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The Sounds

Biography

There are multiple artists that have used this name:

1) A Swedish New Wave group

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2) A Finnish instrumental rock band in the early 1960s

3) A 1950s doo wop group on the Cascade label

4) Ska group Jamaica made a song Shufflin from Trojan Ska Box Set Volume Two.

1) The Sounds are a Swedish new wave band from Helsingborg, Scania, formed in 1999. The band consists of Maja Ivarsson (vocals) Felix Rodriguez (guitar), Johan Bengtsson (bass), Jesper Anderberg (keyboards) and Fredrik Nilsson (drums). They have released four albums to date: 2002s Living In America, 2006s Dying To Say This To You, 2009s Crossing the Rubicon and 2011s Something To Die For on Original Signal Recordings and Side One Dummy Records.

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2) The Sounds were a Finnish instrumental and pop group from Helsinki. Their most famous record is an instrumental version of "Emma" which was recorded in January 1963. The Sounds are still one of the most significant and influential Finnish instrumental rock bands. Their other instrumental record "Mandshurian Beat" is known to be the first Finnish record which sold over one million copies abroad. The Sounds were active between 1962 and 1965. Johnny Liebkind played drums in the first line-up of the band. (Source of information: Finnish Wikipedia) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.