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Peter Philips (c. 1560–1628) was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders after the start of the Protestant Reformation. Philips was born in 1560 or 1561, possibly in Devonshire or London. From 1572 to 1578 he began his career as a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral in London, under the aegis of the Catholic master of choristers, Sebastian Westcote, who had also trained the young William Byrd some twenty years earlier. Philips must have had a close relationship with his master, as he lodged in his house up to the time of Westcote's death, and...

Multi-instrumentalist Stephen Philips has been a musician for almost 30 years. He founded Dark Duck Records in the late 80's. His fascination with the vast space of ambient music and an interest in the godfathers of ambient (Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, John Cage, etc.) led him into full-on experimentation with ambient music and an indepth study of the history, roots, and methods of ambient music composition. His music places a strong emphasis on time and place, desiring to take the listener to a virtual location and/or to create an aural postcard or an aural description of...

Artists known as, Philips: 1. NL - From the 1930s to the 1950s the Dutch company Philips produced a number of spoken and lyrical and musical advertisements to promote their radio stations, audio services, radio sets etc. The contracted artists were either left uncredited or simply credited as 'Philips'. An example is a nederlandstalig one from 1950 for the 'Philips autoradio', named on the record as Uw Gezellige Reisgenoot. Radio stations that featured advertisements were then posted these records to play as contracted by Philips. 2. JP - There is a Japanese group known as Philips .