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Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974, in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a British musician. He won the 1997 Mobo Award for best Reggae act, and the 1998 Brit Award for Best British Male Solo Artist. March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...
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A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...
The MOBO (an acronym for Music Of Black Origin) Awards, established in 1996 by Kanya King, are held annually in the UK to recognise artists of any race or nationality performing music of black origin. ...
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The Brit Awards are annual United Kingdom pop music awards, considered to be on a par with the Grammys in the United States. ...
Life and career
Quaye is the son of jazz musician, Cab Kaye and Sharon McGowan, and the brother of noted guitarist, Caleb Quaye. Finley is in no way related to Tricky. Both artists found that their parents shared the same name and for a while, thought they might be related. A son is a male offspring; a boy, man, or male animal in relation to either or both of his parents. ...
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Quaye went to school in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. However, he left school with no qualifications. Before making records he took employment spraying cars, smoking fish, making futons and as a stage-rigger. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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His father was born in London, yet considered himself as an African, and although known as Cab Kaye his full name was Nii Lante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye. Kaye was also the son of the pianist Caleb Jonas Quaye, who was born in Accra, Ghana. Kaye did not grow up with his father and only found out, in his twenties, about his father's history as a musican. Finley was inspired early on in his child hood by jazz musicians, Pete King and Ronnie Scott, and Lionel Hampton, additionally, Duke Ellington was Finleys god father. Finley heard jazz as a child living in London with his mother who would take young Finley with her regularly to Ronnie Scotts jazz club catching very rare performances of American jazz musicians touring Europe such as Buddy Rich who recorded his live album there in 1980. His mother intoduced him to Lionel Hampton in Edinburgh. Duke Ellington made an indelable impact on Finleys life and his musical outlook. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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Incidently, Finley was on tour with his band, when he met his father for the first time in Amsterdam. Music is in very much in the blood. He made a solo record deal with Polydor Records, and moved to New York. He began working with Epic/Sony when Polydor let him out of contract, and in late 1997 he reached the UK Top 20 twice with "Sunday Shining", and "Even After All". His reputation was established by Maverick A Strike, an adventurous but accessible album released in September 1997. It went gold less than three weeks later, and led directly to the Brit Award victory. Maverick A Strike is now multi platinum. Two more albums were released on Epic, Vanguard and Much More Than Much Love. In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ...
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Epic Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Sony BMG. // Epic was launched originally as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 by CBS. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. ...
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Epic Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Sony BMG. // Epic was launched originally as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 by CBS. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. ...
Quaye is now independent of any record label. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
In 2004 the song "Dice", in collaboration with William Orbit, and featuring Beth Orton was a minor hit, helped in part by its inclusion on The O.C. soundtrack. William Orbit 1999 William Orbit (sometimes written as William Ørbit, born on 15 December 1956 as William Wainwright) is a British musician and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonnas album Ray of Light, which received four Grammy Awards. ...
Elizabeth Caroline Orton,[1] commonly known as Beth Orton, (born December 14, 1970), is a Brit Award–winning English singer-songwriter. ...
In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ...
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Quaye has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
Discography - Finley's Rainbow White Label (1993)
- Finley's Rainbow on AGCG's Black Secret Technology (1995)
- Maverick A Strike (1997)
- It Ain't Necessarily So on Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (1998)
- Vanguard (2000)
- Caravan on Timo Mass' Loud (2002)
- Much More Than Much Love (2004)
- Oranges and Lemons (EP) (2005)
- For My Children's Love (2006)
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