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Farida

Farida was born in 1963 in kerbala, Iraq. Art Diploma from Musical Studies Institute 1990. Member of Iraqi Musical Heritage Group 1986-1989. Member of Iraqi Artists Union 1987. She has estabilshed a reputation throughout the Arab world for her brilliant performances of the classical Maqam, a form of Arab art music traditionally sung by men. Her powerful voice and her extensive training in the Iraqi and Arab maqam have enabled her to perform some of the most challenging maqam of Arab music. She studied with Munir Bashir, the late Iraqi Ud (lute) Master, who encouraged her to perform classical Iraqi Maqam despite the traditional barrier to women. She has also studied with sha......

Fischerspooner

Fischerspooner were an electroclash duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York City. The name comes directly from the last names of the band members; Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner.Spiking extremely retro electropop tendencies (recalling Kraftwerk, early Depeche Mode, and Gary Numan) with a modern approach to programming, Fischerspooner produces a quirky, robotic, and strangely subdued kind of dance music. Their albums can be seen as soundtracks to their stageshows, as opposed to recordings which are performed live.Many critical theorists have latched on to the band for their subversive attitude and sassy stylings - Judith Butler, Etienne Balibar, and Antonio......

Filous

Austrian music producer.https://twitter.com/filousmusic Source

Fantasy

Several artists by this name, including:1. English progressive rock group that evolved out of an earlier group called Chapel Hill. Occupying a style somewhere between the pensive sounds of Camel and the song-oriented musings of Cressida, they released one album for Polydor, the acclaimed Paint A Picture, in 1973. A second album, Beyond The Beyond, was recorded a year later, but was not released until 1992, resurrected from obscurity by the Audio Archives label. Audio Archives released a third album, Vivariatum, culled from a 1970 acetate of Chapel Hill recordings, 1976 demo recordings and one B-side (I Was Once Aware) from the band's only single Politely Insane, dating......

Freestyle

There is more than one artist with the name Freestyle:1. Swedish synthpop group from the early 1980s2. Electro artist Tony Butler3. Filipino band4. American MC from Arsonists.5. Korean band - use this tag - 프리스타일1. A Swedish synthpop group from the early 1980s. Their most popular hits were "Vill Ha Dig" and "Fantasi". Members: Tommy Ekman, Christer Sandelin, Gigi Hamilton, Joakim Hagleitner, Anders Uddberg and Diane Corinne Söderholm. When the group split up in 1983, Sandelin, Ekman and Hamilton formed Style. Freestyle briefly reunited in 1998, re-recording a few old songs.2. One of the '80s electro artists, Miami-based producer Tony Butler......

Funkerman

http://www.facebook.com/funkermanhttp://www.youtube.com/funkermantube/ Funkerman, known to his postman as Ardie van Beek, (born 1975, Breda, The Netherlands), is a well known DJ/producer and founder of Flamingo Recordings.From his first love of pioneering US hip hop, through obsessive crate digging for classic soul, Disco and Funk, to riding on the first waves of US house; he has always been on a quest to find, make and play new and exciting music. Whilst spinning at the Spock club in Breda in the mid nineties he was also starting to produce and promote music, while working in local record store, Magik. Being surrounded by the records he loved gave him an insight to the......

FOS

fos is the music project of London based Greek artist Katerina Koutouzi. The music is mainly acoustic; instruments include a conch, piano, accordion, harmonium, glockenspiel, daouli (traditional greek drum), pebbles, melodica and vocals. When playing live fos uses a looping pedal to layer the instruments in an organic manner. The music is inspired by the rhythm of the sea. fos has already released two albums on near the exit music. Source

Flamingosis

New Jersey native Aaron Velasquez a.k.a 'Flamingosis' makes beats and electronic music in the ilk of J Dilla with respect to the hip/hop tradition. He was signed to Grappa Frisbee Records, a net label based in Connecticut and is currently part of the KEATS//COLLECTIVE. (https://soundcloud.com/keats-collective)http://flamingosis1.bandcamp.com/http://soundcloud.com/flamingosishttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Flamingosis/98321883816?ref=br_tfhttp://keatscollective.bandcamp.com/album/flamingosishttp://twitter.com/MrFlamingosis Source...