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Chris Letcher

Chris Letcher is a singer-songwriter and film composer based in London. Frieze, his international debut release offers a combination of artistic depth, solid and accessible hooks and quirky originality. The album was the 6th most downloaded album on the US Emusic.com in November 2007. Frieze is currently number one in Commercial Alternative and Progressive Rock Chart US e-music chart and has been receiving rave reviews around the world. The first single from the album, ‘Deep Frieze’, was playlisted on over 100 radio stations and spent three weeks in the national US college radio top 30.

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Boo

There are various artists, called 'Boo' or BOO! :

An Alt Rock band from South Africa, a rap trio from Detroit and a Czech-Austrian alternative rock band Boo (without exclamation mark). Boo is also a ‘monky punk’ band from South-Africa. The album ‘Shooting Star’ is from the South-African band. Boo is also the alias of a promising young MC/producer from Moscow (Russia), who has so far made his name through guest appearance on a smash radio hit “Expensive Love” (“Dorogaya Lubov’”) also featuring Loc (fellow rapper of T.

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Damo Suzuki Network

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soulful drum and bass

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Delaney

There are 3 bands using the name Delaney. A duo from Sheffield, and a group from Portland, Oregon. 1. Delaney - Sheffield duo Singer / guitarist Matthew Barlow and keyboardist Chris Bailey make melodic electropop tunes. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=27150825 2. Christelle Delaney, talentuous French pop-folk artist signed on Lithium and Pehr records.
http://www.pehrlabel.com/delaney/index.htm 3. Delaney - Portland, Oregon band

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Johnny Clegg

Jonathan (Johnny) Clegg, born June 7, 1953 in Rochdale near Manchester, (UK), is a popular musician from South Africa, who has recorded and performed with his bands Juluka and Savuka. Sometimes called "The White Zulu", he is an important figure in South African popular music history, with songs that mix Zulu and English lyrics, and African / European / Celtic music styles.

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Goldfish

There are two bands with the name Goldfish. 1. Goldfish is a live electronic act from Cape Town, South Africa. The two members Dominic Peters and David Poole are jazz musicians who met while studying music at university. They recorded their first album ''Caught in the loop'' themselves with little more than a double bass, a saxophone and a couple of synths. This self-released album led to a cult following and numerous hits in their home country, where they have been voted best live act, and are known as the 'Fishies' to their fans.

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SLuG

Slug is the name used by multiple musical acts: (1) American hip hop artist Sean Daley, of Atmosphere; (2) South African trance artist Liam Gibbs; (3) a Los Angeles avant/noise rock band; (4) a Chicago-based trance/breakbeat producer; (5) a house DJ from the Shetland Isles, (6) a singer-songwriter from the UK and (7) a south american thrash-metal band.

1. Sean Daley, Slug, Atmosphere:
Minneapolis, Minnesota isn`t exactly the ideal spot to try and maintain a career in hip hop, but somehow, Slug has managed to do just that.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, which was formed 1960 in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, have come to represent the traditional culture of South Africa. They are regarded as South Africa's cultural emissaries at home and around the world. They are a national treasure of the new South Africa in part because they embody the traditions suppressed in the old South Africa.
It has been almost twenty years since Paul Simon made his initial trip to South Africa and met Joseph Shabalala, and the other members of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, in a recording studio in Johannesburg.

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Zola

There are at least 2 artists/bands called Zola:
1. a south african musician; 2. a spanish indie pop sextet from Barcelona. 3 a British math pop group
1.Bonginkosi Dlamini, aka Zola, is a South African poet, actor, and kwaito musician. He also presents Zola 7, a television show named for him, on SABC 1.
Born in the Soweto ghettos of Johannesburg, South Africa, Dlamini spent his formative years in one of the roughest and notorious ghettos around, Zola, hence his name. Unemployment, alcoholism, and single parent families are the norm in Zola.

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Robin Auld

Like his hometown of Cape Town, Robin Auld’s music exists somewhere between the 1st and the 3rd world. The only constant is that the song comes first. Born to Scottish parents in Zambia, his life has alternated between Southern Africa and Britain, a state of constant movement reflected in his musical search. In his own words: “ My personal journey as a songwriter is make an equation that uses everything I've heard and loved. A musical world that links Bizet to Burt Bacharach to Philip Tabane to Lionel Bart to Steve Reich to The Soul Brothers to the Beatles to Joni Mitchell.

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