Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York. Formed in 1980, the group is known for lyrics based on fantasy (particularly sword and sorcery) and mythology (particularly Norse mythology and Greco-Roman mythology), as well as numerous songs celebrating the genre and its core audience. The band is also known for a loud and emphatic sound. In an interview for MTV in February 2007, bassist Joey DeMaio lamented that "these days, there's a real lack of big, epic metal that is drenched with crushing guitars and choirs and orchestras… so it's nice to be one of the few bands that's actually doing that". In 1984, the band was included......
Mantovani was born in Venice, Italy and his father was the concertmaster of La Scala orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. His family moved to England in 1912, where he studied at Trinity College of Music in London. After graduation, he formed his own orchestra, which played in and around Birmingham. By the time World War II broke out, his orchestra was one of the most popular in UK, both on the BBC and in live performances.He was also musical director for a large number of musicals and other plays, including ones by Noel Coward. After the war, he concentrated on recording, and eventually gave up live performance altogether. He worked with arranger and composer Ronnie Binge,......
Marko Kristian "Markoolio" Lehtosalo (born 1 January 1975 in Lahti, Finland) is a Swedish-Finnish multi-platinum selling recording artist, singer, musician, songwriter, actor, and comedian. His stage name Markoolio is a portmanteau on his first name Marko and the stage name of the world renowned American rapper Coolio.At the age of six months, Lehtosalo migrated from Finland to Sweden where he grew up completing primary and secondary school in Orminge, Sweden. Following the completion of his compulsory military service as a coastal ranger sniper in Ekenäs, Finland, he returned to Sweden and was discovered when rapping on a commuter train in Stockholm. Markoolio is......
There is more than one artist with this name:1. Martin Svensson, Sweden2. Martin (alternative rock band), Brazil3. Martin Hoberg Hedegaard, Denmark4. Martin van de Vrugt, The Netherlands5. Martin (leftfield) London6. Martin Ricca, Argentina7. Martin (punk band), United States1) Martin Svensson is a Swedish singer, musician and author. He made his breakthrough in 1997 with the track "Rymdraket" from his debut album "Pojkdrömmar". In 1999 Martin participated in the Swedish national Eurovision Song Contest with the song "(Du ar sa) Yeah Yeah, Wow Wow". It became a major hit in Sweden and is included on his second album "En helt vanlig......
For the Swedish band Martinez (Danseband /Dancehall) - see the biography page in Swedish! Martinez, real name Martin Swanstein, was born in 1981 and raised in the southernmost part of Sweden. At quite early age he discovered techno and later house music and since he already played keys, guitar, and flute it was a natural development to start to produce dance music on his computer. He also got himself a pair of turntables and started to hunt records. At this time Martin was too young to attend the clubs. Instead he arranged his own house parties on the beach, often with himself as DJ.Some years later, via a demo tape, Martin got a chance to develop his producer skills in......
