The Dartmouth Aires - Marvin Gaye Medley

 The Dartmouth Aires is an Ivy League a cappella group from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The group rose to fame in the third season of the NBC musical competition The Sing-Off, placing runner-up behind international a cappella sensation Pentatonix.

Dartmouth College's oldest a cappella singing group, the Aires were originally formed as the Injunaires in 1946 as an offshoot of the college Glee Club. After changing the group name in 1972, the Aires became independent of the Glee Club in the late 1970s.

Although the Aires usually have around eighteen members, group numbers vary on a term-to-term basis. Auditions are held at the beginning of every fall term. Upon joining, each member receives a nickname consisting of two syllables and ending in "o." Members of the Aires pick songs to arrange based on the group's tastes, singing a variety of styles as a result. According to their website, the group's repertoire features "a wide mix of contemporary favorites, traditional Ivy League tunes, sketch comedy, and the occasional piece of opera."

Most of the group's arrangements consist of a soloist, background singers, and a vocal percussionist. The Aires perform at numerous events each term at Dartmouth and locally in the Upper Valley. They frequently take weekend road-trips, singing and reveling at other colleges, performing for schools and private events, and entertaining at Dartmouth alumni clubs. Every winter break, the Aires tour the Eastern Seaboard, while traveling further afield every spring. Recent spring tours have taken them to Aruba, Costa Rica, Paris, Italy, Colorado, a few of the Hawaiian Islands, Florida, California, and Hong Kong.

Recent Aires accolades include winning the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA) for Best All-Male Collegiate Album for both their 2003 ("Black Tie Affaire") and 2005 ("Impaired") album releases, as well as selection for Varsity Vocals' Best Of Collegiate A Cappella compilation albums in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2021 and selection for the Voices Only compilation CD in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2011. Their most recent album, On Aire, was released in December 2017.

In 2011, they competed in season 3 of The Sing Off, a national reality show. The group performing on the show included 16 Aires from the classes of 2010 through 2014. Out of 16 original contestants, they finished as first runner-up behind Pentatonix, whose rise to stardom was catalyzed by the show.

Mariah Carey - Out Here on My Own

 Mariah Carey  Huntington, Nueva York; 27 de marzo de 1969 ​es una cantante, compositora, productora musical y actriz estadounidense. Conocida como el «Ave Cantora Suprema» por el Libro Guinness de los récords,​ es reconocida por su registro vocal de cinco octavas, su poder, su estilo melismático y por el uso del registro de silbido.

Bajo la dirección del productor ejecutivo del sello Columbia Records, Tommy Mottola, Carey lanzó su álbum debut homónimo, Mariah Carey (1990). De este se desprendieron cuatro sencillos que llegaron al primer puesto en la lista Billboard Hot 100. Después de su matrimonio con Mottola y el éxito de sus álbumes posteriores, Music Box (1993) y Merry Christmas (1994), Carey se estableció como la artista con mayores ventas de Columbia. Daydream (1995) hizo historia cuando el segundo sencillo, «One Sweet Day», una colaboración con Boyz II Men, pasó un récord de dieciséis semanas en el número uno del Hot 100, siendo la primera canción con más semanas acumuladas en la cima de la lista. Durante la grabación del álbum, Carey comenzó a desviarse de sus inicios de R&B y pop y atravesó lentamente el hip hop. Este cambio musical se hizo más evidente en Butterfly (1997), momento en que la cantante se había separado de Mottola.

En 2000 Carey dejó Columbia y firmó un contrato de 100 millones de dólares con Virgin Records. Antes del lanzamiento de su primer largometraje Glitter (2001), la artista sufrió un colapso físico y emocional y fue hospitalizada por agotamiento severo. Tras la mala recepción de la película, compró su contrato por 50 millones USD, lo que condujo a un descenso en su carrera. Firmó un multimillonario contrato con Island Records en 2002 y después de un período sin éxito, volvió a la cima de las listas con The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). El segundo sencillo del material, «We Belong Together», se convirtió en su sencillo más exitoso de la década, por lo que la revista Billboard lo nombró la «Canción de la Década». Carey incursionó nuevamente en la industria del cine con un papel protagonista bien recibido en Precious (2009); fue galardonada con el premio a la interpretación más importante en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Palm Springs, y las nominaciones a los Black Reel Awards y los NAACP Image Award.

