babynoz said:

paintedlady said:

TY!!! for this thread... I love learning about new artists I never heard of before...

Me too...go back and listen to the Hugh Masekela song I posted! He's not new but he's awesome.

Oh yes!! TY I subscribed to this thread... I plan to give a good listen to all the music posted.

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Mama G. Love her song!!!

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babynoz said:

Could we have just one discussion free of finger wagging, give the benefit of the doubt and understand the thread to include the continent as well as the diaspora?

Anyhoo, here's a powerful song from my favorite african musician, Hugh Masekela. The horn on this number is exquisite and the chorus always gives me chills...very soul stirring.

i concur, but unfortunately we are conditioned to not make those connections, so there's a lot of prefaces which tend to get made in cultural discussions. this is the one thing i love about being born and raised in new york... i found there was an understanding amongst the different cultures about these connections.

SCNDLS said:

Some of Prince's work

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oh MAN! this stuff is BEAUTIFUL!!!

FAITH RINGGOLD:

Me too! Great thread when it comes to the music especially.

Of course, Prince first popped in my mind. But there are also too many soul/R'nB divas I adore to start listing them.

So for me, it's in the food department that my thoughts wander when I think of Africa: the exotic fruits, the cocoa beans/chocolate, Ethiopian & Kenyan coffee...

Yummy!...

I also have to admit that I have a thing for Somali/Eastern African young men [from the Horn of East Africa] - all tall and super slim, with 0 body fat [how do they do it?!], chiseled facial features (high cheek bones, thin nose, ...), they have the body of fashion models, naturally! And when you look at their hip hop/rap singers/dancers/artists, they all dance like gods: they have rhythm in their blood and at the same time it's all super fluid. Soooo sexy!..

Somali-Canadian musician K 'Naan comes straight after Prince in my favorites' list. Dollar Flip is not far behind.

[Btw, I should mention that these characteristics of course apply to women from that region too, and as a bi, I find them equally attractive:) I think David Bowie's supermodel wife is from there/Somalia.]

paintedlady said:

babynoz said:

Me too...go back and listen to the Hugh Masekela song I posted! He's not new but he's awesome.

Oh yes!! TY I subscribed to this thread... I plan to give a good listen to all the music posted.

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AMIRI BARAKA:

SONIA SANCHEZ:

BILL T. JONES:

WILLIAM ONYEABOR:

ABDULLAH IBN BUHAINA:

MONGO SANTAMARIA:

CELIA CRUZ:

JOE BATAAN:

Wonderful! I see more and more people posting!

Thank you all! I love seeing what your posts...

Love, love, love this! I mean the way they dance especially [nearly more than the song/music itself!]. I'm practicing my moves in my living room!

KemiVA said:

Mama G. Love her song!!!

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Talina from Ivory Coast- they call it Afro pop- I love it!

SCNDLS said:

Some of Prince's work

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absolutely amazing!

@ this thread.

I LOVE THE MUSIC IN THIS THREAD!!!!!

Way to go, guys!

MJJstudent said:

AMIRI BARAKA:

SONIA SANCHEZ:

BILL T. JONES:

WILLIAM ONYEABOR:

ABDULLAH IBN BUHAINA:

MONGO SANTAMARIA:

CELIA CRUZ:

JOE BATAAN:

Wow, you just posted one of my fav Afro-Cuban artists - Mongo Santamaria.

The late, great Father and King of "Afrobeat" - Fela Kuti

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Let's hear from our brothers and sisters in the Carribean

Arab African fusion

I can remember my mother/father playing Ms. Miriam Makeba, who brought the "click" sound from the South African sans bushmen (ikung people) and incorporated that into some of her songs. I always said if I had a daughter I would name her Makeba. That didn't happen, because I had a beautiful son instead.

The late/great Ms. Miriam Makeba.

ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Let's hear from our brothers and sisters in the Carribean

Oh that's my territory...

This is the guy my parents used to listen to when I was growing up...

