VV.AA. ''PANAMA! 3'' CALYPSO PANAMEÑO, GUAJIRA JAZZ & CUMBIA TIPICA ON THE ISTHMUS 1960-75 (2009) @
Joven abogado de EE.UU. promueve música panameña alrededor del mundo Robert Gyemant junto a su padre. Robert se enamoró de la música de los combos nacionales.
Para Robert Gyemant, un joven abogado oriundo de San Francisco, Estados Unidos, fue la música istmeña lo que lo motivó a trasladar su residencia a Panamá. También lo instó a recopilar, una gran colección de ritmos tropicales de antaño, estrenados entre 1960-1975, que está siendo promovido en todo el mundo, incluidos Japón y Europa.Entre finales de los años 1960 y mediados de la década del '70 –período que más o menos coincide con la lucha panameña por recobrar su soberanía en la antigua Zona del Canal-- un singular sub-género de música tropical aparecía en todo Panamá. La llamaban la "Era de los Combos Nacionales" –agrupaciones pequeñas, pero muy populares que mezclaban ritmos africanos, europeos e indígenas con el especial sabor panameño.
Gyemant se enamoró de esta música a principios de 2002 mientras visitaba la ciudad de David, la capital de la provincia de Chiriquí. Allí conoció a Antonio, un hombre sencillo que poseía una gran colección de Lps de los viejos "Combos"."Tomé unos cuantos discos y me dí cuenta de que los sellos no me eran familiares. Eran casas disqueras que no tenían nada que ver con las grandes firmas de grabación latinas de aquella época. También me percaté de la extraña mezcla musical de los discos: 'funk-salsa', 'merengue-soul', rhumba-jazz," afirmó. *************************************
Volume 3 showcases more of the unique tropical music created in Panama in the fertile decades of the 1960s and ’70s. Panama is the thin, tropical bridge that connects North and South America, and is home to three million culturally diverse people; its music is a soulful blend of Latin American, Caribbean, European and indigenous forms.
From bilingual calypsos to guajira jazz, from tropical guarachas to cumbia tamboreras, Panamanian musicians fearlessly combined and brilliantly executed styles that reflected their multicultural environment during a turbulent time in the young country’s history. This collection presents more of the golden age of Panamanian music and the music of the combos nacionales on rare recordings that have never been released outside the isthmus until now.
********************************* Dusted Reviews Artist: V/A Album: Panama! 3: Calypso, Panameño, Guajira Jazz and Cumbia Típica on the Isthmus 1960-1975 Label: Soundway Review date: Oct. 22, 2009 The Isthmus of Panama is known to schoolchildren for two reasons. First, it connects North and South America, uniting the two continents that form the New World. Second, it divides the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans, or did until the construction of the Panama Canal, a feat of Franco-American engineering that cost some 30,000 lives by the time of its opening in 1915. Less well known is Panama’s historical role uniting the musical cultures of the English and Spanish-speaking nations ringing the Caribbean. In fact, very little research has been done on Panamanian popular music, either by ethnomusicologists or enthusiasts, local or foreign, and with the distinct exception of famous salseros (notably Rubén Blades), recordings of Panamanian music are rare.
Fortunately, Soundway has taken upon itself to remedy the lack of knowledge in this area with a series of albums simply titled Panama, compiling historical recordings from the 1960s and ’70s. Volumes 1 and 2 bore subtitles listing the genres represented (Latin, Calypso, Funk, Cumbia); the newest addition to this stellar series adds Guajira Jazz to the list. Listeners unfamiliar with the heady cultural mix of Panama may expect little more than covers of genres better associated with other countries, but they will be very surprised from the very first cut, “Fire Down Below” by Lord Panama and the Stickers, a brassy calypso song that mixes good Trinidadian English with good Panamanian Spanish. The very next cut, “Samba Calypso,” by Orquesta de Amanda Boza con Manito Johnson, is an excellent example: samba rhythms, calypso orchestra, English verses with Spanish chorus , and a jazzy clarinet solo.
