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Rakoto Frah

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Philibert Rabezoza (1923 – 29 September 2001), better known by the name Rakoto Frah, was a flautist and composer of traditional music of the central highlands of Madagascar. [1]

45 relations: Antananarivo, Ben Mandelson, Billy Pigg, Borneo, Central Highlands (Madagascar), Charles de Gaulle, Circumcision, David Lindley (musician), Didier Ratsiraka, Erick Manana, Famadihana, Feo-Gasy, Fianarantsoa, Flute, French Madagascar, Henry Kaiser (musician), Hiragasy, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull (band), John Coltrane, Kassav', Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lamba (garment), List of Presidents of Madagascar, Madagascar, Madagascar national rugby union team, Mahajanga, Mahaleo, Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Malagasy ariary, Malagasy cuisine, Malagasy franc, Malagasy people, Manu Dibango, Merina people, Miles Davis, Moramanga, Music of Madagascar, Ogg, Ornette Coleman, Philibert Tsiranana, Prime Minister of Madagascar, Rova of Antananarivo, Sodina, Toamasina.

Antananarivo

Antananarivo (French: Tananarive), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar.

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Ben Mandelson

Ben Mandelson (born 6 October 1953, Everton, Liverpool, England) is an English world musician, and also manager and producer.

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Billy Pigg

Billy Pigg (1902–1968) was an English player of Northumbrian smallpipes.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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Central Highlands (Madagascar)

The Central Highlands, Central High Plateau, or Hauts-Plateaux are a mountainous biogeographical region in central Madagascar.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France.

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Circumcision

Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis.

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David Lindley (musician)

David Perry Lindley (born March 21, 1944) is an American musician who founded the band El Rayo-X, and who has worked with many other performers including Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton.

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Didier Ratsiraka

Vice Admiral Didier Ratsiraka (born 4 November 1936) is a Malagasy politician who was President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002.

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Erick Manana

Erick Manana is an acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter from Madagascar.

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Famadihana

Famadihana is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar.

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Feo-Gasy

Feo-Gasy is a band from Madagascar that perform a traditional ba-gasy music of the Merina people of the rural central highlands around the capital city of Antananarivo.

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Fianarantsoa

Fianarantsoa is a city (commune urbaine) in south central Madagascar, and is the capital of Haute Matsiatra Region.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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French Madagascar

The Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies (Colonie de Madagascar et dépendances) was a French colony off the coast of Southeast Africa between 1897 and 1958.

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Henry Kaiser (musician)

Henry Kaiser (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer.

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Hiragasy

The hiragasy (hira: song; gasy: Malagasy) is a musical tradition in Madagascar and particularly among the Merina ethnic group of the Highland regions around the capital of Antananarivo.

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Ian Anderson

Ian Scott Anderson (born 10 August 1947) is a British musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Kassav'

Kassav' is a Caribbean band formed in Guadeloupe in 1979.

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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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Lamba (garment)

A lamba is the traditional garment worn by men and women that live in Madagascar.

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List of Presidents of Madagascar

This is a list of Presidents of Madagascar, since the establishment of the office of President in 1959, during the Malagasy Republic.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Madagascar national rugby union team

The Madagascar national rugby union team represents Madagascar in the sport of rugby union.

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Mahajanga

Mahajanga (French: Majunga) is a city and an administrative district on the northwest coast of Madagascar.

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Mahaleo

Mahaleo is a folk-pop band from Madagascar that is widely viewed as the most popular Malagasy group of all time.

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Mahamasina Municipal Stadium

Stade Municipal de Mahamasina is a rugby union and football (multi-purpose) stadium, also used for concerts and athletics, in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

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Malagasy ariary

The ariary (sign: Ar; ISO 4217 code MGA) is the currency of Madagascar.

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Malagasy cuisine

Malagasy cuisine encompasses the many diverse culinary traditions of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar.

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Malagasy franc

The franc (French: franc malgache, ISO 4217 code MGF) was the currency of Madagascar until January 1, 2005.

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Malagasy people

The Malagasy (Malgache) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the island and country of Madagascar.

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Manu Dibango

Emmanuel N'Djoké Dibango (born 12 December 1933) is a Cameroonian musician and song-writer who plays saxophone and vibraphone.

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Merina people

The Merina people, also known as the Imerina, Antimerina or Hova, are the largest ethnic group in Madagascar.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Moramanga

Moramanga is a city (commune urbaine) in Madagascar.

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Music of Madagascar

The highly diverse and distinctive music of Madagascar has been shaped by the musical traditions of Southeast Asia, Africa, Arabia, England, France and the United States as successive waves of settlers have made the island their home.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Philibert Tsiranana

Philibert Tsiranana (18 October 1912 – 16 April 1978) was a Malagasy politician and leader, who served as the first President of Madagascar from 1959 to 1972.

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Prime Minister of Madagascar

This is a list of Prime Ministers of Madagascar, since the establishment of the office of Chief Minister in 1828, during the Merina Kingdom.

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Rova of Antananarivo

The Rova of Antananarivo (Rovan'i Manjakamiadana) is a royal palace complex (rova) in Madagascar that served as the home of the sovereigns of the Kingdom of Imerina in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as of the rulers of the Kingdom of Madagascar in the 19th century.

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Sodina

A Sodina is a woodwind instrument commonly played in Malagasy music and a member of the aerophone family of instruments.

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Toamasina

Toamasina, meaning "like salt" or "salty", unofficially and in French also Tamatave, is the capital of the Atsinanana region on the east coast of Madagascar on the Indian Ocean.

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References

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

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