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There are, at least, five artists with this name: 1) Amira Rasheed is a US singer who works frequently with house act Blaze (New Jersey). Best known for garage house singles Walk & My Desire. The latter gaining further success after being sampled for 2-step, by Dreem Teem. 2) A Bosnian singer Amira Medunjanin performs & records as Amira, her début album was Rosa. 3) A Norwegian rock band, formed in 2004, as part of the alternative rock scene in Trondheim. The band released their critically acclaimed debut, "amira EP", in 2007, and are currently in studio recording their upcoming...

Samira is a solo artist, daughter of Bosnian parents and born and raised in Germany Berlin. She started her musical career in 1992 singing the hit-single Getaway for the project Maxx. Samira couldn't appear on the the video-clip and so Alice Montana was engaged to give Samira's voice a face. Then she started a solo carreer. Her first singles were the excellent When I Look Into Your Eyes and Love Train. Released under Shift Music label, these 2 singles were very succesful in Europe and all over the world. When I Look Into Your Eyes was written by Douglas John...

Amirali Shahrestani’s journey has taken him from living in Iran to Toronto to London where he now resides, via an architecture degree. Growing up in the city of Tehran, and starting piano lessons from the age of 5, Amirali’s main musical influence was his father’s record collection, which opened his eyes to classical, jazz, blues and rock'n'roll. At the age of 16 Amirali’s family immigrated to Toronto in the hope of a better future. Amirali’s musical prowess wasn’t picked up on until he transferred his architecture university studies to London in 2010. The debut single of his career, 'My Way',...

Talk about starting with a bang. Adaline achieves near Judy Garland levels of melodrama on “That’s What You Do Best”, the stately electro-torch song that opens her new album, Modern Romantics. But she doesn’t get there without boxing your ears with wiggy sax (from Shuffle Demon Richard Underhill) and unhinged guitar solos (by Hawksley Workman) on the way, the latter sounding like it was recorded in a reinforced missile silo. There’s a lot of tastefully rendered sonic action on the way to that quivering, love-burnt climax. It’s what Adaline does best; elegant structures that happen to be wildly hooky. “It’s...