This is not to say that every piece mixes and matches. “Bilongo” (Papi Brandao y sus Ejecutivos) and “Shingalin en Panama” (Orquesta Los Embajadores con Camilo Azuquito), and of course “St. John’s Guaguanco” (Los Salvajes del Ritmo) are classic salsa.“Moving-Grooving” (Little Francisco Greaves) is pure funk, complete with grunts and shouts. “Guo Jazz” (Ralph Weeks with The Telecasters) is late 1960s New York Latin jazz. And “Bamboo Dance” (Black Czar) is Trinidadian calypso through and through.
Nevertheless, for connoisseurs, the greatest fun comes from stylistic mashups, such as the elegy for Martin Luther King Jr. in Mexican conjunto/soul ballad style (“Masters are Gone” by Sir Valentino con Combo Esclavos Alegres), the reggae/salsa mix of “El Ratón” (Los Invasores), the very West African funk instrumental ballad “Carmen” (Los Silvertones), or the accordion-driven “20 de enero en Ocu (Yin Carrizo), which adds salsa bass, skratchi drumming such as one would expect from Surinamese kaseko to a relatively simple vocal line in Spanish.
Every cut is a pleasure to listen to, well performed, well edited (although a few of the longer cuts seem to fade prematurely), and digitally mastered to produce a clear sound without sacrificing the joys of vinyl. Listeners who take a chance on this disc will find it difficult to resist hearing the previous two volumes as well. By Richard Miller
TRACKS: 01. Lord Panama and The Stickers - Fire Down Below02. Orquesta de Armando Boza con Manito Johnson - Samba Calypso03. Papi Brandao y Sus Ejecutivos - Bilongo04. Ceferino Nieto - El Pajaro Zum Zum05. Little Francisco Greaves - Moving-Grooving06. Los Silvertones - Up Tight07. Orquesta Los Embajadores con Camilo Azuquita - Shingalin en Panama08. Soul Apollo with Fredrick Clarke - Chombo Pa' La Tienda09. Amalia Delgado con El Conjunto Inspiracion Santena - Carretera Al Canajagua10. Yin Carrizo - 20 de Enero en Ocu11. Maximo Rodriguez y Las Estrellas Panamenas - Chevere Que Chevere12. Ralph Weeks With The Telecasters - Gua Jazz13. Panaswing - Me Lo Dijo Una Gitana14. Beby Castor con Los Juveniles - Lloraras15. Los Mozambiques - Llegamos Ya16. Los Salvajes del Ritmo - St. John's Guaguanco17. Lord Cobra - Colon Colon18. Conjunto Panama - Triguenito y Solo19. Black Czar - Bamboo Dance20. Lord Cobra and His Sugar Tone Band - Partido Calpysonian21. Sir Valentino con Combo Esclavos Alegres - Masters Are Gone22. Los Invasores - El Raton23. Los Silvertones - Carmen
CACHAO'S MAMBO ALL STARS ''COMO SIEMPRE'' (CUBA,2009) @
(Sony/Eventus 120116), Released 2009;
Editor's Pick:
Cachao's Mambo All Stars, and orchestra led by Germán Piferrer, is here to keep that deep Cachao swing burning bright. The band consists of a lot of great talent, with many musicians that were associated with the late, great Israel "Cachao" López.
Some notables include violinist Federico Britos, guitarist Juanito Márquez, timbalero Edwin Bonilla, and pianist Jorge Luis Sosa. Taking the role of bassist here is Ramses Colon (Tropicana All Stars, Juan Palblo Torres, Roberto Torres etc.) and the lead singer is Tony Columbié. Guest singer on "Como Mi Amigo No Hay Dos" is Alexis Valdés. A beautiful and welcome tribute. Highly Recommended. (BP, 2009-08-14)
ARTURO O'FARRIL ''LIVE IN BROOKLYN'' (U.S.A.2005) @
Arturo O'Farrill: Upholding the Latin Tinge
By R.J. DeLuke - All About Jazz
Arturo O'Farrill, an extraordinary pianist, admits he came out of the bebop school of playing, a Bud Powell disciple, and his strong chops would attest to that. He didn't pursue the music of his father—the great Chico O'Farrill—in his younger days, but he came upon it as he studied the music. He came to not only appreciate it, but his excellent bands embody it.
