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ALPHA BLONDY LIVE CHIEMSEE REGGAE SUMMER 2002 mp4 KINGSPLIFF
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Alpha Blondy (born 1 January, 1953) is a reggae singer and international recording artist. Alpha Blondy was born Seydou Koné in Dimbokro, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). He sings mainly in his native language of Dioula, in French and in English, and sometimes in Arabic or Hebrew. His lyrics convey serious political attitudes and a sense of humour. • • In 1973 Seydou moved to New York (also briefly Texas), where he studied English at Hunter College in New York, and later in the Columbia University American Language Program. He majored in English because he wanted to become an English teacher. He had to work part-time, and sometimes at night, and became ill. In New York he met Rastafarians for the first time, and was also able to see concerts by Jamaican artists such as Burning Spear. At this time he was recording Christian music but never stopped writing his own songs. Eventually he got into various scrapes in New York and returned to the Côte d'Ivoire, where he got into even more trouble until he met up with one of his childhood friends, Fulgence Kassi, who had become a noted television producer. This was the beginning of his real career as a singer, and he began to use the name Alpha Blondy . • After various TV shows for Kassi, Blondy recorded his first solo album in 1982, entitled Jah Glory. This album was to have enormous success and would become later a symbol of resistance because of the song Brigadier Sabari, where Alpha criticised the harassment by the police. Some of this was based on personal experience, as Alpha himself had seen police violence. Alpha Blondy became a big star in Abidjan with his own African twist of Reggae music, becoming in the eyes of his fans the Bob Marley of Africa . Alpha Blondy is spiritual, political and positive just like Marley himself, and even recorded a cover of Bob Marley's song War. And he doesn't stop progressing; in order to reach more people with his message, he chose to sing in many languages: English, French, Baoule, and his own native language -- Dioula. Later he also brought new instrumentation to his brand of reggae such as the violin and cello. Soon the fame of Alpha Blondy spread to Europe. Following the success of an EP entitled Rasta Poué he went to Paris in 1984 to make his second album, Cocody Rock, with the label Pathe Marconi. The Bob Marley of Africa travelled to the island of Jamaica and recorded the title track of this album with Marley's backing group, The Wailers. • Back home in 1985, Alpha went into the studio to record Apartheid is Nazism. This album was more politically committed than ever. It is a call for the end of Apartheid and the freedom for all. In 1986 Blondy recorded Jerusalem at the legendary Tuff Gong studios in Jamaica, again with The Wailers featuring Bob Marley's legendary Bass Aston Family Man Barrett. Blondy tried to promote unity between the religion of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. He drew his arguments and inspiration from his own diverse knowledge of the Bible, the Quran and the Torah. That same year, Blondy sang in Hebrew during a concert in Morocco. At this point he was touring continuously. His new album Revolution had a lighter, gentler sound; this was the album with cellos in the instrumentation, and the line-up included veteran Côte d'Ivoirian singer Aicha Kone. The album also included Jah Houphouët parle, a long speech by the Côte d'Ivoire president with only the most minimal beat behind it. • KINGSPLIFF - • http://tinyurl.com/7txchxl
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