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Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States), also known by his mononym Pharrell, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo the Neptunes, producing soul, hip hop and R&B music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of rock, funk, and hip hop band N*E*R*D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his first single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his debut solo album "In My Mind" in 2006. His second album, "G I R...
In his thirty year career as a multi-instrumentalist, a composer and a producer, Júlio Pereira has always guided his artistic endeavors by a sense of the universality of cultural manifestations.
This in no way contradicts the importance of his work in the context of Portuguese folk music, or the importance of an adequately ethnic appreciation of both its sounds and its roots. In fact, his work has always strived to incorporate Portuguese tradition into the aesthetic currents that have characterized a varied succession of “contemporaneities”.
Thus his oeuvre, comprising 15 LPs, starts by reflecting the importance of musical innovation during...
Geraldo Pereira (April 23, 1918 – May 5, 1955) was a Brazilian composer and singer who lived in Rio de Janeiro. He introduced syncopation in samba, which would influence the bossa nova style years later. .
Designer, sound carrier, cultural operator. Ph.D from the Department of Design of the Royal College of Art (2003) and Master in Visual Communication (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992). Curator, futureplaces media lab for citizenship, since 2008.
Heitor has released on various music labels (Touch , Ash International, Cronica Electronica, The Tapeworm) since 2001. Sound and AV collaborations include work with Jon Wozencroft, Fennesz, Biosphere, Lol Coxhill, Philip Marshall, Pangeia, Blaine L. Reininger, Bruce Geduldig, Len Massey, Max Eastley, Rafael Toral and BJNilsen.
Other roles include: singer/soundscapist at the Stopestra music ensemble, the random music label 333, Autodigest,...
