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ColoredPeople.net
5/9/2009 3:04 PM UTC
Being from Brazil I can REALLY relate to the sounds. Wishing you all the best. Join us May 21st! Lamonte McLemore of the 60's five time Grammy award winning vocal group "5th Dimension". Thank you and hope to see you there!
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5/8/2009 2:57 PM UTC
Hi, The African Music Is So Nice, With A Husband From Senegal,It Takes Me There Take Care, Ja'MeeLah
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5/7/2009 1:07 PM UTC
Thank you for stopping by Rhythms!!!
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10/14/2008 8:18 PM UTC
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Music show focusing on African - Caribbean music and artists - including upcoming concerts, music releases, festivals and community news. Broadcast from Seattle, WA with your host Kwasi Africa
Kwasi Africa Present
Date / Time: 5/9/2009 10:00 PM UTC
Category: Music
Sampling of the hottest African urban tunes : get ready to shake it and please call in - with your host Kwasi Africa
Original Air Date: 5/9/2009 10:00 PM UTC
Original Air Date: 5/3/2009 9:00 PM UTC
Original Air Date: 12/18/2008 3:00 AM UTC
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Wawali Bonane was born in Banningville (now Bandundu), in the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire). He was weaned on the sounds and rhythms of the Bandundu region. In 1966, Wawali dropped out of school with friend and partner Pepe Kalle, now one of Congo's top stars, to form their first band, Les Monkoy. In 1974, Wawali was invited by superstar Tabu Ley Rochereou to join his band, Afrisa International. Throughout his career Wawali has been creating hybrid music known as soukous, a popular style that first came to prominence in the 1950s and combines elements of Cuban rhumba and Antillean music with Congolese aesthetics. Following the soukous scene from Congo to Paris, the international center for soukous, Wawali was a mainstay on the scene, working as a support singer for a variety of performers and pursuing his own solo projects. After leaving Afrisa International, Wawali and longtime partner Steve Mgondo came to Seattle and tenaciously dug in with their band Yoka Nzenze. Later, they were joined by renowned soukous guitarist Nseka Binwela (a.k.a. Huit Kilo). They are also supported by an ever-changing variety of Seattle-based backing musicians.
An instructive table set as a lesson to a younger sibling, Wumba Wumba gives the listener valuable advice on how to live a good and productive life. Three songs on Safarini feature Wawali Bonane and Yoka Nzenze - Tcheni Tcheni, Wumba Wumba and Kusanga Ema. "Tcheni Tcheni" means "don't worry, don't worry", Wumba Wumba gives lessons on how to live a productive life, and Kusanga Ema is a love ballad to a woman named Kusanga, in a Congolese rumba/calypso style. Wawali describes the singing as "like talking to someone… when you are in love, you forget your mother and everyone, but sometimes the person you love is not the one you can stay with forever".