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Born September 16, 1988, in Cleveland, Ohio, Durand Bernarr was destined to pursue a career in the music industry. Music is in his DNA! … Durand writes and arranges all of his music and to date has written over 500 songs.

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Born September 26, 1976 is a singer, songwriter and producer from Rahway, New Jersey. He is sometimes referred to simply as Erro, the name which he later used as part of his label Blue Erro Soul. … He continued songwriting work as well as releasing his own material through his Blue Erro Soul imprint.

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Described by American Songwriter as “blurring–no, obliterating, the lines between jazz, synth-pop, and contemporary R&B,” Sample Kulture challenges the notion of what constitutes soul. Lush female vocals emerge from vinyl textures, lofi pianos, and crunchy synths in their debut LP Upstairs Headroom released August 2020.

SK’s deft production and jazz-inspired harmony emanates from producer/keyboardist Andrew Stephen. Vocalist Chrissy Renick lends her effortless, soulful voice to the sound, draping melodies across an ever-changing harmonic landscape. Sample Kulture pays homage to the textural possibilities and musical characteristics of sampling but employed by live musicians.

In Stephen’s own words: “The art of sampling has been around long enough that it has become part of the vernacular and generations of musicians who grew up listening to sample-derived music are imitating samples in the way they approach their instrument and their writing. It has come full circle and thus life imitates art.”

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Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer Zo! is Detroit-area born and raised, Silver Spring, MD based… Lorenzo Ferguson. Influenced by a wide range of music genres introduced to him at an early age, Zo! utilizes multiple layers of thick instrumentation to shape his compositions, as demonstrated on his solo albums.

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Grammy-winning singer with a soulful voice and clear gospel influences, YEBBA is the childhood nickname and stage alias of Abbey Smith. She backed Chance the Rapper on Saturday Night Live and made a fan of Ed Sheeran before presenting her debut single, “Evergreen,” in 2017.

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From humble origins in Detroit, raised on a healthy diet of Motown, Jazz and early Hip Hop…Tall Black Guy has become a standard bearer for the current hip hop beats scene. Through a steady stream of productions filled with incredibly clever sample flips and deft production chops, he has won fans across the world, including Gilles Peterson, Lefto, Jazzy Jeff, Questlove and countless others.

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Shay Lia is the stage name of Shanice Dileita Mohamed, a Djiboutian-Canadian musician based in Montreal. Best known for her collaborations with Kaytranada, her solo debut EP Dangerous was longlisted for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize.

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Calmness is the key to Pip’s music; a blissful fusion of R&B and soul that’s always full of feeling. Pip is determined to make music she insists will always be “chilled but emotional.” Whatever comes next, a generation caught in its feelings might just have a new soundtrack.

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Moses Sumney is an American singer-songwriter based in Asheville, North Carolina. His self-recorded EP, Mid-City Island, was released in 2014. He released another five-song EP in 2016, titled Lamentations. His first full-length album, Aromanticism, was released in September 2017.

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MYYKK is a Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Music Producer. His eclectic and forward thinking sound situates itself at the intersections of Soul, R&B, Jazz, Electro and Hip Hop. with soundscapes that blend analog synthesis and neck breaking rhythms with sonic alchemy. MMYYKK’s musical explorations center themselves in themes of love, humanity, healing, and higher consciousness.