Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Singer Presents Elvis...
...celebrities include Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Harvard Overseer Desmond Tutu, as well as a famous boxer and a star singer. None of the luminaries endorse a political party in the film...
...ridicule it. Their songs often seek to understand the differences between the genders, and they are often painfully self-critical. Lyrics to Frente!'s Labour of Love go, "I don't know how I bent/ What you said to what I believe you meant." Says N'Dea Davenport, singer-songwriter with the R.-and-B. band Brand New Heavies: "Especially when a song is dealing with relationships, it turns out much better when both sexes are involved in creating...
...such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer Mary Lorson: "I didn't really start playing guitar until I was 22 because it just didn't occur to me that this was something I could do with my life...
More coed bands are poised to break out. Veruca Salt, a terrifically promising rock group from Chicago, will release its first album next month. "Hopefully, we're helping dispel the myth that all 'girl bands' sound alike," singer-guitarist Louise Post said at a recent concert. The Fugees, an appealing reggae-rap trio, have a single that's climbing the Billboard charts. Madder Rose is touring to support its ravishing new CD, Panic On. Even vocalist Jenny Berggren of the cuddly Swedish pop band Ace of Base says she is "definitely going to do more" on her band's next...