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African Pop
African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by African slaves. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of western music.
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Mory Kanté from Guinea is an acclaimed vocalist and player of the kora, a West African string instrument. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) musicians, Mandinka. Kanté became a member of the Rail Band, in which Mali superstar Salif Keïta was a singer. Mory ... read more
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