It may seem counter-intuitive, but the history of world music proves that unfamiliar instruments and rhythms cross borders much more readily than vocal styles. There's no question that, starting in ...
Audio for this feature is no longer available. In late April 2006, Tarek Captan — better known to those in Los Angeles' hip-hop underground as DJ Dusk — was struck and killed by a drunk driver. I ...
Though the recording scene in 1960s and '70s Benin rivaled that of neighboring Ghana and Nigeria, the European compilers who helped make Nigeria's Fela Kuti and Ghana's K. Frimpong (relative) ...
Today's Top Tune travels time and space as we feature African legend El Rego. Daptone Records has compiled some of his finest cuts from the 60's and early 70's and we're able to offer "E Nan Mian Nuku ...
La ministra de Juventud e Infancia, Sira Rego, prevé empezar a reubicar a los más de 5.000 niños y adolescentes que ahora se encuentran en Canarias en el mes de agosto, pese a las "resistencias", ha ...
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