Maestro

Person · Open Library

Works

32

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

1973-08-03

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

50,533

Total plays

550,925

Maestro (born Wesley Williams in 1968) is a Canadian hip-hop musician from Toronto. Previously known as Maestro Fresh Wes before shortening his name to Maestro in the late 1990s, he was in 1989 the first Canadian rapper to have a Top 40 hit, "Let Your Backbone Slide". As of 2005, in fact, "Let Your Backbone Slide" remains the best-selling Canadian hip hop single of all time. After his 1991 album, The Black Tie Affair, Maestro's career faltered as he attempted to break into the United States mar

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Nanoparticles for photothermal therapies

   · 2014 · cited 1,778x

2. Oncogene-induced senescence is a DNA damage response triggered by DNA hyper-replication

   · 2006 · cited 1,521x

3. Temperature Sensing Using Fluorescent Nanothermometers

   · 2010 · cited 1,406x

4. The plant traits that drive ecosystems: Evidence from three continents

   · 2004 · cited 1,182x

5. Shear-wave Elastography Improves the Specificity of Breast US: The BE1 Multinational Study of 939 Masses

   · 2012 · cited 718x

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Wikidata facts

Official website

maestrofreshwes.net

Image

Maestro-Alexz Johnson and Other Cast Members of Instant Star (cropped).jpg

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