Frayser Boy, a Memphis native, came to the attention of prominent hip-hop group, Three 6 Mafia, through a friend. He eventually went to work for them in promotion, but in...
Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell is an American musician, songwriter, audio engineer, record producer and owner of Royal Studios in Memphis. His father, Willie Mitchell, operated...
Nationally acclaimed performer, composer, arranger, and educator, Jamie Laval is hailed as “One of North America’s finest practitioners of traditional Scottish...
Master percussionist Kofi Ackah, son of Jewel Ackah, was born into a musical family in the town of Ema, Ghana. His father is known as the King of Highlife in Ghana, one of...
A veteran of Memphis' hip-hop underground, rapper Al Kapone spent more than a decade in obscurity. In 2005, the movie Hustle & Flow took his career to a new level when...
Best known as the keyboard player and occasional guitarist of Talking Heads during the 1980s, Harrison had begun his career ten years before, playing with Jonathan...
Georgy Gusev was born in Magnitogorsk (South Urals). After completing his studies at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he has obtained a degree of a "Free...
Noam Pikelny has emerged as the preeminent banjoist of his generation, and the greatest color-blind banjoist of all-time. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the...
