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Margarita Pracatan

**Juana Margarita Figueroa** best known as **Margarita Pracatan** (June 11, 1931 – June 23, 2020) was a Cuban-American novelty singer, who became well-known in the 1990s when she performed regularly on Clive James' TV show in Britain. Margarita was born in Santiago, Cuba. Her father was a union leader. She began to sing at home when she was three years old. Her family fled to the U.S. after the Cuban revolution. She worked in a store selling men's underwear while singing at night. She found success in the 1990s when she was booked on numerous occasions to appear on Clive James's television show in the UK, adopting the surname "Pracatan". James showed clips of her heavily Hispanic-inflected performances of pop hits (including Lionel Richie's "Hello" and "New York, New York") on his BBC series Saturday Night Clive. According to her website, Clive James discovered her on Manhattan public-access television cable TV program in 1994 and invited her to the UK to appear on his show. He sweet-talked her into believing he was serious, and she signed up. Although he never mocked her openly, his introductions to her end-of-show performances contained teasing irony. James once said of Pracatan, "She never lets the words or melody get in her way. She is us, without the fear of failure." Pracatan toured regularly in the United Kingdom and Australia, also appearing as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival during the mid-1990s. Pracatan appeared in an episode of Real Housewives of New York City in 2019, performing a cover version of Luann de Lesseps’s “Money Can’t Buy You Class”. Radio DJ Martin Kelner also played her frequently on his BBC Night Network and BBC Radio 2 programmes. Pracatan died in New York in June 2020, aged 89. She was divorced with one daughter.

## Albums

* *Live At The Palladium (1996)*
* *Hello (Maxi Single) (1996)*
* *Margarita Pracatan (2000)*
* *The Best (2003)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Toin Wiki

# Democratic States of Toin Portal

> `This wikia is about the Democratic States of Toin, a fictional nation state created on the website NationStates, accessible at nationstates.net.`
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## Introduction

The Democratic States of Toin is a federal republic composed of 5 states and 3 federal territories located on the Toinan landmass in the South Atlantic Ocean. As an island nation, Toin has no land borders but has several sea borders. Each state has a high level of autonomy according to the system of federalism. Toin traces its national origin to its Letter of Separation sent to Queen Victoria in 1846, and accepted after the Constitutional Convention of 1846-1847 adopted the national constitution in 1847. Since then, the nation has grown to become a minor regional power and exerts a relatively high level of regional economic, political, military, and cultural influence.

## Featured article

### .to.gov

The domain name **.to.gov** is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from the word *Toinan government*, indicating its restricted user by federal government entities. The TLD is administered by the Department of Security's Office of Cyber Infrastructure.

## Selected location

### White Rabbit River

The **White Rabbit River** is a river in Whitelaw Capital Territory. About 107 kilometres long, it is formed by glaciers on the west side of Mount Prosperity. It flows generally west-southwest, emptying into Depression Bay in the South Atlantic. The river and its tributaries drain an area of about 2,396 km2 in Whitelaw District and White Rabbit District.
Naomi Hall

**Naomi Hall** is an American musician from Florida. She gained fame in the outsider music community after her music was featured on the Incorrect Music Show. After her introduction on that show, Hall was asked to cover another outsider musician's work, "In Canada" by B. J. Snowden and would record its introductory theme. Hall currently lives in Seattle, Washington and continues to record and perform her music. Hall's work has been categorized in the past as an outside musician, a label that she gladly accepts. Outsider music, like outsider art is separated from its mainstream counterparts by its obscurity, "incorrectness", and often the outcast status of the artists who produce it. When asked in an interview about her reaction to being featured alongside other outsider artists on the Incorrect Music Show, Hall stated: At first, I was offended and didn't understand how my music could be played alongside some of the other songs. Given, I was only 16 or so and hadn't heard anything besides country, rock, and pop. Then I listened to Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" and William Shatner's "Tambourine Man." then I finally understood. And I smiled. Now I happily accept. Hall's music came to the attention of the Incorrect Music Show after she posted it on mp3.com; at the time she was featured on the site she was 16 years old and produced all of her music in her bedroom. Her earlier songs consisted of her voice, guitar, bass guitar, drums, synthesizer and piano; later Hall would incorporate electronic elements into her compositions. Her lyrics are somewhat unusual treatments of commonplace subjects such as misbehaving dogs ("There's something about Ishka"), stalking a boy and harming his cat ("This breath breathed"), and sexual passion ("Until I drown"). Currently Hall performs with a group, doing live shows consisting of her original work and covers of popular tunes. Her later songs are more polished than her earlier entries and display what could be called either a better command of her instruments or a growing appreciation (but not complete adoption) of musical conventions.

## Sources

* **Official Website**
* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Bandcamp Profile**
* **ReverbNation Profile**
* **Instagram Profile**
Squirrel

A squirrel

The **squirrel** (Sciurus vulgaris) is an animal in Odd Squad Animal Movie. It is a least-concern and omnivorous species of rodent native to all terrestrial habitats in Europe and Asia.

## Biology

### Classification

The squirrel is a least-concern and charismatic species of rodent, belonging to the domain Eukaryota, kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Sciuridae, genus Sciurus, and species S. vulgaris. Squirrels encompass a diverse group of mammals known for their continuously growing incisors.

### Scientific name

The scientific name "Sciurus vulgaris" combines the genus "Sciurus," which includes various tree squirrels, with the species descriptor "vulgaris," signifying its commonality. This nomenclature reflects both its taxonomic classification and widespread presence in European and Asian landscapes.

