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Kenya, the vibrant melting pot of genres

Kenya, the vibrant melting pot of genres
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Omar Sosa interview: "Music as a weapon of mass consciousness"


A prolific collaborator who has travelled extensively since leaving his Cuban homeland, Omar Sosa talks to Jane Cornwell about his fact-finding tour of East Africa and his new album, which sees him collaborate with some of the region’s leading folkloric musicians
Omar Sosa (photo: Massimo Mantovani)
Afro-Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa has always been a seeker, an artist driven to explore African musical cultures and their connections to his own ancestral roots. Along the way he has linked the traditional and contemporary, the acoustic and electronic, with forward-thinking solo work and collaborations with musicians from Latin America and across the African diaspora. “Most of the Cuban music people know about is from the 1940s onwards,” says the Camagüey-born award-winner, Zooming from his home in Barcelona. “But if we look deeper there are cultural and musical r ....

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Why future of our music lies in golden oldies


Why future of our music lies in golden oldies
6 years ago
   Ohangla sensation Osogo winyo(left) flanked with Tony Nyadundo before perfomance atthe Carnivore restaurant in Nairobi. Photo by WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD
 
A local television station continues to expose exactly what goes on in the minds of most Kenyan musicians.
The channel has helped us know that, however much we write about and support our music, nothing will happen till the day Kenyan singers decide to make very good use of their heads.
In choosing to do so, perhaps our singers will have discovered that all world music as we know it, relies on twisting and re-doing the melodies of every culture’s ‘old’ songs. ....

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