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George Benson is a jazz guitarist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on 22 March 1943. He started out playing straight-ahead instrumental jazz with organist Jack McDuff. Benson got his first experience playing with his several-year stint with McDuff's group. In 1964, at the age of 21, Benson recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, with Brother Jack McDuff on organ. Benson's next recording was It's Uptown with the George Benson Quartet with Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber on baritone sax. This album showcases Benson's talent in constructing swinging bebop lines at blistering tempos. Benson followed...

A "visual-kei" rock band from Osaka, Japan. Years active: 1994 - 1999 "STELLA MARIA" had a lot of member changes in their activity. The band released two mini-albums, two maxi-singles, and a few demo-tapes/live-distributed CDs over the years, they also participated on various compilation albums. Final line-up: Vocal: Tsurugi (DEATH TRASH → 魂爵惑 → D.I.S.C → Lúcide → STELLA MARIA) Programming/Synth Guitar/Electric Guitar: #4 (STELLA MARIA → 廃人黒薔薇族 → STELLA MARIA → LU-C SORT DRIVE → Captain Double Lynch → 雲の旅団 → Skunk Works) Acoustic Guitar/Bass: naoya (STELLA MARIA → CRUNCH) Drums/Percussion: Takashi Ex-members: Bass: Ma～Na (Stella Maria → Snow)...

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people. Born in the late 1940s, Chiweshe grew up in Zimbabwe's forest region of Mhondoro, about 45 miles from the capital city, Harare. Chiwese began learning to play the mbira dza vadzimu in 1964. It was very unusual for a girl to play mbira at that time and Chiweshe had to face the dissaproval of her community, where woman performers were often treated as "loose women." Chiweshe perservered to become perhaps the best known player of the instrument outside Zimbabwe. The mbira dza...