Biography: Yasunao Tone, Yasus Afari, Yat-Kha, Yatri, Yeastie Girlz, Yehuda Poliker, Yelbuna, Ya Mbongo Lokassa, Yellowman, Yesudas,

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Yasunao Tone Biography, Photos, Pictures

Japanese composer Yasunao Tone became involved in the Fluxus movement in the early ’60s and has since been active as an organizer of events, an improviser, a performer in a number of groups, and, more recently, he creates pieces with manipulated CDs

Yasus Afari (born: John Sinclair) is one of Jamaica’s top dub poets A childhood friend of record producer Garnet Silk, Afari has collaborated with Silk on many of his best-selling recordings including several singles recorded with Maxi Priest

Albert Kuvezin, at the fore of Tuva’s music scene and founding member of group Huun-Huur-Tu, started Yat-Kha in 1991 Yat-Kha (“yat-ha”) is named for the string instrument that it features

Yatri (Kathryn Root) has a dual music career: she plays music for meditation on the glass armonica (first invented by Benjamin Franklin) and she is a classical concert pianist who toured for ten years with the Canadian chamber music ensemble Camerata

Yeastie Girlz Biography, Photos, Pictures

Yeastie Girlz (their name obviously a take-off on the Beastie Boys) were a short-lived feminist rap trio comprised of members Jane, Cammie, and Kate, hailing from the fertile punk scene of Gilman St

Yehuda Poliker Biography, Photos, Pictures

With his powerful vocals and dynamic stage persona, Yehuda Poliker has been a major influence on the rock music of Israel since the mid-’80s As lead singer for Benzin, Poliker helped to usher in a new era of Israeli contemporary music

Formed in Italy in 1981 by To Finley, who has played with Super Volta, Afro Soul System, and Orchestre CVD The band stayed in Italy for a year, recording an album, before returning to Burkina Faso

Ya Mbongo Lokassa Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the top soukous session guitarists, Lokassa played with Rochereau’s Afrisa and Sam Mangwana’s African All Stars before moving to Paris in 1983 He has appeared on dozens of albums and was one of the founding members of Soukous Stars

Jamaica’s first dancehall superstar, Yellowman ushered in a new era in reggae music following Bob Marley’s death His early-’80s success brought the popularity of toasting — the reggae equivalent of rapping — to a whole new level, and helped establish dancehall as the wave of the future

Born around 1940, KJ Yesudas is one of the most popular of the South Indian playback singers and has a good reputation as a classical vocalist He is the subject of ten volumes of material on the Liberty label (CDLM 1013 — CDLM 1022)

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