Who met a singer that has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records, while attending Pitzer College in Claremont, California?
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Tom Freund Tom Freund is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Freund's music consists of elements of folk rock, americana and alternative rock. Freund met Ben Harper when he was attending Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 1992 the duo released an album, "Pleasure and Pain". Not long after, he joined the alternative country group The Silos as their bassist, and moved to Austin, Texas. He released his debut solo album, "North American Long Weekend", in 1998 and has released albums on his own Surf Road Records since 2000. While releasing his own music, Tom has also contributed to albums by artists including Graham Parker, Mandy Moore, and Josh Kelley. Some of his work, including "Copper Moon", appeared on the TV program "One Tree Hill", while other songs have appeared on Dawson's Creek and Parenthood.
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Ben Harper Benjamin Chase Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally.
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John Mayer John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in nearby Fairfield. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but disenrolled and moved to Atlanta in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a short-lived two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play local clubs—refining his skills and gaining a following. After his appearance at the 2001 South by Southwest Festival, he was signed to Aware Records, and then Columbia Records, which released his first EP, "Inside Wants Out". His following two full-length albums—"Room for Squares" (2001) and "Heavier Things" (2003)—did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
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Victor O. Frazer Victor O. Frazer (born May 24, 1943) was a Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. He attended Fisk University and the Howard University Law School. He was admitted to the bar in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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JoJo (singer) Joanna Noëlle Levesque (born December 20, 1990), known professionally as JoJo, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Raised in Foxborough, Massachusetts, she performed in various singing competitions as a child, and after competing on the television show "America's Most Talented Kids" in 2003, she was noticed by record producer Vincent Herbert who asked her to audition for Blackground Records. JoJo released her eponymous titled debut album in June 2004. "Leave (Get Out)", her debut single, reached number one on the US "Billboard" Pop songs chart, which made her the youngest solo artist to top the chart at thirteen years old. The song peaked at 12 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and was certified gold by the RIAA. The album has since sold over four million copies worldwide to date.
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Lara Landon Laura Wisam Haddad (born September 4, 1985), who goes by the stage name Lara Landon, is an American Christian pop musician and worship musician, producer, writer, and recording artist. Her music career started in 2008, by signing with Whiplash Records while attending Belmont University in Nashville. She has released six studio albums, "Beloved", "Love/Majestic", "Overcome", "Christmas", "There Is Grace" and "The Never Again". The single "Closer" charted on the "Billboard" magazine Christian Songs chart. The fan funded and self produced album "Overcome" was named one of the top 12 Christian albums of the year by iTunes.
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Wild about Nothing Wild About Nothing is debut studio album by Helen Hoffner. It was the culmination of ten years work that started in 1982 when Helen joined the band The Astronauts (Stiff Records) with Simon Burton and David Lief. Subsequently, Simon and Helen formed an all-girl band called The Marines (CBS/Sony Records) with Denny Jones and Sarah Pritchard; Simon wrote and produced the material and they were managed by Colin Lester. After a couple of minor hit singles and tour support for Kylie Minogue in 1989, it was decided that Helen should become a solo artist. For the next 18 months, Helen and Simon worked on putting her solo album together. They signed to Warner Brothers and began recording in April 1992. Produced by Hugh Padgham and Simon Burton, the album featured Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums; Pino Palidino - Bass; Dominic Miller - Guitar; Bob Marlett and Michael Scherchen - Keyboards. The original pressing of the album only had 11 tracks; "Edge of a Dream" (featuring Bryan Adams) was added later on, not having been a part of the original album recording. "Summer of Love", which was a hit in Norway and Finland, has been covered by Faye Wong and numerous other artists. The album sold gold in Finland.
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Allison Iraheta Allison Iraheta (born April 27, 1992) is an American singer from Los Angeles, California, who was the fourth place finalist on the eighth season of "American Idol". Prior to "Idol", Iraheta won the Telemundo competition "". Following the conclusion of "Idol", Iraheta was signed to a record deal with 19 Entertainment and Jive Records. Her debut album "Just Like You" was released on December 1, 2009. She is currently the lead singer in the band Halo Circus.
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Lora Logic Lora Logic (also spelt Laura Logic; born Susan Whitby c. 1960) is a British saxophonist and singer. She was briefly a member of the band X-Ray Spex, although she had been sacked from that group by the time they recorded their first album, "Germfree Adolescents", which nevertheless used her (uncredited) saxophone arrangements. A year later she formed Essential Logic. This group recorded one self-titled EP, four singles and an album, "Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?)". Logic was briefly also a member of Red Krayola, appearing on two singles and the album "Kangaroo?". Her saxophone lent a unique quality to the bands she was in. She also played on recordings by The Raincoats, The Stranglers, Kollaa Kestää and Swell Maps and, later, Boy George. During the recording of the second Essential Logic album the group broke up, and she finished the recording as a solo Lora Logic album, "Pedigree Charm".
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Gossamer (album) Gossamer is the second studio album by American indie pop band Passion Pit, released on July 20, 2012 by Columbia Records. Recorded in Los Angeles and New York City in 2011, the album was produced by Chris Zane, who also produced the band's debut album "Manners" (2009), and lead singer Michael Angelakos.
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Rick Springfield discography The discography of Australian rock music singer, Rick Springfield consists of seventeen studio albums, six compilation albums, two live albums, thirty-four singles and eleven music videos. In 1995, Springfield formed a side-project, Sahara Snow, with Tim Pierce on guitar and Bob Marlette on keyboards and percussion, which released a self-titled studio album in 1997.
