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While many groups that mix reggae with rock go for the laid-back vibes and represent the permanent vacation lifestyle, the Savannah, Georgia-based Passafire prefer a more punchy, punky, and progressive version of reggae-rock. Formed in 2003 with the Savannah College of Art and Design as their home base, the four-piece launched their career through rigorous touring and a self-titled, self-released album that appeared in 2006. Two years later, they signed with fellow rock-reggae group Pepper's imprint LAW and released their sophomore effort, Submersible, with Everyone on Everynight following on the label in 2009. With guidance from the people at LAW,...

Mohammed Wardi began singing at the age of five; his first hit was in 1960, and he still has the most extraordinary effect on a Sudanese audience, having come to embody the collective memories and aspirations of an entire nation. Mohammed Wardi sings not only in Arabic but also in his native Nubian - a quite different sound from Ali Hassan Kuban - drawing on 7,000 years of culture. The soaring voice of "golden throat" Mohammed Wardi has won acclaim right across the African Sahel and the Arab world. Although this singer from Nubia was in exile for 13 years...

Vassafor is a Black Metal band from New Zealand. Incorporating various forms of extreme dark music in particular doom as evidenced on self titled MCD/MLP "Vassafor". The 2 song tape from 2010 "Promo MMX" was reissued via Canadian label Serpents Head Reprisal in Jan MMXI. Debut full length "Obsidian Codex" was released on double LP December MMXII via Parasitic Records. Cassette tape to follow. Split with Sinistrous Diabolus available through Iron Bonehead Productions in June MMXIV. Early in MMXV was a split LP with Temple Nightside called Call of the Maelstrom also on Iron Bonehead. Now Debemur Morti Productions have...

Mohammed Aziz (Syed Mohammed Aziz-un-Nabi, Ashoknagar, West Bengal, India, 2 July 1954 - 27 November, 2018) was an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries. His duets with leading female singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal and Kavita Krishnamurthy have been very popular during most of 1980s and early 1990s. His nickname was Munna. Being an ardent lover of music and Mohammed Rafi, he started singing from childhood. Aziz made his film debut in a Bengali language film Jyoti. He came to Mumbai in 1984, with references from a producer's relative. His first Hindi...

Ali Birra (born September 29, 1947) is a famous Oromo singer, composer, poet and nationalist. He was born in Ganda Kore village in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Ali Birra was born in Dire Dawa (Ganda Kore). His parents were separated when he was three years old, after which he was brought up by his father. He attended Arabic school as a child where he learnt Arabic language. He then enrolled in local academic school and pursued his education till the sixth grade. In his early years, Ali used to do small on-street business so as to support himself...