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Stan Getz (Stanley Gayetzky, February 2, 1927 Philadelphia – June 6, 1991 Malibu, California) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young. His parents were Ukrainian Jews who immigrated from Kiev city, Ukraine in 1903. The family later moved to New York City for better jobs. Stan worked hard in school receiving straight "A's" on average and finished 6th grade close to the top of his class. Stan's major interest was in musical instruments, and he felt a...

A "visual-kei" rock band from Osaka, Japan. Years active: 1994 - 1999 "STELLA MARIA" had a lot of member changes in their activity. The band released two mini-albums, two maxi-singles, and a few demo-tapes/live-distributed CDs over the years, they also participated on various compilation albums. Final line-up: Vocal: Tsurugi (DEATH TRASH → 魂爵惑 → D.I.S.C → Lúcide → STELLA MARIA) Programming/Synth Guitar/Electric Guitar: #4 (STELLA MARIA → 廃人黒薔薇族 → STELLA MARIA → LU-C SORT DRIVE → Captain Double Lynch → 雲の旅団 → Skunk Works) Acoustic Guitar/Bass: naoya (STELLA MARIA → CRUNCH) Drums/Percussion: Takashi Ex-members: Bass: Ma～Na (Stella Maria → Snow)...

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people. Born in the late 1940s, Chiweshe grew up in Zimbabwe's forest region of Mhondoro, about 45 miles from the capital city, Harare. Chiwese began learning to play the mbira dza vadzimu in 1964. It was very unusual for a girl to play mbira at that time and Chiweshe had to face the dissaproval of her community, where woman performers were often treated as "loose women." Chiweshe perservered to become perhaps the best known player of the instrument outside Zimbabwe. The mbira dza...

Stellastarr* are an American Indie rock band based in New York City. The band is composed of: Shawn Christensen (vocals, rhythm guitar), Amanda Tannen (bass, vocals), Arthur Kremer (percussion, keyboards) and Michael Jurin (lead guitar, vocals). The group formed in March 2000 from the ashes of a previous musical effort - Ghistor - formed by Shawn, Amanda, and Arthur while studying art and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. A few years later, after a chance meeting with Michael, who had recently relocated to Brooklyn from his hometown Philadelphia, the former classmates reunited, this time with Shawn on vocals....