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Antilliaanse Feesten
Antilliaanse Feesten is a Caribbean music festival that takes place in every second weekend of August in Hoogstraten, Belgium. It had 38,000 attendees in 2016. The festival was first held in 1983, and has been repeated every year except 2000. The artists presents music from different countries and genres: Bachata, Champeta, Cumbia, Compas, Merengue, Dancehall, Reggae, Reggaeton, Salsa, Ska, Soca, Soukous, Timba, Vallenato and Zouk Program / Line Up 2018 Acido Pantera • Electronic Latin , Colombia - Broederliefde • Reggaeton , Nederland - Carlyn Xp • Soca , Dominica - Carmel Zoum • African Dancehall , France/Congo - Ce'cile • Dancehall , Jamaïca - Charles King • Champeta , Colombia - Daddy Yankee • Reggaeton , Puerto Rico - David Kada • Salsa , Dominicaanse Republiek - Descemer Bueno • Latin Music , Cuba - Diblo Dibala • Soukous , Kongo - Eddy Kenzo • Happy African Music For Dancing , Uganda - Ephrem J • Bachata , Curaçao - Gentz • Salsa, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Caribbean Music Genres
Caribbean music genres are very diverse. They are each synthesis of Music of Africa, African, European, Asian and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous influences, largely created by descendants of African enslaved people (see Afro-Caribbean music), along with contributions from other communities (such as Indo-Caribbean music). Some of the styles to gain wide popularity outside the Caribbean include, Bachata (music), bachata, Merengue music, merengue, Palo (flamenco), palo, mambo (music), mambo, Baithak Gana, baithak gana, bouyon music, bouyon, cadence-lypso, calypso music, calypso, Soca music, soca, Chutney music, chutney, chutney-soca, compas, dancehall, jing ping, Parang music, parang, pichakaree, punta, ragga, reggae, dembow, reggaeton, salsa music, salsa, and zouk. Caribbean music is also related to Central American and South American music. The history of Caribbean music originates from the history of the Caribbean itself. That history is one of the native land inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diblo Dibala
Diblo Dibala (born 9 August 1954), often known simply as Diblo, is a Congolese soukous musician, known as "Machine Gun" for his speed and skill on the guitar. He was born in 1954 in Kisangani. He moved to Kinshasa as a child, and aged 15 won a talent competition which led to him playing guitar in Franco's TPOK band. Dibala remained with the group for only a short period, going on to play with Vox Africa, Orchestra Bella Mambo and Bella Bella, in which band he first played with Kanda Bongo Man. In 1979, he moved to Brussels, and in 1981 he joined Kanda Bongo Man's band in Paris. Their first album, ''Iyole'' (1981), was a success. Diblo became a sought after session guitarist, working with Pepe Kalle and many other soukous musicians. In the mid-1980s, he formed his own band, Loketo (meaning 'hips'), with singers Aurlus Mabele and Mav Cacharel Mav Cacharel (born January 14, 1957) is a Congolese soukous singer. Biography He began performing at age 13 in Brazzaville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kes (band)
Kes (commonly known as Kes the Band or KTB) is a Trinidadian soca group formed in 2005, known for their eclectic mix of R&B, Pop, Rock, Soca, EDM and reggae. The band originally comprised brothers Kees Dieffenthaller on lead vocals, drummer Hans Dieffenthaller, rhythm guitarist Jon Dieffenthaller along with friend Riad Boochoon on bass guitar. Hans was eventually replaced by Dean James with keyboardist Mario Callender and DJ Robbie Persaud appearing as supporting members. Since the band inception, they've been elevated to mainstream popularity locally and throughout the Caribbean diaspora. In 2011, Kees was crowned T&T's International Groovy Soca Monarch The band's hit tune "Wotless" was also nominated for a 2011 BET Soul Train Music Award in the category of best Caribbean Performance. Another hit single called Hello, released in 2017, has since earned the most digital streams of any soca song in the last decade. Kes teamed up with Iwer George to win both the 2020 T&T Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El-A-Kru
