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Afro Brothers
Afro Bros (18 June 1990, 10 June 1989), better known by their stage name Afro Bros, are a DJ and record production duo. Notable productions include the songs " X" and "Instagram". Career In 2017, Afro Bros collaborated with Boaz van de Beatz and Ronnie Flex, and produced two songs, "Energie" and "Come Again" which later received a Buma Award. Afro Bros co-produced the song "Sua Cara" with Major Lazer, and it later won a Latin Grammy Award. In 2018, Afro Bros collaborated with Jeon, and produced the track " X", featuring Nicky Jam and J Balvin which has been viewed 1.9 billion times on YouTube and also won a Buma Export Award as well as being nominated for Latin Grammy Awards. In July 2019, the duo produced the song "Instagram" with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, David Guetta, Daddy Yankee and Natti Natasha. In 2019, they also worked with Jamaican singer Sean Kingston and released the song "How Many Times". Afro Bros signed a contract with Universal Music Group Universal M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
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Sean Kingston
Kisean Paul Anderson (born February 3, 1990), better known by his stage name Sean Kingston, is an American-Jamaican singer and rapper. He is known for his hit songs " Beautiful Girls", "Fire Burning", " Take You There", and his collaboration with Justin Bieber: "Eenie Meenie". Early life and education Born Kisean Paul Anderson in Miami, Florida, Kingston was the first of three children born to Janice Turner. Kingston's family moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when he was six. Kingston attended Ocho Rios High School in Ocho Rios for three years before migrating back to the United States. His grandfather was the noted Jamaican reggae producer Lawrence Lindo, who worked under the stage name Jack Ruby. Career 2007–2008: ''Sean Kingston'' Kingston was discovered on YouTube by Matt Tobin at Beluga Heights Records, and signed to the label in a partnership deal with Sony. In an interview with HitQuarters label head and producer J. R. Rotem described this process with regards to Kingston: " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boef
Sofiane Youssef Samir Boussaadia ( ar, سفيان يوسف سمير بوسعدية, sufyān yūsuf samīr būsaʿādiyya, link=no; born 28 February 1993), known professionally as Boef (; "crook"), is a Dutch-speaking rapper and vlogger of Algerian-French nationality. Within a year of his start in 2015, he became one of the most popular rappers in the Netherlands after Lil' Kleine and Ronnie Flex. He released an album and various singles. His vlog and rap videos were viewed many millions of times on the internet. His first EP ''Gewoon Boef'' was released in February 2016 and his first album ''Slaaptekort'' came out in March 2017. ''Slaaptekort'' (Dutch for 'sleep deprivation') is the album with the most streams on release date in the Netherlands, a record that was previously held by Ed Sheeran's '' ÷''. Many of his songs have made it on the charts in the Netherlands and Belgian Flanders. Early life Boef was born in Aubervilliers in Île-de-France (Paris conurbation). He has Alger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California. The biggest music company in the world, it is one of the " Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music and Warner Music Group. Tencent acquired ten percent of Universal Music Group in March 2020 for €3 billion and acquired an additional ten percent stake in January 2021. Pershing Square Holdings later acquired ten percent of UMG prior to its IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The company went public on September 21, 2021, at a valuation of €46 billion. In 2019, ''Fast Company'' named Universal Music Group the most innovative music company and listed UMG among the Top 50 most innovative companies in the world and "amid the music industry's digital tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buma Export Award
The Buma Export Award (initially known as Conamus Export Award) was a prize given to the Dutch artists who sold the most records abroad between 1972 and 2011. In 2013, this prize was replaced by the Buma ROCKS! Export Award that focused on rock artists and the Buma Award Internationaal (that has been awarded to the best-selling and most played songs involving Dutch recording artists, songwriters and publishers with international success). The latter award is presented yearly during the Buma Awards ceremony. Background The awards were first presented in 1972. They showed the international prestige and popularity of Dutch singers, producers, musicians or bands. The first winners were pop duo Mouth & MacNeal, conductor Harry van Hoof and songwriter/record producer Hans van Hemert for the success of the hit single " How Do You Do". This song spent 19 weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and won the R.I.A.A. gold disc on 2 August 1972. Selling over a million copies in the U.S. alone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Grammy Award
The Latin Grammy Awards are an award by The Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy honors works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere around the world that has been released in Ibero-America. Submissions of products recorded in languages, dialects or idiomatic expressions recognized in Ibero America, such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, Valencian, Nahuatl, Guarani, Quechua or Mayan may be accepted by a majority vote. Both the regular Grammy Award and the Latin Grammy Award have similar nominating and voting processes, in which the selections are decided by peers within the Latin music industry. The first annual Latin Grammys ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on September 13, 2000. Broadcast by CBS, that first ceremony became the first primarily Spanish language primetime program carried on an English language American television network. The 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sua Cara
