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British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s, often called a Golden Age of British music, prior to the Second World War.
This article is a list of people who led their own British dance band (distinct from British big band leaders, who played big band music). It includes those performers who were not British, but led a band based in Britain. [1
He was voted World No. 1 DJ by DJ Magazine in 2000 he is a 4 time International Dance Music Awards winner and 4 time DJ Awards winner. Sander van Doorn (real name Sander Ketelaars), Dutch Trance DJ; Sandra Collins (American DJ/Producer Electronic Dance Music) Sandro Silva; SebastiAn (real name Sebastian Akchoté-Bozovic)
While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.
A Band Called O; Barndance Boys; Basement Jaxx; Batu (group) The Bays (band) Beats International; The Beloved (band) Big Audio Dynamite; Big Fun (group) Black Grape; Black Science Orchestra; Blacksmith (musical group) Blu Mar Ten; Blue Mercedes; Blue October (British band) The Brand New Heavies; Brilliant (band) Bus Stop (band)
British jazz is a form of music derived from American jazz. It reached Britain through recordings and performers who visited the country while it was a relatively new genre, soon after the end of World War I. Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands.
Steps are a British dance-pop group consisting of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian "H" Watkins.They were formed in May 1997 and achieved two number-one albums in the UK, 14 consecutive UK top-5 singles including two number ones (one a double A-side).
Spice Girls the best-selling female group of all time, one of the best-selling pop groups of all time, [1] [2] and the biggest British pop phenomenon since Beatlemania. [3] [4] [5] Among the highest profile acts in 1990s British popular culture, Time called them "arguably the most recognisable face" of Cool Britannia, the mid-1990s celebration of youth culture in the UK. [6]