El-A-Kru is an Antiguan soca band. The name derives from "Little Antigua Crew". The band's single, 'Antigua Nice' (from their 2006 album of the same name) has been dubbed "Antigua’s new anthem", and was used extensively by the Antigua Ministry of Tourism in their customer care initiative for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. 'Expose', another single from the ''Antigua Nice'' album, topped MTV Tempo's Cross Caribbean Countdown for several weeks in 2007.Kevin JacksonCatch di Riddim, ''The Jamaica Observer'', September 17, 2007. Accessed 16 May 2008. Two tracks from El-A-Kru's 2007 album ''Fully Loaded'', 'Kick It Off' and 'Fully Loaded', featured in DJ Alex Jordan's 2007 Christmas program in her ''International Sounds of Soca'' series for BBC 1Xtra. The band was also nominated for the ''Overall Soca Band of the Year'' at the 2007 International Soca Awards. El-A-Kru are frequent performers at the Antigua Carnival, where they have won the title of "Sweetest Band on the Road" four times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar D'León
Óscar Emilio León Simosa (born July 11, 1943), known as Oscar D'León, and affectionately called ''The Pharaoh of Salsa'', ''The Lion of Salsa'', and the ''World's Sonero'', is a Venezuelan musician and bassist best known for his salsa music. He is the author of "Llorarás", which he recorded in 1974 with his group, Dimensión Latina. He is also an ambassador for Operation Smile. Early life Oscar D'León was a long-time resident of the Parroquia Antímano section of Caracas, Venezuela (his father was a laborer at the neighborhood cemetery). He had a strong interest in percussion ever since he was a child, improvising bass parts with his throat while playing Latin rhythms with his hands on any available surface. He got in trouble in school early on for doing this constantly. He then took interest in the upright bass (he learned the instrument on his own), and would eventually alternate in jobs as an auto mechanic, assembly line worker or taxi driver (during the day) and bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupee (musician)
Rupert Clarke (born September 10, 1975), best known by his stage name Rupee, is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in the military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the British Armed Forces at the time. He later migrated to Barbados. He was signed to Atlantic Records. Early life By the age of nine, Rupee had lived in three different countries - Germany, England, and Barbados. Spending his first years in England, he was exposed to a contrast of sounds which reflected his parents' diverse backgrounds: calypso on the side of his West Indian father, pop and rock and roll from his mother. He and his siblings would often perform on stage, coming up with all sorts of chants, rhymes and antics to tease the audience. Rupee eventually moved to Barbados in 1985. He had his first major break after winning the Richard Stoute Teen Talent Competition in 1993, when he was a schoolboy at Harrison College. Career 1997–2000: Coalishun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locomondo
Locomondo is one of the most known and successful bands in Greece. The 6-member band fronted by Markos Koumaris, the main songwriter and composer of the group, fuses Reggae, Ska and Caribbean sounds with Greek lyrics and Greek traditional musical elements. Career * They have released 8 albums, including Locomondo Live!, an album which turned gold in December 2011. Two of their video clips have received the "Best Alternative Video Clip" award from Mad-TV Greece (in 2007 and 2010). * Locomondo is the most known Reggae band in Greece, as well as the only Greek group that has recorded in Jamaica. This happened in 2005, when the band followed an invitation of ex Skatalites trombonist and Studio One legend Vin Gordon to the "island in the sun" and recorded the album "12 meres stin Jamaica" (12 days in Jamaica). The album contained two songs that meant to be great hits in Greece, but also attracted attention beyond the Greek borders. * The first was a reggae cover of the Rembetiko s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinito Méndez
Kinito Méndez, born José del Carmen Ramírez Méndez on November 18, 1963, is a merengue music singer. Biography Mendez started his career in 1988 as one of the co-founders of the merengue band La Cocoband, along with Alfonzo " Pochy Familia" Vásquez and Bobby Rafael. Mendez wrote and arranged many of La Cocoband's songs, including "La Manito", "El Boche", "El Cacu" and "Mujer Malvada". Mendez later decided to leave and start his own project in early 1992 with Bobby Rafael which was "Rokabanda", who won Orquesta Revelación del Año in Los Premios Cassandra in 1993. With Rokabanda, Mendez produced "El Bacano", "El Ñoñito" and "los hombres maduro". In 1995, Mendez released his solo album "El Hombre Merengue", which sold 1.5 million copies. Mendez was responsible for the 1997 song "El Vuelo 587", which pays tribute to American Airlines Flight 587, an early morning departure flight from New York City to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Mendez partially wrote the lyrics; he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Reyes
