Biography

Salif Keita

Salif Keïta is an afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali.
Keita moved to Paris in 1984 to reach a larger audience. His music combines traditional West African music styles with influences from both Europe and the Americas. Musical instruments that are commonly featured in Keita's work include balafons, djembes, guitars, koras, organs, saxophones, and synthesizers. In 1990, Keita contributed "Begin the Beguine" to the Cole Portertribute/AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue, produced by the Red Hot Organization.

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Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo,commonly known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva".[4]
 The BBC has included Kidjo in its list of the African continent's 50 most iconic figures.[5] The Guardian has listed her as one of their Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World[6] and Kidjo is the first woman to be listed among "The 40 Most Powerful Celebrities In Africa" by Forbes Magazine.[7]
 The Daily Telegraph in London describes her as "The undisputed queen of African music" during the 2012 Olympic Games River Of Music Festival.[8] In March 2013 NPR, National Public Radio in America, calls her "Africa's greatest living diva".[9] She is an occasional contributor to the New York Times.
 On June 6, 2013, Angelique was elected vice-president of CISAC.
Her musical influences include the Afropop, Caribbean zouk, Congolese rumba, jazz, gospel, and Latin styles; 
Kidjo is fluent in Fon, French, Yorùbá and English, and sings in all four languages; she also has her own personal language, which includes words that serve as song titles such as "Batonga". "Malaika" is a song sung in the Swahili language. Kidjo often utilizes Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and jazz vocalese. 

Discography

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  • Pretty (1988) (African release only)
  • Parakou (1990)
  • Logozo (1991)
  • Ayé (1994)
  • Fifa (1996)
  • Oremi (1998)
  • Keep On Moving: The Best Of Angelique Kidjo (2001)
  • Black Ivory Soul (2002)
  • Oyaya! (2004)
  • Djin Djin (2007)
  • Õÿö (2010)
  • Spirit Rising (Live) (2012)


website: www.kidjo.com


Richard Bona

Richard Bona comes from a tiny village in Cameroon, and now makes his home in the great cities and concert halls of the world. It wasn’t good luck that opened all these doors. At every turn, it was Bona’s outsized talent, intense concentration, and fierce determination that propelled him into an ever-expanding universe, beyond the confines of musical or cultural boundaries.

Today, Bona is a singer/songwriter, bass player, composer, bandleader, and digital and analog engineer/producer with a singular artistic vision. Behind these achievements lies a storybook life. Born in the village of Minta in 1967, Bona was a baby who cried all the time, and the family  soon discovered that the one thing that calmed him was music.
By the age of five he was playing the balafon (a wooden-slatted melodic percussion instrument) in his grandfather’s traditional music band. At eleven, his family moved to the capital city, Douala, where he became an in-demand dance band guitarist before discovering and quickly mastering the language of jazz—at just fourteen.
Bona moved to Paris in 1989 and New York in 1995, establishing in these two cities a reputation as one of the most exciting jazz bass players on the planet. And all this before he began his solo recording career with Scenes from My Life in 1999. Now Bona’s seventh solo album, Bonafied, an intimate, mostly acoustic, multi-genre set of songs, offers personal stories, tributes, philosophy based in lifelong love of nature, and a spirit of musical adventurism that just won’t quit. read more....

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Richard Bona, 3 August 2006


website: www.bonamusic.com

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