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taraful haiducilor (a.k.a. Taraf de Ha

Hackney Colliery Band is a nine-piece brass band usually found playing hip-hop and 'brass funk', or venturing into the sound worlds of Ska and Balkan Beats... Collectively run, the project has several composers and arrangers, and the HCB sound is a collaboration between all the musicians involved. We play tunes by MF Doom, Blackstreet, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ozomatli, Minnie Riperton, Justin Timberlake, Toto, Notorious BIG and Twista, as well as originals by our band members.

Good music is felt not heard. Gramatik apparently understood that at an age of 3 according to his mother as she used to catch him glued to the radio in his older sister's room whenever there was an old funk or rhythm & blues joint on, tapping his leg on the floor along with the beat. Damn, talking about a sign on what will your child do when he grows up! Parents got him taking piano lessons in the elementary music school when he was in 2nd grade, but he dropped out 2 years later because he wasn't feeling that whole classical music thing as that was the only genre they were teaching.

Read more about Gramatik on Last.fm.

Eva Boto (born December 1, 1995 in Dravograd) is Slovenian singer who represents Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan, with a song composed by Vladimir Graić and Igor Pirkovič, "Verjamem" (I Believe). In 2011, Eva competed in a 3 month show selection, Misija Evrovizija (Mission Eurovision) and selected as one of the two candidates to compete in EMA 2012. She won the EMA 2012 held by RTV SLO on 26 February 2012.