Asa is the great jazz- and soul singer recovering in 2008.
She was born in Paris. Her early life in the City of Light left the little girl with only the vaguest of (happy) memories, since she was no more than two years old when her family returned t…
One of the last songs from the great Reggae musician. Short time later (Sept. 1987) Peter Tosh was murdered at his home. Though robbery was officially said to be the motivation behind Tosh's death, many believe that there were ulterior motives to the…
JB Mpiana are artistes among them Papa Wemba, Koffi Olomide, JB Mpiana, Werra son, Bill Clinton, Tutu Callugi, etc.
Describing the music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult, due to vagaries surrounding the meanings of various terms.…
This track features music that is hot and popular in the Cameroon today! Ever wonder what the Africans are listening to in Cameroon? Well this is it! Foot tapping, body shaking African rhythms in a contemporary mode. It's whats happening NOW in Afric…
Abdullah Ibrahim (born 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa), formerly known as Adolph Johannes Brand, and as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multic…
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975), was a jazz alto saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s.
The nickname "Cannonball" was a childhood nickname for the portly saxophonist, a corruption of "cann…
The roots music of Madagascar
TARIKA, led by the charismatic Hanitra Rasoanaivo, became one of the hardest working bands on the 1990s World Music circuit; Madagascar's most successful musical export. Tarika's name means simply "the group" or "led by"…
Usually is a duet recorded by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush for Gabriel's album So. The single version spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at number nine. It describes the despair of a man who feels that the economic system has n…
usually a track from Youssou N'Dour's album The Lion (1989), is a 1990 version featuring new vocals from Gabriel. "I Have the Touch" is listed as a 1983 remix, although it sounds enough like the remix from 1985 that many reviewers have declared the r…
During my tour 1977 in the Caribbean Islands I met a Calypso composer with his funny music, listen carefully to this text! (Playback is a bit poor!)
Cecil Anderson called the Duke of Iron
Appearing on recordings, radio and in nightclubs, the Duke…
Tiken Jah Fakoly (*1968) is a reggae singer from Côte d'Ivoire.
Tiken Jah was born into a family of griots and christened Doumbia Moussa Fakoly on June 23, 1968 in Odienné, north-western Côte d'Ivoire. He discovered reggae at an early age, assembling…
The name "Bangkok" is used by foreigners only, Thai people call it "KrungThep" which means "City of the Angels".
The full ceremonial name of the city given by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, and later edited by King Mongkut, is "Krung Thep Mahanakhon A…
Olatunji (April 7, 1927 - April 6, 2003) won a following among jazz musicians, notably creating a strong relationship with John Coltrane and John Hammond who signed him to the Columbia label in 1957. He founded the Olatunji Center for African Culture…
A jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock. It was first recorded on his 1964 album Empyrean Isles. It was one of the first examples of a modal jazz composition set to a funky beat.
It was played and interpreted in a new version by the group US3 on…
Blind Faith were an English blues supergroup which consisted of Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation, Cream), Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic) and Ric Grech (Family). The group only released one albu…
The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern dance rhythms (trip-hop, techno, etc.) with Celtic and African influences. It was formed by Grammy-nominated producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and is considered to be somewhat of a wor…
Tuku has been heavily influenced by chimurenga, the genre pioneered by Mapfumo that is inspired by the hypnotic rhythms of the mbira (thumb piano). However chimurenga is just one of many styles performed by Tuku, as his music also incorporates pop i…
Oliver Mtukudzi is the best-selling artist in his home country of Zimbabwe, Africa. Lovingly called "Tuku" for short, Oliver began recording in the mid-1970s as a member of Wagon Wheels, a band that also featured Thomas Mapfumo. After Wagon Wheels ro…
Insofar as Soukous has room to grow anymore, it rejects Paris hyperdrive for the confident understatement of the golden era, and too often the formal energy lags the second time around. Masterminded by a veteran Zairean guitarist who was once from Za…
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