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Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian band formed in 1981 in Rīga, Latvia. Their name means "the yellow postmen" in Latvian, and is sometimes abbreviated to DzP. They were among the pioneers of new wave as well as reggae in the former Soviet Union. The music has ranged from guitar/bass/drums-based post-punk to minimal synthpop to experimental tape manipulation. The constant core members of the band have remained Ingus Baušķenieks (bass guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Viesturs Slava (guitars, keyboards, vocals), with Zigmunds Streiķis (keyboards) and Ilgvars Rišķis (drums) completing the "classic" line-up. Their first six albums (1981-1987) were home-recorded using consumer tape...

Maarten van Roozendaal was a Dutch singer and songwriter from Heiloo. He gained fame when he won the kleinkunst festival in 1994. Maarten van Roozendaal's tone oozes heavy melancholy, but not in a depressing way and his songs usually result in a smile. Recurring themes are love, death, idiots savants & alcohol. Maarten van Roozendaal is often compared with Jaques Brel and Tom Waits. He accompanies himself on piano, used to play with Kim Soepnel on bass, nowadays Egon Kracht plays the bass, and Marcel de Groot plays guitar. His last theater show 'Barmhart' was applauded by crytics, his new...

Uldis Stabulnieks (1945- 2012) was a Latvian jazz pianist and popular music composer. Starting out in the underground Soviet jazz scene as a member of various bands, including a collaboration with trumpeter Gunārs Rozenbergs, Stabulnieks eventually went on to become one of the most prolific Latvian composers of popular music. Despite his songs becoming standard repertoire for various Latvian pop singers and writing scores for a number of Latvian movies, Stabulnieks continued to perform his own material as a respected solo artist right until his death in 2012. .

Born in Bruges, Belgium in 1952, Moniek Darge has worked as a composer, violinist, performer and installation artist. She studied music theory and violin at the Music Conservatory of Bruges as well as painting at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Arthistory, Philosophy and Anthropology. She has published extensively on her musical experiences in Kenya, Rwanda, Japan, China, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, both in 'Logos-Blad', the monthly magazine of the Logos Foundation (of which she is editor), and on numerous radio programs. She is currently assistant professor at the Hogeschool Gent where she teaches 20th Century Art History,...

Aarzemnieki is a Latvian folk band from Rīga, Latvia that represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with their song Cake to Bake. It was formed in 2013 by singer-songwriter Jöran Steinhauer. Members Jöran Steinhauer - guitars, vocals; Guntis Veilands - keyboards; Katrīna Dimanta - violin; Raitis Viļumovs - drums, percussion. http://www.facebook.com/aarzemnieki .