Guy James Robin (born 2 August 1989), better known by his stage name Jonas Blue, is an English DJ, record producer, songwriter and remixer based in London who produces music which blends dance music with pop sensibilities.
In 2015, Blue released a tropical house cover of Tracy Chapman's 1988 single "Fast Car". It was his debut single and features the vocals from Dakota. The Jonas Blue version peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, behind Zayn Malik's "Pillowtalk". Its UK peak meant it charted higher than Chapman's original, which peaked at number five on the chart in May 1988 and a position higher upon a re-release in April 2011. It also remained in the top 10 for 11 weeks. The Jonas Blue version also reached number one in Germany, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, as well as reaching the number one spot on the US viral chart on Spotify. The single has been certified Platinum in Italy and the UK, 2× Platinum in New Zealand and 3× Platinum in Australia. To date, the track has been streamed over 580 million times on Spotify, and has achieved over 310 million views on Vevo.
On 3 June 2016, he released a new single titled "Perfect Strangers", featuring JP Cooper on Virgin EMI Records. To date, his second single has been certified platinum in the UK, double platinum in Australia and gold in New Zealand. The track also led to Blue reaching one billion streams across his tracks and videos. On 28 October 2016, saw the release of his third single titled "By Your Side", featuring British singer Raye, again on Virgin EMI Records. On 5 May 2017, he released the song "Mama", which featured Australian singer William Singe.
Shikao Suga (スガ シカオ Shikao Suga, born July 28, 1966) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo known for writing the theme songs for several anime, movies and commercial ads. His name in kanji is 菅 止戈男. He uses katakana as his professional name.
"Yozora no Mukō", the song he wrote the lyrics to, and was sung by SMAP, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. Both SMAP's "Yozora no Mukō" (1998) and KAT-TUN's "Real Face" (2006) either debuted at or reached quickly the top spot in the Oricon charts, and sold over 1 million units each. (夜空ノムコウ) (Japan Top Singles)
Several of his songs have been used in anime television series and live action dramas and movies adapted from manga. Honey and Clover included songs from his album "Clover", like "Hachigatsu no Serenade", "Tsuki to Knife" and "Yubikiri". The song "Manatsu no Yoru no Yume" has appeared in the first Death Note live action movie as an insert song. His song "Yūdachi" was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Others, and as the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom. "Hajimari no Hi" was used as the first opening theme to Letter Bee , and after a year and three months, he released "Yakusoku", which would be the opening for the "Letter Bee" sequel, Letter Bee Reverse. In 2019's live action adaptation of the manga "Yotsuba ginkō Harashima Hiromi ga mono mōsu!~ Kono hito (on'na) ni kakero ~", his song "Tōi yoake" would be the first song he's written as a theme song for a TV Tokyo dorama.
He also did the theme songs to the XXXHOLiC anime series from CLAMP, including its movie xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (Sanagi ~theme from xxxHOLiC the movie~), its first TV series season (Jūkyū-sai), and from "XXXHOLiC Kei", its second season (Nobody Knows). "Sofa" was the song used in the OVA "xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki" in February 17, 2009. In February 2013, XXXHOLiC live action drama started on WOWOW, and Suga's "Aitai" was used as its opening theme song. In 2015, CLAMP made the drawings for the music video for "あなたひとりだけ 幸せになることは 許されないのよ" (Anata hitori dake shiawase ni naru koto wa yurusarenai no you, also known as "Anayuru"), including in it images of characters from "XXXHOLiC", to celebrate his debut anniversary.
His songs have also been included in non-manga movies, like Dark Water ("Aozora") and Sweet Little Lies ("Ame agari no asa ni"), as well as countless of TV ads, like those of insurance agency Sony Sompo, and some car brands and housing businesses.
In Gintama, his name has been mentioned on episode 115, and his song "Progress" has been included in a parody in the series' "Shirogane no Tamashii" arc 2nd season's episode 9. "Progress" has also been included in a parody in episode 69 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Animation.
His name has also been included in Haruki Murakami's novel After dark, with reference to his song "Bakudan juice".(バクダン・ジュース)
He is involved in the poster campaign for Chica Umino's seinen manga series, March Comes in Like a Lion with Anne Watanabe. His song "Kizashi" was used in the commercial ad for the manga, and has appeared in it, as requested by Umino herself.
For Suga's 2013 album "Aitai", the cover and artist photo was made by Photographer and Film Director Mika Ninagawa
Shikao Suga Asia Circuit 2017 in Tokyo
As for his trips, in 2009 he made his first trip overseas, to London. It was to be the first time he appeared before a non-Japanese audience.
September 2017 he made his official first appearance in the American Continent, participating in the Greenroom Festival in Hawaii, which he repeated the following year
December 2017 he made his first trip within Asia, visiting Singapore on the 8th and Taiwan on the 17th, under the tour named "Shikao Suga Asia Circuit 2017". On the 26th of December he ends the tour in the city of Tokyo.
Rankin' Taxi (born 9 February 1953) is a Japanese reggae artist, from Yokohama. In 2011, he re-recorded his 1989 anti-nuclear song 誰にも見えない、匂いもない (You can't see it, you can't smell it) with Dub Ainu Band, which despite receiving little airplay in the mainstream Japanese media, attracted the attention of the New York Times in June 2011 in an article by Dan Grunebaum titled Japan's New Wave of protest songs, after it became popular following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Rankin' Taxi is the leader of Reggae movement and has been pulling reggae scene as an originator in Japan. He has been conducting real reggae into Japanese music scene since he had been shocked by Jamaican sound system in 1983. , BOYOYON OYAJI who just turned 55 years old organized sound system crew called as Taxi HiFi in 1988 to energetically produce many works as reggae DJ. It is the fact that he is the one who introduces reggae to Japan. Also, he launched the label called BASS KULCHA for excavation of young artist and released many works of them.
His approach toward to reggae music is overflowed of humor and radical, and sometimes too extreme. We can say that he is so talented as an embodiment of Revel music. His behavior and attitude to reggae music influences many artist, so that he gets many supports from them. His recent works include original 7th full album, “AMISHATSU SOUL”(2005) and one love album, “Let’s Go Rockers”(2006). As you see, he had been throwing his vitality into Japanese reggae scene to convey the dignity of reggae music.
In April 2007, he ventured solo live “Rankin Taxi BOYOYON NIGHT” which was absent for long time. There were two band’s performance, HOME GROWN and LITTLE TEMPO. In addition, the live incorporated with an acoustic session lasting 3 hours and its unprecedented stage etched a dramatic and unforgettable memory onto reggae history. Also, he participated versatile wide compilation album to diffuse Rankin Taxi World. In late February 2008, the long waited new album“Shinumade Ikiru” means like “Born Fi Dead” from RIDDIM ZONE will be released.
Sometime in 2006, DJ Txako was born. Originally a member of well-known collective “Caribbean Dandy” and rock latino promoter “Japonicus”, Txako exploded onto an unsuspecting Tokyo music scene with its unique live performance and massive doses of Patchanka, Cumbia, Mestizo, Balkan, Ska, Reggae and raw energy.
Famous for her live shows at well known festivals such as Fuji Rock Festival (from 2007～2017), Radical Music Network Festival, Asagiri Jam, Toyota Rock Festival, Go Out Jamboree, etc. Txako has toured in Mexico, Taiwan, Vietnam, US, Puerto Rico, France, Basque Country, Italy, Spain, Catalonia and Japan.
She performs at big festival such as Vive Latino (Mexico), Rototom Sunsplash (Spain), Esperanzah World Music Festival (Spain), Clownia Festival (Catalonia), Actual Festival (Spain), Ariano Folk Festival (Italy), etc.
Also Txako have been supporting well known artists such as, Rico Rodriguez, Roy Ellis, Manu Chao, Fermin Muguruza, Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly, DJ Scratchy, Mimi Maura, La Ruda Salska, Obrint Pas, Sergent Garcia, etc. I
n her wake, she left many fans hungry for more and influenced new DJs throughout Japan and the rest of the world. Txako continue touring around the globe.
