Weekend Music Break

April 12, 2013 By 1 Comment

Here’s ten new videos to get your weekend started. Some pop, some rap, some indie, but first, some dance (what’s in a name). Above’s Black Coffee latest, feat. Nomsa Mazwai and Black Motion on “Traveller”. Next: Owiny Sigoma Band (that’s Joseph Nyamungo, Charles Okoko and friends in London) put out this festival-vibes video for “Nyiduonge […]

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Music Break / J Martins and Fally Ipupa

July 8, 2011 By 3 Comments

Nigeria and Congo. From 2010. J Martins featuring Fally Ipupa. It’s a remix. The latter owns the track. If you don’t want to wait, fast forward to the 1:49 mark.

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I Believe You Can Fly, Africa

November 17, 2010 By 3 Comments

Guess who’s back, pinch-hitting for the Africans? R. Kelly! If you liked his contribution to the 2010 World Cup, “Sign of a Victory,” (and who didn’t!?), then you’ll likely enjoy “Hands Across the World,” the track he wrote and produced for new African “supergroup,” One8. And what a group it is: featuring JK (Zambia), 2Face […]

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MUSIC BREAK / “THE BLACK ATLANTIC”?

November 10, 2009 By 1 Comment

Is this the 21st century Black Atlantic (minus the intellectualism or the race politics)? Yes it is Fally Ipupa, the Congolese superstar, and R&B singer, Olivia, who used to be on rapper 50 Cent’s G-Unit label. Bling, fantasy, and immigrant culture in Europe and American R&B meet.

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