### Range

Squirrels are native to all terrestrial habitats in Europe and Asia. Their range spans from the British Isles in the west to the Russian Far East in the east. They are found in a variety of environments, from coniferous forests to urban parks, showcasing their ability to thrive in diverse landscapes.

### Habitat

Squirrels occupy a range of habitats, including deciduous and coniferous forests, woodlands, and urban areas. They are agile climbers, utilizing their strong hind legs and sharp claws to navigate trees with ease. They build nests, called dreys, in the branches of trees for shelter and raising their young.

### Diet

As omnivores, squirrels have a varied diet that includes nuts, seeds, fruits, fungi, and the occasional insect or bird egg. They are known for their habit of storing surplus food in caches, often burying nuts and seeds in the ground for later consumption. This behavior plays a crucial role in seed dispersal, contributing to the regeneration of forests.

### Status

The squirrel is currently classified as Least Concern (LC) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. While they face localized threats, such as habitat loss and competition with the introduced Eastern gray squirrel in some regions, their populations remain relatively stable. Conservation efforts focus on preserving diverse and healthy ecosystems that support the squirrel and maintaining awareness of their importance in maintaining forest biodiversity.

## Role in movie

Olly becomes a squirrel because Omega stole the Animal-nator Gadget.
Drosaga

## Description

Drosaga is a Kreptan and is mostly dark to light greens with some highlights of bright blue along cheeks, eye lids, and chin. She is fairly tall for her species and is very strong. Her personality is bold, adventurous, smart, and energetic. She also posses the Two laser swords.

## Drosaga

### Relatives

Dromenan-FatherDrohima-MotherDroguta-Brother

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Dromenan- Father and Drosaga heavily dislikes him.

Drohima- Mother and Drosaga barley interacts with her but still cares about Drohima.

Droguta- Brother and Drosaga cares deeply about him and does whatever she can to help him.

Homina- Best friend and Drosaga tells Homina everything.

Tranli Kipar- Meets with Drosaga and sends her to Planet Kipu-An.

Tre-Pom- Meets with Drosaga on Kipu-An and assigns Drosaga to a battalion.

## Biography

Drosaga woke up one morning to find out that her dad became leader and knew that that should have not happened and so she decided to escape the planet and go to Planet Gragtyu with the help of her friend Homina who is a pilot, after arriving Drosaga meets with Tranli Kipar the leader of Gragtyu and they decide to send Drosaga to Planet Kipu-An to fill the role of a general who recently got killed in battle. They work to try and defeat Dromenan eventually succeeding and ends up with Drosaga becoming the new leader of Planet Kreplo.
The New Creation

**The New Creation** was a Canadian christian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia they formed in 1970 when Chris Towers, the guitarist decided to form the group with Lorna Towers as lead singer and Janet Tiessen on drums. The New Creation were initially heard by very few people their album Troubled released in 1970, was one of countless rock "vanity" albums self-pressed during the psychedelic era. Only 100 copies were made, none sold commercially, and it was only known to have been played on the radio once. Combining devout Christian religious lyrics with crude, even amateurishly played and sung with rock music with shades of folk-rock, psychedelia, and gospel the band's timekeeping wavered incessantly, their voices shook off-key, their harmonies often fell out of time with each other, and the recording quality brought to mind a cavernous garage. The New Creation played a live coffeehouse gig and appeared on a local cable access TV show in Vancouver, but got virtually no airplay and disbanded in the late 1970s. The album was rediscovered by a hardcore Canadian record collector in the late '80s in a Vancouver second-hand store. Over the next 15 years it developed enough of a cult reputation among both psychedelic private-press collectors and aficionados of outsider music to merit a CD reissue on Companion Records in 2003. Although Tiessen had not been in contact with the Towers for 30 years, they got in touch again when the reissue was being prepared, and discussed the idea of reuniting. And, in fact, the threesome did set about recording a follow-up to Troubled between July 2004 and April 2006, 34 years after the release of their debut. A Unique Disaster was issued on the Aero Music label in 2006, its liner notes explaining the intent of this "Last Times" album to impart "a message of the terrible, inevitable events to come" and the front cover quoting Ezekiel: “Thus saith The Lord God; an evil, a unique disaster, is come.”

## Albums

* *Troubled (1970)*
* *A Unique Disaster (2006)*
* *Sing Out My Soul (2022)*

## Sources

* **Last FM Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
* **AllMusic Article**
Vennu Mallesh

**Vennu Mallesh** (born September 18, 1984), is an Indian singer who is best known for his songs on YouTube. Mallesh is known for his song "It's My Life What Ever I Wanna Do", which was released in July 2012 on YouTube. The video has over 30 million views as of September 2023.

