Jacob Banks, born 1991, is a British singer and songwriter from Birmingham. Jacob became the first unsigned act to ever appear on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. His music is influenced by a range of genres including soul, R&B and hip hop. Banks is currently signed with American label Interscope Records. In October 2012 he recorded his debut EP titled The Monologue which was released in January 2013. In April 2013, Jacob played his first headline show at the London St Pancras Old Church. Banks features on Chase and Status’ “Alive” from their album, Brand New Machine. He also supported them, on their 2013 UK tour. Jacob also worked with artists such as Chase & Status, Bondax, Jake Gosling, Knox Brown, Plan B and Wretch 32. On 21 July 2015, Banks’ second extended play entitled The Paradox was released. It features a guest appearance from Odd Child Recordings rapper Avelino on the track “Monster”. In 2016, he was featured on Norwegian production team Seeb release “What Do You Love”. The song reached number 2 on VG-lista, the official Norwegian singles chart. On 9 March 2017, Banks premiered his two-part narrative video, written and co-directed by himself, for his single, “Unholy War”. The single is off his upcoming EP, ‘The Boy Who Cried Freedom’. – Wikipedia
The Monologue – Released April 2013
The Boy Who Cried Freedom – Released April 2017
The Village – Released November 2018
Elza Soares b1937 is a Brazilian samba singer. In 1999, she was named Brazilian Singer of the Millennium by BBC Radio Radio. She was married to football player Garrincha. Her father was a factory worker and guitarist, and her mother was a washerwoman. She was born in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. During her childhood, Soares played on the streets, spun wooden tops, flew kites, and fought with boys. Despite poverty and having to carry buckets of water on her head, she had a happy childhood. When she was 12, she was forced by her father to marry Lourdes Antônio Soares, also known as Alaúrdes, and within a year later gave birth to her first child, João Carlos. Soares liked to sing, and when she needed money for medicine for her son, she participated in a vocal contest. When she was fifteen, she gave birth to her second child, who died. After her husband became ill with tuberculosis, she began working at a soap factory. At twenty-one she was a widow, alone to raise her children: four boys and one girl. She dreamed of becoming a singer. When she was thirty-two she had a relationship with soccer player Garrincha. She was vilified by Brazilian society, with many accusing her of breaking up his marriage. She was shouted at in the street, received death threats, and her house was pelted with eggs and tomatoes. On April 13, 1969 her mother died in a car accident. Garrincha, Soares, and her daughter Sara were also injured. Garrincha was driving drunk when a truck merged into the lane and Dona Rosário was thrown from the vehicle and killed. Soares and Garrincha remained married for sixteen years (1968–1982). Garrincha’s friends did not accept Soares as his wife, instead calling her a “witch.” Soares tried to curb her husband’s dependence on alcohol by visiting bars and pleading with them not to serve her husband. The couple had one child, a boy, born in 1976. In 1983 Garrincha died of cirrhosis. On January 11, 1986, her son died when he was 9 years old in a car accident as he was coming back from visiting his father. It had been raining and the driver lost control of the vehicle. The door opened and the boy was thrown into the Imbariê River. Soares was desolate and considered ending her own life. She left Brazil and toured Europe and the United States. After many years of searching for her long lost daughter, they were reunited after Soares returned to Brazil. On July 26, 2015 Soares lost her fifth son, Gerson, when he was 59 years old. He died of complications of a urinary tract infection. Soares had six children: João Carlos, Gerson, Gilson, Dilma, Sara, and Garrincha. Wikipedia
Born 1966 in Sweden, Anders Osborne is an American singer/songwriter who tours solo or with his band, as well as playing in North Mississippi Osborne (N.M.O), a group formed by Osborne and North Mississippi Allstars. As a teen, Osborne started playing guitar and listening to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Joni Mitchell records. He was influenced by the vocal styles of Ray Charles, Van Morrison and Lowell George, Robert Johnson and recordings of African drumming. "Blues connected everything together for me," Osborne recalls. "The early rock, the R&B, the jazz, the singer-songwriters. Blues was like a thread running through everything." He began playing in Open D tuning, which gives his fretwork a signature sound and feel. "I first heard Open D on Joni Mitchell's Blue" he says, "and my fingers just fit the tuning." Wikipedia 
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