In fact, his passion is music, playing percussion in a pagode (a popular variation of samba) band.

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At the base of his sound is mbalax, Senegal's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing music, filtered through Afro-Cuban, pop and rock sensibilities.

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For 200 years, this community has been identified with the rhythmic music of dances and percussion performed during carnival.

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Aided by strings and light percussion, this is transcendental chamber music that divebombs into the sublime as much as it reaches the heavens.

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The college will also host the five classical music category finals for brass, keyboard, percussion, strings and woodwind.

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The small cast showed excellent chemistry in a variety of music and dance performances throughout the show, with percussion, sound effects and even a saxophone solo by the versatile Brian Hargreaves adding to his acting workload.

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The style of the music is orchestral with choral elements, but will have percussion and synth tracks as well.

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But in late summer, for the five days of the Petronio Alvarez Pacific Music Festival, salsa takes a back seat to the diverse sounds of Colombian Pacific music like cumbia and currulao, and its cacophony of percussion instruments, like the marimba.

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