Born in 1951, Lorraine Silver began singing at the age of five, eventually performing in youth club shows and winning numerous talent contests. She was…
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Originally known as Los Sonor, Mike Kogel (vocals), Antonio Martinez (guitar), Manolo ‘Manuel’ Fernandez (organ), Miguel Vicens Danus (bass) and Pablo ‘Gomez’ Samllehi (drums) were…
Four East Los Angeles high school buddies formed Los Lobos (Spanish for “the wolves”) in 1973, bought traditional Mexican instruments at pawn shops and learned…
Los Mockers formed as a college band in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1963. They were originally called Los Encadenados (“The Chained Ones”) and played instrumentals in…
The band was formed in 1964 in Montevideo, Uruguay, by brothers Hugo Fattoruso (lead guitar and keyboards) and Osvaldo Fattoruso (rhythm guitar), after watching the…
Eddie Angel was a noted rockabilly guitarist, who moved to Nashville in the early 1980s to record and perform with The Planet Rockers. Danny Amis…
In 1960’s Peru, Los York’s were The Beatles, The Stooges and The Monkees all rolled into one. Combining sure-fire harmonies and a raw garage sound on their own compositions, with…
Rising from the ashes of the Wild Swans, Liverpool’s Lotus Eaters enjoyed instant commercial success with a fragrant pop song, The First Picture Of You, their…
Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco was born on 19 February 1943. Growing up in suburban Pittsburgh he studied music and voice at Moon Area High School. In…
Born into a wealthy New York Jewish family, Lewis Allen Reed’s parents were not best pleased when he began to forsake academia for pop music. Somewhat…
Love emerged from Los Angeles early in 1966 – one of the first groups to show what was to come from the West Coast. They…
Formed in London in 1966, The Love Affair headed a new wave of British teeny groups in 1968 when they reached #1 with Everlasting Love. But there was…
This avant-garde UK rock band formed at Christmas 1985 from the ashes of Bauhaus. Early singles included Kundalini Express (concerning tantric meditation) and a cover of…
Love Sculpture evolved from a band called Human Beans, which formed in Wales in 1967. After releasing one single, Morning Dew (1967) on Columbia, they changed their…
One of the finest and most original Australian bands of the Sixties, The Loved Ones began when a group of Melbourne Trad Jazz players decided…
“Nice” was the perfect word to describe Loverboy, a friendly good-natured Canadian rock band so wholesome they could have joined the Boy Scouts. Their first…
The Lovin’ Spoonful lacked the studied cool of folk rock contemporaries like The Byrds (who emerged around the same time in 1965) but consistently delivered a zany…
Australian entertainer Lucky Starr was born Leslie William Morrison on 29 December 1940. His father was a motor mechanic and his mother was a housewife, and…
Lula Marietta McClelland was born in Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio on 21 March 1926. Her family moved to Port Clinton, Ohio, where she sang…
Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, the first child of a Glasgow butcher, on 3 November 1948. When she was five years old she…