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The Heroine Sheiks was a New York, United States-based noise rock band until early 2006, when the band called it quits. It began in 1999 as a collaboration of Shannon Selberg, George Porfiris, Norman Westberg and John Fell. Selberg emerged as a major songwriter in the complete history of the band whose sound was darker and more sinister than his previous work in The Cows. With multiple references to the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the band explored a thematic quality of black comedy. Many of the more successful bands from New York in the last ten years record sales wise got...

The Sheiks were a portuguese band formed in 1963 by Paulo de Carvalho (drums and vocals), Fernando Chaby (guitar), Carlos Mendes (vocals, guitar and bass) and Jorge Barreto (guitar). Nicknamed the portuguese Beatles, they played the typical rock and roll of that time and of wich they were the percursors in Portugal. In 1964 Barreto leaves the band being replaced by Edmundo de Brito Silva (bass). .

1996 veröffentlichte Sheik sein Debütalbum u. a. mit der Hitsingle "Barely Breathing". 1998 wurde er für den Grammy für die Best Male Pop Vocal Performance nominiert. 2000 komponierte er Phantom Moon nach Gedichten von Steven Sater. 2003 schrieb er mit Sater das Musical Spring Awakening. Dafür erhielt er 2007 zwei Tony Awards (Beste Originalmusik und Beste Orchestrierung) und 2008 auch einen Grammy Award. Daneben komponierte er mehrere Filmmusiken. .