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Rosemarys Sons

Rosemarys Sons is a Dutch band which makes music described as mainstream pop/rock and rootsrock. Influences like Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Gin Blossoms, Aerosmith, CSNY, Matchbox 20, and John Hiatt are sometimes apparent but they arent in t ...

Rosenberg Trio

The Rosenberg Trio is a Dutch jazz band consisting of lead guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, rhythm guitarist Nousche Rosenberg and bassist Nonnie Rosenberg. The band is influenced by Django Reinhardt, the gypsy jazz guitarist of the 1930s. The group ...

Rowwen Heze

Rowwen Heze is a band from the small village of America in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands. They are one of the biggest bands singing in North Limburgish, a South Guelderish dialect. The band was founded in 1985.

The Royal Wind Music

The Royal Wind Music is a Dutch recorder consort. Founded by Paul Leenhouts in 1997, the Royal wind music is the spouse of the thirteen former students of the Amsterdam Conservatory. They use wide range tape recorders of the Renaissance adriana B ...

Schizoid Lloyd

The band was established in October 2007. They won the Rob Acda Award in Haarlem in 2008, and that same year released their self-produced debut EP "Virus", assisted by producer Oscar Hollemann Ayreon, Within Temptation, which received a mostly po ...

Schreck Ensemble

The Schreck Ensemble is a Dutch new music ensemble founded in 1989 by composers Arie van Schutterhoef and Hans van Eck. The name of the ensemble is a combination of the founders surnames and a reference to the actor Max Schreck. The Schreck Ensem ...

The Sheer

The Sheer is a Dutch band playing pop and melodic rock music. They have had some success with the single and debut album the keyword is excitement! in its native country, as produced by Daniel Presley. Their third single, entitled "Girl crazy" we ...

The Shorts

The Shorts was a pop group from the Netherlands consisting of Hans van Vondelen, Erik de Wildt, Hans Stokkermans and Peter Wezenbeek. The group was formed in 1976, and scored a 1983 international hit with "Comment ça va" produced by Jack Jersey. ...

Silkstone (group)

Silkstone was a Dutch pop band that was established in 1996, by singer Niels Geusebroek and guitarist Frans van Essen. There were many changes in line-up of the band with various members that included earlier on Daniel van Luipen, Paul van Twisk, ...

Smogus

Smogus is an metal band from the Netherlands. The band was founded in 1995 by four school friends. During the recording of their first album, Everybodys Fucked Up Twice, they met Arno Dreef and Wiebe van den Ende who joined the band. The band mem ...

Solid Globe

Solid Globe is a Dutch progressive trance project by two members Nic Vegter and Raz Nitzan. The band took off in 2003 with the hit song "North Pole" which stayed at the top of Dutch dance charts for two consecutive weeks. The project is supported ...

Solo (Dutch band)

Solo is the musical outfit of Dutch musicians Michiel Flamman and Simon Gitsels. The duo released two albums, of which the latest Solopeople was the biggest success. The album released on label Excelsior Recordings spawned a Dutch top 20 hit with ...

Spasmodique

Spasmodique formed at the height of new waves popularity and existed somewhere near that genres post-punk fringes. They sang almost exclusively in English. Early demos reveal a sound not dissimilar to Joy Division, including prominent basslines, ...

De Spelbrekers

De Spelbrekers and Huug Kok) were a Dutch singing duo, known for their participation in the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest.

Suzan & Freek

Suzan & Freek is a Dutch singing duo from the Achterhoek, Netherlands consisting of Suzan Stortelder and Freek Rikkerink. The two live together in Weesp. Taking a pair of covers a few years and placed them on a weekly basis under the name "De Min ...

The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society

After busking for several years on the streets of major cities in Canada and the United States, Tom Gerritsen returned to Utrecht, Netherlands to record a lo-fi EP. After the release, The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society played a string of well-re ...

Teach-In (band)

Teach-In was a Dutch band, best known for winning Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song "Ding-a-dong". The band was founded in 1969 and parted in 1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in line-up.

Tee-Set

Tee-Set was a pop rock band formed in 1966 in Delft, Netherlands. The group recorded a single in 1969 titled "Ma Belle Amie", which was a hit in their native country, selling over 100.000 copies. The group released an album in the United States o ...

