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Life as Margaret has experienced it has had more than it's fair share of unusual twists and turns, she quips about life in a very positive light 'Never a dull moment!' With a childhood that began in Poland, at age 11 she escaped to Germany with her family before eventually moving to the States, initially to San Jose, California. In the late eighties the music she was surrounded by and adhered to was old school hip hop; there were house parties every weekend and lots of chillin' in the backyard. Her discovery of house music started in New York in...

Den Flygande Bokrullen started out as a duo in the University town of Uppsala in the early nineties with Matti Pohjola and Gustav Johansson. Back then DFB had many different kinds of folk music in its repertoire. Hearing "Bobrikov" (a version of the tune Khsidishe Nigun by Boibriker Kapelle) by the Swedish group Norrlåtar, and the album Metropolis by the Klezmorim were pivotal musical experiences for the aspiring young musicians. Oskar found this record in the Pohjola brothers' mother's record collection. The group became a quintet in 1994 when the founders' younger brothers, Oskar Pohjola and Carl Johansson, and a...

Petri Nygård is a finnish rap-artist who was one of the first artists to have really made it online before any "real" release. Petri Nygård was raised in USA, Finland, and Sweden. His first EP "Pillumagneetti" was released in the spring of 2000 as a free download. After over 30 000 downloads in one month his record company Open Records formed an alliance with Poko Rekords to release Petri's music officially. "Vitun suomirokki" single sold over 17 000 copies. The second single "Kanava nolla" sold over 9 000 copies and his debut album "Mun levy!" went on to sell gold...

Scott played lead guitar for Ricky Skaggs when Ricky went back to Bluegrass music. Anyone who Ricky chooses to fill that role in any of his bands is most likely the best player in town. .