Artist Profiles: Yange Yange Trio
Yange Yange Arts is a Wagogo cultural group from the central Tanzanian region around the city of Dodoma. Tanzania has some 12 ethnic groups none…
Artist Profiles: Yulduz Usmanova
Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmanova was born on December 12, 1963 in Margilan, Uzbekistan. She was a unique phenomenon in the global pop culture of the…
Artist Profiles: Yalla
Yalla is one of the leading popular music groups in the former Soviet central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. The band is from Tashkent the capital…
Artist Profiles: Xuacu Amieva
Piper Xuacu Amieva was born October 12, 1954, in Llanes, Spain. He’s one of the acknowledged figures in the field of Asturian traditional music. His…
Artist Profiles: Wolfstone
Fiddler Duncan Chisholm and guitarist Stuart Eaglesham first met in the late 1980s at a pub session in Inverness, Scotland and formed a band for…
Artist Profiles: William Jackson
William Jackson, of Glasgow has been at the forefront of Scottish traditional music for more than three decades. One of the leading harpers and multi-instrumentalists…
Artist Profiles: Will Clipman
Will Clipman began playing his father’s drums and his mother’s piano at the age ofthree and since then has mastered a pan-global palette of percussion…
Artist Profiles: Wild Fire Music Troupe
Wild Fire Music Troupe is a group of Taiwanese indigenous musicians from various and diverse music traditions. The musicians create their own unique music based…
Artist Profiles: UB40
For several decades, UB40 have been popularizing reggae around the globe. UB40’s fortune changed at the beginning of 1980. They had spent many years performing…
Artist Profiles: Waed Bouhassoune
Syrian singer and ‘ud player Waed Bouhassoune was born in 1979. She has a voice of such quality that is rarely encountered one of the…