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Diskofil is a band formed in Randers, Denmark in 1994. They are known primarily for recording cover versions of Danish schlager hits, but have also recorded Danish-language covers of English-language songs. The original lineup consisted of Rikke Buch Bendtsen (Disko Lydia), Flemming Nielsen (Onkel Finn), Annette Lolck (Tiina Labina), Morten Madsen (Porno Bent), and Jan Winther (Tango Tage). Rikke Buch Bendtsen left in 1997 and was replaced by a new lead singer known as Boogie Jutta until Rikke Buch Bendtsen returned to the band in 2001. The group has been on an indefinite hiatus since 2005, has reformed occasionally over...

The playing career of saxophonist Tony Kofi began when he chanced upon a series of jazz workshops, run in Leicester by Nick Hislam. Born in Nottingham to West African parents, Tony was bitten by the jazz bug and made a point of making the journey to go along to each session. This laid the seeds for what was to come, and a stint at the legendary Berklee College of Music in Boston Mass. USA, on a full scholarship. While in the US, Tony studied with such musical luminaries as Andy Magee, Ernie Watts and Billy Pierce, gaining invaluable experience that...

Kofia was a swedish-Arabic musical group based in Göteborg that existed during the late 70s and early 80s. They played left-wing music supporting Palestinians . The group had about ten members who remains unknown. Discography * Palestina, mitt land (1976) * Mitt hemlands jord (1978) * En hälsning till mitt folk (1984) * Palestine Lives (1988) .

Sergei Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, 1891 -1953) was a major Russian composer of the 20th century. Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka (now Krasne, Krasnoarmiisk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine), a remote rural estate in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. Prokofiev took piano, theory, and composition lessons from Reinhold Glière, then enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory when he was thirteen. He took theory with Anatoly Lyadov, orchestration with Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and became lifelong friends with Nicolai Myaskovsky. After graduating, he began performing in St. Petersburg and in Moscow, then in Western Europe, all the while writing more...

A former member of British lovers rock trio Brown Sugar (along with former Soul II Soul member Caron Wheeler), Kofi emerges on her own here with a confident, crisp lovers album. This is how lovers rock should be done: the music (courtesy of Mad Professor) is buttery smooth, Kofi's vocals are similarly mellow -- yet with a sultry power that demands your attention -- and the melodies are supple enough to fit into any R&B radio station's nightly "Quiet Storm" programming. Unlike some lovers rock, the material here never treads into the pop realm to a disgusting degree (although there...