He's led two Latin big bands, one celebrating his father's music (the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra) and the other—the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra—examining more broad influences. The latter's Una Noche Inolvidable (An Unforgettable Night), (Palmetto Records, 2005) was nominated for a 2006 Grammy and its Song for Chico (Zoho Music, 2008) won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
The Latin roots and influences O'Farrill so diligently and eloquently reflects today didn't come about via some "discovery" in the 1940s, he avows. Sure, when Dizzy Gillespie encountered the captivating rhythms of Cuba in that golden age of jazz, he began to highlight them, especially after hiring percussionist Chano Pozo. The rhythms spread rapidly, as Dizzy was a major figure whom people religiously followed. But O'Farrill notes that the influences were there at the beginning of jazz and are a part of its essential fabric.
"The roots of Latin and jazz are the same," says O'Farrill. "New Orleans at the turn of the century was a very Caribbean city with a lot of trade and commerce with Mexico and Cuba. Many of the musicians that came back and forth between Cuba and New Orleans and much of the Caribbean brought with them some of the rhythms that infected and inflected a lot of what we call jazz. I don't think the implications of those Latin and Caribbean rhythms have yet been appreciated or understood by the general jazz public. At least on the critical or historical level. "The truth of the matter is that Jelly Roll Morton said that without the Spanish tinge, it isn't jazz. He understood the rhythms we associate with jazz are as much Cuban and African-American as they are from New Orleans. In some ways, I think the listener understands that, almost more than the jazz critic, the jazz musician and the jazz historian; all of which have a vested interest in keeping the story the way they want to maintain their supremacy in the issue.
"But I think the true jazz listener, the true jazz lover, understands the rhythms are infectious because they are part and parcel of the root of jazz. The true jazz listener understand that you can't sit still listening to that music. And it doesn't detract from the idea that it is jazz. In fact, it enhances it ... Why is it so infectious? Because it is jazz. It is not Latin jazz. It is jazz. It is part of the root, the foundation. Any jazz listener, and jazz fan, will recognize the truth right away. "Some of the great, great jazz musicians understood this—Jelly Roll Morton, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, it goes on and on and on. Rhythms of the Caribbean are inter-fused with everything we call jazz. It's only jazz historians, jazz educators, jazz institutions that insist on slicing a little piece of pie, a little tiny morsel, and calling it Latin jazz. It's in their interest to maintain this facade. Because then they can control it. I know it sounds very dark," says O'Farrill, who then switches gears to lighten things, noting that music and feeling and art is what's important. The remarks are not made in a bitter fashion, but rather explanatory. In fact, he's affable and genial. But he speaks his mind.
O'Farrill deals with the whole breadth of jazz in his projects, whether with small or large groups. But he's a keeper of the Latin flame, for sure. A recent live performance of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra showed it as all-inclusive. Different styles of music had their moments in various numbers. Different Latin rhythms. Straight bebop. Wild and mild. And there was humor as well. It's an exciting aggregation but, even on the heels of its Grammy win, the best may be yet to come. "We're getting ready to go into the studio in July and record some amazing new music that nobody else is playing, nobody else can play unless you have that kind of openness," says O'Farrill. "We're going to be recording music from Peru, Argentina, Colombia. Music that is really cutting edge. Exciting and infectious. You'll listen to this record and you'll want to get up and dance and you'll want to sit down and listen." It was in the 1990s that O'Farrill was playing with the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra when New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center was in its infancy. O'Farrill wondered aloud if Wynton Marsalis could find a way to give the Latin big band tradition a home base. "I certainly didn't expect him to open up Jazz at Lincoln Center as a possible home for the Latin jazz big band tradition ... In 2001, he said he would love to do that at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
So we began our run at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2002," O'Farrill says. "We've performed all over the world, incredible concerts for Jazz at Lincoln Center and worked with many great artists. We have a very wonderful and satisfying residency." The band has since moved to Symphony Space in New York City. Having the cachet of JALC played a role in getting the new venue, as well as establishing a profile visible by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. However, he says, "Let's not attribute it all to Jazz at Lincoln Center. I have very good credentials from having established the Chico O'Farrill Orchestra at Birdland for 14 years, and a long and well-articulated career in many performance venues."
