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My new favorite - Shakira

Shakira, She is my new favorite musician. Shakira is from Colombia and she is a composer and also can play most of musical instruments and also great dancer. Especially I love one of her music Objection ( Tango ) .  It's like mixture of Tango and Spanish hard rock. She is fantastic ! Maybe I will buy her DVD so that I can enjoy her performance. I found her music when I was watching " 2004 World championship figure skating Exhibition " DVD, one of great skater Stephan Lambiel who is from Switzerland was using her music ( arranging to without song ) for his program . I like Stephan Lambiel's skate becasue his dancing is incredible, very fast , creative and artistic. Very fun to watch.  Also his music taste for his program is always great.  Of course Johhny Weir is my favorite, but Stephan is my second favorite skater.

Queen - Freddie Mercury was a genius

Freddie Mercury I didn't know about Freddie Mercury except the name of English rock group " Queen" until a year ago. Queen  is famous all over the world. But maybe I didn't know much about them because Freddie's looking was not my type and so had never paid attention to him and Queen. I'll get back to Queen in a minute, but first, a little background about my music interests. I have been big fan of Japanese rock group " The Alfee " for a long time . Once I saw their live concert, it was really difficult to get big impression with other musicians' music. Because all of Alfee's music is very unique and variety, rock, classic, heavy metal (classic style), dancing, acoustic, and also simple music when they need to make a music for TV drama and movie. Their live event set was always amazing , big fireworks, colorful spot lights were always beautiful. Their lead guitarist is Toshihiko Takamizawa , and he is also the composer of al...