Frank Reyes (born June 4, 1969) is a Dominican singer. Known as the Honorific nicknames in popular music, Prince of Bachata, he is regarded as one of the best known bachata (music), bachata artists of all time and famous throughout Latin America. He is a 7 time Bachata Artist of the Year winner at the Soberano Awards, making him the most awarded artist in that category. He is known for hits like "Vine a Decirte Adios", "Con el Amor No Se Juega", "Tu Eres Ajena", "Nada De Nada", "Quién Eres Tu", "Princesa (song), Princesa", "Amor a Distancia", "Decidí", among others. Early life He was born in the town of Tenares in the Dominican Republic. Reyes discovered his musical talent when he was a young boy. He and his brothers started their own musical group and had great singing talent. When he was only 12 years old, he decided to travel to Santo Domingo where he worked hard and had many jobs, always dreaming of having his own business. As he got older, he eventually decided to pursue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orquesta La 33
Orquesta La 33 (commonly La-33) is a Colombian salsa music band. The collective was founded in Bogotá in 2001 by brothers Sergio and Santiago Mejía.Evening Chronicle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), ''A Passion for the Keyboard'' 10 July 2009 The name is taken from the city's Calle 33, in Teusaquillo, the 13th locality of Bogotá, where the band first rehearsed. Description The band interprets a salsa dura style music with influences of mambo (music), mambo, jazz and pasodoble. The members of the band saved money from performances in bars in Bogotá to release their first album in 2004. La-33 has performed at many international venues, among others at the popular Sziget Festival in Budapest. In 2016, the band released their fifth album, celebrating 15 years of activity; ''Caliente''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrido Vargas
Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (; born April 24, 1949, in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer. He was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenomenon. He was surrounded by musical influences; namely, his father Ramón, an accordionist and guitarist, and his mother Bienvenida, a flute player and guitarist. Vargas began his musical studies early, attending the Municipal Academy of Music beginning at age 10. He has been a trumpeter and a vocalist, but has also arranged, composed, and led his band, and is also a producer. Career 1970s He began his career with the band Wilfrido Vargas y sus Beduinos by recording his first album in 1972. Alongside many Latin music super stars, he performed during the 1979 music festival Havana Jam. 1980s During the 1980s he had international commercial success with songs such as , , , and . Wilfrido appeared in the 1989 film . 1990s He was nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kassav'
Kassav', also alternatively spelled Kassav, is a French Caribbean band that originated from Guadeloupe in 1979. The band's musical style is rooted in the Guadeloupean gwoka rhythm, as well as the Martinican tibwa and Mendé rhythms. Regarded as one of the most influential bands in 20th-century French West Indies music, Kassav is often credited with pioneering the zouk musical genre. Their musical evolution is a synthesis of cadence-lypso and compas traditions. Despite initial resistance from French record labels, which disparaged their early works as excessively "too ethnic," Kassav' tenaciously persevered, collaborating with various West Indian music producers and distributing their music through Sonodisc. The term "kassav" in creole denotes a type of cassava pancake. The band's inception can be traced to Pierre-Edouard Décimus and Fréddy Marshall, members of the Guadeloupean ensemble Les Vikings, who aspired to innovate the island's traditional music by amalgamating it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
