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Kemopetrol

Kemopetrol is a Finnish band from Helsinki combining traditional, moody pop sounds with intriguing modern esthetics.Guitarist Marko Soukka and keyboard player Kalle Koivisto founded Kemopetrol in November 1998, originally as an ambient music project. Vocalist Laura Närhi joined the band in January 1999, followed by drummer Teemu Nordman and bassist Kari Myöhänen later same year.Kemopetrol’s first single Child Is My Name was released at the end of 1999 and was a breakthrough success. In 2000, their debut album Slowed Down was released. Slowed Down contains music that is a mixture of rock, jazz and electronic music.In March 2002, the single Saw It on TV and, two months later,......

Karuan

Karuan (also Karwan Marouf or simply Karwan) was born in 1976 in Vienna as the son of Kurdish parents. Karuan's love for music arose from the Kurdish singer Şivan Perwer and from the traditional Kurdish celebrations. At the age of six Karuan started to record his singing on music tapes. Ever since that day making music is Karuan's most favourite occupation. In 1995 Karuan started to work on his own solo projects which were largely inspired by Folk and Black Music. At this time Karuan's music was strictly band-oriented. When Karuan began to arrange his songs on the computer he slowly turned to be an electronic musician. Today the autodidact Karuan is able to......

Kellerkind

The musically gifted Producer and DJ from Switzerland manages to add a personal touch to all of his sets by adding songs he produces himself as well as his own remixes. Only if you’ve been to any of his parties can you comprehend the magnitude of his aura!Kellerkind has produced many of his own songs for example "Bergluft" that eaven reached the Top5 in the genre Minimal on Beatport. He has rocked the turntables at numerous well-known clubs in Switzerland for example Rohstofflager, Club Q, Kaufleuten, OXA, Labitzke, Hidden, Legend, Prestige… Thanks to the amazing feedback and the huge crowds he attracts he is regularly booked by the mentioned clubs.......

Koop

Koop is the Swedish electronic jazz duo of Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 1995. Though the music may sound as if it is played by a tight jazz group, it is actually sample-based. Thousands of small clips of drums, strings, horns, and choirs are taken from old records and puzzled together into new songs. This time consuming production process is one of the reasons Koop's albums are released 4-5 years apart. The group's 3 albums all feature guest vocalists. On their latest, "Koop Islands", the singers are Yukimi Nagano, Ane Brun, Hilde Louise Asbjornsen, Rob Gallagher and Mikael Sundin. Also contributing to the......

Killer

There are at least seven artists that have used the name Killer:1. A metal band from the United Kingdom2. A metal band from Belgium3. A rock band from Finland4. A rock band from Switzerland5. A punk band from Germany6. A calypso musician from Trinidad7. A death metal band from the United Kingdom1) Killer were a NWOBHM band from Salisbury, England who later changed their name to Genghis Khan, and then again to Tokyo Blade.2) Originally founded in 1980, the Belgian Heavy Metal Band, Killer, released 4 albums until 1990 when they ceased performing and recording. 3) Killer is a rock band founded in 1999 in Helsinki, Finland.4) A band from Switzerland, whose best known work was......

Kaleidoscópio

Kaleidoscópio is a project formed in 2002 by Brasil drum and bass DJ Ramilson Maia (Ram Science and Currupio) with singer, composer and ballerina Janaína Lima and producer Gui Boratto. They are mostly famous with songs like Tem que Valer and Chuva which are in their album Tem Que Valer. Kaleidoscopio's style is mostly drum and bass and electronica. In their list of song we can find classics like Tarde em Itapuã and Flor de Lis.They later changed their name to KALEIDO and went to Japan to start a career there. Source

Kelis

Kelis (born Kelis Rogers on August 21, 1979), is known simply by her first name Kelis (pronounced Kuh-lees). Her name is an amalgamation of her parents' first names, her black father Kenneth and Chinese-Puerto Rican mother Eveliss. Growing up in Middle Class Harlem, New York Kelis' childhood was not a deprived one. But she was not without problems, after her parents realised they could not cope with her unruly behavior (Kelis shaved all her hair off at age 13, soon afterwards dyeing the regrowth the colors of the rainbow), Kelis moved out of the family home, continuing her private education.After a short spell working as a model, 5'10" Kelis began......