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Äl Jawala [æl dʒa'væla], Arabic for "the traveler", "The Wanderer", "Mobile People" is a quintet from Freiburg, whose music style moves between Balkan-soul and Dance-beat. Äl Jawala formed in summer 2000 as a quartet. They started their career on the streets and soon they released their first, hand copied 4-track EP Worldbeat. After streetmusic tours all over Europe, Äl Jawala released their debut album Urbannâtya in 2002. What still was stylistically hard to determine in the early stages, solidified itself during this period and created a new sound. This was followed by their first live album Balkan Big Beatz (2003)....

Kunal Ganjawala is an Indian singer, known primarily for his work as a Bollywood playback singer. His breakthrough hit, Bheegey Hont from the film Murder, won the 2005 Zee Cine Award for Best Playback Singer (male). He is a graduate of St. Peter's School, Mazagaon. He says his singing career was begun in college: "I was not even a bathroom singer. I began singing only when I was ragged by my seniors as a fresher in Elphinstone College. I was passing by them whistling a tune when a few of them caught hold of me and commanded, 'Sing a song'....

Drawing inspiration from various sources – music, nature, art and video games come to mind – 19 year old Kwala from Charleston, South Carolina, is not the person who seeks to describe his music in pompous metaphors. Instead, he wants his music to speak for itself. He is a part of the Dagobot Collective and has previously released on Dagobot and FreeForm Records. http://kwala.bandcamp.com/ http://soundcloud.com/kwala-2 .