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Maestro is a Actor and Sound Canadien born on 31 march 1968 at Toronto (Canada)
Wesley Williams (born March 31, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario), better known as Maestro and Maestro Fresh-Wes, is a Canadian rapper, record producer, and actor. His pioneering status and outstanding achievements have led to him being referred to as the "Godfather of Canadian hip hop".
In 1989 he became the first Canadian rapper to have a Top 40 hit, "Let Your Backbone Slide". In 1991 he collaborated on the one-off single "Can't Repress the Cause", a plea for greater inclusion of hip hop music in the Canadian music scene, with Dance Appeal, a supergroup of Toronto-area musicians that included Devon, Dream Warriors, B-Kool, Michie Mee, Lillian Allen, Eria Fachin, HDV, Dionne, Thando Hyman, Carla Marshall, Messenjah, Jillian Mendez, Lorraine Scott, Lorraine Segato, Self Defense, Leroy Sibbles, Zama and Thyron Lee White.
After the success of his 1991 album, The Black Tie Affair, Maestro's career faltered as he attempted to break into the United States market. However, he returned to the Canadian charts in 1998, with the hit singles "Stick to Your Vision" and "416/905 (T.O. Party Anthem)".
In 2000, "Ever Since" featured the track "Bustin Loose", in which Maestro Fresh Wes teamed up with Kardinal Offishall.
In 2005, Maestro covered Lawrence Gowan's song "A Criminal Mind" (featuring Infinite); Gowan appears in the video and his vocals are sampled on the track. Gowan also performed the song with Maestro at the Canadian Urban Music Awards in 2006.
In 2006 Maestro again made Canadian hip hop history when he and Rochester AKA Juice joined The Dope Poet Society on stage in Cannes, France. Together, they become the first Canadian hip hop acts ever to showcase at Midem, the world's largest and most influential annual music industry conference.
In 2012, Maestro released his first set of new material in more than seven years with the release of an EP entitled Black Tuxedo. This was followed by an album, Orchestrated Noise in 2013, which features rocker Sam Roberts, opera singer Measha Brueggergosman, rapper Kardinal Offishall, among others. Orchestrated Noise was released under the name Maestro Fresh Wes, reclaiming his original title from the 1980s.
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In 1989 he became the first Canadian rapper to have a Top 40 hit, "Let Your Backbone Slide". In 1991 he collaborated on the one-off single "Can't Repress the Cause", a plea for greater inclusion of hip hop music in the Canadian music scene, with Dance Appeal, a supergroup of Toronto-area musicians that included Devon, Dream Warriors, B-Kool, Michie Mee, Lillian Allen, Eria Fachin, HDV, Dionne, Thando Hyman, Carla Marshall, Messenjah, Jillian Mendez, Lorraine Scott, Lorraine Segato, Self Defense, Leroy Sibbles, Zama and Thyron Lee White.
After the success of his 1991 album, The Black Tie Affair, Maestro's career faltered as he attempted to break into the United States market. However, he returned to the Canadian charts in 1998, with the hit singles "Stick to Your Vision" and "416/905 (T.O. Party Anthem)".
In 2000, "Ever Since" featured the track "Bustin Loose", in which Maestro Fresh Wes teamed up with Kardinal Offishall.
In 2005, Maestro covered Lawrence Gowan's song "A Criminal Mind" (featuring Infinite); Gowan appears in the video and his vocals are sampled on the track. Gowan also performed the song with Maestro at the Canadian Urban Music Awards in 2006.
In 2006 Maestro again made Canadian hip hop history when he and Rochester AKA Juice joined The Dope Poet Society on stage in Cannes, France. Together, they become the first Canadian hip hop acts ever to showcase at Midem, the world's largest and most influential annual music industry conference.
In 2012, Maestro released his first set of new material in more than seven years with the release of an EP entitled Black Tuxedo. This was followed by an album, Orchestrated Noise in 2013, which features rocker Sam Roberts, opera singer Measha Brueggergosman, rapper Kardinal Offishall, among others. Orchestrated Noise was released under the name Maestro Fresh Wes, reclaiming his original title from the 1980s.