The Chico O'Farrill Orchestra begins its 14th year at Birdland in November. "It's interesting to note that there really is very little crossover [of band members] between the orchestras. There are about three or four members that I keep in both bands. That's because I love to have key position players that I trust in leading the sections. That's my comfort zone." The two orchestras are different in their presentation as well. "I love my father's orchestra and I love my father's music. They sometimes call Chico O'Farrill the Duke Ellington of Latin music. I think that's almost like a sideways compliment. Because we [the Latin music community] don't have to have a Duke Ellington or any corollary jazz artist in our tradition. We have our own jazz greats," he says. His father "was really a unique and singular voice in the world of Latin jazz, if we must separate the two. He deserves his own cannon, his own orchestra and his own history. One of the things that I sought to do was to protect that legacy and to make sure the music of Chico O'Farrill and Chico O'Farrill-inspired composers is protected. "On the other hand, the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is supposed to reflect the larger interpretation of the whole of Afro-big band tradition. To that end, we do a lot of other music. We perform everything from real technical dance music to cutting-edge work by brand new composers ... We don't sound like a museum orchestra. We've made a real commitment to the incredible swing and rhythmic propulsion of our greatest orchestras. [It is] a modern orchestra in that it appropriates all the equipment and language we need to fully express and experience the music that we call jazz. The Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra is an amazing orchestra in its own right. But we don't really get to play much outside of Birdland. Whereas the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra gets to do a lot, lot less playing, but a lot more traveling and a lot more expanding of the repertoire." O'Farrill was educated at the Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory, and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Growing up in New York City (he was born in Mexico), he had the typical piano influences common to young aspiring musicians: Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk, among many others. He also likes classical pianist Arturo Benedetti Michalangeli.
Arturo O'Farrill (seated at piano) with the Afrio Latin Jazz Orchestra"I can also think about the artistic integrity of a master like Jimi Hendrix. I can honestly say that on some level, Jimi Hendrix has impacted my life and my music as much as McCoy Tyner. I think those things are important. In other words, people who made bigger impressions on me as artists, than particularly as technicians. "I think you can't separate craft from art," he says. "People who stand up for what they believe; people who change, or at least try. I think the hardest thing in he world is to create art and not to replicate. People who follow their voice. My father was one. He could've replicated and played safe with commission money. Instead he followed his voice. He followed the inside of his heart. What his heart told him to do, he wrote. Consequently, he has some great masterpieces." But the music of his father didn't register with the young piano player right away. "I kind of rejected my upbringing and my background and thought of Latin music and traditional jazz as very corny," he says. "I grew up playing traditional jazz, but certainly not Latin. I think it had to do with a misunderstanding I had. Sometimes I attribute it to just growing up and rejecting your father and mother's values, which we all do. Kids do that. I think it's very important that they do. Whether you had a good upbringing or a bad upbringing is secondary to the fact that you rebel. Everybody rebels ... When I was a kid I was a Bud Powell clone." "In my late 20s, I started understanding how graceful, elegant and really complex Latin music is. It was an epiphany for me. I credit Andy Gonzalez, Pablo Vasquez and my father, and people who opened up that world to me. They played me a lot of music and talked to me about ... the uniting of mind and passion. Those two things are not separate. "There's a beautiful grandeur in music that comes from a very simple, but not simplistic, approach to rhythm. Very difficult music to play well. If you write out the rhythms to this music—exactly—and hand them to a professional percussionist, they'll play rhythms but they won't swing. If you give them to guys that really do this, it's marvelous. That always intrigues me, the idea that in the hands of one person, the rhythm can groove like crazy. But that same rhythm played exactly correctly, in the hands of another person, can sound stiff as a board." O'Farrill played piano with the Carla Bley Big Band from 1979 through 1983. He also performed with a variety of others, including Gillespie, Steve Turre, Freddy Cole, Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, Lester Bowie and Harry Belafonte. "I've played with a lot of great jazz musicians with tremendous, tremendous joy. Yet the older I get, the more I realize there is no Latin jazz. There is no jazz. It's music born out of joy. It's improvisatory. It comes from the diaspora experience. There's a common thread from Albert Ayler to Gerry Mulligan to Louis Armstrong. There is a common