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Parthenope Wald-Harding
Parthenope Ann Wald-Harding () (born 2002), usually credited as Parthenope is a musician from Swillington, England. She is best known for her cover of Norah Jones's "Don't Know Why", and is a member of Loud LDN. Early life Parthenope Ann Wald-Harding () was born in 2002 in Swillington and attended Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where she studied jazz saxophone, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her mother, Hayley, worked in a music centre. Wald-Harding was initially a violinist, which she played from the age of eleven after being gifted an 1804 Joseph Strauss by a violin teacher, but switched to alto saxophone after hearing her sister, Milly, play with a jazz ensemble, and after her mother received a shipment of instruments to sell, including an alto saxophone which she found she could not shift. In January 2020, she left her violin on a rack above her seat on a Manchester Victoria train; after her mother's Twitter appeal to find it went viral, she found it at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swillington
Swillington is a village and civil parish near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. It is situated east from Leeds city centre, north of the River Aire, and is surrounded by streams including Fleakingley Beck. In 2001, Swillington had a population of about 3,530, reducing to 3,381 at the 2011 Census. The village forms part of the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and was a coal mining village until the closure of Primrose Hill pit. A housing estate now sits on the site of the colliery. The village is close to St Aidan's nature reserve, and the Leeds Country Way which passes through the village. The population of Swillington decreased to 3,088 in 2011. Etymology The name Swillington is first attested in the ''Domesday Survey'' in the forms "Suillictun", "Suilligtune" and "Suillintun". Its etymology is uncertain, but probably derives from Old English ''swīn'' "pig" + either ''lēah'' "open ground" or ''hyll'' "hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Victoria
Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester Cathedral, it adjoins Manchester Arena which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s. Opened in 1844 and part of the Manchester station group, Victoria is Manchester's third busiest railway station after Piccadilly and Oxford Road and the second busiest station managed by Northern after Oxford Road. The station hosts local and regional services to destinations in Northern England, such as , , Bradford, , , , Halifax, Wigan, , Blackpool (Sundays only) and Liverpool using the original Liverpool to Manchester line. Most trains calling at Victoria are operated by Northern. TransPennine Express services call at the station from Liverpool to Newcastle/Scarborough and services towards Manchester Airport (via the Ordsall Chord) from Middlesbrough/Redcar/Newcastle. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2004, and was inducted into the ''DownBeat'' Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007. Biography Early life and career Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia and raised in Cheltenham Township, a local suburb. He was raised in a Jewish—and artistic—family: his father, Bob (Bobby), was a lawyer who played jazz piano and his mother, Sylvia, was a portrait artist. Michael Brecker was exposed to jazz at an early age by his father. He grew up as part of the generation of jazz musicians who saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option. Brecker began studying clarinet at age 6, then moved to alto saxophone in eighth grade, settling on the tenor saxophone as his primary instrument in his sophomore year. He graduated from Chelte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hak Baker
Hak Baker (born 1991) is a British singer and rapper from London. Early life Hak Baker was born in Luton to a Grenadian father and Jamaican mother, the fifth of nine kids. Since the age of one he has lived on the Isle of Dogs. As a child, he was a choirboy at Southwark Cathedral. Aged 14, he joined the grime group Bomb Squad. He dropped out of school aged 15. In his mid 20s he spent two years in jail for robbery. History Baker performed musical collaborations with the Streets. In 2022, he performed at Glastonbury festival. Worlds End FM In 2023 Baker recorded his first album, Worlds End FM. NME featured the album in their lineup of the "10 best debut albums released in 2023," praising it for introducing Baker as a "21st Century troubadour speaking to modern problems with empathy and requisite anger”. Style Baker's musical style is influenced by grime music, reggae and punk rock. In addition to his singing and rapping talents, he is a skilled guitarist. Discography Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zak Abel
Zak David Zilesnick (born 1 March 1995 in London), better known as Zak Abel, is an English-Moroccan singer, songwriter and musician. He has also been an English Cadet national table tennis champion. Early and personal life His father, who had been born in Morocco and emigrated to Israel, died when Zilesnick was 12 years old. Zilesnick is Jewish. He grew up in Hendon with his mother Rachel, and attended the Jewish state school Matilda Marks, and University College School, from which he graduated in 2013. He has moved to Hackney. Zilesnick is a vegan. Musician Zilesnick won a competition to sing at a ''Yom Haatzmaut'' celebration in Wembley Stadium when he was in primary school. He is most notable for his featured appearance on the UK top 20 hit " Unmissable" with Gorgon City. He has also released two extended plays, entitled ''Joker presents Zak Abel'' and ''One Hand on the Future''. In 2016, he worked with producers such as Kaytranada and Wookie on his debut album, ''Onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Froge
