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AaRON - France Website
More than 200.000 Albums sold in France alone! *** With their mixture of Electro-Blues and Nouvelle Chanson, AaRON are currently on the same track as French artists such as AIR or DAFT PUNK.
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AKLI D - Algeria Website
One of the most charismatic faces of World Music and voice of a whole generation. His latest album 'Ma Yela' was produced by Manu Chao and with his mixture of folk, gypsy-jazz and Chaâbi music Akli D. is sure to provide an unforgettable live experience. New album in 2009!
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AMADOU AND MARIAM - Mali Website
Grammy nominated 2006! *** Double BBC Radio Award Winner 2006
Following their collaborations with Manu Chao and Herbert Groenemeyer Amadou & Maria again worked with well-known artists such as Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) on their new album and graced the stage at several festivals in 2008.
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DUEL - Frankreich Website
From Classic to Jazz, Bach to the Bee Gees, Tango to Rap or Beatles to Igor Strawinsky – the two French performers, Paul Staïcu and Laurent Cirade, present their excellent musical skills while bringing the audience to their laughing limits. Perfect for Variété Theatres!
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ENZO AVITABILE - Italy Website
Enzo Avitabile's sound combines World Music, Jazz and Funk influences with heavy percussion on wooden barrels and ancient southern Italian vocal styles. He was nominated for the BBC Radio Awards 2006 and has already worked with superstars such as Tina Turner, James Brown or Randy Crawford.
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HOLLY WILLIAMS - USA Website
Growing up with the country music of her famous grandfather Hank Williams from Nashville/Tennessee, Holly created an excellent debut album combining her skills as a singer/songwriter with alternative folk influences and a remarkable voice.
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JEHRO - France Website
“The Troubadour with the angelic voice” has created a brilliant album with “eleven sweet pearls” (Le Figaro, Paris). It topped the French and British as well as the itunes World Music charts. After returning from his successful US tour with Sean Jorge he enchanted European festival visitors in 2007.
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KLAZZ MEETS THE VOICE - Brazil / Germany Website
A sensational, very successful project of the Klazz Brothers (300.000 sold albums worldwide) featuring Brazilian power-vocalist Edson Cordeiro. Together they inspire their audiences with a mixture of Jazz, Classic and Pop.
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LES BOUKAKES - France / Algeria / Tunisia Website
The new generation of modern Rai is young, explosive and powerful. Les Boukakes performed an excellent show at WOMEX 2005 in Newcastle and convinced with a fabulous bandleader. Recently, they could be witnessed at such big festivals as Sziget (Budapest) or Masala Weltbeat Festival (Hannover).
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MALENE MORTENSEN - Denmark Website
Regardless of her young age, the 26-year-old Jazz singer from Denmark enchants the audience with an intensive and powerful voice. Her stage presence is also quite impressing, which makes her one of the hottest jazz-singers of her generation.
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MELINGO - Argentina Website
The "Tom Waits" of Tango. Sad, funny, intensive, bizarre, fascinating, marvelous! You will love it. The 50year old tango singer-songwriter Melingo is just like good wine, he gets better with time.
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PEYOTI FOR PRESIDENT - United Kingdom Website
The band consisting of members from brazil, syria, jamaica, india and ireland celebrates musical diversity and delivers energetic political lyrics with high relevance. They opened up for Manu Chao in 2007 and are about to drop their new album "Rising Tide of Conformity".
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RUSCONI - Switzerland Website
Three guys from Zurich generating jazz full of energy. Music that floats, never hesitates or drifts away, but surges straight to the crest of a mountain wind then surfs directly to the valley floor to work the land with razor-sharp rhythms and soulful sounds.
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SARA TAVARES - Portugal Website
The sound of Sara Tavares' "Contemporary African Popmusic" is gentle, full of emotion, elegant and very rhythmic. As "Portugal's Whitney Houston", the Portuguese-Capverdean singer had already reached stardom at the age of 16 and has matured continuously since. Pure heaven!
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SOUAD MASSI - Algeria/France Website
As the new shooting star of the world music scene Souad presented her new album �Mesk Elil� � an irresistible mix of beautiful melodies, lyrics, arrangements and styles that fascinated her audience in 2005. She was awarded with the �Les Victoires de la Musique 2006�.
