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The Frogs were an American experimental rock music band founded in 1980, in Milwaukee. Their songs have a strong satirical bent, and history of controversy has dogged the band. Centering around brothers Jimmy Flemion and Dennis Flemion, guitarist and drummer respectively, the Frogs added bassist Jay Tiller in 1983. That same year, Jimmy began wearing what was to become his trademark stage gimmick, a pair of six-foot bat wings. Although in their early days, the Frogs played mostly in coffeehouses, they soon developed a large following, due mostly to their fan-friendly shows. In 1988, the Frogs, ardent home-tapers, self-released their...

Freddy Fender (born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, USA on 4 June 1937 – 14 October 2006) was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and the subsequent remake of his own "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights". In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." The song became popular in 1959, but he was beset by legal troubles after he...

A distinguished musician, Freddy Torrealba is one of the world's premier virtuosos on the charango. Born in Santiago, Chile in 1966. In 1979 he joins "Casa Kamarundi", a centre of cultural resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1980 he begins his musical studies at the Experimental Artistic School of La Reina, where he defined his love for folkloric music. He completes his studies in guitar and begins learning charango. Since then, he and his beloved charango have been inseparable. In November of 1992, the renowned Cuban singer-composer Silvio Rodriguez, after watching one of his performances, was so impressed that he...

The Screaming Frogs, formed in 2004, are Tama (vocals), 若菜拓馬 (guitar), 屋敷豪太 (drums) and 佐久間正英 (bass and keyboard). .

Fred Brathwaite (born 1960), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s. He is credited with helping to broaden the exposure of Hip-hop beyond The Bronx. In late-1980, Freddy was cast along with fellow Lower East Side graffiti writer Lee Quinones in Glen O'Brien's film Downtown 81 (1981). That film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in his Lower Manhattan environment and the music that surrounded it. Shortly after, Freddy began production along with filmmaker Charlie Ahearn...