''Froge.mp3'' () is the debut mixtape by Piri & Tommy. It charted at No. 13 on the UK Dance Albums Chart. Released on 21 October 2022 and on vinyl on 22 April 2023 on Polydor Records, the album contains previous singles " Soft Spot", " Beachin", " Words", and " On & On" and eight further tracks about the pair, and was released to overwhelmingly positive critical reception. The album was promoted by a nine-date tour, Froge.tour, and a twelve-episode YouTube Shorts series, ''Froge.tv''. Critical reception was broadly positive, with ''Gigwise'' describing the album as the 45th best album of 2022, and ''NME'' rating it amongst the twenty best mixtapes and EPs of 2022. Background Piri met Tommy Villiers, a member of Porij and See Thru Hands, in 2020, after matching on Tinder, finding his band on Twitter, finding his Instagram account, and asking him if she could "shoot ershot", in that order. At the time, Piri was in a phase of drawing frogs and toads, and they started calling ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotify
Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active users, including 195 million paying subscribers, as of September 2022. Spotify is listed (through a Luxembourg City-domiciled holding company, Spotify Technology S.A.) on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Spotify offers digital copyright restricted recorded music and podcasts, including more than 82 million songs, from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. Spotify is available in most of Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds Conservatoire
Leeds Conservatoire (formerly known as The Leeds Music Centre, the City of Leeds College of Music, and Leeds College of Music) is a higher education music conservatoire based in the Quarry Hill district of Leeds, England. It was founded in 1965 by Joseph Stones. Aside from its education provision, which also includes short courses and programmes for adults and school-age musicians, Leeds Conservatoire hosts a seasonal programme of concerts, largely in its 350-seat auditorium 'The Venue'. In 2011, Leeds Conservatoire was awarded All-Steinway School status, becoming the only conservatoire in England to have 90% of its pianos from the Steinway family. Leeds Conservatoire became a wholly owned subsidiary of Leeds City College in August 2011, and is now a member of the Luminate Education Group. In 2018, the conservatoire regained its status as a Higher Education Institution. Organisation Affiliations Leeds Conservatoire is partnered with Berklee College of Music as part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidal (service)
Tidal (stylized in all caps) is a Norwegian-American subscription-based music, podcast and video streaming service that offers audio and music videos. Tidal was launched in 2014 by Swedish public company Aspiro which is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company. With distribution agreements with all three major record labels and many independent labels, Tidal claims to provide access to more than 80 million tracks and 350,000 music videos. It offers two levels of service: Tidal HiFi (up to CD quality – FLAC-based 16-bit/44.1 kHz) and Tidal HiFi Plus (up to MQA – 24-bit/96 kHz). Tidal claims to pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market. In March 2015, Aspiro was acquired by Project Panther Bidco Ltd., which relaunched the service with a mass-marketing campaign, promoting it as the first artist-owned streaming service. In January 2017, Sprint Corporation bought 33% of Tidal fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not Your Muse
''Not Your Muse'' is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Celeste, released on 29 January 2021 via Both Sides and Polydor Records. It includes the singles " Strange", " Stop This Flame", " A Little Love" and " Love Is Back". ''Not Your Muse'' was primarily written by Celeste alongside Jamie Hartman. With it, Celeste became the first British female artist in five years to have a number one debut album on the UK Albums Chart. Background and recording Most of the songs on ''Not Your Muse'' were written by Celeste and Jamie Hartman, the latter of whom also primarily produced the record. Celeste revealed to ''DIY'' that the tracks on ''Not Your Muse'' were written and recorded without the intention of commercial success but rather with creating "what hewanted it to be." Alongside the announcement of the album on social media, Celeste wrote: In January 2020, Celeste told ''NME'' that she would like the album to be one that people will "enjoy and listen to for a whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste (singer)
Celeste Epiphany Waite (born 5 May 1994) is an American-British singer and songwriter. In 2019, she became the sixth artist to top the BBC's annual Sound of... poll and win the Rising Star Award at the Brit Awards in the same year. Her debut album ''Not Your Muse'' was released in 2021 and debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best Female Solo Artist and Best New Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards, as well as the 2021 Mercury Prize. In the same year, Celeste was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Hear My Voice" from the film ''The Trial of the Chicago 7'' (2020). Celeste began her career in 2014 providing vocals for electronic producers such as Avicii, Tieks and Real Lies, while also self-publishing content onto SoundCloud on the side. She made her solo debut via Lily Allen's vanity label Bank Holiday Records with the EP ''The Milk & the Honey'' (2017). After signing with Polydor Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monterey Jazz Festival
The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It debuted on October 3, 1958, championed by Dave Brubeck and co-founded by jazz and popular music critic Ralph J. Gleason and jazz disc jockey Jimmy Lyons. History The festival is held annually on the , oak-studded Monterey County Fairgrounds, located at 2004 Fairground Road in Monterey, on the third full weekend in September, beginning on Friday. Five hundred top jazz artists perform on nine stages spread throughout the grounds, with 50 concert performances. In addition, the Monterey Jazz Festival features jazz conversations, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, clinics, and an international array of food, shopping, and festivities spread throughout From 1992 to 2010, Tim Jackson was general manager and artistic director, and in 2010, Chris Doss became the managing director, and Jackson became the artistic director. In 2014, Colleen Bailey became the managi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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