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Bahamas

Bahamas may be the single task of Toronto-based guitarist and music gun-for-hire Afie Jurvanen. Having a thoroughly trained hearing for melody that he’s honed during his period playing with famous brands Feist and Howie Beck, Jurvanen’s single project includes a stripped-down and contemplative audio that targets doing even more with …

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Exuma

Probably one of the most unique and hard to classify performers from the 1970s, Exuma was one talent. Blending the infectious rhythms and folkloric characteristics of Bahamian music with rock and roll, country, and additional U.S. affects and adding a sharply satiric part of sociable commentary, Exuma’s music targeted for …

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Joseph Spence

Delivered on the isle of Andrus within the Bahamas, Spence developed an idiosyncratic (and inimitable) electric guitar design rife with percussive and improvisatory vamps around staid hymns and such “square” specifications as “To arrive on the Wing along with a Prayer.” He was a folk guitarist’s Thelonious Monk, and his …

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Johnny Kemp

Kemp began singing in nightclubs in his hometown of Nassau, Bahamas, when he was just 13. He shifted to Harlem in 1979, developing his various other talents being a dancer, songwriter, and professional. “Simply Got Paid” was a high Ten strike in 1988; he eventually did a melody for the …

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King Errisson

Studio musician Ruler Errisson offers led quite a fascinating existence since his intro to the entertainment market. Between the age groups of 13 and 18, he was a specialist jockey along with a program drummer for regional rings in his indigenous Bahamas. In 1968, he relocated to LA to be …

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T-Connection

T-Connection was one particular groups through the late ’70s and early ’80s that blurred the range between funk and disco. Unlike practically all of the peers, these were through the Bahamas; led by vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist Theophilus “T” Coakley, T-Connection’s regular membership was fleshed away by Kirkwood Coakley (bass, …

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Battleme

Perhaps most widely known mainly because the singer and guitarist from the Austin, Texas band LIONS, Matt Drenik explores lo-fi folk and electro along with his solo project Battleme. Were only available in 2009 after he was identified as having uveitis, an auto-immune disease that impacts the eye, the songwriter …

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