Vocalist and composer Ngaire Laun J Joseph, better known as Ngaiire, was born in 1984 in Lae, Morobe Province, in Papua New Guinea. Ngaiire emigrated…
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Category: Artist Profiles
Artist Profiles: Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins, better known as Ivan Lins, was born on June 16, 1945, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (however, another biographical source indicates he…
Artist Profiles: Kudsi Erguner
Kudsi Erguner lives and works in Paris as musician (Ney-flute which is a reed flute) composer musicologist teacher author and translator. He was born February…
Artist Profiles: Etnika
Etnika, founded in 2000, was the leading renovator of Maltese roots music. They “bowed” towards folk music and then went beyond it playing Malta’s ancient…
Artist Profiles: Brian Ó hEadhra
Brian Ó hEadhra was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew up in Ireland and Newfoundland (Canada) in the 1970s. His father spoke fluent Irish and…
Artist Profiles: Cimafunk
Cimafunk is the project of musician and songwriter Erik Iglesias Rodríguez, from Pinar del Rio in western Cuba. The music of Cimafunk combines Cuban music…
Artist Profiles: Zohreh Khan
Zohreh Khan is a wedding singer from Uzbekistan With a warm voice, Zohreh Khan sings at weddings in the region of Khorezme in the western…
Artist Profiles: Olga Glazova
Olga Glazova was born November 26, 1993. She is a world music composer and gusli player (Russian harp). Olga plays the world’s only gusli with…
Artist Profiles: Arsen Petrosyan
Arsen Petrosyan is a prestigious Armenian duduk player born in Charentsavan in 1994, where he currently still resides. His family originally hails from an Armenian…
Artist Profiles: Héctor Lavoe
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was born on September 30, 1946 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Pérez Martínez was nicknamed “Lavoe” by…