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Quantic has sold in excess of 100,000 records in his various guises, including solo projects and with his acclaimed live funk band, The Quantic Soul Orchestra. His track 'Mi Swing Es Tropical' with Nickodemus featured in Apple's worldwide iPod advert throughout 2007, bringing him further into the spotlight. In 2007 Holland moved to Cali, Colombia's third largest city, to pursue his passion for unearthing lost treasures from Colombia's musical past and making new music with the golden array of talent available today. Read more on Last.fm

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Caprice is a neo-classical ensemble from Russia distinguished by Inna Brejestovskaya’s heavenly voice and acoustic sound (harp, flute, clarinet, violin, cello) with a touch of electronics. The band's debut album was released in 1996. Probably the band’s best known project is the Elven trilogy – an attempt to show what the music of the parallel world of Faerie sounds like. The first two CDs are musical illustrations of JRR Tolkien's novels Read more on Last.fm

The Fatback Band (later, simply Fatback) is an American funk and disco band. Most popular in the 1970s and 1980s, The Fatback Band is most known for their Top Ten R&B hits, "(Do The) Spanish Hustle", "I Like Girls", "Gotta Get My Hands on Some (Money)", and "Backstrokin'". Their 1979 single "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" is sometimes considered the first hip hop single. Formed in New York City in 1970, the Fatback Band was the concept of Bill Curtis Read more on Last.fm

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (1951–1987) was a U.S. jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player, as well as his command of varied musical styles including jazz, jazz fusion, funk, and jazz-funk. His playing style was noteworthy for containing intricate solos in the higher register. His innovations also included the use of harmonics and the "singing" quality of his melodies on fretless bass. Read more on Last.fm

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Mansour (Persian: منصور ‎, born 28 July 1971) is a contemporary artist born in Tehran, Iran. Persian musical artist. From a new generation of rising singers of the exiled Iranian community based in Southern California, he is now ranked as one of the top male singers of the Iranian music scene. Beside Iran, he also has a fan base in [Afghanistan], Tajikistan and to a limited extent Iraq, Uzbekistan and Russia. Despite the Iranian government’s restrictions on pop music Read more on Last.fm

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Alabama Shakes is an American rock band formed in Athens, Alabama, United States in 2009. The group consists of lead singer Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, and bassist Zac Cockrell. Here is some background information on Alabama Shakes from the Hold On Songfacts: The R&B-inspired Rock band Alabama Shakes originated when lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard approached bassist Zac Cockrell during a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama and the pair began meeting after school to write songs. Read more on Last.fm

A group of three sisters, Rejoyce, Lillian and Nettie Stovall, who started singing with their family's gospel group in the Midwest, but by the late 1950s had come west to Oakland CA. They switched to secular R&B in the 60's and for a time circa 1970 they ended up as Ikettes backing Ike & Tina Turner. Eventually, they tired of the Turner's internal discord and put a classified ad in the Oakland Tribune that said "'Three black girls looking for a band". Read more on Last.fm

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