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Top Congolese musicians and some leading Kenyan singers have struck a common chord. And it's not just that the themes they sing about often revolve around love, jealousy, betrayal and God. Indeed, some of the best songs composed by great African musicians such as veteran Congolese star Tabu Ley, one of the doyens of Lingala music and others, were about their wives, extolling their beauty and other virtues. (03/09)
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A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
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Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ...
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No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ...
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It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ...
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I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ...
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hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ...
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There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ...
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Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
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At a party in 1983, Francis Falceto had an epiphany that changed his life. Falceto had been involved in music for many years, as a curator, programme planner ...
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Ghana's most famous hip life artiste, Emmanuel Samini (Batman) was astonished when his name was mentioned as the best Reggae Artiste of the year at the ...
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