Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Africa" is a 1982 song recorded by French singer Rose Laurens. It was one of the singles from her first album Déraisonnable and was released in France at the end of 1982. A version with English lyrics, titled " Africa (Voodoo Master) ", was released worldwide in March 1983.
Steven Van Zandt was interested in writing a song about the Sun City resort, in the North West Province of South Africa, to make parallels with the plight of Native Americans. Danny Schechter , at the time a journalist with ABC News ' 20/20 , suggested that the song should be a different kind of " We Are the World ", or as Schechter explained ...
Africa falls open to the page from which the scrap was torn, but a lantern lands on it and sets it on fire, after which the librarian's eyeglasses are shown falling to the floor. The scenes are intercut with shots of a globe and the band performing atop a stack of giant hardcover books, in which Africa is the topmost. [26]
"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a song by Colombian singer Shakira, featuring the South African band Freshlyground. Co-written by Shakira and John Hill, it was released on 7 May 2010 by Epic Records as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Africa.
In 2001, the song was used for an advertisement for the United States Postal Service in the wake of the 2001 anthrax attacks. [16] In 2004, the song was twice featured in the film Little Black Book, [17] Simon herself also appeared at the end of the film. That same year, the song was ranked at No. 91 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. [18]
Almost exactly two years ago, I sat with Matt Lowell and Sam Stewart, Lo Moon’s vocalist/songwriter and guitarist, on the deck of the former’s home in Los Angeles to talk about their second ...
"Water" is a song by South African singer Tyla from her debut studio album, Tyla (2024). It was released on 28 July 2023 by Fax and Epic Records as the album's lead single. An amapiano song with elements of pop , R&B and Afrobeats , it sees Tyla expressing a desire for a passionate, intimate tryst.
Commonly, protest songs in South Korea are known as Minjung Gayo (Korean: 민중 가요, literally "People's song"), and the genre of protest songs is called "Norae Undong", translating to the literal meaning "song movement". [65] The starting point of Korean protest songs was the music culture of Korean students movements around 1970. [66]