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Fatau Keita

Fatau Keita
Singer, Musician
Principal country concerned : Column : Music

Fatau Keita est un chanteur ghanéen né le 7 avril 1987.

"FATAU KEITA AND HIS MUSIC
Fatau Keita is what we call an "African Pop Musician" or even "African World Musician": an inheritor, creator and young exponent of a kind of West African popular music that transcends the conventional boundaries of popular music hitherto drawn, at least as far as the West of Africa is concerned. Fatau's music points us to alternative routes of musical inspiration and appropriation in Ghana to those of the exclusively Highlife, Afrobeat, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Hip Hop and Dancehall elements in popular music most musicians embrace. With very few exceptions, music-makers in Ghana have not been much attracted by the popular music of their Malian, Guinean and Senegalese "neighbors" but different with Fatau Keita. (...)" - Lire la suite sur http://www.fataukeita.com/bio.html

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