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Baltimore's prolific rapper / MC Sullee J speaks and promotes positivity through his music and deeds. He's affiliated with multiple charities helping Haiti, Pakistan, Palestine and Indonesia, and he strives to serve as a role model in the Hip Hop community.

Detholz! are known for casting out devils and causing havoc in the evangelical Christian community.

Kids These Days are a multi-genre 8-member band known to fuse together elements of Jazz, Hip-Hop, Funk, Blues, Soul and Rock, often in one song. With most members still in high school, KTD have been generating quite a buzz around town and beyond.

Jesse De La Pena has been a fixture on Chicago’s DJ scene since the '80s. And now, he's a fixture about WBEZ. He’s the new Music Curator at WBEZ's sister station, Vocalo.org 89.5 FM.

Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepali Buddhist nun, internationally renowned singer and social activist. She founded the Nuns Welfare Foundation in Nepal to support the education and welfare of Buddhist nuns. And recently Ani started a U.S. branch for her work called the Ani Foundation.

Musicians throughout time, from Igor Stravinsky to MC Hammer to Girl Talk, owe a great debt to sampling. The act of quoting, re-contextualizing or “stealing” from other artists has become an artform in itself.

In Naples, Italy, the mafia syndicate known as the Camorra controls neighborhoods, the garbage industry, even the local music scene. They fund musicians dubbed "neomelodics," mostly male artists who sing in the local Neapolitan dialect.