Ten Sharp

Ten Sharp is a Dutch band, sometimes labeled as a one-hit wonder group, because they are best known for their early 1990s hit song "You", a hit in some European countries in 1991 and in others in 1992. The two band members are Marcel Kapteijn and ...

Time Bandits (band)

The band was formed in 1981 by Dutch born Alides Hidding, who wrote all songs and sang lead vocals. The bands four albums made the charts all over the world. Time Bandits established a presence on the American music scene with two entries on the ...

Treble (musical group)

The group started in 1995 when Caroline Hoffman born 7 March 1975 and sisters Niña born 24 April 1985 and Djem van Dijk born 23 January 1987 met during a party, where Caroline was performing with a friend. The parents of the van Dijk sisters aske ...

Trio Lescano

The Trio Lescano was a female vocal group singing in Italian from 1936 to 1943. The members of the group were three Hungarian-Dutch sisters, Alessandra Lescano, Giuditta Lescano and "Caterinetta" Lescano. Caterinetta left the group in 1946 and th ...

Twarres

Twarres is a folk/pop band from the Netherlands who perform songs in both English and their native Frisian language. Their songs are primarily lush, harmonic vocal pop with a focus on acoustic instrumentation such as pianos and violins. At the en ...

Van Dik Hout

Van Dik Hout are a Dutch pop group from Den Helder in the north of the Netherlands. They formed in the late 1980s as a school band, but moved later to Amsterdam where they rechristened themselves into Van Dik Hout. The bands biggest hit was the s ...

VOF de Kunst

VOF de Kunst is a Dutch pop group from Tilburg founded in 1983. Their hit song was "Suzanne" which reached #1 and #12 in the charts in the Netherlands and UK respectively. The lead singer of the band is Nol Havens, and they have also toured using ...

Volumia!

Volumia! was a band from Heerlen, Netherlands. They started as a cover band and later developed an original repertoire of Dutch songs. The band existed from 1993 until 2002. They reached the Dutch Top 40 many times, scored a number of awards and ...

The Wounded

In 2000, The Wounded released their debut, called, The Art of Grief. It was followed, in March 2002, by their second album titled, Monument. Shortly after the release of this album, The Wounded changed their line-up. The only two original members ...

Calvario

first formation: 1994–1995. Darwin Buitron: Vocals. (Дарвин Buitron: Вокал) Cesar Alvear: guitar. (Сезар Альвеар: гитара) Alvaro Reyes: Drums. (Альваро Рейес: Барабаны) Christian Stephen: Bass. (Кристиан Стивен: Бас) Anibal Osnayo: guitar. (Аниба ...

Cruks en Karnak

The members of the band were born and raised in a middle-class neighbourhood within Quito. In the beginning they tried to gain awareness and recognition in the music scene by performing at local pubs and bars. After gaining in popularity, their m ...

Kiruba

Kiruba was female pop music group from Ecuador. The group was formed in Quito in 2003, and consisted of members Maria Jose Blum, Diana Rueda, Mariela Nazareno, Cecilia Calle, and Gabriela Villalba. Quisiera I wish, the first single from the band ...

Prime Ministers (band)

Prime Ministers is a Rock Band from Ecuador, formed in 2008. The band consists of Ernesto "E" Estrada, Alejandro "Alex" Zon, Fabio "Shaggy" Lopez and Alejandro "Ale" Carrau.

ETV tutarlastekoor

ETV tutarlastekoor is a choir of the Estonian Television. The choir has been credited both in Estonia and abroad. The choir has grown out from the Childrens Television Music Studio that was founded in 1990. Today the choir is composed of 30 singe ...

Forgotten Sunrise

Forgotten Sunrise is an Estonian industrial/deathbeat band founded in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Their sound has been compared to a mixture of Dead Can Dance, David Lynch, Katatonia, Celtic Frost and Clock DVA.

Hortus Musicus

Hortus Musicus is an Estonian ensemble that was established in 1972 by Andres Mustonen, a violin student of the Tallinn State Conservatory. Hortus Musicus specialises in performing early music, including 8th–15th-century European forms such as Gr ...

