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SARAH MACDOUGALL - 'EMPIRE' OFFICIAL



SARAH MACDOUGALL - We Are Fire


Sarah MacDougall - It's A Storm


Swedish-born, Whitehorse-based singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall creates big sonic landscapes for intimate stories

Prior to working on her fourth record, All the Hours I Have Left to Tell You Anything, Sarah MacDougall took a helicopter ride over Atlin, B.C., a mountainous community not far from the Swedish-born musician’s adopted home of Whitehorse.

Being a singer-songwriter, she was keen on somehow reflecting the sensation in her songs.

“I wanted to capture something that sounded like a big landscape,” she says. “I was looking out at the mountains and was like: ‘OK, I’d like to somehow capture this feeling that I have right now.’ ”

But even as the music pushed outward towards giant skies and mountainous vistas, the lyrics were intimate, exploring big themes of death, birth and love through personal stories about the passing of her grandparents, the birth of a niece and a break-up.

The affectionate, wisdom-instilling lullaby Asleep Little Queen was written for her newborn niece. The soaring opening track, Empire, was written not long after the death of her grandfather in London, Ont.MORE

Nightwish Ghost Love Score with Tarja Turunen


Tarja Turunen

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer-songwriter. She is a lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves.[1]

Turunen studied singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer, and the former lead vocalist of the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, which she founded with Tuomas Holopainen and Emppu Vuorinen in 1996. Their combination of hard and fast guitar riffs with Turunen's dramatic, "operatic" lead vocals quickly achieved critical and commercial popularity. Their symphonic metal style, soon dubbed "opera metal", inspired many other metal bands and performers. MORE

NIGHTWISH - Amaranth (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) with Annette Olzon


Annette Olzon

Olzon was raised in a musical family and has been singing since childhood.[2] Her mother also forced her to play the oboe for 8 years. She toured with her mother's band and sang with them on some occasions. Later, she started to take part in various talent shows and received laudable recognition.[2] The first band she joined at seventeen years of age (Take Cover) was a cover band. However, it was short-lived as she took part in several bands and projects. At twenty-one, she played the leading role in the rock opera/musical "Gränsland" in Helsingborg. After that she got into the Balettakademien in Gothenburg. She sang in choirs, did studio work for various projects and occasionally performed as a wedding singer. Olzon also sang a duet with Michael Bormann (ex-Jaded Heart singer) on his album Conspiracy.

In her earlier days, Olzon took singing lessons at the Copenhagen Music Conservatorie, in Helsingør, Denmark, with a private teacher. Nowadays, she takes lessons from a private teacher at the Malmö Music University when needed.[2]

Before singing, Olzon has worked in a factory, in a hamburger restaurant, as a waitress, as a veterinarian assistant, in a number of offices and as a hair dresser.[3] She has also studied musical artist education, psychology, project management and leadership and organization.[3] MORE

Nightwish with Floor Jansen - Romanticide




Floor Jansen

Floor Jansen (pronounced [ˈfloːr ˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, and vocal coach. She is currently the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Jansen first became known as a member of symphonic metal band After Forever, standing as their lead vocalist from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward.

A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, she is a member of his progressive metal supergroup Star One, and sang in the Ayreon albums Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer, 01011001, and The Source, as well as the live album Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live. She also sang lead vocals in several songs of the MaYan album Quarterpast and in Avalon's Angels of the Apocalypse. She is the older sister of fellow singer Irene Jansen, who also worked with Ayreon.

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Jansen can sing from classical to belting and raspy vocals like screaming and death growls.[23][24][25] She is a soprano.[26][27][28][29]

Jansen started studying music at the Dutch Rock Academy in 1999, entering the Conservatorium Tilburg three years later. She studied musical theatre and a year of opera.[23][24] After After Forever split up she started teaching performing in her own course called Wanna be a Star?!

