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Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin (born May 17, 1961 in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), known simply as Enya, is a Grammy award winning and Academy award nominated Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to pursue her solo career. Her album Watermark, which was released in 1988, propelled her to international recognition and she became known for her unique sound, which is characterized by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesized backdrops and ethereal reverberations. Since then she has released a further nine albums, sold over 75 million albums...

Benyamin Nuss is a pianist from Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. He is best known for his performances on orchestral video game concerts Symphonic Fantasies (2009) and Symphonic Legends (2010) along with WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and percussionist Rony Barrak. On 17 Sep 2010 Nuss released his debut album Benyamin Nuss Plays Uematsu where he reinterprets work from video game composer 植松伸夫 (Uematsu Nobuo) for piano. Official website: www.benyamin-nuss.de .

The Kenyan Boys Choir, the only international choir to take part in Barack Obama’s inauguration celebrations in January, has secured a recording deal with Universal in dramatic circumstances. The group was making their way back from Washington DC to Nairobi when they were signed up by Universal Music’s A&R Manager, Tom Lewis, in the transit lounge at Heathrow Airport. Lewis, who considered buying a ticket just to enter the departures lounge before finally gaining special permission from the airport to meet the choir, said: ‘They’ve already taken the US by storm. Their sound is amazing and when I saw them...

Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), singer and actress, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. She is best known for her performance as Jenny in Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and some other Brecht-Weill plays. To a younger audience, she is known for her part as the villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love. As a child of working class Roman Catholic parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. She moved to study in Zurich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus using the...