Paul Phillips Soulful Grooves Solar Radio Show featuring new and forthcoming soul & soulful dance music releases. Classic & Collectors Original Vinyl Soul, Funk, Jazz, Disco, Boogie, House and more.  More info www.soulfulgrooves.com

 I also compiled Under The Influence Vol. Two for Z Records featuring some of my favourite lesser known Disco, Boogie and Soul tracks from the 70s and 80s that for one reason or another went under the radar at the time of release.

A collection of Hip-Hop, G funk, & Oldschool Rap from Western Washington State focusing more on Underground music. From West Seattle to the Central District, to the Hilltop of Tacoma, and everywhere in between.. 206 / 253 North West Hip-Hop, WA State Hip-Hop
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Rasha Rizk, born in Damascus in 1976, started expressing her talents since childhood. With her family encouragement, she started her vocal education since she was nine years old with her first Professor Naim Hanna for five years. At the age of 12, she won the first prize of the Pioneers children competition for best singer in Syria . She studied for two years Economics in the university of Damascus but she was actually more interested in arts. Thus, she left the university and started studying French Literature at the Sorbonne University by correspondences via the French Cultural Center. Meanwhile, she took part in many musical activities at different bands. She then established “Horizon” band in cooperation with Ibrahim Sulaimani before launching their own band known as Itar Shameh”.

2002 she got her musical diploma from the high institute of music of Damascus where she studied with “Galina Khaldieva” and “Natalia Kiritchinka”. She also took part in many workshops with many vocalists as “Shona Winsley”, “Gloria Scalchi”, “Valery Florac, “Rateba Al Hefny”, “Mya Bselink”, “Caroline Dumas”in the Ecole Normale in Paris. and with “Meredith Monk”,and with Roman Trekel in Berlin Statsoper.

At AL Zuhra Production company, the owner of the famous TV channel”for kids Spacetoon, Rasha works since 1995 as a vocalist, and a song writer . She also took part in many musical concerts performing Oriental music, Opera, and Jazz in many Syrian cities , in Beirut, Amman, Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Morocco, Paris, Frankfort, Athens, …etc. And in 2002 she played the role of the first witch at Dido and Enias opera of Henry Purcell. Then played Jumana the first character in Ebn Sina opera by Michiel Borstlap in Qatar 2003. She played “Michaella” in Carmen by Georges Bizet , Damascus in 2008.

In addition, she took part in the Opening concert of Doha Jazz Festival 2004 along with the prominent Jazz vocalist “Dianah Reeves” and the famous dutch pianist “Michiel Borstlap”. In the Dubai Jazz Festival in 2007 she sang with “Kamal Masallam”'s band. In addition to many other musical activities.

2008 she recorded three tracks in ERA new album "Reborn" in Abbey Road Studios in London

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"if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do", -Liam.

Maxwell has artfully managed to transfix music lovers for more than two decades, releasing five studio albums, all in his own time and all duly anointed as classics. The soul singer redefined soul music in April of 1996 when he released his critically acclaimed debut on Columbia, ‘Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite.’ It earned Grammy nominations, double platinum status and RIAA gold for the single, “Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder).” The platinum albums ‘Embrya’ (1998) and ‘Now’ (2001) followed. In 2009, Maxwell’s ‘BLACKsummers’night’ debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning two Grammy awards, including Best R&B Album. With a total of 4 platinum album certifications from the RIAA, Maxwell’s latest album, ‘blackSUMMERS’night,’ earned him a third Grammy (Best R&B Song for “Lake By The Ocean”), an NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Male Artist), and a Soul Train Award (Best R&B/Soul Male Artist). Recent accolades for Maxwell include the “Legend” Award at the 2021 Soul Train Awards and a performance at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, where he paid tribute to Michael Jackson with “The Lady In My Life.” His critically acclaimed ‘The Night Tour’ also made Pollstar’s 2022 list of “Top 20 Global Concert Tours,” determined by average box office gross and the average ticket price for shows worldwide.

Born and raised in Beirut, Tarek is a pianist, composer and producer who is critically acclaimed for music that is “full of poetry and mysticism” from revisiting the classic traditions of the Arab world through the complex rhythms and harmonies of Black American Music. In an invigorating style, Tarek ingeniously stretches the edges between two eclectic cultures and musical heritages.

He has performed and composed in a variety of other styles including Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Flamenco, Electronic and chamber music, and in venues such as The Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC), National Sawdust (Brooklyn), Atrium at Lincoln Center, Boulez Saal (Berlin), MuCEM (Marseille), Gran Teatro de la Habana (Cuba), the United Nations Assembly Hall (NYC), the Blue Whale (Los Angeles), the Detroit Institute of Arts, Melbourne Arts Center, Sejong Center (South Korea) and La Merce (Barcelona) to name a few.

Winner of the "Thelonious Monk Int'l Jazz Composer’s Competition" for "Sama'i Yamani feat Rasha Rizk".

http://tarekyamani.com

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