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Music Dealers

TisF spends Five Fabulous Minutes with Eric Sheinkop, President of Music Dealers.

Music Dealers is a wide-ranging music business website with a primary focus on B2B global music licensing. Music Dealers actively connects music creators and music end-users by aggregating quality content and allowing end-users the opportunity to access and license it instantly. Headquartered in Chicago & Los Angeles, their staff includes music licensing and publishing veterans with 50+ years combined experience. In the last year alone, Music Dealers has connected hundreds of music-makers to music-buyers, and put hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of independent artists.

Now that is Fabulous!

Obisoulstar

TisF spends Five Fabulous Minutes with Obisoulstar.

With a voice that really calms the savaged beast and swagger that could only be mimicked by God himself, this sultry singer/song writer and producer exploded onto the scene in 2000 with a breath of fresh air for the Chicago music scene. Born in the windy city of Chicago but raised in the western part of Africa (Nigeria to be exact), Obisoulstar is the epitome of a Renaissance man. His music which is like food to a starving ear and water to a dried up heart, reflects a man who has seen a lot, forgotten little and is not afraid to speak about it.

Balkan Beat Box

TisF is buzzing over Balkan Beat Box!

Balkan Beat Box is a natural reaction of musicians who wanted to erase political borders (as our ears don't have them, why should we?) on the dance floors from NYC to the Middle East. From Berlin to Bloomington, Indiana to Tokyo to Jerusalem to San Francisco to Bordeaux and Brussels. People are listening and moving to the new BBB sound. With deep knowledge of their own Mediterranean roots as well as other cultures and collaborations with artists from Bulgaria, Morocco, Spain, Israel, and Palestine and through events synchronized with VJ's, BBB has created a magical show. A semi circus event lasting 2-3 hours, involving many disciplines with a basic core band on stage of 7-8 musicians and local artists (drawing on many multidisciplinary artists around the world). The event is synchronized and keeps the audience guessing where the next surprise will appear from.