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There's more than one 'Beam': 1) Jamaica-born and Miami-raised rapper, BEAM found solace in music at an early age. “I’ve been in the studio since I was born,” he explains. “My dad was an artist, so when I was a kid I would always be there with him. I didn’t start messing around with until I was ten, but the smell of the studio is probably one of my earliest memories.”
2) Formed in 2000, Beam is led by French ex-pat Helene Renaut, a music major from Brittany. She describes her musical awakening: "I grew up obsessing on the songs of Jacques Brel until I discovered Neil Young!"
Determined to escape the gloom of her hometown, she busked gypsy songs on the violin to finance a move to San Francisco in 1995. After gradually becoming a fixture on the emerging solo acoustic scene here, Helene began collaborating in earnest. And while Helene remains a constant presence in the SF solo acoustic circuit, Beam is thriving, counting at one time or another members of Call and Response, Willow Willow, and Winfred E Eye members of it's ranks.
To be sure, it is easy to name check common influences like Leonard Cohen, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake….and there is no doubt that as long as the British Folk revival is still in vogue we'll have plenty of aspiring Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson clones. But Beam could never draw on as narrow a range of influences. Listeners will also hear elements of Opal, Jolie Holland, Nico, and even Jackie Deshannon amongst the unmistakable sound of Helene's voice and the compelling stories of her songs.
3) A German DJ and producer (real name: Michael Urgacz) who is/was also part of 'Beam vs. Cyrus' and 'Beam & Yanou'.
4) A Dutch rock/pop group that existed from 1997-2003 and released two albums a self-titled album in 1998 and 'Full dimensional stereo' in 2001.
5) A South African band formed after the unexpected popularity of a soundtrack created for a Vodacom advert featured a bungie jumping baby. The name is composed of the first letters of the names of the members.
6 ) A German emocore band from Bonn, Germany, founded in 2006.
7) A New Zealand alternative band from Wanganui, existing from 1997-1999.
8) A Mexican rapper belonging to the label Slowly.
There's more than one 'Beam': 1) Jamaica-born and Miami-raised rapper, BEAM found solace in music at an early age. “I’ve been in the studio since I was born,” he explains. “My dad was an artist, so when I was a kid I would always be there with him. I didn’t start messing around with until I was ten, but the smell of the studio is probably one of my earliest memories.”
2) Formed in 2000, Beam is led by French ex-pat Helene Renaut, a music major from Brittany. She describes her musical awakening: "I grew up obsessing on the songs of Jacques Brel until I discovered Neil Young!"
Determined to escape the gloom of her hometown, she busked gypsy songs on the violin to finance a move to San Francisco in 1995. After gradually becoming a fixture on the emerging solo acoustic scene here, Helene began collaborating in earnest. And while Helene remains a constant presence in the SF solo acoustic circuit, Beam is thriving, counting at one time or another members of Call and Response, Willow Willow, and Winfred E Eye members of it's ranks.
To be sure, it is easy to name check common influences like Leonard Cohen, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake….and there is no doubt that as long as the British Folk revival is still in vogue we'll have plenty of aspiring Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson clones. But Beam could never draw on as narrow a range of influences. Listeners will also hear elements of Opal, Jolie Holland, Nico, and even Jackie Deshannon amongst the unmistakable sound of Helene's voice and the compelling stories of her songs.
3) A German DJ and producer (real name: Michael Urgacz) who is/was also part of 'Beam vs. Cyrus' and 'Beam & Yanou'.
4) A Dutch rock/pop group that existed from 1997-2003 and released two albums a self-titled album in 1998 and 'Full dimensional stereo' in 2001.
5) A South African band formed after the unexpected popularity of a soundtrack created for a Vodacom advert featured a bungie jumping baby. The name is composed of the first letters of the names of the members.
6 ) A German emocore band from Bonn, Germany, founded in 2006.
7) A New Zealand alternative band from Wanganui, existing from 1997-1999.
8) A Mexican rapper belonging to the label Slowly.
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