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Antonio Lauro (August 3, 1917 – April 18, 1986) was a Venezuelan composer, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the guitar in the 20th century. Antonio Lauro was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. His father, an Italian immigrant, was a barber who could sing and play the guitar so he taught his son what he could, but died when Antonio was still a child. After the family moved to Caracas, Lauro pursued formal musical study (piano, composition) at the Academia de Música y Declamación, where the distinguished composer Vicente Emilio Sojo (1887-1974) was one of...

Flauros is a black metal band from Joensuu, Finland. Flauros was formed at the dawn of 1996 by Sinkkonen (bass, vocals) and Kartzu (drums) with the aim to create something own and to express their feelings through dark and aggressive music. Also a guitarist, Teemu, joined the band and after a year from the birth of the band, in august 1997, Flauros entered the studio to record their first demo entitled "The Myth...". The demo was sold out in a year for a total amount of 360 copies and this response was more than what they expected. After the first...

Denver, Colorado's Achille Lauro (named after the hijacked cruise liner in the 80s) includes Matt Close (vox, guitar), brothers Luke and Ben Mossman (guitar, glockenspiel, keys and drums and samples, respectively), Jon Evans (bass). Yet their sound is an artful blending of jazz, lounge, and indie. For as rarely as they play live, their sound is remarkably refined, and they exhibit an unprecendented precision, with the Mossman brothers' signature musical communication, adding Evans on the bass, Close's skillful crooning. .