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male singer-songwriters

Jont

Over the last ten years Jont, the singer-songwriter and creator of “Unlit” (a unique mixture of a party and a gig that has recently become a global internet phenomenon), has grown from unknown to an artist and cultural catalyst attracting critical acclaim and on the brink of mainstream success. 2008’s “Supernatural” was Dermot O’Leary’s album of the week on Radio Two, and was given 4 stars by UNCUT’s Nigel Williamson who commented on his “achingly lovely melodies” and a voice somewhere between “Jeff Tweedy and Damon Albarn”.

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Mike Doughty

Mike Doughty (born June 10, 1970, in Fort Knox, Kentucky) is an American indie and alternative rock singer-songwriter and author. The former frontman of Soul Coughing barely sounds like his former self. Doughty began writing solo songs in 1995, but nothing materialized until Soul Coughing broke up in 2000, at which point Doughty began touring solo with his acoustic guitar after becoming clean and sober. Skittish was finally released to the masses along with the EP Rockity Roll on the ATO record label.

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B.J. Cole

Brian John Cole (born 17 June 1946, in Enfield, Middlesex, England) is an English pedal steel guitarist. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise, Cole has played in many styles of music, ranging from mainstream pop and rock, to jazz and eclectic experimental music. He played with Marc Bolan / T. Rex on their 1974 album Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow, as well as with Elton John on his albums Tumbleweed Connection and Madman Across The Water, specifically on the songs "Country Comfort" and "Tiny Dancer".

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Kym Mazelle

Kym Mazelle (born Kimberley Grigsby in 1960, in Gary, Indiana, U.S.) is an American soul music singer. She was brought up and lived on the same street as the Jackson family and knew Michael Jackson's mother and uncle. Early in her career, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she enjoyed major success in the European house music scene, and performed as a member of Soul II Soul. However she is probably best known as the singer of the cover version of the song "Young Hearts Run Free", in the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.

Read more about Kym Mazelle on Last.fm.

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Here Lies Affliction

Here Lies Affliction are a 5 Piece metal band hailing from north west London. With their own twist of metal, they have created their own sound and energetic live show to make them stand out in the future uprising uk metal scene. Influences such as All Shall Perish, Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance, Whitechapel, Pantera, Hatebreed, Dying Fetus, Burning Skies, Full Blown Chaos, Shattered Realm, Suffocation, and Knuckledust. Check them out at the myspace www.myspace.com/hereliesaffliction

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Ian Britt

Born in Sheffield, England and moving on after a colourful youth & adolescence, Ian fled his roots to study music in the notoriously musical city of Manchester. He remained here for seven years, achieving a 1st degree honours in Popular Music and Sound Recording, then signing to the independent label Jalapeno Records in London whilst making himself a name locally as an acoustic singer-songwriter.

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jube

jube creates ambient and electronic mixes which are distributed via his website, cloudsinthehead.org He began mixing electronic music in the fall of 1997 on a short lived web radio show titled Nine Times Digital (abbr. 9XD). His listening audience was mostly IRC users. During this period jube experimented with a variety of music formats, software and hardware to create his live sets. Subsequently he settled on the Sonic Foundry Acid sequencer to create drum & bass mixes, such as God's Tremor, and ambient soundscapes, such as disconnect, incorrect.

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