Michael was born Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, North London. His father was Kyriacos Panayiotou, a Greek-Cypriot restaurateur who moved to England in the 1950s and changed his name to Jack Panos. Michael's maternal grandmother was from a well-off Jewish family and his grandfather fro

Bombast, Bright, Bubblicious, Clever, Cool, Elegant, Erotic, Glamour, Grand, Joyful, Playful, Pop, Power, Queer, Rhythmic, Sensual, Sexy, Witty

Laurie Anderson trained as a violinist, art historian, sculptor, and more recently, as a poet. For those familiar with her work, the mere mention of her name is enough to start a multimedia memory extravaganza. Anderson embraced multiple technologies before "multimedia" became an unhyphenated wor

Cd-rom, Collage, Composed, Electronic, New musical hybrids, Political, Repetitive, Smarty arty pop, Technology, Trippy, Witty

Alex Chilton (born named William Alexander Chilton, on December 28, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocali

Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Anxiety, Classic rock, Clever, Contemplative, Cool, Dreamy, Eclectic, Elegant, Ethereal, Implosive, Melancholy, Playful, Pop, Power, Primal, Queer, Quiet, Quirky, Self-reflection, Serene, Singer/songwriter, Smarty arty pop, Spare, Tense, Tragic, Wise assy

Synthpop band Propaganda was formed in Germany by vocalist Claudia Brücken and drummer Michael Mertens plus keyboard players Susanne Freytag and Ralf Dorper. The quartet moved to England in 1983 and signed to ZTT Records, also the home of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Art of Noise. Propaganda's firs

80s synthpop, Alternative rock, Epic, Erotic, Geometric, Lush, Rhythmic