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Shyza Minelli , aka Pimolwan Sirivisal is originally from Lampang , Thailand (in the north) . she now currently resides in milan , italy while getting her degree in design. she started making music in the summer of 2002 shortly after meeting the love of her life , the rest is history ---- her first record came out on Tuningspork records , and then she had 2 singles on german label Sub Static. She has made remixes for people such as Jay Haze and Anja Schneider. .

Baton Rouge's Max Minelli, member of Lay Lo & Concentration Camp, had his debut album Me & My Hustle released in 2001 on C-Loc's record label. New album Pain Medicine coming soon. Born in New Orleans, rapper Max Minelli was raised in Southern California. A coworker of his mother owned a recording studio, so at the age of ten Minelli took his love of rap -- fueled mostly by Ice Cube's vicious AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted album -- and recorded his first song. He enjoyed the experience but soon moved back to Louisiana, losing his connection to the music industry. It...

Playing guitar and singing in rock groups in the 80s, Minelli was at first a fan of 60s British bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He was always open to other musical forms and he heard and admired Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade in Paris in the early 80s. It was not until the late 90s that he began to listen seriously to jazz. Even so, his first influences were not musicians of his own generation but were John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. In Morocco he played guitar with Gnawas singers. Uninhibited by genre...