{"id":3083,"date":"2025-11-23T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/2025\/11\/23\/latvian-band-ryga-provokes-the-famous-australian-playboy-candyman\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:46:44","slug":"latvian-band-ryga-provokes-the-famous-australian-playboy-candyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/en\/latvian-band-ryga-provokes-the-famous-australian-playboy-candyman\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian band RYGA provokes the famous Australian playboy CandyMan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RYGA is a Latvian band performing in the so-called and provocative happy hardcore genre. Their brand new single CandyMan is an ironic story of the currently most well-known Australian orgy master Travers Beynon, or CandyMan. Travers is a wealthy managing director at Freechoice Tobacco and a favourite of the yellow press, who always appears in photos beside stunning, scantily clad women, with a wad of money in his hand and dressed in suggestive clothing. CandyMan is at the top of the Australian women\u2019s rights activists\u2019 most-hated list.<\/p>\n<p>The man in question has seen the video of RYGA and deemed it good enough by dropping a line to M\u0101rcis Judzis, the author of the song and the leader of the band, on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>RYGA is growing increasingly popular both in its country of origin and abroad, and its last year\u2019s single in collaboration with the American singer Corey Andrew even got through the first round ballot of GRAMMY awards in the Best Dance Song category, competing with Prodigy and many other famous names for a place in the top five. Even though it didn\u2019t make it, the song was approved of by DJs around the world and it is still played in clubs and on radio, while the remix by DJ XYPO has been viewed more than 111\u00a0000\u00a0times on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RYGA is a Latvian band performing in the so-called and provocative happy hardcore genre. Their brand new single CandyMan is an ironic story of the currently most well-known Australian orgy master Travers Beynon, or CandyMan. 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