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Navajita Plateá is a Spanish duet composed of writer/singer Ildefonso de los Reyes and guitarist Francisco Carrasco Soto. Both are from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, with family backgrounds in Flamenco music. The music of Navajita Plateá is flamenco-influenced and has been called "new flamenco", but incorporates fusion elements of blues, rock, pop, punk, and hip-hop. Their first hit was "Noches de Bohemia". More recently in 2006 they returned to the spotlight when "Esta Vida Está de Lujo" was used in an Andalucian advertising campaign. .
"The virtuoso from the ancient holy city of Varanasi (Benares) has been studying classical sitar since he was a child, following a long family tradition which over countless generations has produced many great masters (pandits, in Hindi) of Indian stringed instruments. His first musical guru, in fact, was his highly celebrated grandfather, the late Thakur Mahadev Singh, who in his time was known as "Sitaria Baba," the saint of sitar. Later, he came under the guidance of his father, Ranjit Singh, who gained equal fame as master of the sarod, unlike the sitar a fretless instrument plucked with a coconut...
Satyajit Ray (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, widely considered as one of the greatest directors and cinematographers of the 20th century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta), into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing the Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries...