Solarized certainly are a NJ four-piece founded by Jim Hogan on vocals and guitar and Regina Santana on drums, with Lou Gorra on bass and Pete Hauschild, also on guitar. Each is veterans of the neighborhood stoner rock picture and their 1999 debut, Neanderthal Speedway, betrayed a solid Monster Magnet …

Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz, Zairean rhumba, zouk, and makossa are combined with the music of soulful Benin-born, Paris-based vocalist Angélique Kidjo. Because the discharge of her self-produced debut single album, Quite, in 1988, Kidjo continues to be embraced with the worldwide press. Her albums have already been strengthened …

Vocalist Ãngela Barra was created within the Brazilian town Goiânia in central-west Brazil. She initial studied singing on the Government School of Goiâs’ Institute for the Arts in her indigenous Goiânia under Honorina Barra Santana de Souza, and finished her education in the University or college of Indiana in Bloomington …

Though located in London, the trip-hop trio Smoke Town created music using a distinctively Brazilian, bossa nova-influenced sound — no real surprise considering that vocalist Nina Miranda’s youth was divided between your UK and SOUTH USA. Miranda formed Smoke cigarettes Town with previous schoolmate Mark Dark brown, with whom she …

Born in Britain, a Thaddeus Hogarth played piano when he was about seven years and switched to acoustic guitar when he was 9. The aspiring musician performed classical music for approximately five years before switching to guitar, playing pop/rock and roll and reggae. His early affects had been Stevie Wonder, …

With the discharge of his solo albums, Ceccarelli in 1978 and Andre Ceccarelli in 1981, André Ceccarelli became among European jazz’s most appealing young musicians. Joined up with by top-ranked jazz and intensifying players, including Didier Lockwood, Jannick Best, Christian Escoude, and Francois Jeanneau, and vocalist Alex Ligertwood from the …

If you’re not really a blues purist, you’ll like the fiery, passionate using and singing of Yugoslavian blues-rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Ana Popovic. Because of her dad, the Belgrade-raised Popovic was presented to the blues young, through his wide-ranging record collection and jam periods hosted on the Popovic house. …

The renowned horn-driven funk outfit Tower of Power have already been issuing albums and touring the entire world steadily because the early ’70s, furthermore to burning countless other musicians. The group’s innovator since the starting is definitely tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo, who was simply created in Detroit but opted to …

Though it ultimately should be considered an interim vehicle for singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist Steve Winwood, Traffic was an effective group that followed its individual course with the rock and roll music scene from the past due ’60s and early ’70s. From the psychedelic season of 1967 and inspired with the Beatles, the …

An infectious mixture of African, Latin, Brazilian, reggae, and pop rhythms have produced Toure Kunda perhaps one of the most effective bands to emerge from Senegal. Their record Paris Ziguinchor marketed greater than a one fourth of the million copies while their visitor harmonies helped to carefully turn Africa Bamba …