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Phuong ThanhIn 1993, she joined the singing group'' Tam ca Sao Dem'' (The Night Star Trio) and had the opportunity to be heard by songwriter Bao Phuc.
Don RedmanIn 1927 Jean Goldkette convinced Redman to join the Detroit, Michigan - based band McKinney's Cotton Pickers as their musical director and leader.
Mad IceIn 1999 as a young 19 year old, he relocated back to Mwanza, Tanzania and eventually to Dar es Salaam to pursue better opportunities as an MC and performer on various shows and venues.
Alvino ReyWhile playing with Phil Spitalny's orchestra in New York, he changed his name to Alvino Rey in late 1929, to coincide with the Latin music craze in the city.
Chris Leslie (folk musician)Leslie made his first recording at the age of 16, with a Banbury based electric folk band and then went on to forge a successful career around the folk clubs with his brother John - cutting their first album,'' The Ship of Time'' in 1976.
Billy ToddIn 1946, he started singing with a group in his hometown called the Sylacauga Melody Boys.
Henry Johnson (guitarist)In 1969, Johnson and his family then moved back to Chicago where he developed a reputation on the south side as a good local jazz guitarist.
Egyptian LoverHe began recording around Los Angeles in 1982 as a member of the Radio Crew, and also Uncle Jam's Army.
Masayoshi Soken Born in Mexico, Masayoshi Soken joined Square (now Square Enix) in 2001, where his first assignment was arranging two songs on the extended play feel/Go dream : Yuna & Tidus ; he was credited as'' Masayoshi Kikuchi''.
Nachman FahrnerNachman's career as lead-guitarist took off when joining the'' Roadrunners'' in 1988, then one of the only rockabilly bands with a female lead singer.
Zack de la RochaIn high school, he joined the straight edge band, Hardstance, which evolved into the hardcore band, Inside Out around 1988 and gained a large national underground following.
Neno Belan Novi Sad In 1984 Belan formed the band Đavoli (The Devils), which performed music inspired by 1950s rock and roll.
SaminiHe started singing in a church choir at the age of 14 and became a professional musician after a musical collaboration with another musician in 1999.
Sheila SurbanSheila Surban used to sing mostly pop and RnB type of music but as soon she moved to Finland in May 2006, She began working with Sakari Kukko, the founding member of Piirpauke, a band that is famous for playing world music.
Anna VissiBorn in Cyprus, she studied music at conservatories and performed locally before moving to the professional scene in Athens, Greece in 1973, where she signed with Minos and simultaneously collaborated with other musical artists and released promotional singles of her own while studying at the University of Athens.
George GraquitenaShortly after, he started playing bass and singing in Not Dead Yet (1986 -- 88), one of Miami's first prominent hardcore punk bands.
Dennis Kamakahi In 1972, Kamakahi became a member of a Hawaiian music group known as Na Leo O Nuuanu.
Sam CoulsonHis playing attracted the attention of the famous American guitarist Paul Gilbert, who invited him to be a guest instructor for the Great Guitar Escape he created in July 2012, as well as seeing him being invited on stage to sit in with American blues musician Walter Trout in October 2012.
Dar BernardoHe attended singing and dancing workshops when he changed his manager, and was eventually launched as one of the five-member all-male group, 5ive along with Bryan Olano, Leon Eustaquio, Mykel Ong and Tres Gonzales in March 1, 2013.
Phil CoulterBy 1964, his final year at university, Coulter had already written a couple of hit songs in Ireland and he moved to London, where his first job was as an arranger / songwriter with a music publisher in Denmark Street.
Gita Gutawa In 2004 Gutawa was approached by the manager of ADA Band, who had heard her practising at her singing lessons from the band's studio next door.
Mark TinleyHe played a John Peel session in 1984 as part of the band Dormannu, continued forming and reforming bands, worked in and founded various nightclub s, and acquired numerous synthesizer s and other acoustic toys along the way.
Dave Smalley (pop musician) In 1980, he formed The Secret, a classic Rock and Roll band that performed locally in the Cleveland area.
Jimmy James (comedian) Jimmy began his stage career in 1904 joining Willy Netta's Singing Jockeys, a singing group, as'' Terry the blue-eyed Irish boy'' with popular songs of the day Jimmy became a comedian by chance.
