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The new queen of Africa.
One of the great voices of a continent that recently lost his beloved Miriam Makeba.
Oumou Sangare is the most popular female singer in Mali, the musical heart of western Africa, a country poor in economic terms, but whose culture has produced giants like Salif Keita and Ali Farka Toure.
And was in the Sea of Music in 1996, but returned in the splendor of maturity on Friday July 24th Auditorio Parque Torres at 23:00.
Will be joined on the program later by the Jamaican dancehall king Buju Banton and one of the musical phenomena of recent years, the Congolese band Konono No 1.
A few hours earlier, at the Town Hall Square, at 20:00 a special concert with the District of Barranquilla Folk Band with which the festival will welcome Colombia, invited next year.
In Bamako is almost a goddess.
The stop on the road to ask him to record new songs, hardly able to walk without being besieged by fans, and ensures that serves as a stimulus.
At 41 years, this woman entrepreneur is busy with business and non-musical activities: a hotel near the airport, an area 40 kilometers from Bamako where oranges are grown, the rice brand that bears his name, an association that collects sick and malnourished children in the streets and provides shelter and work to their mothers, travel as an ambassador for the UN ...
And besides, not to sing for the world: Africa, America, Australia ...
Six years had not recorded an album, 'Seya' ('Joy'), published as usual by World Circuit, is a magnificent work.
With the pace wasulu of fertile land and woodland where she was born and instruments like the n'goni '-small-traditional lute with electric guitars.
About fifty musicians, and working in Bamako studies, among which that of Salif Keita, Cheick Tidiane Seck "living legend of Malian music.
It is the first time, officially, has had Seck, although both are known since she was a child and went to attend his shows.
Oumou Sangare explains his working method: first write the lyrics of the song, then starts to create a rhythm with the man of 'n'goni' and then calls the group.
He was 21 in 1990, when he left the album 'Moussoulou', which Malians know until the last chorus, and which urged women to rebel.
Oumou challenged the taboo of female sensuality with poetic lyrics and very explicitly.
And then had to be denounced, and daring at the social and political context arranged marriages by their families.
Account that this was because her mother suffered a lot and she, as eldest daughter shared that suffering.
A tribute to his mother with Malian women were identified.
Also in his latest album blasts forced marriages for young girls and against polygamy.
Sing joyfully hope that the African woman is free to choose.
With thirteen or fourteen years left home to sing at weddings and baptisms, and removed and a few coins with which to help his mother to feed her five siblings.
Bears repeating that may take the music in their blood, but what prompted her to become an artist was a disgrace.
Tall and dark eyes, independent, warrior, Oumou Sangare has the poise of a queen and a voice that sends to those of Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Nina Simone.
Projects an image of strength behind which lies a little girl sometimes frightened.
In one of his new songs blesses his father died in 2005, and which had recently forgiven to abandon them when she was two.
Died caught in his hand: "Vanish is not as hard / Disappear without anything, that's the hardest thing."
Buju Banton
It is one of the figures of Jamaican music: a modern prophet of the island with its mix of roots reggae, contemporary R & B and dancehall.
No lacked poise, even from the hosts of dancehall, self-proclaimed 'Voice of Jamaica' on their third album 'Voice of Jamaica'.
He was 20 years.
And he had just signed a contract with the Mercury label after his devastating performance at Reggae Sunsplash Festival 1992.
The truth is that since the early nineties, Buju Banton had been releasing hit after hit, 'Bogle', 'Love Me Browning', 'Woman Fi Sex' ...
In 1992, he wrested from Bob Marley's record number one in a year on the Jamaican charts.
Mark Anthony Myrie or Buju Banton (aka Gargamel) was born on July 15, 1973 in one of the slums of Kingston.
Descendant of those Maroons who fought against the British in the former colony of Jamaica, is the youngest of fifteen siblings.
Bujo came to see their idols in action outdoors or in the local dancehall Denham Town.
With twelve years and launched into a microphone and began dating the Sweet Love and Rambo Mango sound systems.
Since his conversion to Rastafarianism, the doctrine Africanist Marcus Garvey embraced by Marley, his lyrics have deepened social awareness and talk about police corruption ("Operation Ardent"), violence ("Murderer"), migrants who forget their families and never send money to them ('Deportees') safe sex ("Willy, Do not Be Silly') and anti-gun (" Mr. Nine ").
Rolling Stone magazine considered 'Til Shiloh', with songs like 'Murderer' and 'Untold Stories', who drew the X classification dancehall, one of the best albums of the nineties.
The last of Buju Banton, released in April, and some have seen the continuation of that 'Til Shiloh', bears the eloquent title of "Rasta Got Soul."
Konono N º 1
They're aliens.
And you have to listen live to see the power of their likembés-sheet metal anchored to a wooden box played with the thumbs-electrified to saturation.
Chaotic and repetitive music.
His first album enthused Matthew Herbert, Gilles Peterson, Tortoise and Beck has hired Sonar and are present in discs of Björk and Timbaland.
The Mighty Orchestra Likembé Konono n º 1-that is its official name-seems to be provisioned in a junkyard, the battery is the address bar of a car on which are strung hubcaps dented, the singers let their voices heard through loudspeakers cone-the "lance voix 'from the colonial period used by the Belgian state radio to get the population-mounted on the metal stem of a flower.
Someone mentioned objects as Duchamp.
At likembés microphones are adapted handcrafted magnets car scrapping: rudimentary amplifiers connected to produce a distorted sound.
And that unwanted distortion is precisely the group now becomes the object of desire.
A year ago, Konono No. 1 was forced to cancel an extensive European tour due to problems with new requirements for visa and because of efforts at the wrong time.
This time it is with us L 'Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono No 1 Likembé.
The Mingiedi Mawangu founded in the Congo for over thirty years.
Curious: this is traditional music, spiritual music of ethnic bazombo, which followed the course of the Congo river to Kinshasa.
Mingiedi, which has been a truck driver and mechanic, from the border region between the Congo and Angola.
BARRANQUILLA folk bands DISTRICT
To welcome you to Colombia on Saturday, La Mar de Músicas will the presence of the Ambassador of Colombia in Spain, Carlos Noriega and Friday Filmed as a gift from the Embassy at 20:00 pm in Town Hall Square is scheduled dramatically, that was not announced, a concert by the Banda district of Barranquilla Folk.
Folk Band District of Barranquilla is an intergenerational project that seeks to preserve the cultural roots, with mainly Colombian Caribbean music with typical instruments of the region.
It is a comprehensive arts education project to promote musical skills of its members, cultural diversity, peaceful coexistence and social inclusion, human development and exercise of citizenship.
The band is composed of 120 musicians, thirty Cartagena come with an excellent personal and musical training between 5 and 70 years.
Within the large repertoire of folk band have cycles typical carnival music, vallenato, salsa and Cuban music, bullerengue songs of the river ...
The band serves the national policy guidelines under the National Plan for coexistence Music led the Ministry of Culture in the country.
Source: La Mar de Músicas
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