In the meantime, kick up the volume, stand back and get ready for the full frontal assault known as...DJ TXAKO!!
Hailing from Sydney, Anna Lunoe continuously breaks boundaries as a DJ, radio host, producer, vocalist, and curator in the dance scene. Starting as a radio host on Australia’s FBi community radio, Anna quickly rose to prominence on the airwaves with her track selections and charismatic presence. She soon emerged as one of the best DJ’s amidst Australia’s bourgeoning dance scene. After dominating the festivals, airwaves, and clubs of Australia, in 2012 Anna made the move to Los Angeles to continue to build her career.
She released her debut Anna Lunoe & Friends EP, establishing herself as not only an exceptional DJ, but producer as well. The A side track "Real Talk" maintained a No. 1 spot on Beatport’s Indie Dance chart for four months straight and the B Side “I Met You", a collaboration with a then relatively unknown Flume, amassed millions of streams. From there she bounced from one forward thinking club banger to the next releasing on Fools Gold, Mad Decent, OWSLA, Ultra, and Spinnin' while simultaneously becoming a crowd favorite in the USA live circuit, appearing at festivals throughout the US including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Electric Forest, and EDC Las Vegas, where she was the first solo female act to play the main stage.
Amongst the many taking notice of Anna’s continuous climb and keen ear for the underground was Zane Lowe. It was for those reasons that he approached Anna to help launch Apple Music’s Beats1 platform. It was here that she debuted the HYPERHOUSE brand and radio show, her widest-reaching outlet to date for showcasing rising and established talent.Years later, Lunoe continues to thrive as the voice of all things dance music at Beats1 as the host of the weekly Dance Chart, one of the stations most in demand shows. HYPERHOUSE has also continued to evolve into an ongoing livestream series, a label, a tour with alternating acts curated by Anna herself, and a festival stage takeover at events like Holy Ship, Hard Fest, WMC, Electric Zoo, and more.
2017 began a new chapter in Anna’s life as she entered motherhood. She continued to produce and tour all the way though her pregnancy, headlining her own stage at Hard Summer’s 10yr anniversary at 8 months pregnant. After a 3 months hiatus to transition into motherhood (her longest break ever) Anna went into 2018 as inspired as ever, jumping straight back into the big leagues releasing collaborations with Dillon Francis, GTA, Born Dirty, Wax Motif, and Valentino Khan. She has continued to prove her unparalleled passion and unique position in this industry with notable appearances at CRSSD Festival, headlining and curating a stage at Electric Zoo, domineering the crowd at Splendour in the Grass, and making her European festival debut at Tomorrowland.
2019 shows no signs of slowing down for Anna as she goes into the year with a slew of new music up her sleeve, continuing her hosting duties on Beats1 weekly show Dance Chart, expanding her curation hub HYPERHOUSE, and anticipating a packed year of festival bookings around the world. There is no one in the game quite like Anna Lunoe.
Martijn Gerard Garritsen professionally known as Martin Garrix, is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Amstelveen. His most known singles are "Animals", "In the Name of Love", and "Scared to be Lonely". He was ranked number one on DJ Mag' s Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years (2016, 2017, and 2018).
He has performed at music festivals such as Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, and Creamfields. In 2014 he headlined the 1st edition of Ultra South Africa making this his first major festival. In the same year he became the youngest DJ to headline 2014 Ultra Music Festival at the age of 17. He was a resident DJ at Spain's Hï Ibiza (2017) and Ushuaïa Ibiza (2016 and 2018). He founded the label Stmpd Rcrds in 2016, months after leaving Spinnin' Records and before signing with Sony Music.
Garrix was born as Martijn Gerard Garritsen on 14 May 1996 in Amstelveen in the Netherlands, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen. He has a younger sister named Laura. He showed musical interest at an early age and learned to play the guitar at the age of 8.
In 2004, he expressed interest in becoming a DJ after seeing Dutch DJ Tiësto perform at that year's Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony in Athens. He took particular inspiration from the track "Traffic", prompting him to download the specialist software FL Studio, and enabling him to start composing. In 2013, he graduated from the Herman Brood Academy, a production school in Utrecht.
In May 2016, Garrix headlined an event in Los Angeles with all proceeds going to the non-profit organization Fuck Cancer, dedicated to early detection, prevention and providing support to those affected by cancer.
In November 2016, Garrix started his India tour with a special charity show in Mumbai with over 62,000 in attendance. Hosted at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, the charity event's purpose was to educate Indian children with the proceeds from the show being donated to Magic Bus, who will be supporting the education of 10,000 children across the country.
On 24 February 2017, Garrix was announced as an "international friend" for SOS Children's Village in South Africa, a non-profit organization that "builds families for orphaned, abandoned, and other vulnerable children around the world". Speaking to Billboard, he said "it is awful that so many children around the world don't have the support of a caring family".
On 28 February 2019, Garrix visited the SOS Children's Village in South Africa while on tour for Ultra South Africa. During his visit Garrix performed a one-hour DJ set to an excited crowd of one hundred children and young people, some aged just three years old and accompanied by their SOS mothers.
Chaz Bear (born Chazwick Bradley Bundick; November 7, 1986), known professionally as Toro y Moi, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and graphic designer. His music has taken on many forms since he began recording, but he is often identified with the rise of the chillwave movement in 2010 and 2011. His stage name is a multilingual expression consisting of the Spanish words toro and y (meaning "bull" and "and", respectively) and the French word moi (meaning "me").
Chazwick Bradley Bundick was born on November 7, 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina, to a Filipino mother and an African American father. He attended Ridge View High School, where he formed the indie rock band The Heist and The Accomplice with three schoolmates.
Bundick graduated from the University of South Carolina in spring of 2009 with a bachelor's degree in graphic design. Late in his school career, Toro y Moi formed a close musical relationship with fellow chillwave artist Ernest Greene, who performs under the name Washed Out.
In mid-2009, Toro y Moi was signed to Carpark Records, on which he released his debut full-length album Causers of This in January 2010. On Causers of This, Bundick experimented with sampling and production techniques using the digital audio workstation Reason. The album garnered comparisons to the "chillwave" subgenre; however, Bundick stated that he never classified his music as such. Bundick refers to the album's subject matter as "personal," calling it a "break-up album." Tours supporting Ruby Suns, Caribou, and Phoenix followed the album's release.
Toro y Moi's second album, Underneath the Pine, was released on February 22, 2011. The album was recorded at Bundick's home in-between tours while supporting Causers of This. Underneath the Pine marked a stylistic departure from the previous album in that it was made up of all live instrumentation and contained no samples. Bundick cites horror movie soundtracks, space disco, and film composers Piero Umiliani and François de Roubaix as inspiration for the album's sound.[14] Further, Budick states "...what influenced Underneath the Pine was finding stuff that I wanted to sample for Causers. A lot of the things I sampled for Causers ended up being the main musical inspiration for Underneath the Pine."
In an interview with website At the Sinema, he suggested that he had moved beyond the chillwave genre: "All that stuff is really good music, like Ernest Green (Washed Out) and Neon Indian. I'm a big fan of all of that, but I think [chillwave] was just a small little period where we all were, coincidentally."
On September 13, 2011 Toro y Moi released an EP titled Freaking Out, featuring a cover of "Saturday Love" by Cherrelle and Alexander O'Neal. The EP's sound was heavily influenced by 80's Boogie and R&B.
The band was chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England.
In June 2017, Toro y Moi announced a single, "Girl Like You" and a new album Boo Boo which was released on July 7, 2017 by Carpark Records. In creating Boo Boo, Bundick was influenced by an eclectic mix of Daft Punk, Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, and Oneohtrix Point Never. Two weeks before releasing Boo Boo, Bundick tweeted that he would not be touring to promote the next album.
On January 10, 2019, Toro announced a stream of his January 18, 2019 that he was releasing his new album, Outer Peace, on Carpark Records. It was available as part of NPR's First Listen program.
