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A native of upstate New York, Sarai may have been weaned on MTV in the 1980s, but by the 1990s she had turned to rap and hip-hop as her life's soundtrack. A fascination with words meant that Sarai wrote poetry from an early age, but it was only when she was a teenager that she first rhymed to a beat while gossiping with her girlfriends. After a chance meeting with producer L.J. Sutton (a.k.a. Chocolate Starr) in Atlanta, Sarai was on her way to the big leagues. Sarai's potential and sex appeal led to her getting snapped up by Epic...

Lela grew up in a family of musicians from Tusheti, the mountainous region of Georgia. With her sad eyes but a happy face, she is an excellent accordion and panduri player, and also a brilliant vocalist, who sings the popular songs of the mountains with a lot of emotion and her own Songs also. Her sister, Eter Tataraidze is Folklorist also, she is working at the Folklore Center of Georgia. She was brought up in the musical atmosphere of her family and continued her studies at the school of music and later on at the philharmonic ensemble of Tbilisi, the...

Since 1995, Japanese artist Riow Arai has been keeping himself busy cutting up obscure samples, twisting them into his own peculiar vision of electronic groove. Described as anywhere from dark ambient to instrumental hip hop, Riow Arai's mixing and editing takes his listeners on an often unpredictable journey through the world of sound. Despite having remixed songs from and collaborated with countless artists, and having toured worldwide with groups such as Four Tet, his experimental use of sampling and broken beats has always kept him on the fringe of popular music circles. .