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Calle 13 is a Latin Grammy Award winner (with a record of 21 wins, making them the artists with most wins in history) and three time Grammy Award-winning hip hop and alternative duo from San Juan, Puerto Rico, formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar (born on February 23, 1978), who calls himself Residente (lead singer, writer) and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez (born on September 10, 1978) who calls himself Visitante (multi-instrumentalist, particularly keyboards, vocals, beat producer) in 2005. Their sister Ileana Cabra Joglar (aka PG-13, also known as ILE) has contributed the female vocals to some of their songs, and...

A Tribe Called Red are a Canadian electronic music group, who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chanting and drumming. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, the group consists of three DJs, Ian "DJ NDN" Campeau, Dan "DJ Shub" General and Bear Witness, and describes its music as "powwow-step", a style of contemporary powwow music for urban First Nations in the dance club scene. After releasing a number of tracks online and DJing at various dance and aboriginal events, the band released their self-titled debut album as a free internet...

A Tribe Called Quest is a hip-hop group formed in Queens, New York City in 1985. The group was composed of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, Jarobi White, was an intermittent collaborator appearing on their first album, but he left the group soon after, although he is mentioned as a 'sometimes' member on their third album liner notes. Along with De La Soul and Jungle Brothers, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective. Q-Tip...

Delloreese Patricia Early was born on July 6, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan USA. An actress, singer, talk show host, and author, the multi-talented Reese first started singing in church in her hometown of Detroit when she was six years old. By the age of 13, she was touring with gospel great Mahalia Jackson; then, at 18, she formed the Meditation Singers and became the first performer to bring gospel music to the casinos of Las Vegas. Reese expanded her musical repertoire as a vocalist with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra and began recording albums, with such hits as "Don't You Know"...

So just how crucial is it that a band lives up to and embodies its catchy moniker? It’s a good bet that thousands of fans who have been rocking to the explosive, hard hitting Rochester, New York based Candella haven’t boned up on the scientific origin of the name. Take away that extra “L” and you’ve got the base unit of luminous intensity—that is, power emitted by a light source in a particular direction. The term is the perfect metaphor for the high energy foursome’s upward ascent in the indie music world and the infectious glow they’ve cast on audiences...