The breakout of the Pointer Sisters

In their youth the Pointer Sisters listened and sung Gospel music. They were living in West Oakland (USA). Their parents (Reverend Elton and Sarah Po…

Dizrythmia from the Enz

In 1972 Tim Finn (vocals) and Phil Judd (vocals/guitar) started the band Split Ends named after the split ends of hairs. They started performing arou…

Suzanne Vega's first 4 albums

Suzanne Nadine Peck was born on July 11th 1959 in Santa Monica, California. Her parents (Pat Vega who was a computer systems analyst and Richard Peck…

Cream of the crop

In 1966 Eric Clapton was already a very popular blues guitarist for the Yardbirds and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. But his role was always li…

Situation of Yazoo

Vince Clarke co-founded the band Depeche Mode and was responsible for the hit single "I Just Can't Get Enough". After the debut album o…

André Derain

André Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, just outside Paris. By 1895 he studied painting on his own. In 1898 he studied to be an engineer but meanwhi…

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola Jr. was born on August 6th 1928 in Pittsburgh. He was the 4th child of Ondrej and Julia. They were emigrants from Mikó, Slovakia. Warh…

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