Nicola Cruz's music invokes the landscapes and rituals of his homeland, Ecuador, a country that is home both to the Andes mountains and the Amazon jungle. His music is an exploration of ancient mythologies and folkloric traditions in a modern setting. Nicola was born in Limoges, France, to Ecuadorian parents. His upbringing was surrounded by a rich musical education in both indigenous traditions and Western theories and from a young age he took to percussion.
From this musical connection between past and present, traditional and modern, an ongoing South American movement has arisen, exploring the local indigenous and Afro-cosmologies through a carefully crafted analogue sound.
In 2012 Nicola collaborated with Nicolas Jaar's now defunct label, Clown & Sunset. Prender el Alma, Nicola's debut album, was released on ZZK Records on October 30th of this year.
Nicola Cruz is perhaps the most well known proponent of forward thinking dance music with latin - or to be more precise, Andean - influences. Still based in Quito, Ecuador in the Andean foothills, his work continues to imbue the folk traditions and instruments of the area with a new emotional resonance for modern dancefloors. In 2019 he'll return to Sónar with a new show and album that we'll be able to talk more about very soon.
In 2016, when he first played Sónar, Nicola Cruz was little known on the international circuit. It was clear to anyone who saw the show, or watched the replay on youtube, that wouldn't remain the case for long. The show, which showcased his LP Prender el Alma followed collaborations with Nicolas Jaar and stints as a sound artist. His fascination with the ancient music and traditions of the Andes was further developed on Espíritu and Cantos de Vision - both released on the excellent Montreal label Multi Culti. These 2017 releases took his music, and his renown, to a new level, leading to performances at venues and festivals around the world, and full circle to SonarHall, the stage where many discovered him for the first time.
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer, songwriter, record producer and music video director. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album titled OnlySee in Australia.
She moved to London, England, and provided lead vocals for the British duo Zero 7. In 2000, Sia released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, on the Columbia label the following year, and her third studio album, Colour the Small One, in 2004, but all of these struggled to connect with a mainstream audience.
Sia relocated to New York City in 2005 and toured in the United States. Her fourth and fifth studio albums, Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born, were released in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Each was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association and attracted wider notice than her earlier albums. Uncomfortable with her growing fame, Sia took a hiatus from performing, during which she focused on songwriting for other artists, producing successful collaborations "Titanium" (with David Guetta), "Diamonds" (with Rihanna) and "Wild Ones" (with Flo Rida).
In 2014, Sia finally broke through as a solo recording artist when her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear, debuted at No 1 in the U.S. Billboard 200 and generated the top-ten single "Chandelier" and a trilogy of music videos starring child dancer Maddie Ziegler. In 2016, she released her seventh studio album This Is Acting, which spawned her first Billboard Hot 100 number one single, "Cheap Thrills". The same year, Sia gave her Nostalgic for the Present Tour, which incorporated dancing by Ziegler and others and other performance art elements. Sia wears a wig that obscures her face to protect her privacy. Among the accolades received by Sia are ARIA Awards and an MTV Video Music Award.
Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her witty, rambling lyrics and deadpan singing style, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP, I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris. International interest from the British and American music press came with the release of The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas in October 2013.
Barnett's debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and for International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards.
In 2017, she released Lotta Sea Lice, a collaborative album with Kurt Vile.
On 15 February 2018, Barnett released the single "Nameless, Faceless" followed by "Need a Little Time" on 15 March 2018. The third single, "Sunday Roast", was released on 10 May 2018. Her second album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, was released on 18 May 2018, whilst the single "City Looks Pretty" has featured on the EA Sports FIFA 19 video game.
Courtney Melba Barnett was born in Sydney on 3 November 1987. She grew up in Sydney's Northern Beaches. When she was 16, her family moved to Hobart. She attended St Michael's Collegiate School and Tasmanian School of Art. Having grown up on American bands, she discovered Australian singer-songwriters Darren Hanlon and Paul Kelly which inspired her to start writing songs.
Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson better known professionally as Anne-Marie (born 7 April 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. She has attained several charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, including Clean Bandit's "Rockabye", featuring Sean Paul, which peaked at number one, as well as "Alarm", "Ciao Adios", "Friends" and "2002". Her debut studio album, Speak Your Mind, was released on 27 April 2018 and peaked at number three on UK's Official Charts (UK Album Charts) on May 5th 2018.
Anne-Marie is a black belt in Shotokan Karate and started taking karate lessons aged nine. She won Double Gold in the 2002 Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association World Championships. Gold and Silver in the 2007 Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association World Championships, and Gold in the United Kingdom Traditional Karate Federation National Championships. She credits this with teaching her "discipline and focus – basically everything I need for this career" but now does not have time to practice it frequently, due to performing commitments. She also attended Palmer's College in Thurrock as a teenager.
On 20 May 2016, Anne-Marie released the first single from her debut album, "Alarm", which spent one week at number 76 in June before resurfacing a month later; it later peaked at number 2 and was certified Platinum in the UK.
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician best known as the lead singer and main songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays the guitar and piano. Along with the other members of Radiohead, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
Yorke was born in Northamptonshire. His family lived in Scotland before settling in Oxfordshire, England, where he formed Radiohead with his schoolmates. After he graduated from the University of Exeter, Radiohead signed to Parlophone; their early hit "Creep" made Yorke a celebrity, and Radiohead have gone on to achieve critical acclaim and sales of over 30 million albums. Their fourth album, Kid A (2000), saw Yorke and the band move into electronic music, often manipulating his vocals.
In 2006, Yorke released his debut solo album, The Eraser, comprising mainly electronic music. In 2009, to perform The Eraser live, he formed a new band, Atoms for Peace, with musicians including Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich; they released an album, Amok, in 2013. In 2014, Yorke released his second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes. He has collaborated with artists including PJ Harvey, Björk, Flying Lotus, and Modeselektor, and has composed for film and theatre; his first feature film soundtrack, Suspiria, was released in October 2018. With artist Stanley Donwood, Yorke creates artwork for Radiohead albums.
Yorke has been critical of the music industry, particularly of major labels and streaming services such as Spotify. With Radiohead and his solo work he has pioneered alternative music release platforms such as pay-what-you-want and BitTorrent. He is an activist on behalf of human rights, animal rights, environmental and anti-war causes, and his lyrics often incorporate political themes.
Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence in the San Diego coffee shop scene in 2000. In 2002 he released his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)".
With the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z, in 2005, Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008 Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was an international commercial success primarily due to the hit "I'm Yours". The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his first top ten single, and spent a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100.
His fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, his highest-charting album to date.
Mraz has won two Grammy Awards and received two additional nominations, and has also won two Teen Choice Awards, a People's Choice Award and the Hal David Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. He has earned Platinum and multi-Platinum certifications in over 20 countries, and has toured in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and parts of Africa. As of July 2014 Mraz has sold over seven million albums, and over 11.5 million downloaded singles. His musical style, from rhythmic feeling to his use of nylon string guitars, has been heavily influenced by Brazilian music.
Mraz was born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. He is of Czech and Slovak descent through his grandfather, who moved to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1915. His surname is Czech for "frost" (mráz). His parents, Tom (Tomáš) Mraz and June Tomes, divorced when he was five years old. His father is a postal worker, and his mother is vice president at a branch of Bank of America. Mraz has said he had an idyllic childhood: "My hometown of Mechanicsville was very American. There were white picket fences, a church on every street corner, low crime and virtually no drug use. It was a good place to grow up."
Oorutaichi (real name: Taichi Otoru, May 9, 1979) is a Japanese musician. Oorutaichi began recording and performing in 1999, inspired by The Residents, The Doors, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Aphex Twin and Dancehall Reggae. Initial recordings were multi-layered improvisations using "real" instruments, toys and voice, evolving to composed songs using midi triggered instrumentation.
