Romania is a European country with a multicultural music environment which includes active ethnic music scenes. Romania also has thriving scenes in the fields of pop music, hip hop, heavy metal and rock and roll. During the first decade of the 21st century some Europop groups/artists, such as Tom Boxer, Morandi, Akcent, Edward Maya, Alexandra Stan, Inna and Yarabi, achieved success abroad. Traditional Romanian folk music remains popular, and some folk musicians have come to national fame.
Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass guitarist, record producer, educator, and recipient of five Grammy Awards. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. Since 2017 he has played bass for the metal band Nitro.
Semenic is a ski resort in the Semenic-Cheile Carașului National Park, in the Banat region of Romania.
Bezirk Deutschlandsberg is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities:
Gerana was a queen of the Pygmy folk in Greek mythology. She boasted to be more beautiful than the goddess Hera and was transformed by the angry goddess into a crane. The bird descendants of Gerana waged an eternal war on the Pygmies during their winter migration to the shores of the river Oceanus.
Schwanberg is a market town, since 2015, in the Austrian state of Styria, in the district of Deutschlandsberg. It is situated on the eastern slopes of the Koralpe mountain range on the river Schwarze Sulm, a major tributary of the river Sulm.
Ahmed Ezz is an Egyptian businessman and one-time politician, the owner of Ezz Steel and the former chairman of Egypt's national assembly's budget committee. He is also a former senior member of the ruling National Democratic Party of Egypt (NDP).
Garanas is a former municipality in the district of Deutschlandsberg in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Schwanberg.
Mohamed Garrana Rifaat is an Egyptian composer of classical music, a member of that nation's second generation of such composers.
Bassekou Kouyaté is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.
Brebu Nou is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania, with a population of 86 people. It is composed of two villages, Brebu Nou and Gărâna.
Pría is one of 28 parishes in Llanes, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
Sławek Jaskułke is a Polish pianist, composer and bandleader. He is also an arranger, record producer, and a member of Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet. He has composed piano, orchestra, theatre, and film music.
The Momin Ansari or Ansari, are a Muslim community, found mainly in West and North India, and the province of Sindh in Pakistan. A small number of Ansaris are also found in the Terai region of Nepal. In North India, the community are known as Ansari or shiekh, while in Maharashtra the community is known as Momin. The name or title of Ansari ("supporters") originated in Arabia at the time of the prophet Mohammed.
Peninsula / Félsziget was a summer music festival taking place annually in Transylvania, Romania. It was one of Romania's largest music festivals.
Gărâna Jazz Festival is a music festival taking place annually in Gărâna, Romania. International four days jazz festival in the Romanian Mountains, it takes place each summer, in July. It is the biggest Open Air festival in Romania, cca. 10000 people in the audience.
The trials and judicial hearings following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution were a series of legal moves to establish accountability among the various Egyptian government officials and prominent businessmen.
Kamel Al Rimali is an Egyptian classical composer. His opera in Arabic Hasan Al-Basri is based on the life of Hasan of Basra.
In the Country is a Norwegian Jazz trio comprising pianist Morten Qvenild, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Pål Hausken.
