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Jose Luis Feliciano Vega, better known as Cheo Feliciano (born July 3, 1935 in Ponce, Puerto Rico), is a composer and singer of salsa and bolero music. Feliciano was raised and educated in the city of Ponce, which is located in the southern part of Puerto Rico. As a child, he was nicknamed "Cheo" by his family - a name which means Jose and is a term normally only used by close friends and family. However, the name stuck and became part of his everyday name (using the nickname avoids confusion with Jose Feliciano, another major Puerto Rican singer to...

Kalle Kalima, born 1973, Finland, is a Guitarist and composer. His own groups, the Kalima Trio (Lasse Lindgren on bass, Mika Kallio on drums, Kalima on guitar) and Nuijamiehet (as before, but with the addition of saxophonist Mikko Innanen) both came up with a fascinating album in 2000. While these discs are 100% noteworthy in their own right, aficionados of New European Guitar will be delighted to learn that the featured guest on the Kalima Trio album is French string guerrilla Marc Ducret. .

23 year old Matias Saabye Køedt, better known by his alias Galimatias, is an electronic music producer/artist from Denmark. Although difficult to rope his music into a single genre, it has be described as vibey, chilled-out atmospheric electronic, and incorporates a wide range of influences including R&B and Hip hop to name a few. After several years producing music for various Danish rap artists during his adolescence, Galimatias released his first solo EP in 2012 entitled "Luna Soul." Since then, he has increasingly become more focused on exploring his creative potential and in doing so, started collaborating with various other...

Coming from a background rich in music and culture, it is no wonder that Frankie Feliciano has become one of the house music community’s most respected denizens. Frankie was raised in home filled with music, his grandfather was a musician in Puerto Rico and his father regularly plays and sings in bands in New York. As an adolescent in the early 80’s, Frankie was exposed to and enthralled by the vibrant hip-hop culture that was exploding all over New York City, and he soon convinced his parents to buy him some DJ gear. Here then, was the genesis of Frankie’s...