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Rolando Villazón
A well-known and well-respected tenor from Mexico, Rolando Villazon (born Emilio Rolando Villazon Mauleon in Mexico City on February 22, 1972) released three solo albums with Virgin Classics (including 2007's Gitano, which was recorded under the direction of Plácido Domingo) before moving to Deutsche Grammophone in 2007....

Caro Emerald
Caro Emerald is a Dutch jazz singer who emerged in 2009 with the smash hit single "Back It Up" and made her chart-topping album debut in 2010 with Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor. Born Caroline van der Leeuw on April 26, 1981, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, she studied music at the conservatory, specializing in jazz, and subsequently worked as a vocal coach....

Schiller
Named after the German poet Friedrich Schiller, the production duo of Schiller is Mirko von Schlieffen and Christopher von Deylen. Their two-layered trance beats and spoken word poetry resulted in a couple of trance chart-toppers in Europe in the late '90s and early 2000s....

Anne-Sophie Mutter
One of the most charismatic and best-loved violinists of modern times, Germany's Anne-Sophie Mutter began her studies on the piano at the age of five. She shortly added violin lessons with Erna Hornigberger....

Juan Diego Flórez
Sometimes promoted as the successor to Luciano Pavarotti, Peru's Juan Diego Flórez is actually a very different kind of tenor, and one of a sort that has not been seen much in recent years: his voice is light, extremely athletic, and suited above all to the bel canto tenor roles of the early nineteenth century....