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" Wimbo wa Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki" or "Jumuiya Yetu" (English: "East African Community anthem") is the official anthem of the East African Community. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Swahili language hymn. Etymology
Expensive Shit is the twelfth full-length album by pioneering Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti and his Africa '70 band, released in 1975. It was reissued in 2000 by MCA Records , packaged with Kuti's He Miss Road (1975) on the same CD.
Confusion is a one-song album with a duration of 25 minutes and 36 seconds. [5] The album's first side is entirely instrumental. [6] It begins with a free-form introduction, which musically depicts the disorienting impact of Lagos' problems, according to music scholar Frank Thurmond Fairfax. [7]
East African urban music is a popular music genre of the three countries customarily grouped as "East Africa": Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The genre is basically an offshoot of western popular music, particularly hip hop and funk, somewhat influenced by more traditional African music. Kapuka, genge, and bongo flava are some of the subgenres ...
Malaika Nakupenda Malaika is a Swahili song written by Tanzanian artist, Adam Salim in 1945 and recorded for the first time by Kenyan musician, Fadhili William.This song is possibly the most famous of all Swahili love songs in Tanzania, Kenya and the entire East Africa, as well as being one of the most widely known of all Swahili songs in the world.
"Johannesburg" is a song by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, with music provided by the Midnight Band. It is the first track on Scott-Heron and Jackson's collaborative album From South Africa to South Carolina, released in November 1975 through Arista Records.
US Billboard 1975 #1, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 22 total weeks, 212 points, Top Country Singles 1975 #1, Country Singles #1 for 3 weeks, 21 total weeks, 196 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1975 #5, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 168 points 2: The Elton John Band "Philadelphia Freedom" MCA 40364: August 1974: February ...
Amanaz was a Zamrock band founded in 1973 in Kitwe, Zambia. [1] The group released their only album, the acclaimed Africa, in 1975.Amanaz drew influences from American and British rock of the late 1960s–early 1970s, especially the music of Jimi Hendrix, and from traditional Zambian music, identifiable in Watson Lungu's drumming and Keith Kabwe's vocals.