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The offspring is an American punk rock band, which in Huntington Beach, California formed 1984th Since its formation the band’s arrangement has Dexter Holland (lead vocals, guitar), Noodles (lead and rhythm guitars, vocals supported) and comprises Greg K. (bass, vocals supported).

1987 Ron Welty James Lilja replaced as the drummer for the offspring, and concluded from the band ‘, s take the most successful installation, which was, for 16 years. Their current drummer Peter Parada, formerly of confidential and saves the day, joined the band in 2007, according Atom Willard, which is decided to go to in order to focus on Angels &; ether.

After they released their first two albums achieved the offspring (1989) and Ignition (1992), the offspring of success with Smash (1994) after over a million copies and now sieverkauft sieverkauft walking six times platinum had. As a result, the band was far, next Mitkalifornien-punk band with a Green Day provides credit, bad religion, rancid, with the popularization and the revival of mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States.

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Blink-182 is an American pop punk band of which consist of singer and bass guitarist mark Hoppus, singer and guitarist Tom De Longe and drummer Travis Barker.

They have over 35 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California sold 1992nd With original drummer Scott Raynor, they gave their first album, Cheshire Cat in 1994 and achieved moderate success with free its port, 1997 ‘s-dude ranch, which went on to sell over a million copies.

Raynor was replaced by Barker, halfway through a trip 1998th The band achieved major success with 1999 ‘the s multi-platinum, the Enema of the State sold the # 9 on the Billboard 200 as a result, achieved singles “from, What’s My Age Again” and “All the Small Things”, from which the the latter, the high-charting song of their career by reaching # 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 were. Blink-182 gained popularity for its irreverent sense of humor, and the cross-Album remove your pants and jacket (2001) reached # 1 in the United States, Canada and Germany.

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Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques (January 9, borne 1973), who performs under the stage name Sean Paul, is a Jamaican Grammy winning reggae artist who is the former lead singer of Dutty cup Crew.Sean Paul was spent born in Kingston, Jamaica and his early years in the upper Saint-Andrew-county, a few miles north of Kingston. His parents, Garth and Frances, were both talented athletes, and his mother is a well known painter.

His paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew immigrated, whose family of Portugal, and his paternal grandmother was African-Caribbean, and his mother is of English and Chinese Jamaican waste. Sean Paul was a Catholic angehoben.

Viele members of his family are swimmers. His grandfather was on the first Jamaican men ‘s national water polo team. His father also played water polo for the team in the sixties, competing in long distance swimming, while Sean Paul’s mother was a backstroke swimmer.

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The kalimba is an instrument in the percussion family. It is a modernized version of the Southern African mbira. It is a sound box with metal keys that are attached to the top, to allow the various annotations. It is also known as the African thumb piano.

The kalimba is a musical instrument from southern Africa. Several reeds or tines are plucked with the thumb or fingers, and the reed vibrations are amplified by a hollow Kastenresonator or a sounding board. The kalimba is a member of the lamellophones family of musical instruments. The first trade-exported out of Africa to be kalimba, was the Hugh Tracey Kalimba.

After studying African music and dozens of prototype instruments, Hugh Tracey’s company African Musical Instruments began manufacturing and kalimbas, a Western version of the mbira, the end of the fifties. The Namenskalimba is a Bantu word which means: little music “and the word Karimba, a type of mbira similar.

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Is an American punk rock band from Berkeley, California in 1991 was rancid. Founded by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, both of whom will be played before the influential ska punk band Operation Ivy, rancid (together with the secondary, Green Day and Bad Religion) helping, popular mainstream interest in punk rock while in the United States the mid-90s, credited to revive.

Unlike Green Day, and the offspring but rancid signed to an independent label and continues still to play the much more traditional blade and political music, most of them to their underground roots connected wurde.Rancid ‘s songs reflect their advocacy for linkse policy social and racial equality, the near-religious indie and DIY ethics and dissatisfaction with Punkelitism.

Although rancid only experienced significant mainstream success during the mid-90s, they are to become one of the most influential punk bands of all time gone. Rancid includes Armstrong on guitar and vocals, Freeman on bass and vocals, Lars Frederiksen on guitar and vocals, and Branden Steineckert on drums with one. The tape was by Armstrong, Freeman, and former drummer Brett Reed formed that made the band in 2006 and was replaced by stone Eckert.

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