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The Pop Music Portal. Pop music is a type of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after ...
Roxette. Roxette was a Swedish pop rock duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson (vocals and piano) and Per Gessle [1] (vocals and guitar). They are Sweden's second-best-selling music act after ABBA. [2] Before coming together to form the duo, Fredriksson and Gessle were already established artists in Sweden.
Asia's second album Alpha (released in August 1983) and future Asia albums did not achieve the chart success of their debut release; however, Alpha ' s "Don't Cry" was a No. 1 Album Rock Track and Top 10 Pop hit in the summer of 1983, and the video received considerable attention on MTV, while "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes" was another Top 40 ...
Poison is an American glam metal band formed in 1983 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The most successful incarnation of the band consists of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bret Michaels, drummer Rikki Rockett, lead guitarist and backing vocalist C.C. DeVille, and bassist Bobby Dall. The band achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s ...
Feb 11, 2019 · Profile of '80s Superstar and Pop Music Wizard Prince. Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died on April 21, 2016, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The eclectic '80s pop artist known exclusively as Prince during his peak commercial and artistic period released an amazing total of eight studio albums during ...
After parting company with EMI, Gibson formed her own record label, Espiritu, to release her original material. Her sixth album, Deborah (1997), marked her full return to pop. Deborah includes the lead single "Only Words". "Only Words" (Dance Edit) became a Top-40 Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit. The album's other single was the ballad "Naturally".
Cyndi won Best New Artist at the 1985 Grammy Awards. She's So Unusual also received nominations for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), and Song of the Year (for "Time After Time"). She wore almost a pound of necklaces at her award ceremony.
