The White Stripes

The White Stripes are an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White (vocals, piano/keyboards, and guitar) and Meg White (drums, vocals).

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson (born as Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969) is the lead singer of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA based shock rock group of the same name. Warner chose the name, a combination of Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson, to illustrate what he considered to be the extreme dualism of late 20th century American culture. The stage names of each band member were originally created by combining the first name of an iconic female sex symbol and the last name of an iconic mass murderer or serial killer, though this naming convention has not extended to new band members after the mid-90s.

Tori Amos

Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley, with whom she has one child, Natashya “Tash” Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.

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The Offspring

The Offspring is a popular punk / alternative rock band, formed in 1984 in Garden Grove, California by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel under the name “Manic Subsidal”, inspired by a Social Distortion concert. In 1985 their school janitor, noodles, joined on lead guitar with drummer James Lilja. Lilja later left before their first LP to become a gynecologist. Their second drummer, Ron Welty, played with The Offspring from their self titled debut album until the making of Splinter. They hired Josh Freese to play the drums on that album, then brought in Atom Willard to go along on tour. Willard later left to join Angels & Airwaves, and after Freese returned to drum on Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace, Pete Parada joined as the band’s fulltime drummer.

The Offspring is also known as one of the first bands to allow downloads of their songs. ‘Original Prankster’ was the first song they released this way. The band was originally going to allow the rest of ‘Conspiracy of One’ to be downloaded for free from their website, in order to show The Offspring’s support in downloading music. However, their label Columbia Records objected to this move and threatened to sue the band.

Nelly Ciobanu

Nelly Ciobanu was born on October 28, 1974 in Moldova. She has graduated from music collage of city of Tiraspol. She has made her debut on stage in 1993, with her brother as part of duo “Master Dinamit”.

Ciobanu is a winner of multiple international competitions: in 1998 won second prize at the festival “Yalta - 98” (Ukraine), 1999 “Grand Prix” at the “Discovery” in Bulgaria (for the performance of a song of composer Liviu Stirbu ), the second prize at the festival “Voice of Asia” (Almaty, Kazakhstan), in 2000 - the first prize at the festival “Slavic Bazaar” in Belarus, the bronze medal of “Delphian Games” in Russia, in 2002, the golden prize of the festival “Spring of April” (North Korea), in 2003 - second prize at the festival “New Wave” in Jurmala, the Grand Prix of K. Shulzhenko contest (Kharkiv, Ukraine), 2nd place in national pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2005, was jury member at “Five Stars. Sings in 11 languages: Moldovan, Russian, English, Italian, and even Korean. She has toured with many Russian artists and international stars such as Patricia Kaas and Mike Bolton. On 24 December 2005 her daughter Mirella-Christiana was born.

In 2009, Nelly will represent Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Hora Din Moldova”. She is in Semi Final 2!

Urban Symphony

Urban Symphony represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The band is made up of all string instrument players. The band centers around 20-year-old lead singer and violinist Sandra Nurmsalu, who became famous through the popular show “Kaks takti ette,” which also launched the careers of many other Estonian Eurovision Song Contest representatives. She is joined by viola player Mann Helstein, cellist Johanna Mängel and cellist Mari Möldre.
They took part with the song Rändajad in the Eurovision final on the 16th of May 2009 and they won the 6th position, Estonia’s best position since 2002.

Yohanna

Yohanna (real name Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir) was born on 16 October 1990 in Copenhagen Denmark, but was raised in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. She finished as runner-up in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.