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Shawn Mendes (born Shawn Peter Raul Mendes; August 8, 1998 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Since the release of his self-titled The Shawn Mendes EP and his debut single "Life of the Party", he has been gaining mainstream success as a singer-songwriter and touring artist. Mendes was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and was raised in Pickering, a suburb of the city. He is the son of Karen, a real estate agent, and Manuel Mendes, a businessman. His father is of Portuguese descent (from a family from Lagos), while his mother is English. He first started posting...

4 Strings currently consists of Carlo Resoort (who mostly makes the music) and Jan De Vos (who mostly works on production and arrangement, and performs some songs). In 2004, there were some rumors of singer Vanessa van Hemert leaving the group, due to some new 4 Strings songs that were released that did not feature van Hemert. On the official 4 Strings website, Resoort debunked the rumors. Although in 2005, van Hemert did leave the group. While Jan De Vos isn't actually a part of 4 Strings, he took up the name DJ 4 Strings and does all live performances...

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ROmantic Mode (or "ROM", to fans...) was a J-pop/techno/high-energy trio formed by Akira Asakura in vocals, Masaki Suzukawa in guitar and Joe Rinoie in keyboards and programming. They became famous after recording two opening songs for the animated TV series "After War Gundam X", one of the many installments in the long running Japanese science fiction saga "Gundam". "Dreams", the first one of those songs, was taken from ROM's self-titled debut album, which was released on 21 August 1996. Only four months later, thanks to the hype that their collaboration with a Gundam project entailed, ROM released a second album...

Woody Herman Shaw II (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) (United States) was a stunningly brilliant jazz trumpeter and composer, one of the last contributors to the language of modern jazz - who fiercely and yet successfully broadened the technical and harmonic capacity of his instrument. [ Website: http://www.WoodyShaw.com ] Shaw grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and began his study of music at the age of 11. Early in his career he was influenced by Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Booker Little, Dizzy Gillespie (whom Woody Jr's father had gone to high school with), Freddie Hubbard, amongst others, yet...