cultural aesthetic value. It hasn't really been defined yet. But Tito Puente had it. Sonny Rollins has it. Freddie Hubbard had it. It's a miraculous thing. This music is part of the gift for the new world that was borne out of so much suffering and oppression and socio-economic trial and tribulation." He adds, "Jazz institutions, jazz educators have a very monochromatic view of what jazz is. They preach that. It helps them maintain their jobs, their revenue streams. That's a harsh accusation, but I don't think it's done out of maliciousness. I just think they aren't open ... I go out and do clinics all over the country and all over the world and band directors go to me, 'Wow. Why isn't this music readily available. Why do we have access to eight hundred Duke Ellington charts, but we don't have access to one mambo?'" Jazz, in all its forms, regardless of how one labels it, has had difficulties in the U.S. market and its geniuses have always been undervalued and appreciated by the general public. It's something the greats of the past have endured and taken in stride. Says O'Farrill, "One of the reasons [jazz] has trouble is because we've made it irrelevant. We've made it culturally elite, socio-economically elite. As educators and spokespeople, we have not made it accessible. We've defined it as art music. One of the big controversies is: We made it to Lincoln Center. We are now a culturally-institutionalized art form and that has validated us. Let me tell you the truth. We didn't need that validation. We didn't need to be treated like classical musicians. Because we already had one of the rarest, rarest of gifts: a living art form. All we've really tried to do by putting it in that setting is tried to sterilize it. "That's just my opinion, but a living art form does not need validation. Ask young jazz musicians across the country. They're alive; they're trying to move the agenda forward. They're trying to mix it up. They're trying to create new art forms. They're trying to distinguish themselves. They're not interested in classicization. They're interested in making their music accessible to their fellow musicians and friends and family and people they love. I think they're going to be the wave of the future. Jazz, at any point, could become very popular again. It's just that the powers that be control so much of the public perception of jazz." O'Farrill is involved in education and hopes to do what he can to present the music as art in an accessible fashion. "The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance has residencies in the New York City public school system. I travel all over the country. We do a lot of educational work. I'm also a professor of jazz studies at Purchase University, the State University of New York. I'm very committed to education. Not jazz education—just education of the mind. I challenge students. I give them different interpretations of the history of jazz. I tell them they are living pages in the history of jazz. Jazz was not invented by one person. It was not limited to one geographic area." But he continues to push for the recognition and appreciation of the Latin elements that are part of his heritage, and the heritage of the music. It is incredibly important to fight for cultural truth," O'Farrill says. "What's interesting to me is that if you put (the music) into the hands of a guy like Chico O'Farrill or a really gifted composer ... in his hands, you get this thing where he creates pieces that as much listenable-to as danceable-to. It's almost the perfect blend of what jazz is. It's music for the head, it's music for the feet, it's music for the heart, it's music for the hands. It transcends the experience of passive listening. "Even if you don't dance. Even if you don't move, it becomes something, to me, that really crystallizes the possibilities for music of the new world."
Selected Discography: Arturo O'Farrill & Claudia Acuna, In These Shoes (Zoho Music, 2008)
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico (Zoho Music, 2008)
Bopol Mansiamina ,Nacido el 26 de julio de 1949 en Kinshasa, en la República Democrática de Congo, es un artista brillante, compositor, y unos de los mejores guitarristas. Su carrera como un músico comenzó después de terminar su educación secundaria en 1969. Durante el mismo año él representó su país con la banda "Rambola" de Papá Noel en el Festival de Música Africana de Algeria. En 1970 él formó parte del grupo Amambo y afines del mismo año, dejó este grupo para unirse a la agrupación del Dr. Nico llamada "African Fiesta Sukisa". La joven Experiencia de Bopol, la exposición, y el talento en la industria sirvieron como un catalizador para desafiar muchas avenidas. En 1971 fue confundador de la orquesta Continental con Josky, Wuta Mayi, Tino Muinkua y Ngombe Beseco. Durante este período la banda Continental grabo 3 Canciones (45 rpm).
En 1973, él continuó su carrera musical al unirse a la agrupación del gran Tabu Ley (Rochereau). la cual dejaria tres años mas tarde . En 1976, Bopol ,Funda con Ray Lema Manuaku el grupo "Ya Poupas" con el acompañamiento de Mpongo love. A la edad de 28, Bopol deja el Zaire y dirige a la costa occidental del continente africano . aterriza en Abijan capital de Costa del Marfil, la puerta de transición a París para la mayoría de los músicos del Continente Africano. Aquí se une Sam Mangwana , Lokassa yam Mbongo, Theo Blaise Konkou para formar la orquesta African all stars.
