There are 2 music acts going by the name "Forza". One of them is the alternative / acoustic / fusion band from Bergen, Norway. Forza is a musical response to our society - an ethnourban tribe of musicians using their music to describe the colors and the shades of the new multicultural city. A bit of hip-hop, some tango, a touch of flamenco, Arabic drums & chants, a funky look on our cultures and some jazzy salsa grooves. The members of Forza traveled long journeys before they met each other here. Some of them started their journey in Persia and Iraq, others traveled from the new world. Like the ancient caravans did before them. Some of them just waited for the others to come. Without knowing when they would come, who they where, or if they would ever come at all. Having played in festivals and at stages in France and Norway - they have received good critics from their audiences on their live performances. Forza unites musical traditions from the east and the west into explosive songs and shows. Forza is: Milad Qashqaie - percussion, Jaser Sayun - drumset & percussion, Ole K. Einarsen - violin & vocal, Per Kristian Slåttli - guitar & vocal, Rudi Bakken - accordeon & percussion, Babak E. Ziai - vocal, Sebastian Uthaug - bass guitar The other act named as forza is Octavio Rojas, one of the most known and loved Mexican dj..s, he started in 2000 in a nascent psychedelic trance scene, his unique style and musical taste, made him a highly demanded dj for the local scene which led him to be invited by Vazik to join the ranks of Sounds of Earth a highly respected mexican label, that has produced top notch parties around the country for many years and has veteran respected artists from many genres. Forza has also released for several labels like Synergetic Records, Sounds of Earth, Future Lovers, Yellow sunshine Explosion, Ap records, etc. which has contributed to his music being known abroad. In year 2004 he was invited by Ovnimoon to release a track for Energetic Vol. 2 a Psytrance compilation that he was doing for Synergetic Records,with the track Me encanta Dios, Octavio made his very first hit in the worldwide scene, this attracted Dj’s Acan’s attention who asked him to make a compilation of artists from the americas to release it with Synergetic, itwas released later this year under the name of pixan the compilation received very good feedback from mushroom magazine which called it one of the best compilations released in 2004 and sold fairly well, in the beginning of 2005 Octavio was invited to his first international gig in the South of Brazil, which was very succesful and made him return for the summer into what ended being a year and half of a long tour around the country, playing in huge festivals such as universo paralello or small underground parties everywhere in Brazil, during this time Octavio’s style began to suffer a transformation as his music and sound was maturing, with led him to experiment with other genres and sounforms, after a very succesful tour in the land of Samba, Octavio was invited by DJ Hamelin to become part of Flow Mexico a project created by him in conjunction with DJ Pena, to create a stronger presence of this portugese label in the america’s. Octavio also collaborates regularly with reviews in Dj concept, Mexico’s top Electronic music and Dj Culture and with revies and articles for Trance it magazine, the most important underground magazine of the country he is also known in Mexico and Brazil, for the production courses he’s given to promising dj’s from these countries and for the parties he’s helped produce for several labels and promoters since the beginning of his career to the present day. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.