breakfast In America"", ""It’s Raining Again"", ""School"", ""Fools Overture"", and so many... read full bio
With the release of their Grammy nominated album Backatown, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue won over legions of new fans in five different continents. Backatown reached Billboard’s magazine’s Contemporary Jazz Chart at No. 1 for nine consecutive weeks. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have created a mixture of sounds including funk, hip-hop, and pop. They have tailored this signature sounds... read full bio
Tyrese’s unrelenting drive and talent have gained him accomplishments and honors generally reserved for venerated entertainment icons twice his age. Not content as just another famed Hollywood triple threat, Tyrese reinvented the entire concept, yielding a strong presence in over six separate genres. While the roles of writer, actor and singer are ubiquitous to Tyrese, his well-earned position as a... read full bio
Andy Grammar is best known for his chart-topping tracks “Keep Your Head Up,” “Fine By Me,” and the multi-platinum certified “Honey, I’m Good.” He began to log his 10,000 hours of practice on the streets of Los Angeles. With his car battery-powered amplifier and acoustic guitar in tow, Grammer managed to sing his way from the streets to the center... read full bio
98 degrees is an American Band formed in Orlando, Florida. Pegged as one of the original boy bands of the late 1990s known for their authentic vocal harmonizing, Grammy-nominated 98 Degrees were never just an ordinary pop group. Unlike most boy bands of the time, the group formed independently before later being signed to Motown Records, who released the... read full bio
Russell Peters is a Canadian actor, producer, writer, and stand-up comedian who became the first comedian to ever get a Netflix stand-up special. As a comedian he has been on series such as, “Comedy Now!”, “Just for Laughs”, “Comedy at Club 54”, “Def Comedy Jam”, “Comics Without Borders”, “Russell Peters Presents”, and television specials “Red, White and Brown”, “Outsourced”, “The... read full bio
"Band of Horses, an Indie band that was at first named simply Horses, started in Seattle, Washington. This South Carolina-based indie-rock band's swirling, dream pop-like musical backing, ragged Neil Young influences and tenor vocals initially drew comparisons to fellow Southern-based indie rockers My Morning Jacket. Multi-instrumentalists Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke formed the group after their slow-core band Carissa's Wierd... read full bio
The Hives, a Swedish rock band formed in 1993, captured the hearts of many in the early 2000s with their unique blend of garage rock and punk. The band's breakthrough came with the publication of their second album, Veni Vidi Vicious, in 2000. It spawned the hit single "Hate to Say I Told You So" and catapulted the band into... read full bio
Singer Jessie J was born and reared in London, where she made her stage debut at age 11 in the West End production of Whistle Down the Wind. Before signing with Gut Records and negotiating a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, she attended the BRIT School. Jessie J gained notoriety after the release of her first single, "Do It... read full bio
Velvet Revolver began with a spring 2002 jam session that reunited ex-Guns N' Roses bandmates Slash (guitar), Duff McKagan (bass), and Matt Sorum (drums) on-stage. Dave Kushner (Wasted Youth, Dave Navarro) joined up as second guitarist. Troubled STP-er Scott Weiland came on board next. He and the band clicked immediately and recorded a hyper piece of glitter metal for the... read full bio
Melanie Janine Brown is an English pop singer and songwriter turned actress and television personality best known as one of the members of the girl group the Spice Girls, the most successful female group of all time. She was given the nickname ""Scary Spice"" by the British media because of her outrageous, ""in-your-face"" attitude, 'loud' Leeds accent, throaty laugh and... read full bio
Scott Bradlee is an American pianist/musician/composer/arranger known for his viral YouTube videos. He fell in love with jazz music when he was only 12 after hearing ""Rhapsody in Blue"" by George Gershwin for the first time. He started to really gain popularity when he got together with many local musicians to release A Motown Tribute to Nickleback, a compilation of... read full bio
Ratt formed in Los Angeles. RATT helped pioneer Hollywood’s legendary Sunset Strip sound and scene. Since their inception the band has sold in excess of (15) million records in the US alone. Ratt went 3x Platinum in 1984 behind the hit single ""Round & Round"". This year 2013 Rhino/Warner Music Group recently released RATT ""Original Album Series, a (5) album... read full bio
Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artist to have a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United States (Business as Usual and ""Down Under"" respectively). They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United Kingdom. The group... read full bio
Old Crow Medicine Show is a Grammy-winning folk/country group from Nashville, Tennessee. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs. The style of music they perform is sometimes called alt-country, but today more often referred to as Americana. Their self-titled album was selected by CMT as one of the top-10 bluegrass albums of... read full bio
Liza Minnelli's hit work includes Liza (With a Z), Theme from New York, New York, Cabaret, Walking Papers, Quiet Thing, Old Friends, Maybe This Time, Little Do They Know, I (Who Have Nothing), and God Bless the Child. She won a Tony Award for her performance in Flora, the Red Menace, becoming the youngest-ever actress to win a Tony for... read full bio
Singer, songwriter and musician, Jennifer Nettles performed with Soul Miner's Daughter and The Jennifer Nettles Band, before forming Sugarland. As the lead singer of Sugarland, Nettles has become of the most popular singer-songwriters in country music today. Nettles' musicality shows strong influences and inspirations from of rock, blues, folk, and soul, and those influences beautifully reflected in her incredible body... read full bio
""Pop Princess"" Nicole Scherzinger rose to worldwide stardom as the powerhouse lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. After an incredibly successful career with the PCD, selling 54 million albums with the group and earning a Grammy nomination for ""Stickwitu"", Nicole set off on her solo endeavors, becoming one of the... read full bio
