O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Astrid North
Astrid North( Astrid Karina North Radmann; 24 August 1973, Berlin – 25 June 2019, Berlin) was a German soul singer and songwriter.
She was the singer of the German band, with whom she released five Albums.
As guest singer of the band she published three albums.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Caspar Babypants
Caspar Babypants is the stage name of children's music artist Chris Ballew, who is also widely known as the singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.
Jing Liu (architect)
Jing Liu( born 1980) is an architect, educator and co-founder of the award- winning design firm SO- IL in New York City.
Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States.
His songs' lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners.
Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons,Re-Enlistment Blues,I am a Pilgrim," and "Dark as a Dungeon."
However, it is his unique guitar style, still called Travis Picking by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, for which he is best known today. "
Travis Picking" is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb while melodies are simultaneously plucked by the index finger.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
Kristian Leontiou
Kristian Leontiou (born February 1982) is a British singer of Greek Cypriot descent, and is the singer for the indie rock band One eskimO.
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed
"So Round, So Firm,
So Fully Packed" is a 1947 song by Merle Travis, written by Travis, Eddie Kirk, and Cliffie Stone.
The song was Travis' second number one on the Folk Juke Box charts, where it stayed at number one for 14 weeks and a total of 21 weeks on the chart.
In the same year it was a #3 hit for Johnny Bond and a #5 hit for Ernest Tubb.
Eddy Arnold covered the song on his 1954 album "Eddy Arnold: An American Institution" and his 1956 album "A Dozen Hits".
Ricky Skaggs covered the song on his 1981 album "Waitin' for the Sun to Shine".
The song describes a woman through the use of advertising slogans.
The slogan "
So round, so firm,
so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw" was used in the Lucky Strike brand cigarette advertising of the time,
first heard in 1944 on the Jack Benny and "Your Hit Parade" radio programs.
"I'd walk a mile" is a slogan for Camel cigarettes. "
Just ask the man who owns one" refers to Packard automobiles.
"She's got the pause that's so refreshing" is a reference to the Coca-Cola slogan "
The Pause that Refreshes".
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Florian Idenburg
Florian Idenburg( born 1975, Haarlem) is a Dutch architect and co-founder of the award- winning architectural design firm SO- IL in New York City.

Question: Where was the performer of song So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed born?