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **YouTube Profile**
B. J. Snowden

**Bertha Jeanne Snowden-Wilson** best known as **B. J. Snowden** is an American songwriter and musician who sings and plays synthesizers. She has become a cult figure in Canada for her many songs about the country, including titles covering every Canadian province, and has been featured on CBC Radio One's show As It Happens where she noted that her grandmother was Canadian. In addition to her songs about Canada, she covers diverse subjects, including Judge Joe Brown and Daisuke Matsuzaka. Her ancestors were the first black family to purchase land in Billerica, Massachusetts, where she grew up; she graduated from Billerica Memorial High School, and later Berklee College of Music class of 1973. Snowden has taught music in Philadelphia, Boston, and Somerville, though she has been unemployed since before 2003. Snowden's work has been referred to as outsider music. The Boston Globe has compared her to Yoko Ono and Lene Lovich. She is described by Irwin Chusid in Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music as having "a teddy-bearish innocence that goes over well with youngsters"; while she was initially unhappy about the "outsider music" label and coverage by Chusid, she changed her mind after subsequent mainstream press coverage. Les Inrockuptibles notes that she is one of the "famous stars of outsider music". Her album Life in the USA and Canada, which debuted in the fall of 1996, was reviewed by David Grad in the New York Press. Her fans include Fred Schneider of the B-52's, who also produced two Christmas songs for her. Snowden has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live's Future Talent Showcase. She has also performed with Leslie and the Ly's, and on The Daily Show. She was profiled on the BBC in April 2003. Snowden has also performed at the Outsider Music Festival.

## Albums

* *Life In The USA And Canada (1996)*
* *In Memory Of My Father & My Life In Canada's Atlantic Provinces (2001)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **YouTube Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Grécia

A Grécia (século XVIII, tornado norma na reforma de 1911) (Græcia (latim século XI), Grecia (latim Século XIII)) ou é um país da Europa com tradição milenar. Escreve Strabo , que antigamente foraõ chamadas Grande Grecia , a Sicilia , a campania , a Pulha , o Abrutso , & a Lucania , pella grande multidaõ de Gregos que foraõ habitar aquellas terras . Antes de se tornar um país, era no século XVIII uma grande regiaõ sujeita ao dominio turco. De hum Rey , chamado Grecolhe veyo o nome . Nesse tempo, a Grecia tinha seis grandes Provincias , a saber , Macedonia , Albania , Epiro , Thessalia , Acaya , & Poloponeso .

1. ↑ https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=V\_naubyzZU4C&pg=GBS.RA1-PA128
Sexton Ming

**Sexton Ming** (born 1961) is an English musician, artist and poet who was a founding member of The Medway Poets (1979) and Stuckism art movement (1999). Ming was born in Gravesend, Kent, England. In 1979 he was one of the founder members of The Medway Poets group. He is an old associate of Billy Childish and collaborated with him on albums and films up until 2008 when Ming severed contact with Childish. Ming and Childish began recording again in 2011 and released a new collaborative release in 2012.
In 1999, Ming was one of the 13 original members of the Stuckists, a pro-figurative painting, anti-conceptual art, group, which was co-founded by fellow Medway Poets, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson. He exhibited in the group's shows, most notably being one of the "featured artists" in their first national museum exhibition, The Stuckists Punk Victorian, at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. He left the Stuckists in 2005 to pursue a solo career. He exhibits at the L-13 Gallery, London. In 2012, Ming contributed artwork to "The King of The Shale" single by Ex-Hefner guitarist Jack Hayter on Audio Antihero records. He is married to Stuckist artist Ella Guru.

## Albums

* *Plump Prizes & Little Gems (1987)*
* *Which Dead Donkey Daddy? (1987)*
* *Old Horse Of The Nation (1987)*
* *Ban the Mindreader (1987)*
* *Ypres 1917 Overture (Verdun Ossuary) (1988)*
* *6 More Miles To The Graveyard (1988)*
* *Birds With Teeth (1991)*
* *Master of Gibberish (1993)*
* *Endless Discipline (1993)*
* *Rogue Male (1997)*
* *Marshan Love Secrets (1998)*
* *The Cheeky Cheese (1999)*
* *Here Comes the Fleece Geese (2002)*
* *A Lifetime of Nervous Gutaches #1: Rare Recordings 1979–2002 (2003)*
* *Crumb Girl (2003)*
* *Funk Child (2004)*
* *Out to Stud (2005)*
* *A Lifetime of Nervous Gutaches Volume 2: Rare Recordings 1979–2005 (2005)*
* *A Taste of Wood (2006)*
* *Punks are sad, Hippies are cool (2007)*
* *A Lifetime of Nervous Gut Aches Vol. 3 Rare recordings 1979–2010 (2010)*
* *Live at the 12 Bar (2010)*
* *We Steal your Girlfriend (2010)*
* *Hotchicu Blues (2010)*
* *For the Love of Scrap (2011)*
* *Beer Mat Chronicles (2011)*
* *Coming Face to Face (2012)*
* *Protect And Survive (2013)*
* *Fuck Off Freedom (2014)*
* *Mad Sod the Scientist VS Proffecer Pipping-hot (2014)*
* *Sexton Ming & The London Dirthole Company / Dave Cloud & The Gospel Of Power\* – Barking At The Half Moon (2014)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Dupla grafia

Duplen Graphie acontecet wenn es gibt 2 worte mit 2 formen zu schreiben. Am portugalemão es gibt viele wörter dass gibt mehr dann einen weg zuschrieben (wie zuschreiben oder zu schreiben), normalweisser es gibt einen weg dass ist die normative weg zu einen worte ausschreiben. Wenn der orthographiquen accord von 1990 warst implementatum am Portugal (es war offiziel und duplen graphie warst nicht autorizaten) einen jahren später die duple graphie hat progressivigkeiten autorizata bekommt.
Eilert Pilarm

**Nils Roland Eilert Dahlberg** (born April 2, 1953), best known by his stage name **Eilert Pilarm**, is a Swedish Elvis impersonator and musician he gained fame when he performed on Morgonpasset on Sveriges Radio in 1992. Pilarm self-released several cassettes before his debut CD Greatest Hits was released in 1996 on MCA. Eilert is Back! followed in 1998 and Live in Stockholm appeared in 2000. He stopped performing in 2002 after 600 gigs and six albums. Pilarm is one of several musicians featured in Irwin Chusid's book Songs in the Key of Z, which focuses on outsider music. His album Eilerts Jul ("Eilert's Christmas") frequently appears in internet lists of "worst album covers of all time". He used to own a Royal Enfield motorbike, but has since sold it, and at present it resides in Tavelsjö.

