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Elena Gheorghe

Elena Gheorghe is a Romanian singer. She will represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Her breakthrough came in 2003; one of her most notable music singles is "Te Ador". Elena is half Aromanian, and half Romanian.She has a sister named Ana who is a journalist, and a brother, Costin. Her mother Marioara Man Gheorghe is a singer, and is the one who inspired her love for music. When Elena was 3 years old she debuted on the music scene with her mother.

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Goribor

Goribor is a alternative rock band from Bor, Serbia (ex Yugoslavia). Having performed as a teenage band called Projekat from 1988 until 1992, after a four-year hiatus, the band was reformed in 1996 by the founding members, the vocalist Aleksandar Stojković St and guitarist Željko Ljubić Pity with the guitarist Predrag Marković Peđa. Until 2003 they had been making home-made demo recordings eventually released through the Croatian independent record label Slušaj Najglasnije!, after being discovered by the head of the label Zdenko Franjić.

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dunkelbunt

Vienna, Austria based DJ & producer dunkelbunt , or rather, as he prefers, (alias Ulf Lindemann; originally from Hamburg, Germany) has travelled Eastern Europe by bike to discover and collect different sounds and emotions. In his music traditional Balkan and Klezmer sounds meet reggae, dub and electronica. dunkelbunt mixes dub, Reggae, Bossa, jazz, Electronics, trip hop and Break Beats woven with a balkan twist.

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andykisaragi

Bristol(UK) based DJ who as part of Untimely Sound rocks out the gypsy, balkan, swing, ska, country tunes all over the south west and beyond. Likes to keep things silly with plenty of mashups. He has a number of other musical projects: sean kilbride & andy kisaragi, northism, girl robot, Orators & andykisaragi & robbiefelixawesome.

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Shantel

Shantel (Stefan Hantel) is a DJ and producer from Germany. He was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1968. After growing up in Frankfurt, he went to Paris to study graphic design. In 1991 he opened a club called Lissania Essay in the Frankfurt red light district. (There's also an female R&B singer named Shantel: http://www.myspace.com/shantelsvoice. The albums "Arize (It's Time To Shine)" and "It's Over Now" are by her.)

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La Caravane Passe

The band was formed in 2001 by Toma Feterman, who has ancestors of Polish, Rumanian and Jewish Russian origins. A self taught multi-instrumentalist, Toma sings as well as playing the banjo and the trumpet. After initially performing music that covers a wide range from punk to French “chanson”, he decides to gather a group to perform music from Eastern Europe - a way of returning to his roots. At the beginning, the musicians were friends that played traditional songs.

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Besh o droM

Besh o DroM was formed in 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. This Hungarian band combines Hungarian folk elements with Balkan music into waves which are meant to collapse all our senses. The band does not confine itself to the Balkan category, but draws its musical inspiration from Jewish, Afghan, Egyptian, Lebanese, Armenian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Greek tunes, presenting folk and electronic instrumentals simultaneously. More: www.beshodrom.hu.

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Omar Naber

Omar Naber Naber (born Omar Kareem on 7 July 1981, in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian singer and songwriter. His mother is a Slovenian music teacher, his father is a Jordanian dentist. Omar Naber studied to become a dental technician, but after graduating he decided to devote his life to music. He won "Bitka talentov", the Slovenian version of the Battle of the talents, and participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with "Stop", a song he composed himself.

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