Kanda Bongo Man – Malinga

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Bongo Kanda (born 1 January 1955), aka Kanda Bongo Man, is a Congolese Soukous musician and singer. His career debuted in 1973 when he became the singer for the Belle Mambo band, developing a sound influenced by Tabu Ley.

His solo career only started to take off after he moved to Paris in 1979, where his […]

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Wally Badarou – Hi-Life

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Retracer la carrière musicale et artistique de Wally Badarou peu prendre un certain temps… Né à Paris en 1955, musicien français d’origine béninoise, c’est un spécialiste du Home Studio et du synthétiseur.

Ce titre présent sur l’album Echoes de 1983 a fait la joie des chaines de TV du continent africain qui l’ont régulièrement diffusé […]

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From Angola to the World… Buraka Som Sistema

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Buraka Som Sistema was an electronic dance music project from Portugal, specializing in a fusion of techno beats with the African Zouk and Kuduro genre. It is generally credited with creating the “zouk bass” and “progressive kuduro” variant and has received an MTV European Music Award. […]

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Improvising on Kassav’

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Traditional marovany player Bekamby demonstrates his wider influences by improvising on Kassav‘s big international hit “Zouk, La Se Sel Medikamen Nou Ni.” The band had visited Madagascar in the 1980s and he had heard them on the radio.

Dubbed off an old back-up VHS, so rather lo-fi, this is an out-take from the 1997 TV […]

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Kassav’ – Africa

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Sorti il y a plus de 40 ans, “Love and Ka Dance”, le premier album de Kassav’ aura érigé l’orchestre de zouk au rang de phénomène mondial. Il est sorti en deux versions : un original pour la Guadeloupe et une version plus “disco” avec trois titres supplémentaires pour les USA. […]

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#NowListening to Kassav' -- Zouk la sé sél médikaman nou ni

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