Philly Bongole Lutaaya: Born In Africa (music video)
Philly Bongoley Lutaaya (19 October 1951 – 15 December 1989) was a Ugandan musician who was the first prominent Ugandan to give a human face to HIV/AIDS. Before dying of AIDS, Lutaaya had spent his remaining healthy time writing songs about his battle with AIDS and touring churches and schools throughout Uganda to spread a message of prevention and hope.
Philly Lutaaya was popular in Uganda in the 1960s, and in the 1970s he toured Congo, Kenya and Japan. In the mid 1980s he settled in Stockholm, Sweden. There he recorded his hit album, “Born in Africa,” which is still popular in Uganda. The Nigerian-Swedish musician Dr. Alban, who has called Philly Lutaaya “one of the greatest African musicians” later released an album also named “Born in Africa”.
After his death at age 38, the Philly Lutaaya Initiative Association continued his work. With assistance from UNICEF, the Initiative sponsors lectures in schools and communities across Uganda highlighting personal testimonials of hundreds of people infected with HIV. In Uganda, October 17 is the Philly Bongoley Lutaaya Day.
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Faza Nelly from X Plastaz: Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki? (Music Video)
Last video of the late mc Faza Nelly from X Plastaz, Tanzania’s most well known hip hop crew who merge Swahili rap and traditional Maasai music. This video to the song ‘Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki?’ about poverty in Tanzania was partly recorded on top of Ol Doinyo Lengai, a remote, active volcano and the Maasai’s ‘Mountain of God’ which had its 1st major eruption in years the day after Nelly died.
Don’t call it Bongo Flava, this is East African / Tanzanian Hip Hop.
Languages: Kiswahili and Maa (kiMaasai)
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Onyeka Onwenu & King Sunny Ade: Wait For Me (music video)
Onyeka Onwenu is a Nigerian singer, actress and politician. In 2006 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a supporting role. She is currently the chairperson of the Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.
King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born September 22, 1946) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music. He has been classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time.
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Black Mambazo: Homeless (Live)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won multiple awards, including three Grammy Awards. They were formed by Joseph Shabalala in 1960 and later became one of South Africa’s most prolific recording artists, with their releases receiving gold and platinum disc honors. The group has now become a mobile academy, teaching people about South Africa and its culture.
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Youssou N’Dour: Live in London
Youssou N’Dour (born 1 October 1959 ) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist, songwriter, composer, occasional actor and businessman. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, “perhaps the most famous singer alive” in Senegal and much of Africa.
N’Dour helped to develop a style of popular Senegalese music known in the Serer language as mbalax, which traces from the conservative Serer music tradition of “Njuup” (the progenitor of Mbalax). He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Goree directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which were released around the world.
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Bentman: West Coast (Audio)
Rapper Bentman, is the son of former Liberian dictator and war lord Charles Taylor. A lot of details about this artist remain mysterious to even those who could say they really know him.
What is known, is that Bentman was born on January 17th 1983 in Monrovia, the capital of Libieria.
During the early 90`s, Charles Taylor (his father) took control of Liberia by means of military coup and became president for many controversial years.
It is belived Bentman spent a lot of time in the USA while growing up, attending most of his schooling there, but his heart was always in Liberia as he would often return to his homeland to be with his family and childhood friends.
During 2007, Bentman was studying at Pretoria University in South Africa and became friends with Crazy Lu… Being a rapper (and a very talented one) he got put on to a few tracks with a couple well known producers.
When Crazy Lu joined Destruction Entertainment CC, Bentman moved to Johannesburg and also became part of the company as he wanted to record and put out his first mixtape, the “L.S.D vol.1 Lord of War Mixtape” Legal Street Dope volume 1, Based on the movie “Lord of War” with Nicolas cage. (Available in any of our Official Mixtape Retailers)
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Terry Tha Rapman: I Am A Nigerian (Audio)
Terry Madaki, 28 January 1976, Terry started rapping back in 1991 in secondary school at school shows and bonfire nights. Shortly after he finished from secondary school, he recorded a demo which gave him recognition in Kaduna through radio airplay. Then he was known as Terrific. He later changed this to Tha Rapman after he hooked up with a group (Tha Croc City Click) in 1995.
They recorded a demo-tape which got serious airplay with hit songs like “fashi” and “Tha illest”. Though the group was popular, it was within the Kaduna city’s turf. Six foot plus heard the tape while he was in Kaduna, he and took it down to Lagos. The group (Croc City Click) got more recognition from their breakthrough in Lagos radio stations. They even had a review in one Nigeria’s fast selling Hip-hop magazine. After attempts to get a recording deal over a period of five years (1995-1999) the group split due to the religious crisis from the Sharia law uprising.
Terry is determined to put an end to all wackiness in the Nigeria rap industry with the help of the SWATROOT CREW (Solo Dee, Six Foot Plus, Mode 9, Eldee).
Source: www.myrhythm.com
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