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Phoenix

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There have been a number of artists going by the name of Phoenix
(1) A French alternative rock band
(2) A Romanian folk rock band
(3) A short-lived British hard rock band
(4) A UK-based filk band
(5) A goa project

Phoenix (1)
Started during their childhood by Thomas Mars, Deck D'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz in the suburb of Versailles, in the same culture that produced late-'90s bands such as Air and Daft Punk.

Phoenix started as the backing band for a remix of Air’s “Kelly Watch the Stars” single. Soon after, Phoenix released their 2000 debut album United. The name Phoenix was officially chosen in 1996 when Laurent Brancowitz permanently joined the band after the end of the short-lived band Darlin' he formed with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who eventually became Daft Punk.

Phoenix's music has been featured in such films as Shallow Hal and Lost In Translation, with the band themselves appearing in the 2006 film Marie Antoinette, a film, like Lost In Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola, Thomas Mars' partner.

Phoenix (2)
A Romanian folk rock / rock band, who has experimented across the years with many musical genres, having a rich musical history that can easily be compared to that of The Beatles. Starting with the rock’n’roll of the Beat Generation, they continued enriching their sound with blues influences, jazz, psychedelic, krautrock, culminating with the orientation towards Romanian folk music, which they blended harmoniously with the sound that was popular in the ’70s

Members
Nicolae (Nicu) Covaci - Guitar, vocals, composer, founder and leader of the band. Member since 1962.
Bogdan Bradu - Vocals. Member since 2007.
Ovidiu Lipan (Ţăndărică) - Drums. Member since 2001, previously between 1974 and 1978, 1980-1981, then between 1984 and 1998.
Ionut Contraş - Backing vocals, percussion. Member since 1998 . Is official manager since 2004 and Executive Producer of "Baba Novak" album.
Cristi Gram - Electric guitar. Member since 2004.

Phoenix (3)
A short-lived British hard rock band that consisted of Jim Rodford, Robert Henrit, John Verity of Argent.

Phoenix (4)
A UK-based band who play SF/Fantasy inspired rock / filk - both originals and parodies of better known songs.

Phoenix (5)
Phoenix is also a Classic goa / psychedelic trance project with some tracks released in compilations of 90s.