Artist Profiles: Yuji Hasegawa
Yuji Hasegawa was born in 1941 in Itayanagi, Aomori. He is the leading performer of tsugaru-shamisen in the Hasegawa-Sangenkai Style. He is also the Chairman…
Artist Profiles: Naser Musa
A Jordanian of Palestinian descent, singer/songwriter Naser Musa started playing ‘ud, a Middle Eastern lute, at an early age while living in Amman, Jordan. In…
Artist Profiles: Ruba Saqr
Singer-songwriter Ruba Saqr’s work has been internationally recognized by winning the UNESCO Prize for Best Innovative Performance Bridging Traditional and Contemporary Traditions in 2007 (for…
Artist Profiles: Ardak Issataeva
Female entertainers have played a key role in the community life of Central Asian women and continue to do so today. Ardak Issataeva, from the…
Artist Profiles: Ulzhan Baibussynova
Female entertainers have played a key role in the social life of Central Asia women and continue to do so today. Ulzhan Baibussynova is a…
Artist Profiles: Abbi
Absalom Nyinza, popularly Abbi, Abbi is one of Kenya’s finest Afro-fusionist, who launched his second album Indigo in August 2007. With roots in Kenyan people’s…
Artist Profiles: Ayub Ogada
Job Seda, better known as Ayub Ogada was born in 1956 in Mombasa on the coast of Kenya. At the age of six he accompanied…
Artist Profiles: Eric Wainaina
Eric Wainaina grew up saying that he was going to be a doctor, but his love for music reigned supreme. Shocked at first by his…
Artist Profiles: Extra Golden
Extra Golden is an international collaboration between Kenyan and American musicians. Americans Ian Eagleson and Alex Minoff were formerly of the band Golden; Kenyans are…
Artist Profiles: Samba Mapangala
Samba Mapangala was born Congolese, on the banks of the Congo River, in Matadi, the busy port city 100 miles up from the river’s mouth…