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Rick Astley

Richard Paul Astley (born February 6, 1966) is an English dance-pop singer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England. Astley currently resides in Richmond, Surrey with his Danish girlfriend, Lene Bausager, and their daughter, Emilie. In 1985, Astley was playing the club circuit as a singer with a soul band named FBI, when he was seen by the record producer Pete Waterman and persuaded to come to London to work at the PWL recording studio.

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Duke

There are 7 (at LEAST) artists called DUKE :
1) A punk band from Austin, TX (www.myspace.com/duke) 2) A NY duo, Johnny & Nathan, who make catchy electrodance music. They released one cd in 2006 In bed w/Her.
http://www.duke-music.com/
http://www.myspace.com/dukemusic 3) real name Mark Carson Adams is a singer songwriter & multi-instumentalist who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne which is in the North East of England. He may be best known for his 1995 dance hit single "So in love with you".

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Chad Jackson

Chad Jackson started behind the decks before it was even trendy to be a DJ, and today can be credited as one of the people that popularised the art of DJ Mixing and remixing around the world. He was one of the first ever globally known superstar DJs. Back in the late 80s, a flyer with his name on it meant queues outside clubs like Legends in Manchester and the infamous Wigan Pier. Chad was one of the first British DJ to start DJ mixing in the early 80s.

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Heath

Heath is a self-titled solo project from X JAPAN's bassist, Morie Hiroshi , a Japanese artist born January 22, 1968, in Amagasaki, Japan. When Heath was a member of X JAPAN he released two solo albums: "Heath" (1995) and "Meikyu No Lovers" (1996). Аfter the disbanding of X JAPAN he presented the third album "Gang Age Cubist" (1998), and the singles "Crack Yourself", "Treasure Land " and "Traitor".

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Young Empires

Young Empires are Robert Aaron Ellingson, Jake Palahnuk and Matthew Vlahovich out of Toronto, Canada The electronic/world beat trio formed in October 2009. They claim their style is world beat haute rock. Since their formation in October 2009 the band has received international acclaim for their infectious hooks and high-energy sets. Spinner described their emergence as, "almost fully formed with their rock star moves well-honed and their cred firmly cemented.

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DeDe

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With hits like Party, My lover, Get to you and Everybody, DeDe has released four albums, TBA (1995), I do (1997), Metaphor (1999) and Like A Queen 2002, these sold over 500.000 copies. DeDe was the only Swedish artist in Michael Jackson’s opening act in 1997 at Ullevi stadium in Sweden. With more than 500 000 albums sold, she has worked with world-class Pop producers and songwriters such as Anders Bagge (Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion), The famous Cheiron Team: Max Martin, Per Magnusson...

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Love Machine

1) (The) Love Machine was a 70’s female disco/soul group, released a lot of 7″ and Lp’s most of them in Europe. 2) An Ann Arbor, Michigan based (now defunct) dreampop/shoegazer outfit with former member Robbie Linkner. Known to have played numerous shows in the midwest including opening for Low. 3) A Seattle based band, with former member, Andrew Sullivan, from the infamous Seattle University band-- THE POLICE COPS.

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Hot Casandra

Hot Casandra is the stage name of Bucharest-born singer, songwriter and producer Paul Ballo. Paul got into music at an early age, whilst being home trained by his own mother, Bianca Ionescu, an internationally known Romanian operetta singer. He played as a drummer for bands like Go To Berlin, The Amsterdams and Kumm and after touring with the bands above he decided to concentrate on his own sound.

Read more about Hot Casandra on Last.fm.

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