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unusual facts about musical genre



Les Sages Poètes de la Rue

Les Sages Poètes de la Rue (The Wise Poets of the Street): Dany Dan, Melopheelo and Zoxea, are a French hip hop band that has profoundly influenced and keeps influencing their musical genre as a band or through their solo career.

Lumous Gothic Festival

While the primary focus is on music, covering musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk, other cultural and arts events have also been organised as part of the festival.


see also

Christian praise and worship

Contemporary worship music, a musical genre also known as Christian praise and worship

Clarisse Albrecht

Growing up, Albrecht was listening to a lot of different musical genre : soul, R&B, Funk, Pop, Brazilian music (MPB, Bossa-Nova) and African music such as Makossa, Marabentta or Congolese Rumba.

Giorgos Zographos

Zographos was a representative of the Greek New Wave musical genre; he had appeared on scene along many other Greek artists like Demos Moutsis, Dora Giannakopoulou and Dionysis Savvopoulos.

Leigh Landy

Marc Battier, Professor of Musicology, Paris-Sorbonne University says
"The contribution of Leigh Landy to the understanding of recent developments in music technology is paramount. Landy's thoughts on electronic music address the essence of this musical genre".

Raï'n'B

Raï'n'B (written Raï&B and Raï/RnB) is a musical genre that appeared in the 2000s in France, with elements of both French contemporary R&B and Algerian Raï.

Rohan Kriwaczek

He is the author of the 2006 book An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin that purports to document this musical genre and contains numerous musical examples in score.

Romany Hip Hop

Romany musical genre from Eastern Europe where a fusion between hip hop music with Romany beats and lyrics create the sound.

Ronald Snijders

In his compositions he often draws on Kaseko, a musical genre of his homeland, but also to elements of pop and world music.

Sarah Sands

In August 2006, Sands wrote an article about the Emo musical genre, which stated that Green Day and My Chemical Romance encourage self-harm among teenagers, despite Green Day having tenuous links to the emo genre and My Chemical Romance advising their fans not to commit self-harm.

Sons of Selina

They were very hard to pigeon-hole into a musical genre as their sound swept from Punk rock to Electro Pop (sometimes in the same song!).

The Grass Is Blue

In addition to rejuvenating Parton's then-lagging career, the album, along with the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack and the work of Alison Krauss, is credited with making bluegrass a hugely popular musical genre during the early 2000s.

Walter Hyatt

His band, known as Uncle Walt's Band, was involved in the alternative music scene in Austin, Texas, from its inception and is credited by many with being the Godfather of Americana Music or the Original Americana Artist, never easily pegged into any one musical genre or format of commercial music styles.