as the group's back-up dancer, back-up vocal, and rapper.

In 2006, she became lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle.

Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a house with French in Eureka at the time.

A capella singer Avi Kaplan also exhibited overtone singing during his group's ( Pentatonix ) performances.

The group's founder was 23-year-old vocalist Marty Balin ( born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 30, 1942, but raised in San Francisco ), who had established a minor career as a pop singer in the early 1960s and had made several recordings under his own name.

After hearing female vocalist Signe Toly Anderson at the Drinking Gourd, Balin invited her to be the group's co-lead singer.

Between 1960 and 1970, Robinson would produce 26 top forty hits with the Miracles as lead singer, chief songwriter and producer, including several top ten hits such as " You've Really Got a Hold on Me ", " Mickey's Monkey ", " I Second That Emotion ", " Baby Baby Don't Cry " and the group's only number-one hit during their Robinson years, " Tears of a Clown ", while other notable hits such as " Ooo Baby Baby ", " Going to a Go-Go ", " The Tracks of My Tears ", "( Come Round Here ) I'm The One You Need ", " The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage " and " More Love " peaked at the top twenty.

Traditionally, Gibb's original role in the Bee Gees was a backup singer, but since 1967 his role was a lead singer for which he vied with Barry during the group's first period of British success in the late 1960s.

Much of what was cut was experimental, piano-based Rundgren material, heavily influenced by singer / songwriter Laura Nyro-a far cry from the group's original Beatles-Who-Yardbirds-Cream derived sound.

However, his success and popularity in this role caused friction with the group's actual lead singer, Annabella Lwin.

The group's lead singer, Jay Black, dubbed Becker and Fagen " the Manson and Starkweather of rock ' n ' roll ", referring to cult leader Charles Manson and spree killer Charles Starkweather.

On the day of the group's audition, Santiago, the original lead singer, was late.

One of the group's first professional engagements was singing background for singer Mike Hanks.

Lead singer Harvey Fuqua served as the group's leader and chief writer.

In 1958, shortly after the Moonglows recorded their final hit, " Ten Commandments of Love ", Fuqua re-asserted himself as the group's lead singer, putting Lester further in the background and causing friction among group members.

** Fuqua also served as a background singer but acted more as the group's manager.

On August 12, 2008, they released their second single, " Single ", featuring R & B singer / songwriter Ne-Yo, followed by the release of the group's first studio album in fourteen years, The Block.

The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert.

While the singer accepted a recording contract as a solo artist with the group's label, Sandy Mölling later noted Jessica's pregnancy marked " the beginning of the end of No Angels.

In 1988, a one-off collaboration with singer Tom Jones ( a cover of Prince's " Kiss "— a staple in Jones ' stage shows ) renewed the public's interest in the Art of Noise and provided the group's biggest hit in the mainstream.

The group's third studio album, Here It Is, released in 1992, produced the group's most recent pop hit, a cover version of the Rose Royce 1978 song " Wishing on a Star ", with new co-lead singer Michelle Valentine.

His son, Kenyatta Hill, who had acted as the group's sound engineer on tour, performed with his father's band at the Western Consciousness show in 2007, which was dedicated to Joseph Hill, and became the lead singer of Culture ; Walker and Nelson continue to provide backing vocals.

* In 1983, English-American rock group The Pretenders, released their song " Back on the Chain Gang ", featuring the lyrics " The phone, TV and the News of the World got into the house like a pigeon from hell ..." Written by the group's singer, Chrissie Hynde, the song was about the band's experience of losing their guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, to a drug overdose, and these lines were in reference to the surviving members ' inability to escape the story at the time.

The first single " Church of the Poison Mind ", featuring backing vocalist Helen Terry, reached the UK and US Top 10, continuing the group's success.

The B-side to " Fernando " was the song " Hey, Hey, Helen ", a track from the group's self-titled third studio album ( 1975 ), although in some countries " Tropical Loveland " ( also from the album ABBA ) was used instead.

In early 1963, Lynch had been on the same bill as The Beatles on the group's first British tour ; John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote " Misery " in January 1963, in the hopes that the artist on top of the bill, Helen Shapiro, would record it.

On July 21, 2011, Terry Gross interviewed Louisiana Representative Noble Ellington, then the national chairman of ALEC, about the role of the group's corporate members in drafting legislation and ALEC policy ( prior to the leaking of its internal bill library ) of not revealing the names of its members or of the legislators who attend its conferences.

in history from the University of Dallas, Bozell joined the National Conservative Political Action Committee, working with the group's founder, Terry Dolan, to help elect conservative politicians.

This would not last long either due to the injury of Hart, the group's leader, and Nash spent most of 2000 feuding with the likes of Terry Funk, Mike Awesome, Scott Steiner, and Booker T.

The album sold moderately well — including on-site sales at the Hungry i during the Kingston Trio's engagement there through the summer — but it was DJs Paul Colburn and Bill Terry at station KLUB in Salt Lake City whose enthusiasm for a single cut on the record spurred the next development in the group's history.

