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Central Line

Named after the underground train line which caters to certain areas of East London, and originally a sextet, the main protagonists were Linton Beckles who supplied vocals and percussion, keyboardist Lipson Francis, Camelle Hinds who played bass guitar and gave the group more vocals, and Henry Defoe who played lead guitar. Eventually, additional musicians helped to fill out the mix, as Peter Hinds appeared on this group and Beggar & Co.

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Elva

name : elva hsiao, (traditional chinese : 蕭亞軒; simplified chinese: 萧亚轩)
real name : 蕭雅之
birthdate : 24th august 1979 (some say 1980)
height : 162cm 
weight : 42kg
interests : dancing, sea sports, volleyball, going to the gym, reading books and magazines on arts and designing
strengths and talents : singing, drawing, dancing (well-verse in jazz, street, ballet, folk), speaks fluent english (having lived in vancouver for a few years), musical instruments (piano and flute)

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Glass Robots

Alluring vocal melodies, huge lush synthesizers and dark disco basslines, wash over industrial percussion. With influences ranging from Bowie to The Smiths, Sigur Ros to Kraftwerk, Glass Robots create a kind of new romantic, dance pop melee from the future. Songs about emotional breakdown, technological paranoia, sex, cinema and obsession, confirm the duos prophetic interpretation of today's deranged society. Their shows are a cavalcade of live electronica, guitars and percussion.

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Kava Kava

Kava Kava have notched up tours of the USA, China and all over Europe including Glastonbury Festival, Sziget Festival, SXSW Festival, Marktrock Festival, Trutnov Festival, Beijing Midi Festival and their music has been featured in a number of films and TV shows including Dirt (3 songs, series 2), Boys & Girls Guide To Getting Down, John From Cincinnati, LA Riding Club and Golden Globe award–winning TV series Weeds and played by tastemaker DJs such as Sat Bisla and Nic Harcourt from KCRW

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CeCe Peniston

CeCe Peniston (born Cecelia Peniston, September 6, 1969 in Dayton, Ohio) is a female American dance music singer who scored an international hit single in 1991 with her signature song “Finally”. Cecelia Peniston moved to Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 9. She attended Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix and later took to entering beauty pageants where she was crowned Miss Black Arizona in 1989. CeCe’s music career began in 1990 when she signed to A&M Records and got her initial exposure doing featured vocals on female rapper Overweight Pooch’s 1991 single “I Like It”.

Read more about CeCe Peniston on Last.fm.

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Flying Pickets

The Flying Pickets is a British a cappella vocal group, that had a surprise number one hit in 1983 in the UK singles chart, with their cover of Yazoo's track Only You. The name 'Flying Pickets' refers to mobile strikers who travel in order to join a picket. The group of six was founded by Brian Hibbard in 1982 by a group of actors , the "7:84 Theatre group", a fringe theatre group who had sung a capella in their production of One Big Blow, based on the 1984 UK miners' strike.

Read more about Flying Pickets on Last.fm.

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Tina Barrett

Tina Barrett (born 16 September 1976) is a London based singer-songwriter, originally trained as a ballerina at the Arts Educational Performing Arts School. Her major breakthrough came in 1999, when she became a member of S Club 7 where she enjoyed four years of hit singles, arena tours and awards, including two Brit Awards. Barrett gained a generation of fans and help sell over 13 million records.

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