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Michael Franti

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Michael Franti (born April 21, 1967) is an American musician, poet, spoken word artist and singer-songwriter. [1]

192 relations: A.Side TV, African Americans, Afrobeat, Alberta, All Rebel Rockers, All That, Alternative Tentacles, And All the Pieces Matter, Anti- (record label), ARIA Charts, Australian Labor Party, Australian Recording Industry Association, Avant-garde music, Backing vocalist, Barack Obama, Beatboxing, Belgian Americans, Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Biodiesel, Blackalicious, Blue in the Face, Body of War, Bomb the World, Bossa nova, Boston Red Sox, Canadian Albums Chart, Canberra, Caparezza, Capital punishment, Capitol Records, Charlie Hunter, Cherine Anderson, Chocolate Supa Highway, CNN, Coco (2017 film), Cologne, Composer, Consolidated (band), Corona (beer), Dancehall, Davis Senior High School (California), Deee-Lite, Democracy Now!, Demonstration (protest), Dub Syndicate, EA Sports, Edmonton, Electronic Arts, ..., Electronic music, Ernest Ranglin, Everyone Deserves Music, Exxon, Finnish Americans, Flash mob, Flip Kowlier, Flip-flops, Folk music, Fox Broadcasting Company, Funk, Gabriel Ríos, Gamescom, Gaza Strip, German Americans, Germany, Gift of Gab (rapper), Global Exchange, Globalization, Good Burger, Guitarist, Hempilation, Vol. 2: Free the Weed, Hip hop music, Home (Spearhead album), Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury, Independent music, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Industrial music, Infinity Within, Internet Archive, Iraq, Iraq War, Irish Americans, Island Records, Israel, Jack Dangers, Jam band, Jamie Catto, Jazz, Jenny Macklin, Joan Osborne, John Mayer, Jovanotti, King Britt, Koelnmesse, KUSF (University of San Francisco), Lamb (band), Last Holiday (2006 film), Little Boxes, Look at All the Love We Found, Macaco (band), Manu Chao, Mark Pistel, Mass media, Meat Beat Manifesto, MegaCharts, Mercy (TV series), Monopoly, Mother Jones (magazine), Motown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Musician, Mystery Men, Nahko and Medicine for the People, NBC, Oakland, California, Official Charts Company, Official New Zealand Music Chart, Ozomatli, Palestinian territories, Parliament House, Canberra, Peace movement, Pink (singer), PlayStation 3, Poet, Pop music, Prison–industrial complex, Privileged (TV series), Protest art, Punk rock, Rapping, Rayman Legends, Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove, Red Hot Organization, Reggae, Reggae fusion, Rescue Me (U.S. TV series), Rock music, Rock the Vote, San Francisco, Say Hey (I Love You), September 11 attacks, Shane Victorino, Showtime (TV network), Singer-songwriter, Six Degrees Records, Ska punk, Slacker Radio, Sly and Robbie, Snakes on a Plane, Social justice, SOJA, Soul music, Soulrocker (Spearhead album), Sounds Like a Revolution, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Spoken word, Stax Records, Stay Human, Steel Pulse, Stephen Marley (musician), Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, T-shirt, The Beatnigs, The Beatnigs (album), The Clash, The CW, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The Sims 4, The Sound of Sunshine (album), The Wire, Tomas Young, U2, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Ultratop, United States, University of San Francisco, Valentine's Day (2010 film), Veganism, Virtuality (film), Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival, Weeds (TV series), West Bank, What Sound, Will Smith, William S. Burroughs, Yell Fire!, Zap Mama, Zoo TV Tour, 1 Giant Leap (album), 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (video game). Expand index (142 more) »

A.Side TV

A.Side TV is a Canadian English language Category B television channel owned and operated by Blue Ant Media as the television version of the website music brand, A.Side, which launched in May 2017.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Afrobeat

Afrobeat, also known as afrofunk, is a music genre which developed in the 1970s when African musicians began combining elements of West African musical styles such as jùjú music and highlife with American funk and jazz influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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All Rebel Rockers

All Rebel Rockers is the sixth studio album by Michael Franti & Spearhead released on 9 September 2008 on Boo Boo Wax and ANTI- Records.

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All That

All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show created by Dan Schneider, Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin, which originally aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network from April 16, 1994, to October 22, 2005, lasting ten seasons.

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Alternative Tentacles

Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label established in 1979 in San Francisco, California.

