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Born in 1987 in Jackson, Mississippi, Brandon “FeSo” Smith has spent his life surrounded by music. During his first 2 years of life, he had his experiences with numerous musical genres through his parents and other family members. His father was a DJ during college and would constantly play records from his collection in the house. His mother was an avid gospel and soul listener. At the age of 3, FeSo moved to Aurora, Illinois where he was moved around to a few schools in the area. In 5th grade FeSo joined the school band playing the trombone to further...

Alexander Zivojinovich OC (b. August 27, 1953, Fernie, British Columbia), better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of Rush. ( "Zivojinovich" in Serbian means "Son of Life", therefore becoming "Lifeson".) The son of Serbian immigrants, Nenad & Melka Zivojinovich, Lifeson was raised in Toronto, Ontario. Lifeson plays guitar, plays the occasional bass pedals and composes for the rock group Rush. Lifeson's solo album, Victor, was released in 1996. Outside of music, he owns and operates a small consumer-products design, engineering, and manufacturing firm The Omega Concern, as a gourmet chef...

Oleg Fesov, born in 1963 in Badakhshan, Tadjikistan, describes his music as “an attempt to present the musical ideas of Badakhshan and the Pamir mountains to the rest of the world”. It is the intense and emotionally charged musical expression of Fesov’s voice, combined with oriental string and percussion instruments, which represents traditional music from his home country. In early 1990s in the middle of ethnic war, he left Tadjikistan and lived in emigration in Moscow, Russia then Almaty, Kasakhstan and later left to Germany, but always felt strongly connected to his home country and his ancestors from the Pamir...