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Lee Kernaghan

Lee Kernaghan (born April 15, 1964 in Corryong, Victoria, Australia, is one of Australia's most popular and influential country singers and songwriters. Born in the bush, Corryong, Victoria, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains high country is where Lee's life began. The son of a truck driver and later multi-platinum recording artist Ray Kernaghan, Lee spent his formative years growing up in the Riverina country of Southern NSW.

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Union Avenue

Union Avenue is a band from Scotland. They have been on the scene for over ten years, recorded two albums in the style of Johnny Cash, but with a twist.
Their version of Ace Of Spades become a song of the week on Radio 1, and the band gained a huge popularity. Many radio listeners were calling to the radio and were asking on which Johnny Cash album this song was released.
For tour dates and more informations please go to their MySpace account www.myspace.com/unionavenue

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John Prine

John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois) is an american country/folk singer-songwriter who has achieved widespread critical (and some commercial) success since the early 1970s. The son of William Prine and Verna Hamm, his grandfather had played guitar with Merle Travis and he started playing guitar himself at 14 years old. He was a postman for 5 years and spent a couple of years in the army before starting his musical career in the Chicago area. He emerged in 1971 with a highly acclaimed debut album titled John Prine.

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Daniel O'Donnell

Born: Dungloe, Co Donegal, Ireland 12th December 1961
Daniel O`Donnell popular Irish Country/Celtic Singer since 1991. Has had 18 top 40 albums in the UK/Ireland and 15 top 40 hit singles and 4 top 20 singles in UK/Ireland to date. Overall he has had over 22 albums.

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Felicity Urquhart

2006 started with a bang for Felicity at the Tamworth Music Festival, with the new album My Life being launched to thousands of fans in the main street, sellout concert, named a finalist in Female Vocalist of the Year at the CMAA Awards and was invited to join friend Russell Crowe and his band The Ordinary Fear Of God, to perform a duet on stage at the Golden Guitars. Felicity has spent the past few years writing songs for this latest album. Her focus was to be lyrically honest, remaining unaffected by musical trends, and by doing this, shes managed to create her own unique sound.

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Matt Masters

There are two artists named Matt Masters. One lives in England one lives in Canada. This is a bio of the Canadian one. Matt is a 33 year-old Calgary artist. He works as a singer and a songwriter of original country and western music with a contemporary edge. Matt plays 100 performances a year and manages, books and promotes his band himself. Matt has played alongside some of Canada’s most respected musicians, including the late Jeff Healey, members of Blue Rodeo, Prairie Oyster, Barney Bentall, Justin Rutledge, Corb Lund and Ndidi Onukwulu.

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