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This 2012 is the tenth anniversary of the end of the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone and is therefore a good year to review the history of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, a group that has been garnering praise in the international media as The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Los Angeles Times and Billboard magazine, and acting for the first time in our country, within the festival La Mar de Musicas, on Monday 23 July.
The group, which met in the refugee camps in Guinea, after living the horrors of civil war in their country, took a few days ago his third album, Radio Salone and Wednesday, World Refugee Day, which launched a new music video make an urgent call to fight against hunger.
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars have joined with the World Food Programme U.S.
to call attention to the urgent issue of world hunger.
The association between the band and world-renowned American organization against hunger starts with the public launch of the new music video Big Fat Dog, a song of refugees from Sierra Leone All Stars latest album Radio Show, which addresses the issue of the gap between rich and poor.
The Big Fat Dog music video, which was filmed in Freetown, Sierra Leone, was released yesterday on YouTube by his record label Cumbancha.
Formed in refugee camps in Guinea during the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars have always tried to draw attention to important social and political issues in Africa and beyond.
His past efforts on behalf of the refugee agency United Nations, Amnesty International, the International Rescue Committee and others have demonstrated a commitment to the band to make the world a better place.
It's been a long fight in the war, and in extreme poverty, said the conductor Reuben Koroma in a recent magazine. We try to bring out sensitive issues affecting the world.
It is the responsibility of all the suffering of others.
We take our positive messages around the world, because we expect a positive change.
And, most importantly, achieve peace.
Members of the Refugee All Stars Sierra Leone returned to Freetown, Sierra Leone after the war ended in 2002 to meet the new challenges of a country ravaged by poverty, lack of economic opportunities and weak infrastructure.
The fight against hunger in Sierra Leone is something the band members have experienced first hand, and remains a major problem in the country and around the continent.
The band presented a month ago Radio Salone, his third album, which shows once again that connect their sound traditions of West Africa with roots reggae in a way that had never been explored before.
After living the horrors of civil war in Sierra Leone, the components of the band, Reuben Koroma in front, continue to evolve musically in an exciting way, going beyond their jam sessions in refugee camps in Guinea and the crudeness of his first recordings in natural capital Freetown.
The group has built a loyal base of fans with extensive touring and festival appearances around the world.
Artists like Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Jord Perry, Ice Cube and Angelina Jolie have sung its praises.
From the ashes of war, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars have risen like a phoenix to become one of the most acclaimed bands of Africa in the world.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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