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Diaz is a rap artist from Jessheim, Norway who has been rapping since the late 80s. He has always been a part of the inner circle of Tommy Tee's Tee Productions click, and was featured on various releases by among others Warlocks, N-Light-N and T.p Allstars before releasing his solo debut "2050" (after Jessheim's postal code) in 2000. The album was produced entirely by Tommy Tee and featured the Tee Productions fam as well as several Swedish and American rappers such as Petter (with whom he had the hit "Crossing borders" in 1999)...

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T99 is a techno/acid house music duo founded in Belgium by the end of the 1980s.
Patrick De Meyer started the act and produced some solo material before teaming up with Olivier Abbeloos. This resulted in the track Anasthasia which got fantastic response both in the club scene and the hit-charts.
The only full length album released by the duo is Children of chaos on which the vocals where done by Zenon Zevenbergen. T-99 is also a alternative roots rock band from Amsterdam.

Former The Runaway's guitarist Joan Jett began forming the Blackhearts, a backing band for her burgeoning solo career, with manager Kenny Laguna's assistance circa 1979. Since then the roster has included the current lineup of Thommy Price on drums, guitarist Dougie Needles and bassist Enzo Penizzotto and numerous predecessors like Gary Ryan, Eric Ambel, Danny Furious, Lee Crystal and Kasim Sulton.

[1] Belgian pioneers of ebm and minimalist electro-industrial. Also known as The Klinik. See also Dive, Sonar, Monolith. In 1985, Verhaeghen joined forces with two other bands, Absolute Body Control (with Dirk Ivens and Eric van Wonterghem), and "The Maniacs" (Sandy Nys) to form one "super group" Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs. This rather unwieldy name was soon dropped in favour of the shorter name "The Klinik". Nys soon left the band to form Hybryds, followed in 1987 by van Wonterghem, leaving The Klinik as the "classic" duo of Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen.