Shah gives rumba a sweeter rhythm
Summary
The survival of Rumba as the popular sound of East and Central Africa is facing a threat from the dominance of other African pop sounds that have transformed to meet the demands of the continent s youthful generation.
The West Africans have rebranded their trademark genres of Highlife and Afrobeat into the contemporary Afropop and Afrobeats while South Africans have tweaked Electronic House music into Amapiano.
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Shyam Shah whose stage name is SHAMA is a UK based Kenyan rumba guitarist, singer and producer. PHOTO | POOL
By BILL ODIDI
Summary
The survival of Rumba as the popular sound of East and Central Africa is facing a threat from the dominance of other African pop sounds that have transformed to meet the demands of the continent s youthful generation.
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Circa 1993. Willy drowned. His drowning shocked many who knew him because it happened at the landing site when he, apparently, jumped into the water to wade ashore. So his mother travelled all the way from Nebbi to Jinja to ‘confirm’ that there had been no foul play.
And how would she ‘confirm’ this? She was no mortician, nor was she a pathologist. But then she could have been both and much more. In African medicine, practitioners went far and did things that can even scare Stephen King the American author of horror and supernatural fiction.
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Fans called Docteur Nico “
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mi-solo. Recently, a guitarist very familiar with this unpacked Docteur Nico’s innovation:
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