Biography: M'Bilia Bel, Marcia Griffiths, Márcio Greyck, M.L. Vasanthakumari, Marco de Pinna, Marco Lienhard, Marco Parente, Marco Pereira, M.S. Subbulakshmi, M.S.B.R.,

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Mbilia Bel’s career took off in the mid-’80s when she sang alongside Tabu Ley on a number of recordings and tours, also recording solo albums at the same time After her first child was born, she took some time off and decided to part company with Ley, making one last album with him in 1987

Marcia Griffiths Biography, Photos, Pictures

Jamaica’s longest-running and perhaps biggest female vocalist ever Griffiths began as a teenager in Coxsone’s Studio One, racking up hit after hit, then joined with paramour Bob Andy as Bob & Marcia for the Top Five U

Márcio Greyck Biography, Photos, Pictures

Márcio Greyck is one of few composers of the Jovem Guarda period to be more influenced by post-Sgt Pepper’s Beatles After 1972, he became a romantic singer Rarely noticed after the ’80s, he had another period of visibility in the ’90s thanks to the Jovem Guarda revival and for his album recorded for Roberto Menescal’s label Albatrozz

M.L. Vasanthakumari Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born into a family of singers, this supreme classical Indian carnatic vocalist was eventually known as MLV, an acronym standing for melody, laya, and vidwat, three essential components of her, and hopefully anyone else’s, music

Marco de Pinna Biography, Photos, Pictures

Son of the underrated classical guitarist Sérgio de Pinna, Marco de Pinna, one of the leading choro soloists on mandolin, was one of the founders of the group Nó em Pingo D’Água in 1977

Marco Lienhard Biography, Photos, Pictures

Marco Lienhard is multi-instrumentalist, playing various Japanese flutes: the shakuhachi, the fue (small bamboo transverse flute), and the Nohkan (the Noh Theater transverse flute used)

Marco Parente Biography, Photos, Pictures

For lack of a more fitting definition, critics usually describe Marco Parente as a singer/songwriter Which is true, but also very narrowing for an artist who’s constantly tried to move beyond the boundaries of genres and styles, expanding his music with the most different sounds (from jazz to Balcanic brass band arrangements) while exploring other art forms such as literature, visuals, and theater

Marco Pereira Biography, Photos, Pictures

Marco Pereira is an internationally renowned Brazilian composer, guitarist, and university professor His compositional work and playing — strongly influenced by Brazilian, Latin American, and jazz music — have been awarded in important international contests such as Spain’s Concurso Andrés Segóvia in Palma de Mallorca and Concurso Francisco Tárrega in Valencia

M.S. Subbulakshmi Biography, Photos, Pictures

MS Subbulakshmi is widely regarded as the premier female classical vocalist of her generation Born around 1916, she is also a highly enjoyable and stylish singer whom Nehru is said to have called the Queen of Music

MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor) is the moniker of 1990s Tokyo noise artist Koji Tano Many of MSBR’s recordings are self-released cassettes, with an exception being his duo with Kengo Iuchi entitled One, released by Canada’s Alien8 Recordings

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