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Saro Tribastone is a composer and performer of Mediterranean instrumental music that finds the love of his homeland in Sicily easy to express through several instruments. The Mediterranean culture is embodied in the spirit and presentation of each composition the guitarist offers his listeners. At a very young age Saro received a guitar as a gift then his love affair with stringed instruments began and never relented. He is adept with several instruments including the Flamenco Guitar, the Beating Guitar, a traditional guitar of South Italy, known as the "Chitarra Battente", the Tzouras from Greece, which is similar to the...

Waldermar Bastos (born 1954, M'banza, Zaire province, Angola) is an Angolan musician who combines Afropop, Portuguese (fado), and Brazilian influences. His parents were both nurses. He started singing at a very early age. At the age of 28 he emigrated to Portugal to escape the civil war between the Marxist MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola regime and the Western-backed UNITA National Union for Total Independence of Angola. Quotes from the artist "One day, my father arrived home and found me playing his concertina. I felt bad for having been caught touching, without permission, an instrument which was...