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Fatima Rainey is a pop/soul singer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Her debut single, "Love Is A Wonderful Thing," became a smash hit across Europe and Japan in the mid-'90s, and following the success of the single, Fatima released her debut album of the same title in 1997. .

Bhob Rainey, a soprano saxophonist and composer, is best known as a solo artist and as one half of nmperign, with whom he plays alien extended technique effects that are influenced by electronic music, environmental sounds and free improvisation. Rainey studied at the New England Conservatory of Music with free jazz saxophonist Joe Maneri. Rainey's music during his early- to mid-twenties was, like Maneri's, characterized by long microtonal lines. Rainey's first CD, Ink, featuring Dan DeChellis, was released in 1997. After a controversial 1998 solo concert in Washington D. C. attracted a considerable amount of attention to Rainey's music, he...

Rainey (born Rayney Haynes on August 16, 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter. She is also an actor, producer, writer of fiction and visual artist. She is probably best known for her contribution on the "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" soundrack (a film starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt). She performed the songs "I Can Fly" and "Technique". In 1987 Rainey toured France for six months as backup vocalist and duet singer for French superstar Johnny Hallyday. The following year, she appeared on the T.V. show "Star Search" and won Best Female Vocalist three times. .

Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (Columbus, Georgia, April 26, 1886 – Columbus, Georgia, December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues. She did much to develop and popularize the form and was an important influence on younger blues women, such as Bessie Smith, and their careers. She first appeared on stage in Columbus in "A Bunch of Blackberries" at the age of 14. She then joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, the Rabbit Foot...