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Given birth to in Sudan and surviving in Brooklyn, Alsarah is a vocalist, songwriter, and ethnomusicologist who specializes in East-African retro-pop. She experienced a nomadic upbringing, 1st surviving in Sudan’s capital town Khartoum until she was eight, after that shifting to Yemen to flee the upheaval in her homeland pursuing …

Debo Band certainly are a Boston-based ensemble who play music heavily inspired by Ethiopian pop music aswell as American funk and Eastern Western brass rings. Founded in 2006 by saxophonist Danny Mekonnen, the group is definitely led by vocalist Bruck Tesfaye. Additional members consist of guitarist Brendon Real wood and …

THE NICE Ones certainly are a trio from Kigali, the impoverished capital city of Rwanda. Adrien Kazigira, Stany Hitimana, and Jeanvier Havugimana are survivors from the Rwandan genocide. Their debut recording, Kigali Y’ Izahabu, was documented in one night time and released in the past due fall of 2010 by …

T.O.T. means Tanzania One Theater, as well as the group certainly appreciates the theatrical. They took the essential taarab lineup, also to it they possess added many synthesizers and a twin bass guitar-driven tempo section. Even more upsetting still are their borderline unpleasant lyrics which have obtained them some (probably …