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Ignazio Di Salvo is an italian guitar player and composer based in Belgium. He began to study music by the age of 9, studying classical guitar at the Conservatory with the Master Francesco Buzzurro. At the age of 16 he composed his first instrumental demo “Where do the thoughts come from?” and he was awarded with the title of young talent by many music Magazines (Top Demo on Metal Shock, Chitarre, Raw&Wild, Metal Hammer, Rockeggiando.it ). During the same year, he attended Siena Jazz Clinics and he obtained the First Level Classical Guitar Diploma at the Conservatory.

In 2008 he graduated in Business Economics at the “Luigi Bocconi” University of Milan (Title of his dissertation: Development strategies for niche artistic product. The EGEA case and Italian Jazz). In the meantime he graduated at the Milan Modern Music Academy (“Corsi Civici di Jazz”) after five years of studying.

In 2009 he attended the Berklee College of Music seminars and he has been selected as the best jazz guitarist by Giovanni Tommaso and he joined the Berklee Umbria Jazz Award Band at Umbria Jazz Winter 2010. In the same year, he joined the competition “Ziua Chitarelor 3” in Bucharest and he won the first prize which has been assigned by a prestigious jury (Jennifer Batten, Andreas Oberg, Michael Lee Feerkins, Stu Hamm, Dave Martone, William Stravato, Damjan Pejcinosky and Fabrizio Dadò, Axemagazine).

He has been chosen as one of the 12 finalists in Guitar Idol 2011 among more than 1030 guitar players all over the world. He received a great response from both judges and public, and his song “A night of change” was acclaimed as the best in the competition by the audience. He joined seminars held by Jennifer Batten, Steve Trovato, Richard Smith, Dave Liebman, Guthrie Govan, Dave Martone, Michael Lee Feerkins, Andreas Oberg, Stu Hamm, Tomaso Lama, Umberto Fiorentino. Furthermore he studied Jazz Guitar with Bebo Ferra and Umberto Fiorentino.

In 2011 he opened the Reb Beach (Whitesnake, Winger) and the Guthrie Govan concerts. He attended the Nuoro Jazz seminars held by the famous Italian trumpet player Paolo Fresu and he won the prestigious scholarship for the best students. He also gained the Jazz Master Degree at the Italian Conservatory of Music "Vivaldi".

His playing style has been transcribed by Jamtrackcentral.com, where he collaborates as artist and composer. He studied Fusion-Jazz guitar with Alex Stornello and he's been founder and director of the Modern Music Institute in Milan from 2010 to 2013. He wrote didactical articles for the Guitar Club Magazine and he introduced in the market his signature "Gnazz tap-pick", an innovative guitar pick to play eight-finger tapping.

His first album “A gift to the World” came out in 2014 with a great response of public and critics. In the year 2013 he moved to Brussels where he gained a Master for Didactics at the "Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles". He's playing in diffent projects, from Metal to Jazz, Pop and Fusion. He's working as Live/Studio session man, he's teaching Jazz Music in the Belgian National Academies and doing Masterclasses and Clinics. He's endorser for the brands DVMark, Ibanez Guitars, Gruvgear, TRex pedals, IQS, Essetipicks and M-picks.

Dutch-Belgian outfit IKIGA does catchy post-pop like the Japanese do ramen: tasty as f*ck.

U2 tributeband “IN THE NAME OF” is op 1 januari 2008 opgericht en is ontstaan uit een allround coverband. De nieuwe bezetting heeft deze band echter opnieuw op de kaart gezet (vanaf mei 2015)
Met hun hele hart, kruipen ze in de ziel van U2. Om met dezelfde passie en vuur die, o zo geweldige nummers ten gehore te brengen.

Een U2 tributeband die net als het origineel, elk optreden bespeelt alsof het hun laatste is …
” IN THE NAME OF ” stond onder andere in zalen als De Maaspoort, 013, P60 (fanclubdag U2 Fanclub Nederland), Paradiso, De Vorstin en Metropool.
Ook stond zij op gerenommeerde festivals in Nederland en België. Met Een avondje ” IN THE NAME OF “ voel en beleef je U2.
De band staat garant voor een ultiem muzikaal aanstekelijk U2 avontuur en houdt van de enorme interactie en chemie die tijdens een optreden ontstaat.
Iedere bezoeker zal deze intense beleving ervaren.
In the Name of is deelnemer aan The Clash of the Cover Bands 2016-2017.
In de voorronde (juni 2016), in de landelijke finale van de extra cyclus (oktober 2016) en in de halve Benelux finale (maart 2017) is In the Name of uitgeroepen tot vakjurywinnaar! De finale vindt op 8 juli 2017 plaats in PARADISO Amsterdam.