His first album, "YORI YOYO", was released in 2003 to acclaim by Yamatsuka EYE (BOREDOMS), FREEROM (Skam Records) Daniel Wang and others, and received airplay on BBC Radio. He has been profiled in a number of Japanese magazines, and is very active in Japanese underground music
His second CD on Okimi Records "Drifting My Folklore" includes four songs from his first domestic release and six new tracks. Composed, played sung, and mixed entirely by OORUTAICHI, the strong melodies, wide ranging beats and free style chorus work create an original sound that could almost be traditional music from a fictitious country called "OORUTAICHI". His is a progressive style that will be appreciated by dance music listeners, free folk fans etc.
His activities rise around clubs at home and abroad, and live house. In addition to solos, he is also active in projects such as Band Urichupang County (vocals, composer, currently inactive), and a partner artist YTAMO (Utamo) with song unit Yuuki.
Besides the main production of music, he has been working with dancers Masako Yasumoto, providing music to the stage, and acting as a sound and music director for the animated film Kick-Heart.
Oorutaichi takes the word ‘fun’ into hyperdrive. This Japanese producer shakes the rules of techno, electro pop and sampling like a can of soda and lets things fly with contagious enthusiasm and heart. Go ahead and blast tracks like ‘Beshaby’ and ‘Yori Yoyo’ without ricocheting across the room like a hamster on uppers. It ain’t happening. Since his debut album back in 2003, Oorutaichi has scored animated shorts, performed extensively with his band Urichipangoon, and even sampled the legendary Moondog on his track ‘Hamihadarigeri’.
Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band while the album was being recorded. He left the band in 1977 over creative differences with the other band members.
Since leaving the Sex Pistols in 1977, he has performed with several other bands, as well has his own solo work. After the death of his replacement in the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, Matlock has resumed bass guitar duties for subsequent Sex Pistols reunions, including the 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour, the 2002 concert to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, their 2003 North American Piss Off Tour and their 2007-2008 UK and Europe Combine Harvester Tour.
A former art school student, Matlock had originally joined up with Jones and Cook in 1972; even though he left the group in 1977 before their debut album was completed, he was still rehired to complete the majority of the album's bass tracks. Upon his exit, Matlock formed a punk-pop unit called the Rich Kids, which also featured future Ultravox singer Midge Ure; they released one album in 1978, Ghosts of Princes in Towers (which produced an overlooked classic in the title track), before breaking up. Matlock played with Sid Vicious and joined Iggy Pop's band shortly thereafter, touring with Pop in 1979 and appearing on the following year's Soldier album. Over the next few years, Matlock played with a variety of bands, including the Spectres (with Danny Kustow, ex-Tom Robinson Band), the London Cowboys (appearing on their 1984 album Tall in the Saddle), and Johnny Thunders (from about 1985-1987). In 1990, Matlock published his autobiography, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, and subsequently worked in the Role Models with ex-members of Public Image Ltd. In 1995, he played with a Faces-style rock & roll band called the Philistines, which also featured singer Gerry Foster, guitarist Paul O'Brien, and drummer Paul Simon (and had initially included ex-PiL guitarist Keith Levene); that year they released an album, called Hard Work, on Peppermint Records.
In 1996, Matlock's first solo album, Who's He Think He Is When He's at Home?, was released on Creation, featuring ex-Rich Kids guitarist Steve New. However, its British trad rock-styled tunes were largely lost in the hype surrounding the Sex Pistols' 20th anniversary reunion tour and accompanying album, Filthy Lucre Live, for which Matlock was a full participant. The Philistines were later completely revamped, with Matlock now billed ahead of the band as the frontman; other members included guitarists Steve New and James Stevenson, organist Nick Plytas, and drummer Chris Musto. The Clash's Mick Jones made several guest appearances on their 2000 album for Peppermint, Open Mind. The following year, Matlock toured with Dead Men Walking, a quartet of acoustic guitar-playing punk-era veterans that also featured former Alarm leader Mike Peters. In 2004, Matlock followed up Open Mind with the similarly classic rock-inclined On Something. He released his fourth solo album, Born Running, in September of 2010.
Scott Hansen (born 1977), known professionally as Tycho, is an American musician, composer, songwriter and producer. He is also known as ISO50 for his photographic and design work. His music is a combination of downtempo vintage-style synthesizers and ambient melodies. His sound is very organic, often incorporating clips of human elements into his songs (e.g. weather broadcasts, simple talking, or breathing).
Tycho signed to Ghostly International in 2006, but has also released music on Merck Records and Gammaphone Records. His fourth studio album, Epoch, received a nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album in the 2017 Grammy Awards. Tycho departed Ghostly International in 2019.
Hansen's music project Tycho is influenced by and has been compared to artists such as DJ Shadow, Ulrich Schnauss and Boards of Canada. His music captures the sound of lo-fi analog media while remaining both progressive and futuristic in composition and style. Themes of nostalgia, longing, childhood and the natural world are interspersed throughout Tycho's work. Brief interludes or vignettes also feature in his earlier work. In Past Is Prologue, Hansen includes excerpts from broadcasts accompanied by atmospherics to capture a specific moment or mood. His music is characterized by a mixture of electronic synths, live instrumentation, and vintage sound clips.
Until the release of the album Dive, Hansen worked as a solo artist and used the digital audio workstation, Cakewalk Sonar, to work with analog, virtual analog hardware, digital hardware and VSTI synthesizers as well as samples derived from live instrumentation, played by Hansen himself. While creating the album, he switched over to REAPER, a more dynamic program which he credits with allowing him to finish Dive. The album tour had a live band for the first time, hybridizing the electronic music experience with the dynamic energy of a performance featuring live instrumentation. After touring, Hansen decided to permanently open up the solo project, and work both on tour and in the studio alongside two other band members, Zac Brown on bass guitar and guitar and Rory O'Connor on drums. When performing, all the guitars are live, played either by Hansen or Brown. Bass guitar is also always live, with the exception of the song "Hours". Drums are played live by O'Connor, and lead synthesizers are also live. Hansen often plays guitar while triggering samples with his foot. His goal is to find the balance between the fluid nature of a live show with artists playing physical instruments and the precision and ability to stay true to the album of electronic music.
Vincent Jamal Staples (born July 2, 1993) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and actor. He is a member of the hip hop trio Cutthroat Boyz alongside fellow Californian rappers Aston Matthews and Joey Fatts. Staples was once a close associate of Odd Future, in particular, Mike G and Earl Sweatshirt. He is currently signed to Blacksmith Records, ARTium Recordings and Def Jam Recordings.
Staples rose to prominence with appearances on albums by Odd Future members and his collaborative mixtape titled Stolen Youth with Mac Miller, who produced the project. In October 2014, he released his debut EP Hell Can Wait, which included the singles "Hands Up" and "Blue Suede". His debut album, Summertime '06, was released on June 30, 2015, to critical acclaim. He was also featured as a part of the XXL 2015 Freshman Class. His second album Big Fish Theory, which contains the singles "BagBak", "Big Fish" and "Rain Come Down", incorporates avant-garde, dance and electronic influences. It was released on June 23, 2017, to further acclaim from critics. On November 2, 2018, Staples released his third studio album, FM!.
Staples was born in Compton, California. He later moved to North Long Beach after his mother decided she wanted to move away from Compton due to the high crime rates. Staples is the youngest of five siblings, two brothers and three sisters. Staples grew up in poverty.
Staples attended Optimal Christian Academy from 4th to 8th grade, which he said was an influential and positive experience. During high school, Staples' mom sent him to Atlanta to stay with one of his sisters. He attended high school there for six months. After returning to Southern California, Staples attended other high schools: Jordan High School in Long Beach, Mayfair High School in Bellflower, Opportunity High School home schooling, Esperanza High School in Anaheim, and Kennedy High School, among others.
Staples has been upfront regarding his involvement with gangs during his childhood and is involved with speaking to the youth in his community about the dangers of the gang lifestyle.
