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Evelyn Mary Dove (11 January 1902 – 7 March 1987) was a British singer and actress, who early in her career drew comparisons with Josephine Baker. [1] [2] Of Sierra Leone Creole and English parentage, Dove is recognized as a "trailblazing performer": in 1939, she made history as the first black singer to feature on BBC Radio, [3] building a solid reputation not only through her work in ...
The manuscript in which the poem is found, (Sloane MS 2593, ff.10v-11) is held by the British Library, who date the work to c.1400 and speculate that the lyrics may have belonged to a wandering minstrel; other poems included in the manuscript include "I have a gentil cok", "Adam lay i-bowndyn" and two riddle songs – "A minstrel's begging song ...
IDK (born 1992), British-American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer iET (born 1978), Dutch singer-songwriter iFani (born 1985), South African Hip-Hop/Rap artist, MC and television presenter
Drake was born to father Sir Idwal Geoffrey Lloyd (13 January 1878, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire – 6 March 1946, Surrey) and mother Georgie Lloyd, in Rangoon, Burma. She was christened "Mary", but no one used that as "Molly" was deemed more suitable.
"One Word" is a song by British singer Kelly Osbourne, released as the first and only single from her second studio album, Sleeping in the Nothing (2005), in May 2005. Unlike the pop-punk sound Osbourne sported in the past, "One Word" is a synthpop song that showed Osbourne embracing dance music.
The Proms began in 1895; in 1901 Elgar's newly composed 'Pomp and Circumstance' March No. 1 was introduced as an orchestral piece (a year before the words were written), conducted by Henry Wood who later recollected "little did I think then that the lovely broad melody of the trio would one day develop into our second national anthem".
"Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
British singer stubs (1 C, 289 P) Pages in category "British singers" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent ...