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Lerato Motaung – Artist Biography

Lerato Motaung — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:21:04 +0000

Artist biography My name is Lerato Motaung and i was born in Katlehong, Johannesburg, in 1991 and raised in Lekgalong, Rustenburg. I went to a public school where by art was not part of my school subject. In 2008, I started practicing art with Johannesburg Art Gallery and that’s where I started to obtain a [...]

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Bheki Mseleku – Artist Biography

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:24:15 +0000

Source: MySpace.com Bheki Mseleku fused elements of traditional African township music, American bebop, and his own devout, far-reaching spirituality to emerge as the premier South African jazz pianist of his generation. Born Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku in Durban, South Africa on March 3, 1955, he was the son of a music teacher. Still, the senior Mseleku [...]

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Khadja Nin – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:59:26 +0000

Source: Wikipedia.org Khadja Nin was born in Burundi, the youngest of a family of eight. Her father was a diplomat. She studied music at an early age like most of her brothers and sisters. With her exceptional singing voice, at the age of seven she became one of the lead vocalists in the Bujumbura choir [...]

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Ismaël Lô – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:28:18 +0000

Source: Wikipedia.org Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo) is a Senegalese musician and actor. He was born in Dogondoutchi, Niger on 30 August 1956, to a Senegalese father and a Nigerien mother. Shortly after Lo’s birth the family returned to Senegal where they settled in the town of Rufisque, near the capital Dakar. He plays guitar [...]

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Angélique Kidjo – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:01:20 +0000

Source : http://worldmusic.about.com Angelique Kidjo was born in Ouidah, Benin on July 14, 1960. Her mother was a performer in a dance and theatre ensemble and her father was a banjo player. These influences shaped Kidjo’s love for the stage and performing. After leaving Benin in the early 1980s because of the unstable political climate, [...]

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Youssou n’Dour – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:16:09 +0000

Source : http://africanmusic.org/ Youssou n’Dour was born in Dakar in 1959 and began singing as a child performer at neighborhood gatherings in the tough Medina section of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. He took formally to the stage at age 12 and by his mid-teens was singing regularly with the Star Band, the most successful group [...]

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Cesaria Evora – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:49:24 +0000

Source : http://worldmusic.about.com Cesaria Evora was born in 1941 in Mindelo, Cape Verde. The Cape Verde Islands are an extremely impoverished archipelago off the coast of Senegal. They are inhabited by the descendants of both African slaves and Portuguese slave traders. The Cape Verde islands are considerably dry, surrounded by water but seldom seeing rain. [...]

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Salif Keita – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:25:13 +0000

Source : http://africanmusic.org Salif Keita, born in 1949 in Djoliba, is sometimes called the Golden Voice of Africa. He is a direct descendent of Sundiata Keita, the Mandinka warrior king who founded the Malian empire in the 13th century. Born an albino – a sign of bad luck – Keita was shunned and ostracized by [...]

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Fela Kuti – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:25:40 +0000

Source: http://www.biography.com Civil Rights Activist, Pianist, Drummer, Songwriter (1938–1997) “If you see me strictly as a musician it’s okay. I don’t want to say that it is wrong to see me that way. I don’t want to say that it is right to see me that way. I want to leave everything to the individual [...]

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Ali Farka Toure – Biography

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 13:23:48 +0000

Source: http://www.africansuccess.org Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré (October 31, 1939 in Timbuktu, Mali – March 6, 2006 in Bamako, Mali) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, [...]

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