Tulisa Contostavlos is a British singer-songwriter, actress and model of Greek and Irish descent. She is best known for being a member of the Camden-based hip hop group N-Dubz, with her cousin Dino "Dappy" Contostavlos and their friend Richard "Fazer" Rawson. She will appear as a judge on the upcoming eighth series of The X Factor.

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Utah Saints are a dance band based in Leeds, England. The music is produced by Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, who are joined on-stage by other musicians whenever the band plays live. The band had a string of hit singles in the British pop charts in the 1990s, and were notable for their extensive use of sampling technology — in particular, their practice of manipulating samples from mainstream pop and rock songs and combining them with contrasting dance beats.

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Basement Jaxx are a UK house music duo. The duo consists of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s.

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Café Tacuba (often stylized as café tacvba) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning band from Naucalpan, Mexico. They were founded in 1989, and since then have had the same musical lineup: Rubén Isaac "Ribaac" Albarrán Ortega: (vocals, guitar) Emmanuel "Meme" del Real Díaz: (keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, vocals, melodion) José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo: (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals) Enrique 'Quique' Rangel Arroyo: (bass guitar, electric upright bass, vocals) Mexican folk music player Alejandro Flores is considered the 5th tacuba, as he has played the violin in almost every Café Tacuba concert since 1994. Since the Cuatro Caminos World Tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma has played the drums in every concert but is not considered an official member of the band.

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No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, founded in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album, No Doubt, failed to make waves due to the popularity of the grunge movement at the time. The band's diamond-certified album Tragic Kingdom helped to launch the ska revival of the 1990s, and "Don't Speak", the third single from the album, set a record when it spent sixteen weeks at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart.

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Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop band. Formed in 1985 once Ross moved from Dundee to Glasgow, Deacon Blue were one of the top-selling UK bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group's members were Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling.

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Sharon Helga Corr (born 24 March 1970 in Dundalk Ireland) is a musician and member of the Irish pop-rock band The Corrs. She plays the violin, piano, guitar, and sings backing vocals. Sharon Corr began learning the violin when she was 6 years old. Her sister Caroline Corr was originally meant to learn it but was not interested, so Sharon took lessons instead. She has played in national youth orchestras and is qualified to teach the violin. The Corr siblings were awarded honorary MBEs in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of both their musical talent and their charitable work raising money for Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, victims of the Omagh Bombing, and other charities. Sharon Corr wrote the Corrs hits "So Young", "Radio", "Long Night", and "Goodbye" as well as the instrumentals "Silver Strand" and "Rebel Heart", the latter of which was used as theme music for the television miniseries of the same name.

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Boyzone is an Irish boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the UK and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe. The band have released six #1 UK hit singles and four #1 albums, with sales approaching 20 million records as of 2008. They made a comeback in2007, originally with the intention of just touring but Ronan Keating confirmed in an interview that they wanted to "outdo Take That" in terms of a successful reunion. Boyzone was put together in 1993 by Louis Walsh who is also known for managing Johnny Logan and Westlife. Before even recording any material they made a now infamous appearance on RTÉ's The Late Late Show. Their first album Said and Done was released in 1995 and the following two studio albums in 1996 and 1998. Seven compilation albums have been released, the latest being B-Sides & Rarities in October 2008.

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Death and Taxes is an up and coming American rock band from LA . Members are David Starkey on bass, Izzy Dias on drums, JayLink vocals and Michael Cutting guitar. Their full length CD titled "Inevitable", is being finished up , and will be mastered by world class mastering engineer Brian Gardner in Hollywood. CD RELEASE 2010

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Collective Soul is an American rock band from Stockbridge, Georgia. They have enjoyed popularity on alternative rock, mainstream rock and pop music radio throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium, recording seven #1 mainstream rock hits. They broke into mainstream popularity with their hit single "Shine" from their debut album Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid, released in 1993.

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