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A.B. Crentsil

As business lead vocalist from the Lovely Talks, the home band in the Chat of the city Resort in the seaside town of Tema, A.B. Crentsil ruled over Ghana’s highlife picture in the ’70s. Accompanied by such potential Ghanaian celebrity vocalists Jewel Ackah and Pat Thomas, and guitarist Eric Agyeman, …

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Mose Se ‘Fan Fan’

b. Mose Se Sengo, 16 Oct 1945, Kinshasa, Zaire. Grasp guitarist Mose ‘Lover Fan’ started to play music when he was delivered to boarding college in Kinanga. On his go back to Kinshasa he became a member of Rickem Jazz after that Trend for low-key night performances as presented guitarist. …

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Pape Kanoute

Pape Siriman Kanoute comes from the music style manufacturer of Dakar. Learning saxophone at Senegal’s Country wide Conservatory of Music, he spent a decade using the Senegalese Country wide Orchestra, making his wings. Moreover to his profession, Kanoute spent his next years dealing with the Afro-Cuban fusion supergroup Africando, using …

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Super Biton de Ségou

Produced in 1952, this group features largely contemporary instrumentation (brass, guitars, drums, synths) and performs music predicated on traditional Bambara rhythms. They toured European countries many times in the first ’80s, led by trumpet participant Madaou Ba, and so are mostly of the big rings to survive in to the …

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Toure Toure

Toure Toure can be an Afro-pop music group from Senegal, headed by cousins Omar Toure in percussion and vocals and Daby Toure in guitar, who subsequently are linked to the market leaders of Toure Kunda, the Senegalese music group that helped in the origins of the existing globe music craze. …

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Dr. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister

Among Nigeria’s best-known vocalist/songwriters, Key Doctor Sikiru Ayinde Barrister (given birth to: Sikiru Ayinde) offers played an important function in the progression from the music of his homeland. The first choice of the 25-piece music group, the Supreme Fuji Commanders, and a smaller sized group, the Africa Musical International Ambassadors, …

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The Very Best

Produced by Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and production duo Radioclit (composed of Swede Johan Hugo and Frenchman Etienne Tron), electro-Afro-pop outfit the most effective found fruition in 2008 following the trio’s free of charge online mixtape Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit Will be the Very Best discovered unforeseen global success. Their …

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Doctor Nico

Dr. Nico (Given birth to: Nicolas Kasanda) was among the acoustic guitar heroes from the music emanating from your Democratic Republic from the Congo (right now referred to as Zaire) through the early-1960s. Accompanied by his music group, L’Africa Fiesta Sukisa, Dr. Nico sparked dance in the region’s youngsters along …

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Victoria Eleison

Group formed in 1985 by past Viva La Musica member Emeneya (aka Joe Kester). There are two teams inside the music group, one located in Kinshasa and one in Paris. The Kinshasa group may also be known as Victoria Primary. The group toured European countries in 1987 and 1991.

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The Green Arrows

A six-piece Zimbabwean group with a unique three-guitar attack, the Green Arrows were anchored by brothers Zexie Manatsa (bass and business lead vocals) and Stanley Manatsa (business lead acoustic guitar), and by the mid-’70s these were arguably the main music group in South Africa. Shaped in the middle-’60s as the …

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