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According to the Make It Rain Songfacts, Atlanta[/placeformed-based hip hop group Travis Porter consists of Lakeem "Ali" Mattox, Donquez "Quez" Woods, and Harold "Strap" Duncan. Ali and Quez are stepbrothers and they met Strap in middle school. The trio grew up together and started doing music together in 2006. In just over a year, Travis Porter has accomplished more than most emerging artists with over twenty million Youtube views, a single on the Billboard charts, and a music video in rotation on MTV Jams. The large buzz surrounding this group of 19 year-olds helped to give the boys two Twitter...

Willy Porter is a contemporary American folk musician from Wisconsin. His career as a published singer began in 1990 with his album, The Trees Have Soul, although his popularity began in 1994 with his album Dog Eared Dream, which had the successful single Angry Words, and led to his touring as an opening act for artists including Tori Amos and The Cranberries. Recently, Porter opened for Jethro Tull, where he formed a friendship with Tull's guitarist, Martin Barre. .

Experimental rock band from Costa Rica formed by José Ospino (drums), Mauricio Pauly (bass and vocals) and Gabriel Montagné (guitar), later replaced by Mauricio "Tuco" Quirós, with a very original style mixing hard rock, free jazz, fusion and a little bit of Crimson. Their lyrics, in Spanish, are quite dense and poetic sometimes, very difficult to interpret most of the times. The instrumental work is quite consistent and complex, with some passages of total weirdness. They released 2 albums: "los huesos de un pequeñísimo sapo o ya es otoño para el osito negro" and "chuis parece árbot". Along with their...

Welcome aboard and take a soft-sprung seat in the Transporter run by the Berlin-Frankfurt family business of Beni and Christoph Reimann. Don't expect a ride along any 8-lane highway of clichées. Where we're headed is not where the masses go. Transporter takes no short cuts. Trust in the drivers is essential. Listen closely, please, to the neighbourhoods in Transporter's localdistrict. With his effervescent playing, top-of-the-class vibraphonist Beni, who also welds percussion and Fender-Rhodes' components masterfully into the bodywork of Transporter, shares the wheel with dear brother Christoph, who operates the on-board computer and is responsible for both tempo change and...

Roy Porter accomplished so much in such a short period of time that it is surprising how brief his jazz career actually was. He picked up early experience touring with Milt Larkin in 1943, had a stint in the military and then settled in Los Angeles. Porter worked with Teddy Bunn in 1944, gigged frequently with Howard McGhee (with whom he made his first recordings in 1945) and in 1946 was on a Charlie Parker Dial recording session that resulted in the original versions of "Moose The Mooche," "Yardbird Suite" and "Ornithology." Porter also appeared on Bird's much less successful...