Carey ha vendido 220 millones de producciones musicales en el mundo, por lo que se convierte en una de los artistas con mayores ventas de todos los tiempos.​ En 1998, fue premiada como la artista con mayores ventas del mundo de la década de 1990 en los World Music Awards y fue nombrada la artista femenina con mayores ventas del milenio en 2000. Según la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), es la artista femenina más exitosa en Estados Unidos en cuanto a álbumes se refiere, con 74 millones de álbumes certificados,​ y posee el récord de la mayor cantidad de sencillos número en la historia de la lista Billboard Hot 100 para un solista (19), una compositora (18) y una productora (14).​ En 2012, se ubicó en el segundo puesto de la lista de VH1 de las «100 mujeres más grandes en la música», solo detrás de Madonna.​ Aparte de sus logros comerciales, Carey ha ganado cinco premios Grammy, 21 World Music Awards, 11 American Music Awards y 15 Billboard Music Awards. Ha sido citada en numerosas ocasiones por inspirar e influir a una generación de cantantes.

Susanne Vargas - With or Without You

  Susanne Vargas …is a musician for almost 35 years now. She startet in a school-band singing coversongs and hit the studio first in 1984. There she got intrigued with the smell of creativity and decided to become a music producer. Which she did. Since then she produced many unknown but promising artists with somewhat local success.

In the last couple of years she noticed a growing urge to not only be working in the background but stepping out in the spotlight again. After some excursions into different genres, like gothic, french chanson and even country music, she remembered her roots in the 80s and startet the current project “tributes”. Having a thing for electronic music, she wanted to bring a fresh flavour to the iconic music of the neon-times and chose her favorite songs for the album.

Small Brown Bike & Casket Lottery - Under Pressure

 Small Brown Bike is a band from Marshall, Michigan, United States that started in 1996. The trademark of Small Brown Bike is their "double vocals" backed by melodies.Their sound is often identified as being similar to other post-hardcore bands, such as Avail, Hot Water Music and Dillinger Four. Throughout their existence, Small Brown Bike have toured three times with Dead Season between 1999 and 2000 and once with Thoughts of Ionesco in 1999.^[2] Their last show was in 2004 at The Fireside Bowl in Chicago, after already agreeing to split up. Former members Mike Reed and Dan Jaquint later created the band LaSalle, with Reed's wife playing bass guitar. Ben Reed also started the Great Sea Serpents based out of Chicago, IL. Mike and Ben have also formed the band Able Baker Fox with former drummer Jeff Gensterblum and Nathan Ellis from the Casket Lottery. Their first album "Voices" was released in January 2008.

The Casket Lottery is an American indie rock band from Kansas City, Missouri signed to Second Nature Recordings and Big Scary Monsters. The band started in 1997 after Nathan Ellis spent time on the road with Coalesce. He and Stacy Hilt struck up an instant friendship and love for music beyond the hardcore and metal roots of Coalesce. After leaving Coalesce in the fall of 1997, Ellis assumed bass duties, filling the hole left by Stacy's departure. A chance meeting at a local benefit show reunited Nathan and Stacy once again, at which time he presented Stacy with the basement tracks that would end up on the Diver cassette and Dot, Dot. They found a perfect complement to their musical background in a then 15-year-old drumming phenom Nathan (Jr.) Richardson. The band has toured across the United States numerous times (with Reflector, Small Brown Bike, Rocky Votolato, Proudentall, and Limbeck among others), and has released a healthy number of records.

In mid-2006, the band went on hiatus. Singer Nathan Ellis works on a record and plays shows with his new bands Jackie Carol and Able Baker Fox, and drummer Nathan "Junior" Richardson joined Appleseed Cast, completing several tours as well as recording on their album "Peregrine." He has subsequently quit The Appleseed Cast. Both Nathans are members of the reformed Coalesce.

In 2010 the band re-united as special guest at Coalesce show in their hometown. They also reformed in early 2011 to play shows with recently re-united friends in Small Brown Bike. In late August 2011 they announced via their Facebook page that they were to enter the studio with Ed Rose to record a new album.

On August 30, 2011, The Casket Lottery announced that they were recording new material with Ed Rose at Black Lodge, which was followed by an announcement on January 9, 2012, that the new material will be released via No Sleep Records in the Spring and Summer of 2012.

In 2017 Run for Cover Records approached the band about re-releasing their first three LP's on vinyl. Nathan Ellis and Stacy Hilt were instantly interested, but Nathan Richardson was busy pursuing a career in the medical field. Ellis and Hilt with Richardson's blessing approached longtime friend Jason Trabue (Hopesfall) to fill the seat left by Richardson's departure. The band practiced throughout 2017 to prepare for their first US tours since 2004.

In January 2020 the band started recording their 5th full length album at B-24 Studios in Kansas City, MO with Producer Ed Rose and Engineer Josh Barber. The album is scheduled to be released in late summer / early fall of 2020.

