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01 Oct, 2008

King Sunny Adé

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King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born September 22, 1946) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music. With his band, “King Sunny Adé and His African Beats”, King Sunny Adé became an international star across Africa during the mid-1980s, touring and gaining a significant audience in the United States and Europe as well. He [...]

12 Jul, 2008

Abou Chihabi

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He is a musician from The Comoros.The Comoros (pronounced /ˈkɒməroʊz/, listen (help·info); Arabic: جزر القمر‎, Juzur al-Qumur), officially the Union of the Comoros (French: Union des Comores, Arabic: الإتّحاد القمريّ‎, Al-Ittiḥād al-Qumuriyy) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel [...]

04 Jul, 2008

Mr. Nice

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Excellent music and a very nice and sincere artist!Fagilia…Mr. Nice

01 Jun, 2008

Angélique Kidjo

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Angélique Kidjo (born July 14, 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer and songwriter, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.
Kidjo was born in Ouidah, Benin. By the time she was six, Kidjo was performing with her mother’s theatre troupe, giving her an early appreciation for music and dance. Continuing political conflicts [...]

15 May, 2008

Hugh Masekela

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Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He began singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14, after seeing the film Young Man With a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas portrays American jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke), he took up playing [...]


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