The Mighty Sparrow (Calypso music)

Calypso and salsa (Johnny Pacheco/Mongo SantamariaCelia Cruz/La Fania allstars, etc. was what was played in my household growing up. My parents weren't listeners of Reggae because reggae came later in the late 70s

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2elijah said:

Let's not forget about New Orleans...the perfect crossroads between French, Spanish, and Afrikan cultures.

The Jazz..

Voudou:

The Queen of Voudou herself, Marie Laveau:

The Food (inspired by both french and Afrikan cuisine):

Serious said:

2elijah said:

Oh that's my territory...

And mine ! Steel pans come from Trinidad and my bf used to be a reggae singer .

I'm not a fan of "slow reggae" I'm more into the kind of reggae that's meshed with some Afro-beat/salsa. Now that's some hip swaying-and-ass shaking, high energy music. Love it. Slow reggae in my opinion is a bite off of Old-time calypso, that has a slower beat, and sort of sound like those country blues type of songs, but with a calpyso beat. I like the calypso with a fast-shaking beat, the kind you can stand in your living room and dance your ass off to, and exercise to as well. It can certainly be used as a way to lose weight, with all the shaking... As far as calypso thought, many Caribbeans started renaming calypso, Soca in the mid 80s, and to me when I listened to what some call Soca, sounds no different from Calypso. Most Guyanians refer to it as Soca.

Now Reggaetone - is a mixture of reggae and salsa, more played by the Puerto Rican culure, especially in NYC.

Here's Sean Paul doing reggae with a faster beat, the kind I like, where there's no way you don't get an adreline rush listening to it;even older adults like myself like this beat:

(West Indian dialect) "We burning not concerning what nobody wanna seh.."

Temperature

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Egypt, the fusion between the Middle East and the rest of Africa...

Morocco:

OMG the food!

Mmkay...my contribution....

Beautiful wedding attire. Somalian, Nigerian, Morrocan...

Somalia Brides:

Nigerian

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Moroccan

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2elijah said:

Serious said:

2elijah said:

I'm not a fan of "slow reggae" I'm more into the kind of reggae that's meshed with some Afro-beat/salsa. Now that's some hip swaying-and-ass shaking, high energy music. Love it. Slow reggae in my opinion is a bite off of Old-time calypso, that has a slower beat, and sort of sound like those country blues type of songs, but with a calpyso beat. I like the calypso with a fast-shaking beat, the kind you can stand in your living room and dance your ass off to, and exercise to as well. It can certainly be used as a way to lose weight, with all the shaking... As far as calypso thought, many Caribbeans started renaming calypso, Soca in the mid 80s, and to me when I listened to what some call Soca, sounds no different from Calypso. Most Guyanians refer to it as Soca.

Now Reggaetone - is a mixture of reggae and salsa, more played by the Puerto Rican culure, especially in NYC.

Here's Sean Paul doing reggae with a faster beat, the kind I like, where there's no way you don't get an adreline rush listening to it;even older adults like myself like this beat:

"We be burning not concerning what nobody got to say.."

Temperature

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Trinis call it Soca too. Soca is very popular in Trinidad . It always amazes me that overthere hardly any "international" music is played apart from a little bit of HipHop and Michael Jackson (but only since he died). It's pretty much all reggae and dancehall. Sean Paul was pretty popular here in Austria too . This is an example of a modern type of reggae song I like. It was a big hit in Trinidad last year: My favourite reggae influenced band is Mattafix though. They mix differnt genres of music, this song here is very "african" and thus fits perfectly for this thread. Great lyrics too .

That's because different ethnic groups of the Caribbean, listen to different types of Caribbean music;it depends on the dominant/group that populates the islands. You have Caribbeans moving from island to island, and when they do that, some islands' cultures change, along with the most-listened to type of music. In the U.S. VI before the 90s it was more of a salsa/calypso feel, until Jamaicans started moving in, and you'll mostly hear reggae music there, although you may find some calypso/soca/salsa mixture in there too.

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Some Hot to trot "Nollywood" actresses...Nigerian film stars.

Omotola Jolade

Genevive Nnaji

Dakore Egbusogn

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2elijah said:

Dresses by friends of mine...Nigerian Designers Amede Nzeribe of Amede & Ayotomi Rotimi of Xclamations both based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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