BIGYUKI, real name Masayuki Hirano, is a Japanese keyboardist and songwriter. His extensive vocabulary fuels his ability to create an entirely new sound by infusing elements of jazz, classical, hip-hop, soul, rock, dance, and electronica into his compositions. BIGYUKI’s debut full-length album, Reaching for Chiron is a perfect synthesis of heart and technology, with heavy beats and buoyant melodies. The release was hailed by WBGO as ‘sonically immersive ‘” a celestial strain of synth jazz.’ DJ Mag and PopMatters also praised the album, calling it ‘sonically kaleidoscopic’ and ‘infectiously interesting.’ BIGYUKI brings these compositions to life onstage in dynamic performances with a bassist and drummer at his side.
Classically trained at Berklee College of Music, BIGYUKI has gone on to cultivate a unique musical identity that has attracted the attention of fellow artists Q-Tip, Bilal, Talib Kweli, Harvey Mason, Marcus Strickland, Mark Guiliana, Me’Shell Ndegeocello, and more. His work is featured on J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only and A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got It From Here’¦Thank You 4 Your Service.
Hirono is not the standard product of 21st century "jazz school", although he did go to the Berklee College of Music—the classic jazz bro training ground of years past. He grew up in Japan, where his musical preparation was almost exclusively Western classical.
"How I developed my sound is weird and unique. I wasn't a B-boy when I got to Berklee. Even jazz was new to me. I had classical technique. But I didn't really have the will to be a classical musician."
Why go to Berklee if you aren't particularly interested in jazz or American pop styles? Hirono explains that, mainly, he was seeking new horizons. "I wanted to leave Japan and gain a new view, see myself from a new perspective. My parents had both lived in the US and wanted me to go. I used my classical technique to get me out. Berklee was known in Japan, and I got a scholarship."
At Berklee, Hirano was the ultimate rookie, hearing pop music for the first time. In the beginning, he immersed himself in jazz piano, but he couldn't swing. "I loved Oscar Peterson, Kenny Barron, Phineas Newborne, Jr. I was this annoying kid who always wanted to play with people, 'Let's jam, play with me!' I'd play the bass part for them so they could jam. That's how I got playing bass lines. Then I got into organ jazz, playing walking bass lines with my left hand. I was intimidated about asking bass players to play, but I got to playing with drummers."
Obsessing over the organ led Hirono to gospel music. "I started from the '50s or the '60s and had to work my way forward. Obsessing over bass lines led Hirono, soon enough, to classic funk music, for example Maceo Parker's Life on Planet Groove(1992). This brought him in short order to hip-hop. "I heard a sample of a groove that I loved from Maceo." It sounds as if BigYuki got an accidental education in black American music over the course of just a few years.
The music on the BigYuki debut doesn't much sound like any of that music: jazz piano or organ jazz or James Brown-inspired/Maceo Parker music. But you can hear that trail of all this music lurking behind BigYuki's conception.
Much of the album consists of soundscapes that are infectiously interesting, ones that shift over time almost the way a jazz improvisation does, with motifs recurring and mutating. "Burnt N Turnt" begins as pure sound texture, but it brings in a toggling five-note lick that swings and hops, linking everything else together. While are no improvisations or "solos" in the tradition of jazz, blues, and rock, BigYuki has composed the performance so that synthesizers jump into with interludes that sound like big band saxophone sections or like the keyboard lines from the classic '70s Herbie Hancock fusion records. Sample voices shout, synth percussion marches and grooves, sirens wail.
BigYuki was starting to get into this kind of music as early as Berklee. "I got into synthesizers. Playing with a band, I would hear what's happening and then come up with ideas that could add to the music as an extra layer. But my goal was to come up something that was so hooky that people couldn't hear the music without it."
Ultimately, this meant that BigYuki became a partner to artists of all kinds. Indeed, two years ago, he worked with A Tribe Called Quest on their last recording. He's credited as a composer, for example, on "Melatonin", laying in spacey synth playing beneath Q Tip's rapping and vocals from Abbey Smith. How did he get that gig? "When I got to New York from Boston, my first big gigs were playing with Bilal. I think I excelled at quickly coming up with ideas and developing the right sound for a situation. And this skill worked really well in hip-hop. Then I was playing with Talib Kweli. It got noticed."
On his debut, BigYuki works with Chris Turner on "Eclipse", a modern soul tune has a traditional verse/chorus even though its otherwise a hip-hop tune in textures and approach. Bilal is featured on vocals for "Soft Places", and rapper Javier Starks is front and center on "Simple Like You". Across all these pieces, BigYuki constructs a soundscape and moves it around with creativity. "Simple Like You", for example, shifts between a staccato dance groove to a section orchestrated with string sounds that floats in time.
Janelle Monáe Robinson (born December 1, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actress, and producer who is signed to Atlantic Records, as well as her own imprint, the Wondaland Arts Society.
Monáe's musical career began in 2003 when she released an unofficial demo album titled The Audition. In 2007, she publicly debuted with a conceptual EP titled Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase). It peaked at number two on the US Top Heatseekers chart, and in 2010, through Bad Boy Records, Monáe released her first full-length studio album, The ArchAndroid, a concept album and sequel to her first EP.
In 2011, Monáe was featured as a guest vocalist on fun.'s single "We Are Young", which achieved major commercial success, topping the charts of over ten countries and garnering Monáe a wider audience. Her second studio album, The Electric Lady, was released in 2013 and debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, serving as the fourth and fifth installments of her seven-part Metropolis concept series.
In 2016, Monáe made her theatrical film debut in two high profile productions; she starred in Hidden Figures as NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson and also starred in Moonlight. Hidden Figures was a box office success, while Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 89th annual ceremony.
Monáe's third studio album, Dirty Computer, also described as a concept album, was released in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim; it was chosen as the best album of the year by several publications and earned Monáe two nominations at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 and was further promoted by Monáe's Dirty Computer Tour, which lasted from June–August 2018.
Throughout her career, Monáe has received eight Grammy Award nominations. She won a MTV Video Music Award and the ASCAP Vanguard Award in 2010. She was also honored with the Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award in 2015 and the Trailblazer of the Year Award in 2018. In 2012, she became a CoverGirl spokeswoman. Boston City Council named October 16, 2013 "Janelle Monáe Day" in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, in recognition of her artistry and social leadership.
Manami KAKUDO was born in Nagasaki, Japan. She is a musician, percussionist. She graduated from Percussion course, Department of Instrumental music, Tokyo University of the Arts. She makes music and tricks with using various instruments such as Marimba, her own voice and close things which attracts her.
The forms of her works can be not only sound performances but also sound installations and works in socially engaged art projects. In her solo works, she works sounds specially and performs with handmade musical instruments, voice, piano, guitar and various things around her. As her solo projects, she plays as and conducts “Manami Kakuda with Tako Mansion Orchestra”. Since the summer in 2016, she has worked and played in the band “CERO” as a chorus and a percussionist.
Also, she started to play with various musicians (Doppelzimmer, Kaoru Noda, Baku Furukawa etc…). She also plays in TV programs and reocording work for TV programs / commercials and Movies. She is active for playing contemporary music and producing music for dance performance and videos works.
– Solo Exhibition / Concert “Nanikana(What is it?)?” (2015, HAGISO in Tokyo)
– Residency Echigo-Tsumari Art Field (2015, Niigata)
– Sound Installation TURN (2015, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo) TURN (2016, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo)
Ashton Simmonds (born April 5, 1995), better known by his stage name Daniel Caesar, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After independently building a following through the release of two critically acclaimed EPs Praise Break (2014) and Pilgrim's Paradise (2015), Caesar released his debut album Freudian in August 2017, which also garnered widespread critical acclaim.
Ashton Simmonds was born on April 5, 1995 in Oshawa, Ontario, the second eldest of four children to parents Hollace and Norwill Simmonds, a gospel singer who released his first album as a high schooler in Jamaica. Simmonds attended a Seventh-day Adventist church and private school in Oshawa. He is of Barbadian and Jamaican descent.