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And All the Pieces Matter

And All the Pieces Matter - Five Years of Music from The Wire is a soundtrack album for the HBO television show The Wire, that was released on January 8, 2008.

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Anti- (record label)

Anti- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label to Epitaph.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Beatboxing

Beatboxing (also beat boxing or b-boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

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Belgian Americans

Belgian Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to immigrants of Belgium who emigrated to the United States.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Biodiesel

Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters.

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Blackalicious

Blackalicious is an American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel.

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Blue in the Face

Blue in the Face is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster.

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Body of War

Body of War is a 2007 documentary portraying Iraq War veteran Tomas Young.

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Bomb the World

"Bomb the World" is a protest song single by Michael Franti & Spearhead from their album "Everyone Deserves Music".

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Canadian Albums Chart

The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Caparezza

Caparezza (meaning "Curly Head" in the Molfetta dialect), is the pseudonym of Michele Salvemini (born 9 October 1973), an Italian rapper.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Charlie Hunter

Charlie Hunter (born May 23, 1967) is an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader.

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Cherine Anderson

Cherine Tanya Anderson (born, Rockfort, East Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican actress and dancehall/reggae vocalist.

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Chocolate Supa Highway

Chocolate Supa Highway is the second studio album of Spearhead.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Coco (2017 film)

Coco is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Consolidated (band)

Consolidated was an American radical activist music group, formed in 1988 and best known in the early 1990s as an alternative dance/industrial music band.

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Corona (beer)

Corona Extra is a pale lager produced by Cervecería Modelo in Mexico for domestic distribution and export to all other countries besides the United States, and by Constellation Brands in Mexico for export to the United States.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Davis Senior High School (California)

Davis Senior High School (known as Davis High or DHS or DSHS) is one of four high schools located in Davis, California, in the United States.

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Deee-Lite

Deee-Lite was an American house and club/dance music group, formed in New York City.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Demonstration (protest)

A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.

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Dub Syndicate

Dub Syndicate is a dub band, formed by Adrian Sherwood, which became a showcase for Adrian Sherwood's collaboration with Lincoln "Style" Scott, former drummer with the Roots Radics, Suns of Arqa and Creation Rebel.

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EA Sports

EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Ernest Ranglin

Ernest Ranglin OD (born 19 June 1932) is a Jamaican guitarist and composer who established his career while working as a session guitarist and music director for various Jamaican record labels including Studio One and Island Records.

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Everyone Deserves Music

Everyone Deserves Music is the fourth studio release by Michael Franti & Spearhead.

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Exxon

Exxon was the brand name of oil and natural resources company Exxon Corporation, prior to 1972 known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.

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Finnish Americans

Finnish Americans (Finnish: Amerikansuomalaiset) comprise Americans with ancestral roots from Finland or Finnish people who emigrated to and reside in the United States.

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Flash mob

A flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of at least 10 people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.

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Flip Kowlier

Flip Kowlier (pseudonym of Filip Willy Mariette Cauwelier, born 1976 in Izegem, West Flanders) is a Belgian singer-songwriter.

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Flip-flops

Flip-flops are a type of sandal, typically worn as a form of casual wear.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gabriel Ríos

Gabriel Ríos (born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1978) is a Puerto Rican-Belgian singer songwriter currently residing in Belgium and New York.

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Gamescom

Gamescom (stylized as gamescom) is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza...". قطاع غزة), or simply Gaza, is a self-governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that borders Egypt on the southwest for and Israel on the east and north along a border.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gift of Gab (rapper)

Timothy Parker, better known by his stage name Gift of Gab, is an American rapper best known for performing in the Bay Area hip hop duo Blackalicious along with DJ Chief Xcel.

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Global Exchange

Global Exchange is an advocacy group and non-governmental organization (NGO), based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Good Burger

Good Burger is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Brian Robbins and it stars All That and Kenan & Kel stars Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Hempilation, Vol. 2: Free the Weed

Hempilation, Vol.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Home (Spearhead album)

Home is the debut album by Spearhead, released in 1994 under the Capitol Records label.

