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Scala

There are approximately six different acts who have used the name Scala. 1. Formed in 1995, Scala was a project formed by three members of drone rock outfit Seefeel (Sarah Peacock, Justin Fletcher, Daren Seymour) in collaboration with Mark Van Hoen, aka Locust. 2. A Youth choir from Aarschot, Belgium. Consists of about sixty girls between 14 and 24 years old, led by brothers Steven and Stijn Kolacny. Please fix your tags: Scala & Kolacny Brothers

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Huong Thanh

Born in Saigon, Viêt-Nam, Huong Thanh comes from a family of renowned traditional musicians. At the age of 10 Huong Thanh began to learn Cai Luong and traditional singing in the family context - her parents house was always full of visiting singers and musicians, who also acted as her teachers. At 13 she perfected her skills in studying intensively in Saigon music and theater schools, and at 16 she performed on stage for the first time.

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Maja Ratkje

Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, composer and performer (born Dec. 29th 1973 in Trondheim, Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2000. Her compositions have been performed by Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arve Tellefsen, Cikada and Vertavo string quartets, Quatuor Renoir, ticom, Crash Ensemble, Torben Snekkestad, Spunk, Frode Haltli and Poing among others.

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Nina Simone

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (IPA: ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn) (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a fifteen-time Grammy Award-nominated american singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician; She personally preferred the term "black classical music". Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, rnb, gospel, and pop music.

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Maisey Rika

Maori singer/songwriter Maisey Rika, has one of Aotearoa's (New Zealand's) most impressive lead vocal style, fused with her honest and thought invoking messages. Some have described her sound similar to Tracey Chapman or Sade, with a splash of India Arie. Her spine tingling vocals and fusion of English and Maori (Te Reo) lyrics is capturing the hearts of soul seekers both in New Zealand and abroad.

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The Dogbones

Formed from members of Wendykurk, Daisy Chainsaw, Queenadreena,Mediæval Bæbes and Selfish Cunt, The Dogbones' sound has been described as "johnnyfive playing -T. Rex’s guitar whilst cavemen beat up Barbarella with the dead members of The Beatles" and "early My Bloody Valentine as a Daisy Chainsaw cover band, downing shots and playing knife games with The Cramps." Founded as a collaboration between Queenadreena guitarist Crispin Gray and former frontwoman of Wendykurk...

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Zoë Gilby

Zoë is a young jazz vocalist who has performed at prominent venues including Ronnie Scott’s in London and international jazz festivals in Cork, Derry, Newcastle and Glasgow. In 2007 she recorded her debut album ‘Now That I Am Real’ and in 2008 she recorded a DVD. Zoë's music has been aired on radio stations all over the world: in the UK, the USA, Australia, France, Spain and Belgium. She has performed with Louis Stewart, Gay Macintyre, Mike Carton, Tony Faulkner and Russell Van Den Berg.

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