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There are 2 Shira: Shira Gold from Brooklyn.. Shira first picked up a guitar at the age of four. She then proceeded to try to play it like a violin with a chopstick. After becoming frustrated she then stuffed it full of dirt and went to get a snack. It wasn't for another 14 years that she picked up the instrument again. Needless to say, she had matured enough in the interim to abandon the chopstick method and get down to the business of writing songs. "I grew up in a musician family in what was left of the Catskills"...

Cheshire has always found his solace in producing electronic music. Starting with dubstep in 2008 he released the number one selling E.P. "Punk" with "Excisions" Rottun Records, gaining a broad recognition within the genre. Over the past seven years he has developed his production techniques and style arriving recently to a point where bass and glitch meet jazz funk and soul. After two years of travelling the world and gathering inspiration, Cheshire has resided in Melbourne to refine his funk infused Latin laced rhythms. Now working with Adapted Records Cheshire has recently released his second EP developing a fast growing...

Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She was best known as member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the performer of the original theme song for "Doctor Who" (which was composed for the series by Ron Grainer). She was also a member of the electronic music group White Noise with other BBC Radiophonic Workshop musicians. Born in Coventry, England, Delia Derbyshire was educated at Barr's Hill Grammar School & Girton College (Cambridge). She was awarded a degree in mathematics & music. In 1959, on approaching Decca, Delia...

Known as the girl with big red curls and weak ankles, Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934, to Virginia native Ira Owens Beaty and his wife, Kathlyn. Ira and Kathlyn gave up their dreams to raise their family. Before Shirley was three years old, her brother and rival Warren Beatty was born on March 30 or 31, 1937. Shirley was the tallest in her ballet classes at the Washington School of Ballet. She had an excellent batting average in baseball but, as she discovered, it wasn't a good thing for a girl to do, so...