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There are at least two bands called Gondwana. 1) Gondwana is a reggae musical group from La Pincoya, Santiago, Chile, founded in 1987 by I Locks Labbé. Their leader, Quique Neira (known as the chilean Bob Marley) was the soul of the band, the first one to be noticed with real success in Chile, and left the band to begin a single career. Now, the band has another singer, Kingo, and plays in important festivals around Latin America, with lot of fans everywhere. 2) Gondwana is a project with Australian didgeridoo player Charlie McMahon, who was also front-man of the...

Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales aka Silvestrong (Born May 12, 1980 in Urumita, La Guajira) is a Colombian Vallenato singer, composer and Timbales player. Dangond is considered one of the mainstream representatives of the "new wave" of vallenato musicians. Early years Dangond grew up back and forward between his birthplace Urumita and Valledupar, but mostly in this last one, where his parents moved when he was just a year old to Valledupar due to financial hardships. As a curiosity Jorge Oñate was his Godparent. In Valledupar his parents enrolled him in the Jardín Nacional nursery school, later attended middle school at...

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Né à Versailles en 1963 où il a grandi dans l'influence constante de la musique (Martin son grand-père a inventé l'un des tous premiers synthétiseurs, le Clavioline, et son père vendait des guitares électriques), tout petit Michel Gondry voulait être peintre ou inventeur. Après ses études primaires et secondaires, il entre dans une école d'arts appliquées (Olivier-de-Serres à Paris), où il peut développer ses talents de graphiste et où il fait également la connaissance d'amis qui deviendront ses partenaires dans le groupe de pop-rock Oui Oui, où Michel officie en tant que batteur et dans lequel joua Etienne Charry, qui...

Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) was an Italian concertinst, classical guitarist and composer. He spent his early years touring throughout Europe as a child prodigy. Fernando Sor dedicated his Souvenir d'amitié, op. 46 to Regondi in 1831, when the boy was just nine. Regondi wrote most of his music for the concertina, an English/German aerophonic instrument, though his compositions for the classical guitar are more popular. His musical and technical ideas extended somewhat the possibilities of the guitar, compared to the standards prevailing in his time. His use of very wide chord voicing, typical of the piano, and the overextension of the...