Caesar received widespread critical acclaim for his debut 2014's EP Praise Break, which was ranked number 19 on the "20 Best R&B Albums of 2014" by Rolling Stone. His body of work is influenced by religion, which played a large role in his upbringing, as well as unrequited love.
His breakout single "Get You" amassed over 10 million streams on Apple Music since its October 2016 release. According to his management, the singer's catalog has garnered over 20 million global streams on Apple Music. According to NPR, as of June 2018 his three most-streamed songs have a combined 249 million streams on Spotify.
On August 25, 2017, Caesar released his debut album Freudian, which included singles "Get You", "We Find Love", and "Blessed". The album was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Polaris Music Prize. At the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, Caesar was nominated for two awards for Best R&B Album and Best R&B Performance for his single "Get You". At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, Caesar won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance for his single "Best Part".
As a singer-songwriter raised on the sounds of soul and gospel, his music draws from the experiences of his childhood and supplements them with a modern R&B and electronics while lyrics explore the subjects of religion and unrequited love. Caesar cites Frank Ocean, Kanye West and Beyoncé and The Doors frontman Jim Morrison as sources of musical and aesthetic inspirations.
Salam Unagami is a Music & Food Writer/Radio DJ/Lecturer/MC.
Salam’s Radio program on J-WAVE “Oriental Music Show” got the Best Radio Entertainment Award 2017 by The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association!
Salam regularly visits the Middle-Eastern countries and the Indian Subcontinent since late 1980’s to make research local music, food & culture.
He published 5 books about World Music & 4 books about the Middle-Eastern Cooking.
Salam’s weekly music program “Ongaku Yuran Hiko” on NHK-FM (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is the most popular World Music radio program all over Japan. And, his recipe book “MEYHANE TABLE” ranked as the No.1 in Amazon Ethnic cooking books category.
1967: Born in Gumma.
1990: Graduated the Department of Political Science at Meiji University. 6 years Worked at “WAVE Roppongi”, A legendary music store in Tokyo, then, started writing about music for several magazines.
1996: left Japan, and stayed in Montpellier, South France for 6 months to learn French. 2 years Backpacking travels around the Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Tibet and India.
1998: Back to Tokyo, Worked for some Independent Music Labels and the public relations of the Tokyo’s biggest club “WOMB”.
2000: Became freelance Music Journalist.
2003: Published the 1st book “Trans World Express”.
2004: Started to talk in Radio Program on J-Wave.
2008: Started World Music Lecture Class at Wako University Open College.
2012: Started my own World Music Program called “Ongaku Yuran Hiko” on NHK FM.
2016: Published 2 books about the Middle Eastern Food, “MEYHANE TABLE” & “Breakfast in istanbul” . Started My 2nd Radio Program called “Oriental Music Show” on J-WAVE.
2017: “Oriental Music Show” on J-WAVE got the Best Radio Entertainment Award 2017 by The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association! Published my 8th Book “Night in Joujouka, Morning with Sufi: Walking Through World Music”.
2018: Spinned 3nights at Fuji Rock Festival.
2019: Published “MEYHANE TABLE More!” 2nd recipe book.
Books.
“MEYHANE TABLE More!” My 2nd cooking recipes book from the Middle East. 2019
“Night in Joujouka, Morning with Sufi: Walking Through World Music” 2017
“MEYHANE TABLE”, My 1st full-colour cooking recipes book from Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco & Israel. 2016
“Breakfast in istanbul” The sequel of ”Oishii Chuto” 36 recipes from Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, London, Tokyo & Israel, 2016.
“Oishii Chuto (Delicous the Middle-Eastern Cooking)”, my 1st. cooking columns & 52 recipes from Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen & Israel, 2013.
“21st Century Middle-Eastern Music Journal”, 2012.
“Trans World Express Definitive Edition”, my travelogues with music and CD guide, 2008.
“Planet India”. My quest of Indian music, including Hindusthani, Carnatic classical music, Rajasthani folk, Bollywood, and Asian Massives, 2006.
“Trans World Express”, my travelogues with World music and CD guide, 2003.
Radio
NHK-FM “Ongaku Yuran Hiko (Music Sight-Seeing Flying)”, regular World Music program on 4 times a month all over Japan!
J-WAVE “Oriental Music Show” weekly World Music program in Tokyo & Eastern Japan Area.
Radio Takasaki “Musique Sans Frontieres” Biweekly World Music Program in Gumma area.
Lectures
World Music studies at Asahi Culture Centre Shinjuku monthly.
World Music studies at Dokkyo, Rikkyo & Wako University.
Food workshop
“Shuccho Meyhane (Traveling Meyhane) the Middle Eastern Cooking Workshops in Tokyo and everywhere in Japan
Cooking Class Teacher at Coto-Labo Asagaya run by Orange Page magazine
etc…
DJ in nightclubs, and at wedding parties.
making CD complations.
supervising foreign Movies into Japanese versions,
supervising the Middle Eastern Cookings menus for restaurants.
Alice Phoebe Lou (born 19 July 1993) is a South African singer-songwriter. She has released two EPs and three albums. In December 2017 her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story was included on the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song.
Lou spent her childhood in Kommetjie on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa and attended Waldorf school. Her parents are documentary filmmakers. She took piano lessons as a child but learned to play guitar herself. When she was 14 year old she was fond of trance music and started to take photographs from concerts, sometimes even getting paid for them. In 2010 she spent her summer holiday in Paris living first with her aunt but soon moved to live with a friend and started earning money by fire-dancing.
Having a gap year after graduating from high school in South Africa in 2012 she returned to Europe, first to Amsterdam and then to Berlin. In Berlin she started to sing and play guitar as she found out that this was more lucrative than fire-dancing. After her gap year she contemplated attending university in South Africa, but eventually decided to purchase a battery powered amplifier and return to Berlin instead. In Berlin, she performed on S- and U-bahn stations and parks. After one month in Berlin, she played on a television programme. In April 2014 she self-released "Momentum" EP. The song "Fiery Heart, Fiery Mind" from the EP featured in the soundtrack of the 2015 released film "Ayanda". She also started to play in venues.
After a performance at TEDx in Berlin on 6 September 2014 she started to get offers from record labels, but she wanted to stay independent. In December 2014 she released a live album "Live at Grüner Salon" as means to fund the recording of her debut studio album.
In 2015 she started to tour and played first time at SXSW festival in USA in 2015. She has returned to SXSW every year after that. She also performed in TEDGlobal London in 2015 and opened for Rodriguez on his 2016 South Africa tour.
In April 2016 Alice Phoebe Lou released her album "Orbit", produced by Matteo Pavesi and Jian Kellett-Liew. She was nominated for best female artist at the 2016 German critics choice awards in Germany and was invited to several German TV programs for interviews and performances.
She toured in Europe, South Africa and USA in 2016 and played three sold out shows at the Berlin Planetarium. More tours and sold out concerts followed in 2017 but Lou has also continued street performances.
In December 2017 she self-released nine track "Sola" EP and a book titled "Songs, poems and memories". The same month it was announced that her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story is on the shortlist for Academy Awards' Oscars in Best Original Song category. "She" was released as a digital single on 23 February 2018 with a music video directed by Natalia Bazina. During 2018 Alice Phoebe Lou toured Europe, USA, South Africa, Japan and Canada.
The first single Something Holy from her Paper Castles album was released on November 30 2018. On January 15, 2019 the second single, Skin Crawl, was released digitally. On February 15 third single, Galaxies, was released and at the end of the month an extensive US, Canada and Europe tour comprising over 40 concerts was started. The album was released on March 8, 2019.
On March Alice was the artist of the month of Consequence of Sound. On 6 May Galaxies video filmed in Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin featuring Maisie Williams was released. On May 30 Alice Phoebe Lou performed first time at the main stage of Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Later that day she had another smaller concert at the OCB Paper Sessions stage. Primavera Sound published an excerpt of the main stage concert in their Best of 2019 video collection.
