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Mswati III (born Makhosetive on April 19, 1968) is the king of Swaziland and head of the Swazi Royal Family. In 1986, he succeeded his father Sobhuza II as King of the southern African kingdom. He is generally considered to...

Mehmet Cengiz Oz (Turkish: Mehmet Öz) (born June 11, 1960) is a cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and talk show host. He has made frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as appearances on Larry King, CNN, and other networks....

Ali B, a pseudonym of Ali Bouali (Zaanstad, 16 October 1981) is a Dutch Rapper of Moroccan descent. He is also a stand-up comedian and owns the label SPEC, which he has set up himself.

Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise...

Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927, Algiers, Algeria) is a French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably most widely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature film À bout de souffle (1960).

Lionel Loueke (born 1973) is a guitarist born in the west African country of Benin. He moved to Ivory Coast in 1990 to study at the National Institute of Art. He attended the American School of Modern Music in Paris,...

Midge Ure, OBE (born James Ure, 10 October 1953 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. He enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids,...

REO Speedwagon is an American rock band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois United States. Formed in 1967, the band grew in popularity during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. REO Speedwagon has charted two number one songs, "Keep On Loving...

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in East London, formed in 1975. The band is directed by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the group has released a collective total of thirty-five albums:...

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. His musical career spans over fifty years, but the most notable episode in it occurred during the late '60s. He was the founder of...