Lily Allen, born 2nd of May 1985 in Hammersmith is an English recording artist, talk show host and actress. From leaving school and creating a myspace for her demos, she signed with label 'Regal records' , created her first studio album and reached number one in the the UK singles chart with her first mainstream single "Smile".
Her second major album release, "It's Not Me, It's You", started a genre shift for Lily. Her music had a more electropop feel to it, rather than the ska and reggae influences of her previous album. The album debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart and the Australian ARIA Charts and was appreciated by the critics, noting the singer's musical evolution and maturity.
Jay Sean is another emerging star from London. He was born on March 26 1981 in Harlesden, Brent. He's a British Singer-songwriter who has recently signed to American Label "Cash Money Records". His American debut single "Down" topped the Billboard hot 10 making him the first solo artist of the South Asian origin to do so.
Jay Sean has confirmed he is working on a new album ( Freeze time), with the release date so far being set on November 2, 2010. He has stated that he has completed roughly 75 percent of the album and the guests so far include Lil Wayne, Pitbull, Nicki Minaj and Mary J. Blige
Bashy is a British hop/hop and grime artist as well as an actor, songwriter and a music supervisor. He was born in Chiswick, London on the 4th February 1985. At the age of 16, Bashy had already joined one of the top grime crews after he had the chance to know Major Ace. Bashy decided to go on solo due to some controversy but this turned out to be a good decision later on.
Working as an assistant music supervisor, Bashy was able to release a track for the film 'Adulthood' which became the theme track entitled to "Kidulthood to Adulthood". He also performed and wrote the theme song to the 2010 film 'Shank', called "When the Sky falls" which features Loick Essein.
Born on the 3rd April 1985 in Islington, London, Leona Lewis is not only a British pop and R&B singer but a songwriter too. She auditioned for the X-Factor one of the most popular TV shows and by winning it, it kick started her music career. She signed a contract worth 1 million with Simon Cowell and became a three-time Grammy award nominee and a multi-platinum selling artist.
In February 2007 Leona signed a £5 million five-album contract with Clive Davis in the US called "Spirit" and "Echo". Her debut single, "A Moment Like This" broke the world record on 20th December 2006 and was crowned the 2006 UK 'Christmas number-one single'. She was proclaimed 'Top New Artist" by 'Billboard magazine' in 2008.
British MC Skepta focuses on grime, hip-hopctro and electro alternative as his preferred genres. He's a rapper-songwriter and producer born in North London on the 19th of September 1982. His music career started through winning an MC battle against Tempa T in the final. He collaborated with brother and group member JME for his hit single,"Private Caller", which he had also produced featuring his Meridian Crew.
Skepta, his partner JME & Wiley began their grime label "Boy Better Know" in late 2005. The phrase was taken by both Skepta and JME and they released "Shut Yuh Mut"-Boy Better Know Edition 1, early year of 2006. Skepta released 'Greatest Hits' on September 2007 which was distributed nationwide.
Alexandra Burke was born on the 25th August in Islington, London. Not only is she a singer (R&B, soul, pop, electro) but also a songwriter, dancer and model. Her singing career started after winning the 5th series of X-factor in 2008. On the 13th February 2009, Alexandra signed a £3.5 million, five-album US record deal contract with 'Epic Records'.
Alexandra's first commerical single for her debut album is called "Bad Boys" ft Flo Rida. The single "Bad Boys" topped the UK Singles Chart on the 18th October 2009. "Bad Boys" was also certified a Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry on the 7th January 2010. Alexandra's single "Start without You" gained her fifth consecutive top ten hit, and her third number one single stormed to the top of the charts and beating Katy Perry for the top spot.
David Bowie was born on the 8th January 1947 at Brixton, London. His was into music of rock, glam rock, art rock and pop. David is a musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. The instruments that he plays with are guitars, saxophone, piano/keyboard, drums etc. He was considered a very talented artist.
Bowie first cught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached top five of the UK singles chart. In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single "Fame". He also had a UK number one in the 1980 with the single "Ashes to Ashes" and its parent album 'Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).'
John Richard Deacon was born 19th August 1951 in Leicestershire, London. He is a musician and songwriter however a retired multi-instrumentalist, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band 'Queen'. Mostly Deacon's compositions varied from pop rock to funk. He has been responsible for some of the Queen's biggest hits such as "You're My Best Friend" , "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I Want to Break Free".
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Jamie Alexander Treays was born January 8th 1986 in Wimbledon, South London. He both a songwriter and singer of post-punk revival, indie rock and Uk garage music. He uses intruments such as bass guitars and electric guitars. His stage name is Jamie T, and he also known as "Artic Monkey". He won best solo artist in 2007 at the Shockwave NME Awards defeating both Jarvis Cocker and Thom Yorke. He won again in February 2010 for the best solo act.
Jamie T's debut album "Panic Prevention" was shortlisted as one of the 12 nominees for the Mercury Prize. His singles "Shelia" and "If You Got The Money" received alot of airplay on XFM throughout 2006. "Shelia" was released on 29th July 2006. Two videos were made for this song; the first video in 2006 consisted of monkeys living in a house and short clips of Jamie Singing, whilst the second video in 2007 features actor Bob Hoskins walking along the River Thames lipsynching to the lyrics. On 16th October 2006, Jamie released his anthemic tune, "If You Got The Money" which reached 13 in the charts.
David Essex is an English musician, singer-songwriter and actor. He was born on July 23rd 1947 in Plaistow, England. He was interested in pop and musical theatre. In his early years he was was interested in playing the drums with a local band before becoming a singer. Since 1970s, David had attained nineteen top 40 singles in the UK (including two number ones), and sixteen top 40 albums.
His biggest hits during the 1970s included two UK number one singles; "Gonna Make You a Star" and "Hold Me Close". According to 'The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles'- he was voted the number one British male vocalist in 1974, and was a teen idol for more than a decade.
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull born on the 29th December 1946 in Hampstead, London is an award winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned for five decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. She was interested in the rock, pop, folk, jazz and blue genre of music and played instruments such as the keyboard.
Her first major release, "As Tears Go By", was penned by Jagger and it had become a chart success. She had then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Come and Stay With Me".
Derek Boland born in Hammersmith, London on the 15th January 1965 was a rapper, songwriter and MC of the Hip Hop genre. He passed away at the age of fourty four on the 15th November 2009. His stage name was Derek B and his most commercially successful release were "Goodgrrove" and "Bad Young Brother" in 1988.
Derek B was the first UK rapper to achieve pop success, appearing on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. Following his chart of success, Derek B released singles and the album, "Bullet From a Gun". He received criticisms for rapping under an assumed American Accent, something which was popular in the early days of British Hip Hop, but was later abandoned.http://www.davidbowie.com/http://www.queenonline.com/
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