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Seu Jorge (born June 8, 1970) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor.

Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in what is now known as the city of Belford Roxo, near Rio de Janeiro.

When he was 19, he became homeless and remained homeless for three years; nonetheless, his musical talent flourished when he was living in the streets and he became known in the favelas.

He is considered by many a renewer of Brazilian pop samba.

Seu Jorge cites samba schools, and American soul singer Stevie Wonder as major musical influences.

Jorge is also known for his role as Knockout Ned in the 2002 film City of God.

His work has notably received praise from several of his fellow musicians such as Beck and David Bowie.

Tom Zé (born Antônio José Santana Martins, 11 October 1936 in Irará, Bahia, Brazil) is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil.

After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded by Zé many years earlier, that he returned to performing and releasing new material.

Glauber de Andrade Rocha (14 March 1939 – 22 August 1981), better known as Glauber Rocha, was a Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter.

He was a key figure of Cinema Novo and one of the most influential moviemakers of Brazilian cinema.

His films Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil) and Terra em Transe (Entranced Earth) are often considered to be two of the greatest achievements in Brazilian cinematic history, being selected by Abraccine as, respectively, the second and fifth best Brazilian films of all-time.

Oje Ken Ollivierre popularly known as Protoje, is a contemporary reggae singer, and songwriter from Jamaica.

His mother is Jamaican singer, Lorna Bennett, best known for her 1972 rendition of "Breakfast in Bed".

His father is a former calypso king from the island nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records.

Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the B-film The Thing With Two Heads.

The band's output consisted of upbeat, funky, instrumental music.

Many tracks were covers of popular songs of the day characterized by the prominence of bongo drums, conga drums, rock drums and brass.