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Nelly Kim Furtado (Victoria, British Columbia, 2 dicembre 1978) è una cantautrice canadese di origini portoghesi. La sua musica è influenzata dall'amore per hip-hop, il fado portoghese e per le sonorità giamaicane e brasiliane. Influenze le arrivano anche dall'ascolto di artisti come Jeff Buckley, Caetano Veloso, Radiohead, Amalia Rodrigues e molti altri. È nata a Victoria, una piccola città canadese dove tutt'ora vive. Figlia di operai di origini portoghesi cresce a contatto con differenti influenze culturali e musicali. Terminati gli studi si trasferisce a Toronto, dove conosce il duo hip-hop dei "Nelstar", ai quali si unisce. Tale esperienza le permette...

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (Venezia, 4 marzo 1678 - Vienna, 28 luglio 1741) è un celebre violinista e compositore del periodo barocco. Fu anche un sacerdote, e per tale motivo - e per il colore dei suoi capelli - venne soprannominato Il prete rosso. La sua composizione più nota sono i quattro concerti grossi per violino conosciuti come Le quattro stagioni, celebre e straordinario esempio di musica a soggetto. Il recupero della sua opera è un fatto relativamente recente e viene individuato nella prima metà del XX secolo. Avvenne grazie soprattutto agli sforzi di Alfredo Casella, il quale nel 1939 organizzò...

Antonio Orozco is a Spanish singer-songwriter from Barcelona, Spain. He has won several prizes like the Premio Onda and sold lots of records, his first album sold more than 100,000 copies, whereas his second album titled Semilla del Silencio sold over 300,000 copies. In 2005 he released a self titled album Antonio Orozco, which was a compilation of his best songs (twelve in total) that eventually propelled him into stardom outside Spain, mainly in Latin America and other parts of the world. Some of his better known songs include: "Te Esperaré" and "Déjame". He is known as well because of...

Antonio Aguilar was a popular Mexican singer, actor, producer and writer. He was from a small town in Zacatecas called Tayahua and was born on May 17, 1919, Died 19 June 2007. This town is close to Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico. The story goes that he came to California undocumented and that he slept for three days in the Plazita Olvera or Olvera Street in Los Angeles. He began his acting career during the Golden Era of Mexican Cinematography. He is credited with exposing the sport of la charrería, considered to have originated in Mexico to international audiences. Antonio Aguilar began...

Born in Cali, Colombia, Antonio Cobo began taking guitar lessons at age six on an instrument given to him by his grandfather; it would become his companion while traveling throughout South America and while living for three years in Spain, Italy and France. Demonstrating the abilities of a natural prodigy, Cobo was sent to the Settlement Musical School at Temple University, Philadelphia; by the age of 16, he was already a music professor for classical guitar at the Music Conservatory, a position he held for five years. Subsequently relocating to Europe, he studied with Andres Segovia and Alirio Diaz. Expanding...