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There is more than one artist under the name "Nicola". 1) Nicola, or Nicoleta Alexandru as her real name is, is a Romanian singer born 5 November 1968 in Bucharest, Romania. She is a mega star in Romania and is probaly most known throughout Europe due to her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga, Latvia with the song "Don't Break My Heart", which she represented her home country of Romania with. Official website: www.nicola.ro 2) Nicola is an ex-Les Miserables Broadway performer turned singer-songwriter living in New York City. Official website: www.nicolanicola.com 3) Nicola, now going by...

Nicolas Jaar is a Chilean-American composer and recording artist based in New York. Nicolas Jaar was born the 10th of January 1990 in New York but spent most of his childhood in Santiago de Chile, only to return to his place of birth as a teenager. Haunted by Mulatu Astatke, Erik Satie, Ezekiel Honig and Villalobos’ “Thé au Harem d’Archimède”; Nico started to make organic electronic music in 2004 at the age of 14. At 17, he debuted with "The Student EP" on Wolf + Lamb Music, with remixes by Seth Troxler and Kasper. At 18 he continued producing and...

There are at least three artists with this name. 1) An up-and-coming singer and songwriter, Nicolai is no stranger to the music scene. A seasoned background vocalist for some of the biggest names in the Jamaican music industry, she released her independently-produced Christian CD, 'Journey', to critical acclaim in 2001. Nicolai is currently writing and recording songs in anticipation of her re-emergence as a solo artist in 2008. "I've gone through major life-changing events since my debut album," she asserts. "I want to capture my experiences and the lessons I'm learning in songs that are authentic - you know, REAL...

Celia Cruz (born as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso in La Habana, Cuba on 21 October 1925 – died 16 July 2003) was a Cuban-American and was one of the most successful salsa performers of the 20th century, having earned twenty-three gold albums. She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba. In 1950, Cruz made her first major breakthrough, after the lead singer of the La Sonora Matancera, a renowned Cuban orchestra, left the group and Cruz was called to fill in. Cruz was hired permanently by the orchestra,...

Nicolae Guţă , born Nicolae Linguraru on December 3, 1967 in Petroşani, Romania, is a Romanian manele singer. He had a relationship with Sorina Guţă, another famous manele singer. He later adopted Guţă as a stage name. One of his famous songs is "Aş renunţa". In 2007 he released a cover version of the third-placed song in ESC 2006 (Lejla, by Hari mata Hari), renaming it "Cine eşti?" (Who are you?). .