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“I don’t want to imitate anyone; I just want to do me. That’s why my key aim in my career is to be as successful as I can be.” – Benny Banks Growing up in Islington (North London) Benny Banks, was your typical teenager; in that he didn’t enjoy school and would much rather do other things with his time. One of these things was listening to music. It wasn’t until age twenty however, that his love of music really began to develop. It was after a night out with his friends that Benny Banks began to rap and his...

Peter William Brockbanks (meglio noto come Peter Banks; Barnet, 8 aprile 1947) è un chitarrista britannico. Fu il primo chitarrista del gruppo di rock progressivo Yes. Peter ricevette la sua prima chitarra acustica in dono dal padre quando era ancora un bambino, dimostrando subito una notevole predisposizione per lo strumento. Da adolescente imparò anche il banjo. Nel 1966 formò il gruppo The Syn con Chris Squire, abbreviando il proprio cognome in "Banks". Nei Syn suonavano anche Clive Bailey alla chitarra ritmica e Andrew Jackman alle tastiere; il primo è noto anche per aver composto il primo singolo degli Yes, il...

Norman Fairbanks (www.normanfairbanks.com) is an audio concept art project officially started in 2003 with the mission to freely alienate, process and melt artefacts from the vast panopticon of American mass media with found noise, selected field recordings and specifically generated electro-acoustic elements to a) investigate new tonalities in sound and b) create a context-free, unbiased, neo-expressionist audio witness and reflection of contemporary American culture. .