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Juan De Marcos and the AfroCuban All Stars
Cuban composer/arranger/ multi-instrumentalist Juan de Marcos Gonzalez is one of Cuba’s national treasures who helped re-introduce son, that bedrock style of Cuban popular music, to a whole new generation.
By Rik van Boeckel
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Milton Nascimento
There’s music everywhere in Brazil, and over the last 40 years a lot of it has been made by Milton Nascimento. The singer-songwriter is a superstar in his homeland, one of the long-time mainstays of popular Brazilian music.
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Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar was afforded the opportunity to learn from a true master, sharing blood and time with a legend. However you look at the statistics, what matters most is the focus and soul she puts into her muse.
By Derek Beres
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The Kronos Quartet, R.D. Burman and Asha Bhosle
The Kronos Quartet was founded in 1973 and has colored outside the lines from day one with antic curiosity and remarkably un-complacent taste.
By Christina Roden
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Ghorwane
If any band is the personification of tenacity, it has to be Ghorwane, the dance band from Mozambique.
By Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
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Khaled
Algeria’s greatest pop singer, Khaled, settles down with a cigarette in the garden of the Beverly Hills Hilton. He’s just finished up the final work on the U.S. release of his new album, Ya Rayi (Wrasse).
By Banning Eyre
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