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The music of New Caledonia is rooted in the Melanesian tradition. The Pacific Tempo is an important music festival, held every three years in [England]; the biennial equinox is also an important celebration. [1] Modern popular performers include OK!
In 1969/1970, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp recorded a number of local songs which were released on an LP in 1973, as a part of the UNESCO Musical Sources collection. One of the songs, a lullaby named "Rorogwela", sung by Afunakwa, a Northern Malaita woman, was used as a vocal sample in a 1992 single "Sweet Lullaby" by the French electronica duo Deep Forest, becoming a worldwide hit but also ...
For the anthem, a competition was held by the Government of New Caledonia in 2008. The winning entry was written in January 2008 by seven New Caledonian children between the ages of 10 and 13 from the children's choral group Mélodia. [2] [3] It was performed for the first time on 26 June 2008. [3]
The BBC recently announced a new documentary, The Making of Do They Know Its Christmas, which details how the song was recorded over the course of a single day at a studio in London. It will air ...
Little Big Town talks touring with Sugarland, why they honored Elvis on Christmas album "We've been singing Christmas music for a long time," Karen Fairchild, one of the group members, told ...
Ridge Manuka Maukava (born 2000 or 2001), known by his stage name Nuka, is a New Caledonian beat maker and record producer known for his song "Love Not War (The Tampa Beat)", a collaboration with American R&B singer Jason Derulo. [2] [1] Sony Music released the song on 20 November 2020 as a re-work of Nuka's 2018 composition "4 Brylean ...
1 January - New Year's Day; 21 April – Easter Monday; 1 May – Labour Day; 8 May – Victory Day; 29 May – Ascension Day; 9 June – Whit Monday; 14 July – Bastille Day; 15 August – Assumption Day; 24 September – French Treaty Day; 1 November – All Saints' Day; 11 November – Armistice Day; 25 December – Christmas Day; 31 ...
Island Christmas is the seventh studio and first Christmas album by ARIA Award winning, Torres Strait Islander singer Christine Anu. The album features The Voice season 2 finalist , Steve Clisby, actor and children’s entertainer, Jay Laga'aia and Anu's children Kuiam and Zipporah. [ 1 ]