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96 relations: A Raisin in the Sun, Abbey Lincoln, Africa 100, African Waltz, Airto Moreira, Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, Amandla Festival, Apala, Artists and repertoire, At the Edge, Atlanta, Badagry, Bear Family Records, Bellaphon Records, Bill Lee (musician), Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Broadway theatre, Cannonball Adderley, Carlos Santana, Chesky Records, Colonial Nigeria, Coltrane (1962 album), Columbia Records, Diabetes mellitus, Dick Gregory, Djembe, Drums of Passion, Eddie Palmieri, EMI Records, Esalen Institute, Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project, Grammy Award, Grateful Dead, Halim El-Dabh, Harlem, Herbie Mann, Horace Silver, Jazz, Jin-go-lo-ba, Joan Baez, John Coltrane, John Hammond (producer), Kai Winding, Lagos State, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr., Max Roach, Mickey Hart, ..., Morehouse College, Morehouse College Glee Club, Muruga Booker, Mysterium Tremendum, Narada Productions, New York City, New York University, Nigeria, Nikita Khrushchev, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Paramount Records, Patti LaBelle, Planet Drum, Polyrhythm, Prague, Progressivism, Quincy Jones, Randy Weston, Reader's Digest, Richie Havens, Rotary International, Roulette Records, Rykodisc, Salinas, California, Santana (1969 album), She's Gotta Have It, Sikiru Adepoju, Silver 'n Percussion, Sony Music, Spike Lee, Starwood Festival, Stevie Wonder, Supralingua, Taj Mahal, Temple University, The Common Ground, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones, Tupac Shakur, Uhuru Afrika, Václav Havel, Virgin Records, We Insist!, World music, Yoruba people, Zakir Hussain (musician). Expand index (46 more) »
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959.
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Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.
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Africa 100
Africa 100 is collection of afrobeat songs compiled by Pitchfork Media writer Joe Tangari in 2005.
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African Waltz
African Waltz is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, released on the Riverside label and performed by Adderley with an orchestra conducted by Ernie Wilkins.
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Airto Moreira
Airto Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist.
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Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis
Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (born April 21, 1941) is an American saxophonist, composer and arranger.
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Amandla Festival
Amandla--Festival of Unity—was a world music festival held at in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1979.
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Apala
Apala (or Akpala) is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
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Artists and repertoire
Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.
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At the Edge
At the Edge is a percussion-based world music album by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Badagry
Badagry (traditionally Gbagle) is a coastal town and local government area (LGA) in Lagos State, Nigeria.
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Bear Family Records
Bear Family Records is a Germany-based independent record label that specializes in reissues of archival material ranging from country music to 1950s rock and roll to old German movie soundtracks.
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Bellaphon Records
Bellaphon Records is an independent German record label of Bellaphon records GmbH.
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Bill Lee (musician)
William James Edwards "Bill" Lee III (born July 23, 1928) is an American musician.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
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Bob Marley
Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.
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Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American jazz.
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Chesky Records
Chesky Records is a record company and label founded in 1986 by brothers David and Norman Chesky.
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Colonial Nigeria
Colonial Nigeria was the area of West Africa that later evolved into modern-day Nigeria, during the time of British rule in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Coltrane (1962 album)
Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, conspiracy theorist,, NPR, July 12, 2005.
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Djembe
A djembe or jembe (from Malinke jembe) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.
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Drums of Passion
Drums of Passion is an album released by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji in 1960.
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Eddie Palmieri
Eduardo "Eddie" Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is a Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry.
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EMI Records
EMI Records was a British record label founded by the music company of the same name in 1972 as its flagship label, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.
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Esalen Institute
The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education.
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Giovanni Hidalgo
Giovanni Hidalgo a.k.a. "Mañenguito" (born November 22, 1963) is a Latin jazz percussionist.
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Global Drum Project
Global Drum Project is an album by Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
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Halim El-Dabh
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades.
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music.
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Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jin-go-lo-ba
"Jin-go-lo-ba" (or "Jingo") is a song by Nigerian percussionist, Babatunde Olatunji, and was featured on his first album Drums of Passion (1959).
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.
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John Coltrane
John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.
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John Hammond (producer)
John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was an American record producer, civil rights activist, and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s.
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Kai Winding
Kai Chresten Winding (May 18, 1922May 6, 1983) was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer.
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Lagos State
Lagos, sometimes referred to as Lagos State to distinguish it from Lagos Metropolitan Area, is a state in the southwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.
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Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist.
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Morehouse College
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically Black college located in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Morehouse College Glee Club
The Morehouse College Glee Club, founded in 1911, is the official choral group of Morehouse College.
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Muruga Booker
Steven Bookvich known as Muruga Booker (born December 27, 1942) is an American drummer, composer, inventor, artist, recording artist, and a priest in the Celtic Orthodox Church.
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Mysterium Tremendum
Mysterium Tremendum is an album by the Mickey Hart Band, a musical group led by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.
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Narada Productions
Narada is a record label formed in 1983 as an independent new-age music label and distributed by MCA Records.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York.
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Paramount Records
Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
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Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards known professionally as Patti LaBelle, (born Patricia Louise Holt on May 24, 1944), is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur.
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Planet Drum
Planet Drum is a world music album by Mickey Hart, a musician and musicologist who was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead.
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Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
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Prague
Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.
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Progressivism
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.
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Randy Weston
Randy Weston (born April 6, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz pianist and composer of Jamaican parentage.
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Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.
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Richie Havens
Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Rotary International
Rotary International is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
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Roulette Records
Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore.
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Rykodisc
Rykodisc was an American record label.
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Salinas, California
Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California.
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Santana (1969 album)
Santana is the debut studio album by Latin rock band Santana released in 1969.
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She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black-and-white comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Spike Lee.
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Sikiru Adepoju
Sikiru Adepoju is a percussionist and recording artist from Nigeria, primarily in the genres of traditional African music and world music.
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Silver 'n Percussion
Silver 'n Percussion is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1977.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.
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Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.
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Starwood Festival
The Starwood Festival is a seven-day Neo-Pagan, New Age, multi-cultural and world music festival, taking place every July in the United States of America.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Supralingua
Supralingua is an album by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and his percussion ensemble Planet Drum.
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Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal (meaning "Crown of the Palace") is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.
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Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a state-related research university located in the Cecil B. Moore neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Common Ground
The Common Ground is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1960 for the Atlantic label.
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records.
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The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones
The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones is an album by American jazz trombonist Kai Winding featuring performances recorded in 1960 for the Impulse! label.
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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names Tupac, 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.
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Uhuru Afrika
Uhuru Afrika (subtitled/translated as Freedom Africa) is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Roulette label.
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Václav Havel
Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
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Virgin Records
Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.
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We Insist!
We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960.
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World music
World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.
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Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.
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Zakir Hussain (musician)
Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player in Hindustani classical music, musical producer, film actor and composer.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babatunde_Olatunji
