ALBOROSIE - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"Reggae National Tickets was an Italian band playing reggae with some north-African influences.
BLICK BASSY - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"I'm from Cameroon, and rhythmically, Cameroonian and Brazilian music are quite similar.
MADERA LIMPIA - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"Guantanamo is a beautiful city and we really dislike the American presence in the area.
ROY PACI - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"In fact I started to play the piano even earlier; I think I must have been four or five years old.
ZULU 9.30 - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"I think that label was certainly applicable when we first started out, yes.
FIGLI DI MADRE IGNOTA - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"We started about fifteen years ago.
ZIGGI - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"Sint Eustatius is the second smallest island in the Dutch Antilles.
DENGUE FEVER - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009
"A few of us travelled to Cambodia a while ago and collected a bunch of tapes full of that music from the late sixties and early seventies you just mentioned, played by Cambodian musicians that were exposed to western psychedelic and garage rock.
OI VA VOI - FNAC BRUSSELS 06/2009
"Originally when we started off in 2000, we started learning quite a lot of klezmer tunes and gipsy music from Eastern Europe.
WARRIOR KING - SUN SPLASH JAMAICAN FESTIVAL 05/2009
"Ethiopia is the land where the Gods have to be.
NATTY KING - SUN SPLASH JAMAICAN FESTIVAL 05/2009
"Because Marcus Garvey once said: "A wise prophet will come from the East!" and since I am from the east of Jamaica the people started calling me "The Man From East".
JAMELODY - SUN SPLASH JAMAICAN FESTIVAL 05/2009
"Trinidad is just a place like anywhere else in the world, so apart from the big soca scene, we've also got hip hop artists and I came out of the R&B scene myself.
DUANE STEPHENSON - SUN SPLASH JAMAICAN FESTIVAL 05/2009
"To-Isis was a six member singing group that really evolved out of a young people's performing arts core called The Cathy Levy Players, which was basically almost like a school for teenagers providing courses in dance, theatre, music, choir singing and so on.
CARROLL THOMPSON - PETROL 05/2009
"Well, it wasn't consciously so, but at that time there was a lot of great American music coming into the United Kingdom and lovers rock gave female singers, who weren't really ready to do roots and culture, a way to express themselves.
THE VICEROYS (WESLEY TINGLIN) - CABARET SAUVAGE 04/2009
"Well, what happened is that in those early days nothing much was happening for Viceroys, so we decided a name change would maybe give our music the boost we needed, resulting in us performing as The Interns for a while."
LINVAL THOMPSON - CABARET SAUVAGE 04/2009
"Well, it's all a vibes thing, you know.
KIDDUS I - CABARET SAUVAGE 04/2009
"I was recording 'Graduation In Zion' in Harry J studio back in 1976, when Jack Ruby brought in Ted Bafaloukos.
EARL 'CHINNA' SMITH - CABARET SAUVAGE 04/2009
"Yeah man, I'm glad to see I&I seed is finally starting to blossom.
PABLO MOSES - VK 04/2009
"Yes, I recorded the first song there, 'I Man A Grasshopper'.
ORCHESTRA BAOBAB (BARTHELEMY ATTISSO) - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 03/2009
Barthélemy Attisso: "In Orchestra Baobab we were fortunate enough to have musicians from different nationalities in our ranks. That mix created a sort of pan-Africanism in the band enabling us to explore the entire African cultural patrimony, something we're still exploring today."