Wednesday 28 November 2007
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Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968), is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.
She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads. Some of her most popular songs include “Angel”, “Building a Mystery”, “Adia”, “Possession”, “Fallen”, “I Will Remember You”, and “World on Fire”. Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won four Juno Awards and two Grammy Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s.
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Canadian singer-songwriters,
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Gemini Award winners,
Grammy Award winners,
Juno Award winners,
Lilith Fair,
Live 8,
Members of the Order of British Columbia,
Nettwerk,
Nova Scotia musicians,
Officers of the Order of Canada,
The October Game
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Thursday 8 November 2007
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Leonard Albert “Lenny” Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose “retro” style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads.
In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, he often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. He won the Grammy Award for “Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance” four years in a row from 1998 to 2002. He was ranked number ninety-three on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Lenny Kravitz has sold an estimated twenty million albums worldwide.
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American rock singer-songwriters,
American vegetarians,
Bahamian Americans,
Black Jews,
Black rock musicians,
English-language singers,
Falsettos,
Grammy Award winners,
Living people,
Madonna,
New York City musicians,
People from New York City,
Rock harmonica players,
Sitar players,
Ukrainian-Americans,
Vanessa Paradis,
Virgin Records artists
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