Author Topic: Rare musical gem from Togo  (Read 108 times)

Yovo

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Rare musical gem from Togo
« on: February 24, 2016, 04:54:00 pm »
Just came along this one. Roger Damawuzan, AKA "James Brown from Lomé" doing a cover of the Average White Band's Pick Up The Pieces. I know not everyone on this forum is partial to afrofunk, but I tend to like it, especially if it is well done, like this one.

http://blog.superflyrecords.com/track-of-the-day/do-you-know-my-name/

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tutulu

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Re: Rare musical gem from Togo
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2016, 05:51:10 pm »
I have a problem when people use terms like

"James Brown from Lome"....

Who is calling him that moniker? I can bet my life it is not Beninoise that are referring him to that.
I am certain that very few Beninoise know who James Brown was.
It would be ok for me if that is what Beninoise refer to him.

Secondly, why have I never heard a moniker like "Michael Jackson the Franco from US" "XYZ the Lucky Dube from London" etc?

Yovo

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Re: Rare musical gem from Togo
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2016, 02:03:30 pm »
I don't know who called him that.
But when you say "I am certain that very few Beninoise know who James Brown was" I think you are mistaken. Remember, we're talking about the 1970s. Many people in Africa knew about James Brown. It was Geraldo Pino who started singing James Brown influenced songs back in the late 60s and he was called the African James Brown
Beninois certainly knew who James Brown was, as per Vincent Ahehehinnou, singer and composer with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou:
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James Brown had an immense impact on the music of Benin. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo have done many tracks based on the influence we got from Brown... But in Fon. James Brown had more influence on our music than Fela. In the days there was no band from Benin who didn’t have something in their repertoire influenced by James Brown.