Mesa/Bluemoon Artists

King Sunny Ade
For more than three decades, King Sunny Ade and his African Beats have been thrilling audiences worldwide with their extraordinary music. The Nigerian singer, guitarist, bandleader, and entrepreneur is the acknowledged master of juju, a cross-cultural sound that sends listeners on a remarkable journey into the heart of one of Africa’s most vital cultures. His music draws from the many idioms and forms of the Yoruba language, and imbues it with a modern sense of spirituality, politics and honor. (read more)

Laylah Hathaway
All things in time…so they say. The finer things in life, such as art, can never be rushed. They arrive when The Creator deems the work, the channel and the audience to be ready.

Such is the case with songwriter and vocalist supreme Lalah Hathaway’s Outrun the Sky (in stores September 28, 2004), only her third album as a solo artist…and her first in ten years. It is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, her most revealing work to date – one that encompasses more of her own compositions than ever before. And with the album’s stylistic breadth, it will once and for all extricate the luscious, resonantly smoky-voiced singer from any “box” that listeners, including her staunchest fans, may have placed her. (read more)

The Mermen
On his classic 1967 album Are You Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix quipped “You’ll never hear surf music again,” thus ending an era of three minute, twangy, oceanic rhapsodies like “Pipeline” and “Stick Shift” and “Wipeout.” Hendrix’s soaring guitar instantly obliterated the past, making the world rife with fresh possibilities, and exiling the generic to the oldies bin. But sadly the Voodoo Chile didn’t stick around long enough to hear The Mermen, San Francisco’s premier psychedelic surf trio (who took their name from his song “1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be).” (read more)

Dudu Fisher
Dudu Fisher is known throughout the world for his stirring performance as Jean Valjean in the hit show “Les Miserables,” but his career began in his native country Israel many years before.

After three years of service in the Israel defense forces, Fisher studied at the Tel Aviv academy of music and studied privately with some of the great cantors of the previous generation. He was only 22 when he was invited to become the Cantor of the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv. Along with his synagogue duties, Fisher also traveled throughout the world, bringing traditional Hassidic, Yiddish and Cantorial music to new audiences. (read more)