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Parveen Sultana (b. 1950) is a Assamese Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana. Begum Parween Sultana was influenced early on in Iife by her father late Janab Ihramul Majid, a popular musician trained under Gul Mohammed Khan and Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, and by her Grandfather Janab Mohammed Najeef Khan, a talented Rabab Player. She gave her first classical recital at the age of 12 at the Sadarang Music festival. Later she was under the guidance of renowned maestro Acharya Chinmoy Lahiri in Assam. She owes her present remarkable style to the talim she has been getting from...

A Life dedicated to music. Melchior Sultana, born in Malta in 1986, is a composer and multi instrumentalist. Growing up in an atmosphere of rich traditions, culture and arts in the middle of the Mediterranean can deeply sculpt a spirit. Melchior Sultana represents music as an art with no boundaries. Everything started by understanding the various forms of sound. This interest in "sounds" gradually led to expierences, study, knowledge and to an ongoing evolution of an artist. Melchior Sultana studied Art in his first years till the teenage ages. His experiences and knowledge through out his musical career led to...

There are two artists with that name. 1. Turkish born artist, currently residing in New York, bringing brand new flavaz, a new dimension to music by lacing hip-hop beats with ethnic influences and a hypnotizing sound while we are approaching millennium, Sultana is approaching music globally, uniting the orient and the west musically, artistically and lyrically. Like bridges spanning over Bosphorus (in İstanbul) connecting the two continents Europe and Asia, Sultana is architecting a new style hip-hop with a sensual touch of belly dancing. It is a pioneering movement; multi-talented, multi-cultural, multi-lingual. Her subject matter is social issues, life and...

"yOya continue to conquer with each release... “Go North” is not only an instruction but an inspiring one." - Buzzbands.LA "Very near unequaled ... this is a band to be reckoned with." - Radio Free Silver Lake yOya is the project of longtime songwriting partners Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich. Natives of Corvallis, Ore. and friends since the fifth grade, Pfender and Dietterich grew up to the sound of rain in the fir trees and 'Graceland' on cassette. When the duo moved to California to study music they found themselves semi-consciously absorbing the electronic sounds of the LA scene. What...