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Chesney Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971 in Windsor, Berkshire), is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his 1991 single "The One and Only", which topped the charts in the UK and reached the Top 10 in the U.S. Hawkes was named after the comedian, Chesney Allen. His father, Len Hawkes, was member of the band The Tremeloes, his mother is an actress, Carol Dilworth. He has a sister, Keely, his brother's name is Jodie. Chesney's career took off in 1991 when he starred in the film 'Buddy's Song' alongside Roger Daltrey &...

Ethan Fawkes started to play bass guitar and electric guitar in 1992 with influences from bands like Nirvana, Faith No More, Sepultura and Metallica. Around 1994, Ethan took an interest in electronic music, principally acid at the start, and soon developed a fascination for DJ-ing and vinyls records. Since then his musical tastes have expanded to include techno, electro, ebm and industrial. The desire to compose still on him from the guitarist period, he naturally started electronic composition after buying his first groovebox in 2001. A hardware addict, Ethan also collects synthesizers, some of them from the 1980's. For tha...

Greg Hawkes (born October 22, 1952) is an American musician best known as the keyboardist for the New Wave band The Cars. Hawkes, a native of Fulton, Maryland, attended Atholton High School where he played in a band called Teeth. He then attended Berklee College of Music for two years, majoring in composition and flute. He left to play in various bands, including Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture, where he played flute, saxophones and clarinet. He also played in a band called Richard and The Rabbits, which included future Cars bandmates Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr. Greg Hawkes' most...

Conal Fowkes is a Grammy winning pianist, double-bassist, vocalist, arranger and teacher. His skills and expertise cover diverse fields of music from traditional jazz to swing and post-bop, from traditional Cuban Son to Salsa and Latin jazz. Born in Zambia and having spent most of his early childhood in Mexico, Conal moved to England in 1971. His classical studies gained him a place at the world-renowned Royal College of Music, London, where he studied with legendary concert pianist Yonty Solomon. At this time he also studied privately with Cuban Maestro Chucho Valdes. During his four years of classical studies at...