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TANK BIOGRAPHY
There are 5 artists known as Tank on Last.FM. Two are from the US, one is from Taiwan, another from the UK and the 5th is from Germany.
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American Tank is a multi talented artist, he is as entertaining a dancer as a singer, as important a songwriter as a producer. Tank was first noticed by Aaliyah for his hard work and was invited to perform vocals in her set. Soon after that, he was discovered by Blackground Records founder Barry Hankerson and his son Jomo, he was then signed to Blackground Records.
"I want people to feel rolled on when they hear me, I want them to feel completely taken over," explains Tank. With his perserverance in his music, he had spent years making his debut album. "FORCE OF NATURE", Tank's debut album is the result of his past years' hard work. Tank's popular single from the album, "Maybe I Deserve" is a song where he casts himself as the cheater, a man who has been stepping out on his girl longer than he'd like to admit. The story is more than a confession, it's the paranoia of projection, about a man prepared to forgive his woman for hurting him, the way he had hurt her.
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Taiwanese TANK (呂建中), is a talented singer composer. TANK was said to be the next big thing after David Tao, Lee Hom and Jay Chou for his talent in composing songs, singing and dancing. Before releasing his debut album, TANK was already well known through his composed songs for S.H.E. Besides that, he was also known through his songs, 三國戀 (Romance in the 3 Kingdom) and 給我你的愛 (Give Me Your Love) which both are the ending themes for two famous Taiwan drama series. TANK also is the spokesperson for computer game, "激戰" (GuildWars) and composed a song for the game.
Since then, "TANK" had became one of the most popular keyword among new artists to be searched in search engines.
While TANK was choosing songs to be fitted to his debut album, he had uploaded several songs and had set a poll on wretch.cc to be listened by his friends and let them vote for songs to be fitted in his new album. To his surprise, thousands of fans came to his blog to listen to his songs.
TANK's debut album, Fighting 生存之道 (Fighting, The Law of Living) is a fusion of Hip Hop, RnB, Rock and traditional Chinese music. The album has been on the Taiwan album sales chart (G-music chart) number 1 spot for 3 weeks beating Tank's own idol, A Mei, Guang Liang and Rainie Yang. He is now still charting in G-music chart and his album has sold over 100,000 copies in Taiwan to date.
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There is a raw and powerful British heavy metal group by the name of Tank. They formed in London in 1980. Lemmy, of Motörhead, helped them get their first record deal, and "Fast" Eddie Clarke was picked as producer for their debut album, "Filth Hounds of Hades". Heavily influenced by bands like Motörhead, they were a productive force of the NWOBHM movement, and are still making music in the 21st century.
Studio albums:
1982 Filth hounds of Hades
1982 Power of the hunter
1983 This means war
1984 Honour & blood
1987 Tank
2002 Still at war
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Tank was also a project by the German producers Christopher von Deylen and Sören Schnakenberg. They produced 5 electronic music tracks and made a few remixes for other artists.
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TANK is also one of the many names under which Guy Blakeslee (Entrance) releases music.
TANK GENRES Heavy Metal, NWOBHM
TANK LYRICAL THEMES War, beer, women
TANK ORIGIN United Kingdom (London), formed in 1980
TANK CURRENT RECORD LABEL Rising Sun
TANK STATUS Active
TANK CURRENT LINE-UP Algy Ward - Bass, Vocals (Conspiracy, Necropolis (UK), Network, The Saints, The Damned, Atom God, Warhead (UK))
Mick Tucker - Guitar, Vocals (Axis, White Spirit)
Cliff Evans - Guitar, Vocals (Chicken Shack, Headfirst, Killers (UK))
Bruce Bisland - Drums (Praying Mantis, Statetrooper, Sweet, The Wandering Crutchless, Weapon (UK), Wildfire)
TANK PREVIOUS LINE-UP Steve Hopgood - Drums (ex-Bronz,ex-Killers (UK), ex-Battlezone, ex-Chinatown, ex-Persian Risk (UK), Shy, Wild, Jagged Edge)
Steve Clarke - Drums (Atom God, Würzel, Fastway, Paul Di'Anno)
Gary Taylor - Drums (Shotgun Rationale, Streetfighter (UK), Buffalo)
Graeme Crallan - Drums (Britton, Panama, White Spirit)
Micheal Bettel - Drums
Mark Brabbs - Drums (4 Play, Dumpy's Rust Nuts, Paul Samson's Empire)
Peter Brabbs - Guitar
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