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VOCAL SAMPLING - Cuba Website
�It's the best thing I've heard in ten years� , (Paul Simon)
Grammy tagged and named one of the best a-cappella bands worldwide the six Cuban singers of Vocal Sampling produce all the sounds with their hands and mouths. It feels like a complete salsa-band. Instruments are overrated...
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AKIM EL SIKAMEYA - Algeria Website
The big surprise of the WOMAD festivals in Las Palmas, Madrid, Reading and Singapore in 2005 got an amazing audience response. Backed by his new album INTRODUCING he is going to enchant his audiences again with a completely new program in 2009.
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ALEX CUBA - Canada / Cuba Website
The cuban version of Lenny Kravitz excites audiences with his special mix of Soul, Pop, Rock and Latin. Sold-out tours, numerous awards and collaborations with artists such as Ron Sexsmith and Jason Mraz speak for itself.
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CARACOL - Canada Website
Carol Facal has already gained plenty of international festival experience as one half of the Canadian duo DobraCaracol. With her very personal solo-debut she now delights listeners and critics alike. Profound songwriting and catchy instrumentals in perfect combination.
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EDSON CORDEIRO - Brazil Website
The Brazilian with the magic voice who is able to use the full extent of four octaves fascinates his audiences with a crossover of Classic, Pop, Jazz and - of course - Brazilian music. In September 2008 his new album "The Woman's Voice" was released.
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GOCOO - Japan Website
A sensational and energetic Taiko power performance celebrated mainly by female drummers attracted not only world wide festival organizers but also a huge number of fans in recent years. Their stage performance and live power is incomparable!
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JARABE DE PALO - Spain Website
One of the most successful Spanish Latin Rock bands who became one of the best club acts 2005 in Germany/Austria due to a large number of sold-out shows on their European Tour. They sold more than 2 million CDs worldwide. Their world tour from 2005 to 2008 included more than 250 concerts!
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KITTY HOFF - Germany Website
“La Hoff” combines her deep and cunning lyrics with an inventive mix of Bossa Nova, Jazz, Pop and Swing and is said to be the most promising artist of the German Chanson scene. Laureate of renowned “Lale-Andersen-Award 2008”. New album (EMI/Blue Note Germany) and tour in 2009!
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KROKE - Poland Website
A band who works with such renowned artists as Nigel Kennedy or Peter Gabriel and draws the attention of Steven Spielberg necessarily must be something special indeed. Klezmer with modern influences - visitors of their concerts already know: this band simply refuses to stagnate musically.
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LHASA - Canada/USA/Mexiko Website
Lhasa de Sela is an outstanding singer and storyteller. Her memorable voice - strong, melancholic and amorous - is her music’s trademark up until today. Lhasa won the BBC Radio Award for World Music 2005 in the category “Best Act America”.
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MARIZA - Portugal Website
Fado-superstar Mariza won the Golden Globe Award 2005 and sold half a million copies worldwide. She has it all - charisma, stunning looks, a voice to die for and shows that deal in musical passion and drama. In 2008 "Terra", her latest piece of work was released.
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ORANGE BLOSSOM - France Website
Hypnotic, lyrical, electrifying, highly emotional, passionate, opulent, all of these are keywords suitable to describe ORANGE BLOSSOM and their roller coaster ride between Electro Beats and Oriental Sounds.
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RAUL PAZ - Cuba/France Website
A promising presenter of Cuban music who compounds modern latin pop with excellent song-writing as well as with an exceptional live-performance to an irresistible mixture. Presenting his new album �En Casa� around Europe. Hot and danceable!
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Salsa En Clave - Columbia/Ecuador/Germany Website
The five gifted instrumentalists from Columbia, Ecuador and Germany bring sizzling South-American rhythms to stages all over Europe and infect everyone with their irrestible mixture of Salsa, Cumbia and Merengue.
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SOPHIE HUNGER - Switzerland Website
!Pop-sensation made in Switzerland!
Her extraordinary stage presence and charismatic, seductive voice make Sophie Hunger an artist to watch! Her album “Monday’s Ghost” reaches No. 1 (!) of the Swiss Charts and will be released in Germany in February 2009 (Universal Jazz).
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THE PUPPINI SISTERS - UK Website
"Vintage Swing Pop" with a twist. 40's classics such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" but also songs like "Panic" by The Smiths or "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush find their way onto "Betcha Bottom Dollar" reaching the top twenty of the official UK album charts.
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