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There have been a number of artists going by the name of Bez: (1) A band from Poland (2) A British dancer and percussionist (3) A Nigerian soul singer (1) Bez is a Polish band which performs music which has characteristics of genres like neo-psychedelia, shoegaze or dream pop. (2) Mark Berry (born 18 April 1964), commonly known as Bez or Marky Mark (and occasionally credited as Bez Bez Bez), is a British dancer and percussionist. He was a member and the mascot of Salford band Happy Mondays, having been invited in by lead singer Shaun Ryder shortly after the band was formed. He is chiefly remembered for his bizarre style of dancing, and use of the maracas - the Mondays' second single was called Freaky Dancin' in tribute. He is reputed to have a high tolerance for hallucinogenic drugs. When asked by a music journalist why he took so many drugs he replied simply, because it's my job. After the Mondays broke up, Bez became a member of Black Grape, a group founded by Mondays band-mate Shaun Ryder, but he left in 1997 over artistic differences. In 1997 he had a feature on the BBC Two television programme The Sunday Show called Science with Bez. When both faced large tax bills, he and Ryder reconciled and reformed the Happy Mondays in 1998, but the reformed band was short-lived. (3) Bez makes alternative soul,an understated and unusual hybrid of soul, jazz and R&B music that sets him well apart from the main stream Afro-hip-hop movement. His songs of love and heartbreak are ...

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