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Amel Bent (born Amel Bentbachir on June 21, 1985 in Paris, France) is a French singer who grew up in the French commune of Joué-lès-Tours with her Algerian father and Moroccan mother. Her career jump started after making it to the semi-finals of the reality T.V. show Nouvelle Star 2, France's version of Pop Idol. Although her performance did not make it to the finals, she was still noticed by some of the show's producers, and would end up making her debut album later that year, titled: Un Jour d'été, released in late 2004. The album would sell more than...

Oscar Benton (born Ferdinand van Eif on February 3, 1949) is a Dutch vocalist and the founder of the Oscar Benton Blues Band in 1967. The band rose to fame in 1968 by being a runner up in the Jazz Festival, Loosdrecht, Holland. In his solo career, Oscar Benton released with his 1981 homonymous album the Bensonhurst Blues, written by Artie Kaplan & Artie Kornfeld, and produced by the EMI Records. The Bensonhurst Blues, which is considered to be Oscar Benton's best hit, was part of the soundtrack of the 1999 movie La Bûche. Earlier it was on the soundtrack...

The New Shapes are Mark Roberts (vocals and guitar), David O'Connor (guitars), Euan Hinshelwood (bass and keys) and Adam Lambert (drums).The New Shapes have played London more than enough times to gain a familiarity with themselves and what they want to do. They recorded with Liam Watson at his Toerag studios in East London, garnering much attention for their exceptional songwriting talent. In August 2005 they released their striking debut single 'You got me running round' to great acclaim, scoring XFM playlisting and impressing Claire Sturgess enough for her to choose it as her 'record of the week'. And with...

There is more than one artist with this name: 1. The original The Shapes released their "Part Of The Furniture" EP in 1979, which contained such memorable tracks as "Wot's For Lunch, Mum? (Not Beans Again)" and "(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)". They recorded a session for John Peel's BBC Radio One show, and played gigs supporting The Killjoys, The Cure and The Fall. After releasing their second single "Airline Disaster" b/w "Blast Off!" on Terri Hooley's Belfast-based label Good Vibrations, they self-imploded. However, John Esplen persuaded them to release "Songs For Sensible People" on Overground Records in 1998...

Outta Control is a Canadian eurodance project. This project featured Barry Harris, who also was producer for E-Magine and Kon Kan, Rachid Wehbi on keyboards and the powerful vocals of Kimberley Wetmore. Outta Control released the album "Outta Control" and the singles "Tonight It's Party Time", "Sinful Wishes", "One of Us" and "Together In Electric Dreams / For You I Will". Outta Control is also a Hardcore punk band from the Northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. .