Biography: Raz Mesinai, Reading Cloggies, Real Group, Real Sounds, Realejo, RebbeSoul, Rebeca Matta, Rebecca Kilgore, Rebecca Malope, Rebecca Martin,

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Beginning with his work in Sub Dub, illbient/ambient dub composer/programmer Raz Mesinai crafted shimmering, spacious music that was among the dreamiest — and often eeriest — that the genre had to offer

Reading Cloggies Biography, Photos, Pictures

Officially known as the Reading Traditional and Step Dance Group, the Reading Cloggies are dedicated to the preservation and recreation of traditional English and Scottish dancing

The Real Group is an a cappella quintet from Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of three men and two women Inspired by Bobby McFerrin, the unit brilliantly performed bop, vocalese, and a few originals on their Town Crier debut, leading Jon Hendricks himself to say, “I wish I was in this group

Real Sounds formed in Zaire, where rhumba is a leading style, and moved to Zimbabwe, where the mbira is the dominant instrument The resulting collision resulted in a music that the band christened Rumbira, and performed by this lively 11-piece band, it is sound not to be missed

The musical traditions of Portugal and Europe are combined with modern sensibilities by Portuguese quintet Realejo Representing the vision of Portugal’s sole hurdy-gurdy builder and multi-instrumentalist Fernando Meireles, the group continues to create, according to Mundo of the Song, “a music emerging of a time within time

The one-man act Rebbe Soul grew out of founder/producer/vocalist/guitarist Bruce Burger’s love for Hebrew music Burger was introduced to the music as a child but quickly gravitated to rock & roll, which seemed a better vehicle for a guitarist in the early ’90s

Rebeca Matta Biography, Photos, Pictures

Dedicated to a mix of Brazilian music with electronica, Rebeca Matta drew influences from Tom Zé and Tropicália for her work, launching Tantas Coisas in 1999, album that fused a variety of collages of Eastern and Brazilian musics and the use of acoustic instruments, bringing her the 1999 APCA (Association of Art Critics of São Paulo) prize

Rebecca Kilgore Biography, Photos, Pictures

As an interpreter of classic American popular songs from the 1930s and 1940s, vocalist and guitarist Rebecca Kilgore helped revive the hits of yesterday for modern-era jazz audiences

Rebecca Malope Biography, Photos, Pictures

Rebecca Malope is a South African gospel singer who rose to international stardom in the late ’90s Malope was born on a tobacco farm in South Africa As a child, she and her sisters sang in hymns in a local church

Rebecca Martin Biography, Photos, Pictures

Rebecca Martin has been involved in the music industry in one way or another since she was a child At eight years old, she began to perform some Just about the time she hit her teens, she started recording at a local studio

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