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Merle Ronald Haggard (né le 6 avril 1937 aux États-Unis) est un chanteur, guitariste et compositeur de country music. Émergeant de la prison dans les années 1960, il participe avec Buck Owens et son groupe The Strangers à l'émergence du Bakersfield sound , caractérisé par les guitares vibrantes, les harmonies vocales serrées qui n'existaient pas dans le Nashville sound. Dans les années 1970, il participe à la montée du mouvement Outlaw Country. Ses chansons ont pour thèmes l'amour, la perte, le regret et le rachat. Haggard est né à Bakersfield en Californie. Ses parents, Flossie Mae Harp et James Francis...

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The Merlons began their career in the early 1990s as The Merlons Of Nehemiah, based out of the university town of Erlangen, Germany. After only a few concerts, they signed to Musical Tragedies and soon released their debut CD "Cantoney". Their early sound could perhaps be described as dark folk, mixing medieval sounding songs based on various exotic and rare acoustic instruments, with modern independent rock elements. Although the songs all sound so old, in reality the Merlons are gifted song writers, writing virtually all the songs on their albums themselves. On their first two albums, they even developed their...

Rebecca Saunders (born 19 December 1967, London) is an English composer. From 1991 to 1994 Saunders studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, and in 1997 she completed a doctorate in composition with Nigel Osborne. Saunders has received the Busoni Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for composition, the composition prize from the ARD and the Paul Hindemith Prize as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (2003). She currently (2009-2010) holds the post of Capell-Compositeur (composer-in-residence) at the Staatskapelle Dresden. Her piece, Traces, received its UK premiere in...

Ben "Tattoo" Saunders is a singer, known from the Dutch TV-show "The Voice of Holland", he won the competition. From the start of The Voice of Holland, ben was highly praised for his amazing voice and ability to perform. The finals of The Voice of Holland aired on January 21nd, 2011, and Ben competed against Pearl Jozefzoon, Kim de Boer and Leonie Meijer. Ben won the competition and is now busy with his career and probably an international contract. .