Biography: Nick Farr, Naima Ababsa, Nick Perito, Najat Aatabou, Najma, Nicky Thomas, Nico Carstens, Naked City, Nicolas Collins, Nicolas Repac,

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Keyboardist Nick Farr began to play the piano at an early age, eventually learning several other instruments along the way He went to college for music, and upon his exit from school he began to release albums on his own and through his website

Naima Ababsa Biography, Photos, Pictures

Naima Ababsa is an Algerian singer in a family of musicians Her father was a well-renowned musician and her sister Fella and brother Nadjib are also big on the Algerian music landscape

Hollywood composer and arranger Nick Perito remains best known for his four-decade tenure as music director and conductor for crooner Perry Como Perito was born April 7, 1924, in Denver, and his first instrument was the accordion, but he soon moved to piano, later majoring in music at the University of Denver

Najat Aatabou Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born to a traditional and conservative family, Aatabou began to be recognized as a talented Berber and Arabic singer when she turned 17 The release of a bootleg recording featuring her vocals was the cause of a great deal of family tension and disapproval, with the result that Aatabu moved from Khemisset to Casablanca

Najma (born: Najma Akhtar) has quickly risen to the upper echelon of Indian music Although born in England, Najma has remained rooted in the pop and film music of her ancestral home

Nicky Thomas Biography, Photos, Pictures

Nicky Thomas was born Cecil Nicholas Thomas in Portland, Jamaica, in 1949 His first hit in the islands was “Run Nigel Run,” produced by Derrick Harriot in 1969, but Thomas’ most successful songs were recorded with producer Joe Gibbs, including the wonderful “Love of the Common People,” which rode its reggae-pop sound into the U

Nico Carstens Biography, Photos, Pictures

Nico Carstens has been at the forefront of the jazz-inspired South African musical tradition of boermusik, recently renamed “Afrikwela” Known in his homeland as “The Boermusik King”, Carstens and his group, The Boire Qanga Band, attracted interna onal attention when they performed the boermusik-mbanqanga song, “Viva Madibe,” by former jazz restauranteur Henry Shields and Morris Goldberg, at President Nelson Mandela’s inaugeration gala

Naked City was something of an avant-rock/free jazz New York supergroup in the late ’80s and early ’90s, featuring an all-star cast of New York jazz experimentalists and led by the most-famous downtown musician of them all, John Zorn

Nicolas Collins Biography, Photos, Pictures

Before Oval brought the artful use of CD-skipping to the attention of a larger audience, Nicolas Collins was using CD (and CD player) manipulation, as well as a variety of electronics, in his compositions

Nicolas Repac Biography, Photos, Pictures

Guitarist and producer Nicolas Repac makes jazz and world-influenced electronic music that incorporates his own guitar chops alongside samples of classic jazz and other sounds

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