They are bearers of a musical tradition that seems to go back to more than 2,500 years ago, that of Georgian polyphony. They are called Tuning Tbilisi and a choir singing polyphonic everything to femmiile composed of 12 women. Born in 2002, the choir has a repertoire made up of songs from Georgian folk tradition and the tradition of sacred music Christian Orthodox.
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It’s called Haka dance and is typical of Maori, the Aboriginal people of New Zealand. The Haka is not, as often thought, only a dance of war, made the first of the clash with the enemy. If done before a race or a fight, it serves to express the courage, wickedness and the virility of chei must fight. But if made to celebrate other moments of human life, then it can also express feelings of joy, sorrow, anger.
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Caballero del Son, Adalberto Alvarez, celebrates its 35 years of activity with a new cd, Gozando en la Habana. 10 tracks of pure Cuban salsa, including can appreciate 7 new songs and 2 poupurrit of great successes of the 80s and 90s. It ‘a CD in which Adalberto Alvarez y su Son confirm their link with the Cuban son, and in particular with the style casino, ripronendo the classic sounds of this style, though sometimes expressed with a modern taste.
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Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor in 1953. His father was a fisherman, but esgli, since childhood, she chose another route for its future and began to learn to play by his mother. He studied music at the University of Dakar before joining a training post-graduate in Paris. After being returned from Paris, Baaba Maal began to study thoroughly the traditional music of his country, and began to perform with the group Daande Lenol.
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His real name is Jules Shungu Wembadio Penalties Kikumba, but the name of art which is known worldwide is Papa Wemba. And ‘one of the most esteemed singers and musicians African great interpreter of music soukous, and one of the leading exponents of world music.
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Youssou N’Dour is one of the greatest singers and musicians of the African continent. Born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1959, he helped develop a kind of popular music that in Senegalese wolof, the language of Senegal, says mbalax, which mixes traditional music percussionistica of Senegal, called griot, used to pray with arrangements and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
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E’ l’interprete più importante della morna , quel genere musicale che unisce le sonorità dell’Africa occidentale al fado portoghese e alla musica brasiliana. Cesaria Evora è nata a Mindelo , sull’isola di San Vicente , a Capo Verde nel 1941. Prima di esplodere nel panorama musicale internazionale, dovette fare molti tentativi e molti sacrifici.
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Bonga Kuenda , conosciuto anche come Barcelo de Carvalho , è uno dei musicisti-cantanti più rappresentativi dell’Angola. In questo paese egli è nato nel 1942, e dopo una breve carriera calcistica, s’è buttato nella carriera musicale, con canzoni che reclamavano l’indipendenza per il suo Paese. Per questo fu costretto all’esilio, che trascorse tra Parigi e Lisbona .
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Saro Tribastone è un compositore e chitarrista siciliano che con la sua chitarra flamenco esprime una musica fatta di sonorità popolari siciliane, flamenco spagnolo, ritmi latini e echi di suoni greci, arabi e indiani. La passione per la musica esplode nella vita di Saro quando, all’età di 6 anni, gli viene regalata la prima chitarra acustica. Read the rest of this entry »
Dariush Eghballi è un cantante e compositore iraniano nato a Teheran nel 1951. La sua carriera musicale inizò quando a 20 anni fece la sua prima apparizione nella televisione iraniana. Nelle sue canzoni egli canta versi di alcuni grandi poeti iraniani come Shanloo, Rumi e Hafez , brani di artisti come Ghanbari e Sarfaraz , e tratta temi come l’amore, la pace e la giustizia,
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