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While most of us are learning to read & write at the age of four, Raghav Sachar started playing his first musical instrument. His father made an interesting deal with him – Raghav would be gifted one instrument every year. The catch? He couldn’t ask for any other gifts. Most four year olds would’ve thrown a tantrum. Raghav Sachar agreed.
At seven, he learnt the recorder (English Flute) and passed grades 5 & 6 of the Trinity College of Music exams with distinction. He started playing the drums at nine, and won Best Drummer in the All-India Junior segment. He...
Formed in 2006, Distel is a musical outlet of Æter, one of the monikers of Dutch composer Peter Johan Nÿland - and Scramasax, a percussionist who has been involved in several other Dutch bands. They play 'angst pop', which is sometimes reminiscent of the output of German label Galakthorrö, that was the first to actually coin the term as a genre. Other references that often pop up are British avant-gardists Coil, owing to a seemingly similar experimental approach in their work; the Dutch ULTRA art movement; and genre-wise: minimal electronics, cold wave and industrial. Due to their extensive use of...
Sacha Distel (29 January 1933 – 22 July 2004), nephew of band leader Ray Ventura, was a French singer who had hits such as a cover version of the Academy Award winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (originally recorded by B.J. Thomas) Frank & Nancy Sinatra's Something Stupid and "Scoubidou". He was born in Paris to
At age 16, Distel became a professional jazz guitarist. Over his career he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1950s after establishing himself as a French crooner.
Sacha Distel had a much...
Young but ambitious, Sacha Tran, was the youngest on the first season of The Voice: The most beautiful voice.
Of Belgian origin, Sacha is in training at the MAI (Music Academy International) since October 2011 and takes his passion for his mother who was a singer. At 6 years old , he started with dance lessons (classical and jazz) , and then he went into a choir.
He joined the cast of "Graine de Star" in Belgium, which allowed him to make several scenes.
After The Voice, Sacha won his place in the cast of "Robin des Bois" ("Robin Hood")...
Jochen Distelmeyer was the frontman of Blumfeld, an influential "Hamburger Schule" band which unfortunately broke up in 2007.
He released his first solo album, Heavy, in 2009 .
