SADE:SMOOTH OPERATOR

HERE SHE IS


I want to marry herBut iam just 20 and she is 52...she would probably have me sent to prison over it!
Ok i want to marry her daughter!She is 28 years old too!okay i give up!But she is just too pretty to ignore and yes she is so Nigerian.

Maybe you hadn't known her because of the low profile she likes to keep despite the consntant knocks on her door compelling her to be compared with Beyonce or get to do a collabo with Drake ahaha which i think will totally work magic.

The Nigerian Songstress is despicable in whatever she does with her music.Sade is basically the name of her band where she is the lead singer and what they focus on is classical music which never comes of age.

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The videos of her songs generally speak of her age which the music never speaks of though.Her mellow voice and the simplicity of the video plus the compliment the band with cowboys makes the music travel a million years ahead of where it should be.

Listen to most of the classical music radio stations and television stations at present and you would realize that she rules the charts and playlists around.

Her music has won the hearts of many including the Grammys where she had won best band of the year.
What a better way to speak of what we Africans can do musically other than  follow in Sade's footsteps!



By Elijah Charles Kiage

Diamond Plutinumz: Number one: Good voice

I know what you are already thinking after reading that headline: 'The boring Bongo Music that gets winning artists crying loudly about how much they love their lovers blah blah blah!!!'
You will be wrong if you imagined that Number one will fall into that category.

Diamond has done what our fellow Tanzanian brothers may want to call 'Bongo Fuishon bana!'He has literally started pro-founded and propounded a new era in Contemporary Bongo Flava music with a touch of punk pop that we have not been used to in the recent years and especiallly not from Tanzania.

I have been personally a great sucker at Listening let alone dancing to Bongo music but the introduction beats to the song will make anyone rise up to the occasion.Talk of a well cooked production!

HAIL MR. DIAMOND!!!!

 When listening to this song,you can not avoid  to notice the way this man focuses on the delivery of the beautiful poetry that we Africans are known for.He lambasts(forgive my big words and pardon my honest excitement  for this review )his verses with an acute performance from the flashy setting and the lively not to say exquisite performers who back up the song.

It has been time coming before we witnessed Tanzanians whose humility and satisfaction for little or simply satisfying so to speak rose up to the occasion and showed us that they can as well embrace
 bounty and well this man doesn't hide a thing from his pocket in this masterpiece of a poem shouting out loud how we Africans have also got to the map through our music.

The highly anticipated African Muzik Magazine Awards held at the prestigious Eisemann Center with a

galaxy

of African stars gracing the city of Dallas. The biggest African Muzik Awards in Diaspora had the big African Stars like Flavour, Diamond Platnumz , Togar Howard , Stanley Enow, Wyre, Alaine, Khuli Chana, the African King of Pop and International superstar

T-pain

dazzle on the stage with electrifying performances.
This night however turned out to be about this Man Diamond who scooped most of the words surplus to being crowned as the best East African musician  just to speak of a few of the accolades that swaung his way at the awards .

This is just more than prove that we Africans are here to fly and that this Man Diamond,he is just starting!!!

What a good voice!

Diamond has a very good voice that captures even the inattentive person. Wah! he is really gifted. I believe he has not done some panel beating on the voice but he has it naturally from God.

Edwin Wachie 

Mariam Makeba Song: Mbube (Lion).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gMLCLSZ9w

I can't control myself when I hear this song.But I have nothing to do with Africa... Nor me not my ancestors...I'm going insane when I hear African songs - I start dancing even if I'm sitting in the office or lying in a bed.. I close my eyes and my body starts moving itself...  Am I crazy...? What is happening to me...?

 This are exact words of my British Friend who over heard me listen to this song in my car and he went crazy and openned up about what Makeba makes her feel whenever he wise mouth opens up.

Miriam Makeba, also known as "Mama Africa," was a popular South-African singer who introduced Xhosa and Zulu songs to Western audiences. She is best known for the songs "Pata Pata," "The Click Song" and "Malaika."

Miriam Makeba was born in South Africa in 1932. Her singing appearance in the documentary film Come Back, Africa (1959) attracted the interest of Harry Belafonte. With his help, Makeba settled in the United States, where she embarked on a successful singing and recording career. In 1965, she and Belafonte won a Grammy Award for best folk recording. She received renewed attention in the mid-1980s, after she met Paul Simon and joined Simon's history-making Graceland tour,her singing career rose up till she met her death in the year 2008.May God Rest Her Soul in Eternal Peace but her music never rests neverthless.

MAMA AFRICA

In 1962, Makeba performed at the birthday celebration of President John F. Kennedy. In 1965, she and Belafonte released the album An Evening with Belafonte & Makeba, which includes two duos by the musicians: "Train Song" and "Cannon." The album earned Makeba and Belafonte a Grammy Award for best folk recording in 1966.

Sorry for me going on and on about the life of this woman who i adore passionately though who activism but what i want you not to forget his her creativity to speak to you instead of her singing.
Her chosen genre  of afro lounge and soul music serenades her vocals well and drives all her music to desirability which is no wonder even the best movies around keep using her music to date.

The likes of Makeba are the reason why most of Africans can even dream of singing to be heard by other audiences leave alone the inspiration to talk about issues while entreratining.


  

  

We are Africa Rise-up. And we shall be taking you through African Music. Music in Africa, what African Music is, how, and what one feels when they listen to African Music, and finally the origin of African Music. Of-course, we are obliged to define our African Music is a whole. Firstly, Music is sounds put together in a progressive successive manner, and of-course in a sensible manner having its active listener enjoy, and have a preference to its major, and sub-genres.
African Music is Music made in Africa for Africans, and also for both the invited and uninvited ears .

We Are Africa!!!!

Take note that we shall expand on this 'shallow' definition of African Music by giving meaning to the African Music by the pictorials we shall post, and the well thought messages posted in text explaining what African Music is. We believe that African Music has been stereo-typed, by this we mean that some people think of African Music as what is nowadays, while some people think of African Music as what it used to be. Don't you think the best way to think of African Music as both what it was, and what it is right now, well change is hard to accept, but it is what it is, and one who prefers what African Music as what it was will tend to have interest in viewing African Communities perform their Music incorporated of course by their own distinctive dances. For example: the Maasai community based in Eastern Africa, specifically Kenya, and Tanzania who have fascinated many across the world as to how they perform their music with high jumping. 
                                                                                                              By Jean Pierre Fayemi  .

Didge Kita Ngoma

Leave alone the video quality because as you can imagine it is way way back when we were evolving into modern production.Right??Thank you.

Now i want you again not to ask me why the guy isn't so active anymore on the scene because i can only have one answer for you:His music was ahead of his time.
Soul music doesnt have a rich history in Africa leave alone Kenya.
Focus on the smooth rendition of Swahili and English in the first stanza and the beautiful guitar in the background.

Tell me which Kenyan Male artist can do this right now given that this guy did this even before i didn't know what a computer and a blog were really.

Didge: The Kenyan D'Angelo

If you focus on the genre again which is soul where i will get into a fight with many Kenyans for not giving it the stats it deserves this guy is the Raheem Devaughn or D'Angelo of Kenya.

Now lets even talk about his personality  when he worked for Easy Fm as the Love Doctor 'DI'...only ladies can testify...he can woo.This is what exactly he applies in his music and i have one thing for him...HE NEEDS TO COME BACK AGAIN.

A song that goes back to 1998 and still defies the gravity of music by standing afloat as one of the authnethic soul music of its time in Kenya gives you reason like a season to realize that Didge was one of the bases to a revolution that mirrors a reflection to the  wave of pure entertainment,originality and excellence in our music production.

 Because of the video  I give him 3.5 stars for this.

Elijah Charles Kiage.

Valerie Kimani Song: Village Girl Album:

Album:Baiskeli Year: 2008

This is arguably one of the best duet soul singles in kenya right now although not many have discovered it maybe because soul music has not taken much root in Kenya.

The 2007 Tusker Project Fame runners up  tells a beautiful story of how a lady from a village falls in love with a man from the city.

The humble village girl:Valerie Kimani

What you are going to love about this song is its relaxed nature of acostics and the relaxed way she presents her ideas.

The fact that she communicates with composure and projectivity towards creating effetct on the audience is what is going to take you by surprise.The guitar done well by Maurice just makes the whole song carry a feeling of love,sincerity and honesty making it the perfect love song .

 It is astonishing that after four years of the song staying on YouTube,she still has 14,000 views which i think is rather rude from her Kenyan fans because she has given it her all.

I give her three stars for this.The song is here

N.M.K

Wendy Kimani ft Bienaime(Sauti Sol) Haiwi Haiwi

They sing like they are having a brawl whilst communicating to you at the same time in a deep intimate African way

The song begins with the seductive voice of the African Prince   Bienaime of Sauti Soul and for a moment you imagine that it is the usual Sauti Soul music following.However as the chorus ends while still shaking to the beautiful slow rhythmic beats Wendy follows in to cut  Bienaime's  introduction like an African woman turning down a date from a perfect gentleman.the following lyrics will just take off with you.

Wacha Kucheza Hard To Get,Njoo Twende Date Ya Supaghetti,
Kwenye Corner Laico Regency,Uone Nyota Za Mapenzi
(Wendy Kimani)
Matamshi Yako Ya Kishenzi,Mimi Sili Supaghetti,

Nasiendi Laico Regency,Kimbelembele Ugali Mbichi,

Wendy Kimani ft Bienaime(Sauti Sol) Haiwi Haiwi

I have something with this song especially the way these two artists sync nicely like they were just meant to be .
The beautiful Swahili done in the bloking of this whole song is what makes the message of this poem come out clearly.
The video adds to the whole quality of rendition.It is not overdone,a simple modern African setting which gives a marvelous narration easy to understand and relate to with total ease irrespective.



What you will love about this song too is that while it has taken a modern perspective in production,it has captured the African setting  and issues well blended in modernity soul music with a carefully selected setting costume and character profile.It is just a masterpiece of African Soul.

I give it 4 stars ...in fact i put it together with the likes of Jill Scott and Sade who are the gurus of soul music.Here is the song


Elijah Charles Kiage