"Sua Cara" () is a song by American electronic dance music band Major Lazer from ''Know No Better'' (2017). The song features Brazilian singers Anitta and Pabllo Vittar. The song was recorded in February 2017, shortly after the Brazilian Carnival. Background and development Diplo of Major Lazer has always been one of the great supporters of Brazilian funk and Brazilian music. He had previously worked on songs by DJ Marlboro, and even signed the musical group Bonde do Rolê to his label Mad Decent, along with producing songs by Banda Uó and Pabllo Vittar. He says: "I always try to know what happens in Brazil, it's important for me." While in Brazil for Lollapalooza, in 2016, with his group project Jack Ü with Skrillex, he met singer Anitta, and handed her a demo of what would later become the track. In February 2017, Diplo posted a reply on his Twitter, about a possible collaboration with the singer, simply stating "soon". Anitta announced the collaboration on Instagram Live. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boaz Van De Beatz
Boaz de Jong (born December 15, 1988), better known by his stage name Boaz van de Beatz, is a Dutch-Israeli record producer and DJ. He is the founder of the Nouveau Riche record label, which includes popular Dutch artists Mr. Polska and Jebroer. Boaz has helped launch the careers of many artists under his label, as well as his frequent collaborator Ronnie Flex and DJ trio Yellow Claw. Since 2013, Boaz has transitioned from mainly producing Dutch hip hop songs to releasing electronic music as a lead artist – he has released two EPs under the American dance label Mad Decent. Boaz is also affiliated with producer Diplo, with whom he contributes to the DJ group Major Lazer. Boaz is known for his unique musical style of creating "insane rap songs that would span four–five genres in about three and a half minutes." His songs incorporate elements of dance. Boaz received the Dutch State Award for "best producer" for three years in a row between 2011 and 2013. He has produced for ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instagram (song)
"Instagram" is a song by Belgian production duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, French DJ David Guetta, Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, Dutch DJ duo Afro Bros, and Dominican singer Natti Natasha. It was released as a single on 5 July 2019 by Smash the House. The song is about the popular social media app Instagram. The single reached Top 10 in Belgium and Netherlands and its the most popular single of Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike on Shazam. Background On 18 June 2019, Natti Natasha and Daddy Yankee announced the song on their social media by posting photos from the video set in Ibiza, Spain. Natasha also posted a video thanking the artists, calling it an "amazing moment". Composition The song was written by David Guetta, Francesca Richard, Dimitri Thivaios, Michael Thivaios, Ramon Luis Ayala Rodriguez, Giordano M.S. Ashruf, Natalia Alexandra Gutierrez Batista, Rashid M.S. M Badloe and Sharef M.R. Badloe, while Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, David Guetta and Afro Bros produced the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X (Nicky Jam And J Balvin Song)
"X" is a song by American singer Nicky Jam and Colombian singer J Balvin. Written by the two singers, Juan Diego Medina, Giordano Ashruf and its producers, Jeon and Afro Brothers, Afro Bros, it was released by Sony Music Latin on March 2, 2018. It is a Spanish dancehall song, featuring a synth trumpet hook and elements of reggae, reggaeton, Latin pop and Afrobeats. A Spanglish version of the song was released on April 27, 2018. On June 28, 2018, a remix version featuring vocals by artists Maluma (singer), Maluma and Ozuna (singer), Ozuna was released. The accompanying audio was also released on Nicky Jam's YouTube channel on the same day. The song topped the charts in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Bolivia, El Salvador, Panama, Paraguay and Peru. Nicky Jam performed the song solo during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final#Closing ceremony, 2018 FIFA World Cup closing ceremony. Music video The music video for "X" was filmed in Miami and directed by Jessy Terrero. It was released on March 1, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akon
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam (; born April 16, 1973), known mononymously as Akon, is a Senegalese-American singer, record producer, and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of " Locked Up" (featuring Styles P), the first single from his debut album '' Trouble'' (2004), followed by the second single " Lonely". His second album, ''Konvicted'' (2006), received three Grammy Award nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Smack That" (featuring Eminem) and " I Wanna Love You" (featuring Snoop Dogg). Both singles became ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top ten hits, followed up by "Don't Matter" and "Sorry, Blame It on Me". His third studio album '' Freedom'' (2008) was led by the single "Right Now (Na Na Na)". Akon often provides vocals as a featured artist and is currently credited with over 300 guest appearances and more than 35 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 songs, resulting in five Grammy Award nominations. He is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
