Blessed in Berlin to a Korean mom and a German dad, vocalist Martin Jondo found reggae music because of a teenage curiosity about Rastafari lifestyle. In 2002 he became a member of potential German reggae superstar Gentleman on tour, much less a musician but being a merchandiser offering T-shirts towards …

A Canadian 80s pop rock and roll outfit, the Arrows enjoyed some business success within their house nation and mainland European countries through the duration of their two-album profession. Producing their debut having a four-track EP, Misunderstood, on Spontaneous Information, they continued release a two albums on A&M Information. Made …

DJ Negro was a leading mover through the formative many years of reggaeton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, simply because his turntablism and membership coordination helped start the style’s formation. Blessed Felix Rodriguez, he first set up himself as Vico C’s DJ; actually, he also got co-billing in the rap …

Although his 1st EP release weren’t aswell received as hoped, Florian Ast rebounded to be one of the better selling Swiss pop stars mixed up in 20th and 21st centuries. Created June 20, 1975 in the Bern area of Switzerland, Florian 1st demonstrated a propensity for songwriting at an extremely …

In the mid-’90s a Puerto Rican collective of DJs, rappers, and producers called the Noise hosted a long-lasting group of club nights in San Juan which were crucial to the development and popularization of reggaeton. The metropolitan design of Latin music, which increased to industrial prominence roughly ten years afterwards, …

With your body of the bouncer, the looks of the celeb, and a minimal, sensual voice, Bernard Lavilliers started like a left-wing singer following in the footsteps of Léo Ferré. This boxer-singer increased to stardom in France within the middle-’70s (additional Francophone countries adopted quickly) and became an icon from …

A leading figure from the progressive nation movement from the 1970s, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard continues to be most widely known for authoring the perennial anthem “AGAINST the Wall structure, Redneck Mom.” Created November 13, 1946, in Soper, Oklahoma, Hubbard and his family members relocated to Dallas through the middle-’50s; …

One of the large contingent of talented songwriters who surfaced in Texas within the 1980s and ’90s, Robert Earl Keen struck a unique stabilize between sensitive story-portraits (“Corpus Christi Bay”) and raucous barroom fun (“That Buckin’ Song”). Both of these track types in Keen’s result were unified by way of …

Freddy Fender was mostly of the Hispanic famous actors in nation music, a singer and songwriter whose function was described largely by its solid Latin sensibility. Delivered Baldemar Huerta to a family group of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender started playing electric guitar early …

Blues and root base rock and roll & move keyboardist and composer Costs Payne released his initial solo record, Costs Payne, in 2005 on Hot Tomato Information. Some would state it was lengthy overdue, but also for this multifaceted musician, it sensed like the period was right. Within a profession …