## Albums

* *Greatest Hits (1995)*
* *Eilert Is Back (1998)*
* *Eilert Pilarm & Partybandet – Live In Stockholm (2000)*
* *Eilerts Jul (2001)*
* *Eilert Forever (2003)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Alyssa Storch

**Alyssa Storch** is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician from Ontario. She is known for her pop style songs on YouTube. She has Autism and is a Christian and plays guitar and keyboard.

## Albums

* *Good Enough (2021)*
* *Goodbye to the World (2021)*
* *Am I the Only One? (2022)*
* *Last Goodbye (2022)*
* *Play With My Heart (2022)*

## Sources

* **Last FM Profile**
* **YouTube Profile**
* **Instagram Profile**
* **Tiktok Profile**
* **Soundcloud Profile**
Alvin Dahn

**Alvin Dahn** is an American singer-songwriter and musician he is a former college custodial engineer and mausoleum crypt salesman. In the early 1990s, he was convinced that pop stardom beckoned, he quit his job, forked over a wad of borrowed cash and, with top-notch session players, recorded an album at a Buffalo, NY studio. Allegedly self-taught on 50 instruments and imbued with a "determination and desire to make mark in the music industry," but with arrangements that revealed a stunning sophistication by the time the album was finished, so were his finances, and the collection remains unreleased. One engineer who worked with Alvin at the time writes: "He was pretty confident that he was the next John Lennon, and his music was gonna top the charts. I don't think I've met a less musical person in my life, but he was convinced that he was 'the bomb.' At first it was torture working on the project, but after a while i began to realize just how special these performances were." Since then, bootleg tapes have been circulating and Alvin has unwittingly achieved cult status. Alvin's most well known song "You're Driving Me Mad," was included on Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2. The tune was composed while Alvin was seething over his ex-wife and his boss. Dahn no longer writes or plays music, due to arthritis and money woes, but he did compose the theme to a local religious cable TV show. "I prayed," said Alvin, "and the Lord gave me a song."

## Sources

* **Last FM Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Bernie Sizzey

**Bernard "Bernie" Sizzey** also known as **Solitaire** is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Colchester he is known for his Lo-Fi home recordings. Sizzey has been making music for over 30 years he writes unrepentant lysergic trip-outs, to confessional ballads detailing his life in catchy, upbeat songs that are never feeling sorry for themselves. Like many outsider musicians he struggles with mental illness and smokes marijuana he is also a transvestite and a coprophiliac (someone who has a sexual excitement for faeces). He was discovered by Electronic/Experimental musician Lee Ashcroft who helped him with his career.

## Albums

* *From Reel To Real 1981​-​1985 (2000)*
* *Forever Friends (2000)*
* *The Game So Far (2001)*
* *Next Moves (2001)*
* *Bit By Bit (2002)*
* *Encore​.​.​.​. A Live Spoof​.​.​.​. The Fusion Meltdown Tour (2003)*
* *A Nice Pear (2003)*
* *Flux Transmissions (2004)*
* *The End Of The Game (2005)*
* *A Trip into Paradise (2005)*
* *In Retroflection (2005)*
* *At The Walls​.​.​. (2006)*
* *The Dream Sequence (2006)*
* *Hippie Princess (2006)*
* *Dementia Praecox (2007)*
* *The Soft Machine (2007)*
* *Hippie Scat (2007)*
* *Quark (2008)*
* *Music for E​.​C​.​T. Lounges (2008)*
* *Crossroads (2010)*
* *Helter Skellter (2010)*
* *Rock Salad (2011)*
* *Hard Wired (2011)*
* *Untitled Album (2011)*
* *Quark Remixed (2012)*
* *The Phoenix Project (2012)*
* *Hippy Heaven (2013)*
* *Boo​-​Hoo (2018)*

## Sources

* **Last FM Profile**
* **Bandcamp Profile**
* **YouTube Profile**
Bobb Trimble

**Robert "Bobb" Trimble** (born August 4, 1958) is an American musician from Massachusetts he is best known for psychedelic music. He released two full-length albums, Iron Curtain Innocence in 1980 and Harvest of Dreams in 1982. Following the latter's release, Trimble's recording activities ceased. Over the next two decades, he gained a cult following, which included Ariel Pink and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. His records, originally pressed in quantities of 500 or less, became collectors items, some selling for as much as $1,500. During the early 1980s, he had two backing bands: The Kidds (the average age of the band members was 12 years old) and The Crippled Dog Band (average age was 15 years). "Suspicious parents" pulled the plug. 2002 saw the release of Life Beyond the Doghouse, a vinyl-only compilation on Orpheus Records comprising unreleased recordings made by Trimble between 1983 and 1986. Iron Curtain Innocence and Harvest of Dreams were re-released in 2007 by the Secretly Canadian label, each with a handful of bonus tracks.

