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Singing in the Key of Life

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It’s a tough call to interview Kirsty Bertarelli. The Sunday Times Rich List ranks her as the wealthiest woman in Britain, and she is a former Miss UK turned successful…
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The Music Machine

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The success of Florence + the Machine’s debut album Lungs on both sides of the Atlantic has shown yet again that a singular vision and commercial success do not need…

Coming into the Land

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For eight years, Leslie Feist, alongside cheeky multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Chilli Gonzalez, maverick producer Mocky and the singing, sexual-role-defying conceptualist electro star Peaches, made up a group of expat Canadian artists…

The Fairest Of Them All

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For a man as famously private as Bob Dylan, a remarkable number of Bob Dylan sightings have been recorded in Britain alone. There’s the time, for instance, when Bob turned…

What Goes Around

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Sublime: Your new album is called Long Player Late Bloomer. You’re anything but a late bloomer, though, aren’t you? Ron Sexsmith: In some ways, I feel I am. Even with my…

Rythm Kings

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After The Super Rail Band (Mali), Orchestra Baobab (Senegal), Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia) and Bembeya Jazz (Guinea), among others, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo from Benin are the latest to receive a new lease…

Raw Emotion

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Undoubtedly it’s her voice that will strike the listener first: like Edith Piaf, whom she admires, Calvi’s voice is as tiny as her physique when she – reticently – speaks,…
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Life Lessons

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Femi Kuti’s father, Fela Kuti, was a one-man action group to rid Africa, and specifically Nigeria, of corruption, hypocrisy and poverty. His weapon was music, a richly layered fusion of…

A Life in Music

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Don’t trust anyone over thirty, the Californian activist Jack Weinberger postulated in 1964. For forty years, the music business bought into this dubious credo. But things have begun to change…