Kreatiivmootor

Kreatiivmootor is an Estonian band, brought into existence in 2003 by an academic philosopher Roomet Jakapi, PhD, and a lawyer Allan Plekksepp, PhD, who had intended to make music without genre or scene constraints. Their alternative style has ra ...

Malcolm Lincoln

Malcolm Lincoln are an Estonian band that formed in October 2009. The members are Robin Juhkental, Jakob Juhkam, Siim Raidma, Ott Adamson, Johan Alexander Petti and Hans Kurvits. The original lineup consisted of Robin Juhkental and Madis Kubu. Ju ...

No-Big-Silence

The beginnings of Aggressor lay back in 1989 when Villem Tarvas, Marek Piliste, Kristo Kotkas and Marko Atso started playing together as an unnamed band. At the start of 1990 they released their first demo album named Indestructible – the music o ...

Nordic Symphony Orchestra

The Nordic Symphony Orchestra is an international symphony orchestra founded by Anu and Kadri Tali in 1997.

Pantokraator

Pantokraator is an Estonian band that blends elements of progressive rock and folk music. Growing from a garage band in Tartu, the ensemble soon gained a devoted audience from its unique and exotic sounds. After several years in hiatus, Pantokraa ...

The Princes (band)

The Princes is an Estonian rock band. The band was formed in 2009 by Edward Krimm and Jaagup Tormis, the grandson of one of the greatest living choral composers Veljo Tormis. The current lineup consists of Edward Krimm, Jaagup Tormis, Kaur Garsne ...

Weekend Guitar Trio

The Weekend Guitar Trio is an Estonian guitar trio comprising Mart Soo, Robert Jurjendal and Tõnis Leemets. It was established in 1993. In 2013, the weekend guitar trio celebrated its 20th anniversary with concerts in the Concert hall, Estonia co ...

X-Panda

X-Panda is a progressive metal and fusion band from Estonia. Their music is mainly instrumental but a few of their songs also include vocals. The band is known for energetic and powerful live shows.

Debo Band

Debo Band are a Boston-based Ethiopian music ensemble led by saxophonist Danny Mekonnen and fronted by vocalist Bruck Tesfaye. Ranging from 10–12 members playing horns, guitars, violins, percussion, and accordion, their sound incorporates Ethioja ...

Either/Orchestra

The Either/Orchestra is a jazz group formed by Russ Gershon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1985. E/O is configured as a "small big band", with three saxes, two trumpets and one or two trombones. E/Os is characterized by a heavier and more o ...

Jano Band

Jano Band is an Ethiopian rock band brought together by one of the biggest entrepreneurs in Ethiopia by Ermyas Amelga and former manager Addis Gessesse in 2011. The band includes two lead female vocalists, two lead male vocalists, and six musicia ...

Walias Band

Walias Band were an Ethiopian jazz and funk band active from the early 1970s until the early 1990s. Formed by members of the Venus Band, Walias backed up many prominent singers with a hard polyrhythmic funk sound influenced by western artists lik ...

Aegis (band)

Aegis is a Filipino pop rock band formed in 1995. The band is composed of sisters: Juliet, Mercy and Kris Sunot on lead vocals, Rey Abenoja on vocals and guitars, Stella Pabico on keyboards, Rowena Adriano on bass guitar and Vilma Goloviogo on dr ...

Aarni

Aarni has been described as an avant-garde metal band from Finland, which consists primarily of Master Warjomaa and, occasionally, some session musicians. Although many sources claim the existence of other band members, these may be fictional cha ...

Aavikko

Aavikko is a Finnish synth music band, formed in Siilinjarvi in 1995. Their hallmarks include a campy, decidedly "East European" style and plastic-sounding synthesizer themes. The band themselves call their style muysic ", their motto is We play ...

Absoluuttinen Nollapiste

Absoluuttinen Nollapiste is a progressive rock band originating from Rovaniemi, Finland. It is somewhat famous for combining catchy melodies and solid, slightly progressive songwriting with Tommi Liimattas eccentric lyrics. Tommi Liimatta has num ...