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The Rough Guide To Urban MaliIt was at the end of the 1990s that the first Malian rap groups appeared on the scene. Influenced by American and French hip hop artists as well as the rise of electronic music, rap fast became a musical medium by which the youth could voice their dissatisfaction with the political classes. It was also around this time that the arrival of the compact disc in Mali meant that bootlegged CDs began to supercede the cassette which had long been the main

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as jazz and R&B stylings fuse seamlessly with her classical piano training to create a style that is richly and uniquely Nina Simone

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musicians that still have living relatives who remember the old ways while themselves being irreversibly part of the new

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it has helped shape many of Africa’s much-loved musical styles such as Congolese soukous

Ray Charles Robinson was born into acute poverty in rural Georgia in 1930 and had a tragic upbringing

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were figureheads of the epochal 1960-1970s Cambodian music scene which reinvented American rock and roll in a way wonderfully its own

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