Ex-Magia Animal Dr No and Ojos de Brujo Macaco Dani Carbonell joined La Hermandad Chirusa a band formed by talented musicians from Argentina Colombia Brazil and Spain to make his first solo record Playing a mixture of rap rumba pop funk and reggae Ma…

Spanish rock band Los Piratas burst on the local scene with the release of a self-titled record in 1992 followed by Quiero Hacerte Gritar in 1993 Playing alternative and poprock songs in their native language Los Piratas became on the the most popula…

Spanish heavy metal band Extremoduro started playing in the late 80s as a threesome led by singerguitarist Roberto Iniesta In January of 1989 the band recorded its first demo tape soon playing on a TV show called Plastic and participating in a contes…

Spanish rock singersongwriter Enrique Bunbury got involved in music in the early 1980s made his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis and later played along with Proceso Entrpico In 1984 Bunbury joined a group called Zumo de Vidrio debuting …

Uruguayan singersongwriter Jorge Drexler got involved in music while learning how to play piano at the age of five Later he attended guitar and composition classes It was in 1989 when Drexler began songwriting recording his first album called La Luz …

Singer and songwriter Joaqun Sabina was born in beda Spain in February 12 1949 At the age of 14 Sabina started writing poems getting connected with music as a member of a teenagers rockabilly band called Merry Youngs Sabinas poetry and music skills w…

Borrowing from such flamboyant pop stars as Freddie Mercury, Elton John, and George Michael, British singer Robbie Williams started out in the boy band Take That, but soon split and launched a solo career. By the late 1990s he had become a dance/pop …

Californian sextet Linkin Park simultaneously took inspiration from and expanded upon the hybrid of heavy rock, hip-hop, and electronics that made such bands as Korn and Limp Bizkit so successful at the tail end of the 1990s. The band's 2000 debut HY…

Gnarls Barkley is the remarkable collaboration between DJ/producer/mash-up king Danger Mouse and psychedelic soul crooner/MC Cee-Lo, of the Atlanta hip-hop group Goodie Mob. Both refreshingly outre and delightfully accessible in the manner of Outkast…

Rob Thomas was the singer and principal songwriter for Matchbox Twenty a Florida-based adult alternative combo that found success with a blend of 70s rock influences slick hooks and 1990s post-grunge crunch The band broke through in 1996 with Push an…

Late-1980s/early-'90s rock had totally lost the gritty feel of the '60s and '70s until Lenny Kravitz rediscovered the magic retro formula. Kravitz's sonic template was based on a combination of glam, soul, and psychedelia, and it made him a massive s…

U.K. pop-rock phenomenon James Blunt was an officer in the British Army (serving four years in Kosovo) before taking the British music world by storm with his 2005 single "You're Beautiful." Blunt's shimmering, piano-based singer-songwriter approach …

System of a Down may be seen as part and parcel of the nu-metal explosion of the late-'90s, but their style is less akin to the likes of Limp Bizkit and Korn than to vintage thrash from the '80s, spiced with a touch of hardcore punk. The band's sound…

Inspiring legions of imitators (especially among the rap-metal crowd), the Red Hot Chili Peppers combined biting rock guitar with funk rhythms and rap-influenced vocals for a thunderous, party-hearty sound. While the California band was popular on th…

b. Sean Paul Henriques, 8 January 1973, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Paul was educated at Wolmers High School near the National Heroes Stadium, and the exclusive Bel Air High School in uptown Mandeville. His principal vocational research was at th…

Unbeknownst to most Nirvana fans, its drummer David Grohl was also a singer/guitarist/songwriter who wrote numerous songs during his tenure with the band. After Kurt Cobain's death in 1994, Grohl decided to head out on his own and formed the Foo Figh…