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Befour

   
Artist: Befour

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Hand In Hand (The Winter Album)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 All 4 One

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13

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beFour is a microbe out quartette that was cast by German TV station SuperRTL for their 2007 docu-soap beFour: Das Star-Tagebuch (beFour: The Star Diary). The group, which is corresponding to the similarly styled Banaroo and Chipz, includes iV vocalists, two boys and two girls: Manou (born February 18, 1984, in Uznach, Switzerland), Alina (born November 2, 1984, in Geilenkirchen, Germany), Dan (born December 17, 1987, in Berlin, Germany), and Angel (innate February 21, 1982, in Velbert, Germany), all of them active in saltation, playacting, and vocalizing. According to beFour's internet site, the pigeonholing members already met v years before their TV present and were discovered by producer Christian Geller at a terpsichore contest. Their 2007 debut album, All 4 One, disdain well-nigh universally negative reviews, reached number unitary on the German and Swiss charts and number deuce on the Austrian charts, spawned trinity charting singles, and went gold.

Troublemakers

   
Artist: Troublemakers

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Doubts and Convictions

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11

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Coming from the demesne of fine vino and romanticism is the electronica trinity Troublemakers, and like their French counterparts such as AIR and Dimitri From Paris, this eclectic mathematical group of musicians composes a selective sound when it comes to shaping dance music. DJ Oil, Fred Berthet, and Arnaud Taillefer first met at the Friche-Belle in Marseille in 1998, and speedily the three got along, thanks to their grasp for '60s and '70s jazz and funk and film heaps. This in turn created the basis of jungle, hip-hop, and house elements to immix together for the Troublemakers. Each musician has case-by-case experiences as well: DJ Oil, a lynchpin within the jungle scene in Marseille, has been perfecting his funkadelic grooves since the early '90s and has held a abidance at the famous Radio Grenouille since 1996. Taillefer preferent picture taking, lifelike figure, and movie soundtracks, aside from tackling music full-time, and Berthet, wHO is a Parisian DJ, issued various releases during the '90s piece working with worldbeat music. Together the Troublemakers mould a unique vibe and maintain a firm winnow radix about Europe. In early 2001, their debut Doubts & Convictions was released on Guidance.





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Harry Belafonte

   
Artist: Harry Belafonte

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Folk
   Other
   Easy Listening
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Collections

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Ultimate Collection

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 25


   
 Island in the Sun

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 The Greatest Hits Of Harry Belafonte

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 23


   
 Live Europe

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 16


   
 Ultimate Collection CD3

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 16


   
 Ultimate Collection CD2

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 16


   
 Calypso From Jamaica

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 18


   
 Calypso

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sings Of The Caribbian (Vinyl)

   Year: 1957   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Best Of Harry Belafonte

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Songs for Dancing

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 Live - Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


   
 Hits and Rare Songs

   Year:    
Tracks: 25


   
 Gold - 20 Super Hits

   Year:    
Tracks: 20


   
 Banana Boat E Other Famous Folk Songs

   Year:    
Tracks: 17

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An worker, do-gooder, and the acknowledged "King of Calypso," Harry Belafonte stratified among the nearly seminal performers of the postwar era. One of the most successful African-American pop stars in story, Belafonte's astounding natural endowment, estimable looks, and consummate assimilation of sept, jazz, and worldbeat rhythms allowed him to attain a level of mainstream distinction and crossover popularity about unequalled in the days before the advent of the polite rights movement -- a cultural rebellion which he himself helped spearhead.


Harold George Belafonte, Jr., was innate March 1, 1927, in Harlem, NY. The logos of Caribbean-born immigrants, he returned with his female parent to her native Jamaica at the age of eight, left there for the side by side five age. Upon reversive to the U.S., Belafonte dropped out of high school to enlist in the U.S. Navy; after his assoil, he relocated in New York City to spirt a calling as an actor, acting with the American Negro Theatre piece studying drama at Erwin Piscator's famed Dramatic Workshop alongside the likes of Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis.


A telling role resulted in a series of night club engagements, and finally Belafonte fifty-fifty opened his possess club. Initially, he put his top, silken voice to work as a straight pop up singer, launch his recording calling on the Jubilee label in 1949; yet, at the dayspring of the fifties he observed sept music, eruditeness material through the Library of Congress' American folk songs archives while also discovering West Indian music. With guitar player Millard Thomas, Belafonte shortly made his debut at the legendary jazz club the Village Vanguard; in 1953, he made his cinema bow in Bright Road, winning a Tony Award the side by side twelvemonth for his work in the Broadway review John Murray Anderson's Almanac.


With his lead role in Otto Preminger's photographic film adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones, Belafonte shooter to stardom; after signing to the RCA judge, he issued Scar Twain and Other Folk Favorites, which reached the number tercet slot on the Billboard charts in the other weeks of 1956. His succeeding exploit, highborn simply Belafonte, reached number one, kick-starting a national craze for calypso music; Calypso, as well issued in 1956, topped the charts for a stupefying 31 weeks on the strength of hits like "Jamaica Farewell" and the immortal "Banana Boat (Day-O)."


