Montgomery Gentry
THER’S NOTHING PAINFUL ABOUT TATTOOS & Scars. In fact, it’s all about fun, which is what CMA Award nominees Montgomery Gentry are full of as they travel the country on their T&S tour. “There’s not enough days in the year…
Macy Gray
MONTHS BEFORE HER EPIC RECORDS RELEASE, On How Life Is, reached the general public’s ears, Macy Gray’s singing voice was being lauded to the heavens. The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, Spin, Vibe and so on, hailed…
Shakira
DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT INCONVENIENCING Shakira. The 22-year-old Latina has been fighting for respect since signing with Sony in Colombia at the age of 13. And she’s not finished. “The two most inconveniences I had in the past were starting…
The Roots
THE ROOTS ARE REBELS AMONG THE HIP-HOP community. While the genre’s ongoing trend has been to focus heavily on album sales rather than concert ticket sales, the Philadelphia-based outfit does exactly the opposite. “We don’t have what’s called a hit…
Jonatha Brooke
IF ALL IT TOOK WAS REMARKABLE TALENT AND intense passion to back it up, Jonatha Brooke would have success beyond her wildest dreams. But the spirited singer/songwriter found out the hard way that the record business doesn’t always make sense.…
Black Eyed Peas
THE BLACK EYED PEAS’ LEXICON GOES way beyond the expected hip-hop terminology. First of all, this is a band, so live instruments, spontaneity and improvisation are prominent in the BEP vocabulary. Second, the music delivers a message that goes against…
Saw Doctors
SURE THE SAW DOCTORS COULD SIGN a major label deal and let the suits try to break them in America. But why? The fun- loving Irish band has made its own success in Ireland and England, and will continue to…
Galactic
WHEN EDDIE MURPHY PEDDLED THE Galactic Prophylactic on an early-‘80s “Sat- urday Night Live” skit, the show’s writers most likely aimed at just generating laughs – not inspiring a group’s moniker, too. “We became a pretty popular band with that…
Elvis Crespo
ELVIS CRESPO IS BEATING THE ODDS. The Grammy-nominated, Billboard Award -winning merengue king speaks limited English, lives in Puerto Rico, is only in his 20s, and is responsible for a wife and 6-year-old son. Despite the challenges, the singer/songwriter has…
The Clark Family Expirience
THE SIX BROTHERS WHO ARE The Clark Family Experience have played with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, toured as part of the star-studded George Strait Country Music Festival, been all over the U.S. and Canada, appear regularly on TNN and…
Sixpence None The Richer
“KISS ME OUT OF THE BEARDED BARLEY/nightly, beside the green, green grass,” from Sixpence None The Richer’s blockbuster hit, “Kiss Me,” is not your average pop lyric. Then again, this Nashville-based group is not your average pop band. In fact,…
Tal Bachman
TAL BACHMAN WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS socks – white socks with an otherwise coord- inated dark green suit and lighter shade of shirt. He wanted to switch them for a pair less obvious. “It can never be entirely quite right,”…
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