Tag Archives: West African

Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz, Zairean rhumba, zouk, and makossa are combined with the music of soulful Benin-born, Paris-based vocalist Angélique Kidjo. Because the discharge of her self-produced debut single album, Quite, in 1988, Kidjo continues to be embraced with the worldwide press. Her albums have already been strengthened …

Sonny Okosun towers one of the giants of modern Nigerian music — assigning his personal fusion of reggae, highlife, Afro-funk, and traditional melodies and rhythms the catchall explanation “ozziddi” (or “message”), he tackled head-on probably the most incendiary political and public issues gripping photography equipment. Delivered in Enugu, Nigeria, on …

The musical traditions of Cape Verde are prolonged through the initial songs from the nine-piece ensemble Simientra. Led by six-stringed electric guitar, harmonica, accordion, and percussion participant, in addition to soprano vocalist and songwriter Mario Lucio Sousa, the group provides added a fresh dimension towards the musical customs of the …

The Super Rail Music group, or the Super Rail Music group from the Buffet Resort de la Gare, Bamako, to provide them their name, may be Mali’s best-kept secret. Loved by globe music cognoscenti, they’ve hardly ever found an over-all audience, credited in large component to having just a few, …

Cape Verdean guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Teofilo Chantre was introduced to globe music viewers via his compositions, a lot of that have been popularized by the fantastic Césaria Évora. Afterwards in his profession Chantre utilized that momentum and reputation to start his career being a performer. Teofilo Chantre was created …

The 21-stringed kora continues to be transformed right into a contemporary vehicle of expression by Gambia-born Tata Dindin (born Ebraima Jobarteh). The oldest kid of important kora participant Malamini Jobarteh, as well as the sibling of contemporary kora participant Pa Bobo, Dindin provides continued to construct on his family’s legacy. …

Like many children given birth to into jali families, Kouyate began singing at a age, joining the Malian Country wide Ensemble and planing a trip to the 1967 Pan-African Music Festival together. She became among Mali’s most widely used singers, traveling from coast to coast and carrying out traditional jali …

A music husband-and-wife duo that got its begin in Mali, Amadou & Mariam met in 1975 at Mali’s Bamako Institute for the Adolescent Blind. Amadou (created Amadou Bagayoko in Bamako in Oct of 1954) started his musical profession in 1968, and by 1974 got joined up with Les Ambassadeurs du …

An infectious mixture of African, Latin, Brazilian, reggae, and pop rhythms have produced Toure Kunda perhaps one of the most effective bands to emerge from Senegal. Their record Paris Ziguinchor marketed greater than a one fourth of the million copies while their visitor harmonies helped to carefully turn Africa Bamba …

Probably one of the most internationally successful Western African musicians from the ’90s, Ali Farka Touré was referred to as “the African John Lee Hooker” thus many times it probably started to grate on both Touré’s and Hooker’s nerves. There’s a large amount of truth towards the assessment, however, and …