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Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury

Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury is the debut album by alternative hip hop crew The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, released in 1992.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants. Although some indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers—and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are—many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. The impact of their agricultural endowment to the world is a testament to their time and work in reshaping and cultivating the flora indigenous to the Americas. Although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting and gathering. In some regions the indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, chiefdoms, states and empires. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by indigenous peoples; some countries have sizable populations, especially Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Greenland, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama and Peru. At least a thousand different indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas. Some, such as the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guaraní, Mayan languages and Nahuatl, count their speakers in millions. Many also maintain aspects of indigenous cultural practices to varying degrees, including religion, social organization and subsistence practices. Like most cultures, over time, cultures specific to many indigenous peoples have evolved to incorporate traditional aspects but also cater to modern needs. Some indigenous peoples still live in relative isolation from Western culture, and a few are still counted as uncontacted peoples.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Infinity Within

Infinity Within is the second studio album by American house and club/dance group Deee-Lite.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Iraq

Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jack Dangers

Jack Dangers (born John Stephen Corrigan) is an electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer best known for his work as the primary member of Meat Beat Manifesto.

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Jam band

A jam band is a musical group whose live albums and concerts relate to a fan culture that began in the 1960s with the Grateful Dead, and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts.

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Jamie Catto

James David Catto (born 14 August 1968 in London, England) is a former and founding member of Faithless.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jenny Macklin

Jennifer Louise Macklin (born 29 December 1953) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1996, representing the Division of Jagajaga for the Labor Party.

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Joan Osborne

Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and interpreter of music, having recorded and performed in various popular American musical genres including pop, soul, R&B, blues, and country.

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John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

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Jovanotti

Lorenzo Cherubini (born 27 September 1966), better known as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper.

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King Britt

King Britt is an American DJ, composer and record producer from Philadelphia.

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Koelnmesse

Koelnmesse GmbH (Cologne Trade Fair) is an international trade fair and exhibition center located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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KUSF (University of San Francisco)

KUSF is an online-only radio station owned by the University of San Francisco and operated by its students.

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Lamb (band)

Lamb is an English electronic music duo from Manchester, whose music is influenced by trip hop, drum and bass and jazz.

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Last Holiday (2006 film)

Last Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Queen Latifah and directed by Wayne Wang.

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Little Boxes

"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963, when he released his cover version.

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Look at All the Love We Found

Look at All the Love We Found is a tribute album by various artists dedicated to Sublime, released on June 21, 2005 (see 2005 in music).

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Macaco (band)

Macaco is a musical band from Barcelona, Spain formed in 1997 by Dani Carbonell, who was also one of the original lead singers of the new flamenco group Ojos de Brujo.

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Manu Chao

Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao, June 21, 1961) is a French-born musician of Spanish origin.

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Mark Pistel

Mark Pistel is a producer, engineer, programmer, remixer and songwriter who has been working in the genres of electronic, experimental, breakbeat and hip hop since 1988.

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Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens, and formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom.

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MegaCharts

MegaCharts, since 2008 called GfK Dutch Charts, is a chart company responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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Mercy (TV series)

Mercy is an American medical drama television series which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009, to May 12, 2010.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos and πωλεῖν pōleîn) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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Mystery Men

Mystery Men is a 1999 American superhero comedy film directed by Kinka Usher and written by Neil Cuthbert and Bob Burden, loosely based on Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, and starring Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Janeane Garofalo, Eddie Izzard, Greg Kinnear, William H. Macy, Kel Mitchell, Lena Olin, Paul Reubens, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Stiller, Wes Studi, and Tom Waits.

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Nahko and Medicine for the People

Nahko and Medicine for the People is an Alternative world music musical collective.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Ozomatli

Ozomatli are an American six-piece band playing primarily Latin, hip hop, and rock music, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles.

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Palestinian territories

Palestinian territories and occupied Palestinian territories (OPT or oPt) are terms often used to describe the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip, which are occupied or otherwise under the control of Israel.

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Parliament House, Canberra

Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, and is often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.

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Pink (singer)

Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (stylized as), is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Prison–industrial complex

The term "prison–industrial complex" (PIC), derived from the "military–industrial complex" of the 1950s, describes the attribution of the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies for profit.

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Privileged (TV series)

Privileged is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on The CW in the United States and City in Canada from September 9, 2008.

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Protest art

Protest art is a broad term that refers to creative works that concern or are produced by activists and social movements.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Rapping

Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.

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Rayman Legends

Rayman Legends is a platform video game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft.

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Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove

Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove is a compilation album produced by Paul Heck of the Red Hot Organization (RHO) to celebrate the birthday of George Gershwin.

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Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization (RHO) is a not-for-profit, 501(c) 3, international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Reggae fusion

Reggae fusion is a fusion genre of reggae that mixes reggae or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, R&B, jazz and drum and bass.