## Albums

* *Bobb Trimble With The Violent Reactions – Iron Curtain Innocence (1980)*
* *Harvest Of Dreams (1982)*
* *Bobb Trimble / The Crippled Dog Band – The Crippled Dog Band (2011)*
* *The Flying Spiders In Brooklyn (2013)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Wesseh Freeman

**Wesseh Freeman** also known as **Weesay** (1976 – February 27, 2018) was a Liberian musician from Monrovia. He became blind as a child and turned to playing the guitar to support himself and his family. He was self-taught, and built his guitars out of oil cans. A video of him playing on the street went viral in 2016, and a Facebook page created for him garnered more than 7 million visitors. Freeman also demonstrated how he built his guitars, from an oil can, a neck shaped with a machete, and strings from bicycle cables. He said he made $4 a day playing his instrument. It brought him international attention (from people like Shane Speal) as well as funding to build him a home. He died on February 27, 2018 in a road accident in Monrovia.
Ken DeFeudis

**Kenneth A. DeFeudis** best known as **Ken DeFeudis** (1942 - 1994) was an American singer, painter and real estate agent from Massachusetts. Ken released a handful of singles and made an appearance on the fourth edition of the outsider music compilation series, "Songs in the key of Z" (which featured his cover version of New York, New York by Frank Sinatra).
He died in 1994 in Dennis, Massachusetts at the age of 52 from complications with cancer.

## Sources

* **Last FM Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Kenneth Higney

**Kenneth Bruce Higney** (born 1951) is an American rock singer and musician from New York his first album, Attic Demonstration, became a cult favourite amongst outsider music record collectors. It was recorded in 1976 as a means of selling his songwriting services to other musicians, but was released as a commercial prospect. Attic Demonstration featured Higney on vocals and electric and acoustic guitars, with an ad hoc band consisting of Higney’s personal friends Gordon Gaines (guitars, drums), John Duva (bass guitar), and Mark Volpe (guitar, percussion). It had a limited release of 500 copies in September 1976, and earned a favourable review in Trouser Press magazine, but was not a commercial success. Nonetheless it became a cult item amongst record collectors over subsequent years. It was re-mastered and re-released on CD by Higney’s own label, Kebrutney Records, in 2003 and on vinyl by One Kind Favor in 2012. The remaster also included Higney’s 1980 7-inch single “I Wanna Be The King”, b/w “Funky Kinky”. The former song was a tribute to New York Dolls guitarist and punk legend Johnny Thunders, and contained the line “I’m gonna be a star / I hate the sissy music of John Denver”, whilst the latter was a foray into the world of disco. Both songs were written by Higney, and featured Gordon Gaines and Mark Volpe, plus John Lynch (bass guitar). Gaines died in 1997. In 2009, Higney released the 'follow-up' (30 years later) to Attic Demonstration - it is titled American Dirt and contains fourteen songs, many of which were written about the same time as those on Attic Demonstration. As this album was recorded with the intention of being released as an actual recording (as opposed to Attic Demonstration which was originally conceived as demo versions of songs), Higney enlisted the help of hired guns - Jack Pearson (formerly of The Allman Brothers Band), Elizabeth Pearson, William Howse, Richard Carter and others - to produce a more professional recording. American Dirt was described by one radio DJ as if a record label had heard Attic Demonstration and given Higney money to record a 'proper album'. 2011 saw the release of Higney’s third album - Ambulance Driver - which contained ten new recordings with one song, “Nonsense”, coming from the days of Attic Demonstration and the remaining nine songs being, pretty much, newly written. This release contains Higney’s most recently written songs, among them “Angels Touched The Ground”, “Jet Party” and, the newest of them all, “Broken By a Whore”. Higney continues to write and record and is expected to release a new album sometime this decade.

## Albums

* *Attic Demonstration (1976)*
* *American Dirt (2009)*
* *Ambulance Driver (2011)*

## Sources

* **Official Website**
* **Twitter Profile**
* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Sondra Prill

**Sondra Prill** (born c.1970) is an American former cover singer from Florida who starred in her own public-access television show, My Show, from 1987 until 1992. Her off-key performances of popular 1980s hits earned her a moderate degree of internet celebrity in the late 2000s when Prill's work was uploaded to the Internet. In the late 1980s, Prill started her first show on Jones Intercable channel 12 in Tampa. The show, simply titled My Show, featured Prill singing pop music covers in homemade music videos and performing comedy. She would also perform the sign-off of channel 12 by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in front of a superimposed American flag, hugging herself and pretending to move in slow motion. On October 16, 1992 she performed at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center starring in her own event called Sultry Sondra: A Musical Fantasy. At a price of $50 a ticket (double the rate established stars Al Green and Patti LaBelle had charged at the same venue), 41 paying attendees came to see her; the official head count put the number of people in attendance closer to 70, with the vice president of marketing for the center concluding, "She might have comped some folks." A reviewer considered that Prill set a new record for "the most abysmal entertainment event to ever take place in the Tampa area", and described her "unique way of handling a melody - a cross between the dulcet sound of setting one's hair on fire and sticking one's hand into a garbage disposal." At the finale of the show, Prill had honey poured all over her, in what seemed to be a literal interpretation of the lyrics to what she believed would be her breakthrough song, "Oh, You Sexpot Honey." Prill wanted to do the finale nude, but the performing arts center required her to wear a body stocking. Brinson M. Harris, a remote producer for the event, said, "A backup singer walked out from backstage to say good night and to apologize to the audience." Prill's honey-pouring event was videotaped for public-access television, but Prill and her mother are believed to have destroyed the tapes before they made it to air. Three episodes of My Show survive. An attempt to locate Prill in 2007 was unsuccessful.
The Shaggs

