 Artist: Alpha Flight: mp3 download Genre(s): Electronic Discography:  Ring Of Worlds Year: 1994 Tracks: 10 Hailing from the Cote d'Ivoire, Alpha Blondy is among the world's near democratic reggae artists. With his 12-piece band Solar System, Blondy offers a reggae outsmart with a distinctive African cast. Calling himself an African Rasta, Blondy creates Jah-centered anthems promoting morality, love, peacefulness and social consciousness. With a range that moves from sensitivity to passion over unjustness, much of Blondy's music empathizes with the poverty-stricken and those on society's fringe. Blondy is as well a halt helper of African unity and to this end, he sings to Moslem audiencess in Hebrew and sings in Arabic to Israelis. Some of his charles Herbert Best known songs include "Cocody Rock," "Capital of Israel" and "Apartheid Is Nazism." He was innate a member of the Jula tribe in Dimbokoro and named Seydou Kone after his grandfather. His granny Cherie Coco elevated him. He was always a malcontent kid and for this, Coco named him "Blondy," her unique pronunciation of the word "bandit." When he started performing professionally, he took on the name Alpha (the low letter in the Greek first principle) so his name literally translates to "first brigand." Though he grew up listenting to African folkloric music such as yagba and gumbe, his chief musical influences were such Western bands as Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and soulfulness artists wish Otis Redding. Later Bob Marley's music hugely unnatural Blondy. Though he wanted to become a musician, his kinsperson expected him to become a respectable English teacher. He studied English at Hunter College in New York, and later in the Columbia Univeristy American Language Program. Outside of class, he would play music in Central Park and in Harlem clubs where once in a while theater bands would let him sing his Bob Marley covers in French, English, and various West African languages. One night, record producer Clive Hunt heard Blondy sing and invited him to record six songs. Unfortunately, Hunt absconded with the tape. Shortly later on, he returned to the Ivory Coast where he was arrested for baleful the ambassador at the New York Ivorian embassy because the diplomat felt that Blondy's English was excessively estimable for him to be an Ivorian native. While at the police post, Blondy's chasten again flared and he slapped a officer (later on the pick up slapped him first-class honours degree). He exhausted a week in pokey and and then stayed concisely at th Bingerville Asylum in Abidjan, where he was declared reasonably sane and released. Soon subsequently, he began honing his songwriting and acting skills. Later, he dedicated an album to the patients of Bingerville. Blondy got his adult break from friend, Fulgence Kass, an employee of Ivory Coast Television world Health Organization helped him earth a dapple on the Premiere Chance endowment show. Singing ternion of his possess tunes asset Burning Spear's "Christopher Columbus," the young artist was a hit with the audience. Blondy then aquiline up with producer G. Benson world Health Organization recorded his eight-song debut record album Jah Love in a single daylight. The most popular song, "Brigadier general Sabari," was an score of Blondy's quarrel with an Abidjan police street raid in which he was well-nigh beaten to destruction. It was the first time a West African artist had dared to mention random law barbarism in public. After cathartic the album, he and the fresh formed Solar System ring gestural to EMI. They recorded his moment album Cocody Rock in Paris in 1984. Later he returned to Tuff Gong to record his third album Capital of Israel (1986). By the acquittance of his 1987 album Revolution, Blondy had established himself as an outside artist. Three old age before he had been voted the number ane artist by a Radio France international poll. His popularity continues to grow, and he continues steadily releasing albums. His 1992 album Masada was released in over 50 countries about the world and went hortensia in France. Yitzhak Rabin followed in 1998; Paris Percy appeared in spring 2001. Although it was recorded in 1999, the album Elohim appeared in 2002 in Europe and ternion eld by and by in America. The career-spanning Akwaba: The Very Best of Alpha Blondy was besides released in 2005. |
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