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Queen Bee

German great female duo (grand piano, two voices) consisting of Ina Müller and Edda Schnittgard from Hamburg with more or less romantic songs, great voices. They were playing in the movie "Schöne Frauen" (D 2004, Reg.: Sathyan Ramesh). Not existing anymore.

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Bajofondo

Bajofondo, formerly Bajofondo Tango Club, is a South American music band consisting of eight musicians from Argentina and Uruguay. The change in the name, more inclusive and with an immediate impact, mirrors the path Bajofondo’s music has followed. Often compared to Gotan Project, their music is a fusion of acoustic tango and electronic music, part of an evolving tango genre which is known as "electrotango" or "tango fusion", which is greatly helping to bring tango back into the mainstream.

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Quantum

There are 4 artists/bands named Quantum. 1. A trance DJ residing in Israel.
2. A now defunct progressive rock band formed in the 80's.
3. A hip-hop artist.
4. A Indonesian indie alternative pop/rock band. 1. Quantum is a trance DJ.
Gidi Snapir - Quantum - was always obsessed with collecting music and finding new sounds. Coming from a family of musicians, he studied piano as a kid but his first encounter with electronic music came in the late 1980's when he first heard new wave dark industrial music.

Zbigniew Preisner

Zbigniew Preisner (b. 1955) is one of Poland's leading film score composers, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Preisner was born on 20th May 1955 in Bielsko-Biała. He studied history and philosophy in Kraków; never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from records. His compositional style represents a distinctively spare form of tonal neo-Romanticism.

Read more about Zbigniew Preisner on Last.fm.

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Sophie Solomon

Sophie Solomon is a singer-songwriter/violinist born in the United Kingdom, who fuses many different musical influences into her music. Sophie Solomon began playing the violin at the age of two. At four she met Yehudi Menuhin and was taken to see the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. For the first five years she played totally by ear, learning to read music at the age of seven. Even though the National Children's Orchestra and ProCorda said she was one of the most promising violinists of her...

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Melingo

Tango! Tango canciòn! Maldito tango! MELINGO is an Argentinean phenomenon: a bohémien from Buenos Aires, a tango & milonga maestro who of course comes across as enthralling. Those who like their music subtle and playful, and can also appreciate a Paolo Conte, will be sure to fall for this pure-bred performer. Following a varied past (also with rock and punk acts), in 2004 the surprising CD 'Santa Milonga' suddenly appeared - and in spring 2008 the new 'Maldito Tango' (on the Manaña label of Gotan Project...

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Violentango

Santiago Córdoba: Percussion
Adrián Ruggiero: Bandoneon & Guitar
Andrés Ortega: Guitar
Juan Manuel López: Guitar "This project started in 2004 in Argentina. It was at first a trio and it became a quartet. Violentango is a little orchestra that exploits to the maximum the sound possibilities and combinations produced by guitars, bandoneon and percussion instruments. New sounds within tango, influences by other styles and a history review of the genre result in a high level show, which is technically competent and visually exciting.

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