Showing posts with label Guinee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guinee. Show all posts
28 October, 2015
04 August, 2008
Elie Kamano feat. Les Espoirs de Coronthie: Dounya
Today I want to show you a clip of a great song from Guinea. It is a song by Elie Kamano, a rapper/ hip hop and reggae star from this West African country, featuring a prominent band of a musical genre which has become very popular in the last years, a genre that could be called « musique tradi-moderne ». The song is called Dounya and is about the fact that life is not smiling to everyone. For me, it is a song I can listen to several time after each other, with this intriguing rhythm led by the gongoma thumb piano, and with these great vocals. Just give it a few listens:
direct URL http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0xZhqskrg&feature=related
On the above picture you see Elie Kamano (or Eli) in the center next to two singers from Les Espoirs de Coronthie.
direct URL http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0xZhqskrg&feature=related
On the above picture you see Elie Kamano (or Eli) in the center next to two singers from Les Espoirs de Coronthie.
I will tell you more about both Kamano and Les Espoirs soon.
17 February, 2008
R.I.P. Hamid Chanana
Dangerous traffic conditions in Africa or more specifically in Guinea was never meant to be a Leitmotiv of this blog although it currently looks like it is...
Already on December 23, 2007, Guinean hip hop artist Hamid Chanana (his real name being Hamidou Camara) crossed the road in his Kipé neighborhood of Conakry during the night, when he was hit by a taxi. He was brought to hospital in a coma, he woke up but died shortly after due to several injuries. Hamid, born in Kènèma in Sierra Leone on March 8, 1973, has lived for years in Sierra Leone and Liberia but returned to Guinea in 1986.
He released three cassette over the years,« Sewa » (1997), « Mano River Union » (2001) and « S.O.S. Amour » in 2004.
Already on December 23, 2007, Guinean hip hop artist Hamid Chanana (his real name being Hamidou Camara) crossed the road in his Kipé neighborhood of Conakry during the night, when he was hit by a taxi. He was brought to hospital in a coma, he woke up but died shortly after due to several injuries. Hamid, born in Kènèma in Sierra Leone on March 8, 1973, has lived for years in Sierra Leone and Liberia but returned to Guinea in 1986.
He released three cassette over the years,
25 November, 2007
Joe Dioubaté, part 2
Things moved fast for Joe Dioubaté, and maybe a bit too fast.
On November 11, there was the 6th edition of the Guinean Hip Hop Golden Cassette Award (The Guinean phonographic market is still dominated by the good old cassette). The Golden Cassette was granted to a group named Sèmbèdèkè for their album Tétra. But Joe Dioubaté received two prices, one for Best Singer and one for Best Solo Album. With a few friends he celebrated this good news in a local boîte de nuit. When they returned late that night, a car collided with theirs, and drove off after the accident! Joe was wounded and brought in hospital, but was released a few days later, and returned to hospital the next weekend for internal bleedings. He fought for his life, but seems to be recovering now.
Yet an example that good news and bad news can follow each other very quickly. Also an example of the dangerous traffic conditions in Africa.
On November 11, there was the 6th edition of the Guinean Hip Hop Golden Cassette Award (The Guinean phonographic market is still dominated by the good old cassette). The Golden Cassette was granted to a group named Sèmbèdèkè for their album Tétra. But Joe Dioubaté received two prices, one for Best Singer and one for Best Solo Album. With a few friends he celebrated this good news in a local boîte de nuit. When they returned late that night, a car collided with theirs, and drove off after the accident! Joe was wounded and brought in hospital, but was released a few days later, and returned to hospital the next weekend for internal bleedings. He fought for his life, but seems to be recovering now.
Yet an example that good news and bad news can follow each other very quickly. Also an example of the dangerous traffic conditions in Africa.
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