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Olivia is a Singaporean singer who performs mostly in English but has developed her career singing in Japanese as well. In addition, she has released rare tracks, recorded in Mandarin, which can be found on limited edition albums. Likened to 松田聖子, she won a singing contest and was signed to a Japanese recording company at the age of 15. After completing her O-level examinations in Singapore, Olivia moved to Japan to further her studies and career as a solo artist. There, she became a member of a Japanese pop (J-pop) group called Mirai, before she released her bestselling debut, "A...

Smiley Lewis (5 July 1913 – 7 October 1966) was a New Orleans rhythm and blues musician. Lewis was born in DeQuincy, Louisiana, U.S., with the given name of Overton Amos Lemons. He began to play music in New Orleans, in his mid-teens. Lewis had hit songs in 1952 with "The Bells Are Ringing", and in 1955 with the original recorded version of "I Hear You Knocking" (written by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King). Lewis' own song "Blue Monday" was covered by Fats Domino. Whilst Elvis Presley's cover of the Lewis song "One Night" (altering one risque lyric) was #4...

Olivia Holt (born August 5, 1997) is an American teen actress and singer born in Germantown, Tennessee, USA whom is best known for portraying Kim on the Disney XD series Kickin' It, and starred in the Disney Channel original movie "Girl vs. Monster" where she played the lead character Skylar Lewis, a teenage girl that discovers her family has long worked as monster hunters, and she's next in line. The film premiered in October 2012. She released three songs for the movie, which were released as a part of the Ultimate Make Your Mark Playlist and are availble for purchase...

Embajada Boliviana was born in La Plata in 1994 when a group of friends (JULI, CABEZA, KUNTACU, MATU) started to play ispired by The Ramones. They have recorded some demo albums before Soñando Locuras appeared. .

Carlos and Julio Arguedas founded Bolivia Manta to help preserve and promote the traditions of the indigenous communities of the Andes. "When the Spaniards arrived," notes the group, "thousands of men were uprooted from their communities and condemned to work in the towns and mining centers. Exploited, despised, they continued to play and the music endured through time, getting richer from the influences that mixed in with it." As is often the case with groups that strive to promote Native culture, they have experienced political and economic difficulties in their home country that forced them to live in exile in...