1. Born in the Armenian quarter of Iran, Blade came to London aged 7. Within months of arriving, he felt the effect of the Islamic revolution back home. Unable to send money out of the country, Blade’s family could no longer support him. So, with no money, no family, alone in a strange country, Blade’s self-reliance and determination were all he had to see him through. The microphone, the studio and the stage provided his only release.
There are several artists named “Dazzle” at last.fm:
1. Disco collaboration of Stan Lucas and Leroy Burgess.
2. Dutch trance DJ and producer.
1. The collective minds of Stan Lucas and Leroy Burgess. Dazzle is one of the many studio bands Leroy worked with. Some lead vocals are by Jocelyn Shaw (Jocelyn Brown?). Patrick Adams arranges strings and horns. The result is an under-rated disco album.
Estelle Fanta Swaray (born 18 January 1980 in London, United Kingdom) commonly known as Estelle, and formerly as Est'elle, is an English R&B singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer. In 2009, she won a Grammy Award for American Boy featuring Kanye West in the category for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration as well receiving the MOBO for 'Best Newcomer' and received three consecutive 'Best Female Artist' trophies from the UK Hip-Hop Awards.
Fronted by MC Fusion, Credit to the Nation were one of the first commercial hip-hop acts producing a distinctively British sound, albeit with a hint of MC Fusion's Jamaican heritage. His lyrics often tackled weighty issues such as sexism, racism, homophobia and British politics, but went against the grain for many followers of hip-hop in the UK at the time and lead to a great deal of antagonism.
President T is a UK Grime artist, and a former member of Meridian Crew along with Skepta, JME, Big H, Pablo, Bossman Birdie, Dan and Lieutenant. The former Meridian Crew member now makes music as part of the Bloodline Fam collective. President T was working on a mixtape called 'Back Inna My Face' which was due to be released in March 2007 until Pres T took a break from the Grime scene, and so the mixtape was never released.
There are at least two artists with the name Skillit: 1. A hip-hop/ grime emcee from the UK (featured in picture). 2. A rap-infused rock band from Petaluma, CA. Active circa 1994-1996. Skillit (featured in the picture) was born in trinidad and tobago. he moved and was raised in london uk
at the age of four. growin up listening to hip hop skillit became a massive hip hop head.
in 2008 Skillit released his debut E.P talk of the town which featured mc's loudmouth melvin, k-nite 13, mentalist and py-ro.
There are at least 2 artists known as "Big H" 1) Big H is Charlotte NC MC. In 2009, Big H released his first Mixtape “Product of the Streets". Later that same year, “H” and childhood friend Terrell “Co-Signer” James decided to create a Record Label to call their own. On June 16th 2010, Flame Records, LLC was incorporated in North Carolina and Big-H was signed as the flag-ship artist. 2) Big H aka "Big Hater" is a grime MC and UK Hip Hop rapper from Edmonton / Tottenham in North London.
1)Tottenham based grime outfit now called Bloodline 2)Greg Szathmary aka Meridian from Hungary started composing music back in 1996. He went through all the steps in the progression electronic musicians usually do. Trackers, Reason, Cubase, soft synths, hardware stuffs spiced with some musical education. He learned playing piano and dealt with music theory as well.
His first real success was to get into the best 15 tracks in the Oceanlab Satellite remix contest. Since then he developed his producing skills to reappear on stage again with Emphase.
