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Welcome to Afrobeat, brought to you by Africa Showcase.com in association with Amazon.com. Here you get a chance to feel the pulse of Africa …..the place where rhythm began and lives on. Africa , a place where some of the world's most exciting song and dance is played out each day. A place where music reigns.
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35 artists listed under Afrobeat.
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| African Voices |
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One of the gifts of African Voices: Songs of Life is that it treats us to the enormous talents of five male African voices, and none of the songs are what I would call drum-based. This is a remarkably gentle album, with a softness that seeps into nervous systems harried from a busy day and soothes, calms and renews as it entertains. |
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| Alpha Blondy |
BORN: January 1, 1953, Dimbokora, Cote d'Ivoire
Hailing from the Cote d'Ivoire, Alpha Blondy is among the world's most popular
reggae artists. With his 12-piece band Solar System, Blondy offers a reggae beat
with a distinctive African cast. |
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| Angelique Kidjo |
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Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz, Zairean rumba, zouk and makossa
are combined through the music of soulful, Benin-born and Paris-based, vocalist,
Angelique Kidjo. |
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| Ayub Ogada |
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Born and raised in Kenya, Ayub Ogada has traveled to enough international locales
to validate his status as a "world musician". Having lived on three
continents, he can draw upon his memories of accompanying his musician parents
in the US, being educated in a colonial British-styled educational system in
Kenya, and residing in London, England. |
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| Baaba Maal |
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Baaba comes from humble beginnings but he has learned and travelled and now speaks
and sings of empowerment, enlightenment and peace. Baaba Maal was born in Podor,
a town with a population of 6,000, on the banks of the river Senegal that separates
the country of the same name from Mauritania. |
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| Brenda Fassie |
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When globally renowned Time magazine chose to showcase Brenda Fassie in a three
page spread in its December 17th edition 2001, it was confirmation once and
for all of the singer's status as an authentic and lasting icon for the globe.
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