The A.V. Alexandrov Russian army ,

twice red-bannered academic song and dance ensemble, in short, the Alexandrov ensemble is a performing ensemble that serves as the official army choir of the Russian armed forces.

The ensemble consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to church hymns, operatic arias and popular music; examples include The Volga Boatmen’s Song, Katyusha, Kalinka, Kernina and Ave Maria. After the Soviet period, the ensemble has continued performing, entertaining audiences both inside and outside Russia. ….Read More

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Eurovision Song Contest Winners 1956 – 2009

           Track Listing :

1956 – 01 – Lys Assia – Refrain
1957 – 02 – Corry Brokken – Net Als Toen
1958 – 03 – André Claveau – Dors Mon Amour
1959 – 04 – Teddy Scholten – Een Beetje
1960 – 05 – Jacqueline Boyer – Tom Pillibi
1961 – 06 – Jean-Claude Pascal – Nous Les Amoureux
1962 – 07 – Isabelle Aubret – Un Premier Amour
1963 – 08 – Jörgen & Grethe Ingmann – Dansevise
1964 – 09 – Gigliola Cinquetti – No Ho L’etá
1965 – 10 – France Gall – Poupeé de Cire Poupeé de son
1966 – 11 – Udo Jürgens – Merci Cherie
1967 – 12 – Sandy Shaw – Puppet On A String
1968 – 13 – Massiel – La, La, La
1969 – 14 – Frida Boccara – Un Jour, Un Enfant
1969 – 15 – Lenny Kuhr – De Troubadour
1969 – 16 – Lulu – Boom Bang A Bang
1969 – 17 – Salomé – Vivo Cantando
1970 – 18 – Dana – All Kinds Of Everything
1971 – 19 – Séverine – Un banc, Un arbre, Une rue
1972 – 20 – Vicky Leandros – Aprés Toi
1973 – 21 – Anne-Marie David – Tu Te Reconnaitras
1974 – 22 – ABBA – Waterloo
1975 – 23 – Teach-In – Ding Dinge-Dong
1976 – 24 – Brotherhood Of Man – Save Your Kisses For Me
1977 – 25 – Marie Myriam – L’Oiseau Et L’Enfant
1978 – 26 – Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta – A Bi Ni Bi
1979 – 27 – Gali Atari & Milk And Honey – Hallelujah
1980 – 28 – Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year
1982 – 30 – Nicole – Ein Bisschen Frieden
1983 – 31 – Corinne Hermes – Si La Vie Est Cadeau
1984 – 32 – Herreys – Diggi – loo Diggi – Ley
1985 – 33 – Bobbysocks – La De Swinge
1986 – 34 – Sandra Kim – J’aime La Vie
1987 – 35 – Johnny Logan – Hold Me Now
1988 – 36 – Celine Dion – Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi
1989 – 37 – Riva – Rock Me
1990 – 38 – Toto Cotugno – Insieme 1992
1991 – 39 – Carola – Fångad Av En Stormwind
1992 – 40 – Linda Martin – Why Me
1993 – 41 – Niamh Kavanagh – In Your Eyes
1994 – 42 – Paul Harrington y Charlie McGettigan – Rock n’ Roll Kids
1995 – 43 – Secret Garden – Nocturne
1996 – 44 – Emear Quinn – The Voice
1997 – 45 – Katrina & The Waves – Love Shine A Light
1998 – 46 – Dana International – Diva
1999 – 29 – Bucks Fizz – Making Your Mind Up
1999 – 47 – Charlotte Nilsson – Take Me To Your Heaven
2000 – 48 – Olsen Brothers – Fly On The Wings Of Love
2001 – 49 – Tanel Padar ft. Dave Benton – Everybody
2002 – 50 – Marie N – I Wanna
2003 – 51 – Sertab Erener – Every Way That I Can.
2004 – 52 – Ruslana – Wild Dance
2005 – 53 – Helena Paparizou – You ‘re My Number One
2006 – 54 – Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah
2007 – 55 – Marija Serifovic – Molitva
2008 – 56 – Dima Bilan – Believe
2009 – 57 – Alexander Rybak – Fairytale

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Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo (Yma Sumac)

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Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt ,

(born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, warbling soprano vocals. ….Read More

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Pink Martini ,

is a “little orchestra” from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. They blend genres of music such as Latin, lounge, classical, and jazz. Their music has often been described as “vintage music”, a description which reflects the content, style and period that inspires many of their songs. Band leader, Thomas Lauderdale describes the band’s sound as “music of the world without being world music. It’s kind of like urban symphonic crossed with Cuban/Brazilian street Carnival parade, Breakfast at Tiffany’s/United Nations kind of thing. The goal was to create the kind of records with which one would hopefully never grow tired of. Records that could be played whether you were sad or gleeful. Cleaning, vacuuming around the house or seducing somebody’s grandmother”. ….Read More

