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Mabel McVey, born in Malaga (February 20, 1996) and raised in Stockholm, now spends most of her time in London. Mabel has music in her blood. Her mom is Nineties singer Neneh Cherry, the pioneer of early R'n'B, and her dad is Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey. She grew up around musicians and would often join her parents on the road - unsurprisingly she has known she wanted to make her own music since she was five. Fast forward a decade and Mabel went on to study music production in Sweden but she kept the fact she was writing her...

The Mabels began in 1996 as a folkie trio from Lismore, New South Wales, before relocating to the tight-knit indie scene surrounding Melbourne's Candle Records. Original members Anthony Atkinson (vocals/guitar), Kim Parker (bass/piano accordion/vocals) and Warwick Lobb (guitar/trumpet/vocals), experimented with a couple of drummers before meeting David Kneale late in 1996. Five months later the band released a six-track EP entitled Caravan Park Girlfriend, produced by Mick Thomas from Weddings Parties Anything and recorded in the heat of the Australia Day long weekend, January 1997. The laid back feel of the recording process is reflected in the folk tinged, almost...

Mabel Mercer (3 February 1900 – 20 April 1984) was an English-born cabaret singer who performed in the United States, Britain, and Europe with the greats in jazz and cabaret. She was a featured performer at Chez Bricktop in Paris, owned by the legendary hostess Bricktop, and performed in such clubs as Le Ruban Bleu, Tony's, the RSVP, the Carlyle, the St. Regis Hotel, and eventually her own room, the Byline Club. Among those who frequently attended Mercer's shows was Frank Sinatra, who made no secret of his emulating her phrasing and story-telling techniques. Mercer was born in Burton upon...

Fatih Karaca (31 August 1985, Mersin, Turkey) better known with his stage name Mabel Matiz, is a Turkish pop music singer-song writer. He chose his stage name from 2 different words that he is inspired by. 'Mabel' is coming from the famous Turkish novel 'Kumral Ada Mavi Tuna' written by Buket Uzuner. It is the nickname of Tuna who is one of the main characters in the book. 'Matiz' is a slag word in old Greek language and it means "drunk". Mabel Matiz defines his whole nickname as it reflects and shows his point of view about this world and...

Mabel Scott (30 April 1915, Richmond, Virginia – 19 July 2000, Los Angeles), was an American gospel music and R&B vocalist. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Mabel Scott resided in New York and Cleveland before arriving on the West Coast blues scene in 1942. Mabel is probably remembered more for her 1948 hits Elevator Boogie and Boogie Woogie Santa Claus than for her 1949-1951 marriage to the featured piano player of Elevator Boogie, Charles Brown of Johnny Moore's Three Blazers. .