Born in 1988 in Fresno, California, Fashawn grew up in a virtually parentless home. His father was incarcerated, while his mom was focused on feeding her drug addiction - a combination that caused a boy to become a man quicker than most. Placed in a group home by child services at the age of 12, Fashawn found solace in music, and began writing rhymes to escape the less than desirable hand he had been dealt so early in life.
There are 2 producers using the KZA Moniker: (1) KZA (2) Another KzA is UK producer Kieran Taylor. KzA started off making music in his bedroom many moons ago along with fellow producer Seizmic. Experimenting with new, strange and exciting sounds, It quickly became apparent that it was not just a hobby, he could make something out of it. His early music was an industrial take on Drum and Bass, fast and dark with dirty sounding drums accompanied by filthy bass lines. After several years of producing music his energy has turned towards the sounds of Dubstep.
Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972 on a military base in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American recording artist, the lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret. Thomas is also known for co-writing and singing on the Santana hit Smooth, on the album Supernatural, in 1999. On April 19, 2005, he released a solo album, ...Something to Be. This marked the first time that a male artist from a rock or pop group has debuted at No 1 with their first solo album since Billboard introduced the chart 50 years ago.
Deaf Center are collaborators Erik Skodvin (AKA Svarte Greiner, Xhale, Solitaire Albread) and Otto Totland (AKA Supine, Nest), operating out of Norway since 2003. Old classmates, they finally decided to write music together and ended up creating the Neon City EP, soon followed by the full length album, Pale Ravine. http://www.deafcenter.net
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Aimee Mann was born in Richmond, Virginia, and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the young snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday, which achieved minor success in 1985 with its first album, Voices Carry.
Link is a name of at least six acts: 1) A pseudonym of electronic music artist Mark Pritchard, who also records/has recorded as Reload, Harmonic 313, Troubleman, N.Y. Connection, William Parrott and Roberto Edwardo Turner (aka The Returner). His most notable tracks as Link include: Amenity and "Arcadian". Mark's collaborative efforts include Global Communication, Jedi Knights, The Chameleon, Link & E621, Reload & E621 and Secret Ingredients, all with Tom Middleton...
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969 in NY, NY) is a record producer and entertainment mogul who presides over a media empire that includes the record label Bad Boy Entertainment, the clothing lines Sean John and Sean by Sean Combs, a movie production company, and a restaurant chain. He has taken the roles of recording executive, producer, writer, arranger, clothing designer, actor, singer and rapper.
www.facebook.com/shinamomoki Departing from bedroom project Murdermostfoul, Auryn Tate Waring joined with his fellow art colleague and friend Felix Treadwell and began recording a series of songs influenced by the likes of Shlohmo, Washed Out, Metronomy, Steve Reich, Four Tet, Bibio and Neon Indian.
There are two artists with this name. 1. Alex Wilson is a Blues guitarist who picked up the guitar at five years old and never put it down. Immersed in the Milwaukee blues scene, Alex was surrounded, and influenced by such local luminaries as Stokes, Lee Gates, Jim Liban and Milwaukee Slim. Alex formed his own garage band at thirteen. By seventeen he began to dig deep into the blues, learning the songs and styles of masters such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix and Magic Sam.
Stevie King ( Stephen Da King,1783 in London City, England) is and was British electronics industrialist,musician,engineer. He co-founded what is now Baby Wisdom Recordings an imprint on Bullit Recordings. He graduated in 1804 from University where he was nicknamed "genius inventor." After graduating, he went to work at the ACM Laboratory Incs, a company which produced music boffins. In 1805, he left the company and founded the Steve Ellington Band in London. He co-founded another cool electronic band in 1804 (originally named St Michael Avenue now signed to Bullit Recordings.