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When Bob Marley hit the cry of Africa, was Alpha Blondy, who answered first.
African contemporary artist of decolonization, such as a fighter by the meeting of African people against the selfish interests that governed the continent for many years.
His aspirations as a musician and singer did not fall into the plans of his family, who sent him to New York to study English.
Alpha, away from the classroom, began to hone his vocal cords singing Bob Marley covers in French, English, and in their native language in the clubs of Harlem.
He had a spiritual and musical revelation when they begin to reach out reggae rhythms of the Caribbean.
Fly to Africa in the eighties to be the first to plant the seed explosive reggae in Africa and start being seen as a savior or a rebel with a cause.
Their songs were hymns from the beginning of the street, as they denounced the brutality that occurred in Africa.
The Bob Marley of Africa, the admired, Alpha Blondy, returns to the Sea of Music on Saturday July 19th at 23:00.
On sale the last 100 entries, 20 Euros.
Two hours later, in the Arab Castle you will pay a tribute to one of the artists associated with the world's most charismatic musicians of recent times, Andy Palacio.
Through its tours and spectacular album, Watina, managed to present one of the best kept secrets of Latin American culture so far: the Garifuna music tradition.
Seydou Koné (Dimbokro, Ivory Coast, 1953) Alpha Blondy, one of the legends of contemporary reggae.
He added the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Bible, the nickname with which he called his grandmother, Blondy, a peculiar pronunciation of the English word bandit (bandit).
Alpha Blondy has been declared an African rasta inspired by the political, social and spiritual reggae, a genre that has made him even in Jamaica, where success has become anthems as Cocody Rock (1984) and Jerusalem (1986) and which has been his latest album, Jah Victory (2007) along with ex-Wailer Tyrone Downie and duo Sly & Robbie.
Does the number seventeen of his career and he returns to his recurrent themes: love, peace and universality, played in all three languages in which he was educated, Diola Ivory Coast, French and English, with who named his first band, The Atomic Vibrations.
In fact, his desire to improve language skills led him to ask his mother Cephas (francs CFA) sufficient to move to Monrovia, Liberia.
At its head there is only one purpose: to record an album in the U.S..
And while he convinces his family, writes songs like Come back Jesus, which appeared in 1985 on the hard Apartheid is Nazism.
With twenty-three years arrives in New York to study at a business school, which would change the American Language Program at Columbia University.
Shortly thereafter, encouraged by a friend, decided to move to Waco, Texas, in search of a more manageable city.
There he meets a Jamaican producer Clive Hunt, who brought him into contact with The Sylvesters, a common group of Dominicans in New York clubs.
Back to the Big Apple, sing along songs, plus a cover of Marley.
The relationship with Hunt ends abruptly, with a recording studio Alpha Blondy never charged.
Blondy is said that he had to overcome a crisis that would have led him to spend a short time first admitted to a psychiatric hospital in New York and later in the Bingerville Asylum in Abidjan.
The crisis was later blamed by the artist to the mix of drugs and marijuana.
In 1981 Roger Fulgence Kassy offers submitted to the program presented in the RTI chance Première (first chance).
And Alpha Blondy recorded his first album Jah Glory.
The album includes his first hit, Operation Coup de Poing Brigadier Sabari, a subject in which he denounced the police brutality he had suffered in a raid on the streets of Abidjan and became a symbol for young people.
Start recording off of Côte d'Ivoire in Paris and London, and to act with great success in Africa, releasing their albums Revolution (1987) and Masada (1989)
In the nineties come SOS Tribal War, in which he talks about AIDS, Dieu, which begins with a song called The abortion is a crime, Grand Bassam Zion Rock, sung in Arabic, Malinke, Wolof, French and English, Yitzhak Rabin, in memory of assassinated Israeli President or Elohim.
Prevail in all its manifestations against the immaturity and ineptitude of politicians from Africa and their commitment to the religious unity of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
A decade in which exacerbate their health problems, with an attitude to the enfant terrible that forces him to cancel whole tour in more than one occasion.
