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Valerie Naranjo (born October 10, 1958), is a percussionist, vocalist, musicologist, professor, and percussionist for the Saturday Night Live Band. [2]A touring musician who has played and arranged for numerous Broadway productions, Valerie has composed for dance and film, and other music in the “world music” category. [2]
Contemporary styles of music in West Africa have been influenced by American music, African jazz and gospel music. [2] The forced migration of Africans to the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave trade gave rise to kaiso [3] music, which has influenced the sounds of Calypso, [4] a style with major popularity throughout West Africa.
Neba Solo (born 1969) is the stage name of Souleymane Traoré, a musician based in Mali, West Africa. Neba Solo plays a kind of balafon, a marimba with wooden keys mounted on a wooden frame and attached to resonating chambers made from dried gourds. Traoré hails from the village of Nebadougou, in the eastern part of the Sikasso region of Mali ...
Heather Maxwell is an American singer-songwriter and radio host for Voice of America. She sings jazz standards and composes original works on piano, kamalen n'goni , balafon , and percussion. Heather produces and hosts the radio and TV program Music Time in Africa for the Voice of America .
Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).
Overtone has been connected to various charitable organisations both on home soil and abroad. In October 2009 they added their voice to the more than 50 international musicians and celebrities who released the world's first "musical petition" in the form of the reworked version of Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" for the Tck tck tck project [5] which aims to draw attention to the global ...
The group's guitar style has its roots in West African music [66] and other traditional styles practiced by the Tuareg and Berber peoples, [67] [68] and has often been characterized as "desert blues". [69] Tinariwen was also influenced by traditional Malian musicians, most notably Ali Farka Touré, [70] and regional pop singers like Rabah ...
West Nkosi (1940–1998), mbaqanga musician; No Friends of Harry; Nobesuthu Mbadu (born 1945), singer in Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens and member of the Mahotella Queens; Siphiwo Ntshebe (1974–2010), operatic tenor from New Brighton, Port Elizabeth; Ashton Nyte, solo artist as well as lead singer and producer of The Awakening