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21 hours ago · Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys.Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition, extraordinary musical aptitude, and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century.
21 hours ago · However, Christian rock began to develop in the late 1960s, particularly out of the Jesus movement beginning in Southern California, and emerged as a subgenre in the 1970s with artists like Larry Norman, usually seen as the first major "star" of Christian rock.
- 1950s and 1960s, US and UK
- Electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
21 hours ago · They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music. In 1974 , ABBA were Sweden 's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Waterloo ", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th ...
- 1972–1982, 2016–present
- Stockholm, Sweden
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21 hours ago · Freed first started playing the music in 1951, and by 1953 the phrase "rock and roll" was becoming used much more widely to market the music beyond its initial black audience. The practitioners of the music were young black artists, appealing to the post-war community's need for excitement, dancing and increasing social freedoms, but the music ...
21 hours ago · History Background Pete Townshend attended Ealing Art College in west London (pictured in 2010), and his experience there contributed to the Who's career. The founding members of The Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and went to Acton County Grammar School. Townshend's father, Cliff, played saxophone and his mother, Betty, had sung in the ...
- London, England
- 1964–1982, 1985, 1988–1991, 1996–1997, 1999–present
21 hours ago · Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), better known by the stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, actress and singer.She has received various accolades, including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two NAACP Image Awards, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
21 hours ago · [citation needed] The criticism of pop-influenced and non-traditional styles in country music, however, dated back to the 1970s although it had quieted down comparably during the 1980s. In the 1990s, alternative country came to refer to a diverse group of musicians and singers operating outside the traditions and industry of mainstream country ...