Pink Martini – Splendor In The Grass P1

Pink Martini – Splendor In The Grass P2

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La Llorona ,

is the name of the first album by Canadian singer Lhasa de Sela, released in 1998. ….Read More

           Track Listing :

01. De cara a la pared
02. La Celestina
03. El desierto
04. Por eso me quedo
05. El Payande
06. Los peces
07. Floricanto
08. Desdeñosa
09. El pájaro
10. Mi vanidad
11. El árbol del olvido

Lhasa De Sela – La Llorona

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The Living Road ,

is the name of the second album by Canadian singer Lhasa de Sela. ….Read More

           Track Listing :

01. Con toda palabra
02.La marée haute
03. Anywhere on this road
04. Abro la ventana
05. J’arrive à la ville
06. La frontera
07. La confession
08. Small song
09. My name
10. Pa’llegar a tu lado
11. Para el fin del mundo o el año nuevo
12. Soon this space will be too small

Lhasa De Sela – The Living Road

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Lhasa de Sela ,

(born 1972), better known as Lhasa, is a Mexican American singer and songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and now lives in Canada.

Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father and an American mother. Her first decade was spent criss-crossing the United States and Mexico in a converted school bus with her parents and three sisters where they were home-schooled by her mother. She started singing in a Greek cafe in San Francisco when she was thirteen. At age nineteen she moved to Montreal and sang for five years in bars, where she developed the material that eventually became her first album, La Llorona, released in 1997. La Llorona, which mixes traditional South American songs with original songs, was strongly influenced by Mexican music, but also Eastern European gypsy music and alternative rock. The album was released by the Montreal independent record label Audiogram and brought her much success, including the Félix Award for “Artiste québécois — musique du monde” in 1997 and the Juno Award for Best Global Artist, in 1998.

After touring in Europe and North America for several years, Lhasa left her singing career in 1999 and moved to France to join her three sisters in a circus/theatre company named Pocheros. She eventually reached Marseille, where she started writing songs again. She then returned to Montreal to produce her second album, The Living Road, which was released in 2003. While La Llorona had been entirely in Spanish, The Living Road included songs in English, French and Spanish. A two year tour followed the release of “The Living Road”, taking her and her group to seventeen countries. She was a guest singer on the Tindersticks’ track ‘Sometimes It Hurts’ off their Waiting for the Moon album, and later joined Tindersticks’ singer Stuart Staples for a duet on the track ‘That Leaving Feeling’, found on his Leaving Songs album. She has also appeared as a guest on the albums of French singers Arthur H and Jérôme Minière, and the French gypsy music group Bratsch. Lhasa received the BBC World Music Award for Best Artist of the Americas in 2005. The accumulated worldwide sales of her two albums are nearing one million. ….Read More

           Track Listing :

01. Is Anything Wrong
02. Rising
03. Love Came Here
04. What Kind of Heart
05. Bells
06. Fool’s Gold
07. A Fish on Land
08. Where Do you Go
09. The Lonely Spider
10. 1001 Nights
11. I’m Going in
12. Anyone and Everyone

Lhasa De Sela – Lhasa

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Khaled Hadj Ebrahim ,

(born 29 February 1960), better known as Khaled, is a raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Sidi-El-Houri in Oran Province of Algeria. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic for “Young man Khaled”) and has become probably the most internationally famous Algerian singer. His popularity has earned him the unofficial title “King of Raï”. In 2008, it was announced that the singer will collaborate with international superstar Shakira on her new 2009 album. ….More

Khaled – Liberte

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Hal Aloma and his Orchestra – Sweet Leilani ,

           Track Listing :

01. Sweet Leilani
02. Moon of Manakoora
03. Honolulu
04. My Little Grass Shack
05. Song of the Islands
06. Hawaiian War Chant
07. Blue Hawaii
08. Hawaiian Wedding Song
09. Surf and Sand
10. Lovely Hula Hands
11. Malia
12. Hawaiian Moon

Hal Aloma and his Orchestra – Sweet Leilani

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           Track Listing :

01. Paul Dinletir – Pharonic Odyessey

02. Asena – Warda

03. Asena – Sedur

04. Asena – Asena

05. Oojami – Desert Fish

06. Tres Mundos – Abdel Khader

07. Toufic Farroukh – Lilli S`en Fout

08. Riddum Please – Dub Pause Pan

09. Saad – El Kalaw Ala Meen

10. Latifa – Wadah

11. Pentaphobe – Dawn In the City

12. Les Grands Ballets De Tahiti – Mihiavai

Bellydance Superstars Presents Babelesque

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L’Ame De L’afrique ,

           Track Listing :

