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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. He has arguably been the most popular theatre composer of the late 20th century, with multiple showpieces which have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. Throughout his career he has produced 16 musicals, 2 film scores, and a Latin requiem mass. He has also accumulated a number of honors, including seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.

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Pray For Hayden

Leeds band Pray For Hayden have been playing together for a few years now, they have a new line-up and are looking forward to finally getting a release out. They have played hundreds of shows all across the country with some great bands from all over the world. Pray For Hayden have many influences which reflects in their music, they have all played in different bands and different scenes but decided to start a band that was influenced by music they have always loved rather than a passing phase.

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Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an composer and guitarist. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater. He moved to New York in 1976. His first encounter with the NYC music scene was with the N.DoDo Band whom he observed many times at their rehearsal space- Phil Demise's Gegenschein Vaudeville Placenter. This is where he first met jeffrey lohn who was playing electric violin with the N.

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The Average Man

Born in the UK as Alan Smith, he has been recording under the moniker 'The Average Man' for the last 5 years. His influences are far reaching from Eno to Aphex Twin to Four Tet to Philip Glass, and taking in splashes of world music and more than a pinch of the noughties electronica scene.

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Antony Hegarty

Antony Hegarty is an acclaimed mercury prize winning singer, best known for his work with Antony and the Johnsons and Hercules and Love Affair. Born in 1971, Hegarty is of Irish and English Decent. Hegarty has made three albums with Antony and the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now,The Crying Light. As well as these, he has released four Eps, Another World being the most recent of theese.

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Gorgeous

There are 2 Artists sharing this name: 1.) GORGEOUS was a German dance-project from the 90s, consisting of Jan Pieter Blank, René Runge (both from Blank & Jones) & Andreas Kaufhold. Tracks like "Don't Stop" or "I'm Gorgeous" were massive club hits in the 90s. 2.) Super catchy, the up-close-and-personable acoustic pop for which Gorgeous are renown sparkles on Big Fit Heart, as Emma and Fi are joined by their favourite rhythm section: Chris Pickering and James O’Brien (The Boat People).

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Starsailor

A rock quartet heralded on the release of their debut single, "Fever," in February 2001 as "Britain's best new band," Starsailor has continued the rich lineage of its predecessors such as Travis, Stereophonics and many others. Formed in Wigan, UK by music students James Walsh (vocals/guitar), James Stelfox (bass), and Ben Byrne (drums), the band went through several guitar-heavy embryonic lineups before the arrival of Barry Westhead (keyboards) cemented their sound.

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Bec Sandridge

Bec Sandridge is a singer/songwriter based in Stanwell Park in the Northern Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. She originally began her musical career as one half of the group Mad Polly, playing lead guitar, before taking it upon herself to pursue a solo career after the band went on hiatus. Her debut 3-track EP, What Was Left, was released in early 2011. This is set to be followed by the release of Lyons and Bees in 2012.

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Kult

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Kult is a rock band formed in 1982 in Poland by Kazik Staszewski. The band performed its first concert in July 1982 at the Remont Club in Warsaw. Although it was not released until July 1987, the first Kult studio album was recorded in September 1986.
The original members of Kult were Tadeusz Bagan, Dariusz Gierszewski, Kazik Staszewski, Piotr Wieteska. The membership of the band changed over the years.

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