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Gil Semedo

Gil Semedo Moreira is a singer from Cabo Verde and is one of the main interpreters of the caboswing, a musical genre closely related to kizomba and zouk. It is also closely related to funana and coladera. Semedo was born in the city of Chäo de Tanque on the island Santiago, but lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, since he was six. When he was a teenager, he formed his own band and won the very popular Dutch televised song contest Soundmix Show with a impersonation of Michael Jackson.

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Mika Mendes

It must be hard, trying to start your own musical career, while your father is the famous Cape Verdian musician Boy gé Mendes. But Mika Mendes managed very well. He made his debut as a zouk musician on the compilation “alliança” and has since sung on many compilation albums, like those of Philip Monteiro. In 2005, he records the album Paulo & Mika (New style). A year later, he is contracted Nichols to take part on a Marcía abum.

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Gage

Pierre Gage (born 3 January 1977, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), known by his last name Gage, is a Francophone Canadian singer/songwriter of Jamaican and Haitian ancestry. Gage got his start in the music business while still attending high school by landing the role of Johny Roquefort after attending an audition for the rock opera Starmania. Thus began his career as a musician heavily influenced by Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Lauryn Hill; influences partly explained by Gage's Jamaican and Haitian roots.

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Marvin

MARVIN (there are several bands called Marvin)
- this bio is for the french band :
Marvin is a power-trio from Montpellier (FR). With only drums, guitar and korg ms20 synth they play a high-energy instrumental noise music tending to psyche or even krautrock. To summarize, Marvin is in the no man's land between Shellac and Kraftwerk !
They released a split LP with the French noise band DOPPLER.
In 2007 they released their first album, totally autoproduced and very acclaimed by the critics.

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Gaby Amarantos

Gaby Amarantos is a singer and dancer from the city of Belém, in the northern state of Pará and comes from a family of Samba dancers. She's recorded a few CDs, a DVD, has been featured in newspapers and magazines and has made several appearances on Brazilian television shows. Her music sounds like a mashup of 90s Euro rave, moombahton, cumbia, and the kind of Hispanic electro-pop you hear in discos on holiday when you're out of your mind on budget cocktails. Like Gloria Estefan with techno knobs on – or rather, Glozzer in a clinch with Technotronic.

Read more about Gaby Amarantos on Last.fm.

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Imaani

Imaani's first public attention came when she represented the UK in the 1998 Eurovision Song contest, where she placed a respectable second. with the track 'Where Are You'. The eventual winner being Dana International. After a second single 'You Got A Way' gained her further European chart success, Imaani pitched in with Dub Conspiricy & Tru Faith on the single 'Freak Like Me'. A member of British jazz funk legends, Incognito...

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Erika

There are at least four artists named Erika. 1) Erika De Bonis is an Italian dance singer better known for her popular song I Don't Know. Erika's first releases were under the label of Rossano Prini A&R SPY records. The young Italian artist became famous when she released the song Relations. This track jumped to No. 1 on all Italian charts in the first half of 2001. Erika released some other tracks that became very popular in dance clubs: Right or Wrong and Ditto. She is the sister of Magic Box. Erika's Official Myspace is myspace.com/erikapop

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Square One

There are at least 5 artists named "Square One":
1) Deep house producer from Manchester, UK.
2) Former hip hop group from Munich, Germany.
3) Soca band from Barbados.
4) Ska-Punk band from the Flint, MI area.
5) Pop-Rock band from Melbourne, Australia
6) Pop-punk/emo band from Belgium 1) Square One is the solo project from Manchester based producer Mark Wadsworth. Mark has been recording for Jimpster's Freerange Records since 2001. As of September 2007, he has released seven 12"s and two full length albums.

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