Chesty Morgan (band)
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Chesty Morgan is a Swedish musical group named for the 1970s' exploitation-film actress
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, the group generally provides an atmospheric euro-cabaret take on Gypsy tunes. The band features Maya de Vesque on vocals, Per Sunding and Patrik Bartosch from Eggstone
, and Johnny Essing from bob hund
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One of the group's concepts, besides switching instruments and having comic interaction between the band and their primadonna (De Vesque), is using as many different languages as possible in the same shows. In connection with an organized remembrance in Stockholm of Mae West
on the 100th anniversary of the film diva's birth, Chesty Morgan added two of West’s big numbers, They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and Love Is the Greatest Thing, to the English repertoire.
Chesty Morgan
Chesty Morgan is a Polish-born Jewish American exotic dancer who starred in two films directed by Doris Wishman.-Biography:An orphan, Morgan was sent from Poland to live in Ein Gev, a kibbutz in the British Mandate of Palestine, at the outbreak of World War II.Morgan married an American and moved...
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A collective ensemble from StockholmStockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, the group generally provides an atmospheric euro-cabaret take on Gypsy tunes. The band features Maya de Vesque on vocals, Per Sunding and Patrik Bartosch from Eggstone
Eggstone
Eggstone is a Swedish Indie Pop band, formed in 1986. The three members - Per Sunding , Patrik Bartosch and Maurits Carlsson - were raised in the small coastal town of Lomma, outside Malmö...
, and Johnny Essing from bob hund
Bob hund
bob hund is a seven-piece indie rock band from Sweden. Their music, hard to classify, has been described as "what you might expect if you managed to merge Pere Ubu and Pixies with a touch of Kraftwerk"....
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One of the group's concepts, besides switching instruments and having comic interaction between the band and their primadonna (De Vesque), is using as many different languages as possible in the same shows. In connection with an organized remembrance in Stockholm of Mae West
Mae West
Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades....
on the 100th anniversary of the film diva's birth, Chesty Morgan added two of West’s big numbers, They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and Love Is the Greatest Thing, to the English repertoire.