In 2012, a friend introduced me to The Soil, an acapella ensemble from South Africa. According to Wikipedia, this band began in High School in […]
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#MyDiscoveryPlaylist Éthiopiques & the golden age of Ethiopian music
Even as Ethiopia makes headlines now for being the fastest growing economy in Africa, too many people are stuck in the old narrative of famine […]
#MyDiscoveryPlaylist Fatoumata Diawara – Mali
I don’t have a cool story about how I came across Fatou’s music. I was listening to Sona Jobarteh on Youtube and somehow ended up […]
#MyDiscoveryPlaylist Sona Jobarteh – Gambia
Sona Jobarteh, from The Gambia, is descendent of a Griot musical family. For seven hundred years, men from these families played the kora for the […]