The couple promise of British music, the musician and singer 22enne Newton Faulkner, has released his new album, Hand Built By Robots. This is a disc where you can see different musical elements, ranging from pop to jazz, from rock to funk, from acoustic music to that alternative, which contains the song Dream catch me, which, as an individual, entered into top ten English. This is the tracklist complete the album: Read the rest of this entry »

And ‘one of the most interesting interpreters of Portuguese music and was born in Amadora in January 1969. Teresa Salgueiro since very young began to sing fado and bossa nova in the streets and in local Lisbon. A sixteen years changed the neighborhood, and began to frequent the Old Town of Lisbon, performing in the neighbourhoods of Bairro Alto and ‘Alfama with a small band called Amenti. Read the rest of this entry »

Gal Costa, whose full name is Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, is one of the most important musical representatives of cultural movement born in Brazil in the’60s called Tropicalismo. Born in 1945 in Salvador, since he had little familiarity with the music because his father had a music store. All’impegno music, she added in the’60s and’70s also political commitment, often played together with her friend Maria Bethânia, to fight the military junta that ruled during those years dittatorialmente Brazil. Read the rest of this entry »

They are called Rafaga and they are a band cumbia argentina quite famous throughout Latin America. The group was formed in 1994 and has spent its first years of life among the local dedicated to cumbia argentina. They soon gained a reputation throughout Argentina, and in the 1997-98 biennium, taking part in Midem Latino de Musica in Miami, began to be known also at international level. Read the rest of this entry »

His nickname means bitter, because in his songs told in the words and notes with moments of sadness and bitterness that may reserve life; his songs but not limited to the sad side of life, but express all the feelings more common and more intense than those that can characterize a human life. Read the rest of this entry »

And ‘the most important interpreter of morna, that genre that combines the sounds of West Africa to Portuguese fado and Brazilian music. Cesaria Evora was born in Mindelo, on the island of San Vicente, Cape Verde in 1941. Before explode in the international music scene, had to make many efforts and many sacrifices. Finally in 1988 he published his first album, The diva aux pieds nus, whose song lulucha Bia, a mixture of coladera and zouk, became very popular in the community of Cape Verde. Read the rest of this entry »

‘considered one of the most important griot from Mali, voice that expresses the music traditions of its people and great suonatrice of kora, an instrument typical of that region of Africa. Kandia Kouyate has a particular item considered by many a gift special nature has done. This is from Kita, in Mali West, and began to sing when he was attending successfully studies French and mathematics. Read the rest of this entry »

Chahram Nazeri is one of the greatest interpreters of classical Persian music. He was born in Kermanshah, in 1950, from a family of musicians, who have been introduced to the art of singing. Only 8 years was invited to the meetings Sufi to interpret the Masnavi, the poem of Rumi. In 10 years Chahram began to deal with the Persian classical repertoire, called radif. Read the rest of this entry »

The music gagaku (word composed of two words: “ga” which means “elegant” and “gaku” which means “music”), orchestral music is the court which arrived in Japan in 453, when 80 musicians were sent from the Korean kingdom of Silla (Shiragi in Japanese) to participate in the celebration of an imperial funeral. Read the rest of this entry »

Pitbull, crunk with Cuban originsPitbull, whose real name is Armando Perez Christian, is one of the most important exponents of crunk, a type of rap aviluppatosi much in two U.S. cities of Atlanta and Miami. At the last Pitbull was born in 1984 by Cuban immigrants, grew up there and absorbing the culture of that cosmopolitan city. He combines knowledge of various cultures and musical styles, experience living in Miami, with strong roots in the culture of the earth from which he comes, Cuba. Read the rest of this entry »