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The track “African Flava” by artist Denise Gordon from the album The Best of African Music (One World One Love Edition) is a world music lovers dream. With an upbeat tempo that has an African rhythm infused with a bit of a reggae sound, it’s a feel good song that makes you want to celebrate the motherland by getting up and dancing. Singer Denise Gordon who normally records in the R&B genre, shows that she can hang with the best of them in the world music arena with this video which is fun and colorful, displaying African art and symbolism throughout.
The tracks of the album "The Best of African Music (One World - One Love edition), have been carefully selected and compiled by Didier Kussu, based on the following
criteria:
- Each track must contain some typical African music elements
- Songs with lyrics must be positive and uplifting
The outcome is the best Christmas gift of 20 lovely songs for true music lovers.
Featured artists are Akon, Keri Hilson, Nneka, Paul Play Dairo, NAS, Damian Marley, Ed Jatto, Obiora Obiwon, Tate Simms, Adonye Green, Blackface Naija, Seun Kuti, TEA, Shaman's Dream,
Jason Farnham, Cesar Funck, Proofsound, Denise Gordon, Miss Maawa, Sunburn In Cyprus, Afrotech Project, Basiru Suso, Eddie "SEA" Caldwell, Gene Katsuro among others.
For more info: http://www.thebestofafricanmusic.comThe track “African Flava” by artist Denise Gordon from the album The Best... more
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Iya Dede was born and raised in Rwanda, escaping genocide and war before settling in Belgium. She's made her mark on the Francophone music scene touring with world-renowned Zap Mama and an exhaustive list of European artists of diverse genres. She has toured on numerous stages in Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Israel, and now the US. "Talking to God," her anglophone ablum debut is an electric and bold expression of all her experiences, a collision of electropop, punk, alternative, traditional Rwandan music and jazz stylings. The streets are buzzing about this golden girl...
www.iyadede.com
The following concert film shot and edited by filmmaker/designer Shirley Bruno is a portrait of this rising star at the Brooklyn Museum celebrating famed nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare's exhibition in conjunction with New Africa Live.
A LakouNou productions/MissBruno New York.
www.missbruno.comIya Dede was born and raised in Rwanda, escaping genocide and war before settling in... more
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The big-talking title character of “Fela!,” the pulse-racing new show about the Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is not someone you rely on for literal truth. For this self-defined “black president” of his own republic of rebellion, to speak is to magnify, to exaggerate, to mythologize.
But the grandiose claims that Fela, played with inexhaustible swagger by the remarkable Sahr Ngaujah, makes for his music wind up feeling dead accurate. In the percussion section in his band, he says early in the show, you feel “the pulse of the world, the impulse of life.” And darned if 10 minutes into this production, which opened Thursday night at 37 Arts, you don’t find yourself believing this as gospel truth.The big-talking title character of “Fela!,” the pulse-racing new show... more
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"Yu-Ku-Ntasing" explains a situation where in 1992, during the birth of multipartism in Cameroon, so many people were killed and in Ndu, where Sky Nelson hails and lives, may people were beaten and killed, military men beat up women severely and many women raped, and beer bottles were inserted into their vaginas. This was a very deplorable situation and has remained a scar on the minds of the people of Ndu. It is very difficult for the Party in power to win elections in this village because the act of killing was perpetrated by the ruling elites of the time and to kill a human being in the Ndu culture is something that is not pardonable.
Tags: Cameroon Ndu Africa multipartism African music violence against women abuse rape riot Yaounde hip-hop "Yu-Ku-Ntasing" explains a situation where in 1992, during the birth of... more
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