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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Tony Award Winner and Host of NPR's Syndicated Radio show "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater". She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, Denise was exposed to jazz early on.

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Copperhead

Copperhead is the name given to multiple music bands
1. The first band named “Copperhead” flourished in the 1970s. It was part of the San Francisco psychedelic sound, and it featured John Cipollina
2. A second band named “Copperhead” formed in the 1990s. It is a Southern rock band. Copperhead is known as one of the last great Southern rock bands to emerge from the 90’s. Originally signed to Mercury Records, their first single, "Long Way From Home", was an epic Copperhead song that became the title song for the movie "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.

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The Superjesus

Lead singer and main song-writer Sarah McLeod formed the band in late 1994 with guitarist (and her guitar teacher at the time) Chris Tennent, drummer Paul Berryman and bass player Stuart Rudd. They were originally called Hell's Kitchen before changing their name to The Superjesus on the eve of the 1994 Big Day Out in Adelaide. Says Paul Berryman of the name: "It was basically just a piss-take on commonly used words in the 90's.

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Credit To The Nation

Fronted by MC Fusion, Credit to the Nation were one of the first commercial hip-hop acts producing a distinctively British sound, albeit with a hint of MC Fusion's Jamaican heritage. His lyrics often tackled weighty issues such as sexism, racism, homophobia and British politics, but went against the grain for many followers of in the UK at the time and lead to a great deal of antagonism.

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D:Ream

D:Ream was a Northern Ireland electronic music and rock music band of the 1990s. Its members were Peter Cunnah (vocals) & Al Mackenzie (producer). There were a number of vocalists who changed over time - a popular one was T.J. Davis who is featured on "The Power (Of All The Love In The World)" as well as performing backing vocals on many songs. After supporting Take That, their song Things Can Only Get Better topped the UK charts - it was later adopted by the UK Labour party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election.

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John Watts

John Watts is Fischer-Z's frontman and has also released some material under his own name. Another band he lead was The Cry (John Watts). John Watts is from a family of singers. He progressed through school and college bands inspired equally by the late 60s Trojan catalogue and great maverick artists, from Alex Harvey to Lou Reed, Captain Beefheart to Tom Waits and the ‘Hunky Dory’ David Bowie. Watts moved to the point where punk, art-wave and reggae crossed over.

Read more about John Watts on Last.fm.

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