Musicians

K’naan whose real name is Keinan Abdi Warsame was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in the year 1978. He moved to Canada at the age of 12 as a refugee where he managed to stabilize his career in poetry and music. K’naan specializes in rapping, poetry, songwriting, singing and instrumentalism. All of K’naan’s songs target the…

Introduction Creators of Gorillaz, musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, began working on a new Gorillaz project in November 2007 called Carousel,[1] which evolved into Plastic Beach, the group’s third studio album.[2] In the November 2007 issue of Q, when asked what his top priority for 2008 was, Damon Albarn replied “Well, I’m doing…

Introduction The song was released in 2017 January and has earned itself a worldwide recognition, hitting an astounding eight hundred and seventy one million, eight hundred and eighty seven thousand,  seven hundred and seventy two views on YouTube. The song is one of the two lead singles, along with “Castle on the Hill” from the…

Introduction Ray Charles has been described by many of his contemporaries, Such as Frank Sinatra, who said, “Ray Charles is the only genius in the business.” I am going to discuss to what extent Ray Charles contributed to popular music. Ray grew up alongside both gospel and country music and was heavily influenced by these…

Introduction The era between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s was one of the periods in the history of the music industry that witnessed the consolidation and refining of all jazz resources, and the range of the sources widened (Ferraris 744). Some of the jazz productions of this era realized class achievement and age lines, therefore, unifying…

Introduction Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rock steady Reggae is based on a…

Introduction Ray Charles was born as Ray Charles Robinson on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia and from the age of 17 he blessed us all with his gift of music for well over half a century. As one of the most influential musician to date, he blended together music from so many genres that…