In the beginning of June the video of Skin Crawl won third prize at the Berlin Music Video Awards in the best concept category.
Sabrina Claudio (born September 19, 1996) is an American singer and songwriter. In late 2016, Claudio uploaded several songs to SoundCloud, before compiling a select collection as part of her debut extended play, Confidently Lost, which was released independently in March 2017. Her single "Unravel Me" peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart, and her single "Belong to You" peaked at number 2 on the same. Her debut mixtape, About Time was released on October 5, 2017. It peaked at number 13 on Billboard' s Top R&B Albums chart.
Claudio grew up in Miami, and is of half Cuban and half Puerto Rican descent. She later moved to Los Angeles where she began her music career in earnest. She first began recording and releasing video covers on Twitter and YouTube before transitioning to original tracks which she released on SoundCloud. Over the course of 2016, Claudio released several singles, including "Runnin' Thru Lovers," "Orion's Belt," and Confidently Lost.
These songs would form part of her EP, Confidently Lost which she originally released independently on SoundCloud. The EP received a wide release in March 2017 via SC Entertainment. In May 2017, she released a single, "Unravel Me," off of an upcoming project due to be released later in 2017. The song would go on to peak at #22 on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart. She released another single for that project entitled, "Belong to You," in July 2017 which peaked at #2 on the same chart.
It was announced in August 2017 that Claudio would be touring North America with 6lack on his Free 6lack Tour.
On October 5, 2017, Claudio's debut full-length digital mixtape, About Time, was officially released. The mixtape is supported by the singles "Unravel Me" and "Belong to You". From October through November 2017, Apple Music promoted Claudio as their Up Next artist, a series that focuses on breakthrough artists by documenting their journey, inspiration and influences through exclusive interviews, live performances and a mini-documentary. On April 2, 2018, Claudio released the single "All to You" followed by "Don't Let Me Down" featuring Khalid on April 4.
Her debut studio album No Rain, No Flowers, was released on August 15, 2018, preceded by the single "Messages From Her".
Listen to the ethereal music of Ryohei Kubota as he plays the handpan.
Ryohei Kubota is a Japanese musician playing the handpan instrument, creating the soothing sounds you will hear in the music video. The 19-year-old started playing the handpan when he was still in high school. By performing with the unusual instrument in the streets of Shibuya and Harajuku in Tokyo, Ryohei Kubota attracted attention. He is now doing collaborations with DJs, as well as using different styles and instruments to perform.
The handpan is a new instrument that is played by hands and fingers. The percussion responds to the lightest of touch, producing a mesmerizing sound with multiple overtones.
Ryohei Kubota’s music video for his first album ‘RISING’ was directed by Maria Nanashima.
Stella Donnelly is a Welsh-Australian musician born in Perth, Australia. She spent some childhood years living in Morriston, Wales before moving back to Perth, Australia with her family.
Donnelly first started singing when she joined a rock band in high school (Irene McCormack Catholic College) that performed Green Day covers. After high school, Donnelly studied contemporary and jazz music at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Donnelly released her first EP titled Thrush Metal in 2017 on the record label Healthy Tapes. In 2018, the EP was reissued in the United States by the American label Secretly Canadian. She released her debut album, Beware of the Dogs, on 8 March 2019 via Secretly Canadian. It received widespread acclaim from critics, including Robert Christgau, who praised it as a "musical encyclopedia of [male] assholes".
Before her solo projects were published, Donnelly was part of two bands called BOAT SHOW and BELL RAPIDS.
Thrush Metal was released to the public on April 6, 2017. The album consisted of six tracks that became immensely popular within the Australian public. Her relatable way of writing is her lens to the world in which we live, a glimpse into what it’s like to be a millennial woman in the age of Trump, Tinder and third wave feminism. The album was rereleased by Donnelly with label Secretly Canadian in 2018.
Donnelly released her first full-length album Beware of the Dogs on March 8, 2019. Donnelly's debut U.S. single Boys Will Be Boys debuted in 2017 just at the start of the "Me Too" movement was getting started. Atop delicate, singsongy acoustic fingerpicking, Donnelly confronts a man who raped her friend and takes to task the accompanying victim-blaming. “Why was she all alone?/Wearing her shirt that low/And they said boys will be boys/Deaf to the word no,” she coos in the chorus, a slight vibrato flaring up at the corners of her lovely voice. The song featured Boys Will Be Boys was included in the track list for the album. The album itself showcases an artist totally in command of her voice, able to wield her inviting charm and razor-sharp wit into authentically raw songs.
Kathy Yaeji Lee (born August 6, 1993), known professionally as Yaeji, is a Korean-American electronic music artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her style blends elements of house music and hip hop with mellow, quiet vocals sung in both English and Korean.
Kathy Yaeji Lee was born August 6, 1993 in Flushing, Queens as a single child in a Korean family. Growing up, Yaeji moved from New York to Atlanta when she was 5, and then to South Korea in the third grade. While living in South Korea, Yaeji switched between different international schools on a yearly basis, causing her to find friends on the Internet, where she would first discover music. Yaeji also briefly attended school in Japan before moving back to Korea.
Yaeji eventually moved back to the United States to study conceptual art, East Asian studies and graphic design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Yaeji embraced DJing as a hobby while attending Carnegie Mellon, after learning how to use Traktor and beginning to DJ at house parties. She DJed for two years before learning Ableton, making her own music and debuting on Carnegie Mellon's college radio station. Yaeji graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2015.
After graduation, Yaeji moved back to New York City to get involved in the music scene and DJ. Her first single, "New York '93", referring to her year of birth, was issued on the New York City label Godmode on February 29, 2016, followed by a cover of "Guap" by Australian DJ Mall Grab that May. She had previously uploaded songs to SoundCloud, although they were removed; this included "Areyouami", which was released when she was at college.
Her debut eponymous EP, including both prior singles, was released by Godmode on March 31, 2017.
She began to gain attention following her first Boiler Room session in May 2017, which involved a remix of Drake's single "Passionfruit". The song was later released officially on Godmode's Soundcloud page.
The first of several stand-alone singles, "Therapy" was issued in July 2017, followed by a two-track digital single, Remixes, Vol. 1, on August 1 and the "Last Breath" single on August 28.
The music video for the single "Drink I'm Sippin On" was released on 88rising's YouTube channel in October 2017, quickly gaining over a million views in two weeks.
On November 3, 2017, Yaeji released her second EP, EP2, to positive reviews and moderate commercial success. The video for "Raingurl" was released on November 16.
She was named to the BBC's Sound of 2018 longlist in November 2017.
Yaeji performed at the 2018 Coachella Festival.
El Hijo de la Cumbia is the project of music producer Emiliano Gomez aka Ego.360.
Ego.360 is more than just a musician. He’s also a well-traveled, musical anthropologist. From early days performing Cumbia, Reggae, Dub, and Hip-Hop in his native Buenos Aires to working with influential cumbia sonidero groups in Mexico and the USA, El Hijo de la Cumbia has always sought to learn from the world around him.
The Malmo, Sweden-based musician's latest endeavor is a new album that spans a decade of research and is his largest undertaking yet. “This is, without a doubt, a new beginning for me,” he says. “I spent 10 years traveling the world, learning and absorbing new styles and rhythms. I composed 56 songs, and it took me a year to select my favorite ones for a new album.”
That album is Genero Genero, an apt name as El Hijo de la Cumbia deftly combines numerous sounds, styles, and genres to create a sonic version of his heavily-stamped passport. The album features appearances by Celso Piña, La Dame Blanche, Mexican Institute of Sound, Alika y Nueva Alianza, and El Rama, who join him on his quest to tear down all barriers with music as his weapon of choice.
It is music he’s had the pleasure of sharing with audiences across the globe, most recently at various festivals in Korea, Abu Dhabi,
Mexico, Brazil, France, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
The album’s first single “Che Revolution” features longtime collaborator La Dame Blanche. “Genero, Genero” is out everywhere on April 20th.
