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Recently, newcomer Taio Cruz has joined the ranks of talented R'n'B performers. Despite his young years, this man entered the history of modern music. Childhood Taio Cruz Taio Cruz was born on April 23, 1985 in London. His father is from Nigeria and his mother is a full-blooded Brazilian. From early childhood, the guy demonstrated his own musicality. Was […]

In 1990, New York (USA) gave the world a rap group that was different from existing bands. With their creativity, they destroyed the stereotype that a white guy can't rap so well. It turned out that everything is possible and even a whole group. Creating their trio of rappers, they absolutely did not think about fame. They just wanted to rap, […]

In the 1960s of the last century, a new direction of rock music, inspired by the hippie movement, began and developed - this is progressive rock. On this wave, a lot of diverse musical groups arose, which tried to combine oriental tunes, classics in arrangement and jazz melodies. One of the classic representatives of this direction can be considered the group East of Eden. […]

French-speaking rapper Abd al Malik brought new aesthetic transcendental musical genres to the hip-hop world with the release of his second solo album Gibraltar in 2006. A member of the Strasbourg band NAP, the poet and songwriter has won numerous awards and his success is not likely to wane for some time. The childhood and youth of Abd al Malik […]

David Dzhangiryan, aka Jeembo (Jimbo), is a famous Russian rapper who was born on November 13, 1992 in Ufa. How the artist's childhood and youth passed is unknown. He rarely gives interviews, and even more so does not talk about his personal life. Currently, Jimbo is a member of the Booking Machine label, the […]

In the music of bands from Sweden, listeners traditionally look for motives and echoes of the work of the famous ABBA band. But The Cardigans have been diligently dispelling these stereotypes since their appearance on the pop scene. They were so original and extraordinary, so bold in their experiments that the viewer accepted them and fell in love. Meeting of like-minded people and further unification [...]