Macy Gray - Walk This Way

 Natalie Renee McIntyre, conocida artísticamente como Macy Gray (Canton, Ohio, 6 de septiembre de 1967), es una cantante de R&B y neo soul y actriz estadounidense

Comenzó su carrera profesional en Los Ángeles en 1999,​ año en el que lanzó bajo el sello Atlantic su disco de debut, On How Life Is. Tuvo éxitos como "I've Committed Murder" y "Why Didn't You Call Me?", pero fue sin duda "I Try" la canción que la catapultó al éxito, siendo hoy en día uno de los clásicos imperdurables de la pasada década.

En el año 2001 gana el Grammy como "mejor intérprete pop femenino" por la canción 'I Try'. También estuvo nominada a "canción del año" y "álbum del año". Es en este mismo año cuando sale a la venta su segundo álbum de estudio The ID, presentado por el sencillo 'Sexual Revolution' y que contiene un dueto con Erykah Badu titulado 'Sweet Baby', que también fue sencillo. Es en este período cuando Macy Gray se convierte en intérprete de la canción principal de la serie de dibujos Ginger.

En 2002 debutó como actriz con las películas Training Day y Spider-Man.

Macy Gray trabajó con Carlos Santana en su álbum Shaman, antes de sacar The Trouble with Being Myself en el 2003, del que salieron sencillos como 'When I See You' o 'She Ain't Right For You', dos de sus más recientes clásicos.

Tras un parón de 4 años, Macy Gray lanzó nuevo disco en 2007, llamado Big, lanzado con la discográfica de will.I.am, en él hay colaboraciones del mismo will.I.am, Fergie e incluso Natalie Cole, que interpreta con Macy el primer sencillo, 'Finally Made Me Happy'.​

En 2007 Macy Gray se inventa al personaje Nemesis Jaxson, un alias, bajo el que graba temas de soul-funk o soul electrónico como 'Slap A Bitch' o 'Money'.​ Sacó un EP llamado Slap A Bitch que fue lanzado en iTunes pero jamás físicamente. Fue un proyecto de corta duración y con nula promoción.

El 22 de junio de 2010 se lanzó su nuevo trabajo discográfico, The Sellout (La traición). El sencillo de presentación fue Beauty In The World.

En 2016 Macy Gray junto a la estrella pop Ariana Grande lanzaron la canción "Leave Me Lonely", colaboración que forma parte del tercer álbum de estudio de Ariana Dangerous Woman.

Macy Gray está considerada actualmente como una de las voces más importantes del neo-soul, al lado de divas como Erykah Badu, Angie Stone o Lauryn Hill. Incluso ha sido comparada con Billie Holiday o Betty Davis. Lo cierto es que Macy Gray ha logrado convertirse en una gran estrella gracias a su único estilo de canto y a una imagen realmente peculiar que ha sido objeto de imitaciones, especialmente por su peinado y su forma de vestir.

Outer Park - Sunshine of Your Love

Outer Park is back with its 3rd album, "Blood from an Orange," another mashed-up, mixed-up and modernized journey through the diverse styles & sounds that distinguished the dawn of underground radio. Vocalist Chelsea Austin brings a contemporary perspective to the collaboration that guitarist Patrick S. Noonan, bassist James Singleton, and keyboardist Charles Tobermann began over 50 years ago.

In 2013 the founding trio played a gig together, their first meeting in 40 years. The seeds of Outer Park were sown as they considered the question: "What would the music of our shared past sound like now, through the lens of the decades of music we have each played since, and the decades of life we have experienced?" The year 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of their first public gig together as pre-teens. The stars - and schedules - lined up, and after recruiting vocalist Chelsea Austin, "Outer Park" was born. From a recording studio in New Orleans came the 2019 release "1968 (slight return)." In 2021, they released a new 10 song set, "Whole Lotta Orange," again embracing the wild and fresh juxtaposition of folk, rock, jazz, blues, Americana, psychedelic and other styles that were the hallmark of early FM radio (with drummers Jason Marsalis & Justin Peake, and other special guests). The 3rd set arrives Sept. 30 on all the usual digital streaming and download platforms! "Blood from an Orange" spans original and reinterpreted covers, with special guests old and new.

Dakota Moon - Your Smiling Face

 Dakota Moon was an American band formed in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the mid-1990s. The band played a meld of pop rock, country and urban R&B; all four of the band members sang as well as played instruments. The group is composed of Ray Artis (bass guitar, vocals), Joe Dean (guitar, vocals), Malloy (percussion, vocals), and Ty Taylor (guitar, vocals). To date, they have released two studio albums for Elektra Records, and have charted three singles on the Billboard singles charts.

The four members of Dakota Moon met during a recording session in Los Angeles, and decided to form a full-time band because the session went well. After touring the L. A. club circuit, the band was signed with Elektra Records in 1997 by Elektra's CEO Sylvia Rhone, and was hired to open for Hall and Oates and Tina Turner later that same year. Dakota Moon released two albums for Elektra, in 1998 and 2002, and charted three hits in the US.