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Dorothy Love Coates (January 30, 1928 – April 9, 2002) was an influential American gospel singer who rose to stardom in the 1950s as a member of The Original Gospel Harmonettes. With her "raggedy" voice and preacher's fire she could outsing the most powerful hard gospel male singers of the era. She was also a notable composer, writing songs such as "You Can't Hurry God (He's Right On Time)", "99 and a Half Won't Do" and "That's Enough". She began singing with the Gospel Harmonettes—then known as the Gospel Harmoneers—in the early 1940s. That Gospel Harmonettes—later renamed the Original Gospel...

Thee Headcoatees was an all-female vocal group (originally called The Delmonas) which was associated with Billy Childish and the all-male group Thee Headcoats. The line-up was Holly Golightly, Kyra LaRubia and Ludella Black. Bongo Debbie often performed songs with the band when they played live (she left in 1999). .

Eric Coates (1886-1957) was an English composer, primarily of light music, including much film music. Born on the 27th August 1886 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, Coates belonged to a musical family. He studied at the Royal Academy before playingthe viola under Henry Wood's baton in the Queen's Hall Orchestra. Chronic pain forced him to give up playing the viola, and he concentrated on his considerable powers as a composer. Much of his music is still well-known, such as the theme of the film The Dambusters, "The Dam Busters March", the signature tune of Radio Four's Desert Island Discs, "By the Sleepy...

Gloria Coates (October 10, 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer formed in Chicago, Louisiana State University, New York's Cooper Union Art School and Columbia University. She has written 16 symphonies, 10 string quartets and numerous songs and chamber works which have been performed by leading orchestras and performers internationally. Her mentors were Alexander Tcherepnin and Otto Luening Since 1976 she has lived periodically in London, England and Munich, Germany; and from 1989 -1999 in New York. In Munich, Germany, she produced a music series of German-American Contemporary Music from 1971 - 1983 subsidized by the Ditson Fund of...

At the intersection of glitch, electro-rap, and pop, live the Candy Coated Killahz. The Toronto duo is the brainchild of Producer/Frontgirl Tasha Schumann and Frontman Icon the Anomali, who bang out heavy-hitters, combining gritty rhymes and forceful hooks. Having been compared to acts such as MIA, Robyn, Gwen Stefani, and Outkast, the CCK sound exists at the frontier of urban electro-pop. Now, just a few months away from the release of “Neon Black”, their newest and most adventurous work to date, Candy Coated Killahz have an exciting year ahead. The lead single and title track (also called "Neon Black") is...