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[n 1] [2] His father, Samuel Fenwick Porter, was a pharmacist by trade. [3] [n 2] His mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Omar "J. O." Cole, "the richest man in Indiana", a coal and timber speculator who dominated the family. [5] [n 3] J. O. Cole built the couple a house on his Peru-area property, known as Westleigh Farms. [7]
His mother, Bertha Curtis née Wood, was a highly skilled musician with a noted ability for memorization. [2] He was raised on a farm in Dunham, Quebec, where both his parents had deep family ties, with the obligatory farm chores. [2] [3] [4] His first musical instructor was his mother, and then from two teachers at Dunham Ladies College. [3]
William Crotch (5 July 1775 – 29 December 1847) was an English composer and organist.According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch was "a child prodigy without parallel in the history of music", and was certainly the most distinguished English musician in his day.
Brian Peter George Eno (/ ˈ iː n oʊ /, born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. [1]
Renwick is credited as the co-composer of Elton John's song "Dreamboat". [10] The song was released on the "Kiss the Bride" single in 1983, but was most likely recorded in the late 1970s, when Renwick was briefly a member of Elton John's band, recording with him on A Single Man and playing with him in John's 1980 concert in Central Park, New York.
Castro Coleman [1] aka Mr. Sipp (born August 25, 1976) is an American blues and gospel singer, musician, songwriter and guitarist. Mr. Sipp is the 2014 International Blues Challenge winner by way of The Vicksburg Blues Society as well as the 2014 Gibson Best Guitarist Award Winner.
James Henry Tyler was born in Hartford, Connecticut.His father worked for Pratt-Whitney. Initially, he studied the banjo (classic 5-string and tenor) and Mandolin with Walter K. Bauer (1954–1958), then the lute with Joseph Iadone (1958–1961) and mandoline with Martha Blackman.
Bryan Guy Adams CC OBC (born November 5, 1959) is a British and Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million [2] and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, [3] [4] placing him on the list of best-selling music artists.