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Azizi Gibson is a rapper with a melting pot of influences. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany because of dirty hospital conditions in Zaire, Africa, his family then relocated back to Africa. After a while he moved to Bangkok, then to Singapore, back to Bangkok again and finally finding a home in the States at the age of 11. Azizi now calls Los Angeles his home and he has become an integral part of the uprising L.A. hip-hop scene. In L.A. he hooked up with the Flying Lotus-helmed Brainfeeder label and released his debut mixtape, Ghost in the Shell in...
Aziz Sahmaoui is a true inspiration to many musicians of the new generation. At the heart of the Orchestre National de Barbès or alongside Joe Zawinul, he has continued to promote traditional music Maghreb while listening to the most common modern jazz and fusion.
Aziz grew up in Marrakech, where for several decades the Ksar El Badii festival is held representing the cultural melting pot of different tribes and sounds of Morocco. From the age of 7, he was steeped in traditional music: chaabi, Ahwach, Nass el ghiwane, Lemchahab and especially the music of the Gnawa.
At 14, he formed...
Birol Topaloglu was born to a Laz family, in the small village Apso, which is on the North Eastern shore of the Black Sea coast of Turkey, near the Georgian border. He grew up speaking the Lazuri language at home. He started to sing in both Turkish and Lazuri, as well as his experiments in instrumentation drew serious attention. After having worked as an electronic engineer, at home in Turkey and abroad, he chose his music as his primary career.
Birol Topaloglu started collecting the lullabies, and the ballads sung by his mother. In 1997 he recorded the music of...
Aziza A. ( Aziza is a word in Arabic literally meaning "precious" or "holy"; her real name is Alev Yıldırım), was born in 1971, in Berlin, as the daughter of a Turkish family living in Germany. She first lived in Kreuzberg, then in Stegliz, finally moving to Berlin after school. She started her career, in 1996, presenting the children's program, Dr. Mag, which went on air every Saturday on ZDF, Germany's second biggest TV channel. In the meanwhile, with a growing interest in music and the hip-hop culture, she started taking music courses. Her parents returning to their homeland, in...
