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Music of Malawi

Index Music of Malawi

Music of Malawi has historically been influenced through its triple cultural heritage (British, African, American). [1]

49 relations: Africa, Alan Namoko, Banjo, Black Missionaries, Blk Sonshine, Brenda Fassie, Bucci, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Don Williams, Electric guitar, Erik Paliani, Evison Matafale, Funk, Guitar, Hastings Banda, Home Grown African, Jazz, Kwassa kwassa, Kwela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lake of Stars Festival, Lomwe language, Lucius Banda, Lucky Dube, Malawi, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, Mang'anja, New Scene, Nyasaland, Pope, Poverty, Rastafari, Ray Phiri, Real Elements, Reggae, Rock and roll, Shaggy (musician), Soukous, Soul music, South Africa, St Bosseratti, Tay Grin, The Very Best, Theo Thomson, Tony Bird (singer-songwriter), Tsar Leo, Wambali Mkandawire, World War II, Zomba Prison Project.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Alan Namoko

Alan Nomoko Namoko (1956-1995) was a blind blues and jazz musician from Malawi.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Black Missionaries

black missionaries are a popular reggae band from the Malawi.

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Blk Sonshine

Blk Sonshine is a jazz duo featuring Malawian-born Masauko Chipembere and the South African Neo Muyanga.

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Brenda Fassie

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004) was a South African anti-apartheid Afropop singer.

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Bucci

Bucci is an Italian surname.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Don Williams

Donald Ray Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Erik Paliani

Erik Paliani (born 6 September 1975) is a Malawian guitarist, producer, and songwriter.

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Evison Matafale

Evison Matafale (died 27 November 2001) was a Malawian Rastafarian whose music rose to popularity in Malawi.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hastings Banda

Hastings Kamuzu Banda (15 February 1898 – 25 November 1997) was the leader of Malawi from 1961 to 1994 (for the first three years of his rule, until it achieved independence in 1964, Malawi was the British protectorate of Nyasaland).

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Home Grown African

Home Grown African (sometimes HGA) is a Malawian hip hop duo based in Blantyre, Malawi.

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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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Kwassa kwassa

Kwassa kwassa (or kwasa kwasa) is a dance created by Jeannora who was a mechanic in Kinshasa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that started in the 1980s where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips.

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Kwela

Kwela is a pennywhistle-based street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings and a distinctive, skiffle-like beat.

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo are a South African male choral group singing in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.

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Lake of Stars Festival

Lake of Stars Festival is an annual three-day international festival held on the shores of Lake Malawi, the third largest lake in Africa.

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Lomwe language

The Lomwe (Lowe) language, Elomwe, also known as Western Makua, is the fourth-largest language in Mozambique.

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Lucius Banda

Lucius Chicco Banda (born 17 August 1970), better known by his stage name Soldier Lucius Banda, is a Malawian singer-songwriter and politician from Balaka, Malawi.

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Lucky Dube

Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh;, luckydubemusic.com, Retrieved 19 October 2007 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian.

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Malawi

Malawi (or; or maláwi), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

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Malawi Broadcasting Corporation

The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation is a state-run radio company in Malawi.

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Mang'anja

The Mang'anja are a Bantu people of central and southern Africa, particularly around Chikwawa in the Shire River valley of southern Malawi.

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New Scene

New Scene (Slovak: Nová scéna, abr. ND) is a theatre located in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

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Nyasaland

Nyasaland, or the Nyasaland Protectorate, was a British Protectorate located in Africa, which was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name.

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Pope

The pope (papa from πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin pontifex maximus "greatest priest"), is the Bishop of Rome and therefore ex officio the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Poverty

Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Ray Phiri

Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) was a South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician born in Mpumalanga to Thabethe Phiri, a Malawian immigrant worker, and South African guitarist nicknamed "Just Now" Phiri.

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Real Elements

The Real Elements (aka Real Elementz) is a Malawian hip-hop band that gained notoriety in the 1990s and 2000s in Malawi.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Shaggy (musician)

Orville Richard Burrell CD (born October 22, 1968), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican musician, singer, DJ, and former United States Marine.

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Soukous

Soukous (from French secouer, "to shake") is a popular genre of dance music from the Congo Basin.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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St Bosseratti

St Bosseratti aka Dingaani Whayo (born December 1, 1984), is a Malawian composer and record producer.

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Tay Grin

Limbani Kalilani (born June 15, 1984) is a Malawian hip hop artist better known by his stage name Tay Grin.

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The Very Best

The Very Best is a collaboration between London-based DJ/production duo Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya, a singer from Lilongwe, Malawi.

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Theo Thomson

Theo Thomson is a Malawian born singer, song writer.

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Tony Bird (singer-songwriter)

Tony Bird is a folk rock singer-songwriter who was born and grew up in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in Southern Africa.

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Tsar Leo

Leo Siwale (born 5 June 1995), known professionally by his stage name Tsar Leo, is a Malawian rapper, singer and songwriter.

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Wambali Mkandawire

Wambali Mkandawire is a Malawian jazz musician.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zomba Prison Project

Zomba Prison Project is a recording featuring music composed and performed by prisoners at the maximum-security Zomba Central Prison in Zomba, Malawi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Malawi

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