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La-33

La 33 is a Salsa Group from Bogota, Colombia. The Name refers on a name of a street in Bogota, where the band is located. The Group members are: Sergio Mejía, Santiago Mejía, Guillermo Celis, David Cantillo, Diego Sánchez, Cipriano Rojas, Juan David Fernández, Roland Nieto, Felipe Cárdenas, Vladimir Romero, Jóse Miguel Vega The website of the band www.la-33.com

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Dione

Dione a.k.a. Erik Ypma started DJ'ing at the end of the 80's at a youth centre. He organized parties at Bubbles in Lelystad and started a radio program at a local station. His first productions were released at Rams Horn Records/5th Gear and appeared on over 50 cd's. His (award-winning) radioshow, "Hakkuh" at New Dance Radio, became Holland's most populair hardcore programme. He started producing and DJ'ing for ID&T (Mysteryland, Thunderdome, Earthquake etc.) Dione played in Finland, Letland, Estland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary and Holland.

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Parabellum

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Parabellum from Colombia. Being formed in 1981 Parabellum is referred to as the first extreme band from Colombia, and one of the first in South America. Unbelievably evil stuff somewhere between Hellhammer, Sarcofago, Poison (GER) and Bathory, but even more dirty and vicious with some spine-chilling parts. Had a couple of EPs in the 80-s, and in 2005 a compilation, called Tempus Mortis was released.

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Awaken

Awaken is a band from Greenwich, CT formed in 2009 by vocalist Glenn DaGrossa. He was formerly the songwriter and founding member of the band Lazarus, which Kerrang! magazine hailed as "one of the quintessential metal bands of our time." Thanks to DaGrossa's soaring vocals and stellar song craftsmanship, Lazarus was also voted one of 2007's best unsigned bands by the staff at Germany's Heavy magazine and metalexpressradio.com said their 2007 debut, Episode One, "could have easily been sandwiched between Queensrÿche's The Warning and Saxon's Innocence Is No Excuse.

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Kraken

1) Kraken is a heavy metal band in Colombia, founded in Medellín in 1984 by Elkin Ramírez, his vocalist. 2) Kraken is a Belgian experimental/industrial/ambient duo (Joris Vermost and Ricardo Gomez Y De Buck) who exist since 1988 and release music on the Spectre label. 3) Kraken was a dark/tech step drum and bass artist from the UK; an alias for Shaun Morris (Stakka) and Nathan Vinall (Skynet). 3) Kraken was a NWOBHM band. They released a demo and a single.

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Fonseca

Juan Fernando Fonseca is a colombian singer. His most famous song is "Te mando flores". He started making music at the age of 5 and by the age of 12 he had already sold 500 copies of his first song. In the year 2002 he released his album named "Fonseca" and the most important songs from that CD were: "Noches de carnaval", "Sueño", "Confiésame" and "Magangué". This lead him to perform with Shakira, Juanes and Carlos Vives, all colombian singers like him.

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Ilona

Ilona is FOUR different singers/bands: -- 1: Ilona Mitrecey (more commonly known as Ilona) (born September 1, 1993) is a young French singer. She became famous in France after the release of her hit single, "Un monde parfait" ("A Perfect World"), a high-energy techno song which had already been released in Italy in March 2004 under the name Très Bien featuring Ilona, on February 28, 2005, based on a traditional Neapolitan song.

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Bomba Estéreo

Bomba Estéreo is a (cumbia + electronic music) band formed in Bogotá - Colombia in 2005 and lead by Simón Mejía. In 2007 they released their debut album Vol. 1. Currently the band has finished promoting its second album Estalla throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States, and is preparing the recording of a third album. The original lineup consists of:
Simon Mejía, Songwriting, Bass, Loops and Backing Vocals.
Li Saumet, Lyrics, Lead Vocals.

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