Shira | en

There are 2 Shira: Shira Gold from Brooklyn.. Shira first picked up a guitar at the age of four. She then proceeded to try to play it like a violin with a chopstick. After becoming frustrated she then stuffed it full of dirt and went to get a snack. It wasn't for another 14 years that she picked up the instrument again. Needless to say, she had matured enough in the interim to abandon the chopstick method and get down to the business of writing songs. "I grew up in a musician family in what was left of the Catskills"...

About Mr Shiraz -New Video now up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr Shiraz Bio "FUN LOVING, BOOZE GUZZLING, HOTEL TRASHING......THE MR SHIRAZ JUGGERNAUT BRINGS THE FINEST IN ROCK, FUNK, METAL AND PUNK!" - METAL HAMMER MR SHIRAZ have come to change the face of music. This newly revamped 5 piece have been trekking across the globe sharing their unique blend of influences and styles to the eagerly awaiting masses. Hailing from Huddersfield, UK, MR SHIRAZ formed in 2000 and have been playing relentlessly to a wide variety of audiences ever since. In 2001 MR SHIRAZ were heralded the the MEAN FIDDLER/FUTURESOUND champions securing a...

Megashira are DJ Kabuki and his partner Mainframe. Kabuki is a veteran DJ of Germany’s drum&bass scene and a high-profile producer who constantly releases on the most exclusive international labels. He was brought up as a classical guitarist, studying composition and abandoning everything for the thrill of electronic music, on a mission to cut the perfect beat and construct the ideal bassline. Except for music ranging from Steve Reich to John Barry, his heart belongs to the Asian cinema and martial arts. He lived in Tokyo for a couple of years, working as a sound designer and composer for sony...

Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music Ensemble Alcatraz and Ensemble Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, The Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, The King's Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico,...

Hideo Shiraki (白木秀雄; born 1 January 1933 in Tokyo; died 31 August 1972) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s. Famed earlier on for hard bop, he later explored world jazz. Shiraki emerged in the new Japanese jazz scene of the 1950s that grew out of the influence of the US occupying forces.[1] He studied percussion at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and, during this period, played with Masashi Nagao's Blue Coats. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, his quintet was popular in Japan and was associated with...