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Matthew Sabatella is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist based in Florida. Since 1988 he has been writing, performing and recording his own roots-based music that carries on the tradition of the great American song. Recently he been releasing collections of those traditional songs. He has released two CDs on Slipstream Records and his instrumental and vocal talents can be heard on dozens of commercially-available recordings by other worthy artists. In his lifetime he has performed or recorded a variety of musical styles such as classical, jazz, blues, folk, sacred, theater, pop, rock, and world music on instruments which include piano, guitar,...

Norma Bates is a Swedish rock/punk/garage-band formed in 2004. Group members are Julia Blomgren (vocals), Christian Massana (guitar), Jenny Sjöström-Massana (bass) and Pär Ekberg (drums). On Nov 14 2007 the group released the single Bow Down in Sweden. Among other songs are You Make Me Fine and Pushing and Smashing. Officiell website: www.normabates.com. .

Jimmy Sabater (April 11, 1946 - February 8, 2012) was born in Harlem Hospital, New York City. The proud son of Nestor Sabater and Teresa Gonzalez of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Jimmy grew up in East Harlem, the Spanish Quarter of New York City known as “El Barrio”. Like most teenagers in the neighborhood, he played stickball, flew kites, and harmonized the tunes of the popular R&B groups and vocalists of the day such as Nat King Cole. He was inspired by percussionists such as Willie Bobo, Uba Nieto, Papi Pagani, Monchito Muñoz, and Willie Rodriguez. With encouragement from many of...

There are at least three Norman bates'. One is a hardcore band from jersey: http://www.myspace.com/normanbatesmetal And the other one is a german jazz/funk/downtempo-rapper/singer, better known just as "Bates". He is currently working within his homebase "Zughafen", as well as artists like clueso, the rythm club or Makabu. www.normanbates.de Another one is a nu-metal / crossover band from Rakovník in Czech Republic. Check out their Bandzone profile. .

Mamadou Diabaté was born in 1975 in Kita, a Malian city long known as a center for the arts and culture of the Manding people of West Africa. As the name Diabate indicates, Mamadou comes from a family of griots, or jelis as they are known among the Manding. Jelis are more than just traditional musicians. They use music and sometimes oratory to preserve and sustain people's consciousness of the past, a past that stretches back to the 13th century when the Manding king Sunjata Keita consolidated the vast Empire of Mali, covering much of West Africa. The stories of...