Davey Williams (musician)He played in rock bands in high school, and studied with blues musician Johnny Shines from the late 1960s until 1971.
Jessie BakerIn February of 2011 Jessie moved on to be a part of the award-winning group Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver where he played on the making of two albums.
Dick PennerRoy Orbison, then a student at North Texas and friend, became aware of the song and, sometime late in 1955, recorded a demo of it with his band, the Wink Westerners, at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas, and sent it to Columbia Records.
Kenshi YonezuHis high school band, Late Rabbit Edda, performed live once on August 26, 2008, and applied to perform in the Senkō Riot teenage music contest.
Dave Johnson (athlete)Johnson's family moved to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1980, and he attended Crescent Valley High School, He was involved in a series of petty thefts as a teenager, primarily stealing soda pop and beer from local distributors with an assortment of childhood friends until one of them was caught and informed on the rest.
Matthew FisherAfter The Gamblers, he played with various local groups before joining Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers in 1966.
Sandi PattyHer career expanded after she won her first two GMA Dove Awards in 1982, and began singing backup for Bill Gaither and the Bill Gaither Trio.
Wizz JonesThe nickname stuck throughout his school years and when he formed his first band'' The Wranglers'' in 1957 the name became permanent.
Billy Lawrence In 1992, Lawrence made her start in the music industry as a background singer for Jamaica n singer Jimmy Cliff.
Demir DemirkanIn 1992, he studied at Musician's Institute in Los Angeles with Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, and MI founder Paul Hanson, also playing studio and live gigs.
Juris FernandezEarly in 2009, she became a regular performer on ABS-CBN's variety show ASAP, teaming up with Nina, Aiza Seguerra, Sitti, Richard Poon and Duncan Ramos to form a group called the Sessionistas.
El DeBargeIn 1977, he dropped out of high school and began performing with his elder brothers in clubs and venues in Michigan.
Owsley (musician)He was a guitarist and singer in the Southeastern rock club band Baghdad in the mid-80's that played both covers and original work, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1987.
Arthur LymanIt was there in 1954 that he met pianist Martin Denny, who, after hearing him play, offered the 21-year old a spot in his band.
Peter Sprague In 1976 Peter returned to Del Mar for a short time before moving to Boston, Massachusetts to study guitar technique with classical guitarist Albin Czak.
Kyp HarnessHe arrived in Toronto, Ontario in 1984 and began playing in coffee houses and open stages across the city, most notably Fat Albert's, where he met fellow songwriters Ron Sexsmith, Bob Wiseman, and Bob Snider.
David Jeans David began playing drums from an early age, and was taught by his grandfather who was a very skilled drummer, he started playing live in various covers band s. From 1993 he studied music in Perth under Ronny Goodman.
Alan Ford (architect)Inspired by the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival in Byron, Georgia, Ford went on to form the band Nothing (later renamed Free Form).
Harold Ray BrownBrown started a band called the Creators in 1963 in Long Beach, while going to Long Beach Polytechnic High School, to play for High School sock hops and car shows.
Dick CurlessCurless began his music career in 1948, in Ware, Massachusetts, where he hosted a radio show and toured with a local band called the'' Trail Blazers.''
Ralph MooreIn 1972 he moved to California to live with his American father, and graduated from Santa Maria High School where he played in the jazz orchestra and collected several music awards.
Ornette ColemanSeeking a way to work his way out of his home town, he took a job in 1949 with a Silas Green from New Orleans traveling show and then with touring rhythm and blues shows.
Johnny GoudieIn 1988 while living in The Woodlands area outside Houston, Texas Johnny started a funk -- soul band called Panjadrum.
AQi FzonoIn the Summer of 1988, he and the members of Midara Gokoro went to London and encountered an Acid House movement called Second Summer of Love, and changed the band name to Far East Acid House Quartet, making a fresh start.
Gypie MayoAfter being expelled from school, Cawthra began using the performing name of Mayo and worked in a printing shop before joining the blues band White Mule in 1969.
Daveigh Chase In 1999, Chase joined a small band as lead singer and took the stage as the opening act for Reba McEntire.
Keith MorrisBorn and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1978 debut EP Nervous Breakdown.
Fred SturmWhile studying at the University of North Texas College of Music in the 1970s, Sturm was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band, which has produced dozens of professionally engineered albums, of which are part of UNT Jazz Department's annual Lab Band recording project launched in 1967.
