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Prior to the Dazz Band, Levert, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's chart assaults, Frederick's "Gentle (Calling Your Name)" held the distinction of being the most popular R&B/soul recording ever cut in the northeast Ohio area, reaching number 40 on the pop charts in 1985. Cleveland natives Edwin Starr, Bobby Womack, the Hesitations, and the O'Jays recorded bigger hits, but in other places. Frederick cut his recordings in a tiny, homemade studio called Time Traxx, located on 23rd and Superior in the downtown Cleveland area.
Frederick Millard Davis was born on April 7, 1957, in Cleveland, OH; he's the fifth of eight siblings,...
There are different Bands using the Name 'Rousseau'
1) Rousseau was a Progressive Rock Band from Germany, founded in 1977
by R. Hofman, C. Huster, G. Huthmacher and A. Pfeffer.
Their Style was very melodic with the use of acoustic guitar, mellotron, keyboards, flutes, cello and violins and had elements from Folk and Classic.
Sometimes they were compared with Bands like Camel or Novalis
They released 4 Albums, Flower in Asphalt (1980), Retreat (1983), Square the Circle (1987) and
At the Cinema (2002)
2) Deathmetal from shawnee, Oklahoma. Includes/included former members of machinist. Due to member loss, they took a...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 1712 – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of liberal, conservative, and socialist theory. With his Confessions, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and other writings, he invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the building of subjectivity that bore fruit in the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel and Freud. His novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse was one of the best-selling fictional works of the eighteenth century and of great importance to the development...
Frederick Knight (born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA on 15 August 1944) is an American R&B and Soul singer / songwriter / producer.
Knight recorded with Mercury and Capitol in New York before signing with Stax Records in 1972. He had his only UK hit single, "I've Been Lonely For So Long," in 1972. The song was on the chart for 10 weeks and reached number 22. Lack of further chart activity leaves him labeled as a one-hit wonder. However, Knight did appear in the documentary film, Wattstax, which was released in 1973.
After Stax's demise Knight launched Juana Records, writing...
Frederick Rousseau (born 1958, Paris) belongs to the generation that witnessed the beginning of New Age music and the explosion of technologic applications to the entertainment world. His musical research is based on electronic sounds that he mixes with ethnic instruments, classical orchestras and to voices of all tones, colours and provenances.
During his adolescence, after a piano training in classical music, he tried every pop instrument (including bass guitar, drums, electric guitar and percussions) and finally chose the keyboards.
After completing his studies in electronics, he was hired by the Defense Nationale in 1978 to work on the final...