**The Shaggs** were an American rock band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire, in 1965. They comprised the sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin (vocals and lead guitar), Betty Wiggin (vocals and rhythm guitar), Helen Wiggin (drums) and, later, Rachel Wiggin (bass guitar). Their music has been described as both among the worst of all time and a work of unintentional brilliance. The Shaggs composed bizarre songs with untuned guitars, erratic time signatures, disconnected drum parts, wandering melodies and rudimentary lyrics about pets and families. Rolling Stone wrote that they sang like "lobotomized Trapp Family Singers", while the musician Terry Adams compared their melodies and structures to the free jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman. The Shaggs formed at the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother had predicted their rise to fame. For several years, he made the girls practice every day and perform weekly at the Fremont town hall. The Shaggs had no interest in becoming musicians and never became proficient in songwriting or performing. In 1969, Austin paid for the Shaggs to record an album, Philosophy of the World, which was distributed in limited quantities in 1969 by a local record label. The Shaggs disbanded in 1975 after Austin's death. Over the decades, Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and attracted fans including Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. A compilation of unreleased material, Shaggs' Own Thing, was released in 1982. The Shaggs became a subject of fascination in the 1990s, when interest grew in outsider music, and they are credited for influencing twee pop. Dot and Betty reunited for shows in 1999 and 2017; Helen died in 2006. As the Dot Wiggin Band, Dot released an album in 2013 containing previously unrecorded Shaggs songs.
Daniel Johnston

**Daniel Dale Johnston** (January 22, 1961 – c. September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded alone in his home, and his music was frequently cited for its "pure" and "childlike" qualities. Johnston spent extended periods in psychiatric institutions and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He garnered a local following in the 1980s by passing out tapes of his music while working at a McDonald's in Dobie Center in Austin, Texas. His cult status was propelled when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was seen wearing a T-shirt that featured the art piece *"Jeremiah the Innocent"* from Johnston's 1983 cassette album *Hi, How Are You*. Johnston also created visual art, and his illustrations were exhibited at galleries around the world. His struggles with mental illness were the subject of the 2005 documentary *The Devil and Daniel Johnston*. He died in 2019 of a suspected heart attack.

## Albums

* *Songs of Pain (1981)*
* *Don't Be Scared (1982)*
* *The What of Whom (1982)*
* *More Songs of Pain (1983)*
* *Yip/Jump Music (1983)*
* *Hi, How Are You (1983)*
* *Retired Boxer (1984)*
* *Respect (1985)*
* *Continued Story with Texas Instruments (1985) (with Texas Instruments)*
* *Merry Christmas (1988)*
* *It's Spooky (1989) (with Jad Fair)*
* *1990 (1990)*
* *Artistic Vice (1991)*
* *Fun (1994)*
* *Rejected Unknown (2001)*
* *The Lucky Sperms: Somewhat Humorous (2001) (with Jad Fair)*
* *Fear Yourself (2003)*
* *Lost and Found (2006)*
* *Is and Always Was (2009)*
* *Beam Me Up! (2010) (with Beam)*
* *Space Ducks (2012)*
Louisa Melcher

**Louisa Melcher** (born October 29, 1998) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from California. Louisa earned a B.A. from Columbia University in Theater, with a concentration in play writing and has won multiple awards for her original plays.
She co-wrote the 126th Varsity Show at Columbia University, a student produced full length musical. She is an accomplished ballet dancer who performed with the Kirov Ballet, American Ballet Theater and The Joffrey as a child. Her younger brother Lincoln Melcher is an actor well known for starring in the tv show *BUNK'D* and her father Steve Melcher is a TV Writer/Producer. In September 2020, she released her first single "New York Summer.". She went viral on Tiktok in 2023 for accidentally putting wood sealant in her hair instead of hairspray.

## Albums

* *New York Summer (2020)*
* *Reluctantly (2020)*
* *Hallmark Holiday (2020)*
* *L.A. Winter (2022)*

## Sources

* **Last FM Profile**
* **Famous Birthdays Profile**
* **IMDb Profile**
* **Instagram Profile**
* **Twitter Profile**
* **Tiktok Profile**
* **YouTube Profile**
Bob Vido

**Robert Zaprian Vidoloff** best known as **Bob Vido** (February 24, 1915 - August 4, 1995) was a Bulgarian-American singer, musician, actor, comedian, writer, philosopher, artist and engineer he, his three siblings and his parents Zaprian & Anna Vidoloff immigrated to the United States from Bulgaria on June 1, 1921. He claims to have worked for *Disney* as an animator and all the major aerospace firms as an engineer. Vido sang and played a variety of instruments including the saxophone, trumpet, piano, clarinet, organ and accordion. By the use of recorded tapes, Vido accompanies himself on voice, organ and drums and sings a double voice, trumpet, saxophone and clarinet solos. He was featured on volumes 2 & 3 of the outsider music compilation CD *Songs in the Key of Z*. He died on August 4, 1995 in Hollywood, California at the age of 80.