Estando en Abidjan, Decide iniciar su carrera como solista ,en 1979 Graba con "innovation" su primer larga duracion que se llamo "Pittie veux Reconcilation", y después vendrían éxitos como Choisi, Marriage Force, Marie Jeanne.... el Cuál fue un gran éxito en todas partes del continente Africano. En 1982, sus sueños se realizaron, él llegó en su destino final, París, en Francia. En 1983 al trabajar con el sello Afro Rythmes de David Outtara , él inició la formación del grupo popular llamado "4 Etoiles" o Cuatro Estrellas con tres músicos talentosos Nyboma, Wuta Mayi, y con Syran Mbenza. Junto a esta agrupación han grabado muchos éxitos y viajado por muchos países de África, Europa, y los Estados Unidos de América.
Bopol reside actualmente en París con una carrera llena de éxitos y al mismo tiempo produciendo otros músicos jóvenes. en 1994 ,Bopol asistió al XIII de música del Caribe Celebrado en Cartagena ,con la agrupación 4 etoile ,la cual deleito a todos con soukous. ******************** Bopol was born in Congo-Kinshasa in 1949. He is a guitarist, vocalist, arranger and producer. His long and varied career as a musician started when he joined Orchestre Bamboula with Papa Noel twenty years later, in 1969. He has been associated with some other bands, namely Rock A Mambo and Africa Fiesta Sukisa with Docteur Nico. Bopol was one of the co-founders of Orchestre Continental in 1971 and at this point began to compose and released 3 singles.
During 1973-1976 Bopol was with Tabu Ley's Afrisa then in 1976 he went on to found the group Ya Toupas with Ray Lema and Manuaku. He decided to go to West Africa in 1978, joining Sam Mangwana, Lokassa and Dizzy Mandjeku in Africa All Stars first in Abidjan, then Lomé. A year after that he went solo and released the albums Pitie, je veux la reconciliation, Marriage Force and Manuela. In 1982 Bopol settled in France and, with Syran Mbenza, Nyboma and Wuta Mayi, formed the very well-known Les Quatres Etoiles. Later in 1998 he recorded an album, The Very Best of Bopol on which he is accompanied by several other top Congolese musicians. More recently Bopol has featured as composer, guitarist and producer on Samba Mapangala's recordings, Ujumbe (2001) and Song and Dance (2006).
The year 2002 was a year of lots more successes for Bopol, including touring with Mose Fan Fan's Somo Somo in Britain. Bopol played rhythm guitar on Déesse Mukangi's new album, Lettre Anonyme, 2002, and composed the title track. Another musician Bopol has worked closely with is Ricardo Lemvo - he was the guitarist on many of the tracks on Ricardo's São Salvador album, and composed 'Manuela' on Mambo Yoyo.
AFRICAN CHILD & THE PROPHET UNIFICATION ''MUSLIM RASTAS'' (SUECIA-COSTA DE MARFIL,2008) @
African Child was born in Bele, north of Ivory Coast, August 3-1983 & started to travel in age of 8! When his mama was pregnant, his grandmamma come and tell her that this child is going to be a public person, I call him or her Farafina Ding that means African Child. When he was born his parent’s give him the name Adama Diarra, Adama means the first and Diarra means lion. African Child travel to Mali got his first guitar, struggling in the street playing the guitar wherever he goes. He started to work as a stage boy with a band called Tara’s band that played different music styles.
He continues to Senegal and Gambia. In Gambia, African Child struggle to make a coffee shop to survive, entertain his customers singing and playing and always delivering peace and love message to the people. He started to work with a band called Afro Star as a stage boy and later on he become the guitarist and the bandleader.
Over the time he was growing in the music and the suffering, frustration and the extreme poverty. The political manipulation and all those millions of people suffering and few people decide over other people’s life and with political brutality, violence and aggression and even tribal discrimination within people and people.
African Child put his hard life into inspiration with a strong message of unity as a peacemaking force against brutality, violence and political domination. A strong nation and a free nation can only base itself upon education. Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
He travelled to Sweden year 2000 and the vision of forming his band finally become reality, The Prophet Unification formed year 2002.
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