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GOCOO

GOCOO are seven female and four male drummers who capture their audience with original grooves woven with Japanese drums, Taikos. On stage the 11 musicians from Tokyo create with almost 40 drums a music-spectacle beyond imagination. Music-wise GOCOO are one of the most sophisticated percussion groups of the present. The cosmic beats and uniquely complex poly-rhythms are of such primal nature that they reflect all known music styles and consequently unite people of all ages, ethnic and social origins and of any taste in music.

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Nathan Lee

There are several artists with that name. 1) Nathan Lee is a Vietnamese singer. Nathan was born in 1983 in Hanoi, but later moved to New York, US, with his family. He started his modelling career at 17 and later became a model under Elite Model Management. Nathan returned to Vietnam in 2008 to pursue a career in music. Albums:
H (2010)
Th?c (2011)
M (2012) 2) There's a Nathan Lee DJ from Toronto, Canada who's part of I Need Sugar. 3) And a Nathan Lee musician from the United States.

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Bella Hardy

As a child Bella was always singing. Edale was the ideal place to nurture this natural ability, with an abundance of communal song. Having played the fiddle a small amount at school, Bella attended a Folkworks Youth Summer School in Durham age 13. Motivated by the number of young people playing folk music, she was inspired to begin working on folk fiddle. She also met many of her great friends and musical companions.

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Atongo Zimba

Atongo Zimba, born in Ghana's Bolgatanga region in 1967 gained first fame as he was for a year and a half the openingact at the Shrine shows of Fela Kuti in Lagos, Nigeria. He returned to Ghana to play at the PANAFEST (Pan African Festival of Arts and Culture) and he played and toured with great African musicians as Hugh Masekela, Manu Dibango, Osibisa, Francis Fuster, Jimmy Beckley's Afro-Jazz Combo and Angelique Kidjo, to mention just a few.

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Tiger Moth

Tiger Moth is an English country dance band originally formed in 1983 by Rod Stradling shortly after leaving the Old Swan Band. In addition to Stradling, the original members were guitarist Ian A. Anderson (of Hot Vultures fame), hammered dulcimer player Chris Coe and bass guitar and banjo player and vocalist Maggie Holland (also of Hot Vultures). Later they were joined by electric guitar and synthesizer player Jon Moore, drummer/percussionist John Maxwell, and keyboards and melodeon player Ian Carter.

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Dennis Rollins

Dennis Rollins (b. 1964) is a British jazz trombonist, the founder and leader of Dennis Rollins' Badbone & Co. Rollins was born in Birmingham, of Jamaican parents, and brought up in Yorkshire. When he was fourteen years old, he joined The Doncaster Youth Jazz Association, with which he studied and performed for some years before moving to London in 1987. Rollins has recorded, performed, and toured with many musicians and bands in jazz and pop, including Courtney Pine, Us3, Jamiroquai,Roy Ayers, Dionne Warwick...

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