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K-Os, You Say Party

Raised by Jehovah's Witness parents in locales as disparate as Toronto and Trini...
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Fri. August 31st 2007 + Add to Calendar Element (No Minors)
9:00pm $30.00

Artists

K-Os
Hip Hop from Toronto Ontario
Available for Shows/Gigs
You Say Party
from Vancouver BC
Available for Shows/Gigs

Presented by:

The Zone 91.3

#Top Floor-2750 Quadra Street Victoria BC
V8T 4E8

Hard-copy tickets

Physical tickets at: Lyles Place, www.ticketweb.ca

Event Description

Raised by Jehovah's Witness parents in locales as disparate as Toronto and Trinidad, it was no surprise that Kheaven Brereton, aka k-os (pronounced: chaos) was a bit different than your average MC. A singer as well as a rhymer, and a producer to boot, k-os proved on his debut album, Exit (Astralwerks, 2002), that being preachy didn't have to mean being boring. The LP stood out dramatically with lush, instrument-driven arrangements to go with the traditional hip-hop elements of drum programming, samples, and the like. Acoustic guitar and piano marked the single "Heaven Only Knows"; dub and reggae influences tinged "Freeze." Many of the tracks found the rapper singing, so much so that an argument could be raised about the genre to which k-os in fact belonged. And that was just the w... more...

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919 Douglas Victoria BC

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