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 »

Taj Hamal was born in Harlem in 1942 and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. The passion for music was sent right away from his parents. Indeed, the father was a jazz pianist and composer, while her mother was a teacher singing gospel. He soon learned to play the piano, clarinet, trombone, harmonica mouth and the guitar, and appassionò particularly the Afro-American music. Read the rest of this entry »

Samul Nori is a name that originally defined a musical group founded in 1960 by Kim Duk-Soo and consists of 4 musicians, hence the name, which means precisely “game 4 things.” The group reported a success that in a short time created similar groups with the same name, so that the term samul nori rose to indicate a genre that neo-traditional launched by the first group.
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Peng Li Yuan is one of the most important interpreters of Chinese folk music, especially the province of Shandong, located in the eastern part of China. To highlight its link with different cultural traditions in China, often in its performances Peng Li Yuan was in uniform or with military or clothes traditional community of Tibet.
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They are bearers of a musical tradition that seems to go back to more than 2,500 years ago, that of Georgian polyphony. They are called Tuning Tbilisi and a choir singing polyphonic everything to femmiile composed of 12 women. Born in 2002, the choir has a repertoire made up of songs from Georgian folk tradition and the tradition of sacred music Christian Orthodox.
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It’s called Haka dance and is typical of Maori, the Aboriginal people of New Zealand. The Haka is not, as often thought, only a dance of war, made the first of the clash with the enemy. If done before a race or a fight, it serves to express the courage, wickedness and the virility of chei must fight. But if made to celebrate other moments of human life, then it can also express feelings of joy, sorrow, anger.
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