Born in Ottawa, Ontario and raised from the age of five in Vancouver, British Columbia, Christopher Allen is a self taught harmonica player. It all started at the age of ten after hearing a song called "Room to Move" by John Mayall on a transistor radio. After falling in love with the sound of the harmonica, there was no stopping him from listening to records of other players and learning how to play this instrument for himself. His harmonica influences are Charlie McCoy, James Cotton, Lee Oskar, Magic Dick, Sugar Blue, and the late Norton Buffalo and Sonny Terry.

Audiences have now enjoyed Christopher Allen's high energy stage performance for over 35 years with such artists as the late ragtime composer Eubie Blake, renowned jazz singer Esther Phillips, Hoyt Axton and Garth Hudson from The Band.

Adding to the list, comedian actor Chevy Chase, Sneezy Waters, Amos Garrett, Chicago's "Big" Joe Duskin, Jim Byrnes, The Lincolns, The Minglewood Band, Fosterchild, Goddo, Thor, Ray Materick, Alibi, Juno Award winner Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, The Family Brown, Lisa Brokop, and k.d. Lang. He has also played with members from The Guess Who, Levon Helm Band, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, The Powder Blues, Skywalk, Highway 101, Sawyer Brown, Tanya Tucker and The Charlie Daniels Band.

Christopher has performed on television and in concert for Tina Turner, Burton Cummings, Foster & Lloyd, Ronny Hawkins, Riders of the Purple Sage and invited on stage by the late Jeff Healy. He has recorded commercials, singles and albums with Canadian artists Terry Jacks, Susan Jacks, Murray Porter, Rick Scott, Ed Molyski, Jess Lee, Kenny Shaw and Rocky Swanson, produced by Nashville's Ralph Murphy. He is also featured on Paul Hyde & The Payolas hit song "Stuck in the Rain", produced by the Grammy and Juno Award winner David Foster.

His harmonica can also be heard on the CBC television series "The Gold Rush Days" along with other educational and documentary films, including the National Film Board of Canada's award winning short film "Growing Up in Paradise", produced and directed by Vancouver filmmaker Sandy Wilson. Christopher also taught the harmonica for 12 years with an eight week course through the Vancouver School Board. He wrote a beginner's manual titled "A Sure Way To Play Harmonica" to teach his own musical methods to students of all ages, so that anyone could learn to play this instrument.

In 1989, 1990 and 1992, the British Columbia Country Music Association nominated Christopher Allen as Instrumentalist of the Year. He is the only harmonica player in Vancouver to have ever played the American and Canadian National Anthems (solo) at Nat Bailey Stadium. His talents range from teaching, singing to playing the Blues, R&B, Funk, Soul, Bluegrass, Folk, Country, Southern Rock and Harmonica Instrumentals, all with a unique style of his own.

Christopher is currently playing with Mud Dog, Vancouver's only original Delta Blues band and Wes "The Bluesman" Mackey. On a more recent note, the acoustic duo Mud Dog were selected by the White Rock Blues Society to represent them in Memphis, Tennessee for the 2011 International Blues Challenge, Solo/Duo Category. While there the Mud Dog Duo recorded a new live album called "Sun Set" in the legendary Sun Studio which will be released in the near future.

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Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

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Dirty Tactix, better known as one half of Canadian Dubstep duo Orbatak, is a 29 year old DJ and Producer from Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has been DJing since 1999 and started producing music in 2001 but didn't get serious about it until 2006.

He has released to date tracks and remixes on Noctem Audio, Badman Digital, Betamorph Records, Dub Cartel, Hollow Point, Bass Punch Records, Stop/Start Records, Foulplay Dubstep and Dubstep Division Records.

During his time as a producer Dirty Tactix has been featured on many radio stations including BBC Radio One (Elite Force on Annie Nightingale's Show 2010), C89.5 Seattle on “The Afterparty” show, SubFM, FilthFM, Bassface Radio, DubstepFM, Afterdark Radio and more.

Dirty Tactix has remixed tracks for Mark Instinct, Envy (UK), Spektrum (UK), Heavy Deviance (UK), Don Goliath and appeared on EPs with Skism, Noah D, Lee Mortimer, Layo & Bushwacka! and Richie August to name a few. He has been remixed himself by DZ, Liquid Stranger, P0gman, D-Jahsta, End Boss and more which have been well received by DJs and punters alike.

In his 12 years in the scene Dirty Tactix has played gigs alongside some of the biggest names in the international EDM scene including Benga, Rusko, N-Type, Kill The Noise, Excision, Datsik, Downlink, Mark Instinct, Bassnectar, Freq Nasty, AC Slater, Jack Beats, DJ DeeKline, Vaski, Adroa, and many many more. 

His debut solo EP 'Insomnia' was released May 12th 2012 on Noctem Audio and was a featured Beatport Exclusive that reached a high of #28 on the Top 100 Dubstep Chart and #21 on the Top 100 D&B Chart and was on Pepsi's - Best New Dubstep Chart.

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