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Takamba is a music and dance native to the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger and Mali. It is both a musical composition and a dance. The musicians play a traditional instrument known as the Kurbu or Tehardent and a traditional African Calabash. The Takamba dance includes graceful and rhythmic movements performed both seated and standing where ...
Specialist in All Styles is an album by the Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab, released in 2002. [3] [4] After the success of the Pirates Choice reissue, the band decided to record a reunion album. [5] It was Orchestra Baobab's first album in 15 years. [6] The album title was taken from a sign hanging outside a barbershop. [7]
" La Nigérienne" (French pronunciation: [la ni.ʒe.ʁjɛn]; "The Nigerien") is the former national anthem of Niger. The lyrics are by Maurice Albert Thiriet; Robert Jacquet and Nicolas Abel François Frionnet wrote the music. It was adopted as Niger's anthem in 1961 and relinquished in 2023.
The music of Niger has developed from the musical traditions of a mix of ethnic groups; Hausa, the Zarma-Songhai, Tuareg, Fula, Kanuri, Toubou, Diffa Arabs and Gurma and the Boudouma from Lac Chad. Most traditions existed quite independently in French West Africa but have begun to form a mixture of styles since the 1960s.
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Seck contributed "Laye M'Boup," a tribute to the late Orchestre Baobab leader, to The Music in My Head soundtrack. [4] He also wrote "Entends-tu le monde?" which was the lead single from Australian singer Tina Arena's seventh studio album 7 vies. [5] Seck was arrested in May 2015, after €50 million in counterfeit money was discovered in his ...
"Gwagwalada" is a song by Nigerian singers Bnxn, Kizz Daniel, and Seyi Vibez. It was released on 16 February 2023, through TYE and Empire Distribution, and was produced by Sarz. [3] Released as the second single off Bnxn's debut album Sincerely, Benson (2023), "Gwagwalada" was included on OkayAfrica's list of "the Best Afrobeats Songs of 2023". [4]
The footage was also recorded for a documentary, Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion. [9] While Bombino lived in exile in Burkina Faso, filmmaker Ron Wyman, having heard cassette recordings of his music, tracked him down and encouraged Bombino to properly record his music. Bombino agreed, and the two of them, with the help of Chris Decato ...