Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. He also developed a passion for electronics and science, and double-majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College.
 
In 1963, Miles Davis invited Herbie to join the Miles Davis Quintet. During his five years with Davis, Herbie and his colleagues Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) recorded many classics, including 'ESP', 'Nefertiti' and 'Sorcerer'. Later on, Herbie made appearances on Davis' groundbreaking 'In a Silent Way' and 'Bitches Brew', which heralded the birth of jazz-fusion.
 
Herbie's own solo career blossomed on Blue Note, with classic albums including 'Maiden Voyage', 'Empyrean Isles', and 'Speak Like a Child'. He composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film 'Blow Up', which led to a successful career in feature film and television music.

1970s: The Headhunters and VSOP

After leaving Davis, Herbie put together a new band called The Headhunters and, in 1973, recorded 'Head Hunters.' With its crossover hit single "Chameleon," it became the first jazz album to go platinum. 
 
By mid-decade, Herbie was playing for stadium-sized crowds all over the world and had no fewer than four albums in the pop charts at once. In total, Herbie had 11 albums in the pop charts during the 1970s. His ’70s output inspired and provided samples for generations of hip-hop and dance music artists. 
 
Herbie also stayed close to his love of acoustic jazz in the ’70s, recording and performing with VSOP (reuniting him with his Miles Davis colleagues), and in duet settings with Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson.

1980s: Future Shock, Film & TV

In 1980, Herbie introduced the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to the world as a solo artist, producing his debut album and touring with him as well. In 1983, a new pull to the alternative side led Herbie to a series of collaborations with Bill Laswell. The first, 'Future Shock', again struck platinum, and the single "Rockit" rocked the dance and R&B charts, winning a Grammy for Best R&B Instrumental. The video of the track won five MTV awards. 'Sound System', the follow-up, also received a Grammy in the R&B instrumental category. 
 
Herbie won an Oscar in 1986 for scoring the film "'Round Midnight", in which he also appeared as an actor. Numerous television appearances over the years led to two hosting assignments in the 1980s: "Rock School" on PBS and Showtime's "Coast To Coast".
 
After an adventurous 1994 project for Mercury Records, 'Dis Is Da Drum', he moved to the Verve label, forming an all-star band to record 1996's Grammy-winning 'The New Standard'. In 1997, an album of duets with Wayne Shorter, '1+1', was released.

1990s: Verve Records and Headhunters Reunited

After an adventurous 1994 project for Mercury Records, 'Dis Is Da Drum', he moved to the Verve label, forming an all-star band to record 1996's Grammy-winning 'The New Standard'. In 1997, an album of duets with Wayne Shorter, '1+1', was released. 
 
The legendary Headhunters reunited in 1998, recording an album for Herbie's own Verve-distributed imprint, and touring with the Dave Matthews Band. That year also marked the recording and release of  'Gershwin's World', which included collaborators Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Kathleen Battle, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea. 'Gershwin's World' won three Grammys in 1999, including Best Traditional Jazz Album and Best R&B Vocal Performance for Stevie Wonder's "St. Louis Blues." 

2000, Album of the Year and Today

Herbie reunited with Bill Laswell to collaborate with some young hip-hop and techno artists on 2001's FUTURE2FUTURE. He also joined with Roy Hargrove and Michael Brecker in 2002 to record a live concert album, 'Directions In Music: Live at Massey Hall', a tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. 
 
'Possibilities', released in August 2005, teamed Herbie with many popular artists, such as Sting, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Joss Stone and Damien Rice. That year, he played a number of concert dates with a re-staffed Headhunters, and became the first-ever Artist-In-Residence at the Tennessee-based festival Bonnaroo.
 
In 2007, Hancock recorded and released 'River: The Joni Letters', a tribute to longtime friend and collaborator Joni Mitchell featuring Wayne Shorter, guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and co-produced by Larry Klein. He enlisted vocalists Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Leonard Cohen and Mitchell herself to perform songs she wrote or was inspired by. The album received glowing reviews and was a year-end Top 10 choice for many critics. It also garnered three GRAMMY nominations, and two wins for Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Album of The Year. This marked only the second time in history a jazz album has won music’s highest honor with the last taking place almost 50 years prior.
 
To cap off his illustrious career to date, Verve records released ‘Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock’ in 2008. This essential collection is the first-ever career retrospective of the jazz visionary’s unparalleled work. 
 
Herbie Hancock also maintains a thriving career outside the performing stage and recording studio. He is the Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and serves as Institute Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the foremost international organization devoted to the development of jazz performance and education worldwide. He is also a founder of The International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP).
 
Now in the fifth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: in the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. Though one can't track exactly where he will go next, he is sure to leave his inimitable imprint wherever he lands.


D-Nox (born 06 December 1975) is a German DJ/producer and 1 time DJ Awards winner whose career in electronic music spans well over 25 years. Everything started for him with the electronic scene in his hometown of Düsseldorf in the early 90ties, branding his mark in the music community by also being a part of the duo D-Nox & Beckers who are responsible for various club hits since 2004 and are still currently releasing 16 years later on prestigious labels such as Bedrock, Suara and Sudbeat to name a few, as well as through D-Nox’s own record label Sprout Music. 
D-Nox has brought his sound all around the world with his international bookings as a DJ, keeping him constantly on the move with his travels every weekend, through Europe, down to Australia, across the Americas, and around Asia and Africa. D-Nox has an exceptionally outstanding career in Brazil where he has his biggest fan community.
D-Nox was born in East Germany, but his family escaped to the West of Germany before the wall went down in 1989. As a young boy, he fed his interest in music by recording music on cassette tapes, as there was no way to buy records in East Germany. It was only in the time that he and his family moved to the West, that he got access to all the music which he had been recording on tapes and this is when his real passion for collecting music was born. In the early 90ties he started to go out and meet people from the nightlife scene of his new hometown Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf has always played an important role in the underground music scene. Many important bands such as Kraftwerk come from Düsseldorf.
With the first money that D-Nox made after he had left school, he was able to buy himself all of the important equipment needed to start the art of mixing vinyl records.
Around 1992 was the first time he got booked to play in a nightclub and by 1993 he became a professional DJ. These early years made D-Nox one of the most booked DJs in his region, with numerous gigs in his hometown and other cities near by. In 2001 he started to work as A&R for the record label Tatsu. This job taught him even more about the music scene and inspired him to start his own record label Sprout Music in 2003.
In 2004 he met Beckers and both started the form the famous duo D-Nox & Beckers which was responsible for many underground club hits such as „Jetlag Slave“, „Memory Cell“, „Seven Hours“ and many others. In 2007 the duo D-Nox & Beckers won the price for best selling progressive house artist in Beatport.com and in 2010 the duo won the DJ award for best progressive house artist. 
D-Nox & Beckers have released 3 albums; in 2007 “Left Behind”, in 2009 “Big City Lights” and in 2011 “Distance”. Since 2004 the duo have released more than 50 EPs and made over 70 remixes. Until today, D-Nox & Beckers still receive a lot of recognition and respect, and continue to play shows all around the world together.  But due D-Nox’s change of location in 2016 when he moved to South America, he is now focusing again on his solo gigs, with current shows booked in Germany, Belgium, Japan, Turkey, Israel, Australia, Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, Hungary, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and many more to follow.  
Along with D-Nox’s change of location from Germany to South America, a few new collaboration partnerships in the studio were formed. One of them together with Victor Ruiz, one of the most demanded DJs of today.  Together Victor and D-Nox produced ‘Arise’ which was released on Sudbeat Recordings in 2016, the label belonging to Hernan Cattaneo. This track became one of the most played tracks in sets of DJ’s all around the world. They followed up this release, with a second best seller in 2017 on Sudbeat from Victor Ruiz and D-Nox, called ‚Pure’. Another new collaboration made with Stereo Underground, a very well respect producer from Israel „Dolby“ has reached number 1 in Beatport, the world wide leading digital store for DJs and was holding the top position for over 3 month. The pandemic month have d-nox become way more creative in his studio than he ever was before and his discography has just grown bigger and bigger. Its is now over 20 years that D-Nox is traveling all around the world and keeps on moving the dance floors.
D-Nox came out quite strong of the pandemic years and all the time he had spent well during those month off brought more shows and new fans. The years 2022/23 sent to to over 20 countries and his single „Dolby“ with Stereo Underground managed to stay 3 month on top 1 of the Beatport sale charts.
In 2023 D-Nox is celebrating his 30 years as a professional dj and he keeps touring the world. 
By now, D-Nox and/or D-Nox & Beckers have played many mayor festivals such as Rainbow Serpent, Ozora, Fusion, Tribe, Boom,  ADE, Love Parade, Tomorrowland, Lollapaloza, Loveland, Extrema to name a few and  many important clubs around the world, such as Stereo, Womb, the Bow, Dedge, Pacha, The Block, Warung, Ame, and so on, stoking up gigs in over 70 countries, this duo belongs to the most important underground dance music products from Germany.

Janysett was born in Guantanamo in Cuba in 1979. She discovered the piano at the age of five, and started classical piano studies two years later with Maria Caridad Borges, followed by Francisco Gadner who remained her teacher until 1992 when she was awarded third prize in the national piano competition. 
She entered the National Art School of Havana aged 14, where she met some of Cuba’s finest musicians, including César « Pupi » Pedroso, Mayito Rivera, Isaac Delgado, Alain Pérez, Paulo Fernandez Gallo, Ivan Melon Lewis, Yosvani Terry … her first major collaboration was with Alain Pérez, when she was just 16. Janysett’s performance was hailed by Chucho Valdès, who saw promising young talent. 
The following year Janysett joined the group « Piel Morena » and was also appointed musical director for the 
« La Faràndula » orchestra. She performed with both groups in a number of appearances on Cuban television. 

When she was 18 years old, her growing notoriety earned her a place in Cuba’s biggest all-female orchestra “Anacaona”, a national institution founded by the Castro sisters in 1932.  She started out as pianist, singer and arranger before being entrusted with the musical direction. For the next four years, Janysett completed tour upon tour, taking her all over Latin America, as well as the U.S., China and Europe., Anacaona paid tribute to Janysett’s impact on the group by naming their latest album after one of her compositions “No lo Peudo Evitar”

Janysett went on to work with a whole host of Cuban artists, performing on stage, on tour, and in the recording studio, collaborating with the likes of Omara Portuondo, Joaquin Betancourt, Manolito Simonet, Pedrito Calvo, Soledad Delgado, Celia Cruz, Jose Alberto « El Canario », Daniela Mercury, Miles Pena, El Gran Combo de Puertorico, José Luis Cortés. In France she worked alongside Jérôme Savary in « Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme » at Paris’ Palais de Chaillot. 

In 2002 she was awarded the “Adolfo Guzman” prize (Cuba’s national music awards) for ‘best female singer’ and ‘composer of the year’.

In 2003 she was asked to move to Monte Carlo where she worked as pianist, singer, dancer, arranger and musical director for the shows ‘Monte Carlo Folies’ and ‘Let’s be Wild’ at Monte Carlo’s Cabaret du Casino and Sporting Club.

It was during her time in France that she met the drummer (and her future husband) Dominique Viccaro; he helped broaden her musical horizons, and develop her jazz acumen.  She decided to make France her home; she got married, and took a brief break from music to have a child. She then began working on her debut solo album, meeting and working with some great musicians along the way: Andy Narell, Hadrien Feraud, Loïc Ponthieux, Linley Marthe … 

By 2010 her album was ready to record, and this was when she met her producer Yves Chamberland (music producer to, amongst others, Henri Salvador, Michel Petrucciani, Richard Galliano, Nina Simone… and former artistic director for Dreyfus Jazz). 
«Très Almas » was recorded in 2011 and features performances from Didier Lockwood, Andy Narell, Bernard Arcadio, Nicolas Folmer, Michel Alibo, Stéphane Guillaume, Olivier Louvel, Thierry Fanfant, Hadrien Feraud … to name but a few. The album was released late November 2011 under the record label « Cristal Records».  





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