Global A Go-Go presents:
Guitar boy and mami wata
(Sir Victor Uwaifo’s sculpture self-portrait in his living room, photograph by Morgan Greenstreet)
Sir Victor Uwaifo, one of the great artists and characters of African music, passed away on August 28 at the age of 80.
Uwaifo’s “Joromi” became Africa’s first gold record in 1969; he went on to revolutionize highlife music, build a hotel and an entire music industry in his hometown of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, and in his spare time earn his PhD in Architectural Sculpture and turn his home into the Revelation Tourist Palazzo. We’ll celebrate the amazing, colorful life of Sir Victor Uwaifo on this week’s edition of Global A Go-Go with an assortment of his tracks and one very special Sir Victor sample.
Also this week (Sunday September 5, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards on the wrir.org archive player, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): new music for the kora, hard rock from Algeria, reggae en francais, Congolese soukous to warm you up for the USA premiere of The Rumba Kings (Saturday September 11 at the Byrd Theater as part of the Richmond International Film Festival), and some Chicano soul from the American southwest.
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Show Archive
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes, “Joromi”
from 51 Lex Presents Big Sound - EP 2
51 Lex (PR) Records Ltd - 1966
Nigeria
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The Very Best, “Warm Heart of Africa”
from Warm Heart of Africa
Moshi Moshi - 2009
France-Sweden-Malawi-USA
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Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Titibitis Of Africa, “Iranm Iran”
from Edo Funk Explosion Vol. 1
Analog Africa - 1980
Nigeria
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Hamdi Benani, Mehdi Haddab & Speed Caravan, “Jani Ma Jani”
from Nuba Nova
Buda musique - 2021
Algeria-France
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Tiken Jah Fakoly, “Plus Rien Ne M'Etonne”
from Coup de gueule
Universal Music Division Barclay - 2004
Cote D'Ivoire
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Le T.P. OK Jazz & Franco, “Tokoma ba camarade pamba”
from Francophonic, Vol. 2
Editions Populaires - 1980
RD Congo
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Freddy Fender, “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights”
from Wasted Days And Wasted Nights - Single
Imperial - 1959
USA
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Adrian Quesada, “Look At My Soul (feat Black Pumas & Kam Franklin)”
from Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul
Nacional - 2018
USA
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Adrian Quesada, “Boogaloo En Monterrey (feat Ruben Ramos & Charlie Sexton)”
from Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul
Nacional - 2018
USA
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Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go September 5th, 2021
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