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Sonja Kristina

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Sonja Kristina (born Sonja Christina Shaw, 14 April 1949, in Brentwood, Essex) is an English songwriter, musician and actress, best known for starring in the seminal 1960s musical, Hair, and for being the lead vocalist of the 1970s progressive rock band, Curved Air. [1]

67 relations: Air Conditioning (album), Air Cut, Airborne (Curved Air album), Alan Burridge (writer), Album, Alive, 1990, AllMusic, Anne-Marie Helder, Arthur Hamilton, Back Street Luv, Billie Holiday, Brentwood, Essex, Cherry Red Records, Chrissie Hynde, Cole Porter, Criminology, Curved Air, Curved Air – Live, Darryl Way, Dave Cousins, Dave Greenslade, Duet, Duke Ellington, Florian Pilkington-Miksa, Folk music, Gerda Lundequist, Hair (musical), Hair (Original London Cast Recording), Helen Shapiro, Hoagy Carmichael, Hot Head Show, Kate Bush, Katie Puckrik, Lead vocalist, Live at the BBC (Curved Air album), Lovechild (Curved Air album), Market Square Records, Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946), Marvin Ayres, Mick Farren, Middlesex University, Midnight Wire, Motörhead, Musical theatre, NME, North Star (Curved Air album), Omnibus Press, Oxford University Press, Phantasmagoria (Curved Air album), Playboy Club, ..., Progressive rock, Psychedelic folk, Romeo and Juliet, Romford, Roy Guest, Sandy Denny, Second Album (Curved Air album), Solo (music), Stephen Sondheim, Stewart Copeland, Sting (musician), Strawbs, The Pretenders, The Star (Malaysia), The Troubadour, London, Thelonious Monk, Vampires Stole My Lunch Money. Expand index (17 more) »

Air Conditioning (album)

Air Conditioning is the first studio album by British progressive rock band Curved Air.

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Air Cut

Air Cut is the fourth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1973, following the departure of three of the band's founding members.

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Airborne (Curved Air album)

Airborne is the sixth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1976.

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Alan Burridge (writer)

Alan Burridge (born 7 May 1951), was the official biographer of the heavy rock band, Motörhead.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alive, 1990

Alive, 1990 is a recording from the Curved Air reunion concert 23 September 1990.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Anne-Marie Helder

Anne-Marie Helder is a British singer and songwriter, best known for fronting the UK rock band Panic Room.

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Arthur Hamilton

Arthur Hamilton (born Arthur Stern). Retrieved 14 January 2016 is an American songwriter.

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Back Street Luv

"Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina and Darryl Way.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Brentwood, Essex

Brentwood is a town in the Borough of Brentwood, in the county of Essex in the East of England.

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Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded by Iain McNay in 1978.

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Chrissie Hynde

Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band The Pretenders.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Criminology

Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation" originally derived from the Ancient Greek verb "krino" "κρίνω", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logy|-logia, from "logos" meaning: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels.

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Curved Air

Curved Air are a pioneering English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk, and electronic sound.

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Curved Air – Live

Curved Air – Live was the first official live album by the British progressive rock band Curved Air.

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Darryl Way

Richard Darryl Way (born 17 December 1948 in Taunton, Somerset) is an English rock and classical musician who was a founding member of Curved Air and co-writer of their only hit single, "Back Street Luv".

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Dave Cousins

Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson, 7 January 1945, Hounslow, Middlesex, England) is an English singer and songwriter, who has been the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.

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Dave Greenslade

Dave Greenslade (born 18 January 1943) is an English composer and keyboard player.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Florian Pilkington-Miksa

Florian M Pilkington-Miksa (born 3 June 1950 in Paddington, London) is an English rock drummer.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Gerda Lundequist

Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist (14 February 1871 – 23 October 1959) was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt".

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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Hair (Original London Cast Recording)

Hair is a 1968 album recording of the London cast production of ''Hair'' (SD 7002) featuring Paul Nicholas, Vince Edward, Oliver Tobias, Michael Feast, Peter Straker, Annabel Leventon, Linda Kendrick, Marsha Hunt, Sonja Kristina and others conducted by Derek Wadsworth.

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Helen Shapiro

Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English pop singer, jazz singer and actress.

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Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader.

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Hot Head Show

Hot Head Show is an English eclectic blues rock trio based in London, currently composed of guitarist/vocalist Jordan Copeland (son of Stewart Copeland), drummer Maxwell "Betamax" Hallett, and bassist Jonah Brody.

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Kate Bush

Catherine "Kate" Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer.

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Katie Puckrik

Katie Puckrik (born July 12, 1962) is an American broadcaster and newspaper columnist.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Live at the BBC (Curved Air album)

Live at the BBC is a compilation live album of the British progressive rock band Curved Air from sessions on.

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Lovechild (Curved Air album)

Lovechild is the seventh studio album credited to progressive rock band Curved Air, though only half the tracks are actually performed by the group.

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Market Square Records

Market Square Records is a music promotion and record label company started in 1999.

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Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)

Marsha Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American actress, novelist, singer and former model, who has lived mostly in Britain and Ireland.

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Marvin Ayres

Marvin Ayres (born 1950s) is a British composer, cellist, violinist and producer.

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Mick Farren

Michael Anthony Farren (3 September 1943 – 27 July 2013) was an English journalist, author and singer associated with counterculture and the UK underground.

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Middlesex University

Middlesex University London is a public university in Hendon, north west London, England.

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Midnight Wire

Midnight Wire is the fifth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1975.

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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, who was the sole constant member, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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North Star (Curved Air album)

North Star is a studio album by Curved Air and was released on 17 March 2014.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is the world’s largest specialist publisher of music-related books.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Phantasmagoria (Curved Air album)

Phantasmagoria is a 1972 album by Curved Air.

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Playboy Club

The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Psychedelic folk

Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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Romford

Romford is a large town in East London and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering.

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Roy Guest

Roy Guest (13 March 1934 – 23 September 1996) was a folk singer and impresario.

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Sandy Denny

Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Second Album (Curved Air album)

Second Album was the second album released by British rock group Curved Air.

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Solo (music)

In music, a solo (from the solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Strawbs

Strawbs (or The Strawbs) are an English rock band founded in 1964.

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The Pretenders

The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.

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The Star (Malaysia)

The Star is an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia.

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The Troubadour, London

The Troubadour at 263–267 Old Brompton Road in Earls Court, established in 1954, is one of the last remaining coffee houses of its era in London and although it has expanded over the years to incorporate the two buildings either side the original, the original coffee house remains relatively unchanged since its opening, with the cellar venue renowned as one of the primary venues of the British folk revival in the late 1950s and 1960s.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Vampires Stole My Lunch Money

Vampires Stole My Lunch Money is a 1978 album by the UK underground artist Mick Farren.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Kristina

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