Merci published in 2002, record that held its first-year career, which continued Radical Roots from the Emperor of African Reggae (2004), the compilation Akwaba (2005) and the compilation of African artists No Child Soldiers (2006) attended by artists such as Angelique Kidjo, Lokua Kanza, Charlotte M'bango, Monique Seka, Mama Keita, Aicha Koné, Bibie, Salif Keita, Corneille, Rokia Traoré, Youssou N'Dour and Geoffrey Oryema.
TRIBUTE TO ANDY PALACIO
Died January 19 of the artists associated with the world's most charismatic musicians of recent times, Andy Palacio.
Through its tours and spectacular album, Watina, managed to present one of the best kept secrets of Latin American culture so far: the Garifuna music tradition.
A culture of African roots that occurs in some countries of Central America.
Andy Palacio received numerous awards for her album worldwide and the unanimous support of the world press.
Andy Palacio really not worried about her music but much further impact with their music around the world to avoid the extinction of their culture.
And he succeeded.
The project tribute to Andy Palacio, born not only in response to the desire that had the Palace fan community to keep alive the spirit of his project, but the whole community and I own Garifuna musicians who worked with him in his later years of life.
It is precisely those who have driven this project for a world tour that brings them to the Sea of Music, to commemorate the name, music and message of the Palace.
All components of this project Umalali, Aurelio Martinez and Adrian Martinez has worked in the past with the palace.
When planning this concert, the album Watina (Call), Andy Palacio of Belize, was just released in our country in line with the award granted in 2007 ex Womex Achaean Palacio and Ivan Duran, founder in 1995 of the first Belize history record label, Stonetree Redords.
Reviews were exceptional, and the October 28 ceremony to honor that was more than a party.
After words of thanks from both winners, Palace took the stage to accompany Umalali three representatives at the first international presentation of a project that has collected on the album more than fifty women between 20 and 86 years who had not devoted so far to music professionally.
Umalali songs that speak to us about the relationship between families, generational issues like small chronicles the day to day.
The learned from their elders and sing in Garifuna, the language from childhood had heard their parents and grandparents, preserving the heritage of those who survived the first to journey from Guinea to the West Indies, Spanish galleons, and after the colonization of French and English and the diaspora along the Atlantic coast of Central America from Nicaragua to Honduras, Guatemala and Belize.
Since 2001, oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO, who in November named Palace Artist for Peace.
Cultural activist, actively involved in the Government of Belize, an independent country since 1981, Palacio met producer Ivan Duran being a tip-rock star, a mix of Dominican merengue and Antillean zouk with electronic, popular among young people.
Duran suggested him to record his first album in his recording studio, the one that existed in Belize.
Soon, the label Stonetree Paranda publish an album with veteran musicians, the septuagenarian Paul Nabor and Junie Aranda, now considered seminal.
In Paranda, plus the voices of old revelers (serenades from house to house with guitars, drums and maracas) also shows the Honduran Aurelio Martinez, now congressman-elect of the Republic, something that has not happened since 1930.
Resident of La Ceiba, published in 2002 the album Garifuna Soul.
And his name was added to the beginning to be known as the Garifuna Collective or Garifuna All Stars.
Last January, Andy Palacio died unexpectedly at age forty-seven years because of a stroke.
Garifuna community in the death of a loved one is an opportunity to celebrate his life through music and dance.
And even without overcoming the pain of his death, members of the Collective and Umalali made the decision to continue with the tour plans had previously expected.
Many of them had participated in Watina, awarded in February by the BBC Radio 3 with the 2008 World Music Award in the category of America.
And now participating in this tribute to the figure of Andy Palacio and his love for the Garifuna community.
Along with them, take part in this concert two of the rising stars of Belize: Adrian Martinez and Lloyd Augustine.
Enrique Helguera critic wrote in Letras Libres' Andy just came off one of the three parts of his being, the ánigi (life force or spirit animal that hides the heart), but his astral form or áfurugu (link between the realm of supernatural and the everyday reality) will remain for more than a year between us, bathing and taking part in the celebrations and dances to convene their relatives and friends drum beat as a way to make the transition to his immortal soul to access or iuaní the eternal dwelling place where the ancestors or gubida look after the welfare of the community. "
A community, the Garifuna, Belize has established the Andy Palacio Foundation for Music Education that will allow young Belizeans have a place in which to learn and spread their music, their language and culture in the world.
Donations can be processed through www.stonetreerecords.com.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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