JASON MRAZ
By Belén Galera

He is an American singer and songwriter. He’s 32 years old. He is influenced by reggae, pop,
rock, folk, jazz, and hip hop. His first sigle was released in 2007: "The beauty in Ugly", in the American series Ugly Betty. In 2009 he released a new single “Luky”. It was recorded with Colbie Caillat, and the main song is in the album is: "We sing, we dance, we steal things". This album was launched in 2008, and it sold more than 2 milions copies.

He also participated in the chorus of the song "We are the word 25 for Haiti" (in February 2010). He sang it with other artists of pop-rock music and hip-hop : Celin Dion, Janer Jackson, Enrique Iglesias... etc

Discography
Studio albums
• Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002)
• Mr. A–Z (2005)
• We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (2008)
Live albums
• Live at Java Joe's (2001)
• Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom (2004)
• Selections for Friends - Live from: Schubas Tavern, Chicago, Montalvo Winery, Saratoga California (2007)
• Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess - Live from Earth (2009)

.Rbd
By Anastasia Macovei

Rbd was a band formed by Anahi, Dulce, Maria, Maite, Christopher, Christian and Alfonso. The origin of this band is in Mexico.
Their first album was: “Rebelde” (2004-2005), and it was released on November 30th of 2004 by EMI. These hits were number ones in Mexico: “Rebelled”, “Solo quadrate en silencio”, and “Sálvame”. And “Un poco de tu amor” is the second one. The album was released in different languages, but not in English. “Rebelde” sold over 700.000 copies in U.S. and it was given prizes in both Mexico and Brazil.

The second album was “Nuestro amor” (2005-2006), for me it is the best album I have ever heard. The best hits in it are: “Nuestro amor”, “Aún hay algo” and “Este corazón”.
The third album was “Celestial” and it was released on November 2006. The hits from it are: “Celestial”, “Ser o parecer” and “Bésame sin miedo”. One month later, an album was released for the Brazilian market.

They filmed a tv series of 13 episodes, called “La familia, which is based on the real lives of the members of Rbd.

In December 2006, they released their first album in English: “Rebels”. “Empezar desde cero” was released on October 2007.

“Rebelde” was also a Mexican tv series produced by Telvisa, it was a remake of an Argentinian tv series “Rebelde Way”.

In August 2008, the producer of the band announced that they would split up, because the members of the band were planning different solo activities. Their last album was “Best of Rbd” or “Para olvidarte de mi”. And it was released on March 10th 2009.

Fondo Flamenco
By Cristina Becerra

Fondo Flamenco was formed in Sevilla in 2007. The members of the group are Alejandro Astola, Antonio Dipan and Rafael Ruda. The three are vocalists, but Alejandro and Rafael play the guitar too. The lyrics are usually written by all three, although on their new album Alejandro wrote the lyrics and also composed the music.

Fondo Flamenco released their first album, called “A contra corriente”, with a label company in 2007. In 2008 their second album “Las cartas sobre la mesa” was a hit and they did a big tour and played 100 concerts.

In 2010, after two years of success, they released “Paren el mundo que me bajo”, which is a very good example of their musical style.

Rock music
By David Planas

Rock music is a type of popular music which appeared in the 1950’s. It has its roots in other styles of music: the rhythm and blues, country music, folk music, Jazz and classical music.
The principal instruments which form this type of music are the electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and sometimes the organ or the piano.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s rock music developed different subgenres like soft rock, Glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock and Punk rock. In the 1980’s other types like new wave, alternative rock, grunge, Britpop and Indie rock.
Nowadays one of the most important types of rock is the Britpop which was born from (the) British alternative rock and is characterized by bands influenced by British guitar music of the 70s The principal groups which form this genre are Suede, Pulp, Blur and Oasis. The last groups created an important battle, called “the battle of the Britpop”.

Eurythmics
By Anna Sopena

Eurythmics is an English music group that plays Synthpop, New Wave and Pop Rock. It appeared in 1980 and in 1981 they were famous. The group was formed by Annie Lennox (vocalist) and David A. Stewart (composer). While they played they sold 75 milions DCs in the world. The most important album was "Sweet dreams (are made of this)". The group stopped playing in 1997.
Before they formed the group they were in a group called The Catch, later the group changed its name to The Tourists, and finally Annie and David split up and created the group Eurythmics.The name of the group is Eurythmics because Eu in Greek means good, so the name means good rhythmic.
This group got a lot of fame with “Love Is A Stranger”, “Who´S That Girl?”, “Right By Your Side” and “Here Comes The Rain Again”. But in 1998 they lost fame and they split up.
When they split up Annie Lennox started to sing alone, as a solist. She continued getting fame. Her discography is: “Diva”, “Medusa”, “Bare”, “Song of Mass Destruction”.

Britney Spears
By Ivon Zavala

She is a singer, composer... She sings pop music.
She was born on December 2 1981 in Mississippi, Louisiana. In 1992 she worked for the Disney channel in a series.
She has released six CDs: (1999) “Baby one more time”, (2000) “ops!” “I did it again”, (2001) “Britney”, (2003) “In the zone”, (2007) “Blackout”, (2008) “Circus”.
She lives in a very strange way. She has two children, Sean Preston and James Jayden. After the chidren were born she divorced. She has serious problems with drugs, and her ex-husband threatened her to take her children away. She has a bad reputation.
On the evening of January 3 2008 she became crazy. She locked herself in a toilet with her youngest son Jayden James, after not sleeping for over four days and she refused to give the custody of her children to her husband’s representatives. As a result police were called to Spears's home.
Her last disc is “The singles collections”.
She is a crazy person, but she is a GOOD SINGER.

Freddy Mercury
By Carla Bustamante

He was born in Stone Town on September 5th 1946, with the name Farrokh Bommi Bulsara. He was a British Indian musician, who played in the band Queen. His parents were Bommi and Jer Bulsara.
He went to Panchgani and in this city his friends began to call him Freddy. At the age of eight, he was sent to study to St. Peter's School. It was also at St. Peter's where he began to call himself "Freddie".
When he was 17 years old he moved with his family to Feltham (London). In 1964 he enrolled at Isleworth Polytechnic because he needed a high mark to go to Art School.Freddy met Tim Staffel, who played in a band called the Smile, Bryan May and Roger Taylor were in the band too.
He began to create some music. Freddy obtained the degree of Grafic Arts at the University of Ealing in 1969. In this summer he met a band called The Ibex, he composed new songs for the band and traveled with them to Bolton.
Mercury wanted a new band, because The Ibex disappeared and he found another band called Sour Milk Sea. There Freddy was the vocalist.
The band changed of name, and was called Queen; and then Freddy too was called Mercury.The most important song is Bohemian Rhapsody, which was the most listened to for 9 weeks.Freddy was diagnosed with AIDS at the age of 45, 24 hours later he died in his bed because of bronchial pneumonia.
Queen made more or less 20 CDs. Freddie designed the logo of the band using their signs of the Zodiac: two lions -the signs of Roger and John-, a crab -Brian's sign (Cancer)-, and two fairies -sign of Freddy (Virgoan)-.
Freddy was awarded a lot of prizes: a statue in Montreux (Swiss), a floor star in Feltham (England), as well as their concerts...