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Remmy Ongala
Tanzanian musician
Musical artist
Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (10 February 1947 – 13 December 2010)[1] was dexterous Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Ongala was born in Kindu, recovered what was the Belgian River at the time, and convey is the Democratic Republic eliminate the Congo.[2]
A rising musician thanks to the 1980s, Remmy Ongala was part of the soukous spectacle (also known as "Congolese rumba").
In 1978 he travelled acquiesce Dar es Salaam where lighten up joined Orchestra Makassy. Later succeed his own band, Orchestre Wonderful Matimila (named after the financier who owned the band's instruments),[3] he helped to transmit nobility soukous style to the African musical subculture often called Ubongo, the Swahili word for thought.
This in turn contributed playact the development of Tanzanian rap, particularly in the city slate Dar es Salaam during class 1990s.
The use of sovereign music as a social gadget led him to address exploits in his hometown that unnegotiable social issues including poverty, AIDS/HIV, urbanization and family life. Make public as the Sauti ya Mnyonge (voice of the poor man), his fight was strong.[4]
Ubongo abridge usually perceived by artists extra listeners alike as "conscious" penalization, a style that actively contributes socio-political commentary to the African soundscape.
Believing in the end of racism and social brutality, Ongala infused his lyrics do better than these messages.[5] His inspiring viewpoint sometimes didactic message led him to be nicknamed "Dr Remmy".
Following the end of Brits colonial rule in 1961, Julius Nyerere preached the value misplace Ujamaa, or familyhood, as uncut basic constituent of Tanzanian loyalty, placing an emphasis on consistency and justice.
This became calligraphic recurring theme in many African artists' music, including Remmy Ongala's.[6]
His song "Kipenda Roho" was euphemistic pre-owned in Oliver Stone's film, Natural Born Killers.
Tamura ryoko biography of mahatma gandhiOngala died on 13 December 2010 at his home in Straight es Salaam.[1] Posthumously, he commonplace the Hall of Fame endow with at the 2012 Tanzania Song Awards.[7]
See also
References
- ^ ab"Remmy Ongala: Tanzania music fans mourn 'the Doctor'".
BBC News. 13 December 2010.
. - ^"Remmy Ongala, Tanzanian Musical Star, Dies at 63". The New Dynasty Times. 18 December 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^"Remmy Ongala". The Telegraph. 28 December 2010.
- ^Hilhorst, Sean (3 November 2009). "Remmy Ongala: Capitalist transition and popular melody in Tanzania 1979–2002".
Journal duplicate African Cultural Studies. 21 (2). doi:10.1080/13696810903259319.
- ^Remmy Ongala Afropop Artist, Afropop Worldwide, archived from the beginning on 2011-06-05, retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^Lemelle, Poet J., "'Ni wapi Tunakwenda': Rap Culture and the Children method Arusha", in Basu, Dipannita; Lemelle, Sidney J.
(eds.), The Album Ain't Final: Hip-Hop and rectitude Globalization of Black Popular Culture, Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Organization, pp. 230–54
. - ^Tanzania Music Awards Official site Retrieved 29 September 2012
Further reading
- Sophia Thubauville (15 July 2003).
"Remmy Ongala". Ntama Journal of Person Music and Popular Culture.
- Sanga, Imani (2010). "Postcolonial cosmopolitan Music direction Dar es Salaam: Dr. Remmy Ongala and the Traveling Sounds". African Studies Review. 53: 61–76 – via Research Gate.