## Sources

* **Discogs Profile**
* **Blogspot Article**
* **Openhorizons Article**
Peter Grudzien

**Peter Grudzien** (1941 – 2013), was an American singer-songwriter, photographer, commercial artist, musician and recording engineer. Grudzien's music has been well known in the outsider music community since its inclusion in Irwin Chusid's book Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music (2000). "There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" is included on the companion CD for the book. Grudzien grew up listening to classical music and later discovered country. In the 1950s he started listening to Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Horton, and similar artists. Peter had a recording contract at the age of sixteen with the Pell Brothers, whom he called "Brooklyn hillbillies". They wrote the music; he wrote the lyrics.
Grudzien and his twin sister Theresa Lewis (died c. 2005–07) were paranoid schizophrenics. Grudzien was a patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center for eight months in the 1960s, where he received electroconvulsive therapy. He was tremendously influenced by Johnny Cash, whom he met briefly. Although he had his picture taken with Cash, they did not otherwise meet and never played together. In the 1960s and '70s, Grudzien was active in the Greenwich Village folk/bluegrass scene, which included artists such as John Herald, Peter Stampfel, and Phil White. Grudzien's LP The Unicorn was released in 1974. Grudzien had 500 copies pressed and tried, unsuccessfully, to sell them in bookstores. The album was almost entirely written, played, and produced by Grudzien except for the piano intro in "The Innocents", transcribed by a friend whose name he has forgotten. The Unicorn was re-released on CD by Parallel World in 1995. The CD release of The Unicorn also included several new songs by Grudzien, including his take on the American standard "There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" updated with many openly gay sentiments. According to Grudzien's associate Barbara Zigman, Grudzien did not receive any royalties from Parallel World for the CD reissue. According to the label owners, the CD never sold enough to recoup the reproduction costs (which were very high because of the poor condition of the master tapes), and as per the lease agreement, was not required to dispense any royalties until such costs were recouped. An advance had been offered, which Grudzien turned down. Late in his life, Grudzien still occasionally performed in the New York area. He recorded extensively, mostly for friends. Several post-Unicorn tapes and CDs were released but are not generally available. However, he released a cover of Malvina Reynolds's "Little Boxes" for Bob Koenig's Abbey Lane CD. In 2018, a documentary about Peter and his family, The Unicorn, was released. According to directors Isabelle DuPuis and Tim Geraghty, Grudzien's friends are trying to release some of his later music.

## Albums

* *The Unicorn (1974)*
* *I Kiss The Ground (2001)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Gary Mullis

**Gary L. Mullis** (May 14, 1944 - December 11, 2023) was an American singer, musician and charity worker from Illinois. Mullis was born at the old St. Mary’s Hospital in DeKalb on May 14, 1944, and grew up on a farm in Sycamore. Mullis played the Drums, Tambourine and Washboard and was a backup singer to other artists. He was also featured on volume 2 of "Songs in the key of Z". He was the long time host of the Country music show "Toys for Tots Toy Drive" which he once described as “a family show for a good cause,” admission for Mullis's concerts was a new, unwrapped toy which he collected and then distributed for Toys for Tots and The Salvation Army the first concert was held at Cortland Town Hall in 1970. The show then moved to the Holiday Inn in DeKalb, and later had multiple other homes at the Sycamore Armory, the IUE Union Hall, the House Café and the Taylor Street High Rise where he served soup. He marked 50 years of the show back in 2019 and told Shaw Local News Network that he wanted to thank the community for supporting his show for decades, which started as a way “to get people together and play music.” In May, 2014, Gary was inducted into the VIP Songwriting Hall of Fame Museum in Lexington, Alabama. On December 9, 2019, Gary was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the City of DeKalb City Council celebrating his 50 years of service and dedication to the "Toys for Tots" Toy Drive. Gary's last Toy drive was December 10, 2023. He died on December 11, 2023 in DeKalb at the age of 79.

## Sources

* **Discogs Profile**
* **Legacy Profile**
* **Shaw Local News Network Article**
Robert Graettinger

**Robert Frederick Graettinger** also known as **Bob Graettinger** (October 31, 1923 – March 12, 1957) was an American composer and musician best known for his work with Stan Kenton. Graettinger grew up in Ontario, California, learning to play the saxophone in high school. While at school he also began arranging music. In the 1940s he played alto saxophone with Benny Carter among others. Around this time he focused more on composing. In 1947 he offered a short composition, "Thermopylae", to Stan Kenton, who decided to record it. Graettinger then came up with "City of Glass", a four-part tone poem. At this time he was studying composition under Russell Garcia. Graettinger's radical polystylistic soundworld, with its polyphonic density and bracing atonality, while drawing on ideas previously explored by the likes of Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and even Arnold Schoenberg, still remains truly distinctive. He died on March 12, 1957 from lung cancer at the age of 33.

## Albums

* *Thermopylae (78) (1947)*
* *Everything Happens To Me (78) (1947)*
* *A Presentation of Progressive Jazz (1948)*
* *Innovations in Modern Music (1950)*
* *Stan Kenton Presents (1950)*
* *City of Glass (1951)*
* *The Kenton Era (1952)*
* *This Modern World (1953)*
* *City of Glass: Robert Graettinger (1994)*
* *The Ebony Big Band: Live at the Paradiso — Robert Graettinger (1998)*
* *Progressive Jazz 2009 [Max Frank Music] (2009)*

