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Moriarty

Moriarty is a Franco-american music group founded in 1995. It is made up of 5 artists of French, American, Swiss, and Vietnamese origins. The members of the group were mainly raised in France. The group named itself Moriarty in honor of Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Previously, the groupe had three other members: the singer Charlène Dupuy, the drummer Médéric de Vanssay, and the saxophonist Davide Woods. Rosemary Standley, Arthur B. Gillette, Thomas Puéchavy, Charles Carmignac, and Stephan Zimmerli are the current group members.

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Outlines

Outlines are long-time friends Jerome, Irfane and Jay1. Although the paths of life led the three members to interact - Jerome and Irfane went to school together - it is hip-hop culture that is responsible for their union. Indeed, while, in the early nineties, Jerome was breakdancing, both Irfane and Jay1 were writing graffiti. Jay1 has since then established himself as one of the finest French writers, collaborating with fashion designers (agnes b.

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Wax

Eight artists go by the name Wax:
1. An American creative/experimental Hip Hop/Rap/Acoustic artist.
2. A pop group active in between 1985 and 1988 consisting of American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold and British singer Graham Gouldman of 10cc fame.
3. An American Pop Punk band known for the 1995 song California
4. A female South Korean singer active in the 2000s (see: 왁스)
5. An alias of Dutch dance producer Robert Meijer
6. A short lived Swedish punk band active in the early 1980s
7. A Japanese rapper from the group SD JUNKSTA

Read more about Wax on Last.fm.

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Marvin

MARVIN (there are several bands called Marvin)
- this bio is for the french band :
Marvin is a power-trio from Montpellier (FR). With only drums, guitar and korg ms20 synth they play a high-energy instrumental noise music tending to psyche or even krautrock. To summarize, Marvin is in the no man's land between Shellac and Kraftwerk !
They released a split LP with the French noise band DOPPLER.
In 2007 they released their first album, totally autoproduced and very acclaimed by the critics.

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Gavroche

1) Gavroche is a street-punk band, wich started in march 2004 in Santena, a little city near Torino.The band born from the union of different bands: Gigio, Ale and Dieguito, come from a ska-punk band called Revenge, and Gio, was the singer of a combat-rock band called Rancore. In October 2005 the four kids, with the collaboration of Matte (Revenge), recorded their first work in wich speak about their life, dreams, hopes and disappointment…
http://www.myspace.com/gavrochestreetpunk

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East

Five artists by this name: 1) Olivier Kponton better known under his stage name East was a french rapper born in 1969 and died February 3 of 1996 because of a motorcycle accident. He was born in the Parisian region of France and spent his childhood and youth there. He started his music career by working with famous french rap groups Alliance Ethnik and I AM. He is the co-founder of the label "Double H" along with his friend rapper DJ Cut Killer.

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The Lovers

There are at least four bands called The Lovers: a French Duo from Sheffield (UK), a Swedish Indie-rock band ,a Slovakian rockband and a German Garage Band.
-------- The Lovers are a Sheffield-based Gainsbourg-and-Bardot-esque French pop duo. From torch songs to comedy via techno, trash pastiche and all points in between, Marion Benoist and Fred de Fred have created something
strange and rather wonderful. Massaging your ears with their cheeky bossa-nova grooves and sultry Gainsbourg-and-Bardot-esque vocals are 

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