Johnny BushIn 1952 he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he began solo career in area honky-tonks like the Texas Star Inn before switching to drums.
Hitomi Shimatani At the age of seventeen, while still in high school, Shimatani attended'' The Japan Audition 1997'', where she was chosen as the winner out of around 200,000 people and got a recording contract with the Avex label.
Jim AtonWinning the audition, Aton subsequently toured with Fields during the summer of 1950 accompanying Jazz legend Billie Holiday on a three month tour from Chicago to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and back.
Jim Marshall (businessman)To become more proficient on the drums and to better emulate his idol, Gene Krupa, from 1946 -- 48 Marshall took weekly lessons from Max Abrams.
Walter CasselIn 1933, while studying dentistry at Creighton University, Cassel was provided with the opportunity to sing for renowned baritone Lawrence Tibbett after attending one of Tibbet's recitals in Omaha, Nebraska.
Nicky Hopkins Hopkins' studies were interrupted in 1960 when he left school at 16 to became the pianist with Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages until, two years later, he and fellow Savages Bernie Watson, Rick Brown (aka Ricky Fenson) and Carlo Little, joined the renowned blues harmonica player Cyril Davies, who had just left Blues Incorporated, and became the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars.
Wayne Wade Wade's career began in the mid-1970s, working with Yabby You, 1976's'' Black Is Our Colour'' immediately achieving success in Jamaica.
Michael de Grussa de Grussa started his music career performing in restaurants, hotels and bars around Perth, Western Australia in 1999, and has released two albums of original work.
Caroline PeytonImpressed by what was happening in Bloomington, Peyton moved there in 1970 and began performing with a group of musicians that included singer Bob Lucas and songwriter and producer Mark Bingham.
Stacy ParrishHe started to get serious about music in 1985 when he co-founded the band Arena with high school friends Jeff Cannon and Michael Brown.
Stewart WalkerAfter selling his guitar and abandoning'' lead singer'' ambitions in Athens, Georgia in 1993, com / Stewart Walker started to assemble a studio.
Jett CrazeHe formed several rock bands beginning in 1996, playing gigs throughout New York City.
Tito LaraIn 1950, the owner of Mardí Records heard and was impressed by Lara's singing and asked him to form a quartet including a female voice.
Johnny LaborielAt 16 years old, in 1958 he joined the rock and roll group'' Los Rebeldes del Rock,'' where he began his professional career.
Kenneth C. "Jethro" BurnsIn 1936, he auditioned for a talent contest at Knoxville radio station WNOX where he met Henry Haynes, also 16.
Mervyn WarrenIn 1980, while both juniors in high school, Warren and Kibble joined a preexisting, male, a cappella vocal quartet at Oakwood University, and the resulting sextet became known as Alliance.
Laura MinadeoIn 2003 Minadeo met Geri Verdi, a local blues singer who taught her rock, blues, and soul music and taught her guitar.
Randy BlackHe did not start touring to any large degree until he joined the band'' The Kaotics'' in 1982.
James Stevenson (musician) Stevenson started his career with the London - based punk band Chelsea in 1977, while he was still at school studying for A Level exams.
Mark KnopflerUpon graduation in 1973, Knopfler moved to London and joined a High Wycombe - based band called Brewers Droop, appearing on the album The Booze Brothers.
Lucy O'Brien In 1979, whilst attending a convent school in Southampton, she formed a punk band aptly named'' the Catholic Girls''.
Cliff EdwardsHe got his first break in 1918 at the Arsonia Cafe in Chicago, Illinois, where he performed a song called'' Ja-Da'', written by the club's pianist, Bob Carleton.
Steve Miller (musician)In 1950 the family relocated to Texas and Steve, who was nearly seven, began attending Dallas' St. Mark's School, a non-sectarian preparatory day school for boys where, about eight years later, he formed his first band,'' The Marksmen''.
Auriel AndrewThe youngest of seven children, she started singing at the age of four, and began her professional career in the late 1960's working with Chad Morgan in the Adelaide and Port Lincoln areas, and appeared on live TV music broadcasts, including shows hosted by Roger Cardwell, Johnny Mack & Ernie Sigley, and then becoming a regular on Channel Nine's Heather McKean & Reg Lindsey Show.
