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What an enormous risk for a small German record label to release a Swedish pop album with ethnical elements from both Sweden and South Africa! Not many people would have had the guts, but when Michy Reincke heard Fjarill’s music for the first time, he just knew he had to release the music of Aino Löwenmark and Hanmari Spiegel. While Aino hails from Sweden and Hanmari from South Africa, both now live in Hamburg. And everybody involved in the project have had more than their just rewards. From its onset, Fjarill’s first album "Stark", released in December 2006, reached more...

Manjari, Kerala State Award winner (2004) for the song, ‘Mukilin Makalee’, in movie director Jayaraj’s offbeat film ‘Makalkku’, has already secured a unique place in the hearts of many music lovers. It is hard to believe that Manjari is a final-year student of music. Manjari loves to sing both Hindustani and Carnatic because she feels that there is divinity in both streams of music. Her jump into the big league has provided her an opportunity to give voice to compositions of Ramesh Narayan, Ilayaraaja, M.G. Radhakrishnan, Kaithapuram Viswanathan, Vidyasagar, M. Jayachandran, Yuvan Sankar Raja and the late Ravindran. The movies...

Homayoun Shajarian (Persian: همايون شجريان) (born May 21, 1975) is a Persian traditional music vocalist, as well as a Tombak and Kamancheh player. He was born in Tehran in a music-dedicated family. He is the son of Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who is in turn the grand master vocalist of Traditional Persian music. Upon his father's advice, he began studying knowledge of technique and rhythm under supervision of Nasser Farhangfar, master of Persian musical instrument: Tombak, at the age of five. Afterwards, he also continued learning Tombak under Jamshid Mohebbi's supervision. He commenced learning Persian traditional vocal Avaz at the age...