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Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. Signed to Rounder Records as a 14-year-old fiddler from Champaign, Illinois, she has become the most recognized face in contemporary bluegrass, a critically acclaimed artist who has brought modern sophistication to the genre while respecting its traditions. Songfacts reports that in 2011 Krauss recorded her first ever number one country album in her home country with Paper Airplane. She has also sold upwards of 11 million records and garnered 2 Oscar nominations as well as 26 Grammy® Awards, the most for any female artist in Grammy®...

U.K. born Alison David came into the music industry from a dance fusion aspect, playing with bands such as Life's Addiction, Red Snapper, Speeka, Black Science Orchestra, Freeland and Bugz In the Attic. The solo release that put her name on the map was a remix of her song Dreams Come True by Afronaught. Her vocals range between jazz, soul and rock and always have a tangible emotion within them. Her solo music is hard to pigeonhole although her influences are undoubtably from afro american songbooks. .

"The Alison Project is a one-man project based out of Canada which came to life in mid-2005 when I started to build a modular synthesizer. The goal of The Alison Project is not to produce one genre of music, but rather to make ambient, drone, noise, and experimental music that is both dark and unsettling to listen to. Reminiscent of tracks from horror movies and horror-based videogames, The Alison Project creates atmosphere that triggers adrenaline and inspires dis-ease in those unfortunate enough to hear it." .

Alison Jiear (born 5 May 1965) is a popular cabaret artist on the London cabaret circuit. She has appeared in several West End Musicals including The Hot Mikado, Jerry Springer: The Opera and Grease (musical). She was featured in the motion picture Being Julia. She was nominated for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for best actress in a musical for her role in Jerry Springer: The Opera, in which she played the character of Shawntel, an overweight, middle-aged woman who dreams of becoming a pole dancer. Though never paid for the project, a remixed version of her rendition of ”I...

Alison Brown is an American banjo player. Brown learned to play guitar at eight and banjo at ten. When she was twelve, she met fiddler Stuart Duncan. In the summer of 1978, Brown traveled across the country with Duncan and his father, playing festivals and contests. She won first place at the Canadian National Banjo Championship, which helped her land a one-night gig at the Grand Ole Opry. In 1987, Alison Krauss asked Brown to join her band, Union Station. Brown spent three years with Krauss. In 1990, she moved to Tennessee, and was named International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo...