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SHAKIRA
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira’s first steps in her creative life were developed at a very early age. By the time she was seven, Shakira displayed an impressive dancing ability when she joined a group of belly dancers and showed how she could emulate their moves. She also began singing and, from the start, displayed a unique voice that stood out among her peers and she could only sing the solos in school because her voice overpowered her class mates.
Her first album, “Magia,” recorded when she was only 14 in 1991, failed to find an audience. She returned to the studio to record “Peligro”, which came out in 1993 and although the album began to build an audience for her, she felt distant from the songs, feeling the project was more a reflection of her producer’s taste than her own.
In February 1993, although she was barely known outside of Colombia, Shakira was invited to appear at Chile’s Viña del Mar International Song Festival. Shakira’s emotional performance of powerful ballad “Eres” (You Are) landed her in third place and began to build her profile outside of Colombia.
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Majed el mohandes
Majed Al Mohandes (also spelled Majid Al Muhandis, Al Mohandis) is a Iraqi singer and composer, also holding Saudi citizenship.
He was born on October 25, 1971 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Early in his career, the poet Aziz El Rassam gave him the nickname “Al Mohandes” (which means The Engineer) because Majed had studied aeronautical engineering.
Majed’s breakthrough came with his first album “Wa7echni Mout” (I Miss You to Death), which expressed his deep attachment to his Iraqi roots.
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Kadhem el saher
Kadim Jabbar Al Samarai, known professionally as Kadim Al Sahir (كاظم الساهر), is an Iraqi singer, composer, and songwriter, born on September 12, 1957, in Mosul, Iraq. He is widely known as “The Caesar of Arabic Song” and “Iraq’s Ambassador to the World”, thanks to his profound influence on Arabic music and his poetic, emotional style.
From a young age, Kadim showed great passion for music and poetry. He studied at the Baghdad Institute of Music, where he learned composition and classical techniques. He wrote his first song at the age of twelve and composed his first major work at twenty-one.
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CARLOS SANTANA
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana was born in 1947 in Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico.
The music was felt early in his life thanks to his father, who was a violinist in a mariachi band, and thanks to this, the young Carlos learned to play the violin, which later changed by the guitar when he was only eight years old.
By the year 1955, with his family moved to Tijuana, Santana began right there expound his music, appearing to play in clubs and bars in the tourist area.
When his family moved to San Francisco, California, he stayed a while longer in Tijuana, but soon followed.
Subsequently, in 1966, when Santana and he was 19, achieved form the “Santana Blues Band”, then shortened to the simple name “Santana”, and together with this band begin their presentations.
They played in several locations, which may include The Fillmore West, where many of the great San Francisco bands played.
After a while, gets his first recording, which was called “The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper” with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield.
Later, he signed with Columbia Records, and that was when Santana released an album called “Santana”, accompanied the group would be formed by: Carlos Santana on guitar Gregg Rolie on piano and vocals, David Brown on bass, and drummer Michael Shrieve, Jose Areas and Michael Carabello on percussion.
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