Michael Williams

Michael Williams was borned and raised in Birmingham,UK.

He started his singing career at a very young age.

While in college he sang with several different harmony groups and by the time he left college, he went on to perform and record as a solo artist.

In 1993 Michael toured with British group UB40 in the Caribbean and ended up touring the UK and Europe as a solo performer.

Later in 1998 Michael toured for two years in a Motown production called "The Reach out Tour" which featured the music of great Motown acts such as "The FourTops", "The Temptations", "Marvin Gaye" and "Smokey Robinson & "The Miracles".

Michael joined  The Drifters in 2006 as an understudy and became one of the lead singers in late 2007. He recorded lead on two new songs featured on The Drifters 2011 greatest hits album, (Up On The Roof)..... "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "Do You Dream of Me".

 

 

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Michael along with the rest of the group, received gold discs from Sony music in 2012 for the release of the “Up On The Roof”album. Michael's tenure with The Drifters saw him tour with some of the greats including.....A 2008 tour of the U.K. with souldiva "Gloria Gaynor", followed by a 2010 tour of the U.K. with "The Four Tops", "The Temptations" and the "Three Degrees". 

In 2015 he again toured the U.K., this time with "Mary Wilson" (of "The Supremes"), "Roberta Flack" and "Dionne Warwick".This tour coincided with therelease of “Stand By Me”The Very Best Of The Drifters an album released by Atlantic Records.Michael had the pleasure of recording the lead vocal on the classic“Stand By Me”originally written and recorded by "Ben E King".​ 

In 2017 Michael was part of a musical that toured up and down the UK called "Stand By Me" which was a tribute to the late great "Ben E King & The Drifters". “Stand By Me”originally written and recorded by "Ben E King".

As of 2018 he has a very sucessful solo career and also works as part of couple of harmony groups touring all over the world. 

The beginning of 2019 saw Michael move into television as he was featured as a judge on the second season of the BBCʼs 

“AllTogether Now”a British reality television music competition to find new singing talent.Michael has also released two solo albums entitled “Find Your Wings”and “Celebrate With Michael Williams” 

2021 Michael is currently working with a new solo album with the Swedish R&B/Soul producer Björn Johansson. T.B.A.

A single "All I Need is a Single Word" was released by Music Shack Records in the beginning of 2020.

Sliva Olari

Born in Parma, Italy, where she started playing piano at the age of 8, Silvia's big break came in 2007 when she participated in the biggest broadcasted nationwide talent show in Italy, "Amici". After that she released 2 albums in Italy. For the first one Silvia received a silver record from the Federation Of The Italian Music Industry. Her first single "Lost In Yourself" hit #10 on iTunes R&B Charts for one of the most downloaded singles in Italy for several weeks.

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B Angie B

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Angela Roxanna Boyd, known by the stage name B Angie B (born March 9, 1968) is an R&B vocalist and dancer from Morton, Mississippi, US. Boyd was a backing vocalist for MC Hammer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and recorded for his Bust-It Records label, releasing a charting album and single of her own with the label in 1991. Subsequent releases were less commercially successful, but Boyd continued occasionally releasing music in the 2000s and 2010s. Allmusic credits Boyd with exploring neo soul musical aesthetics within urban contemporary music and described her as a forerunner to other African-American female soul singers, such as Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, and Jill Scott.

In 2011 she met the two Swedish song writers Björn Johansson and Jim LIndqwister and 2016 she released the allbum "Stronger Than Ever"distributed by Spectra Music Group.

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Joe Blandino

Joe Blandino is a singer-songwriter, producer and musician from the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republik.

With influences from Juan Luis Guerra to Stevie Wonder and from José José to the most current of Pop, Joe Blandino presents his music, which expresses what cannot be said only with words and that at the same time it is impossible to keep quiet.

Blandino is an artist who is involved in the entire creative process of his songs, in which he injects the different rhythms and musical expressions that he has experienced in his search for the American and European continent, as well as his internal vision of music.

He is currently working on his album "Gente Normal Acústicos" which will be released on April 24th. In addition to two collaborations in which he will have as guests the singer-songwriters Gustavo Galindo from Los Angeles California, USA. a duet in the bilingual song "Me Haces Tan Feliz (Colors)", and Andrés Obregón from León Guanajuato, Mexico. a duet in the song "Ojalá", Written by Gilberto Chong originally from the City of Guanajuato, Mexico.

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Anneli Heed

Anneli is a songwriter, singer and voice actor living in Stockholm Sweden.

Starting out as a "ghost" singer behind various artists with releases in Sweden, England,Germany and Japan in the early 2000's Anneli fell in love with the creative process of creating music.

Vocal versatility is her favourite game as a singer and as a voice actor Annelie is known for her many years as a professional voice actor in 100's of animated TV series and movies for Disney, Dreamworks, Netflix, Universal, e.t.c.

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The Sentimental Gents

"Authentic.Soulful.Music.” That is how founding member Björn Johansson aka Bejohz describes The Sentimental Gents sound. It draws from many music styles, incorporating elements of R&B, Funk, Disco, Soul, Jazz and Classical Music.

For every individual song Björn tailor made each line up of musicians depending of the vibe and feeling of the track.

On this track the line-up is consisting of Michael Williams (lead and backing vocals), Hans Lindberg (bass guitar), Mattias Knutas (drums), The Killer Horns, (Mike Lesirge saxophones and Ryan Jacobs trumpet) and Björn Johansson (keyboards and guitars). The song is arranged and produced by Björn Johansson.

Music and lyrics by Björn Johansson/Jim Lindqwister

With outstanding musicianship and memorable original material, The Sentimental Gents is not to be missed!

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