Tag Archives: West African

Ayinla Kollington started his profession slowly in the mid-’70s. By the end of the 10 years in 1978, he reorganized his music group and released many albums. He committed to his very own record business in 1982 and since that time his popularity using the Nigerian people provides flourished.

Adapting the appear from the balafon to his guitar as well as the rhythms traditionally made by handclaps and stamping feet to drums and synthesizer, Messi Me Nkonda Martin. Affectionately referred to as “the daddy of contemporary bikut-si music,” Martin changed the rootsy music of Cameroon right into a extremely …

Nkonda Si Tony offers added a fresh dimensions to bikutsi music by introducing synthesizers and keyboards to a lineup traditionally dominated from the acoustic string balafon and slit log percussion. A convert to digital technology, Tony in addition has introduced unprecedented degrees of documenting and production elegance towards the bikutsi …

Sibling of Mikutsi innovator Messi Martin, Beti Joseph offers assumed the mantle of Mikutsi ruler because the latter’s pension from the music scene.

For almost twenty years, Super Diamono ruled the roost among the politicallly hip in Senegal. Against the traditional custom of praise-singing, they performed what they known as mbalax: a bluesy, jazzy type of rock and roll. Their lyrics resolved charged issues such as for example apartheid, polygamy, and human-rights violations …

Gentle, fingerpicked, classical guitar melodies and smooth-as-silk baritone, vocals were combined via the hand wines music of S.E. Rogie. While staying rooted in the high lifestyle music of his delivery place, Sierra Leone, Rogie included influences of traditional western pop and folk music to generate his exclusive, heartfelt, music. As …

Alhaji Papa Susso is a jali from your somewhat lesser-known customs from the Gambia. Created in Sotuma-Sere, a previous bastion of musical performers, Susso discovered to try out the kora from his uncle, ultimately taking his overall performance to Sierra Leone, where he also became a textile investor. Trade and …

Lapiro DeMbanga was among Cameroon’s most out-spoken vocalist/songwriters. A professional of the documenting studio, DeMbanga created two albums of high-tech dance music: Ndiga Guy in 1991 and Na Wou Move Pay out? in 1993. Established to percussive, Fela Kuti-influenced agreements, DeMbanga’s heavily politics lyrics give a tone of voice for …

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, …

The music visionary from the Mendes Brothers, Ramiro Mendes continues to be instrumental in the growing popularity of Cape Verdean and Angolan music. A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mendes is constantly on the play an important function in the music’s progression. Emigrating along with his sibling, João, to america in 1978, …