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Howard Drossin is a composer for film, television, video games and commercials. He is best known as an orchestral music composer but has worked on a variety of musical genres, including rock, hip-hop and jazz. Most recently, Howard was the composer for Namco's "Afro Samurai" and upcoming "Splatterhouse". He also provided some of the music for for SEGA's "Sonic and the Black Knight". He started his career as a guitarist for such LA bands as Flies on Fire and Sin. His early game work included Comix Zone, Sonic & Knuckles, Vigilante 8, and Baldur’s Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal, among...

Rose Windross originally began as a singer–songwriter on the UK reggae scene. She recorded her first album, Just Rose, on the Ital Records label when she was still at school. Windross both wrote and recorded Soul II Soul's first single "Fairplay"[1] for Jazzie B, which is featured on the album, Club Classics Vol. One. In the U.S., although the single was pressed, "Fairplay" was never officially released as a single there, but it appeared on the B-side to the single "Feel Free".[citation needed] In 1996 she performed vocals on Dpd's (one of Dillon & Dickins's aliases) cover version of "Sign...

Luther Ronzoni Vandross (April 20, 1951 - July 1, 2005), New York City, NY, was an American Soul and RnB singer whose career spanned four decades. In the 70s, he worked as a backing singer Chic and for David Bowie (on the Young Americans album). He later found success as a solo artist with Superstar and A House is not a Home. In the 80s, Vandross was a vocalist on early Change singles (Searching), whilst continuing his solo career with such releases as "Never too Much", "Power Of Love/Love Power", "If only for One Night", "Here and Now". In the...

“Live” whether used as an adjective or verb, seems singularly apropos when it is applied to Teodross “Teo” Avery and his musical brilliance. Although unsung with an outstanding pedigree both professionally and academically, no other saxophonist presently active seems to come alive more buoyantly on stage or in a studio than Teo, which is the raison d’etre as to why so many superstars have relied on his incredible talents. While growing up in Oakland and the Bay Area of California, his parents exposed Teo to a wide range of music and influences including traditional African music, Soul, Rock, and Jazz....

After initial studies in orchestration, and analysis at the Regional Conservatory of Paris, Franck Bedrossian studied composition closely with Allain Gaussin. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory (seminars with Gerard Grisey and later Marco Stroppa), where upon graduation he received unanimously the first prize for Analysis, and the first prize in Composition. In 2002–2003 he was in the IRCAM ‘cursus’ for computer music and composition, taught by Philippe Leroux, Brian Ferneyhough, Tristan Murail, and Philippe Manoury. He also studied with Helmut Lachenmann at Centre Acanthes in 1999 and at the Ensemble Modern Academy in 2004. His works have...