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VaShawn Mitchell was born and raised in Chicago, IL. The city known as the birthplace of Gospel music quickly made its imprint on him. When he was barely a teenager, VaShawn became the assistant music director of St. Mark Baptist Church, working closely with nationally renowned choir leader Lonnie Hunter. For nearly a decade he served as Minister of Music at Bishop Larry D. Trotter’s Sweet Holy Spirit Church, setting the musical tone both within the church walls and on the ministry’s top-selling recording projects. The youngest Minister of Music in that church’s history, he successfully merged the contemporary themes...

Siavash Ghomayshi (Persian: سیاوش قمیشی), born 1945 in Ahwaz, Iran, is an Iranian song writer, singer and music producer. He began his work in 1971 in Tehran, Iran He started his career as a composer when he was just 14. Siavash holds a Master's degree in classical jazz from Royal Society of Arts in London, England, where he majored in pop music. He worked with some popular bands in England such as the Rebels and the Insects as a pianist and singer. When he returned to Iran at the age of 25, he started his career mainly as a composer....

Siavash Amini is a musician and producer living in Tehran, born in 1987. He started playing guitar in 1999 and formed his first band with Hesam Ohadi in 2001. He started experimenting with computer music software in 2006 and composed music for films and theatre. Siavash along with two other artists released his first album, Spotty Surfaces in 2010 which was released by Mahriz Recordings. His music is multilayered with micro beats, soul-healing riffs of electric guitar mixed with glitch sonic textures. He has been deeply influenced by the culture of southern Iran where he has spent most of his...

Vashti Bunyan (born 1945 in Newcastle Upon Tyne) is an English singer who, in the mid-60s, was publicized to be the next Marianne Faithfull and the female version of Bob Dylan. In June 1965, under the direction of Rolling Stones' manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, Bunyan released her first single, the Jagger and Richards penned "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind". Several more singles were released in the 1960s to some mild success. She left the music business in 1970, returning to recording and touring in 2002. With some mild success with singles during the mid-late 1960s, Bunyan released the...