Cliff Samaniego has focused his academic and professional career on music and multi-media since 1995. He received his Masters in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University and focused on digital sampling in rap music. As an assistant editor at MNI Interactive, he started writing music reviews for their nationally distributed CD-ROM. He is currently working for Tunes.com as an assistant producer and an avid vinyl collector of jazz, soul, reggae and rap music. Desert Island Picks Sam Cooke- Nightbeat Aretha Franklin- Now Stevie Wonder- Fulfillingness First Finale Marvin Gaye- What's Going On John Coltrane- Ballads Miles Davis- Kind a Blue Donald Byrds- Fancy Free Gregory Isaacs- Love Is Overdue Alton Ellis- Sunday Coming De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising Tribe Called Quest- People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm The Roots- Do You Want More??!!!??, All Music Guide