Jo O'Meara - Missing You

 Jo Valda O'Meara (nacida el 29 de abril de 1979, en Romford, Reino Unido), es una cantante y actriz británica, más conocida por ser la líder y vocalista del grupo S Club 7.  Jo O'Meara siempre se interesó en el canto, aunque ella siempre quiso ser veterinaria, cantaba en karaokes por varios clubs y bares de su país, en su adolescencia formó su primera agrupación con unas amigas, llamada "Solid Harmonie", no tuvieron mucho éxito y Jo dejó el grupo para dedicarse a sus estudios. Un par de años después se metió en otra agrupación llamada "2-4 Family" con este grupo consiguieron un éxito en Alemania con la canción "Stay" que entró en el Top 40 Alemán, Jo dejó el grupo por alguna razón y en 1999 fue llamada para audicionar para los cástines de S Club 7 y fue elegida, en este punto comenzó su salto a la fama.Jo entra a S Club 7, a los 19 años, se caracterizó por tener la mejor y más potente voz de la banda. La gran mayoría de las canciones de S Club 7 tienen a Jo como voz principal.La banda se separa en el año 2003, y Jo se mantiene dos años sin dedicarse a la música. Pero en 2005, regresa con su álbum Relentless, sacando como sencillo What Hurts the Most. Participó en Just The Two of Us junto al actor Chris Fountain y más tarde ingresó en CBB Celebrity Big Brother.

Altered Five - Brass in Pocket

 Altered Five Blues Band (originally known as Altered Five) is an American five-piece blues band. Formed in 2002 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, they have released six albums since 2008. Their 2021 release, Holler If You Hear Me, reached number three on the US Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart. The current line-up consists of frontman Jeff Taylor, guitarist Jeff Schroedl, bass player Mark Solveson, drummer Alan Arber, plus the returning keyboardist Steve Huebler.

The group was formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, in 2002 and originally billed as simply 'Altered Five'. Bluesified, their debut album composed entirely of cover versions, was released by Cold Wind Records in June 2008. Cold Wind were based in Minneapolis, but the record label's head died and Altered Five were forced to move to another local distributor. This led to the release of Gotta Earn It on Conclave Records (2012). Their fortunes changed for the better with their next recording, Cryin' Mercy (2014). It was produced by Tom Hambridge and was the group's first release on OmniVibe Records. The record was deemed to be the 'Best Self-Released CD' at the 2015 International Blues Challenge. As the band was effectively between percussionists at the time, Hambridge played drums on all tracks on the album, although Jeff Schroedl's brother Scott played drums on their YouTube videos, produced alongside the album's promotional release. By now the band was well known as the Altered Five Blues Band and the band's members wrote every track on Cryin' Mercy.

The group then signed to Blind Pig Records, who had been recently acquired by the Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music. The Altered Five Blues Band next album, Charmed & Dangerous, was issued via Blind Pig in 2017, and the album track "Cookin' in My Kitchen" won 'Song of the Year' in 2018 at the Independent Music Awards. Guitar World called the album's title track a "menacing, swampy blues". Altered Five Blues Band were nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Best Emerging Artist Album' category in 2018.

Their next album, Ten Thousand Watts, was released on September 6, 2019, on Blind Pig Records and was again produced by Tom Hambridge, being recorded at Ocean Way in Nashville, Tennessee, in four days. Ten Thousand Watts reached number 10 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart. A track from that album, "Great Minds Drink Alike", won first place in the blues category of the International Songwriting Competition. Over the years, the band has performed at festivals and venues including the Grolsch Blues Festival, W.C. Handy Blues Festival, Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, King Biscuit Blues Festival, Baltic Blues Fest, Milwaukee Summerfest, Magic City Blues Fest, Fargo Blues Fest, and at B.B. King's Blues Club, plus Buddy Guy's Legends.

The band's members are not all full-time musicians. For example, vocalist Jeff Taylor's day job is as a principal of a school in Wisconsin. Guitarist Jeff Schroedl is concurrently an executive vice president of the Hal Leonard Corporation. He has also served as a board member of the Music Publishers Association of the United States since 2011 and, in 2010, was recognized as one of the Milwaukee Business Journal's '40 under 40.'

