music

  • Happy Birthday Kurt Cobain

    I could say so much about Kurt Cobain but today I want to celebrate his birthday with his music. He was a troubled soul, often referred to as the founder of the grunge music, which is not true because it was actually another Seattle band called Green River who pioneered the grunge sound. Kurt Cobain…

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  • Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel was born on 19 February 1963 at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, to a Nigerian mother, Adebisi Ogundeji, and an Afro-Brazilian father, Francis Samuel Here are just some of his songs

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  • Today marks the 40th aniverasry of Bill Haley’s death. Bill Haley was one of the pioneers of Rock N Roll and I felt he deserved a tribute on his annversary. It will not be on the same scale as the tribute he received in 2006 , on the 25th anniversary , where the International Astronomical…

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  • A world without heroes, Is like a world without sun, you can’t look up to anyone, without heroes

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  • Music suits the savage beast and when you have a very talented and skillful musician playing great music it can really lift your heart. This is my interview with Sandra Mae Lux about her album Happily ever now. I interviewed her in December 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, and we spoke about…

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  • Sandra was bin the sleepy fishing village of Steveston (British Columbia, Canada) and born of Dutch immigrant parents, Sandra-Mae Lux was singing almost before she was walking and showed a natural ability with musical instruments even in elementary school, playing piano, saxophone and guitar. SOURCE https://www.sandramaelux.com/about

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  • I was reminded of this song while I was watching “the Man in the Castle”. So many musicians were murdered during the Holocaust Musicians like the talented composer Gideon Klein The youngest Jewish composer murdered during the Holocaust, Gideon Klein was only 26 when he was murdered in the Fürstengrube sub-camp near Auschwitz. His oeuvre…

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  • Music Matters

    Music is very important, it evokes emotions and stirs the soul. It can unite and divide in equal ways. It can be a very powerful tool to bring joy, but it also can become a weapons if it is used for propaganda purposes. I will be looking at 2 songs which both had some part…

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  • When you look at the above picture you may think there is nothing extraordinary about it. However when you delve only slightly into the history of the picture you quickly how realize how amazing the picture really is. The picture is of a Jewish male choir of the Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, it was taken…

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  • The term the Nazis used for how to handle  the Jews was “Ausradieren” or ‘Erase’, this did not only mean to kill every Jew but also ensure that no other Jew would be born again. But the notion of erasing the Jewish people also meant to erase anything Jewish. Things like Jewish scientific research, literature,art …

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