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Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Grammy award winning rapper, producer, author, designer and singer. He began making beats and rapping in the early 90s in Chicago, IL, United States when he formed the rap group Go Getters with Chicago natives GLC and Really Doe. He later gained nationwide popularity in New York when he began producing tracks for artists such as Jay-Z, Twista, Mase, Talib Kweli and Alicia Keys. West’s style of production often utilizes pitched-up vocal samples, usually from soul songs, with his own drums and instruments. The first major label song...

Thereza Bazar and David Van Day (previously members of Guys and Dolls) formed Dollar in 1978 making an instant impact on the charts with their first single Shooting Star. They enjoyed a successful chart career over the next ten years selling over ten million records worldwide. They spent over 120 weeks on the UK charts alone with classic pop songs including Who Were You With In The Moonlight, Love's Gotta Hold On Me, Hand Held In Black And White, Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour), Give Me Back My Heart, Videotheque, O L'Amour and many more. Dollar are without doubt one of...

While every pork chop in town has been riding the waves of the supposed Sheffield, England ‘meat scene’, it was the “obnoxious, insouciant drone" of Avida Dollars that coined the phrase. Stemming from the Bahamas, Yorkshire and Congleton, the group found their spiritual home in Sheffield's London Road, home to the city’s chainsaw wielding, super-strength lager drinking, junkies. Avida Dollars’ shtick is a tough one to pinpoint; their music is more like all that garage rock shit but taking the kitchen sink approach, smashing it to bits and then doing a whole motherfucking conservatory extension. Infamous live shows combine the...

Rahman Asadollahi is an Azerbaijani garmon player. In 1995 he won the first prize at the "All European Accordion and Harmonica Championship" in Switzerland - 650 players participated there. At the first annual "San Francisco World Music Festival" in 2000 Asadollahi was a featured master artist. .