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Real name : Alida Johnson. She replaced Iris Trevisan as female vocalist for The Free.
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B-nice (real name : Felix Okon) was born in Nigeria and moved with his familiy to South London, where he began to work with different bands during 10 years. After finishing "business administration" - studies in at the London School of Economics, he moved to Austria 1991. There he rapped for groups like the Bingoboys and Beat 4 Feat. But it was with Unique II where he got the biggest success
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Listen To Your Heartbeat featured vocalist Barbara Evans and rapper Butch Master Flash. It was written by Claudio Collino, Deni Vian and Mauro Coslovich, produced by Claudio Collino, Deni Vian. Label: Inner Records
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Swedish vocalist, manager and songwriter Laila Natali Bagge Wahlgren was born 15 December 1972 in Lund as Laila Natali Cahling, from a Swedish mother and a Palestinian father. She learned jazz and ballet dancing.
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Balja (real name : Balca) is one of the best kept secrets in Fun Factory's history. She was born on April 14th, 1976. She was credited on the projects 2 first albums and she appeared in their first video clip Groove Me. The reasons she left Fun Factory to be replaced by Marie-Anett are unknown. She could also have been the vocalist of the project 2 Raff.
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Also known as Giorgia Barosso, Italian vocalist Giorgia Barrows did vocals on singles by projects DJ Black, Hugovox and Nikka. She also recorded some eurobeat solo songs.
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Sometimes credited as Angie Bastian, Angelice did vocals on God's Groove Prayer Seven / Prayer Eight (Voices From The Sky), View Step By Step, Ricky Easy. She also did backing vocals on DJ Sammy Rise Again.
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Jenny (Giovanna Bersola) was born on the 20th of July 1972 in Catania. Her father comes from Senegal and her mother comes from Sicily. She studied music during one year with Tiziana Ghiglioni, and was able to spend some time at the Berkley University. Her carreer began at the age of 15.
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Susanne Bertlin did vocals from Remon, NY Thing and Melodie MC (on the songs Heaven and Mr Harmony, from the 2nd album, and on the song No! from the 3rd album). She also did background vocals on Mayomi - How Can I Get By (Mayomi also worked as vocalist for Melodie MC)
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She did vocals for the projects Dance 4 Joy and Antartika.
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DJ, songwriter, keyboardist, bassist and composer born in Hull. After creating the project BlueTonicWorld, he contributed to the eurodance project Capital Soundas he was 25. He is also known as Baby Burn.
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Trine is the female vocalist of Daze. Before, she also did vocals for the project Double Divine under the name Trine Q.
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His real name is J. Masena.

In 1993 he created with Cool James the eurodance project Cool James and Black Teacher. They released one album and many hits such as Dr. Feelgood (it won the Best Scandinavian Dance Track in 1994), Godfather and The Rhythm Of The Tribe.

There were some rumors that he passed away, but fortunately this proved to be completely wrong.

2004 : Black Teacher recently released a solo EP on his own called I Surrender To You Lord Jesus.

Thanks to Rickard
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Real Name: Kurtis Walker.

As the first commercially successful rap artist, Kurtis Blow is a towering figure in hip-hop history. Popular and charismatic, he was the first rapper to sign with (and release an album for) a major label; the first to have a single certified gold (1980's landmark The Breaks); the first to embark on a national (and international) concert tour; and the first to cement rap's mainstream marketability by signing an endorsement deal. For that matter, he was really the first significant solo rapper on record. For all his immense importance and influence, many of Blow's records haven't dated all that well.

Kurtis Blow was born Kurtis Walker in Harlem in 1959. He began to immerse himself in the newborn hip-hop culture in the early '70s : breakdance, block-party and club DJ performing (as Kool DJ Kurt)... After enrolling at City College of New York in 1976, he also served as program director for the college radio station. He became an MC in his own right around 1977, and changed his name to Kurtis Blow (as in a body blow) at the suggestion of his manager, future Def Jam founder and rap mogul Russell Simmons. Blow performed with legendary DJs like Grandmaster Flash, and for a time his regular DJ was Simmons' teenage brother Joseph or Joey (who, after changing his stage name from "Son of Kurtis Blow," would later become the first half of Run-D.M.C). Over 1977-1978, Blow's club gigs around Harlem and the Bronx made him an underground sensation, and Billboard magazine writer Robert Ford approached Simmons about making a record. Blow recorded a single co-written by Rocky Ford and J.B. Moore called Christmas Rappin'. It was a hit and it helped him get a contract with Mercury.

Blow's second single, The Breaks, was an out-of-the-box smash, entering the Top Five of the R&B charts in 1980 and eventually going gold. It is still considered as one of old school rap's greatest and most enduring moments. The full-length album Kurtis Blow was also released in 1980, and made the R&B Top Ten in spite of many assumptions that the Sugarhill Gang's success was a one-time fluke. Although the album's attempts at soul crooning and rock covers haven't dated well, the poverty-themed Hard Times marked perhaps the first instance of hip-hop's social consciousness, and was later covered by Run-D.M.C. Blow initially found it hard to follow up The Breaks, despite releasing nearly an album a year for most of the '80s. 1981's Deuce and 1982's Tough weren't huge sellers, and 1983's Party Time EP brought D.C. go-go funksters E.U. on board for a stylistic update. However, things picked up in 1984 with the release of the Ego Trip album, which featured the single Basketball. Around this time, Blow was also making his mark as a producer, working with a variety of hip-hop and R&B artists. Ego Trip sold respectably well on the strength of cuts like the DJ tribute AJ Scratch and the Run-D.M.C. duet 8 Million Stories. Blow followed it with an appearance in the cult hip-hop film Krush Groove, in which he performed If I Ruled the World, his biggest hit since The Breaks.
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(Marcus Deon Thomas)
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Jocelyn Lorette Brown was born in Kingston, North Carolina in November 25th, 1950 from a musical family. Here is how she describes herself : "Jocelyn Brown's a singer. A black woman from North Carolina, migrated from there to New York City and from there to London. Who has a background of Gospel history, came through with contemporary music through my aunt Barbara Gaskin or Barbara Roy. Educated with music through being a background singer and also through my family who are also ministral singers. On the professional side, more so on doing background work and doing a lot of studio work. She's a mother of three children. She's a woman that stands firmly on her feet about all things. She tries to understand all things. She's open-minded, very tender. And my love of God is wonderful, you know, I love the Lord of all my heart."
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Growing up in Nashville Tennessee (USA), Theresa Burnette began her musical carrier at the young age of 6, singing in the gospel choir of her father’s church. Later she studied singing in a church college.
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Even if she is never officially credited, she could also have taken part to many other Italian eurodance tracks.
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