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Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974, Leith, Edinburgh[1]) is a British musician. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Formerly a municipal Burgh, Leith (Lìte is a district in the north of the city of Edinburgh at the mouth of the Water of Leith and is the port Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. British people, or Britons, are the native inhabitants of Great Britain and their descendants or citizens of the United Kingdom, of the A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a He won the 1997 Mobo Award for best Reggae act, and the 1998 BRIT Award for Best British Male Solo Artist. Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s The BRIT Awards, often simply called The BRITs, are the British Phonographic Industry 's annual pop music awards

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Life

Quaye is the son of Jazz musician, Cab Kaye and Sharon McGowan, the brother of noted guitarist, Caleb Quaye and jazz musician Terri Quaye, and claims to be the uncle of Tricky although the Bristol trip-hop artist disputes this. SON DNA binding protein, also known as SON, is a human Gene. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Augustus Kwamla or Kwamlah Nii-lante Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye (September 3 1921 London - March 13 2000 Amsterdam) was an English A guitarist is a Musician who plays the Guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres Caleb Quaye (born 1948 in London, England) is an Afro-European rock Guitarist and Studio musician best known for his work Theresa "Terri" Quaye, also Theresa Naa-Koshie (born November 8 1940 Bodmin) is an English singer pianist and percussionist Tricky (born Adrian Thaws 27 January, 1968) is an English musician

Born in Leith, Quaye went to school in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. However, he left school with no qualifications. Before making records he took employment spraying cars, smoking fish, making futons and as a stage-rigger.

His father was born in London, but considered himself as African. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Although known as Cab Kaye his full name was Nii Lante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye. Kaye was the son of the pianist Caleb Jonas Quaye a. A pianist (/'piənɪst/ is a Musician who plays the Piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces play with an ensemble or Orchestra k. a Mope Desmond, who was born in Accra, Ghana. Accra is the capital, and most populous city of Ghana. The city also doubles as the capital of the Greater Kaye did not grow up with his father and only found out, in his twenties, about his father's history as a musician. Mope Desmond, Cab Kaye and Finley Quaye have all played Glasgow's Barrowlands, Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Hall and London's Cafe d'Paris. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom The Barrowlands (more properly The Barrowland Ballroom) is a major Dance hall and Concert venue in Glasgow, Scotland. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

Finley was inspired early on in his childhood by Jazz musicians, Pete King and Ronnie Scott, and Lionel Hampton. Ronnie Scott ( January 28 1927, in Aldgate, East London &ndash December 23 1996) was a British Jazz Lionel Leo Hampton ( April 20, 1908 &ndash August 31, 2002) was an American Jazz Vibraphonist, Percussionist Additionally, Duke Ellington was Finley's Godfather. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29 1899 &ndash May 24 1974 was an American Composer, Pianist, and Bandleader. Finley heard Jazz as a child living in London with his mother who would take young Finley with her regularly to Ronnie Scott's Jazz club catching very rare performances of American Jazz musicians touring Europe such as Buddy Rich who recorded his live album there in 1980. Bernard "Buddy" Rich ( September 30 1917 &ndash April 2 1987) was an American jazz drummer and Bandleader His mother introduced him to Lionel Hampton in Edinburgh. Duke Ellington made an indelible impact on Finley's life and his musical outlook. Finley was on tour with his band when he met his father for the first time in Amsterdam. A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west

Career

He made a solo record deal with Polydor Records, and moved to New York. In Music, a solo (from the Italian solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a Record label and a Recording artist (or group where the artist Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. The City of 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". Epic Records is an American Record label. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located His reputation was established by Maverick A Strike, an adventurous but accessible album released in September 1997. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public It went gold less than three weeks later, and led directly to the BRIT Award victory. The BRIT Awards, often simply called The BRITs, are the British Phonographic Industry 's annual pop music awards Maverick A Strike is now multi platinum. Two more albums were released on Epic, Vanguard (2000) and Much More Than Much Love (2004). Epic Records is an American Record label. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment.

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 Music from the OC: Mix 1. William Orbit (born on 15 December 1956 as William Mark Wainwright in Shoreditch, Hackney) is an English Musician Elizabeth Caroline Orton, 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&mdasha Chart &mdashof top Music from the OC Mix 1 contains music from the TV series The O

Quaye has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany.

Discography

References

  1. ^ BBC Music

External links

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