Altered Five Blues Band celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band and released their sixth album, Holler if You Hear Me on September 3, 2021, via Blind Pig. The album was featured in Guitar World. It was again produced by Hambridge and recorded within five days at Ocean Way Nashville. Holler if You Hear Me also featured a guest appearances by the harmonica player Jason Ricci on five tracks. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard Blues Chart and garnered three Blues Music Award nominations, including 'Album of the Year' and 'Song of the Year'. All of the 13 original songs were penned by Schroedl. When commenting on equipment used on the album, Schroedl opined, "I used two Strats on the entire record – my 1966 and a 1962 that was at the studio. The '62 had a lot of mojo, so I played that quite a bit, using different pickup combinations. I mostly plugged directly into the amps and cranked them up to about eight – including my 1968 Super Reverb, tweed Bassman and 1964 Vibroverb." Schroedl in another interview stated, "Several years ago I simply stopped trying to sound like someone else and started to build my own style around […] the quirky things that set me apart, and started to emphasize those things."

India Arie - Georgia on My Mind

 India Arie ( 3 de octubre de 1975) es una cantante de neo soul nacida en Denver que surgió a finales de los años 1990. Experimentada compositora y guitarrista inspirada en el soul de Motown y el blues. Hija de padres de Memphis y Detroit, nació en Denver. Desde pequeña tenía ya un gran contacto con la música. Cuando tenía trece años se trasladó hasta Atlanta, edad a la que ya su madre le había enseñado a tocar la guitarra. Empezó a curtirse en la música urbana de Atlanta, y empezó a participar en el colectivo musical Groovement, y la discográfica independiente EarthShare, donde editó algunas de sus primeras canciones. En 1998 tras un largo tour firmó con Motown. Estuvo aproximadamente dos años trabajando en lo que sería su álbum debut "Acoustic soul" (2001) convirtiéndose en una de las mejores muestras del neo soul. El primer sencillo "Video" tuvo una gran repercusión en la escena musical, al que seguirían otros hits como "Strength, courage & wisdom" y "Brown skin". Sólo un año después India Arie ya había recopilado temas para un nuevo álbum "Voyage to India", editado en septiembre de 2002. Con este álbum ganó dos Grammy, uno al mejor álbum de R&B, y otro a la mejor canción urban por el sencillo "Little things". En 2006 ha editado "Testimony: Vol.1 Life & Relationship" siendo el primer álbum con el que consigue el número uno del hot100 de Billboard. En este mismo año también ha trabajado con Sérgio Mendes en el tema "Timeless". En 2010 colaboró con Marc Cohn en su disco "Listening Booth:1970", interpretando el tema "Make It with You" del grupo soft pop de los 70 Bread.

Anthony David - Something About You

 Anthony David (born December 4, 1971) is an American R&B singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 2006 song "Words", a duet with contemporary R&B singer India.Arie.

Anthony David was born in Savannah, Georgia, but got involved in the music business in Atlanta.There, he met India.Arie, an R&B singer from Atlanta, and have since become friends. David's first song written for Arie was entitled "Part of My Life" for Arie's 7x Grammy nominated album Acoustic Soul. David also toured with Arie in support of her album.

In 2004, he released his first independent album Three Chords & The Truth. Alongside India.Arie, he opened up for her shows with songs from his album, thereby getting more fame. Then eventually in 2006, he released his second independent album The Red Clay Chronicles, of which also garnered attention from opening for India.Arie's shows. After touring with Arie, David teamed up with her once again to co-write and produce "There's Hope" for Arie's third studio album. His third release, 2008's Acey Duecy, is a combination of both R&B and soul music. The album, with the release of its first single "Words", a duet with Arie, has given the album more attention.

Anthony's fourth album, released on February 22, 2011, was entitled As Above So Below and finds him teaming up with a new production partner – Nashville, Tennessee's Shannon Sanders – in addition to such guest vocalists as upcoming Atlanta songstress Algebra; rapper Phonte from Little Brother; plus cousin Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men. The first single from the album, "4Evermore" featuring Algebra and Phonte, became David's first top 20 R&B hit in the US charts where it has peaked at #18. In 2018, he released "Hello Like Before: The Songs of Bill Withers" which pays tribute to the late great Bill Withers. The album was produced by Eddie "Gypsy" Stokes. Anthony's crooning, soulful sound brings to life the work of Bill Withers, again.

 

BaSix - You Can't Hurry Love

Con sede en: Copenhague, Dinamarca. Con un total de 4 premios CARA internacionales, incluidos "Mejor álbum europeo" y "Mejor álbum de vacaciones", el grupo de pop vocal danés Basix ha demostrado estar entre los mejores grupos a capella del mundo. Abarcando pop, jazz, r&b, soul y rock y combinando fuertes composiciones originales con arreglos innovadores de canciones atemporales, estos seis vocalistas daneses continúan asombrando a un número cada vez mayor de oyentes en todo el mundo.

