British-born Elizabeth Lawrence was introduced to music by her parents, who listened to a lot of it, especially reggae, and she sang in church. Playing guitar and keyboard, she joined a number of bands in her teens before being spotted on the internet by a manager,...
is trio is made up of Eric D. Johnson, Josh Kaufman and Anaïs Mitchell. These names may mean nothing to the most European of us, but their respective careers are so dense that it's impossible to just touch on them in a few lines. It's worth mentioning some of the...
Bachar Mar-Khalifé has music written all over him - how could it be otherwise? His father is one of Lebanon's most famous oud players, his mother is a singer and poet, and one of his cousins is a cellist. Fleeing the war, his family arrived in France when he was six....
Born in Saudi Arabia to Pakistani parents, Arooj Aftab followed her family to Pakistan at the age of 10. There she taught herself to play guitar, and her singing was inspired as much by American singers as by Indian and Pakistani artists. In the early 2000s, she took...
Behind this convoluted name lies the prolific Michael Paradinas. This artist began playing the piano at the age of six, and was later influenced by pop and new wave music from his homeland through bands like the Beatles, New Order and Depeche Mode. In his teens he...
Life's pleasures are sometimes due to improbable encounters. Such is the case with this duo, whose name is that of a Russian all-terrain vehicle of legendary rusticity. She, of Armenian origin, lived in Minsk, Belarus, before settling in Tourcoing and becoming a...
Here's an artist who needs no introduction. Joni Mitchell learned to play music partly on her own and went to Toronto to try her luck. She married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, whose surname she kept. Her first album came out in 1968 and was produced by David Crosby,...
The Lynch brothers first formed the duo Lynched. Their first album, released in 2003, was well received and led to international tours. Their greatest source of inspiration was to be found close to home, in the music of the Dublin pubs. There they met singer and...
This thirty-something Californian has ticked all the boxes to become a bad boy. His father was in and out of prison and his mother was swamped by odd jobs. Raised by his grandparents, he lost his grandmother when he was 12. So he flirted with delinquency, one of his...
