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“I don’t want to imitate anyone; I just want to do me. That’s why my key aim in my career is to be as successful as I can be.” – Benny Banks Growing up in Islington (North London) Benny Banks, was your typical teenager; in that he didn’t enjoy school and would much rather do other things with his time. One of these things was listening to music. It wasn’t until age twenty however, that his love of music really began to develop. It was after a night out with his friends that Benny Banks began to rap and his...

Benny Goodman (Chicago, 30 de mayo de 1909 – Nueva York, 13 de junio de 1986) -nacido como Benjamin David Goodman- fue un clarinetista y director de jazz estadounidense. Conocido como "el rey del swing", es, junto con Glenn Miller y Count Basie, el máximo representante de este estilo jazzístico. Director de una de las big band más populares de su época, desarrolló sobre todo la variante más suave del género, la de las sweet bands, y fue el iniciador de la llamada era del swing. Una de sus canciones más famosas es "Sing, sing, sing (with a swing)", empleada...

Benny Carter (1907-2003) Tres palabras definen el quehacer de Benny Carter: versátil, elegante y unificador. Su deceso, a los 95 años, permite advertir que Nueva York ha sido, en el campo del jazz, cuna de hombres medievales que se permiten ejercer todo tipo de empresas sin fallar en una sola. Cuando Quincy Jones lo definió en 1997 como “el pionero, el fundador”, no exageró. En su haber, Carter pudo presumir de los siguientes hechos: Fue el primero en crear una orquesta interracial e internacional. Esto ocurrió en 1937 en La Haya, Holanda. Fue el primer músico afroamericano en entrar, como...

There is more than one artist named Sweetie. 1. Sweetie is the solo noise / ambient / drone / project of D.Knowler (of The Infinite Three, Cindytalk, Leisur Hive...) and has existed since the mid-nineties. A string of ltd edition releases have been issued since 1997, including 'A Bristol Welcome' (1999), 'An Album' (2000), 'The Employment Tapes' (2005) and 'I Can Laugh About It Now But At The Time It Was Really Awful'. Sweetie's new album, 'Blackthread' (2009) was released on the Actual Size label. 2. A female singer featured on the Angular Recording Corporation's compilation album, 'Rip Off Your...

Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. Since its debut in 1969 his television show has been sold to over 140 countries worldwide, with viewership in the millions. The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In the West)" is a bit autobiographical. Benny Hill had been a milkman in Eastleigh, Hampshire, working for Hanns Dairy whose premises was yards way from Market Street. There was a bakery near the dairy that did indeed have a...