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Poor Boy's Game (2007)
, 1h44Directed by Clément Virgo
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Transgender in film, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise, LGBT-related film
Actors Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland, Flex Alexander, Greg Bryk, Laura Regan, K.C. Collins
Roles Nathan
Rating62%
Donnie Rose fut emprisonné pour avoir battu un jeune homme noir, demeuré handicapé pour le reste de sa vie. Neuf ans plus tard, Donnie s'est assagi et, maintenant libéré, il doit retourner dans le milieu violent qui l'a créé.
, 1h44Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Political films
Actors Joe Rogan, Tommy Chong, Maestro
Roles Himself
Rating81%
The film explores the growth, sale and trafficking of cannabis. The documentary examines the underground market by interviewing growers, police officers, criminologists, psychologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, revealing how the trade is booming despite being a criminal enterprise. The history of cannabis and the reasons for its present prohibition are discussed, often comparing it to the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920s, suggesting that gang drug warfare and other negative aspects associated with cannabis are a result of prohibition, not the drug itself.
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
, 1h58Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors 50 Cent, Terrence Howard, Joy Bryant, Bill Duke, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Omar Benson Miller
Rating55%
Marcus (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) is a quiet young boy who adores his loving mother (Serena Reeder), and the two live a relatively comfortable life as his mother is a local drug dealer. She often has to leave him with his grandparents to be looked after while she takes care of her business. After she is brutally murdered in an apparent drug deal gone wrong, Marcus heads down the wrong road himself.
, 1h34Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young, CCH Pounder, Brenden Jefferson, Maestro
Rating62%
L'histoire vraie de Stan "Tookie" Williams, chef du gang Crips de Los Angeles qui, arrêté et condamné à mort pour meurtres, devint un apôtre de la non-violence en prison. Le dangereux gangster sera même pressenti à plusieurs reprises pour le Prix Nobel de la Paix.
Honey (2003)
, 1h34Directed by Bille Woodruff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Jessica Alba, Romeo Miller, Mekhi Phifer, David Moscow, Zachary Isaiah Williams, Joy Bryant
Roles B.B. (as Wes Maestro Williams)
Rating53%
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) works as a bartender, a record store clerk and a dancer teacher at a local community center run by her mother in New York. Having dreams to make it as a backup dancer in music videos, Honey and rival Katrina (Laurieann Gibson) are recorded dancing in the club where the former works. That same night, Honey and friend Gina (Joy Bryant) leave the club and encounter some kids dancing. Two of the kids are introduced as Benny (Lil' Romeo), and his little brother Raymond (Zachary Williams). Honey invites them to attend her classes at the community center, and they work together to inspire new dance moves. The young teacher soon catches the attention of music director Michael Ellis (David Moscow), who gives her a job as a backup dancer in Jadakiss' new video. Unimpressed with his current choreographer, Michael decides to let Honey choreograph the video. Impressed, Honey gets promoted, and choreographs for Tweet, Sheek Louch, and Shawn Desman.
Bugs (2003)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about insects
Actors Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Angie Everhart, Karl Pruner, Romano Orzari, R.H. Thomson, Stephanie Moore
Roles Bergstein
Rating38%
When a civil engineer (Antonio Sabato Jr.) retrieves a mysterious biological sample from a body discovered in a tunnel, an entomologist (Angie Everhart) discovers it is from a scorpion-like creature. Investigating, the two find themselves trapped in the tunnel with ravenous, flesh-eating bugs and must rely on the scientist's knowledge of the insect world in order to escape
Paid in Full (2002)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Wood Harris, Regina Hall, Esai Morales, Elise Neal, Cynthia Martells, Cam'ron
Rating69%
At the beginning of the movie, Ace (Wood Harris) is stuck in a dead end job working in a dry cleaner's shop. His sister's boyfriend, Calvin (Kevin Carroll), is a big time drug dealer who often tries to lure Ace into becoming a part of the drug trade with promises of fast money and glamour.