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Tangela Tricoli

**Angela Masson** best known by her stage name **Tangela Tricoli** (born 1951), is an American pilot and artist. She was the first woman to be type-rated on the Boeing 747 on June 30, 1984. Masson began flying lessons at age 15 at Clover Field in Santa Monica, California. Shortly after getting her pilot's license, she started air racing. At age 21, while flying in the Powder Puff Derby, she set a record as the youngest person to fly coast to coast in a high performance aircraft. In 1971 she trained armed forces pilot cadets at fellow aviatrix Claire Walters Flight School to build her flight experience, getting over 1,000 flight hours in less than a year. She then went on to fly as a charter pilot for Express Airways out of Naval Air Station Lemoore on a civilian contract for the Navy. Frustrated to see her former male students flying jets while females were barred from the military, she went back to school. At age 24, she wrote her PhD dissertation "Elements of Organizational Discrimination: The Air Force Response to Women as Military Pilots," which was presented before Congress during the Hearings about opening military the Academies to women (a copy can be found in the Congressional Records). Her paper was read by Robert Crandall, then President of American Airlines, who hired her as a pilot for American in 1976, at age 25. During her career there, she was the first woman to fly as First Officer on the Boeing 707, 767 and Douglas DC-10. Masson earned aircraft type-ratings on the Airbus A310, Boeing 747, 757, 767, 777, DC-9, DC-10, and MD-11. She holds the ATP license with commercial glider and seaplane endorsements, as well as flight engineer, ground and flight instructor certificates. Flying as Captain for over 20 years, she was the first female Chief Pilot for American Airlines (Miami domicile, 1997). As the most senior female pilot, she retired with over 31 years total service in December 2007. Masson graduated from Collegio Monte Rosa in Territet, Switzerland and got her BFA, MA, MPA and PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. The Federation Aeronautique Internationale lists Dr. Masson's numerous Commercial Air Route Speed Awards set in the Boeing 777. A gifted artist, she was honored in art shows in Italy at the age of 18. She also sang: under the stage name "Tangela Tricoli" she recorded an album in 1982, "Jet Lady," which was re-released in 2004 by ArfArf records. She briefly hosted The Tangela Tricoli Talk Show on public access TV in Los Angeles. The first true electronic flight bag, a computing device designed specifically to replace a pilot’s entire kit bag, was patented by Masson as the Electronic Kit Bag (EKB) in 1999. Her multiple patents describe a solution to aid pilots in their normal aviation activities, however, the EKB is intended to also function as a life-saving control device, able to land an aircraft remotely in the event of pilot incapacitation.

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Outsider Music Wiki

**Welcome to the Outsider Music Wiki!**
## Introduction

Welcome to the Fandom page dedicated to the wonderful world of Outsider Music (Music created by self taught musicians who have mental illnesses or have childlike qualities)

## Rules

* Make sure the artist you are creating a page for is definitely an Outsider Musician.
* Use reliable sources for information (Wikipedia is allowed).
* Do not harass other users on this Wiki.

## Most known Outsiders

Daniel JohnstonB. J. SnowdenTiny TimShooby TaylorMoondogThe Shaggs
Bingo Gazingo

**Murray Wachs** (June 2, 1924 – January 1, 2010), better known as **Bingo Gazingo**, was an American poet and musician from New York City, who was a postal worker for most of his career. Born in Queens he wrote music for most of his life, struggling on the edge of obscurity. He continued to actively write, record and perform perverse, edgy music. He died at the age of 85 after being struck down by a taxi cab on his way to perform at the Bowery Poetry Club.

## Sources

* **Wikipedia Profile**
* **Discogs Profile**
Ray R. Myers

**Raymond R. Myers** known simply as **Ray R. Myers** (January 2, 1911 - May 16, 1986) was an American singer and musician from Pennsylvania. The fifth child in a family of nine his career as a musician began at Allentown High School, where Myers played trombone in the school band. Later, Myers purchased a Hawaiian steel guitar, which he kept under his bed until he learned to play it. Myers was born without arms and used his feet to play his guitar. After graduating from high school, Myers played at local events such as church fairs and amateur talent contests. It was at one of these events that someone from Lancaster's radio station WGAL was sufficiently impressed by Myer's musicianship to offer him his own weekly radio program. It was through this show that Myers came to the attention of Cowboy Loye, a popular country music performer on WWVA's "The Original Jamboree" radio show out of Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1937, Loye heard "The Armless Wonder" play and hired him to perform with him on WWVA. That gig introduced Myers to a larger country music audience, and Myers was soon playing on radio stations across the southern United States. In 1947, Myers was playing with the Brewster Brothers on WVOK's popular "Dixie Jamboree" show. In addition to the weekly radio broadcasts, the WVOK bands also played live gigs at American Legion halls and other locations across northern Alabama. People turned out in droves to watch and listen to Myers play old timey music. Immediately after the show many patrons headed directly to the parking lot to watch the spectacle of Ray Myers driving his own car, he being at that time the only licensed automobile driver in the U.S. born without arms. By 1953, Ray Myers had a daily radio show on WPDX in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Ten years later, Myers was appearing on WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee. Apart from the novelty of his playing, Myers seems to have been highly regarded as a musician. His longevity as a radio personality, where no one could see that he didn't have arms, is one testament to his ability; but he also played and recorded with many of country and bluegrass music's biggest names, including Charles Bailey of the legendary brother act the Bailey Brothers. The last performance reference found for Myers is his appearance on a July 3, 1969 handbill for a performance at a drive-in theater in Manchester, Kentucky. Ray was appearing with a band called the Saddle Pals, who were billed as "Ray Myers, Lloyd Bell & Bobby Thompson, Recording Stars". Myers is further described as "The Armless Musician Who Leads Normal Life." He died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on May 16, 1986 at the age of 75.

## Sources

* **Findagrave Profile**
* **Hillbilly-Music Article**