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/RIP - Adam Nathaniel Yauch died at age 47 on May 4, 2012, after a three-year battle with salivary gland cancer.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972), better known as Mike Dirnt.
Read MoreOn May 3, 1956, Elvis Presley is n°1 for the first time in the USA with "Heartbreak Hotel". This song will top the charts for 7 weeks...
Read MoreHappy Birthday to James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006).
Read More''Voodoo Child'' ... The Jimi Hendrix Experience's track that appears on the double album'' Electric Ladyland'' was recorded this May 3, 1968.
Read MoreVeteran Hollywood stuntman Carl Paoli, known for stunt doubling Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Swazey and Jimmy Fallon, to name a few, has translated his fearlessness into art. His intrepid lifestyle is expressed on canvas as raw, intimate, figurative portraits delivered in an urban, contemporary style, while drawing influence from the masters. His art has been seen in the streets, galleries and museums of New York, Los Angeles, Florida and Chicago and sold world wide.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper (born 2 May 1985), known professionally as Lily Allen.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Frederick Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005).
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968)
Read MoreAfter collaborating with them on a number of occasions, Vhils was invited by progressive kuduro giants Buraka Som Sistema to direct the music video for their latest track: “Stoopid”.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933)
Read MoreAfter spending several years painting musical artists with watercolors, Dan23 opened in 2006 his own gallery in Strasbourg. His first steps as a solo performer making live-paintings then appeared to be more on concerts and music festival stages throughout the world than in his own gallery. In 2013, he decides to quit the stages in order to get more involved into the streets and the urban environment, painting bright portraits, each of them dedicated to a particular song and representing all the significant encounters he made in his life. The « Tour Paris 13 » project in which he got involved, eventually gave him the recognition. Finally, the street-art gallery Mathgoth in Paris offers him the opportunity to make a solo-performance in 2014.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974).
Read MoreBorn in Leeds in 1979, David Rusbatch's work is drawn from popular culture, focusing on themes of celebrity and genius. In 2008 Rusbatch became one of the youngest ever exhibitors at the National Design Museum. The nature of creation and the act of destruction is a constant theme in the artist's work. Rusbatch has been known to abandon or completely destroy paintings in the pursuit of artistic enlightenment and 'perfection'.
Read MoreRed Ape is a painter, graphic designer and sculptor. His work essentially revolves around portraits of people and society. His approach is simple; the words and the actions leave permanent traces which we then carry with us for life, like tattoos. He likes to toy with graphic conventions, with the visual universe to make it serve his own creations. For this reason, he creates series of portraits as nude fragments of tattooed bodies which tell a story of the traces left by the society, the world.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, Rochester, New York).
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Jacques Dutronc (born April 28, 1943 in Paris)
Read MoreShaz is a young artist from Bordeaux, a pure product from the urban culture. Specialized in portraits, he captures faces and transcribed their emotion with the tip of his black pen. He reveals to the public a unique style with eclectic influences. Basically, he did not intend to pencils but football. Over time, his passion for drawing took over football. His drawing are inspired by various arts such as painting, drawing pen, sculpture or street art. Shaz already mastered a number of techniques like drawing pen art, stencils or games mosaic. He does not hesitate to take risks in order to innovate and enrich his art, always in search of the perfect balance.
Read MorePaul lives in Edinburgh Scotland, loves the Arts , started to paint watercolor 5 years ago after a absence of 35 years having preformed above average at school level. He was denied the opportunity to go to Art school way back in the early seventies , due to cost and his parents seeing that Art would not be a proper job ,but after a illness fibro myalgia recently made me housebound for a year, he decides to self teach himself with watercolors after finding the old magic of sketching had not deserted him .
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