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Kako, whose real name was Francisco Bastar, was born in Puerto Rico in 1936. He worked as a dancer on the island before Turning instead to the timbales and other percussive instruments. Kako was a versatile and respected percussionist who played and recorded with artists such as Tito Puente, Azuquita, Menique and Jerry Williams. He died in July 1994 whilst serving a sentence in a Texas prison. .

Aikakone (means time machine in Finnish) is a dance/pop project with 4 members : Sani, Vera, Alex and Maki. Sani (real name : Saija Aartela) , the main female vocalist, was born June 8th, 1971. She has brown hair and green eyes. Vera (background vocalist, lyrics writer), was born in October 1971. She attended the University of Jyväskylä. She is blonde-haired. Alex (musician, background vocalist, English lyrics writer). Alex is the male singer. His role as a singer diminished over time as he got more involved into the instrumental music aspect of the band. He was born in San Jose,...

Violinist Takako Nishizaki was the first student to complete the Suzuki Method course at age nine. Before she was ten, Takako Nishizaki had already played for artists like Isaac Stern and Georges Duhamel. When she was in the U.S. in 1962, Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship. In 1969, she won first prize in Juilliard Concerto Competition while performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Nobuko Imai. Takako Nishizaki performed and recorded with pianists such as Andras Schiff, Jenö Jandó and Michael Ponti. She also performed in chamber music ensembles alongside Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman. She is married to...

Though Six Degrees Records recently released his EP "Bliss Like Gold" as part of its "Emerging Artists" series, Harri Kakoulli has been around a long time. He was the former bass man for UK mod band Squeeze, and for the last 15 years been a largely unnoticed but significant contributor to the world fusion scene in the UK. He has worked as a producer for Nation Records, Bar de Lune, Park Lane Recordings and many other world fusion artists and labels. His new solo work reveals his musical genius. .