Since at least one of the original members, Larry Spillman, left the band prior to the recording sessions to accept a college baseball scholarship, some of the group's instrumental tracks were performed by session musicians like Reggie Young, Tommy Cogbill, Gene Chrisman, and Bobby Womack at American Sound Studio, and by future Chilton producer Terry Manning at Ardent Studios.

Gedge rescued the rhythm section of the disbanded Goya Dress ( Terry de Castro and Simon Pearson ) in 1999, employing them as members, and former Wedding Present guitarist, Simon Cleave, was in the line-up since the group's first show.

Gedge rescued the rhythm section of the disbanded Goya Dress ( Terry de Castro and Simon Pearson ) in 1999, employing them as members, and former Wedding Present guitarist, Simon Cleave, was in the line-up since the group's first show.

In 2009, former Animals That Swim bassist, Terry De Castro, ( better known as a member of Cinerama and The Wedding Present ) released a cover version of the group's song " East St. O ' Neill " on her solo album A Casa Verde.

The group's first hit was " Let Go The Line ", which was written and sung by Terry Watkinson and peaked at No. 41 on the Canadian charts.

The signature song of Terry Williams, " What Am I Gonna Do ", was to become the group's next single in late fall of 1971.

Under the Masters at Work moniker, the parties became quite successful and attracted Todd Terry who later borrowed the group's name for two record releases.

The Bridge Wars, however, were only short-lived and after the death of Scott La Rock prior to the group's second album, KRS began to concentrate on consciously focused music.

Over time, the group's founding members began leaving.

The Triple A under López Rega's orders began hunting down, kidnapping, and killing members of Montoneros and the People's Revolutionary Army ( ERP ) as well as other leftist militant groups, or anyone in general considered a leftist subversive or sympathizer, such as these group's deputies or lawyers.

Even after the Banda Black Rio in the 1980s, British disc jockeys began to play the group's work.

Eno's unusual style meshed well with the group's artistic sensibilities, and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions, from post-punk to New Wave to psychedelic funk.

Following the album's commercial failure and the group's subsequent disbanding, Amos began working with other artists ( including Stan Ridgway, Sandra Bernhard, and Al Stewart ) as a backup vocalist.

Following the group's demise, Morrissey began work on a solo recording, collaborating with Strangeways producer Stephen Street and fellow Mancunian Vini Reilly, guitarist for The Durutti Column.

After Thorpe's departure in 1979, the group's success began to dwindle.

On November 3, court proceedings began in Maryland to decide the group's fate.

Coxon, in particular, began to resent his band mates and, in a rejection of the group's Britpop aesthetic, made a point of listening to noisy American alternative rock bands such as Pavement.

Charlie began his life as a Menudo the very moment that one of Menudo's members of the group's golden era, Farrait left the group.

Unfortunately, none of the singles from the album managed to land in the Top 30 on any of the singles charts, and the period after the release of the fourth album began the group's commercial decline.

The album achieved very little popularity outside of the group's native country, Jamaica, but began establishing themselves as superstars there.

The group's record sales also began to decline due to a shift in musical tastes to gangsta rap and grunge music.

After the group's split, most of the group members started families and began to venture into other avenues.

The group's reunion tour, New Kids on the Block: Live, began at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on September 18, 2008.

In his brief tenure before leaving to form Cream Bruce played on " Pretty Flamingo " and on the EP Instrumental Asylum, which began the group's experiments with instrumental versions of chart songs.

The group's " Live Thru ' 85 " tour to promote the album began in November 1984, sponsored by Pontiac's latest sports car, the Fiero.

Up to now, the group's biggest success had been as a five-piece harmony, but it was around this time that they began to favour lead singers for their songs with title credits given to Marty Kristian for " Come Softly to Me " and Eve Graham for " Nevertheless ", but it was in late 1973 that this formula found its biggest success when Lyn Paul took the lead on the new single, " You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me ".

During this time Black Francis, the group's frontman and principal songwriter, began to write new material for a future album, with songs such as " Dead ", " Hey ", " Tame ", and " There Goes My Gun " emerging through the course of the year.

From 1977 onwards, with the departure of Judd and the enlisting of Neil Finn, the group's sound began to change from a progressive rock sound to New Wave and pop.

The quartet began recording with Sony Classical ( formerly Columbia Records and CBS Masterworks ) in 1949, and the group's discography currently numbers over 100 items, including repertoire well-traveled and unfamiliar.

They began playing school shows, talent shows, and teen hops, coming to the attention of Artie Ripp, who arranged the group's first record deal with Kama Sutra.

By mid-1968, with their commercial popularity flagging, the group's personnel began to change ; the band was renamed " Sky Saxon and the Seeds " in 1969, by which point Bob Norsoph, guitar, and Don Boomer, drums, had replaced Savage and Andridge.