Stay updated with breaking news from Rocafil Jazz. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Let me begin with a quick historic glance back on a critical Diaspora challenge that we are still confronting today.
Twenty years ago the man who recorded one of the most successful songs of all time was thrown off a motorbike by a car in Calabar, Nigeria.
From Patti Smith and Bob Dylan to Butterfly Child and Joni Mitchell, Emma Tricca prescribes her nine favourite albums for our Doctor's Orders feature.
Anatomy of a Song: From “Sweet Mother” to “Lagos Night” Cuba is 100 miles from Key West. Bruce Springsteen certainly knows that great music comes out of Cuba. But does anyone think he might decide to record a medley of Compay Segundo tracks like “Guajira Guantanamera,” “Chan Chan,” plus some of his other classics, and in Spanish? Seems unlikely. But this is precisely what happened when the Soukous Stars recorded “Lagos Night,” an epic 1994 medley of songs by Prince Nico Mbarga, a highlife musician from Nigeria, sung in the original pidgin English. The first Mbarga song i...