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Nov 20, 2008
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Emerging out of the club scene at the turn of the decade, they were the first mainstream dance act, marrying the excitement of house music to the traditional pop virtues of crafted songs and strong melodies.
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Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (born July 17, 1977)[1] better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British songwriter, record producer, vocalist and visual artist of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her music encompasses various genres she has expressed interest in, with lyrics that voice politics, social realism and humour. Her artwork and clothes feature similar topics and have distinctive, often vibrant color schemes.
An accomplished visual artist by 2002, she came to prominence in early 2004 through file-sharing of her singles "Galang" and "Sunshowers" on the Internet.[2] In 2005, her debut album, Arular, was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her second album, Kala, was released in 2007. Her single "Paper Planes" was particularly commercially successful in 2008.
In addition to her work as a graphic designer, providing artwork and photography for releases and as a director of music videos, she has also experimented with documentary film and in 2008 released a collection of her fashion designs.
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Mad Season was an American rock band that was formed in late 1994 by members of three popular Seattle based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Mad Season only released one album, Above, and is best known for the single "River of Deceit".
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Madness are an English pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976.[2] As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years. They were one of the most prominent bands of the late-1970s 2 Tone ska revival.[3]
Madness achieved most of their success in the 1980s. Both Madness and UB40 spent exactly 214 weeks on the UK singles charts over the course of the decade, holding the record for most weeks spent by a group in the 1980s UK singles charts. However, Madness achieved this in a shorter time period (1980-1986)
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After a star reaches a certain point, it΄s easy to forget what they became famous for and concentrate solely on their persona. Madonna is such a star...
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Latin rockers Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio formed in Mexico City in 1985; comprising vocalist Roco, guitarists El Pato and Sax, bassist Aldo and drummer Pacho ...
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Maná is a popular Mexican pop/rock band from Guadalajara whose career has spanned almost three decades since their beginnings in 1986. They have earned four Grammy Awards, five Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, three Premios Juventud awards, five Billboard Latin Music Awards and 12 Premios Lo Nuestro awards.
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Manu Chao is a musical globalista with a rebel rock΄n΄roll heart. It’s that rock’n’roll he’s been making as early as the 1980s as the leader of Mano Negra. His music is multilingual and broadly multicultural, blending rock, reggae, punk, ska, found sounds, and more. The Paris-born, Barcelona-dwelling artist of Spanish descent finds...
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