The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time.The group were integral to the evolution of pop music into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.Their sound, rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways. In later years they experimented with unconventional recording techniques and additional music styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As they continued to draw influences from a variety of cultural sources, their musical and lyrical sophistication grew, and they came to be seen as embodying the era's socio-cultural movements.

ABBA

ABBA (Swedish pronunciation: [²abːa]) are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982. ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 at The Dome in Brighton, UK, giving Sweden its first triumph in the contest. They are the most successful group to have taken part in the competition.

Benny Andersson

Göran Bror Benny Andersson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbɛnːʏ ²anːdɛˌʂɔn] (About this soundlisten); born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer, producer, member of the Swedish music group ABBA, and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he worked also as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester.

Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida)

Princess Anni-Frid Synni of Reuss, Countess of Plauen (née Lyngstad;[a] born 15 November 1945), better known by her nickname Frida, is a Norwegian-Swedish singer, songwriter, and environmentalist. She is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the Swedish pop band ABBA.

Agnetha Fältskog

Åse Agneta Fältskog (born 5 April 1950), better known as Agnetha Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋ²neːta ²fɛltskuːɡ] (About this soundlisten)), is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. She achieved success in Sweden after the release of her debut album Agnetha Fältskog in 1968, and reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA, which has sold over 380 million albums and singles worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists in history.

Björn Ulvaeus

Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (credited as Björn Ulvæus [bjœːɳ ɵlˈveːɵs]; born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish songwriter, producer, a member of the Swedish musical group ABBA, and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. He co-produced the film Mamma Mia! with fellow ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson.

Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly. With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Parton's albums in the 1990s sold less well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records.

Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. She was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records and remains one of the best-selling music artists of all time with 200 million records sold worldwide. Houston released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have been certified diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[citation needed] Her crossover appeal on the popular music charts—as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know"—influenced several African-American women artists who followed in her footsteps.

Jacky Cheung

Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor. With more than 25 million records sold as of 2003, he is regarded as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" and has been deemed the "God of Songs" of Hong Kong

Michael Learns to Rock

Michael Learns to Rock (also known as MLTR and under their Danny Phantom alias Dumpty Humpty) is a Danish Soft Rock, Pop Rock band, composed of Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz, Kåre Wanscher, and Søren Madsen. The band was formed in 1988 and have sold over 11 million records over the course of their career, with the majority sold in Europe & Asia. Despite being Danish, the band performs songs in English, due to their failed attempts of fame in the United States. The band has attributed its success in Asia to their drugs-free, clean-living image and to singing in English as a second language. MLTR has earned Gold and Platinum status for records in many countries and won so many awards, including the Gold Preis Award from RSH, Germany and "The Best Performing Act of the Year" at the SEA Grammy Awards in Singapore. In addition, their song "Take Me To Your Heart" was awarded "most downloaded single of the year 2006" had 6 million or more paid downloads. The band has recorded nine studio albums as well as a number of live and greatest hits albums. Their latest studio album, Still, was released on 21 March 2018. During the peak of their popularity in the late-1990s and early-2000s, MLTR was described by critics as being "as good (if not better) a band as any current big name group out of America or the UK." According to the band's record label releases, their sound is "the perfect balance of a Scandinavian glow and the international pop song that has been instrumental in forming the compelling sound of the band", although the lead singer and songwriter, Jascha Richter, disagrees with this, maintaining that the music defies geographical categorization.

Jascha Richter

Jascha Richter (born 24 June 1963) is an American-born Danish singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock, where he composes and sings most of their songs. Some of his best known songs includes, "25 Minutes", "The Actor", "Sleeping Child", "That's Why (You Go Away)", "Take Me To Your Heart", "Complicated Heart", "Someday", "Wild Women", "Out of the Blue", "You Took My Heart Away" and "Paint My Love".

John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership. Along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group achieved worldwide fame during the 1960s. In 1969, Lennon started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, Yoko Ono, and he continued to pursue a solo career following the Beatles' break-up in April 1970

Mikkel Lentz

Kåre Wanscher

Søren Madsen

Marina Kapuro

Marina Stanislavovna Kapuro (Russian: Марина Станиславовна Капуро, born 15 October 1961, Leningrad), is a Russian singer. She entered the Pioneers Palace's ensemble at the age of eight. Later she completed at Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. Together with composer Yuri Berendyukov, she founded the folk rock band Yabloko (apple). She also worked with Yuri Morozov, Chizh & Co, Nautilus Pompilius, and with the celtic rock group Welladay.

George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin, CBE (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle" in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles' original albums. Paul McCartney said upon Martin's death, "If anyone earned the title of the fifth Beatle, it was George". Martin's career spanned more than six decades of work in music, film, television and live performance. Before working with the Beatles and other pop musicians, he produced comedy and novelty records in the early 1950s, working with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Bernard Cribbins, among others. In his career he produced 30 number-one hit singles in the United Kingdom and 23 number-one hits in the United States. He also held a number of senior executive roles at media companies and contributed to a wide range of charitable causes, including his work for The Prince's Trust and the Caribbean island of Montserrat. In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1996.

Lý Hải

Ly Hai real name Nguyen Van Hai (born September 28, 1968 in My Tho town of My Tho province - now My Tho city in Tien Giang province) is a Vietnamese singer. Entering into the field of singing since 1993, but his name is only really famous when he collaborated with manager Vinh Thuyen to produce the series of film music albums for his whole life in 2001. With the success of This series of albums, Ly Hai has successfully built its own brand and became one of the most popular male singers at that time, especially for the Southwest region audience. With the forte showing the songs of the young music genre, Chinese song in Vietnamese music with simple melody and lyrics, Ly Hai was once named "Popular music star".

Minh Thuận

Minh Thuan (1969 - 2016), is a Vietnamese singer and actor. Minh Thuan possesses a gentle voice and is able to show success in various genres such as ballad, pop, folk, lyrical and even reformed.

Khúc Lan

When it comes to female songwriter Khúc Lan, music lovers often immediately recall her popular Vietnamese-lyric adaptations of foreign songs from the 1980s and 1990s.

There is no detailed public information about Khúc Lan’s real name or date of birth. What is known is that she is the younger sister of composer Phượng Vũ, the author of the famous military song “Áo nhà binh” (“The Military Uniform”), which was sung by Duy Khánh before 1975.

According to composer Phượng Vũ, his parents were married for three years without having children. Seeing this, his paternal grandmother became worried and arranged a second wife for his father. This second wife gave birth to two children. Eight years later, the first wife-his biological mother-gave birth to him and his younger sister, who would become the composer Khúc Lan.