an approach that launched his hitmaking solo career and further popularized the practice of riddim recycling — which is still a standard approach in dancehall production. Sugar, formerly with the vocal trio The African Brothers, penned one of his earliest solo hits "Oh, Mr...
Duran picked up a guitar early on, but soon switched to playing bass in the band at La Guardia High School (widely known as theFameschool), where he graduated the same year as Nicki Minaj. At school, he was forced to only play classical music, and as a teen of Afro-Caribbean h...
“The real birth of Brazilian funk for me was in 1999 when DJ Luciano and Cabide mixed the Afro-Brazilian beats of candomblé with the heavy kicks and subs of Miami Bass creating the Tamborzão riddim,” explains Omulu, a baile funk DJ/producer who is currently working on a new song ...