This event is fitting for an album of Touch My Blood's stature—one of the most anticipated albums of the year in South African music , not just hip-hop .
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'Touch My Blood' Is AKA's Most Layered Album
This event is fitting for an album of Touch My Blood's stature—one of the most anticipated albums of the year in South African music , not just hip-hop .
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'Touch My Blood' Is AKA's Most Layered Album
Most often, Mr. Albarn's music has been a counterpoint to the rest of … On “The Now Now,” Snoop Dogg and Jamie Principle rap about temptation and …
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Behind the Cartoon Gorillaz, Damon Albarn Is a Man Alone
Johannesburg – 90's R&B groups TLC, SWV and Dru Hill are said to be coming to South Africa in September for their 90's themed inaugural Soul Fest …
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TLC, SWV and Dru Hill to perform in Mzansi
… guitar to the mix, and “Done for Me,” where Puth and his falsetto ride a throwback R&B groove until the great Kehlani drops in to shake things up.
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Charlie Puth masterfully blends old, new
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — We’ve heard a lot about refugees recently. But we haven’t heard much from them. Unless you listen to the Refugee Orchestra. Lidiya Yonkovskaya, a refugee, originally from the former Soviet Union, put the ensemble together last year. “When the refugees crisis hit, many people in my own work and life did not recognize that I came here as a refugee,” she says. Lidiya is a professional orchestral conductor. She thought putting together musicians from around the world, now refugees in the United States, could show that they had a lot to offer. Zhanna Alhakzova is a soprano and a refugee also from the Soviet Union. “I thought it was just very important to showcase just how many refugees there are living among us, working among us, and are sharing the same goals that we are,” she says. It was the Syrian crisis that moved Lidiya to action. So she was thrilled that at one of their first shows in Brooklyn, Lubana a-Quintar, Syria’s greatest opera singer, now a refugee in the US, performed. It was a very moving experience. “I hope that the people who come to our concerts have the opportunity to see the beautiful music these refugees are making and understand that all of us are here to contribute to American culture, to American society,” she says. She certainly found a sound way to get her point across.

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‘Sweet Spot’ With Mike Sugerman: Refugees Find Their Voices Through Orchestra