1. “1. Ye Ke Ye Ke”
2. “2. Yo Le Le”
3. “3. Em’Ma”
4. “4. Sweet Fanta Diallo”
5. “5. Chantou”
6. “6. Homeless”
7. “7. Doley”
8. “8. Soul Makossa”
9. “9. Tadieu Bone”
10. “10. Asimbonanga”
11. “11. Ye Ye Ye”
12. “12. Siku Ya Mangu”
13. “13. Nga Tara”
14. “14. Pata Pata”
15. “15. Koteja”
16. “16. Dom”
17. “17. Maayo Wadi Dyam”
18. “18. Have Faith”

L’Ame De L’afrique

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Yma Sumac ,

[e-mah soo‘-mac] (September 13, 1922 – November 1, 2008) was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music and became an international success, based on the merits of her extreme vocal range, “well over four octaves”, which was commonly claimed to span four and even five octaves at her peak. ….More

Yma Sumac – Mambo

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Cheba Maria ,

est une chanteuse originaire de Casablanca au Maroc. En 1998, cheba maria rejoint la France et s’installe à Toulouse en quête de nouvelles rencontres et d’expériences musicales.
Rapidement elle arrive à convaincre un public plus large et se fait une place dans le milieu artistique grâce à sa voix exceptionnelle et son irrésistible joie de vivre. Elle se produit aux cotés de plusieurs artistes :
En 1998 son duo avec Cheb Rachid « Enta ould bladi » (toi de mon Pays) se vendra à plusieurs milliers d’exemplaires dans differents pays et notamment au Maroc ou elle garde un public fidèl.
En 1999, « Amalek a Zine » ( qu’est ce que tu as ).
En 2000 « Zinek Khater » (Ta beauté est irrésistible) En 2001 « Rani Mghamra » (je part a l’aventure).
En2003 « jenetinie » (tu m’as rendu folle) ,et son incroyable participation dans l’album Rain’b Fever le titre Mon Bled en duo avec Mohamed lamine et Rohff vendu a plus de 250.000 exemplaires lui donnera l’occasion de recevoir des mains de la maison de disque Sony Music son premier Disque d’or.
Elle a pu créer un style à part le style CHEBA MARIA influencée par le rai,la musique populaire marocaine et moyen-orientale plus généralement. ….More

Cheba Maria – Mon Amour

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Rokia Traoré ,

(born January 24, 1974-) is an award-winning Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. Traoré was born in Mali as a member of the Bamana ethnic group. As her father was a diplomat, she travelled widely in her youth including to Algeria, Saudi Arabia, France and Belgium. As a result of this travel, she was exposed to a wide variety of influences. Her hometown is Kolokani, in the northwestern part of Mali’s Koulikoro region. ….More

Rokia Traore – Tchamantche

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Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko ,

(born May 24, 1973) is a World Music award winning artist and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

She is a singer, dancer, producer, composer, conductor, and pianist. She writes, composes and produces her own songs and music videos. Since 28 December 1995 she is married to Oleksandr Ksenofontov, a Ukrainian record producer. Together they are running the company Luxen Studio since 1993, where radio and film trailers are produced.

She won the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song Wild Dances, which earned 280 points, receiving points from 34 of the 35 other countries participating in the contest (the exception being Switzerland). ….More

Ruslana Lyzhychko – Wild Energy

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Melina Kana,

was born in Thessaloniki and studied philology at the Aristotle University. While she was a student she started singing in small venues.

In 1987 and for four years she appears at the “Plato” venue in Thessaloniki. She meets then the great Greek composer Stavros Kougioumtzis and she cooperates with him. IN the following years she appears in many concerts of various remarkable Greek artists, such as Nikos Portokaloglou, Sokratis Malamas, Haris Alexiou, Nikos Xidakis. …More

Melina Kana – Portrait

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The 4 Cats,

is a Lebanese band made up of four ladies: Dalida, Maya, Raya and Aline. They are also called, 4 Cats. The band is famous for singing oldies in Arabic. The members in the band have changed frequently.

The 4 cats were created in 1998 by the Lebanese musical composer and singer [Ghassan Al-Rahbani]. The band members were Dalida, Zaina, Chantal & Rula. The reason behind naming them the 4 cats, as Ghassan stated in an interview that took a place in 1998, that 3 girls is not a convenient number and 5 is too many, so four is ….More

4 Cats – Walaat Kateer

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Elena Paparizou,

(born January 31, 1982) is a Greek singer, born and raised in Sweden. She is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece with the song My Number One…..More

Helena Paparizou – Vrisko To Logo Na Zo

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Afro-Cuban All-Stars,

is a Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos González (formerly tres player for Sierra Maestra). Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá, salsa, son montuno, timba, guajira, danzón, rumba and abakua. They are known internationally for their 1997 album A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, which was recorded at the Buena Vista Social Club sessions. Members have included Rubén González, Orlando “Cachaito” Lopez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Raul Planas, Pío Leyva, Manuel “Puntillita” Licea, Yanko Pisaco and more recently Caridad Hierrezuelo and Pedro Calvo. ….More

Afro Cuban All Stars – A Toda Cuba Le Gusta

Afro Cuban All Stars – Alto Songo

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