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Justin Vali (Real name: Justin Rakotondrasoa) ranks among the greatest living players of traditional Malagasy music on the valiha, a bamboo tube zither considered the national instrument of…
Tube zither from the highland plateau of Madagascar, made from a species of local bamboo, with 21 to 24 metal strings arranged lengthwise around a long bamboo tube….
Reginald Van Carreker graduated from Cornell University. He hit the Washington music scene in 1978 and became a session player (keyboards, guitar, bass and vocals) in New York…
A choreographer and dance instructor who trained Kate and worked on the Tour of Life in 1979, Van Laast also appears in the videos for the songs Hammer…
Dutch photographer, who started his career at 18. Photographing famous pop and rock stars, he made rare photographs of artists like John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and…
Born as Peter Ewart Ohm in Wem, Shropshire (UK) on 4 April 1923, Peter Vaughan was a British character actor, known for many supporting roles in British films…
Velvet Belly was formed in Kristiansand (Norway) in 1989 by Kay Rune Rasmussen, Tor Henning Leh and Pål Aanensen. They were joined by vocalist Anne Marie Almedal the…
Born as Marcello Olmari in Corbetta, Italy on 16 June 1940, Gil Ventura joined the beat band the Bo Bo’s Band in the 1960’s. The following decade he…
Fred Vermorel studied media at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) from 1969 to 1972, pursued an MA in history at the University of Sussex…
Richard Vernon was born on 7 March 1925. He was educated at Reading School and Leighton Park School (both in Reading, Berkshire) and during the Second World War…
Monthly TV programme about art, literature, fashion and music, presented by Tom Collins and broadcast by Veronica in the Netherlands in 1979 and 1980. Kate Bush appeared in…
Unofficial album, released by Thomsun Original in Saudi Arabia. It features mainly tracks from Kate’s first five albums. Track listing The album features the following tracks: Wuthering Heights…
Born as John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham on 10 May 1957, Sid Vicious became best known as bassist of the punk band Sex Pistols, replacing Glen Matlock who…
The viol, or viola da gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on…
Violet, a.k.a. Violet xoxox, contibuted four songs to the Kate Bush Covered project: cover versions of And Dream Of Sheep, Under Ice, Waking The Witch and Sat In…
‘Violin’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was recorded in 1979 and released on the album Never For Ever. Versions The studio version is the only…
The violin is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments are…
The Virgin Megastore officially opened in 1979. Another Virgin store, near Marble Arch, opened around the same time at the other end of the Oxford Street. Throughout the…
Band founded in Newcastle in 2005 by Ali Allerdyce, Bruce Tate, Trev Stardust and Chris Cairns. They all had an interest in music production, so they decided to…
Vlad In Tears is a heavy metal band based in Berlin that was founded by the three brothers Kris (vocals & piano), Lex (guitar) and Dario (bass) and…
Susan Voelz was born and raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin in the United States. As a child, she discovered her grandfather’s violin and began to learn to play. Discovering…
Born in Stockholm (Sweden) on 9 May 1955, Anne Sofie Von Otter grew up in Bonn, London and Stockholm. She studied in Stockholm and at the Guildhall School…
Born as Mollie Clark in Kent (UK), Maida Vorn has made a career by making ‘dark pop’. In November 2019, she released a video of a cover version…
British music magazine, first issued in October 1990. It was published by IPC Media as a response to Emap’s Q magazine. It appeared with a format slightly larger…
Born in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) on 5 October 1966, Mitja Vrhovnik-Smrekar has been a composer of theater and film music since 1989. He has written music for…