She used to play the guitar, piano and flute and has completed several years of music studies.[30][31] MORE

Sharon Van Etten - Jupiter 4 (Official Video)



Sharon Van Etten - No One's Easy To Love


Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen



The Many Lives of Sharon Van Etten

At the same time, Van Etten, 37, was in the midst of returning to her day job as a singer-songwriter, plotting a music video shoot, getting ready for a tour set to begin in February and awaiting the imminent delivery of the finished vinyl for her fifth studio LP, out Jan. 18 via Jagjaguwar. Though typically understated, the album’s title, “Remind Me Tomorrow,” nods at Van Etten’s current juggling act — a tongue-in-cheek mantra for a multitasking mother who also happens to run the small business that is an independent band.

“Crazy, crazy, crazy,” Van Etten said, taking in the scope of her hectic but life-affirming last three years, which, ironically enough, began when she tried to press pause on her music career. “I can’t even believe we’ve done what we’ve done.”

It’s Van Etten’s now-frequent use of we and our in conversation that best mark her transition from a solitary, searching singer, known for her languid, almost gothic breakup songs, to something fuller and less fragile — someone to be counted on, someone in charge of things. Together with her romantic partner, Zeke Hutchins, who was once her drummer and now works as her manager, Van Etten has undertaken what the couple characterizes as various adventures — acting, school, scoring, parenthood — each of which adds to her ongoing project: becoming a more well-rounded, more empathetic artist.

“So much of creative work today is all about like, the solitary genius and sudden rise,” said Zal Batmanglij, who directed Van Etten in “The OA,” the Netflix sci-fi series. “But it’s the people who actually do the work, day in and day out, that are special. They’re after something deeper, their work gets better — things that aren’t necessarily super-fashionable right now. They last the test of time. That’s everyone’s reaction to Sharon.”MORE

beabadoobee - She Plays Bass (Official Video)


beabadoobee - If You Want To (Official Video)


beabadoobee on Wiki

Beatrice Kristi Laus (born 3 June 2000), also known as Bea Kristi or professionally as beabadoobee^[13] (/biːbəduːbiːˈ/),^[14] is a Filipino-British indie singer-songwriter. Since 2018, she has released 5 extended plays under Dirty Hit, and has supported The 1975 on both their Music for Cars Tour and their Notes on a Conditional Form Tour in 2020. As of March 2020, Beabadoobee has over 300 million accumulative streams on Spotify. She was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2020 Brit Awards, and was predicted as a breakthrough act for 2020 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2020.

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Laus was born in Iloilo City, Philippines on 3 June 2000 and moved to London with her parents at the age of 3.^[3][4] She grew up in West London listening to OPM (original Pinoy music) as well as pop and rock music from the 1980s. While she was a teenager, she listened to indie rock including Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florist and Alex G.^[9] She attended Sacred Heart High School for her high school education and Hammersmith Academy for her sixth form education.^{[citation needed]} Kristi spent seven years learning to play the violin, before getting her first guitar second-hand at the age of 17.^[5] She taught herself how to play the instrument using YouTube tutorials.^[9] She was inspired by Kimya Dawson and the Juno soundtrack to start making music.^[4]

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Kristi has cited Elliott Smith, The Mouldy Peaches, Pavement, Mazzy Star, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and Daniel Johnston as her musical influences.^[12][4] Kristi has told Vice that she plans on making film soundtracks in the future, as they heavily inspired her to make music.^[4] On her background and using YouTube to find success, she said:^[35]

My very traditional Asian family had the classic way of thinking: ‘play an orchestra instrument’ or ‘be a doctor’. Today, people start off making beats on a laptop, but hopefully I encourage young people to pick up the guitar and rock out! YouTube tutorials are a great way to develop your own style, and go at your own pace

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Class of 2020: Beabadoobee

For Bea Kristi, her whole 2019 has been a dreamlike story, ripped from the pages of a music nerd’s fan-fiction. But the difference? Bea doesn’t have to wake up, because this is her real life now. “It’s like, ‘What the fuck!’” The Philippines-born, west London-raised 19-year-old giggles over the phone from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Currently mid-way through a US tour with bedroom-pop artist Clairo, it’s clear that Bea - better known as Beabadoobee - is also aware of how ridiculous the past year has been.

