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Oscar Lopez (born 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist.
Lopez moved to Canada in 1979 and settled in Calgary, Alberta. He began pursuing music as a career, becoming a popular draw on the Canadian folk festival circuit, and released his debut album, Hola, in 1989. Several of his albums have been nominated for Canada's Juno Awards, and 2000's Armando's Fire was his first Juno win, for Best Instrumental Album. He has recorded on the Narada label.
Although he has continued recording, Lopez has not toured or performed in several years due to a battle with depression. As...
Oscar Peterson (Montréal, 15 agosto 1925 – Toronto, 23 dicembre 2007) è stato un pianista canadese di musica jazz.
Straordinario virtuoso del pianoforte è stato probabilmente uno tra i pianisti jazz più prolifici della storia della musica afroamericana. Peterson è anche autore di numerosi testi di esercizi jazz per giovani pianisti. La sua personale e sbalorditiva tecnica pianistica, al servizio di un potente swing, lo rendono stilisticamente immediatamente riconoscibile all'interno di qualsiasi contesto.
Di derivazione blues, il suo stile è stato paragonato a quello del suo predecessore e maestro Art Tatum. La sua sterminata discografia lo vede al fianco dei...
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...
Oscar And The Wolf is a young Belgian band signed to PIAS Recordings. Their music sounds like a combination of dark melancholic pop with danceable rhythms, according to singer Max Colombie.
In june 2012 their EP ‘Summer Skin’ was released. The EP was recorded in a church and it contained the single 'Orange Sky'.
In 2014 they released their debut album 'Entity', which went to #1 in the album chart of their home country Belgium. The album also received generally favorable reviews from critics. Both 'Princes' and ' Strange Entity' became small hits.
The band has already played in different...
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (pronounced /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song", and much of his work is part of the unofficial Great American Songbook. He wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with composers, including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with Richard...