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Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, martial artist, and tax protester. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. In recent years, Snipes has moved behind the scenes in order to make his own films. To this end, he formed his own independent production company, Amen Ra Films, and its subsidiary Black Dot Media in 1991, to develop projects for film and television. Wesley Snipes has been training in martial arts since he was twelve. He is a fourth-degree Black Belt...

John Snipes was an African American banjo player and farmer, born in Orange County, North Carolina (DOB unknown). Although his playing had to be worked in around his farming, John was a marathon dance musician, especially on favourite occasions like 4th of July. He would often play a single tune at a breakneck speed for as long as an hour for sets and buck dancers. By the 1970s he had quit playing, but he was such a skilled musician he had no trouble picking it up again when the opportunity arose to record for Smithsonian Folkways. .

The Snipes are a Boston based punk rock band that formed in early 2009. They are an energetic five piece who blend Melodic Punk, Street Rock, Ska, and Hardcore. The Snipes have recorded one E.P. entitled “Days Gone By” which is available through iTunes. A follow up full length album is tentatively slated for release late 2011. Having already shared the stage with popular local and touring acts such as Street Dogs, Hub City Stompers, Lenny Lashley(Darkbuster), Continental(ex-Dropkick Murphy’s) and Beantown Boozehounds, just to name a few, The Snipes are well on their way to becoming another one of Boston's...