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Exists more than one MASTERPIECE, please read below: i) Central Europe ii) Japan iii) Brazil iv) Hardcore band v) 80's band Masterpiece is indie band from Central Europe. Important part of their music is DIY attitude (guerilla gigs, home recording, mobile phones videos) and eclecticism. Guitars, synthesizers, grooveboxes, laptops, pads, vocoders, samplers, pop melodies hidden behind sound and arrangement barricades of diverse genres. Breakbeat rhythms, noise guitars, hardcore singing (screaming), dance sound rising somewhere from all the electronic gadgets... And the whole is somewhat rock&roll like. Official EN website: http://www.myspace.com/masterpiececzech Masterpiece is a symphonic power metal band from Japan. Two...

Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler on January 1, 1958 in Barbados) is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Saddler's family migrated to the United States, and he grew up in the Bronx. He became involved in the earliest Queensbridge, New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries. Learning from Pete Jones and Kool Herc, he used duplicate copies of a single record and two turntables but added a dextrous manual edit with a mixer to promote the break (a point of isolated drum rhythm) - the ordinary...

The Dutch Swing College Band started out as an amateur-college combo on liberation day (1945, may 5th) and through the years it has grown into a worldfamous jazz ensemble that has toured all five continents to much acclaim. The DSC played a prominent role during the post-war period. At the time many youngsters fell under the spell of the original Amerian music: jazz. The band, which has existed for more than sixty years, has given concerts all over the world and the sounds have been registered on practically all types of sound recordings since 1945. The band also appeared frequently...

Master P lived in New Orleans' infamous Calliope Projects as a child. He has two brothers, Vyshonn (rapper Silkk the Shocker) and Corey (rapper C Murder). His parents divorced, and he split his time between his father's family in New Orleans, and his mother in Richmond, California. He attended the University of Houston on a basketball scholarship, but left and returned to Richmond to live with his mother and study business at Merritt Junior College in nearby Oakland. In 1989, he inherited $10,000 from his grandfather and opened a record store called No Limit, which he later converted to a...