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Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)

Rescue Me is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on the FX on July 21, 2004 and concluded on September 7, 2011.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rock the Vote

Rock the Vote is a non-profit organization, progressive-aligned group in the United States whose stated mission is "to engage and build the political power of young people." The organization was founded in 1990 by Virgin Records America Co-Chairman Jeff Ayeroff, to encourage young people to vote.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Say Hey (I Love You)

"Say Hey (I Love You)" is a single by Michael Franti & Spearhead featuring Jamaica soulstress Cherine Anderson released in 2008 from their album All Rebel Rockers.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Shane Victorino

Shane Patrick Victorino (born November 30, 1980), nicknamed "The Flyin' Hawaiian", is an American former professional baseball outfielder.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship service of the Showtime Networks subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which also owns sister services The Movie Channel and Flix.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Six Degrees Records

Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists.

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Ska punk

Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together.

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Slacker Radio

Slacker Radio is an online music streaming service available in the US and Canada.

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Sly and Robbie

Sly and Robbie are a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres.

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Snakes on a Plane

Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson.

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Social justice

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society.

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SOJA

SOJA (Soldiers Of Jah Army) is an American Grammy-nominated reggae band based in Arlington, Virginia.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soulrocker (Spearhead album)

Soulrocker is the ninth studio album by Michael Franti & Spearhead, released on June 3, 2016 by Fantasy Records.

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Sounds Like a Revolution

Sounds Like a Revolution is a feature documentary about recent protest music in the United States.

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Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales is a spoken word collaboration featuring William S. Burroughs reading excerpts from his books set to music by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Stax Records

Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Stay Human

Stay Human is the third studio release by Michael Franti & Spearhead.

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Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band from the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England, which has a large number of Afro-Caribbean, Indian and other Asian migrants.

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Stephen Marley (musician)

Stephen Robert Nesta "Raggamuffin" Marley (born April 20, 1972) is a Jamaican-American musician who is the son of Bob Marley and his wife Rita Marley.

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Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool is one of the compilation albums from the Red Hot project.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (or t shirt, or tee) is a style of unisex fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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The Beatnigs

The Beatnigs was a San Francisco band, which combined hardcore punk, industrial and hip hop influences, described as "a kind of avant-garde industrial jazz poets collective".

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The Beatnigs (album)

The Beatnigs is the eponymous and only album from the San Francisco band The Beatnigs, which combined hard-core punk, industrial and hip hop influences.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The CW

The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as just The CW) is an American English-language broadcast television network that is operated by the CW Network, LLC, a limited liability joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network (UPN), and Warner Bros. Entertainment, former majority owner of The WB.

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The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy was an American industrial hip-hop band, active during the early 1990s.

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The Sims 4

The Sims 4 is the fourth major title in the life simulation video game series The Sims, developed by Maxis and The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts.

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The Sound of Sunshine (album)

The Sound of Sunshine is the seventh studio album by Michael Franti & Spearhead, released by Capitol Records on September 21, 2010.

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The Wire

The Wire is an American crime drama television series set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Tomas Young

Tomas Young (November 30, 1979 – November 10, 2014) was an American military veteran of the Iraq War.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Valentine's Day (2010 film)

Valentine's Day is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall.

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Veganism

Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.

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Virtuality (film)

Virtuality is a television pilot co-written by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor and directed by Peter Berg that aired on the Fox network.

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Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival

Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival was a four-day music festival held in early June at Mulberry Mountain near Ozark, Arkansas.

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Weeds (TV series)

Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Showtime.

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West Bank

The West Bank (الضفة الغربية; הגדה המערבית, HaGadah HaMa'aravit) is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, the bulk of it now under Israeli control, or else under joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority control.

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What Sound

What Sound is the third album by English electronic music group Lamb, released in October 2001 Original members Andy Barlow and Lou Rhodes are joined by session musicians Arto Lindsay on guitar, Me'Shell NdegéOcello on bass, and Michael Franti with additional vocal work.

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Will Smith

Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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Yell Fire!

Yell Fire! is the fifth studio album by the reggae-influenced band Michael Franti and Spearhead.

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Zap Mama

Zap Mama is the music act of Belgian artist Marie Daulne.

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Zoo TV Tour

The Zoo TV Tour (also written as ZooTV, ZOO TV or ZOOTV) was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2.

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1 Giant Leap (album)

1 Giant Leap is the self-titled debut album by English electronic music duo 1 Giant Leap, created by the two members Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, travelling and recording vocals and music by numerous vocalists and musicians across the world.

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2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (video game)

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is the official video game for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, published by EA Sports.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franti

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