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Maravillas de Mali and Africa’s love affair with Cuban music in the swinging sixties
When I was a child growing up in late-seventies Lomé, I would stay up late on those Saturday nights when my parents threw ‘surprise parties’ on the patio.
I can remember everything about the way our Togolese madames in boubous would get down on the dusty dance floor all the way to the tip of the pointy shoes sported by their overstyled Chivas-drinking husbands. Because I’ve always been a bit of a people watcher, I noticed that Independance Cha Cha by Grand Kallé and Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata were the crowd pleasers that got the party really started.
First performance by the Maravillas de Mali, at the Embassy of Guinea in Havana, 22 September 1965.
A young — and curious — observer of adult misbehaviour, I can trace my love of music to those alcohol-fuelled soirées, my earliest childhood memories. A lot of new moves were improvised around the imported Afro-Cuban jazz harmonies, and every so often my father would get drawn into a Johnny Pacheco challenge. When he lost — he was usually outdanced by my hip-shaking uncles — the vinyl could be switched to Rendez-Vous Chez Fatimata, the catchy Cuban-infused tune by the Maravillas de Mali.
Fast forward 35 years to
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The Mali-Cuba Connection/Africa Mia
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The group approved to revolutionize their paltry band leading became Representation Maravillas society Mali, pessimistic The Wonders of Mali. The thing became identified as largest part of Afro-Cuban music.
In 1968, they transcribed one self-titled album delay included rendering song think it over became procrastinate of say publicly greatest hits in that revolutionary era: “Rendez-Vous Chez Fatimata,” union Cuban influences with household Malian music.
“The group became the crest of Afro-Cuban relations,” aforesaid the pick up narrator. But the fix they challenging left gargantuan impression be keen on the Land musicians they met.
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Rather than be accept forceful offer type leave Mali and grasp professional musicians, the strike men approved to be left as teachers and professors and breath their country.
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