INDIANAH is een in 2018 opgericht muziek duo, bestaande uit zus en broer Shariffa Kanbier [vocalen/songwriting] en Jermaine Kanbier [drums/electronics/songwriting].
Het duo maakt elektronische tropische popmuziek met akoestische elementen.
Geïnspireerd door hedendaagse elektronische muziek, maar ook pop en soul, is het duo eigen materiaal gaan schrijven en de studio ingedoken met producer Jack van de Ven.
Tussentijds speelde het duo onder andere in een uitverkocht Melkweg als support act van de Engelse wereld hit zangeres Anne-Marie, waren te gast bij Giel Beelen op 3FM en Koffietijd op RTL 4 en tourden op Curacao.
INDIANAH's debuut single ''You'' kwam uit op 7 juni.
De single werd goed ontvangen en toegevoegd aan meer dan 70 Spotify afspeellijsten, werd meer dan 20.000 keer gestreamd en wordt gedraaid in meerdere grote winkelketens en op Nederlands grootste internetradio Pinguin FM.

Indianizer was born in 2013, sprung from the minds of some psychonauts drawing their
inspirations from Animal Collective's wild frenzies and Django Django's tropical rhytms.
Following two self-financed EPs (Pandas - 2013 and Jungle Beatnik – 2014), their Neon
Hawaii full-length album (Edison Box/PBP – 2015) was released in 2015 – thanks to this
debut album the band toured in Italy and Europe (one of the best 50 albums of 2015
according to Noisey). The new single Mazel Tov II is being released in January 2018 via
Musica Altra, with the support of remixes by Don’t Dj, Passenger and Las Hermanas. The
new Zenith album is being released in spring 2018, via Musica Altra again.

Zenith marks the entrance of a far more personal and self-aware sound that still enshrines
a different approach in composition and arrangement rather then Neon Hawaii: the tracks,
being sung in English, Spanish and an invented language, result from free and wild jam
sessions, with the vocals being addedd later, so to outline unpredictable structures.
Organic, acid, synthetic and space sounds wrapping around a perpetual and obsessive
rhythmic pulse, in the quest for an unreachable catharsis - the emotional intensity peaks
up, reaching its Zenith, and then blows up and flows out in the universe. As if Meridian
Brothers met King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard in the middle of the desert and stared at
the parabolic curve that the sun draws in the sky. Zenith is the search for a perhaps non-
existing cosmic Father, providing love and life just like the Sun does, dispersing shadows
and doubts, but that may destroy everything he has just created, thus becoming
dangerous and mortal, right at the peak of his path.

Het creatieve proces is een wonderlijk ding. Je schrijft liedjes, neemt ze op, en ineens zie en hoor je alles anders. Dat overkwam Inge van Calkar, die we nog kennen van haar deelname aan De Beste Singer-Songwriter van Nederland. Gaandeweg is haar smaak, stijl en aanpak veranderd. Dan kun je wel stug door blijven gaan op de oude voet, maar de verlokkingen van een nieuwe richting zijn veel interessanter. Die innerlijke stem moest ze gewoon volgen voor komende, tweede album. De akoestische gitaar werd ingeruild voor een elektrische, terwijl de liedjes een elektronica injectie meekregen, die ze veel meer suspense geeft.

Being around music all of his life, Gregg Green's first musical memory is of him falling asleep underneath the stage where his father, renowned jazz trumpet player Charli Green, was performing on. As a little kid, Gregg was already humming along with the tunes, and adding to the melodies and harmonies.

Nowadays Gregg has made his way around the world and onto the stage, creating his own music magic.
It is no mystery to see where the music in this talented musician comes from. Gregg credits God first for his gifts and drive, and his grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Smith, herself a very blessed writer. His father, but also his uncle, Julius E. Green, Stax recording artist of the Mad Lads.

Gregg says he never had any conscious aspirations of becoming a musician. He sees his present path as a divine decision, saying that all he ever did was follow his heart.
A heart that has led him to live and perform all over the world, gracing stages, rooftops and parties with his guitar and his songs, his acting and his poetry. Gregg's music already blessed places like Paris, Honolulu, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Innsbruck, South Carolina, Boston and Toronto. Along the way he had the pleasure to meet and perform with many incredible artists. Causing his music to grow into a pollination of sound rooted in the soul of his music. One can hear influences of different styles of music such as blues, jazz, hip hop, funk, soul, reggae and latin. Or 'Streetblues' as Gregg likes to call it. His audience has compared him to musicians like Ben Harper and Nas, and in the same breath to Finley Quaye and a John Legend.

After working as a sideman for various musicians like Kenichiro Nishihara, Yvad, Sotu the Traveller, and Audiopharmacy, as well as featuring on several of their projects, 2011 will be the year Gregg Green releases his highly anticipated first solo project, aptly titled World Citizen.