...She saw as many star entertainers growing up as she could, including the Augusta-area's own Terri Gibbs, the first artist to win the Country Music Association's Horizon Award."I went to see her in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and got her...
...recognized Page with its Pioneer Award for being the first artist to use over-dubbing on her recordings and for being the first artist to use a wireless, hand-held microphone.In our...
...both to his evocative landscapes and sympathetic studies of the human condition."Born in 1877, Hutty was among the first artists to settle in the Art Students League colony at Woodstock in the early 1900s. He was well-established as the town's...
...Morris Museum of Art's Budweiser True Music Southern Soul & Song series since it began in 2003.Ricky Skaggs was the first artist to perform that October for the 2003-04 inaugural season, followed by Mountain Heart, Robert Earl Keen and the Nashville...
...did Michael Jackson revolutionize the way music sounds, but also the way it was marketed. Mr. Jackson wasn't the first artist to produce music videos, but he certainly was the most successful. An artist always conscious of music's visual...
Nikki Giovanni isn't the first artist to adapt Aesop's The Ant and the Grasshopper. James Joyce reworked the fable, The Muppet Show took a swing at it and, in 1934...
...the primary architect of the music style known as funk. The style was born out of jazz, but Brown was one of the first artists to coax its rhythms so successfully onto the pop charts. His 1965 hit Papa's Got a Brand New Bag gave R&B fans...
...TEX RITTER (1905-74): Inducted 1964. Woodward Maurice Ritter, born in Panola County, Texas, was one of the first artists signed to Capitol Records, in 1942. He's known for songs including Rye Whiskey, Deck of Cards, I Dreamed of Hillbilly...
For jazz singer A. London Arrington, being the first artist with trombonist Wycliffe Gordon's Coup de Cone Music Productions is about much more than a business deal. It's about a friendship...
...studio, free-styling over instrumentals with such hunger and skill, the producer decided to make Mr. White the first artist on his new label. "Jody was hot. He had the look, he was raw talent, just needed to be refined, and I'm the...
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