La fuerte interpretación vocal de Basix, que abarca toda la gama de emociones, ha deslumbrado al público en una gran cantidad de salas de conciertos, teatros, clubes, cafés, iglesias y en conferencias y eventos privados. Hasta el momento el grupo ha dado conciertos en Estados Unidos, Dinamarca, Noruega, Alemania, Holanda, Austria, Bélgica, Suiza, Luxemburgo, Eslovaquia y Chipre, y cada año la popularidad del grupo sigue creciendo. Una actuación memorable en la precompetición danesa del Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión, retransmitida en directo por la televisión nacional en la primavera de 2001, puso en marcha la carrera de los seis vocalistas. Desde su honroso segundo lugar en la competencia, Basix ha actuado varias veces en la radio y en la televisión nacional. Por ejemplo, en "The Great Christmas Show" en 2004 y 2005, donde actuaron con artistas internacionales como Gawin DeGraw, Mick Hucknall, Beth Hart y Lucie Silvas, y esto ha resultado en el estatus actual del grupo como uno de los mejores conjuntos de Escandinavia.

En septiembre de 2001, Basix lanzó su álbum debut "The grass". Inmediatamente, el álbum irrumpió en las listas danesas y fue nominado para un premio Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA). Durante siete semanas logró un puesto entre los diez álbumes más vendidos en DK, puesto que, al final, les valió a los miembros de Basix un disco de platino.

Papik & Sarah Jane Morris - Sweet Love

 Papik is the project born from an idea by Rome based producer Nerio Poggi, composer and arranger with nu-jazz, soul, pop backgrounds, who's worked with Mario Biondi on his "Handful of soul" and "I love you more" albums. The Papik project is linked to the typical Nu-Jazz sound and has among its collaborators has the voices of Ely Bruna and Alan Scaffardi. Among the musicians involved we'd like to mention Fabrizio Foggia on piano, Pierpaolo Ranieri on bass, Fabio Tullio on sax and Massimo Guerra on trumpet. The first Papik album, about to be released on IRMA La Douce, is titled "Rhythm of life".

Sarah Jane Morris (born 21 March 1959) is an English singer of pop, jazz, rock and R&B and a songwriter. In 1982, Morris joined The Republic as lead singer. A London-based Afro-Caribbean-Latin band, they received enormous publicity from the music press including cover stories with NME and City Limits and a documentary for Granada TV. But the band was deemed too political for radio play, with the exception of Capital Radio. The Republic were signed to Charlie Gillett's Oval Records Ltd and released an EP entitled Three Songs From The Republic and two singles entitled "One Chance" and "My Spies". Success did not follow and the band split up in 1984. Morris then sang with The Happy End, a 21-piece brass band named after Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill's musical play. Playing a circuit that included Brighton's Zap Club and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Happy End explored protest music from Africa, Ireland and Latin America on a way that emulated Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra.

Morris explored her more theatrical side on Brecht/Eisler's There's Nothing Quite Like Money and Brecht/Weill's Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera. The Happy End released two albums on the Cooking Vinyl label with Morris. Following a successful Edinburgh run in 1986, Morris then decamped to chart success with The Communards. Morris found fame initially with the Communards, who are best known for their hit "Don't Leave Me This Way". Morris featured prominently on many Communards tracks, her low and deep vocal range contrasting with Jimmy Somerville's falsetto. She has also recorded as a solo artist, releasing albums since 1989. These have enjoyed most popularity in Italy and Greece. Morris also contributed to the opera The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) by Peter Hammill and Judge Smith, singing the part of the chorus. She also sang the part of Mère Ubu on the Pere Ubu album Long Live Père Ubu! (2009), which features songs from Bring Me The Head of Pere Ubu, David Thomas's theatrical adaptation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi.

She recorded an album of John Martyn covers with guitarist Tony Rémy in 2019 entitled Sweet Little Mystery and is touring with him playing the songs from the album.

Marcia Hines - I'll Stand by You

 Marcia  Hines,  (born July 20, 1953), is an American-Australian singer and TV personality. Hines made her debut, at the age of 16, in the Australian production of the stage musical Hair^] and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.

She achieved her greatest commercial successes as a recording artist during the late 1970s with several hit singles, including cover versions of "Fire and Rain", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "You" and "Something's Missing (In My Life)"; and her Top Ten albums Marcia Shines, Shining and Ladies and Gentlemen. Hines was voted "Queen of Pop" by TV Week's readers for three consecutive years from 1976.

Hines stopped recording in the early 1980s until she returned with Right Here and Now in 1994, the same year she became an Australian citizen. She was the subject of the 2001 biography Diva: the life of Marcia Hines, which coincided with the release of the compilation album Diva. From 2003 to 2009 she was a judge on Australian Idol, and her elevated profile led to a renewed interest in her as a performer. Her 2006 album, Discotheque, peaked at number 6 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums chart. Hines was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on July 18, 2007.