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Muziki wa dansi (in Swahili: "dance music"), or simply dansi, is a Tanzanian music genre, derivative of Congolese soukous and Congolese rumba.It is sometimes called Swahili jazz because most dansi lyrics are in Swahili, and "jazz" is an umbrella term used in Central and Eastern Africa to refer to soukous, highlife, and other dance music and big band genres.
Dance band can refer to: British dance band, a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s. Big band, a genre associated with the Swing Era. Dansband, a type of band playing partner dance music. Eurodance band, a genre of electronic dance music. Dance Band, a 1935 ...
The March Violets are an English post-punk / gothic rock [ 1] band formed in 1981 in Leeds, incorporating male & female singers, drum machine rhythms and echo-laden electric guitar, much in the style of fellow Leeds band the Sisters of Mercy. Seven March Violets singles reached the UK Indie Chart; the Natural History collection also was an ...
Mbalax (or mbalakh) is the urban dance music of Senegal and the Gambia.The musical style is rooted in the indigenous instrumental and vocal styles accompanied by polyrhythmic sabar drumming of the Wolof, a social identity that includes both the original Wolof people of the Greater Senegambia region and the urban panethnic identity that arose during colonialism.
Kpanlogo music uses three types of instruments: nono (metal bell), fao (gourd rattle), and kpanlogo drums. Nono plays the key pattern or timeline of the music, supported by the fao. It is common to have three kpanlogo drums in an ensemble, in the roles of "male voice", "female voice" and "master drum". Main kpanlogo bell pattern.
Samba Mapangala. Samba Mapangala is a Congolese singer and bandleader who has been based in Kenya for most of his five-decade musical career, most notably there creating and leading Virunga, which has been one of the most popular bands in East Africa for more than 35 years. He was born in Matadi in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
These are The Official UK Charts Company UK Dance Chart number one hits of 1999. [1] The dates listed in the menus below represent the Saturday after the Sunday the chart was announced, as per the way the dates are given in chart publications such as the ones produced by Billboard, Guinness, and Virgin.
Nana Kwame Ampadu (31 March 1945 – 28 September 2021) was a Ghanaian musician and composer credited with numerous popular highlife tracks and he is known to have composed over 800 songs. [ 1][ 2] He was also known as Adwomtofo Nyinaa hempɔn. [ 3] Ampadu was the lead singer, chief songwriter, and founder of the "African Brothers Band".