Following the success of 1957's An Evening with Belafonte and its strike "Mary's Boy Child," Belafonte returned to photographic film, victimisation his now considerable pull to actualize the controversial celluloid Island in the Sun, in which his fibre contemplates an thing with a egg white cleaning lady portrayed by Joan Fontaine. Similarly, 1959's Odds Against Tomorrow cast him as a bank robber teamed with a racist accomplice. Also in 1959 he released the LP Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, a recording of a sold-out April carrying into action that exhausted over troika days on the charts; Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall followed in 1960 and featured appearances by Odetta, Miriam Makeba, and the Chad Mitchell Trio.


At the turn of the sixties, Belafonte became television's starting time black manufacturer; his special Tonight with Harry Belafonte won an Emmy that same year. Although dissatisfied with filmmaking, he continued his prolific record album turnout with 1961's Alternate Up Calypso and 1962's The Midnight Special, which featured the first-ever recorded appearance by a youth harp player named Bob Dylan. As the Beatles and other stars of the British Invasion began to master the pop charts, Belafonte's impact as a commercial force diminished; 1964's Belafonte at the Greek Theatre was his terminal Top 40 exploit, and subsequent efforts like 1965's An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba and 1966's In My Quiet Room struggled even to crack the Top C. 1969's Homeward Bound earned Belafonte his last Billboard chart appearance, although he continued to record. He then made his first base plastic film appearance in all over a decade in 1970's The Angel Levine and continued to focussing on his work as a civil rights militant.


In increase to his continued work in recording (albeit less oftentimes after going RCA in the mid-'70s) and photographic film (1972's Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and the Preacher and 1974's Uptown Saturday Night), Belafonte spent an increasing amount of the 1970s and eighties as a indefatigable humanist; nigh famously, he was a central pattern of the USA for Africa exploit, singing on the 1985 single "We Are the World." A year afterwards, he replaced Danny Kaye as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador. After a long absence from the silver screen, Belafonte resurfaced in the mid-'90s in a number of film roles, most notably in the reverse-racism drama White Man's Burden and Robert Altman's jazz-era period man Kansa City. Although at this point Belafonte had stopped up recording new medicine, he unbroken his nominate in the news by releasing the casual live album (including 1997's An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends) as good as existence an candid exponent of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and opposite of the Bush government.

Chris Liebing

   
Artist: Chris Liebing

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   Dance
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 The Remixes Part 2 Vinyl

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Stigmata Chapter 1/Complete Co

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 44


   
 Ping Pong Pineapple Remixes Vi

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Live at in qontrol amsterdam

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


   
 Golden Age Remixes Vinyl

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 American Madness remix CLEVO02

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Volume 7 Remixed

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 Volume 6 Remixed (CLRETRY06) V

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 Gassenhauer CLR006 Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


   
 Weather

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 2


   
 Stigmata 8 Vinyl

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


   
 Next Try Vinyl

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 2


   
 The Biggest Ten Inches I...

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 2


   
 Stigmata 6

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


   
 Analogon The Remixes

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 2


   
 Stigmata 5 - 10

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


   
 Stigmata 4 - 10

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


   
 Stigmata 2 - 10

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4


   
 Stigmata 1 - 10

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4

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Active in Frankfurt's dance music scene since the early '90s, techno manufacturer and DJ Chris Liebing released productions for a number of labels -- Audio, Clau, Molecular, Molecular, Primate, his possess C.L.R., and several others -- end-to-end the late '90s and early 2000s. In 2005, he worked with Speedy J on Collabs 3000: Metalism, released on Novamute.





Sandy Nelson

Bateman signs pact to develop TV series

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hot off his pilot directing debut with "Do Not Disturb," actor/director Jason Bateman has inked a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV.


Under the one-year pact, Bateman will develop series projects for the studio through his F+A Prods. banner.


20th TV chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman were impressed by Bateman's work on "Disturb," a workplace comedy starring Jerry O'Connell that was the only live-action comedy pilot Fox picked up as a new series for next season.


"He did an excellent job on the pilot visually, brought great energy and enthusiasm to it and, as an actor, he really understands how to talk to and motivate actors," said Newman, who also is an occasional Bateman golf partner. "Hopefully he will be a better director than golfer."


Bateman, who starred on the 20th TV-produced "Arrested Development," also is slated to provide the voice for a character in Mitch Hurwitz's animated Fox comedy "Sit Down, Shut Up," from Sony TV and 20th TV.


Bateman next will be seen on the big screen in the Will Smith-starring "Hancock."


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Al Gromer Khan and Amelia Cuni

   
Artist: Al Gromer Khan and Amelia Cuni

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Monsoon Point

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 1

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