Since 1979, Susan Spicer has played a significant role in the New Orleans restaurant scene. However, it was her 1990 opening of Bayona, with its fusion of European, Asian, North African and American flavors and its cozy setting in the French Quarter, that first garnered national attention. Spicer won a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef/Southeast area and Bayona was inducted... read full bio
Sir John Armitt is an English civil works engineer and current chairman of the United Kingdom's National Infrastructure Commission. Sir John has a wealth of experience working with the government at the ministerial level as well as in the building, engineering and transportation industries. Having served as Chair of the Government Commission on the Thames Estuary, the Olympic Delivery Authority and the... read full bio
Struggle Jennings is the stage name of William Harness, an American rapper from Nashville, Tennessee. He is the nephew of Shooter Jennings, from whom Harness took his stage name, and the grandson of country singer Jessi Colter and instrumental rock guitarist Duane Eddy. He is also the stepgrandson of Waylon Jennings. Along with Bubba Sparxxx, Jennings was a founding member... read full bio
Scott Bayman is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of GE India. He guided GE to become one of the top multinational corporations in India during his 14 years there, with in-country sales of 3 billion US dollars. Scott now serves as chairman of the board for Lumis Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in financing tech-driven, development businesses.... read full bio
Born in Eastern, Kentucky, raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Stephen Cochran's father's musical career served as the foundation for his musical taste. While attending Western Kentucky University at the age of 19, Stephen received a promising offer, but the September 11th attacks redirected the already-established patriotism inside Cochran. Stephen entered the United States Marine Corps after many members of his family, including his father and... read full bio
Shawn Bosco Fernandes is a Canadian singer, songwriter, dancer, and television personality better known by his stage name Shawn Desman. Universal Music Canada signed him. Shawn Desman participated in numerous talent shows and activities while attending St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School in Toronto. Shawn Fernandes performed as a dancer in the Boomtang Boys' "Squeezetoy" music video in 1998. Before... read full bio
Scuba no longer resides in England, but it is difficult to conceive what London's musical scene would be like without his contribution. The founder of the Hotflush label, a producer, DJ and promoter, got his start in London with both jungle and techno. Later, he got entangled with garage and pirate radio, solidifying his position as one of the city's top musical pioneers. After... read full bio
By assuming various different personas, David and Stephen Dewaele have continually pushed the limits of music into uncharted and creative areas. They have a sound system (Despacio), a record label (DEEWEE), a band (Soulwax), a DJ set (2manyDJs) and even developed an app and website (Radio Soulwax). Additionally, they are well known for being one of the most creative remix and producer... read full bio
Steve Pearce is a former Boston Red Sox professional baseball player. At the University of South Carolina, Pearce participated in two NCAA baseball seasons and twice led his team in batting average, home runs, and RBIs. He totaled 42 home runs, becoming the first player in school history to surpass the 40-homer plateau so rapidly. He was voted USC's Rookie... read full bio
The host of GearZ on MavTV and Velocity, Stacey David, has worked on a variety of auto repair and modification projects. The results of several of these projects are extremely distinctive. Stacey works on a wide range of vehicles, including off-road four-wheel drives, hot rod street trucks, all-terrain vehicles for use in the forests and pretty much anything else with an engine... read full bio
American Seimone Delicia Augustus, a former professional basketball player, is now an assistant coach for the U.S. national team, Dynamo Kursk, and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). First overall in the WNBA Draft in 2006, she signed with the Sparks after leaving the Minnesota Lynx. Augustus is one of the most well-known players in... read full bio
Guard Shaun Livingston plays for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He was crowned Illinois Mr. Basketball during his final year of high school. He also participated in the McDonald's High School All-American game and was named co-MVP. He would go on to be named one of the "100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament" later in his professional career... read full bio
Sessa has been a mainstay of both the American and Brazilian music scenes for a very long time. Sessa's debut album, Grandeza, was released and he is most known for his work with NY guitar great Yonatan Gat and for co-founding the Sao Paulo psych-funk band Garotas Suecas. The New Yorker called Sessa "a songwriter carved from Veloso's mold and... read full bio
One may say that folk artist Sara Parkman, has built her own musical cosmos by questioning and embracing traditions in such an open-minded and deliberate manner. As a result, she has emerged as the leading figure in modern Swedish folk music. Since some time, it has become customary to hear her music pulse from the misty depths of Nordic forests at... read full bio
Sydney's SPEED was founded in 2019 with a clear mission: to positively grow the hardcore scene by questioning cultural norms, embracing diversity, and fostering compassion across political and racial lines. SPEED is an injection of vital energy into the hardcore scenes of both Australia and the rest of the world. The majority of SPEED members are of South-East Asian heritage,... read full bio
Two musicians, Sam Prekop and John McEntire, have broadened the notion of rock both individually and collectively. Each has received praise for their own musical voices and audio breakthroughs. Prekop has received praise for his solo releases in ensemble or on modular synthesis, as well as for his visual art and photography, in addition to their joint work in The... read full bio
American singer-songwriter Hannah Collins, better known by her stage name Scene Queen, is a Hopeless Records artist. She is credited with creating "Bimbocore," a metalcore subgenre with feminist overtones. She gained notoriety on the social media site TikTok, where she has amassed over 230,000 followers. She launched her self-titled EP, Bimbocore and then a follow-up called Bimbocore Vol. 2. She was raised in Los... read full bio
Her jazz-tinged soul approach has been developed across a variety of bass styles with collaborators ranging from GLXY to Oliverse by means of Neonlight and Shyun since her breakthrough on the Tantrum Desire juggernaut that is Oblivion. She has also appeared on important albums by Emperor and SpectraSoul. On Emperor's Made Of Light, which they also transformed into an acoustic... read full bio
Swizz Beats is an artist, p roducer, designer and p hilanthropist. Swizz Beatz isn't defined by any title; they all just describe him. Since writing his first successful song in the early 1990s, he has built a career that is difficult to sum up in a single word but simple to comprehend in another: unique. He has produced hit songs for... read full bio
Sarah Howard is a well-known writer and beauty expert based in Los Angeles. H er father is the owner of the famed NYC salon Pierre Michel and the former proprietor of Make Up Forever, Sarah has worked in the beauty industry since she was a young adult. She is always up to date on the newest cosmetics and her sultry site... read full bio
