MUSIC

TWO GUITARS, TIMBALS AND CONGAS – The long trip of Carlos Santana, between mescalina and Woodstock

He loves two different guitars: the big triangle Dunlop (which he used for many years) and the V-Pick Freakishly Large Round. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latino Grammy Awards. The sound of his group is characterized by melodic lines based on Latin and African rhythms (with timbales and congas, not generally heard in rock music). This Mexican …

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CRAZY – Anggun Cipta Sasmi, the first Asian singer to succeed on a worldwide scale

Currently, she lives between Paris and Montréal (Canada). Daughter of a famous Indonesian singer, began to sing at young age. At age 17 he was already an Indonesian star, but two years later she decided to seek success abroad. ANGGUN CIPTA SASMI, a French-born Indonesian singer-songwriter, was born in Jakarta in 1974. After London, she went to Paris, where she …

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I DO NOT WANT TO BECOME OLD – Ely Buendia

Ely Buendia is a Filipino musician, writer and director who gained fame as guitarist, songwriter and lead vocalist of the popular Filipino rock band Eraserheads. Within his band (often referred to as the Beatles of the Philippines). He learned Kundiman (traditional Filipino love songs) from his mother and started playing the guitar at the age of 7. During elementary school …

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NO MAN WILL EVER LOVE YOU – Raghupathi Dixit

He was born in 1974 in Mysore (the third most populated city in the state of Karnataka, India). http://www.raghudixit.com/ He also produced music for contemporary theater productions. After his UK concerts, collaborating with artists, in 2013 he released the second album (Jag Changa), composed of eight songs (in Hindi, Canadian and Tamil). In an interview, he said: “Every 200 kilometers …

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PRELUDE – Ali Azimi, continuity of an ancient Persian music tradition

The history of Persian music has developed since the prehistoric era. Mythological King Jamshid was credited as the inventor of music. Fragmented documents of different periods of Iran state, that ancient Iranians already had an elaborate musical culture. The result of these ancient traditions, a boy was born in Teheran to a family, who had a passion for music. Ali …

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IT DOESN’T KILL ME – Emre Aydın

His albums have been successful in Turkey, even with prestigious awards. He is a Turkish rock singer born in 1981 in Isparta, https://www.bookinturkey.com/holiday-guide/cities/isparta-32.html the town in the lakes district, where meet the aegean, mediterranean and anatolian regions. He started to play at an early age, then opting for the guitar. For his parents’ desire, he studied economics in Ä°zmir, renouncing …

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THE INTACT INTIMACY OF THE MUSIC – Marie Key

Her band has released two albums. She has become famous thanks to a radio competition for artists. Her real name is Marie Key Kristiansen, born in Copenhagen in 1979, is artistically known as Marie Key. Since 2002, she has worked with many musicians (first with her band called Marie Key Band). Their genre was considered “urban pop.” Https://www.facebook.com/MarieKeyOfficial/ In 2011 …

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WHEN MUSIC BECOMES ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE – Sharon Den Adel

Among her favorite artists, there are the Nirvana, Björk and the Enigma. This little girl was born in 1974 at Waddinxveen https://rail.cc/en/waddinxveen/c (a municipality in South Holland). As a child, she had never taken singing lessons, but had basic lessons on breathing technique. Sharon Den Adel is now a songwriter, co-founder of a music group. Before becoming a singer, she …

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THE SHORT MUSICAL HISTORY OF THE DANCING ELF

The name of the musician born in London on September 30, 1947 was Mark Feld, but this singer, guitarist and composer (frontman of the band Tyrannosaurus Rex), who died in a road accident before his thirtieth birthday is known as Marc Bolan. The son of a truck driver, who grew up in East London had a big passion for rock …

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SKY IN THE ROOM – Gino Paoli, a long love’s history

He was born in Monfalcone, little town near Trieste in 1934, but everyone believes that Gino Paoli was born in Genoa (and in a sense it is like that) because he has written beautiful music pages about this town. http://www.ginopaoli.it/Home/ In Genoa, he worked as a porter and painter, but he had also started singing in town. His first success …

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