Question: Who was the lead singer for the Verve and later founded the band who released the album United Nations of Sound?
Context: Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz (aka Encyclopedia of Jazz, Vol.  1) is a compilation album of pieces by Oliver Nelson and others assembled by Leonard Feather.  It was recorded in 1965 and 1966 for Verve Records.  In 2006, Mosaic Records released all the Oliver Nelson tracks, together with some unissued pieces recorded at the same session, on the second CD of the compilation "Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions".  Some of them were also included at the time on "Leonard Feather Presents the Sound of Feeling and the Sound of Oliver Nelson" (V6-8743, 1968). RPA & The United Nations of Sound are a British alternative rock band formed by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, former lead singer of The Verve.  Ashcroft announced the formation of the band (which is a pseudonym more than a real band) and presented the video of the first single, "Are You Ready?" , on 18 January 2010 in an exclusive premiere on the "NME" website.  "Are You Ready?"  was released only in the UK on 1 April 2010 in a limited edition 12" vinyl.  On 9 April 2010 the band released a fanclub-only track, "Third Eye (Colombus Circle)".  In the first two weeks of June Ashcroft and his musicians completed a European tour (Ancona, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, Manchester and London), then they played in Tokyo and Osaka on 7–8 August 2010 during the Summer Sonic Festival 2010 and also in Melbourne and Sydney respectively on 30 July and 31 July.  The band played in Australia also during the Splendour in the Grass Festival in late July.  The band's debut album as Richard's backing lineup, entitled "United Nations of Sound", was released on 19 July 2010.  "Born Again", the first proper single, was officially released the same day of the album as a digital download. Richard Paul Ashcroft (born 11 September 1971) is an English singer and songwriter.  He was the lead singer and occasional rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their original split in 1999.  He became a successful solo artist in his own right, releasing three UK top three solo albums.  The Verve reformed in 2007 but again broke up by summer 2009.  Ashcroft then founded a new band, RPA & The United Nations of Sound, and released a new album on 19 July 2010.  On 22 February 2016 Ashcroft announced his fourth solo album, "These People", set for release 20 May 2016.  Chris Martin of Coldplay has described Ashcroft as "the best singer in the world". The United Nations Environment Programme is an agency of United Nations and coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.  It was founded by Maurice Strong, its first director, as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference) in June 1972 and Environment has overall responsibility for environmental problems among United Nations agencies but international talks on specialized issues, such as addressing climate change or combating desertification, are overseen by other UN organizations, like the Bonn-based Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.  UN Environment activities cover a wide range of issues regarding the atmosphere, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, environmental governance and green economy.  It has played a significant role in developing international environmental conventions, promoting environmental science and information and illustrating the way those can be implemented in conjunction with policy, working on the development and implementation of policy with national governments, regional institutions in conjunction with environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs).  UN Environment has also been active in funding and implementing environment related development projects. The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948<ref name="s/res/73">UN Doc S/RES/73 (1949) S/1376, II 11 August 1949 UN Security Council Resolution 73</ref> for peacekeeping in the Middle East.  Its primary task was providing the military command structure to the peace keeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peace keepers to observe and maintain the cease-fire, and as may be necessary in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements.  The command structure of the UNTSO was maintained to cover the later peace keeper organisations of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Federico "Freddy" Curci (born June 18, 1962) is a Canadian album-oriented rock vocalist and songwriter.  He was lead singer for the band Sheriff and later founded and became frontman for the band Alias, a position he retains to this day. The discography of The Verve, a British alternative rock band, consists of four studio albums, two compilation albums, two video albums, three extended plays, fourteen singles, two promotional singles and fifteen music videos.  The band formed in 1989 as Verve, with original members Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Peter Salisbury, although they later added "The" to their name after a lawsuit from the American jazz label Verve Records.  After signing to Virgin Records subsidiary Hut Records in 1991, The Verve released the non-album single "All in the Mind" and a self-titled extended play containing the singles "She's a Superstar" and "Gravity Grave", the former reaching number 66 on the UK Singles Chart.  Their debut studio album, "A Storm in Heaven" was released in 1993; despite widespread critical acclaim, it only sold modestly, peaking at number 27 on the UK Albums Chart. United Nations of Sound is the debut album by British alternative rock band RPA & The United Nations of Sound (pseudonym of Richard Ashcroft, arrived at his fourth solo album), released on 19 July 2010 through Parlophone (see 2010 in British music).  The album was released in the United States on 22 March 2011 under the name "Richard Ashcroft" through the record company Razor & Tie. Underneath is the fourth studio album by The Verve Pipe, released on September 25, 2001.  Produced by Fountains of Wayne and Ivy band member Adam Schlesinger, the album's power-pop sound was a departure from the darker, textured sonics of "The Verve Pipe" and "Villains".  "Never Let You Down", the album's lead single, was one of the Top 50 Most Played songs for Adult Top 40 and Modern A/C radio in 2001. Francis Martin O'Donnell, GCMM, GCEG, KC*SG, KM, KCHS, KCMCO, (born in 1954) is an Irish international diplomat who served abroad in senior representative positions with the United Nations until retirement, and later with the Sovereign Order of Malta.  He is a life member of the Institute of International and European Affairs (under the patronage of the President of Ireland).  He currently continues to serve "pro bono" as an advisor to the Global Partnerships Forum  founded by Amir Dossal, and is a listed endorser of the NGO consortium known as Nonviolent Peaceforce .  He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Slovak Republic from December 2009 to March 2013.  He previously served as a United Nations official for 32 years, most recently as the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Ukraine, from 30 September 2004 until 31 March 2009, and previously in the same capacity in Serbia-Montenegro.  In early 2012, he was appointed to the Council of the Order of Clans of Ireland (under the patronage of the President of Ireland), and was elected its Chancellor in May 2014 .  He also served on the Board of Directors, completed both terms of office in April 2015.
Answer: Richard Ashcroft