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Jenny Wilson

Swedish Jenny Wilson makes elegant and sophisticated pop music with hints of synthpop. Her self-produced solo debut, Love & Youth, on which she also plays every instrument, was released to much critical acclaim in 2005. Music journalists ranked it as one of the best Swedish albums of the year. As a teenager in the early 90s, Jenny Wilson - born in 1975 - originally wanted to become a writer. At that time she discovered PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, an album that inspired her so much that she decided to give up on her writing career and focus on music.

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Shontelle

Shontelle Layne is a Bajan, Soca singer/songwriter from St.Peter,Barbados. She is popular in the Caribbean for her 2005 Bajan hit "Colours" in which she collaborated with another Bajan artist, Natahlee. She also wrote Alison Hinds' 2005/2006 hit "Roll".She also featured alongside Rihanna on J-Status's remix of "Roll",Shontelle worked with Rihanna on a track from Save the last dance 2 called "The Hotness".

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Nesian Mystik

Nesian Mystik are one of the top hip hop and RnB groups in New Zealand, blending a variety of polynesian singing and rhyme styles into a unique flavour of music. They beging with a top selling single Nesian Style following up with their #1 debut album Polysaturated in 2002. In 2006 the eagerly awaited followup album Freshmen was released, continuing their Samoan, Maori, Cook Island and Tongan blend of funky, happy beats.

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Donna Gardier

Donna Gardier was a member of the group Raw Stylus, a London-based dance music outfit whose core members were Jules Brookes and Ron Aslan. In 1995 they released the single, "Believe In Me", which reached #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. It was a minor success in the UNited Kingdom reaching #66 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1996.[1] Originally, Raw Stylus released white label vinyl records into the London club scene in the early 1990s. "Pushing Against the Flow" was a popular underground song, and later became the title track of their album.

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Cee-Lo Green

Cee-Lo Green (born Thomas Callaway)started off as one of the members of the Southern Rap Group "Goodie Mob". After putting out three albums with this group, he branched off on his own and started his solo career under the Arista Label. His debut album, "Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections" was released in 2002 and contained the hit track "Closet Freak" among other interesting tracks which garnered attention. This album was unlike anything out there during the beginning of the Neo-Soul movement and received acclaim for its musical creativity, but it did not manage to go mainstream.

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Roachford

Roachford is/was a band based around singer/songwriter Andrew Roachford. Andrew Roachford was born and raised in South London on 22nd January 1965 to West Indian parents

He has achieved four gold status albums and was Columbia Records' longest serving recording artist, achieving a total of eleven top 50 hits. His most well known song is 1988's 'Cuddly Toy', which on a re-release a year later reached No.4 in the uk chart.

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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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Al Di Meola

Al Di Meola's highly celebrated career has spanned a wide range of emotions into a unique style embodying the artists world inspired influences. From the velocity and heat of his early solo efforts to the challenge and triumph of the "Di Meola / McLaughlin / De Lucia (Guitar Trio)", from the Brazilian explorations of "Cielo e Terra" and "Soaring Through A Dream" to the global romanticism and Tango inflection of Al's acoustic group "World Synfonia" (self titled debut) and the 2nd "World Sinfonia" recording Heart of the Immigrants.

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