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Mandy Moore Amanda Leigh Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer/songwriter and actress. After coming to prominence with her debut single "Candy", which peaked at number 41 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, Moore signed with Epic Records. Her debut studio album, "So Real" (1999), went on to receive a Platinum certification from the RIAA. Her 2000 single "I Wanna Be with You", from her second studio album of the same name, became Moore's first Top 30 song in the United States, peaking at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her subsequent studio albums, the eponymous "Mandy Moore" (2001), "Coverage" (2003), "Wild Hope" (2007) and "Amanda Leigh" (2009), have seen continued success. As of 2009, "Billboard" reported that Moore has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, and in 2012 she was ranked #96 on VH1's list of "100 Greatest Women in Music" as well as #63 on their "Sexiest Artists of All Time List".
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Porcelain Black Alaina Marie Beaton (born October 1, 1985), better known by her stage name Porcelain Black, is an American pop singer-songwriter, rapper, and model. At age eighteen, she embarked on her music career as a solo act under the name Porcelain and the Tramps with Virgin Records. However, Black and Virgin could not agree on the music she would record. The music she recorded was posted to her Myspace account, "rockcitynosebleed", where she gained millions of hits. After three years of trying to get out of the contract, she signed with RedOne's Universal Republic imprint, 2101 Records, late in 2009 and began working on her debut album. After many internal problems between the artist and record producer, RedOne, Porcelain Black announced the partnership had come to an end, with anticipation of releasing her debut album in the vein of her Porcelain and the Tramps project in 2015.
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Nicole Scherzinger Nicole Scherzinger ( ; born Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente; June 29, 1978) is an American recording artist, actress and television personality born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She performed initially in high school plays, and studied at Wright State University before dropping out to pursue a musical career alongside the American rock band Days of the New and later auditioned for "Popstars", becoming a member of the short-lived girl group Eden's Crush. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the burlesque troupe-turned-recording act the Pussycat Dolls, who became one of the world's best-selling girl groups. During their hiatus, Scherzinger planned to embark on her solo career with "Her Name is Nicole", but it was later shelved after four singles failed to impact the charts significantly.
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Colin Marston Colin Marston (born September 13, 1982) is an American musician and record producer residing in New York City. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and runs Menegroth The Thousand Caves Recording Studios in Woodhaven, Queens while not on tour with one of his four active bands. He is perhaps most famous for fronting the progressive metal band Behold... The Arctopus, in which he plays a Warr guitar, or for his work on bass guitar in the progressive metal trio Dysrhythmia. He is also known for his work in Krallice and the reunion lineup of Gorguts. Marston has produced, mastered and mixed music for artists such as Genghis Tron, Kayo Dot, Jarboe, Capillary Action, and Orthrelm, as well as for his own bands.
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Rosemary Butler Rosemary Butler is an American singer. She began her career playing bass and singing in an all-girl band named the Ladybirds while attending Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California. The band appeared on several Los Angeles area television shows before opening for the Rolling Stones in 1964. She then joined all-female hard rock band Birtha who released two albums for Dunhill Records. After they split in 1975, she became a popular back-up singer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her vocals were featured on Bonnie Raitt's album, "Sweet Forgiveness", on songs "Gamblin' Man", "Runaway", "Sweet Forgiveness", and "Two Lives."
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List of awards and nominations received by Björk Björk is a singer-songwriter from Reykjavík, Iceland. Her debut album, "Björk", considered juvenilia, was released in 1977 by the Fálkinn record label. Her subsequent eight studio albums were released by One Little Indian Records: "Debut" (1993), "Post" (1995), "Homogenic" (1997), "Vespertine" (2001), "Medúlla" (2004), "Volta" (2007), "Biophilia" (2011) and "Vulnicura" (2015). Six of her albums have entered the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart, while "Volta", is her only album to reach the top 10 in the "Billboard" 200. Björk's record label, One Little Indian Records, reported that she has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.
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Like a Virgin (song) "Like a Virgin" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for her second studio album "Like a Virgin" (1984). It was released on October 31, 1984, by the Sire label as the album's lead single. The song was written by Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, and produced by Nile Rodgers; Steinberg said that the song was inspired by his personal experiences of romance. "Like a Virgin" was chosen for Madonna by Michael Ostin of Warner Bros. Records after listening to a demo sung by Kelly. However, Rodgers initially felt that the song did not have a sufficient hook and was not suitable for Madonna, but subsequently changed his opinion after the hook was stuck in his mind.
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Leni Stern Leni Stern (born Magdalena Thora;) is an electric guitarist, singer, and ngoni player. She was interested in music from an early age, beginning piano studies at the age of six and taking on the guitar age of eleven. Forming her own acting company at the age of seventeen, Stern attracted media attention and performed her radical productions in front of sold-out European crowds.
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Michelle Visage Michelle Lynn Shupack (born September 20, 1968), professionally known by her stage name Michelle Visage, is an American singer, television host, radio DJ, author, and television personality. She began her career as a member of the female vocal trio Seduction. After the band's separation, Visage became the lead singer for The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. in 1992. She also featured as a guest vocalist on the single "Crash" for TKA.
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Linda Chou Linda Chou (born February 24, 1983) is an Asian-American singer. She was born in the United States in the state of California to a father of Taiwanese descent and a mother of Vietnamese descent. She went to the University of California, San Diego, earning a bachelor's degree in pharmacological chemistry.
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Missy Higgins discography The discography of Australian singer-songwriter and musician Missy Higgins consists of four studio albums, seven extended plays, fourteen singles and one download-only live album. In 2001, Higgins won the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists with her song "All for Believing" and shortly after signed a recording contract with . The following year she signed an international contract with Warner Bros. She released a self-titled EP in November 2003. Her debut album, "The Sound of White", was released 6 September 2004. It reached No. 1 on the Australian albums chart and was certified nine times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). It contained the singles "Scar", "Ten Days", "The Special Two" and "The Sound of White".