January 2008 Blog Posts (42)

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born on May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish pop singer-songwriter. He is the son of singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina

Isabel Preysler.

Iglesias's career started on Indie label…

Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, as the oldest child to Ronald Fenty, her Barbadian father (of Irish and African ancestry) and Monica Fenty, her mother who is of Guyanese descent. She has two younger brothers named Rorrey and

Rajad. Rihanna went to Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in

Barbados, and then on to one of Barbados' Grammar (older secondary)…

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles ( born September 4, 1981) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion

designer. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of the

R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling…

The Winter Music Conference is a weeklong electronic music event, held every March since the mid-1980s in Miami. It is aimed at professionals such as DJs, record label

representatives and promoters. The event is attended by a who's who of the

electronic music scene, and it is a sought-after place to network, premiere

tracks and showcase skills. As such, the event has major…

Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is an electronic musician, better known by his stage name, BT. He has been called the "Father of

Trance" for his pioneering in the trance genre, and "Prince of Dance

Music" for his m…

The template for a new style of dance music (that by the mid to late 1980's was being referred to as techno) was primarily developed by four individuals, Juan

Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May (the so called "Belleville

Three"), and Eddie Fowlkes, all of whom attended school together at

Bellevilles High, near Detroit, Michigan. By the close of the 1980's the four

had operated…

Back spinning describes the act of manually manipulating a vinyl record (currently playing on a turntable), using enough force to cause the record to spin

backward (despite the rotation of the platter beneath it). It is often used in

DJing; many DJs use specialty slipmats so that friction will be reduced between

the record and the platter. Back spinning is used to "rewind"…

Audio mixing is used for sound recording, audio editing, and sound systems to balance the relative volume, frequency, and dynamical content of a number of sound sources. Typically, these sound sources are the different

musical instruments in a band or vocalists, the sections of an orchestra,

announcers and journalists, crowd noises, and so on.…

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that was developed in Detroit, Michigan, during the mid to late 1980s. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno, a

genre in its own right, is seen as the foundation upon which many other

subgenres have been built.

The initial take on techno…

Paul Johnson is a house DJ and producer from Chicago, Illinois.

He first began DJing in Chicago in 1985, and started working as a producer in 1990, doing tracks for Chicago house labels Dance Mania, Relief, Cajual, Nite Life,

Undaground Therapy, Defected, DJax Up Beats, Peacefrog, and Moody. His tune

"Get Get Down"…

Dynamix II is an electro group founded 1986 in Miami, Florida. The members of the group are David Noller and Scott Weiser, although the original team was David Noller

and Lon Alonzo. The duo took their name from the Dynamix mixing board used in

the production of their first single.…

Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM, featuring

repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and

down throughout a track. It often features crescendos and breakdowns. Sometimes

vocals are also utilized. The style is arguably derived from a…

Hard house, also

known

as

pumping

house,

is…

R. Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly on January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional

rapper. He first appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of

Public Announcement whose smooth mixture of hip hop beats, soul, and funk

propelled the group's 1992 debut album Born into the '90s to platinum…

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. He came to fame as one of the

lead singers of pop boy band 'N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards as well as

an Emmy Award. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold

over 7 million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo…

Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975) better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of

the kids' television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid.

Ferguson was also a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders. She is

currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, of…