Althea W | tl

Althea René. This unparalleled artist, born December 25th in Detroit, Michigan, began her musical career at age four as a classical flautist. She studied classical music while attending Howard University in Washington D.C. and later she gained further musical inspiration from the accomplishments of Yusef Lateef, Ian Anderson, and Dave Valentine. She has since developed her own creative style. Althea René has worked more than 10 years as a Wayne County Deputy Sheriff (Detroit, Michigan). Today, Ms. René is a full-time performing/recording artist and is regarded among many as one of the nation's most exciting solo improvisational flautists. She is...

There are at least two band with name "Amalthea" 1) The real start of Amalthea was in the year 2004, although the members had been playing together in various constellations years before that. The vocalist and guitarist Per Skytt, bass-player Jeremias Valsten and drummer Erik Skytt played in a post-hardcore band which ended up recruiting vocalist and guitarist Simon Mellergårdh in 2003. 2005 the first 7" was released by Amalthea as a new four-piece group and it was heavily influenced by 90s screamo and post-rock. During the following years Amalthea toured europe and released an album(Decision should be a desert,...

Althea W is the brainchild of Bram Schenk, a multi talented musician and composer. He began his music career as a drummer and became a recording artist in 1964. Touring for many years with a band called Painting House he broadened his musical horizons playing the Hammond organ. By the end of the seventies Bram set up bands including ‘Foolcirkel’ and ‘Ganja’. In 1990, he started the project studio “BeeMProductions”. This happened after a long period of living behind the dark mountains, fighting against addiction. His compositions were innovative and unique and impressed many record companies, Prudence gave Bram the...

Having signed a lucrative three album deal with one of the world’s largest distributors of Jamaican recorded products, VP’s Records International (New York), Althea Hewitt has completed her debut album. Althea started performing in her father’s band (he plays the guitar) long before her teens. She grew up to represented her high school, Camperdown High in the Teen Star Search Competitions that took place during the 90’s. This was a talent competition that turned out many Jamaican recording artists. For a number of years Althea also modeled the creations of many Jamaica’s fashion houses. Oh yes she can really sing,...