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Navi

There are two artists by the name Navi: 1) Navi (real name: Ahn Ji-ho) is an R&B singer born in 1986. She was discovered by composer Lee Hyun-seung when she was just a college student working as a singer at a jazz club. Navi’s first single album features medium tempo R&B songs, which accentuates her beautiful voice. Tablo of Korea’s hottest hip hop group Epik High has done rap featuring on her album, adding his own musical flavor to her stylish pieces.

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Flower

Flower was a post-punk noise/pop band from NYC that existed from 1986-1990 featuring later members of Versus (Richard Baluyut, Ed Baluyut), French (Ian James, Andrew Bordwin), Cell (Ian James), The Pacific Ocean (Ed Baluyut), and Ruby Falls (Andrew Bordwin). Featuring the Baluyut brothers on guitar, James on Bass, and Bordwin on drums, Flower was a staple of the NYC underground scene carved out by Sonic Youth, Live Skull, Swans, etc, utilizing the noise element of the aforementioned artists to deepen the textures of more classically oriented pop songs.

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Freestyle

There is more than one artist with the name Freestyle: 1. One of the most prolific and influential of the '80s electro artists, Miami-based producer Tony Butler recorded a string of popular club tracks on Power/Jam Packed and his own Music Specialist label in the mid-'80s, helping build the electro legacy that would give birth to Miami-style bass music and freestyle (named after Butler's primary pseudonym), as well as influence '90s post-techno artists such as Autechre and Biochip C.

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Sugar

There are several bands by the name of Sugar:
(1) Project of former Hüsker Dü member Bob Mould.
(2) is a Korean girl-pop group with releases in Japan and Korea
(3) is a Japanese visual-kei group (Sugar).
(4) is Australian psy-trance producer / artist Felix Hamer, on the Green Ant label from Melbourne, Australia.
(5) is a rockband from Den Bosch The Netherlands. Sugar (1) was formed by Bob Mould after the breakup of Hüsker Dü, and conceived as having a similar sound, though with Mould as the sole leader.

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C.N.Blue

C.N.BLUE (Korean: 씨엔블루), stylized as CNBLUE (Code Name Blue), is a rock band from Seoul, South Korea, which debuted under F&C Entertainment on August 19, 2009 in Japan with the band's first mini album, Now or Never. The group released four teasers for their 1st album Bluetory, starring one member per each of the videos in the sequence of Jonghyun, Minhyuk, Jungshin and lastly, Jung Yong Hwa on the 6th, 8th, 11th and 13 January respectively. On the January 14, CN Blue debuted their first mini-album with lead single "I'm a Loner" (Korean: 외톨이야).

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Sweet Revenge

There are at least two artists known as Sweet Revenge: 1) Sweet Revenge (Korean: ?? ???) are South Korean female indie rock band formed in 2008. The band consists of Kim Mijung (leader, rhythm guitarist), Kim Soyoung (vocalist, lead guitarist), Lee Hwayeon (bassist) and Jang Hyuna (drummer).
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Crash

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Crash is a groove jazz / soul jazz / jazz funk sextet based in Ontario, Canada. One known recording, a joint album with Lonnie Smith 2) Crash is a Swedish Heavy Rock band consisting drummer Philip Crusner, singer Victor Crusner, guitarist Gustaf Blix and bassguitarist Filip Knezevic
Their fist album came in early 2006 titled "Are U Ready?!", and their second release, "Back To Zero", came out in 2007, almost exactly a year later.

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Smash

1) Band was formed by the sitar/guitar player Gualberto in 1967. At the beginning of the seventies Smash recorded two albums for Philips label "Glorieta de los Lotos" in 1970 and "We Come To Smash This Time" in 1971. Unfortunately early death of the vocalist Julio Matito bring band to the end. Music which Smash create is compare to Moody Blues and Vanilla Fudge psychodelic mood. Through guitar style of Manuel Molina we hear evident flamenco touch, applying on traditional "palos" (tarantos).

Read more about Smash on Last.fm.

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