This Brooklyn doo wop group was originally referred to as the Linc-Tones when it formed in 1955 at Lincoln SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin, and Cynthia Zolitin didn’t possess much impact within their early days documenting for Melba. They afterwards disbanded, but Medress re-formed the group …

Perhaps one of the most well known rings to emerge from the NEW YORK ska revival picture from the 1990s, the Slackers is made up of vocalist Marq Lyn, vocalist/keyboardist Vic Ruggerio, guitarist T.J. Scanlon, bassist Marcus Geard, saxophonist David Hillyard, trumpeter Jeremy Mushlin, trombonist Glen Pine, and drummer Luis …

When Trevor Payne, the Barbados-born founder and director from the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir, heard the singing of South African vocalist and songwriter Phuzekhemisi (delivered Johnston Zibakwakhe Mnyandu), he was therefore impressed that he instantly envisioned a cooperation between his choir and Phuzekhemisi and his group. Their joint efficiency at …

Simon Nkabinde Mahlathini (nicknamed “the Lion of Soweto”) found international interest via the 1985 sampler The Indestructible Defeat of Soweto. He begun to tour internationally with feminine performers the Mahotella Queens, although he continues to be playing and performing his make of mbaqanga (Zulu pop music, seriously inspired by traditional …

b. 1951, Kwa-Mashu, South Africa. Kunene started busking on your guitar while still at college. As an adolescent he performed soccer for African Wanderers FC and regarded causeing this to be his career. Nevertheless, friends confident him that his abilities lay down in music and he became a normal performer …

Cem “Jammin’ Device” Mouth is better generally known as half of German acidity/techno group Surroundings Liquide, but has released more materials being a single artist. Documenting (much like his partner Ingmar “Walker” Koch) under a apparently endless selection of pseudonyms — including Cube 40, Zulutronic, Bionic Skank, G104, and Ultrahigh …

Although these were pegged to be the post-punk era’s next big thing, Boston’s Human Sexual Response did the contrary, and crashed and burned after four years and two albums. But throughout their brief existence, they produced a considerable buzz within their hometown and on the East Coastline for his or …

b. c.1943, Natal. Elevated in Durban, while in college Thobekile sang, danced and discovered to try out mbira and umqangala. She became a specialist dancer, touring internationally with African Follies. Thobekile frequented additional African countries even though in Zimbabwe (after that Rhodesia) wedded a English white man called Webster. This …

Very much like his idol Marley Marl, Frankie Cutlass gathered MCs and vocalists beneath the umbrella of projects — which he spearheaded simply because producer and mixer — while still maintaining an advantage being a DJ simply by using consistently in clubs, both dance- and hip-hop-oriented. Originally from Puerto Rico, …

One of the biggest of Guinea’s djembe players, Papa Ladji Camara brought the music traditions of Western Africa towards the international stage. A previous person in Les Ballets Africans de Keita Fodeba as well as the Country wide Ballet de Republic of Guinea, Camara has truly gone to play traditional …