Paul S. VictorIn 1987, Victor was asked to audition for a Funk band called FTE (created out of'' The Time'' Fame) his chops again made him stand out in the clubs and he developed a whole new following, He was soon asked to be the guitar teacher for Mercedes (a Jam/Lewis act) an all female band produced by Jam and Lewis.
Ronan Hardiman Before 1990 he worked in the Bank of Ireland for twelve years, and occasionally performed in local bands.
Michael McDonald (singer)He was discovered while playing with a group called Blue and consequently moved to Los Angeles in 1970.
Kid RamosAfter playing at the parties of friends and at local nightclub s in his teenage years, he turned fully professional when joining James Harman's band in 1980.
Barry Palmer (British singer)In 1983, Mike Oldfield heard one of the Triumvirat albums and was very interested in the voice of their lead vocalist Barry Palmer.
Patty Smyth After growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood Gerritsen Beach, Smyth joined Scandal as vocalist in 1981.
Dan ManganWith a bank loan and a small community of musicians who would offer cheap or free sessions, Mangan recorded Postcards & Daydreaming in the summer of 2005 with local British ex-pat Daniel Elmes and good friend Simon Kelly.
Merle TravisHis unique guitar style inspired many guitarists who followed, most notably Chet Atkins, who first heard Travis's radio broadcasts on Cincinnati's WLW Boone County Jamboree in 1939 while living with his father in rural Georgia.
Thelma TerryAfter playing in and around Chicago for some years, sometimes with her'' all-girl'' band ('' Thelma Combes and her Volcanic Orchestra''), sometimes in a stringed quartet, she found her way into the house band of Colosimo's Restaurant (owned by Capone) in 1925.
Sam Bailey In 1996, then 18-year-old Bailey formed the ska duo Girls Next Door with her friend Julie Nunney.
J. B. LongHe held a local talent contest for white musicians, and a group by the name of the Cauley Family from nearby Duplin County, North Carolina won the contest, recording the song (and 23 others) in a three-day New York recording session August 7 -- 9, 1934.
Donny HathawayHe also formed a jazz trio to work around the local area with drummer Ric Powell while there, but during 1967 left Howard without a degree, after receiving job offers in the music business.
Aida NikolaychukShe started singing in the first grade, when she became the school choir soloist, and later on performed at school as a hip hop backup singer until 2002, and in her school choir in the fifth and eighth grades.
Aindra DasaSo when his family broke up in 1971, and he moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland, it was the guitar that he turned to, playing with a number of bands and beginning to make a name for himself.
Albert AsriyanDuring this time he also performed with several pop-groups and was the band leader of group Bakinskiye Devushki (English : Girls of Baku) where in 1979 he met his future wife com/about.
Bonnie BramlettShe eventually moved to Los Angeles, where she met fellow singer Delaney Bramlett in 1967 at a bowling alley gig for his band, The Shindogs.
Fatgums Fatgums started his music career in 1993 as a DJ / turntablist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Phil Spector Having learned to play guitar, Spector performed'' Rock Island Line'' in a talent show at his high school Fairfax High School.
Dan Clancy (musician) Dan's professional career began at the age of 16 joining fellow high school musician and friend Dave Komel in 1974 forming the folk/rock duo'' Dan & Dave''.
Gary Pig GoldImmediately after attending a Jan and Dean concert in Toronto during the summer of 1980, Gold relocated to California where he formed The Loved Ones, as well as promoting concerts for local bands such as The Crowd over the next three years.
John Dawson (musician)By 1969, Dawson had written a number of country rock songs, and Garcia had become interested in playing pedal steel guitar.
Mark Curtis (broadcaster)Curtis was also a professional musician in the late 1970s and early 1980, touring the Midwest'' bar band'' circuit with'' The Strays'','' Mike and the Mysteries'', and'' Fat Tuesday''.
Florence BallardIn 1959, Ballard was spotted on her porch by a local talent scout named Milton Jenkins, then manager of the vocal group the Primes, as he sought to find female vocalists to fill spots for a sister group of the Primes.
Jason Reeves (songwriter)Attending Iowa City High School, Reeves was involved with various choir s and vocal groups, even touring Europe with the Midwest Honor Choir in 2002.