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Oscar Lopez (born 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist.
Lopez moved to Canada in 1979 and settled in Calgary, Alberta. He began pursuing music as a career, becoming a popular draw on the Canadian folk festival circuit, and released his debut album, Hola, in 1989. Several of his albums have been nominated for Canada's Juno Awards, and 2000's Armando's Fire was his first Juno win, for Best Instrumental Album. He has recorded on the Narada label.
Although he has continued recording, Lopez has not toured or performed in several years due to a battle with depression. As...
Rodgers and Hammerstein were an American songwriting duo consisting of Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960). They are most famous for creating a string of immensely popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, during what is considered the golden age of the medium. Five of their shows were outstanding successes: Oklahoma! (their first collaboration); Carousel; South Pacific; The King and I; and The Sound of Music. Among the many accolades they garnered were thirty-four Tony Awards; fifteen Academy Awards; two Pulitzer Prizes; two Grammy Awards; and two Emmy Awards.
The pair wrote nine...
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (ur. 15 sierpnia 1925 w Montreal, Quebec, zm. 23 grudnia 2007 w Toronto) kanadyjski pianista jazzowy i kompozytor.
Był swingującym improwizatorem. Silna lewa ręka Petersona, szczególnie widoczna w jego grze bez akompaniamentu, wskazuje, że wywodził się on nie tylko od Tatuma, lecz również od protagonistów Tatuma: Fatsa Wallera i Jamesa P. Johnsona, z ich potężnymi liniami basowymi[potrzebne źródło].
Oscar Peterson, którego trio było początkowo modernizowaną wersją triów King Cole'a czy Art Tatum'a, skłaniał się w kierunku zasady integracji, aż do czasu, kiedy najpierw stracił swojego pierwszego gitarzystę Herb Ellisa (1959), a potem kontrabasistę Raya Browna (1966). Od...
Oscar Benton (born Ferdinand van Eif on February 3, 1949) is a Dutch vocalist and the founder of the Oscar Benton Blues Band in 1967. The band rose to fame in 1968 by being a runner up in the Jazz Festival, Loosdrecht, Holland. In his solo career, Oscar Benton released with his 1981 homonymous album the Bensonhurst Blues, written by Artie Kaplan & Artie Kornfeld, and produced by the EMI Records. The Bensonhurst Blues, which is considered to be Oscar Benton's best hit, was part of the soundtrack of the 1999 movie La Bûche. Earlier it was on the soundtrack...
Oscar And The Wolf is a young Belgian band signed to PIAS Recordings. Their music sounds like a combination of dark melancholic pop with danceable rhythms, according to singer Max Colombie.
In june 2012 their EP ‘Summer Skin’ was released. The EP was recorded in a church and it contained the single 'Orange Sky'.
In 2014 they released their debut album 'Entity', which went to #1 in the album chart of their home country Belgium. The album also received generally favorable reviews from critics. Both 'Princes' and ' Strange Entity' became small hits.
The band has already played in different...