Bart van der Meer, a.k.a. Bart B More, has quickly become one of the brightest stars in the international electronic music scene. He has consistently been crafting dancefloor destroyers that have received massive support from prominent DJ’s around the world. Combining his love for beat-driven, looped techno music with big room house and electro, he has been crafting a refreshingly new cross-over sound.
Bart first gained exposure by being crowned Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune twice in 2007. Since then, he has added several original tracks to his arsenal on various renowned labels like Boys Noize Records, Relief, Sound Pellegrino and Trouble & Bass which have all climbed to high positions on the Beatport charts. Bart B More has also demonstrated a natural ability for creating incredible remixes. Recent releases include Sneaky Sound System's "We Love", Teenage Bad Girl's "X-Girl" and Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You". In 2008, Bart B More founded Secure Recordings, which has already released some great records from Diplo, Tommie Sunshine, Riva Starr, Harvard Bass, Drop The Lime, AC Slater and Baskerville.
Hailing from the Netherlands, Bart van der Meer – known as Bart B More – has been a constant factor in the global electronic dance music scene for over a decade. His genre-bending style of production has helped him to become one of the most renowned and respected dance music producers today. From stages of EDC, Tomorrowland, Ultra, Creamfields and Mysteryland, to underground staple venues like Womb in Tokyo, Fabric in London, Barcelona’s Razzmatazz and Webster Hall in New York, his audiences see his art as a fully performing DJ, and as a creative musician. Versatile and uninhibited, Bart’s unique sets warrant any crowd’s captivation.
Over the years, Bart has been releasing with some of the industry’s top labels: STMPD Records, Spinnin’ Records, Boysnoize Records, OWSLA, Sweat It Out!, Relief Records, Sound Pellegrino, Fool’s Gold, and Trouble & Bass. His latest EP ‘Lights Out’ appeared on STMPD Records with tracks ‘Lights Out’ and ‘Wack’.
Along with collaborating and working with major labels, Bart has also written and produced for the likes of Rita Ora and Example, as well as remixes for Katy Perry, Cee-Lo Green, Tiesto, Chris Brown, Wiley, Martin Garrix, Miike Snow and Peaches amongst many others.
Mastery to make each beat, synth and drop flow seamlessly together in his mixes has made Bart B More a well-seen guest at events all over the globe. Touring internationally since 2008, his countless DJ sets hold skill and craftship from numerous influences and performing experience. Bart B More continues to have a key role in keeping dance music forward thinking, innovative, and open-minded.
William Holland, a.k.a Quantic, is an English musician, DJ and record producer. He is based in New York City, after spending seven years in Colombia. Holland records under various pseudonyms, including Quantic, the Quantic Soul Orchestra, The Limp Twins, Flowering Inferno, and Ondatrópica. His music features elements of cumbia, salsa, bossa nova, soul, funk and jazz. Holland plays guitars, bass, double bass, piano, organ, saxophone, accordion and percussion. Much of his sound is original composition, rather than sampling of other artists' material.
Holland also has his own label, Magnetic Fields, on which he releases heavy soul and funk. He has also produced remixes of over 30 songs.
His albums The 5th Exotic (2001) and Apricot Morning (2002) featured vocals from British artists including soul singer Alice Russell. In 2003, he assembled The Quantic Soul Orchestra, a new project aimed at producing 1960s/1970s style raw funk, playing guitar himself, and featuring musicians including his sister Lucy on saxophone.
In 2007, Holland moved to Cali, Colombia. He set up an analogue studio called Sonido del Valle and recorded and released the Quantic Soul Orchestra album Tropidélico (2007) and the self-titled debut from his tropical-dub side project, Quantic presenta Flowering Inferno (2008), which featured a variety of musicians from the area. He subsequently assembled the Combo Bárbaro ('Bárbaro' is a colloquial term in Colombia meaning 'very talented').
Holland's 2008 collaboration with Nickodemus, "Mi swing es tropical", was featured on an Apple iPod television commercial.
Susumu Hirasawa (Hiraisa Susumu, April 1, 1954 -) is a Japanese musician and music producer. His nickname is Master, Hirasawa.
In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. In 1973 he formed Mandrake, a progressive rock band that incorporated elements from heavy metal and krautrock. Being one of the few Japanese progressive rock bands of its time, Mandrake achieved little success and released no albums during its lifetime.
After discovering punk rock and working on synthesizer-heavy projects, Hirasawa felt that progressive rock became just for entertainment and decided to reform the band as the electronic rock band P-Model in 1979. Originally met with success, they turned to decidedly uncommercial post-punk and experimental rock after Hirasawa went through an averse reaction to his fame. With Hirasawa at the forefront, the band went through various lineups and achieved some popularity in the Japanese independent music scene.
In 1989, Hirasawa launched his solo career. Unbound by the restraints of a band, his albums were marked by a refusal to stick to any particular genre. He continued to evolve his sound while concurrently working with two different iterations of P-Model until the group was disbanded in 2000. He has actively been releasing new music since.
While Hirasawa is mostly remembered in Japan for the first two P-Model albums, he has achieved international recognition for his soundtrack work, particularly for the adaptations of the Kentaro Miura manga Berserk and the work of anime director Satoshi Kon.
Hirasawa's music takes from such concepts as analytical psychology, advances in digital technology, the philosophies of yin and yang, and principles of nature versus machines. As an avid fan of science fiction novels since the 1970s and an eclectic reader overall, he's been inspired by the works of Frank Herbert, Carl Jung, Hayao Kawai, Kenji Miyazawa, George Orwell, Wilhelm Reich, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Theodore Sturgeon, Nikola Tesla and Kurt Vonnegut.
A constant source of inspiration for his music has come from Thailand. On a 1994 trip to Phuket, Hirasawa went through a "Thai shock", amazed by the country’s culture, namely its transsexual cabaret performers, some of whom he would invite to be singers on his albums and guest performers in his concerts throughout his career. After many trips back to the country Hirasawa grew to be increasingly identified with the transsexual population, incorporating their problems and experiences in society into his work.
On having his music categorized based on western trends, Hirasawa has said:
"I dislike it when I hear someone describe [my music] as weird rock, or weird techno. Surely this genre is hard to define in the music scene, because it doesn’t meet the standard of Western music charts. Hence if a rock music critic attempts to judge me [and my music], all they come up with is ambient music, or music to take drugs to. [The Japanese music scene] doesn't help with introducing terms such as New Age or transpersonality. I want to let my music reach a broader part of society, being music born from Japanese culture, and I think this is why I want to connect to the world that doesn’t exist in the music scene".
For every main solo album he releases, Hirasawa also stages an accompanying "Interactive Live Show", an interactive concert that merges computer graphics with his music to tell a story. The flow of each show is determined by audience participation; for example, Interactive Live Show 2000 Philosopher's Propeller was formatted as a maze, and the audience was asked to choose which direction to go in. Provided with phone numbers to four cellular phones during one song, the audience was allowed to call the numbers to have Hirasawa play the corresponding ringtones. This created an improvised harmony between the background music and the ringing phones. Since 1998, participation has been possible through the internet.
Hirasawa's live music is built on samples he activates with various hand-crafted machines and pre-recorded tracks without vocals. For the Solar Live concerts, he used solar power and a power-generating wheel as the source of energy for his electronic equipment.
Hirasawa has worked since the start of his solo career to decrease the amount of performers around himself. Most of his solo albums from 1992 onwards feature no guest musicians, and live backing bands were relinquished in 1994. Since then, only a few select shows have had guest singers or backing instrumentalists.
UA is a singer. UA is a Swahili word that means “flower”.
Born March 11, 1972. Born in Osaka Prefecture.
In June 1995, debuted with the single "HORIZON" from the Victor Speedster label.
Since her debut, she has attracted attention with his unique looks and singing voice.
In June 1996, the single “Passion” was a big hit, and the recognition became a whole country.
October First album “11” released. Acclaimed in every direction, sales exceeded 900,000. Married at the height of popularity and gave birth to the first child.
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