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Josephine "Yeng" Constantino, born on December 4, 1988, is a Filipina singer and host. Yeng won the title of "Grand Star Dreamer" in Pinoy Dream Academy, the Philippine edition of Endemol's reality TV show Star Academy. After winning the said title, Star Records launched Yeng's debut album entitled "Salamat", containing 10 songs, of which 7 were Yeng's original compositions. Her album reached "Gold" two weeks after its release and was later certified "Platinum" after a month, followed by a "3x Platinum" certification after several months of release. When Star Records saw the undeniable potential of the preppy-rocker, they instantly produced...

Since Carel Kraayenhof created Sexteto Canyengue in 1988, they became one of the trendsetting tango representatives in Europe. Thanks to the respect and help from the famous tangueros like Astor Piazolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, the love for the Argentines and their tango and the passion to make this music, Sexteto Canyengue is respected all over the world. With the six members of Sexteto Canyengue, dancers and special guests from Argentina the unique sounds of an orquesta tipica - the big band tango tradition from the 40-ties - comes alive. The passion for the tango from all the musicians in one...

Tomo Akikawabaya is a mysterious minimal synth musician from Japan, who released several singles in the 1980s before disappearing. He debuted with the single "Mars" in 1983, which was followed by the 2x12" "The Castle" in 1984, "Anju" and "1985" in 1985, and "Kojiki to Onna" in 1986. These releases were later collected in a very limited box set titled "Rivage de la convulsion" (only 30 copies). Almost all of his records (except for "Kojiki to Onna") feature the same model Rena Anju on cover. Not much is known about Tomo Akikawabaya as there are no pictures of him, he...

Tadayoshi Ikawa (井川忠義) is the composer and singer of the Banana Street-Selling Song "Moji Banana No Tatakiuri". Japanese had never seen a banana until the start of the Meiji period, towards the end of the 19th century. They first entered Japan through the port of Shimonoseki, facing Korea in the west of Honshu on the Sea of Japan. The nearest major city was Kitakyushu, right at the northern tip of Kyushu, the southern of the main Japanese islands. It was here that 'Banana no Tatakiuri' selling bananas with this colourful, rapping and stick beating began, in the town of Moji....

Constantinos Christoforou, Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Χριστοφόρου (b. 25 April 1977 in Limassol, Cyprus), has sung for Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions, in 1996, 2002 and 2005. At the age of seventeen, he became the first Cypriot artist to achieve triple platinum sales, with an album that was recorded in Cyprus and not in Athens, where the core of the Greek music industry is located. Within a very short time he became a big star in Cyprus and in Greece. In 1996 he represented Cyprus in the Eurovision song contest in Oslo, Norway with the song "Mono Yia...