Chris DeShield Going for the Title
Chris DeShield is a talented singer who won the BET ‘Wild Out Wednesday‘ challenge in January this year. He is now pitting his singing talent against previous show winners to go for the ultimate Wild Out Wednesday talent. Jamati talked to him to find out what his life has been like since he won.
The Talented Ms. Lola Adesioye
Lola Adesioye is a well-published writer who focuses on issues that affect the black community in America. What people don’t know is that she is also a singer/songwriter who owns her own record label. » Read more…
Abbass Kubaff a.k.a. Doobeez
Abbas Kubaff aka Doobeez was born in Nairobi, Kenya in Eastleigh, a rough neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya. He grew up in Kariobangi, South (K-South) and showed an early interest in music. » Read more…
Kenna teams up with Zune to offer Custom Digital Media Player
Kenna has great crossover appeal and is now partnering with Zune to offer a custom digital media player. » Read more…
Suzzanna Lubrano - Cape Verde’s Love Songstress
Suzzana Lubrano is a great songstress with a soft melodic voice. A quick glance at her, and you would think you are looking at Jennifer Lopez. Her mixture of zouk and r&b blend together to give you a calm, soothing feeling. If you want to turn the heat up on a romantic night, put in one of her cds and it will create the mood! A very talented lady, she writes the songs in Cape Verde Creole (which is close to Portuguese), English, and Dutch. » Read more…
Songbird Uru Makes Sweet Music and Gives Back
Uru, short for Uruaku is one bad mama jama! This Nigerian beauty’s lyrics sneak up on you and deliver message after message in a sweet yet profound way. Her song, “Wrap Up” is catchy but carries a strong message about protecting yourself from HIV. This self determined African superwoman told us all about how she got started in music, her hidden talents, and what she is looking for in that perfect man. » Read more…
Chris DeShield - Poised to take BET’s 106 & Park by Storm
Chris DeShield is a mild mannered man with a disarming sense of humor. Born to Liberian parents in a musically inclined family (his brother, Cyrus DeShield, sings with Metro City), Chris DeShield can play the piano and always knew he wanted to be a singer. This multitalented singer has penned songs for Jennifer Hudson and written with Mario. He has opened up for Snoop Dog, B2K, MC Lyte, and Jesse Powell, to name a few, and has even had a cameo as the boyfriend of the woman that played Eddie Murphy’s wife in the movie, ‘Dreamgirls‘. » Read more…
KenO brings R&B Smoothness
Who is KenO? Who does he sound like? John Legend? Keith Sweat? Or maybe Ne-Yo? It is hard to put a finger on KenO’s sound. And this, readers, is how you know talent. In this day and age of digitized voices, it’s refreshing to hear (and meet) an artist with a unique sound. » Read more…
Tcheka-Cape Verde’s Batuku Ambassador
Tcheka, born Manuel Lopes Andrade, was born in Santiago, Cape Verde. He plays traditional percussive guitar and weaves the batuku style (a style traditional to Cape Verde that was banned by the Portuguese, but continued by the women in the fields as they worked. Batuku is performed with a group of people, mostly women, formed into a circle beating a tchabeta, a percussive instrument traditionally made of tightly rolled panos, a cloth woven in rural Santiago which nowadays have been replaced with plastic bags, which is placed in between the thighs and beat with the hands. On the inside of the circle is a narrator who places a pano around the waist and dances the torno to the rhythm while improvising verses, calling to the circle members who respond while maintaining the poly-rhythmic beat of the tchabetas.) Tcheka grew up performing with his father before launching out on his own at the age of 15 and developing his unique style. » Read more…
Assane Ndiaye Rocks the House in Washington DC
Roxana Bangura had an opportunity to speak to Senegal’s singing sensation Assane N’diaye during his US tour. » Read more…
Yunasi - Afro-Fusion Band with an emphasis on African
Yunasi is a 8-person band (7 Kenyans and 1 lady from France) that plays a wonderful eclectic mix of what they term as Afro-Fusion. They use traditional instruments and mix English, French, Luo, Kiswahili, and Luhyia languages into a pleasant mix of great music. They have developed a style that they call Sesube, a mixture of séga, isuga and isukuti.
The band feels that music can be used to enhance social responsibility and work in the slums of Mathare, in Nairobi, Kenya, to show youth how they can use music and sport to escape the grip of poverty. In an inimitable style, they show how innovative the East African music scene is and try to draw attention to the wonderful musical talent that resides on the eastern part of the African continent. » Read more…
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