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Vibe believed that there would be no "all-Black female R&B group having a chemistry, cultural and commercial impact as remotely comparable as TLC" [62] and dubbed CrazySexyCool as "the blueprint for female ensembles to follow". [63] The Philippine Daily Inquirer called TLC "the most influential female group the world has ever seen". [64]
An all-female band is a band which has consisted entirely of female musicians for at least three-quarters of its active career. This article only lists all-female bands who perform original material that is either authored by themselves or authored by another musician for that band's use. Therefore vocal groups (girl groups) are not included.
Page left in 2009, reducing the group to a quartet. The band's style has evolved throughout their career, and their music, which began as exclusively acoustic, quickly grew to encompass a mixture of pop, rock and folk. [5] [6] The band's live performances feature comedic banter and freestyle rapping between songs. [7]
This holds up especially true for electronic dance music festivals. EDM is notorious for being one of music’s largest boy’s club, with women making up just 11 percent of artists at electronic music festivals in 2015. And in 2014, just 18 percent of EDM labels included women on their rosters.
Within weeks the group's eponymous debut album, Celtic Woman, reached No. 1 on Billboard's World Music chart, eventually breaking Andrea Bocelli's long-standing record of chart-topping longevity on 22 July 2006 by having stayed at No. 1 for 68 weeks. [9] The album held the top position on the Billboard World Music chart for 81 weeks total. [10]
They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were especially popular during the 1960s, with their best-known configuration of Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourine ; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar ...
The Make-Up were joined in late 1999 by a fifth member, Alex Minoff (of the groups Golden and Extra Golden), [2] who played guitar with the group until the band's dissolution in early 2000. [3] The Make-Up combined garage rock, soul, and a self-styled liberation theology to make a new genre they called "Gospel Yeh-Yeh". [4]
Arabic music is an amalgam of the music of the Arab people in the Arabian Peninsula and the music of all the varied peoples that make up the Arab world. In Egypt during the medieval era , male professional musicians during this period were called alateeyeh (plural), or alatee (singular), which means 'a player upon an instrument'.