The whirlwind the singer now finds herself in began around two years ago when, aged 17, she got kicked out of school. Feeling lost and not really knowing what she wanted to do, her dad decided to buy her a guitar because she seemed “really bored” all the time. Teaching herself how to play, she first learnt Sixpence None the Richer’s ‘90s classic ‘Kiss Me’, and subsequently wrote her first original track ‘Coffee’ - a hushed, emotional bedroom-pop bop that ended up going low-key viral.

“At first, I just thought that songwriting was cool and then, when we released it, we had a lot of people saying that they liked it. People were recognising me on Instagram and were like ‘Hey, you’re that ‘Coffee’ girl?’ And I was like, ‘What the fuck, I’ve never worked as a waitress?!’” she laughs. “Then I was like, ‘Oh fuck, they’re talking about my song!’ That was really cool and motivated me more to do it because people were interested and enjoyed it. You know how everyone has a ‘thing’? Well, I didn’t have have a thing and then I realised that this is my thing!”MORE

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In this Moment - Oh Lord



In this Moment - The In-Between




Maria Brink from Wiki

Maria Diane Brink (born December 18, 1977) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the frontwoman of American heavy metal band In This Moment.

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She was born in the state of New York, and her father left the family when she was young. When she was 14, she got pregnant and had to support herself and her son; she also helped her mother to overcome her drug addiction.^[6]
The first band Maria was ever in was an Albany-based band called Pulse, before moving to California.^[7]
In 2002, when she was 25, she moved to Los Angeles to find a band to work with; it took two years to find her now-band member Chris Howorth.^[6]
Maria is a vegetarian and is active with the PETA campaign.^[8]
Brink is also an aspiring artist/painter going by the alias of 'Maria Brink's Wonderland'.^[9]

In This Moment Interview - Sweden Rock Festival 2018 - Maria Brink & Chris Howorth

Content Note: Gore and Blood in the video.

Songs We Love: Myrkur, 'Ulvinde'

Yes, destroy evil with evil," Amalie Bruun sings in her native Danish at the beginning of "Ulvinde," her latest song as Myrkur. In the accompanying music video, Bruun crawls through mossy roots and stumbles over frigid rock outcroppings. Occasionally, she spits up blood.

It's rough stuff, lyrically and visually, but Bruun's singing voice is beautiful. Where most metal singers either croon or belt, she rings. Her delivery, full of sustaining notes that subtly decay, is reminiscent of choral music — with all the ritualism, religiosity and awe it entails. Bruun can scream, too, and the shots of her engaged in a commanding, full-throated shriek entangle with shots of her bloody mouth. The juxtaposition of those forces — Bruun's two voices, distorted guitars and violent images — gives her work a vital charge.MORE

Cold Specks - Heavy Hands


Yes, that IS a female drummer.

Cold Specks - Blank Maps



Cold Specks - Holland (Official Video)
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Cold Specks - Lay Me Down (Later with Jools Holland)
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Too lazy to track down interviews and stuff, darlings. Just gonna luxuriate in her voice.

Tishma, a singer, guitarist, keyboardist, composer, songwriter renaissance woman isn't strictly a rock musician. In fact, according to the Wikipedia article, the young woman who released her debut album in 2002, is credited with introduced Bangladesh with a dizzying array of musical styles including r & b, punk-pop, rock, dance-pop, ballads, funk, opera, rap and others, in addition to bringing in glitzy music videos and singing in English and is the first Bengali rapper and hard rock singer on the Bengal subcontinent. In addition to that and more, she's studying to be an engineer. Woman has GOT it!
Now we are primarily interested in the rockier parts of her career, so here we go:

TISHMA - Rock Rajkonna [ Album - "X Factor" (2008)] (Smile Show)


Pankaj feat. Tishma


Tishma : BOYFRIEND (1st English Song by a BD Female Singer, written by TishmA ,2007 )
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TISHMA - Shohor Jure ( Bangla Rock Song )
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TISHMA - Charti Deyal ( Bangla Pop Rock Song )
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TishmA - Urey Jaye (2002)
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Tishma Myspace

Tishma Facebook


List of nine albums on Wikipedia, here.